of attending with tuition and fees is 25200500 and rhythm board is $12,000 we are with beverly daniel tatum who was here for the next half-hour. the next caller from pennsylvania. >> caller:. dr. tatum good morning. it is a pleasure just to sit here to listen to you one of the most successful black universities in the country but its i know a lot of history of the hbcu is fascinating but spelman was that founded by two white women was one the wife of rockefeller decades ago? and is there a book you can buy to give a history of most of the hbcu i wish you luck. >>guest: let me start with the history of spelman was founded by two white women that were religious missionaries traveling from massachusetts to atlanta. and they established april april 11, 1881 in the basement of a local church. they were befriended by the rockefeller family and traveled around raising money for the college and they spoke that it church were rockefeller heard them speak. his wife befriended the women and the rockefeller family was very generous to help them get established in fact, the land for the college and now

beverly daniel tatum followed by our interview with the president of florida a&m university hear on c-span2. >> washington journal tour of historically black colleges and universities continues with the president of morehouse college in atlanta. this is 40 minutes. host: c-span continues on in the month of february, taking a look at historic black colleges and universities. this is being in done -- being done in conjunction -- today, we make a stop in atlanta. a total of eight colleges ong our list. there is the c-span bus on campus. an onboard our bus president john silvanus wilson, junior. they give joining us. guest: good morning, pedro. host: part of your background includes working with the white house on something called an initiative on bcu's. could you talk a little bit about that initiative, and what the white house policy is doing? ? guest: yes, i served under president barack obama as the executive director of hpc you -- hbcu. i happen to be president obama's appointee. the job of the executive director is to do whatever you can to increase the funding from the federal government

spellman is a great institution, and i am so sad that beverly danielle tatum will be stepping down as president after 13 wonderful years, and i applaud her, and wish spellman well. the second response i have to your question is safety is a number one concern here, i think for all of the center institutions we are working together with some of the more powerful people in this city to make the surrounding environments a lot safer, when you do not feel safe, you cannot learn. we understand that quite fully. the third response i have to that is, i am quite proud about the advance we're going to make in the area of security because we just hired a new police chief, and guess what? her name is valerie dalton. she was working for apd, atlanta police department, for many years, assumed the position of power there, and we got her away from apd and she is the police chief at morehouse college, the first time in our history we've had a woman as police chief and i could not be prouder. she was absolutely the best choice we could have made. so she just started just a couple of weeks ago, and we're

then a conversation with spelman college president, beverly daniel tatum. and later a look at human rights in cuba. >>> here's some of our featured programs for this presidents' day weekend on the c-span networks. on c-span2's book tv saturday morning at 9, live could have ram of the savannah book festival with fwhon fiction authors and books on topics like the disappearance of michael rockefeller, a british company of elephants during world war ii and for you with women spies during the civil war and sunday at 9 p.m. eastern on after words, former senior adviser for president obama, david axelrod, on his 40 years in politics. and on american history tv on c-span3, saturday morning beginning at 8:30 the 100th anniversary of the release of the film "the birth of a nation" starting with an interview with author dick lair, the entire showing of the 1915 film followed boy a live call-in program with civil war historian harry jones and author dick lair. sunday at 8 on the presidency, george washington portraits, focusing on how artists captured the spirit of the

working with beverly daniel tatum, she invited me onto that board, the first morehouse man to do thatreason why had to step down as i had to take the job at the white house. spellman is a great institution, and i'm so sad that beverly daniel tatum will be stepping down as president after 13 wonderful years. i applaud her and wish spellman well. the second response i have your question is safety is our number one concern here. i think for all the a you centers- au centers. we are trying to make the surrounding environments a lot more safer. when you do not feel safe, you cannot learn. we understand that quite fully. the third response i have to that is i am quite proud about the adventure going to make in the area of security because we just hired a new police chief. and guess what? her name is valerie. she was working for apd, and that the police department, for many years. she assumed the position of power there, and we got her away from apd. she is the police chief at morehouse college, the first time in our history we have had a woman as police chief. and i cannot be more proud of

later, our bus tour of historically black colleges and universities continues with beverly daniel tatum in atlanta. "washington journal" is live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. you can join in the conversation with your comments on facebook and twitter. next, iranian president hassan rouhani addresses his country on the anniversary of the islamic revolution. this is courtesy of the state run press tv. >> the anniversary of the glorious islamic resolution of iran, i would like to offer congratulations to the great nation of iran. we are happy that this year it is been held even more gloriously across the nation and the people that have participated in the great rally of february 11. so i would like to thank all the iranian people for the glorious participation and my appreciation for that. 36 years past since our people raised their demand for independence freed them and the islamic republic of iran. the aspirations of our people is still independence, freedom and the islamic republic system. islamic republic as two aspirations and values. one is democracy and the other is religious

