gentleman who did not treat him kindly and he ended up running away and made his way to fayetteville north carolina where he was caught as a runaway slave and put in jail. there the sheriff realized that he was a literate man because omar wrote on the walls of the jail and arabic. he contacted john on and let him know that they had a gentleman who was an escaped slave and would you be interested in talking to him. don owen came and decided to take omar home with them. he's going with the owen family and quickly realized how intelligent of a man he is. they invite other scholars to come and speak with him and arabic and he has conversations with them and they say he's one of the most well spoken gentleman that we've talked to from that area. when we receive the collection we saw that there was actual some of his original writing. this is the journal of the daughter of eliza and wrote in her journal and arabic. there is still some of his writing that exists. this is particularly interesting because he was born around 1770 and so this is probably around 1830 and and the family kept these and pass them

gentleman who did not treat him kindly and he ended up running away and made his way through fayetteville north carolina where he was caught as a runaway slave and put in jail . they are the sheriff realized that he was a literate man because omar wrote on the walls of his jail in arabic and he contacted, the sheriff contacted don owens and let him know we had this gentleman who was a slave and would you be interested in talking to him. john owen decided to take omar so he's living with the owen family and they quickly realized how intelligent of a man he is. they invite other scholars to come speak with him in arabic and he has conversations with them and they said oh, he's one of the most well spoken gentleman that we talked to from that area and when we received a collection, there was some of his original writing. this was the journal of the daughter eliza. he wrote in her journal in arabic so there is still some of his writing that exists. this is particularly interesting because he was born around 1770 so this writing is probably from around 1830 and the family these and pass them along. there wer

joe is calling from fayetteville, north carolina. mind?is on your caller: i would like to say, i don't think things have changed '50s.the vladamir putin and the russians probably don't feel like they war and probably believe they will bury our way i life and our government and think joe mccarthy is probably turning over in his grave right now. that's all. host: okay. just update, american history be live from the and nal world war i museum memorial in kansas city, missouri, to mark centennial of america's entry into the war. we'll learn about the memorial honor of americans who served and what was called the museum ar and see artifacts related to the u.s. role in the conflict, we'll take viewer calls and tweets that ill be saturday at 10:30 a.m. eastern time. congress voted to declare war on 1917, more il 6 of than 4 million american men and omen eventually serve in uniform and 100,000 died. y 1917, the war was already in the third year, the influx of u.s. manpower changed the tide it to a r bringing close 18 months later on november 11, 1

i have hope in america because of young man in fayetteville, north carolina. his father serving our nation at this moment. alex was in class and his liberal teacher wanted to explain to him about freedom of expression so the teacher tried to set an american flag on fire in the classroom. but the teacher could not get the later to work. and discuss she threw old glory onto the floor. and then can started to stomp on old glory. young alex, 16-year-old patriot rushed to the front of the classroom and snatch the flag off the ground and ran out of the classroom so that the flag would no longer be desecrated by that schoolteacher. he refused to stand by and do nothing has the flag was desecrated. i have hope in our nation because of young cheerleader in madison, mississippi. it wasn't long ago that a federal judge appointed to the bench by president obama told the school district that if they engaged in anything remotely religious they would be five to $10000 per violation. it just so happened that the hat high school marching band was during a performance of how gr

international conferences, people have contacted us from the bahamas, from other states -- fayetteville, north carolina, throughout the greater bay area, of course, and reached out and said, "how do i do this? what does it take?" it takes simply to be able to know what the blue ribbon represents and to be united in the belief that the best treatment for child abuse in adulthood is to have not have had it happen at all, to prevent it, so that is our mission -- preventing it from starting. >> we usually do the other way. we talk about the abuse and how horrible it is, but we don't talk about this piece of it. so, kathy, when the conversation starts, what do people say to you about getting these materials? >> well, they want to know how to get them, and part of it is we have this wonderful network of the 10 bay area child abuse councils that we've been working with for years. now i work as a volunteer with patty getting the materials out. patty is a great visual person and a great person looking at messaging, and she works with some other excellent people. so they've created wonderful materials, and it's

. >> reporter: for the pbs newshour, i'm soledad o'brien in fayetteville, north carolina. >> woodruff: our series war on the brain concludes friday with a look at the efforts to find the true cause of p.t.s.d. >> woodruff: president trump promised often during the campaign to improve america's standing across the globe. now more than two months in office, mr. trump has shaken-up the world stage, from dustups with long-time allies to continued questions about russia. we examine the administration's foreign policy now with two veteran lawmakers who helped shape u.s. national security: former republican senator richard lugar, and former democratic congressman lee hamilton, both from indiana. they are now both distinguished scholars at indiana university. welcome to the newshour to both of you. "the new york times" reported today, and i will start with you senator lugar, that the united states is expanding, expanding and deepening its military involve am in the middle east under president trump in iraq, in syria, in yemen, at the same time he's calling for cutbacks in spending on diplomac

sherman came and invaded north carolina from the south, he had liberated some 25,000 enslaved blacks with the army. he got to the head of navigation of the river, fayetteville, and put all of those people on flat boats and meal trains -- mule trains and brought them to wilmington where they were then processed down to the freedmen's bureau. a great many of them stayed here. 1898, wilmington was one of the largest cities in north carolina and of the 70,000 or so citizens, two thirds were black. they had achieved an amazing thing in just a little more than a generation after being enslaved and coming out of bondage with not even owning the clothes on their back. they had achieved a status of middle-class. they had achieved some political leadership and power. they had achieved social standing and economic wealth and large degree here. it got the reputation of a great place to come to work if you are black. african-americans for the skilled artisans at the mill, and the cotton mills. it was a great place. there was a huge thriving black middle class. they had taken political power from the old democrats. in those days, democrats and republicans were sort of re

he ran away and made his way to fayetteville, north carolina where he was caught as a runaway slave. there the sheriff realized he waa literate man. he contacted the sheriff and the sheriff contacted john owen and let them know they had a gentlemen who was an escaped slaved and would you be interested in talking to him. john owen came and decided to take omar home with them. he is living with the owen family and they realized how intelligent he was and they invite other scholars to come speak in arabic with him and he has conversations with him and they said he was one of the most well-spoken gentlemen we have talked to from that area. when we received the collection, we saw that there was actually some of his original writing. this is the journal of the daughter eliza and he wrote in her journal in arabic so there is some of his writing that exists. this is particularly interesting because he was born around 1770 so this writing is probably from 1830 and the family kept these passed them along. a lot of people thought he was a prince so some called him prince morrow. from what i und