howard doddson, chief of new york's public libraries shaumberg center for research in black culture, ebony jackson, a blogger for hello negro, a website they say is for colored people who have experienced problems integrating, and ellis kohs, author and noted "newsweek" columnist. thanks very much, appreciate it. mr. doddson, let me start with you in terms of what i wanted to get out of this interview and that is we talk often about black history and celebrate it obviously in february but my contention was that outside of maybe about ten figures, many of us, including schoolchildren who are being taught history know very little about african-american history in this country. do you see that as people come through? >> absolutely. there's a general, i think maybe one of the unfortunate things that's happened as a result of black history month is it's been reduced to a discussion of a half dozen, maybe 20 black historic figures, and black history is obviously much, much more than that, and we have not begun to probe both the significance and character of that history, but also the impact that

. >> john: the foul was on ebony patterson. williams. >> christie: . >> john: taken away nicely by moss. >> christie: looks like taylor couldn't find an opportunity to shoot it. >> john: patterson. lady dukes pushing it quickly. taylor lost it, got back. forced it up and got the roll. >> christie: taylor taking her time. the position, defense sitting straight behind. >> john: they are reallied aboutying up for position in the paint. moss up again. williams has the rebound for jmu. >> christie: off the baseline. williams on the way and they are going to call the block. it's going to go against vcu's wallace. >>> i think the thing that's difficult with dawn, being a point guard she has the ball in her hands a big pastor time. it's very difficult to try to limit her touches because she does a great job of getting the ball and running the team. we have to understand where help needs to be. certainly jennifer lane is going to be starting doing a great job of contain her and make her work for everything she gets. get her to take less

sometimes i feel like, you know the ebony and ivory video, paul and stevie wonder were not in the same was watching the movie and you have -- you play the guitar. and sometimes when i hear people play the guitar i go, "oh, they're clearly acting because you don't see their fingers." they're under the table or something. but you are really playing the guitar. >> yeah, i was playing songs that i wrote. it's funny how that happened. i am not really a songwriter. i pretend to be when i'm alone, in my house. and i wrote something. yeah, and so i played it. no, it was going to be no sound. it was a part of a montage. they said they wouldn't hear it. and i forgot the lyrics to another, a song of a friend of mine. and i started playing my own. and, of course, it -- they used the sound in the movie and then we had to put it on the soundtrack, which is -- it's a happy accident. i'm kind of proud, but -- >> jimmy: yeah, you're psyched but still shy about it. but you were phenomenal. you sounded great and you played great. >> thanks. >> jimmy: it was so good. >> thank you. >> jimmy: now, you shoul

at this point in time, let's bring in ebony deion at the weather center and bring you more information. cnn is putting all the information to get you all the attention. >> i want to show you the tsunami waves going through the area. the closest to the epicenter we felt higher wave heights. further out the wave heights decrease. you get the water piling up as it continues to travel, and then once you see that interacting with the topography of the shorelines, that indicates how that area could be impacted. although the water heights is not that high in acapulco it could have been much higher. here is a look at the model. as you can see, the size of the waves over the ocean don't look all that impressive, especially the further out you go as you get out to the coastal areas of australia japan. that could change. of course, as we get into the middle of the pacific ocean around the hawaii area where we have the tsunami warnings in place, they have the base. all that energy could pile up. the size increases as it gets closer to the shoreline and we get the bigger waves. that could create th

in my household, my family didn't read books, my mama, we had the jet and the ebony, we read that. my daddy when he was around, read the paper every now and then. but there was no book, there was nothing in my book to associate between joy and reading. the only book i read by the time i got to college was "old man and the sea" and the time i read it, my mother discouraged me from reading the book because she thought it would be too much for me. freshman year, english class, i decided i wanted to be a journalist, because now i loved words, because of my issue with literacy, god wants me to be a writer, a journalist, i'm certain of it. well apparently the professor i had hadn't had that conversation with god and wasn't as convinced, so this professor, i failed his class the first trimester of school, i failed his english class. now in high school, i was a c student, d-c student, freshman sophomore year. i got my first a ever in school my junior year in high school and by the time i graduated, i was a solid b student. i got a d the first trimester of class. example of how slow i am, b

1975 highlighted a successful african-americans who are leading the way in business was featured in "ebony" magazine. i yield back the balance of my time. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> the bill passed in november takes a leap forward in addressing the payment in the health care system. we waste hundreds of billions of dollars every year on test and procedures that do not improve patient health. we need to change the incentive system. we need doctors and hospitals to work together to coordinate care based around patient needs. in my district in southern minnesota, the mayo clinic has done exactly that. there are other institutions around the country who provide high-quality, low-cost efficient care. this is the one issues that both sides can agree on. yesterday in "roll call" led by the mayo clinic, the chamber of congress and others stated, reforming health care in america will not

ebony trees and plants that were natural in haiti were taken out. in the attempt to grow rubber trees was started on large portions of land. there was some haitian scientist who said it would not work but the united states tried to experiment. today, one of the biggest problems in haiti is erosion. people are dependent on wood for homes and heating. this situation started by the united states for the war effort with the attempt to grow foreign seed that would not grow in that kind of topo graphy. when we look at the tremendous erosion in haiti today, the deping of it happened to be at the time when the united states felt it needed to have the growth of rubber trees in our hemisphere in a place that was close to the united states. and so once again, as we look at how haiti has impacted on the united states, this consequence of a negative development on the part of the u.s. government, i think once again is a reason why we should have strong passion for our sister country haiti. for our sister country haiti. we will continue in new jersey to continue