the history of africans in america from fort munro, live, 8:30 am. beginning at >> a panel of millennial journalists talk about the industry, figures, and the future of journalism. hosted thes angeles nearly hour-long event. >> welcome. if you are returning, welcome ba

the history of africans in america from fort munro, live, 8:30 am. beginning at >> a panel of millennial journalists talk about the industry, figures, and the future of journalism. hosted thes angeles nearly hour-long event. >> welcome. if you are returning, welcome back. my name is kyle and i am the marketing director for townhall, los angeles. townhall has been around for 83 years. we started doing them catered toward the millennial and young professional audience. tonight's topic is on the future of journalism. living in the fake news era and that areal platforms evolving all the time. i just wanted to start off with olivia. can you say what you guys do and where you are from? hello. smith, i am a producer with good morning america. my team is in new york. i have been with abc news for 4.5 years. my name is fernando. i am a producer-editor with attention. i invest in los angeles on our digital team. --nna: my name is breanna brianna sacks. news on ouruzz feed breaking news team. i am headquartered in new york. start off want to with this question

our live coverage from fort munro point comfort, virginia continues at 9:30 a.m. commemorative ceremony with virginia elected officials, governor ralph northam, senators mark warner and tim kaine and house of delegates speaker kirkland cox. at 6 p.m. eastern, hear the story of the civil war told and 56 minutes by gary aleman of the american battlefield trust. sunday at 6 p.m., american artifacts takes you to the virginia museum of history and culture for an exhibit on african-american history from reconstruction through civil rights. explore our nations passed on american history tv every weekend on c-span3. the mikva challenge held its public speaking competition, "soapbox nation: youth speech showcase" at the newseum in washington, d.c.. founded in 1997, the mikva challenge aims to promote civics among students. this is one hour. and 10 minutes. >> hello, everyone. good evening. thank you for joining us today. you are up here with mikva challenge, we are committed to developing young people to be informed and active citizens to create a just and equitable world.

lincoln sitting and geoffavis' chair, davis captured in a union present at fort monro -- prison at fort munro. you can put your friend in the same spot. they do a great job at the museum there. there are still surrenders going on. there is a confederate ship that will not surrender for a while, but the war is over. still you have eight conspirators in the lincoln assassination. they will be tried in that room. you can't quite see it, but you can go back there today. four of them will be hanged outside the next day. it is a tennis court now, but it is on an army fort. maybe they won't rebuild the scaffold -- that would be messed up -- but hopefully they will reuse the tennis court. the nation has been through its greatest test. some census figures like to call it 650, 850, why not? there will be two to 70 inches by toilet paper. 000, 2% of the0, population at that time. there are of course dead everywhere. the south will suffer particularly heavily. some young men from a town are completely gone. there are burials everywhere. they are trying to exhume them. people would try to continue to find