she was married to paul dunbar. but she was, herself, an important poet. i thought you might want to stand up. this is our halftime break. you might want to stand up and jiggle around and get your blood going and you might want to switch seats or something. and i just thought we could read together this poem she published in 1920. it is set in wartime. so it's called "i sit and sew." i sit and sew, a useless task it seems. my hands grow tired. my head weighed down with dreams. the pan polyof war the martial tread of men gazing beyond the ken offess lesser souls whose eyes have not seen death nor learned to hold their lives as but a breath but i must sit and sew. i sit and sew. my heart aches with desire. that pageant terrible, that fiercely pouring fire on wasted fields and writhing grotesque things one men. my soul in pity flings a peeling cries, yearning only to go there in that holocaust of hell those fields of woe but i must sit and sew. the little useless seam, the idle patch. why dream i here beneath my homely thatch when there they lie inned soen mu

school,to dunbar high howard university, 95 years young. a lot of fun. [applause] [indiscernible] [applause] >> one of the things that today can bring us is perspective. we start looking at statistics and they can be dizzying when you are trying to find how many casualties happened in each theater for each country and they vary. one of the things we can gain today is perspective. one of the more recent statistics we have had, the war in afghanistan, 13 years long, nearly 2500 we lost. that happened alone on omaha beach in one day. these gentlemen have seen and experienced things to a far greater degree than pretty much every other generation. one of the things we would like to do is give them a chance to talk about themselves. they will open it up for questions and where the discussion leads is up to you because we would like for you to leave with valuable information you can teach your students. why don't we start with colonel riffee. what you would like them to take away from this conference? >> what i would like for you to take away is the fact that t

i also want to tell you that i dunbar high a inool washington dc and 1939, when i entered dunbar high school, my pack -- my captain was captain roscoe brown. he was a war hero. i want to tell you about roscoe brown. -- harry truman gave roscoe brown two clusters. roscoe brown had 100 and some chips from england as far as hungry. as far as hungary. brown did notcoe -- he was inderate the honor society. but i want to honor roscoe brown today. i want to honor him. who got harry truman to integrate the army. all the other [indiscernible] mickey whoat off to was one of -- mcgee. hillt to complement church ill fornding up -- church standing up. ,hey were trying to surrender but churchill went out of that. another whomplement leapfrogged in these japanese territories. i want to thank him for the battle [indiscernible] where they sank three aircraft carriers of the japanese. guys ono thank those iwo jima, the slaughter. a lot of those people killed. they had to take that and the prior to thece invasion of japan. these are strategic things. i want to thank macarthur. macarthur was number one i

richard dunbar is investment director at aberdeen asset management.ersation about the ten year anniversary. your thoughts on that and the decade we've experienced? well, i'm hoping it is a quieter day thanit well, i'm hoping it is a quieter day than it was this day ten years. i suppose at that time we didn't fully realise the interconnectness of the financial world. we didn't realise the implications to the borrowing that it had been attached to that interconnectedness and we didn't understand fully some of the sub—prime lending you've touched on and the other lending that had been pursued. the domino-effect was quite phenomenal really. the eurozone debt crisis started. it was just incredible, wasn't it, we couldn't have predicted any of that? incredible, wasn't it, we couldn't have predicted any of that7m incredible, wasn't it, we couldn't have predicted any of that? it was a freezing of the markets that we thought were broad and deep. the wholesale market were many of the uk and global banks were borrowing, moving away from borrowing from customers

alice dunbar nelson is rejecting domesticity here. she would rather be on the battlefield than in her home. this is a very different kind of claim from political women than we have seen in the main before the 1920s. and there it is. all right. i want to shift gears a little bit to talk about some of the most important legislation and sort of causes that women fought for in the 1920s. but first i want to say a word about some organizational changes that occurred right around 1920, around the time of the amendment. first, the national american woman sufferage association which had been the largest of the sufferage organizations transformed itself into the league of women voters in 1920. an organization with which you are very family and the league of women voters and a slue of other national womens organizations joined together to form the women's joint congressional committee. it was an umbrella organization that was the will be bying arm of progressive women's organization. and one of the first things that they went after was women's

