. >> good morning. this is news 4 your sunday. >> hello. inspiring communities and families an chaininnging the culture of violence. those are the goals of black women for positive change. it is grouping to change theical tour of violence by helping youngeople find opportunities. joining us is the co-cha of ack women for positive change and trey cheney, an actor and rapper, you may recognize him from "the wire". but he's currently kendrick on "saints and sinners."

crystal, it is a multi-cultural neork of volunte women. >> one of the things we do is convene a week of non-violence every year toom helpnity members start to think about the need to peace and promote non-violence in our communities. we host a lot of town hall events catered to youth, because we want everybody to be part of the slougholution. >> it's your sixth annual week of fanon-violence coming up. >> we are focussing on three initiatives on the 11th of october. we are meeting at the hillsc to s de-escalation, to help schools, school administrators, how can we de-escalate. violen

how can i assure it won't resort to violence. and the second thi is we're filming or screeningheilm "draft" which trey stars in, and he can talk about that a little later, and the cipher. local rappers and artists come together and promote peace and non-violence through song. >> trey, tell us and your involvement in this group. how did you get involved with blac women for positive change? >> dr. stephanie myers i r al good friend of mine. and everything is black women forive change stands for, which is positivityas right up my alley. the film "drop" focuses o reducing the dropout rate. i do a bunch of community events

where i write songs about young people having perfect attendance in school every d t anding their best not to miss a day. so when she came to me andpr ched me about the movie, i was at first wanting to put the song in it. but she said we have a role for ou since your background comes from acting and "the wire." we want y to play this kid who's trying to persuade one of the main characters to do a whole bunch of negative things in the streets and just anything that can knock this charactertr off k, to not go to school. but the messaging was so powerful, i automatically just want the to jump on it and be a part of it. that's my involvement. "drop" is really a greatool. it's a great tool for schools, for youngpeople, in high school right now. it's really trying to debate, do i stay in school, do i drop out, do i get out in the street? my role is to say remain

positive and understand education ishe key to success. >> certainly. >> in everything. if i wouldn't be on "the wire." i wouldn't be doing the music i'm doing if i didn't have education. that's m message to them. >> crystal, there's another message that is being talked about this month. according to the national coalition against domestic violence, 22% of homicides fro domestics and intimate partner violence happen to black women. they experience sexual assaults and domestic violence at disproportionate rates. what is the gro doing to address that issue? >> we're holding forums and conferences to empower women to speak out. anything in the news, a lot of women don't c forward right away. what we're doing is ensuring that we're putting programs in place where people can learn that you need to tell somebody. because they can't deal with it alone. we want to empower women toet

them knohat you can have the power to leave, to get communite ers on your side, to get family on your side, because you can't deal with it alone. >> and trey, you are part of an essay contest during thenc domestic vio week. >> yes, the essay contest -- >> i'm sorry, during t non-violence week. >> the concept is once young , peop want them to watch the movie, "the drop. it's a short film, about 14 minutes. and we need them to do a ay one-page e or they can do a three-minute spoken word, rap, to express how they felt about the film. and the first prize is it 2$250. the second is $150, and the third is $75. so i'm sure everybody could use a little bit of money. >> you think? >> all right. i'm just blessed a to be part of

it. i'm glad to be the face to get this messagell out. >>right, we're talking with black women for positive change about their sixth annual week of non-violence, and we'll continue right after this.

we continue our talk n with the star of "saints and sinners", trey cheney and crystal francis withom black for positive change. we talked about "thedrop", this short doc that hopes to keep, aims to keep young people in high school. and they can see it b going to your website? >> yes. >> it's 14 minuteson >> they can go week of nonviolence.org to dohat and participate in the contest. >> school? >> school, church associations, community you want to get involved.

