. >> margaret: hi, i'm margaret richard. ody electric is next. >> ♪ i sing the body electric i celebrate the me yet to come. ♪ >> margaret: let's celebrate our continued commitment to health, fitness, and vitality. please join me for a workout to one of my favorite shows from the past. whether you're new to our family or are one of the friends, i extend a warm welcome. hey, fitness becomes you. ♪ i sing the body electric i celebrate the me yet to come ♪ i toast to my own reunion when i become one with the sun. ♪ >> announcer: hello, and welcome to body electric. today's program will feature exercises for the following muscle groups: pectorals, triceps, abdominals, quadriceps, gluteals, and outer thighs. please have the following items available for the workout: a mat, weights, and a chair. and now, here's your host margaret richard. >> margaret: hi everyone, and welcome. i am so pleased to be here with two of my very favorite body electric dancers, bernice and jane, and of course, my favorite body electric friends, you. so le

communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> margaret: hi, i'm margaret richardbody electric is next. >> ♪ i sing the body electric i celebrate the me yet to come. ♪ >> margaret: let's celebrate our continued commitment to health, fitness, and vitality. please join me for a workout to one of my favorite shows from the past. whether you're new to our family or are one of the friends, i extend a warm welcome. hey, fitness becomes you. >> hola, and welcome to body electric, today from one of the most beautiful places in the world, acapulco, mexico, the pearl of the pacific. today on this program, we will be working the following muscle groups: for today's workout, you will need: and now, here's your host, margaret richard. >> hi, friends. what's your first clue that i'm in acapulco? you're right, i am. and i'm loving it. i'm having a great time, and wish you were here with me. work it out. warm it up. and we're pulling the towel side to side. think of how much fun we'd have if we were all together. it would be, like, great. acapulco would never be the same. and pull

and now, here's your host, margaret richard. >> welcome to body electric and our beautiful mediterraneanla. and speaking of beautiful, we have with us mindy and kenya. and it's going to be a beautiful workout. let's do it. now, what i want you to do is clasp the hand side to side and create some tension. sometimes we've done this using a towel. today we're just doing it, creating resistance, within our bodies, with the shoulders pressed down. take it all the way up, and all the way down. with the hands close to the body. and press, and press. hold it up. okay, now let's stretch, reach long. and reach long. long stretch. now let's circle all the way down. and up, and down. and reverse. hold it up, and press to the back. back. back. and let's start using the legs a little. side to side. hold for two. side, and side. hold for two. let's circle front. close to the body, all the way up. other way. keep going. up, and out. close to the body. just under the chin. up and down. keep going press the shoulders, pull side to side. up overhead, the arms behind the back, and separate the shoulder blad

and there were several individuals who worked on this study, the black press, including richard durham, margaret walker -- who i mentioned. richard durham, some of you might have heard as the writer and inventer of the famed radio show called destination freedom sponsored by the chicago defender. we're happy to have mrs. durham here, i saw, in the audience today. while on at wpa, richard durham filled out several questionnaire forms on the study of the black press. he collected information on newspapers in town like the chicago bee, the conservator, a newspaper called the bronzeman. but most interesting is a chapter he wrote for an unfinished book, a whole book on the black press that was supposed to be completed. he wrote a chapter called quality don't spend your -- called "don't spend your money where you can't work," between the years of 1929 and 1932. this is a fascinating essay, although it didn't make it into the final book. but you can actually go read it here at the harsh collection. you know, these were public documents, you know? these weren't supposed to be stuffed away in the archive

the project employ prominent riders like richard right, margaret walker to chronicle the experiencesof african-americans in illinois from the time of slavery to the great depression. this event was held a

richard shoop's body. the mall today remains closed. charlie, margaretobama is facing heat for breaking a big health care promise that americans can keep their insurance policies if they like them. the white house is scrambling to explain. and jan crawford is in washington. jan, good morning. >> good morning, margaret and charlie. it was a key selling point for the president's signature achievement, a pledge he made dozens of times. >> if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. >> if you like your current insurance, you will keep it your current insurance. >> if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. no one will be able to take that away from you. >> reporter: but now, as more than 3 million americans are getting letters saying that their existing insurance is being cancelled, the president last night added a few qualifiers. >> if you have or had one of these plans, before the affordable care act came into law, and you really like that plan, what we've said was you could keep it. if it hasn't changed since laws passed. >> now, his original p