. >>> era armstrong dunbar is an author. latest book called "never caught" the pursuit of the run away slave owner ona jude, the slave that escaped from the home of america's first, first family in detail and provides a look at george washington's relationship to slavery. i'm delighted she did it and honored to have her. thank you, thank you, thank you. >> thank you. >> this book gives us a way of seeing george washington. tell me more. >> it does. with my goal when i wrote this book to tell a story not through typical founding fathers and ona jude's life gives us the ability to do that. she moves through the nation and gives us kind of portal into south. >> i was whit perring to you that i was -- it was fascinating for me to see the extent to which george washington told himself with the almanac or note, i thought about all the historians over the years who have poured over these same notes and didn't find what you found. so it's a great testament to you. tell me about ona. >> i'm glad that george washington left so many no

i saw this everywhere, because the latest espn 30 for 30 documentary featuring baltimore cities dunbar high school basketball teams of the '80s premiered last night. >> this film centers around the dunbar poets, led by a later nba player. a few players were on hand for a watch party. that group went unbeaten from 1981 to 1983. several were drafted to the nba. mugcy went on to play for the washington bullets. you might remember that, the nba's shortest ever player at only 5'3". a force to be reckoned with for sure. >> he was just doing his job. dane smothers jr. was setting up to fight a fire when he was hit by a ladder rallying around him to make sure he gets back on his feet. molette green is live in southeast d.c. now with how you can help out. >> reporter: hey, we're right in the middle of it all at the tune in restaurant in capitol hill. these guys are family. not just firefighters. as you can see here, many of them arriving at 5:00 a.m. we expect many more to come out. they want you t, the community,o come out as well. this is aka cadillac. >> yes, ma'am. >> you're a motorcycle cl

my name is les dunbar, and i am the postal clerk for the prudhoe bay post office.been doing this about 18 and a half years. >> reporter: the prudhoe bay post office is located in deadhorse, alaska, a collection of industrial buildings clustered at the far northern edge of the state. people get confused when les tells them about the place she works. >> they all think it's a town, with stores and churches and hospitals and it's not, it's actually a work site. >> reporter: just like the thousands of oil workers who staff prudhoe bay, les lives in modular housing that's trucked in and stacked up, she eats meals prepared in a company cafeteria, and she works long days. >> it's 10, 12 hours of work a day. we do two week hitches. so we work 14 days, then we get 14 days off. so i meet a lot of really neat people that work up here, but the really interesting ones are the travelers, the adventure people. >> reporter: les¡s bulletin board, right outside the post office window, features a handful of the people she's encountered over the years. >> there was a lady that flew her

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it's at that point that alice dunbar nelson says to heck with republicans i'm becoming a democratics. very few people followed her at that moment. it was a crushing defeat for women and men who worked so hard and had so much hope in the 1920s that maybe an anti-lynching bill will pass. it's not a surprise given everything we have been talking about but the ku klux klan was very visual in the 1920s. the clan had chapters in every state. had people elected to local offices from the klan. women were really active in the klan in the 1920s. one of the interesting thing about the activism of women of the klan in the 1920 is that although they're pressing an anti-catholic, anti-semetic, anti-black racist agenda they're for the equality of white women and white men. so the women who are active in the klan in 1920s are working women, not a majority of them are, but a solid minority were. there are women who were physicians, stenographers, small business owners and covered the whole range of women workers. they are very important in organizing boycotts against businesses that were owned by jews

now if you commute along the dunbar done corridor you know there is a daily jam. tonight will present its year long study that brings back the dumbarton rail line. this time to be electrified so they could connect with other trains as well. the tax could help and private investment could come into play as well. the first of several meetings will be tonight, 6:30 union city library. tomorrow 6:30 in the east palo alto city hall and thursday at 7:00 from the san mateo city hall. i'll link you the details on my twitter feed and facebook page. but this is certainly something that folks seem to be excited about because it seems like though it's a long way off it could actually happen and relieve the congestion we see every day. kris sanchez, "today in the bay." >> thank you very much. 5:07 now. a case of suspected road rage left a man in the hospital. we brought you this as live breaking coverage all morning long yesterday on "today in the bay". it happened as the driver was shot in the head by a passenger of another vehicle. the man was taken to the hospital in krcrit

union city over toward redwood city you can cross the dunbar and the san mateo bridge or even 237.t route takes you about 20 minutes longer. so 92 and 84 both looking really good right now. you can compare your routes as well as on your waze system. i hope you join our team as well, that's nbc bay area wazers. you go to your profile and select your team, i know you have back to you. >> yes, we have. >> it's 5:22 right now. when seconds count to save your life. the improvements doctors are making to treat heart attack patients faster. >> if you missed the musical "hamilton," no need to worry, it's coming back to the bay area. >> and we're always covering breaking news. she's been posting those instant updates on those overturned big rig. that's bob redell. get to know him. happening today: a hearing is set on a settlement over last year )s police shooting of philando castile in minnesota. >>> happening today, a hearing is set on a settlement over last year's police shooting of castille in minnesota. castille's girlfriend played this broadcast of his final moments on facebook live. t