go torblack women positive change.org for a tool kit. >> what will be shown at some of yourves? >> october 13th in baltimore county, we are going to showth film. trey will be joining a real talk discussion with s thedents afterward to get their ideas about what they can do in school to change thetu c of violence. >> trey, you have a new album coming out,nd, ain, in keeping with the message. >> uh-huh. hat we want to send to young black women and young black men, to the community. >> the album is actually out. it's on itunes, it's strictly about music. a lot of people don't know my real name is samuel cheney, i'm a t that's where you get trey for. but i put out a sgle called "god first." i posted it for my wife and my

son malachi. it's really about whatever trials a tribulations that you may be facing you just need to continueo put god first and let the universe work in moving a positive light and move in a positive way. and it'sn really b doing well, and i'm just, i'm happy to be able to putut positive, uplifting records and the album has no profanity on it. there's no discouraging women or kids. it's something your whole family can listen to. >> mm-hm. >> that's pretty unusual these days. >> oh, yes. >> and with that being usual i wanted to use my platform and say you might know me from playing this character, but the trey cheney is the man that's trying to uplift his community and mak the world a better place. >> crystal, what are some of the other things tckt bomen for positive change is doing to make the world a better place? to make the community better places? >> well, we're holding forums

where communityet members can involved to discuss their ideas or what we need to do in our own communities. you know, communities experience violence in a different way. last week we saw the shooting at the rite aid distribution center in harper county, maryland. in november we're doing a session to talk about how to cope when you are a victim of gun violence,o how you cope and not retaliate. >> trey, i'm sure you have a message, there, too, to young men who may look up to you, a young men who may be teetering on the edge of going one the other. it's a big problem in our community. >> it really is. that's one of the reasons why i feel this is so go for me to be a part of. because these young men and ung women identify to who i am, from the character i portray onhi tv. my is why not use my platform and say for one, stay in school, and let me share with

you some of my experwences i through when i was your age, because i wasn't an angel, you know, in high school and middle school growing up. i was involved in negativity and peer pressure because i wasn't carrying my own load or being a leader. , to be able to go in these communities and speak to these young people and say, look, is what happened when i did this. it didn't go right for me. so i'm trying to save you before something happens to you. so i mean, jus uplifting and motivating them to say, you know, people like myself, people like crystal, we're here for you to, you know, we can talk to eou, and mentor you and uplift. >> i h people will take advantage of that. >> most definitely. >> you have your weekf non-violence starting on the 13th. what about locations tintckets, do you have to register? >> everything is free.

we have different urls. for the drop, it's the drop film. but registration requires the film and the cipherill b at the community center. from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. >>hank you. and when we come back, the opening of the new national law enforcemseum. i'm jennifer wexton, and i approve this message. female announcer: sefa barbara comstock's ke ad? male announcer: jennifer wexton backed a deal

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next weekend the new national law enforcement museum opens its doors and a first for law enforcement inur country, joining us is national director of the museum. aig floyd is the national law

enforcement ceo of the national law enforcement officers memorial fund. also joining us is tim brown, the museum's director of education and programs. i believe i got all of that right. welcome all of you to our program. excitinreally it's been in the works for close to 20ears? >> 20 years. it is exciting, and it's been a long journey, and i think craig will tell new a couple minutes that planning for this actually arted in 1998, and there's a long story in those years. >> bt'sn a long haul. >> it's been a long haul. t' built the memorial in 1991. so been there 27 years now. but in 1998, we decided to take it to another level. let's tell the entire story of american law enforcement. let's do it in a national law enforcement museum. we never told the story of law

enforcement through a museuri congress autd it in the year 2000. we've been working in a very ever since.ay and thankfully in about a week that will open. >> tell us about the size and th >> about 58,000 squareeet of space. 10,000 square feet above ground, most of the experience is underground. and it cost over $100 million to build. state-of-the-art, world class. people are going to love it. it will be a mussee destination in washington. >> dave, you can pick it up there. >> i will pick it up. >> from wha i've read, it is must-see. >>'ltalk a rill bit abolittle b the museum. every onef us in some way, shape, or form is impacted by law enforcement daily. and most citizens don't understand the complexity of the job, what goes into the job, the history of law enforcement, how

it's impacted our history, et so what we're going to have in this beautiful facility is the opportunity for our citizens to walk in the shoes of a law enforcement professional and feel, see, gainin rmation, provide dialog on what truly the impact i on a daily basis to each of us. the other aspect, walk in the shoes of a law enforcement professional and we know this museum is going to serve as a tremendous platform to enhance and strengthen the relationships, quite frankly, between law enforcement and all of us that are citizens, and law enforcement serves all of us. so we'rehrilled about the opportunity to do something and quite frankly, through this museum, law enforcement is a timely topic. everybody sees it every day, so we're going to there to talk about it. >> and we're not just talking about the law e we see every day, that the average person sees every day,

