so how does your position at the smithsonian and president of h come together? how they come together? and so i'm the second person to be the president of o h who is not allied a generally a full professor at a university and the only other one was also a smithsonian employee. and i think it will i hope it has it aligned. well, i hope that both the smithsonian and the h feel i have served them well. my my being nominated. you're nominated as vice president, president elect. president, you. it's an ascension was approved by the secretary. there has to be any of our service as especially as museum directors. really anyone. the smithsonian service to another nonprofit is is carefully reviewed for kind of kinship. right. does it make sense for me to do this in my official capacity? and so that was approved. and it's been a remarkable couple of years. and i think that i hope that my staff and my colleagues and my board and the secretary are proud of that. of that kind of joint service. it shows to, i think, that the smithsonian and many of our my fellow directors are

the smithsonian hosted an event, neurodiverse drag story hour, using a taxpayer smithsonian funded building and using taxpayer funded staff. the smithsonian should focus on education and research not inappropriate entertainment. instead of diffusing knowledge which is the mission statement of the significant seasonnian we are diffusing the mission of the institution. with that, i reserve. the chair: the gentlewoman reserves. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from maine seek recognition? ms.pingree: i seek time in opposition. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized for five minutes. ms.pingree: i rise in strong opposition to the amendment and i am sorry to tell my good friend from oklahoma that i oppose her on this misguided amendment. one of our greatest strengths as a nation is our diversity. the american experience is not a singular experience and diversity programs exit to exist that. we shouldn't defund for funding lgbtq and restricting program development when we know smithsonian broadly shares information so parents can make decisions about what is appropriate content. i oppose t

i saw the way people engaged with it, >>>eventually bringing it to the smithsonian american art museum. what do you want people to take away from this exhibit >>>>i'm hoping that people can be inspired by the legacy of tommie smith. understand that they have the power to use their own voice and make a difference in their own world. what was your reaction when you learned that your art would be featured in the smithsonian american art museum? oh my god, it was, i'm still kind of in shock to be, to be honest. now more than ever you know, this tommy's gesture deserves to be memorialized. and presented and brought back to the public >>>a powerful moment once condemned, now celebrated in art for all time >ryan>and that's it for the afternoon edition. we'll see you back here at three with elizabeth cook. i'll see you back here at five. ♪♪♪ >> ridge: so wait. when did you finally get out of there last night? >> zende: i don't even wanna talk about it. i will say this, though. the social media team works extremely hard. everything that we shot yesterday was down

there was a lawsuit against the smithsonian's national museum of the american latino for, quote, proy open to all students, regardless of race, and an appeals court recently ruled against the fearless fund suspending its grant program that helps businesses owned by black women. alphonso david is one of the lawyers working with the fearless fund. he's also head of the global black economic forum. we spoke recently in studio. alphonso david, nice to have you with me. appreciate it. thank you so let's begin by talking about the mbda, the minority business development agency. take us back in history. why did it start? so let's go back to the 1960s. there was a statute that was passed by congress and signed by richard nixon to essentially address disparities in government contracting, that minorities were confronting. minorities were seeking contracts with federal agencies, and they were being denied in large part because of their race. so from what this judge has done now in texas, in rolling it back, is he essentially saying, hey, listen, it is now an even playing field. it's not necess

now the smithsonian art museum is paying tribute to that historic moment more than half a century later. >> reporter: and a look at the new installation. >> reporter: from a distance, it looks like a wave, but look closer and you'll see arms that are being hung. 200 of them stretching 100 feet. it's a sculpture called bridge and pays tribute to the 1968 olympics >> it is my chance to make the world stand on something that i ever believed in. >> reporter: smith now 80, had just won the 200-meter dash when he raised his arm and glove fist and in protest during the medal ceremony. his teammate joined him. the image, an iconic moment in america's civil rights struggle. but both men were sent home. suspended from future olympic competition, though they did retain their medals. >> i had a picture of tommy smith taped to the corner of my imac. >> reporter: arnold found inspiration from the gesture. in 2013 he collaborated with smith, beginning with the cast of smith's arm. >> i said you come to l.a., i'll take the arm off your body. >> the fact it's a life cast really connects it to the indivi

