dubois. thank you for your testimony talking about your virginia community college system. i'm also a community college graduate. i went on after my legal asistant program to get bachelors and law degree. i know firsthand the critical role that community colleges play in opening doors. they opened an opportunity for me. in my home state of oregon the s typicallyollege serve large populations. students of color, low income students. they are doing some innovative work but challenges remain. especially the resource challenge. and, obstacles encountered by students. homelessness and food insecurity. i saw your story about the student who couldn't concentrate and went to speak to the professor and ended up staring at the granola bar because he hadn't eaten for two days. can you talk about how your colleges are addressing homelessness and food insecurity, and also what the federal government can do to help with that? dubois: admittedly, the student and securities are becoming much more of the dial

dubois wrote over 3,000 articles and they weren't all peer reviewed. there's always a way in which they were engaging, always playing with form, always experimenting and thinking about -- dubois had a radio show. clj was a journalist. there's a lot we can do, we've been here before by looking back at earlier historians to see how they engaged in their moment and did so with great fluency. >> that back story is the wefth way to end this panel. i want to thank my colleagues and i want to thank the audience for terrific questions and coming to this session. remember, don't be a stranger. >>> this holiday weekend on american history tv saturday at 10:00 p.m. on real america, the 1970 film honor america day, the july 4th celebration of the national mall featured comedian bob hope and the reverend billy graham. >> never hidden her problems and faults. without freedom of the press and open communication system we don't sweep our sins under the rug. if poverty exists, if racial tension exists, if riots occur, the whole world knows about it. instead of an iron

two years earlier, she had to search for her murdered daughter, amber dubois.ran a search organization called team amber in memory of her daughter. she couldn't know back then the role she was going to play, the events she would set in motion. for now, it was who she knew. so i put him in touch with marc klaas because it was up in northern california and they were up in the same area. keith morrison: marc klaas, a rare man with a rare skill-- how to find the missing. lester holt: coming up, a man who knows how it feels to lose a daughter and had learned from personal experience how to lead the search. we needed help from the police. and when we pressed them, why should we be looking there? they finally said, because that's where the cell towers take us. lester holt: when "dateline" continues. lester holt: when "dateline" continues. ♪ protect your pet with the #1 name in flea and tick protection. frontline plus. trusted by vets for nearly 20 years. stop dancing around the pain that keeps you up again, and again. advil pm silences pain, and you sleep the whole ni

on dubois with a part of countless more. march music. providing protection the u.k. calls for a european led force in the gulf following around seizure of a british flag tanker. a letter i'm starting attain this is al jazeera live from die hard also coming up the trumpet ministration announces it will fast track deportations of undocumented migrants. plunged into darkness venezuela's government claims an almost countrywide blackout on sabotage. kenya's finance minister is arrested on corruption charges into the construction of 2 diamonds. now iran says it doesn't want to see a confrontation with the u.k. over the seizure of a british flag oil tanker but the u.k. is demanding the vessel and its crew be released and once european led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the strait of hormuz the stand off will be a priority for the incoming u.k. prime minister this week state to be boris johnson. i think it is very important from. iran who. normally. respond. but the u.k.'s foreign minister jeremy hunt says the tank a seizure is an act of state piracy that must

. >>> hundreds expected to rally at dubois park to launch all in, calling for greater urgency in implementingolutions to homelessness in the city. it calls on san franciscos -- attendees will include representatives from tipping point community and the san francisco giants. the rally begins this morning at 11:00 a.m. >>> dr. priscilla chan is trying to help patients fighting rare diseases. thehycian and wyche of mark zuckerberg sat down with gma's robin roberts to talk about a new program called rare is one. the initiative will award up to $4.5 million to organizations that study rare diseases and fast track therapies for them. chan says she got the idea when she was a medical student here in san francisco. >> i can still remember exact patient rooms where the research didn't materialize in time, where we didn't find the right treatme treatment, and exact families. i think those experiences is what makes me realize we have to do more. >> great to hear from her. you can hear more from dr. chan at 7:00 on "good morning america." >>> new this morning, a new study out of ontario says cats are get