but you're emphasizing it inar evers correction officers, law officers, wherever they serve. >> lawce enfnt represents 18,000 plus, state, local, tribal, a broad variety of professionals that serve all of us asin citizen many, many ways that people don't know about. >> tim, one of the highlights is interactivity. your exhibits will really engage people in ways that maybe they haven't thought of before. eople an giving opportunity to sort of walk in the shoes or stand in the shoes of a law enforcement official. tell us about this. >> yes. so the museum contains a high variety of digital interactives so you can go up to a 911 call center and go through the process of what it's like to take a 911 call. multiple screens that you have to pay attention to. basically it's just as if you were a professional.

there are other touch screens like the web of law enforcement, a large touch screen that has 60 cases ands conne you from one agency to the next. maybeee t people can interact with that screen at one time. case's also take the it features a number ofic fore science interactive lessons and activities, including analyzing a digital corpse as well as examining fibers and fingerprints. people will be able to play detective by visiting the museum. >> exactly. >> sounds really exciting, and you are planning to cut the ribbon on thursday? >> thursday is our grand opening ceremony. we'll have a ribbon cutting event,y forma announced, the museum will be open to the public on aturday, looki forward to that. expecting a pretty significant crowd to be there for that celebration. the new he opening of national law enforcement officers museum, coming up next

weekend. and we'll continue our talk about what you'll see when you visit, right after this.

elcome back. we're talking about the new national law enforcementic muse opens this week. and gentlemen, it seems to me the opening of the museum is timely. we've seen so many high-profile news stories focussing on reasons between the pole and the community. how will this museu help to further the dialog and improve the relationship? >> information, education, dialog. and i'll give you a very specific example. one of our issues in theeu m is a project called the affinity project. it exists in our tempora gallery and it consists of five cities, chicago, a suburb of boston, dallas and south

carolina. each of tho cities have different challenges as every city does. and they partner in very, very unique ways with the community, with community action groups, with local citizens, with non-profits. and what the exhibits will show is how the law enforcement adership in those cities and the community have come togher in very innovative, very forward-meaning ways to, as partners, literally improve the safety and security of the cities. so that's, to us, very important in bringing the communities, law enforcement together, and demonstrating in a hopeful way, there are things that we're callg on now, and it can be done even more so in the future to combat the many challenges that we all i face day and day out. >> and this museum could not be coming at a betterime. this i a transformational era in law enforcement history,e since shooting in ferguson back in 2014, law enforcemehe and communities as dave pointed out, have been working

very closely together to try to build stronger bonds between the public and police. one of the great exhibits we have i our museum is a training simulato where a group of visitors will actually walk in the shoes of an officer. they'll go through the training. they'll understand in a very stressful situation, a man coming at you with a knife i domestic violence call. what do you do? you have a split second to make a decision. do you use lethal force, less than lethal force? or do you try to talk this it person downut using any force at all. an officer has just a few seconds toake that decision. and it's going to be a real eye-opener, i think, for our citizens to go through that training. >> people will get a chance to see from besh s >> exactly. >> tim, tell us about the plans, big plans for opening day and your 5k run for the badge. >> we have a lot of plans for opening day, i want to mentioas well, some of the upcoming

programs we have in the near future. i think that's important for the public to know. we're going to have apecial program called bruise day. it is for young professionals to give people a chance to explore the m aeum in more casual, fun way.se but we'll alsot as an opportunity to have a costume competition where people dress up as their favorite law enforcement officer. there will be law enforcement and pop culture teamed. one panel discussion will be p coming up focussing oni opioids. ould go on and on. >> we'll come to the museum. it opens ontu ay, and there will be lots of fun for the whole family. opening at 9:00. thank you all, gentlemen. and thank you for being with us. to see any of your news 4 your sunday program, go to our

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i'm jennifer wexton, and i approve this message. female announcer: seen barbara comstock's fake ad? male announcer: jennifer wexton backed a deal leading to massive tolls on 66.

female announcer: blatantly false. tnnifer wexton foug tolls on 66. and let's call this plan what it is, the way that it's been rolled out. it's highway robbery. there's also healthcare robbery. barbara comstock voted to sabotage the healthcare market, hiking premiums up to 64%. barbara trumpstock -- everything that's wrong in washiton.

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