i saw the way people engaged with it. >> reporter: eventually bringing it to the smithsonian american: what do you want people to take away from this exhibit? >> i'm hoping that people can be inspired by the legacy of tommie smith, understand that they have the power to use their own voice and make a difference in their own world. >> what was your reaction when you learned that your art would be featured in the smithsonian american art museum? >> it was -- i'm still kind of in shock, to be honest. now more than ever, you know, this -- tommie's gesture deserves to be memorialized and presented and brought back to the public. >> reporter: a powerful moment once condemned, now celebrated in art for all time. >>> well, that is the "cbs weekend news" for this sunday. i'm jericka duncan in new york. for all of us here, thanks for joining us. have a great night. . >>> it is going to happen. >> i agree. >> without a doubt. >> we want the festival back. >> the gilroy garlic festival shooting shattered the festival. five years later there is a push to bring it back. >>> firecrews looking to mak

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those actions are being immortalized in a new exhibit in the smithsonian.ka duncan reports. >> reporter: from a distance it looks like a wave. but look closer and you'll see arms being hung. 200 of them stretching 100 feet. it's a sculpture called bridge, and it pays tribute to american tommy smith's protest at the 1968 olympics in mexico city. >> my chance to make a real stand on something i believed in. >> reporter: smith, now 80, had just won the 200-meter dash when he raised his arm and gloved fist in protest during the medal ceremony. his teammate john carlos joined him. the image an iconic moment in america's civil rights struggle. but both men were sent home, suspended from future olympic competition, though they did retain their medals. >> i had a picture of tommy smith taped to the corner of my imac. >> reporter: artist glenn kaino found inspiration from the gesture. in 2013 he collaborated with smith, beginning with the cast of smith's arm. >> i said you come to l.a. and i'll take the arm off your body. >> the fact that it's a lifecast really conn

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also reaching an arguably larger public audience was the brilliant redesign of the smithsonian museum first lady's dress exhibit. the new curator, edith mayo. refocus the popular collection on first lady's achievements and not solely their dresses. then, as the 21st century opened, historian catherine al gore's, trailblazing book parlor politics made us all reconsider and redefine power as utilized by america's founding. al gore's work positively shaped the amazing new books that poured out in the 2000s by wonderful scholars like patricia brady, joseph ellis, amy greenberg watson, catherine clinton. catherine sibley. christy miller. lewis. nancy burke young. barbara perry. myra gutting. maureen beasley wertheimer among others. that was some decade of scholarship. now, not long after that first university class interest spread well beyond the academy with children's books. novels, including one by james patterson, called the first lady, and books, journalists such as cokie rebecca boggs roberts, lisa mccubbin hill and kate anderson brower, journalists who write books about living first

invisibility of many americans, they signed into law the bill to start the process of creating a national smithsonian museum history of culture, the first step to our very own museum to teach the public that aanhpi history is american history. [applause] now, last year, tragedy hit my hometown in california when a mass shooting occurred and a gunman killed 11 americans, all asian immigrants. vice president harris was on the ground within just a few days and personally consoled the victims' families with her deep compassion. afterwards, one of the survivors of the shooting told me how shocked and numb he was after seeing his friends shot and killed. he held it all in. and it was not until he saw vice president harris that he was finally able to cry. i thank her immensely and president biden further incredible empathy, as well as staunch support of gun violence prevention in communities like mine. and the biden-harris administration really sees us. under the previous administration, when the data on covid-19 hospital deaths were first announced, the death rates were blacks, whites, and hispanics were r

kevin is undersecretary for museum and culture at the smithsonian. he is a citizen of the pawnee nation. he served a director for the national museum of indian for 14 years. he also, as the assistant secretary for, indian affairs under president bill clinton from 1997 to 2000 and prior to that, he was in private practice as an attorney for many years, representing tribes as well. other organizations and institutions. you know, we only have hour. i think it's an hour, right? we have an hour and think we want use all of it. and i think the way that we've decided to organize this discussion is around three themes, three very broad themes. the first theme is going to be around stories that we all know and i think we'll spend some time kind of deconstructing some of those stories and then we'll move into stories that. you don't know. but should. and then we're going to a conversation about contemporary and and of tribes, tribal communities. and so i want to start with the the stories we all know or think that we know. kevin, you know, one of the situation