beverly daniel tatum president of spelman college. if you want to join the conversation, our phone lines are open. 202-748-8000 or 2002-748-800 0202-748-8001. this is the 50th anniversary of dr. king's marches at selma. can you talk about female leadership in the '50s and where it is today. >> absolutely. there's a book called undaunted by the fight. in it he chronicles the role of spel spelman women in the civil rights movement. we know that rosalind pope was the author of a very important document called an appeal for human rights which appeared in the atlanta papers in 1960. really calling upon the state and the nation to respond to the rights of young people and there's a fabulous line in that letter that she wrote with the help of other students in which they say we will not wait idly by for our rights to be given to west piecemeal. now is the time to take action. that statement galvanize the student activism that was a critical part of the movement in the '60s. we take great pride in that history. we know that even today there's

of morehouse college in atlanta and on thursday visit spellman college in atlanta and talk with daniel tatum. >> president obama and german chancellor merkel repeated no decision has been made on whether to represent arm the ukrainian government. they also took questions on iran, israel and u.s.-german relations. >> good morning, everybody please be seated. as always it's a great pleasure to welcome my close friend and partner, chancellor angel merkel, back to the white house. angel has been here many times but this visit is a chance for congratulate her on cho achievements. angel is one of germany's longest-serving chancellors. perhaps more importantly this is my first public opportunity to congratulate angel and germany on their fourth world cup title. as we saw in rio, angel is one her team's biggest fans. our u.s. team, however, gets better each world cup so watch out in 2018. germany is one of our strongest allies so whenever we meet it's an opportunity to coordinate closely on a whole range of issues critical to our shared security and prosperity. as angel and our good friends prepare

later, beverly daniel tatum. "washington journal" is live every morning at 7 a.m. eastern. you could join with a phone calls and comments on facebook and twitter. >> here is some of our featured programs for this presidents' day weekend on the c-span networks. on book tv, live coverage of the savanna of festival with nonfiction authors and books like the disappearance of michael rockefeller and women spies during the civil war. and david axelrod on his time in politics. and the birth of a nation. followed by a live call-in program. in capturing the spirit of the first president and what we could learn through the paintings. find a complete schedule on c-span.org. let us know what you think. call us. e-mail us. send us a tweet. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook. call us on twitter -- find us on twitter. >> testifying about domestic counterterrorism efforts. the committee talked about efforts to pass a department of homeland security funding bill in both chambers. a congressman of texas chairs this committee hearing. >> the committee on homeland security will

tatum on c-span. she has applied to spelman. her name is daniel lyall and she's so excited about the possibility of being excited -- accepted at spelman. she is predominately gone to a white school but she has her heart set on coming to spelman. her godmother lives in atlanta and every day she's on twitter after school and if she could have taken off a school to be here to watch her program she would. i'm just going to find out what is the possibility of her being accepted at spelman? thank you. >> guest: certainly you are making a great case for her. i want to congratulate you for her advocacy and i can't comment on her application. i haven't seen it and i can't comment on the air about it but certainly i want to thank you for your encouragement of her and we'll keep our fingers crossed for daniel. >> host: what advice would you give to students who maybe are looking to apply next year or years beyond to be able to get into spelman? >> guest: i would just say take the most challenging curriculum he can in high school. if students have access to a

tatum on c-span. she doesn't know that i'm calling on her behalf. she's applied to spelman. her name is danielle lyle. and she is so excited about the possibility of hopefully being accepted at spelman. and she's pretty much always gone to white schools, private schools, but she has her heart set on going to spelman. we've been out there several times. her godmother lives in atlanta. and every day she's on twitter after school. and if she could have taken off school to be here to watch your program she would be but she'll be watching it. but i'm just calling to find out, what is the possibility of her being accepted at spelman. thank you. >> well, certainly you're making a great case for her. i want to congratulate you for your efficacy, and i can't, obviously comment on her application. i haven't seen it and can't comment on the air about it, but certainly i want to thank you for your encouragement of her. and we'll keep our fingers crossed for danielle. >> and what advice would you give to students who maybe are looking to apply next year or years beyond to get in to spelman? >> well, i would