dr. khalil mohammed where we? >> guest: we are at that world famous schomberg center for research on blacks called her. >> host: why is it that collection arrived at the 135th street public library 90 years ago. he was a bibliophile who migrated from puerto rico in 1891 found a job on wall street work in the mailroom saves his pennies and worked really hard and bought anywhere are unique but he could find that was by or about black people. he eventually became famous for this collection. people would go to his home in brooklyn to see the library to borrow from the library people like langston hughes and eventually people like -- and when the librarian at the library and -- library decided she had a lot of lack patrons coming to the library and a large immigrant community at the time she said i've got to find material for my patrons and ultimately schomberg's collection of 5000 items was purchased by carnegie corporation and a variety of 90 years ago and made up the core of what now today is a 10 million item colle

dr. mohammed who is an arabic lecturer from oxford university. just continuing on from what i was discussing there. we don't yet know exactly who might be behind this attack but what do you think was the signal that whoever did this was trying to send both to tunisia and the world? >> thank you. let me add first i wanted to mention a post by a journalist in tunisia who said please stop talking about the victims killed foreigners. everybody who's a victim of terrorism on tunisia's soil came here because they love this country and for all intents and purposes, they're all from tunisia. targets are probably multiple. one of them is basically i think what the process has produced so far calls is mainly a tunisia that is making some steps including its constitution and a number of elections towards democracy of its system. what tunisia presents and the tunesian main economic as well as symbolic importance. >> tunisia has been i guess, one of the only success stories of the arab spring. there is relatively stable democracy but still young. how destabil

dr. mohammed samai is one of the principal investigators. >> people said the vaccine was the ebola virus. you get it, you become infected. so a lot of people were not willing to come forward there in the first week to take the vaccine because they thought they should wait and see what happens. >> reporter: the vaccine does contain a piece of the ebola virus, a protein, it's enough to trick the body into triggering its natural defenses, but won't give the recipient ebola virus disease. on the wall in the loof the hospital: a spontaneous memorial to some of the doctors and nurses who died here during the epidemic, a grim reminder of what motivates volunteers like richard kanu. >> ( translated ): i became aware of it through my friends who got the shot three days ago. since they're not having side effects, i decided to come and have a go at it myself, because i feel it ll protect me. >> reporter: kanu works on a team that buries the highly contagious dead. he has been shunned by friends, even forced out of his own home. >> i will go back and tell them that i've had the vaccine and they shoul

dr. mohamed samai is provost of the college of medicine and allied health sciences. >> well, initially, the thing is denial. you may just say it's impossible. but then looking at the cultural beliefs of our people, then you'll be tempted to believe that that projection will definitely come to pass. >> reporter: in the isolated villages of west africa, many believe in witchcraft and home remedies. some are convinced ebola is a plot by white people, if it exists at all. vandy kamara does outreach for the international medical corps. >> a lot of the chiefdoms, a lot of the people that we meet in the chiefdoms simply have been challenging us that ebola is no real, that it's just something that was made up, and they are still in denial. >> reporter: but the grim reality of the epidemic coupled with an intense public outreach effort eventually turn the tide. safe burial practices became common, and people in the densely populated cities of west africa changed the way they interacted with each other. the predictions of millions of ebola cases did not pan out. >> we don't want to be right. i don't

dr. khalil mohammed where we? >> guest: we are at that world famous schomberg center for research on blacks called her. >> host: why is it

mohammed, had already slipped. amy: how would you compare what malcolm x. represented to dr. king? you had not met dr.g, but you were living between these movements. grace: in detroit we thought king was a little naive. detroit is made up of many people that come from the south, so we were very happy, we welcome to montgomery march. in fact, it was so interesting many blacks who had escaped from the south and had come north had considered blacks in the south were backwards and began to recognize something might come from the south been rather from the north, but then the issues that were facing people in the south were not the same as those facing us in the north, so we had to redefine what was necessary in the north. amy: legendary american revolutionary grace lee boggs. that was great speaking in 2008 in 2008. june 27 she turned 100 years old. the film "american revolutionary -- the evolution of grace lee boggs" has won major awards. 500 people came out to the african-american history museum in detroit to celebrate. grace was not able to make it. she lives comfortably at her home in detroit surround

mohamed soltan was unjustly imprisoned because of his peaceful demonstrations in egypt. we welcomed his release today and we called on the egyptian authorities to release all political prisoners including his father dr. salah soltan. >> soltan has been on a 16-month hunger strike before his surprise release. >>> six minutes after the hour now. today some of your kids will get a long weekend in alexandria. the air conditioning is not working at the francis hammond middle school. 12 month employees should still show up for work today. >>> following a developing story out of california this morning after a car slammed into a terminal at l.a.x. how authorities think the driver ended up plowing into the building. >>> talk about a job hazard. what this dragon did that sent a zookeeper to the hospital. >>> and some people are waking up to wet pavement. what will it be like when you drive to your job? chuck bell will join us at 5:11. >>> this morning a reptile keeper is recovering from a komodo dragon bite. the dragon bit the woman on the hand at the henry durly zoo in omaha. there's the komodo dragon right there. pretty big. they're predators and they have a poisonous bite. the woman is expected to recover