in addition, has written for new york magazine, the wall street journal, the washington and smithsonian magazine, as well as other publications and has appeared on the history channel, cbs sunday and the discovery channel, among other media outlets. please join me in welcoming back the university of washington and a great last program. our friend abbott kahler. thank, bill. thank you, ali thank you to the great lives program. thank to university mary washington and you all for coming out tonight. i'm so thrilled to be back here in fredericksburg, which i'm just going to kick off and say fredericksburg. you might be surprised to know had quite its own little dabbling in prohibition. and i found a couple really fun articles about fredericksburg contributions to probit in that i think i'll start the evening off with one is titled peddlers liquor and playing a flying bootlegger finds ready customers around fredericksburg. this from the washington post of fredericksburg. oh, sorry. this is from the the washington post. january 26, 1920. and it is dateline fredericksburg, virginia. a bootlegg

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this is in downtown dc and i could see the smithsonian castle building from my office and i mentioned to my boss that i was thinking about going and talking them about a job because i didn't think what i had was a job isn't that much work. and my, leave. we we do some photog graffiti courses here in the office and i know you photography. i did. i was an avidur. he said, take some of our courses. so now i should hu for a moment about this office i was working in. it was cia just like q and jamesq we were the technical arm, theen community, not just cia, primarily we were composed of physicists mechanical engineers, all kinds of people with really fine technical skills that don't bump into very often. we could create or make if if it didn't exist. but our case officers needed whatever. it was for them. it was a and i really liked it a lot. i took some of those photography courses the first photo course at the cia, the very first one they sent me to a landing strip outside' h the plane and ther in kind of swing. that was my my headphone. they gave me a 35 millimeter came. all with the th

you want to learn about that, become an active participant in the digital humanities and google smithsonian magazine. will the real abraham lincoln please stand up? now the final photograph ofhe cemetery, according to bill for, as benito was taken by 19 year old photographer david bacharach. bacharach was positioned about 168 feet northwest of the front of the speaker stand. this photograph first came to the public's attention in 1952 when josephine cobb, who was chief of chief of the still photo section at the national archives, identified a photograph labeled crowd of citizens soldiers, etc. , as being the consecration ceremony at the natural national cemetery. knowing that lincoln had to be in there somewhere, cobb. cobb in large the negative plate several times and eventually found lincoln seated the platform. to the left is secretary of state seward. and you can see edward everett standing over on the right now. now, i had all of 19th century materials in hand. so i turned my attention back to the size shape, location of the speaker's stand. now, according to franco, the speaker's stan

this is in could see the smithsonian castle building from my office and i mentioned toss that i was thinking about going and talking them about aobwhat i had was a job ieasnwork. and my boss said, leave. we we do some photog graffiti courses here in the office and i know you really like photography. i did. i was an avid amateur. courses. so now i should have just tell you office i was working in. it was q of cia just like q and james bond. q we were the technical arm, the intelligence cia, primarily cia. we were composed of physicists ctrical and mechanical engineers, allth really fine technical skills that we could create or make exist. but our case officers needed it. we. whatever. it was for them. it was a really liked it a lot. i tookhose photography courses the first photo course i at the cia, the very first one they sent me to a landing strip outside of d.c. there's a little twin engine plane. they've taken the doors off so you can see through the plane and there's a harness in there f swing. that was my harness and there was one gave me a 35 millimeter camera. this is all with the th

that is important with a strong dollar that is it what we lost in 1972, did smithsonian accord, wento get back to king dollar. larry: you're very kind to remember king dollar but as you know mr. trump from time to time with whole issue of gold restoring that. i will not put words in his mouth because that is not his view. he looked at it, thought about it, entertained it and this is what you get. the other point people say trump wants a weak dollar. no, no. what trump wants, what trump wants is for japan and china to have stronger stable currencies. in other words, those currencies have been devalued. that's unfair trading practices. they're the ones that need to be blamed and they're the ones that need to solve it, not killing the u.s. dollar? >> you know, it is a whole problem that we did in 1972 of going off fixed exchange rates, going off bretton woods. bob mandel wrote about this all the time, so did i going back there, i don't know if you remember my "wall street journal" on bitter fruits of devaluation and all of that. we need to get back to a stable currency, if it requires g