dubois because he's somebody who is not willing to give white americans anything. i'm not giving you tax cuts. those go to the rich. i'm not giving you help with your farms. you may lose your farms because i'm doing tariffs. to hell with you. i take away maybe things the government could give you, but i'm giving you this white privilege. i'm giving you this power. i'm saying you are the only americans. that's all he's got to give them at this point. nope >> it's so correct and it's such a remarkable thing because as you say, there was at least in the past some gestures of offerings of -- to regular people. here the entire offering is chauvinism. the entire offering is men can continue to be locker room boys and white people can continue to receive more than they deserve. and other people will continue to be locked out of opportunities. and what i actually appreciate about donald trump is that he has eliminated subtext in american life. it is all text now. this is the thing i have heard a handful of times in my life, go back to your country. this is the thing i hear

dubois, malcolm mngela davis, these race e womense race men and race wanted racial justice and didn't just have one, set way to do it. so walters is willing to talk with people with whom he disagrees, but is also willing to adopt multiple, overlapping strategies. he wants a big tent. he is reminiscent of aspects of talked about who wanted a big tent, a black united front to organize for black issues. briefly, and then i will open this up, ron walters and barack obama. walters writes about obama. ron walters passed away of cancer in 2010. he is around for the 2008 election and he writes his weekly column on black politics. he is both impressed by barack obama, but also disappointed listen andrefuses to understand that his job as president is to be open to a black agenda along with white agendas and other agendas. that is what he is disappointed by. he realizes barack obama is president of the united states, but in his criticism of obama and also black leadership is that, as president of the united states you have to listen to multiple agendas and decide the importance of those agendas,

dubois, when he said a revolution of enslaved workers, he says, they were free for a moment, and then there was a counterrevolution of property, and that gave us the reconstructionist south and the gilded age north. so instead of seeing the 1880's coming as an outcome of the civil war, it was a counter revolution to the civil war. a lot of people miss that because it was so quickly undone by counterrevolution. and keegan is not the only one who missed the real revolution. prof. schoen: americans had a variety of different motives to fight for, and some were not pursuing radical ends, they may have been pursuing conservative ends. great. over here to the right. sandra: sandra from british columbia, canada. it is my understanding that 40,000 what were to become canadians enlisted in the war and fought. do you think their motivations may have had to do with worry about the war spilling over or changing something about the north, or do you think there is no knowing about why they would enlist in the civil war? prof. fleche: well, certainly some canadians were motivated by anti-slavery. th

dubois to receive a phd from harvard. now what i will say in closing about carter woodson, he never lost that poor, working-class background mentality when he entered into the academic world. he took that struggle to manifest in his academic struggles. so he thought that the study of black history was a life-and-death struggle, and i think that is largely because of it paralleling to his everyday life of struggles. aporter: tell us about scholar today. what do you think dr. woodson would have to say about today? pero: i think carter woodson would be happy. i don't like to speculate, but i think he would be happy simply by the fact that his association is still going strong. again he founded this association in 1915, and here we more than 100 years later, and the tradition is living on. i think he would be very happy. i think he would also be challenging us to work with the children to make sure this continues into the future. professor woodson loved working with the youth. he wrote children's books. he wrote magazines tha

dubois, i know you have extensive experience in both community college system and criminal justice space. top priority of mine is criminal justice reform, i believe the impact of education of these individuals that have been incarcerated, society as a whole is crucial. research from rand corporation found that incarcerated individuals that participated in education while in the correctional institution decreased recidivism 43%. how do we best strengthen and expand high-quality education responsibilities for justice-impacted individuals, and what would that impact on this be? >> thank you for the question. in the mid-'90s, i taught in attica state prison, a maximum security prison, with genesee community college. so it's something i'm very familiar with. research is clear, most prisoners are going to be released within three years. 97%. what do we want them armed with? a future? and if we do, it's going to be some kind of educational credential because recidivism rates have been clear for over 25 years. at one time, the federal government was supporting prisoners through pell. i think we