and likewise lord dunbar was also moved toward pragmatism, unleashing africans against the inflamed thehich settlers to break the law, become traitors to the crown, rise up as one and overthrow british rule and establish the united states of america. i have seen on the shelf the book "comrades to the crown" which in many ways is a sequel. i talk about the africans than a line -- then align with the british against the united states of america. that august 1814, the 200th anniversary, you had set washington, d.c. a fire and in league with africans who got in early form of reparations, plundered the white house sending james madison and his spouse fleeing into the street. one step ahead of the africans in redcoats pursuing them. and it is very curious that event in united states history was curiously under marked with regard to the 200th anniversary. i find that curious why doesn't get more discussion. [laughter] you maymore sober note find that the anniversary was the official -- abolition of the slave trade. the queen spoke, but here in the united states of america or you have all of these

i actually interviewed erica dunbar armstrong, who has written this book, "never caught" about an enslaved woman who had been her personal maid who runs away. she goes -- we don't have her letters but gorge is constantly talking about martha, his wife, insisting this woman be found. and they never managed to find her. even after she's married and has a place for herself and, you know, martha has other enslaved women to serve as her maid, she's still trying to track this woman down and bring her back to monticello for slavery. but they don't succeed in that. >> but wasn't there a lot of pressure on the washingtons in that era to create a monarchy, and that they fought against that? >> well, there were some people who wanted that. there were people who become supporters of jefferson, the republican party, who are totally against that. >> the washingtons were against it. >> no. the washingtons were definitely against it. but i can say the people who were opposed to -- you're absolutely right. they're trying to figure out how to set themselves up. you know the quote, martha said the two worst

lane you can get to the bridge ahead of a lot of people but it is going to be tough, san mateo and dunbarnd are also slow as you have heard about the trouble with the bay bridge some people are coming to the mid-bay crossings. the crash on i-80 is not going away, both directions are slow because of this crash at the campos parkway. highway 4 is slow as you drive through traffic is going to be okay on 680 but if you are driving from pleasanton to fremont it will be very slow because we have an earlier accident that just cleared. have a tough monday commit what about today's weather? >>> for some, this is the summer we have had, fog on the coast fog in the city yet you move inland and it is blazing hot. the fog will retreat but when you get this much fog temperatures hold in check although over the weekend there is fog rocketing up but this looks like 60s or 70s for much of the coast and san francisco and moving inland it won't be long to get into the 90s or 100. 105 for many inland locations, let's talk about harvey crawling along 2 to 3 miles per hour. that is part of the problem trying t

this long is moderate on dunbar and also. let's go back to the desk. >>> we are just a few hours away from the total eclipse. >> millions will be watching the moon cover part of the sun for several minutes. there is a total eclipse roughly every 18 months somewhere on earth but this eclipse is only visible in the united states. we have shown you the path of totality. stretching from oregon to south carolina. 13 million people live in the past but today the number could double here in the bay area we will see 76% of the eclipse. >> in oakland the chabot space & science center will be a popular spot for the eclipse even though you heard steve say the fog may obscure the view. allie rasmus is live with the preparations underway. >> reporter: the fog has been out all morning it is pretty thick here in the oakland hills so it feels like we are in the middle of a cloud because it is foggy. the officials say they hope the fog clears in time and certainly it has not discouraged people from coming here. they open in one hour. people a

the dunbar bridge has a later push. the change from orange to yellow.shooting in san jose late monday night. somebody shot and killed a man at a liquor store along quinby road during an attempted robbery there. >>> david letterman is making a comeback. a new series featuring long form interviews and other items. >>> direct flight from sfo to mexico city. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is trd "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> hello, everybody. so glad you're shang booze day tuesday. also known at hoda's favorite spanky tuesday! >> and the music is -- >> august 8th. 2017. that's called "cruel" by snake hips. >> i like that. makes you want to move your shoulders a little. >> how are you? we'll be with you in a moment. another great show today. catching up with wyatt russell. grew up in a famous hollywood family, son of kurt russell and