and she posed for this image when she was 81 years old the smithsonian's national portrait gallery paidn the museum's collection, along with the earliest photograph of an american president, which is right there. it's a portrait of john quincy adams from 18. 43 newfangled technology, soco graphics. so wild on >> all right, 7.56 is the time. and coming up in the next hour of the kron, 4 morning news, vice president kamala harris will be in the bay area today. we'll tell you more about her visit. and of course, we're still tracking the high temperatures. triple digit heat. he's going to have a struggling to stay cool and stay safe. we'll have all of that team coverage coming up in a minute. and as temperatures go up, the chain is looking for possible power outages to try to keep the grid safe. find out how they're preparing. right now on the kron. 4 morning news. the city of oakland is inching closer to a recall election for mayor sheng thao. fire breaks out near grizzly peak in berkeley. firefighters think fireworks may be to blame. plus the bay area just hours away from the excessive he

improvements and envisions a national university and lighthouse iss in the sky that become the smithsonian institution. but he's repudiated his party and he's devastated and feels that the world has ended. and then he's been writing these letters to his son about how to be perfect, letters to a christian, constantly exhorting. george washington adams to live up to ideals. and the pressure's too much. george washington becomes, an alcoholic and kills himself and is devastated. he's lost the presidency he's lost his son. he prays for the consolation from and reading the stoics allows him to determine to be more useful and serve his country in some ways to make some use of the gifts he's been given. and then he becomes the greatest abolitionist of his time. and he denounces the gag rule in congress, and he proposes, as an anti-slavery amendment to the constitution. and this is before the death of the whig party. is is fully abolitionist, inspires frederick douglass to acclaim him as. the greatest of the american presidents and dies on the floor of congress after denouncing the war with mexico

. >> we all do, yeah, smithsonian luv, luv going to aaron space. thank you. got this. nice to see you. we appreciate you thank you more social media reaction from the world of youtube? yes, i have a youtube channel. i'll bet trump wishes. he chose a woman for vp, you know, eric, some speculate that with j.d. vance having defend the comments that he made, a couple of years ago, said he was sarcastic when asked about it yesterday about childless cat ladies. some have wondered whether if the events that occurred differently what do you have tried to woo to the extent that she needed to be wooed, nikki haley i don't know, but i think he hangs with vance. i don't i don't put any stock and some of the speculation that he's going to change horses i want to remind everybody answer today's poll question. it's not about the republican selection of vice president. it's about the selection the vice president harris now needs to make who will she take? i'm not asking who should i'm asking you to be predictive? is it going to be andy beshear, roy cooper, mark kelly, josh shapiro may

traditionally gray sea walls that will promote habitat growth for the local species we've partnered with smithsonian with this, it's been in place for about a year and we're start to go get some promising results. we have another year of monitoring plan and then we'll use that data in the design of our new single. high level schedule, we as mentioned we're primarily in predesign with these projects. we have moved into detailed design for the ward project we expect to be in construction this year, that's our first one. >> thank you, steve. brad benson, port's water resilience director, thank you for your time on the agenda this morning. the army corps of engineer flood study is one of the main initiatives in the program. we were lucky to get a coastal flood study with the corps in 2019, so we've been add it for almost six years, this is how you investigate whether there is an interest in investing in local flood problems. so we're looking at completing this flood study we hope by 2026 in time for a project to be authorized by congress at thed federal level, there are two steps for funding a project o

i would like to walk down the national and i would like to show him through all the smithsonian, the national galleries that we have, which are all free which is a great public resource. and i'd show him everything we've accomplished, everything we still struggle with and i show him all these scientific things and breakthroughs we've done that he would find fascinating. he is, he and he might have been most intellectual to ever be president. it the span of his knowledge and his writing and, his studies were incredible. and so i think you have a lot of fun there. and explain what we've been through. show him all the war memorials, let's say you won't believe what happened at the end of world war two. there's this movie called oppenheimer coming out. you might like it. and then but but i would end on the south west corner of the capitol building because there's a statue of him there, a big statue. that's that's in the middle of a roundabout. and i'd say, and here's where you are. you're you're right in the mix of this, you know, and i think would just be a nice moment. and then then he