-- harriet tubman foundation. it is really the flagship of getting her story told on the east coast for many years. also, some other attractions such as the visitor center which welcomes people from all over the world, and others. first, there was this designation as a monument. the was no statute or monument per se, but it was a step to get the part to the court to get the story told. we are in the process of putting the final touches on a brand-new underground railroad visitor center which is a cooperative endeavor between the maryland park service and the national park service. also, what has come to that -- what has come to maryland as well is maryland is now the home of the national underground railroad network to freedom program. it is a wonderful opportunity for anyone who was to get involved in the underground railroad research and wishes to share the stories through websites and facilities. it's a happens right now, miss -- maryland has more network freedom program members than any other state in the nati

michelle alexander referred to you as the 21st century harriet hub man. i saw nick kristof, who was on this program weeks ago, who used that same phrase in his column in the "new york times," you are the 21st century harriet tubman. that's high cotton. that's a lot of love and a huge accolade. but i raise it it not to embarrass you but to ask you whether or not your work feels harriet tubman-ish. do you feel like you're on a journey to rescue people and to save lives? >> i know -- >> and to take folk to freedom? >> i know that what i do rescues people, allows them to have an analysis of what's happening in their lives, and breaks them free of the criminal justice system. and you know, when we talk about slavery, you know, we have to go back to the 13th amendment that says, you can be a slave if you're incarcerated. so does it feel like harriet tubman? i think so. i didn't imagine that when i started out. i just thought if i could help a handful of women come home, it would be okay. but then i started looking at the larger picture. and the systemic oppress

beverly left a couple of months before harriet. the thinking is, he went to prepare, instead of sitting her by herself -- up by yourself. -- we don't know what happened to them. -- in washington -- it had a daughter. she said harriet married a man who was well off as well and had multiple children, that they did not associate with the family after a particular time. when you pass into the white world you can't keep going to see your relatives who are not passing. beverly is described at one point as having -- as being like a hot air balloon. i tried tracking that down in petersburg. i found a record of a balloon the 1830's, but i haven't been able to find anything else about him. volumes of second the hemmings family story. i will try to figure that one out. people periodically appear claiming to be the descendents of beverly and harriet. we haven't been able to confirm that. the two eldest leaves, they don't want paper. know that they were enslaved. if they were enslaved, that means they are part black. the couldn't live with whit

beverly left a couple of months before harriet. the thinking is, he went to prepare, instead of sitting her heers of, or off by herself, left earlier and put. on the stagecoach, gives her money, and and her away. they went to live as white people. we do not know what happened to them because of that. madison hemmings said she married someone in good circumstances in washington and had a daughter. she said harriet married a man who was well off as well, and had children, multiple children. but they did not associate with the family after a particular time because when you pass into the white world, you cannot going to see your relatives who are not passing. beverly is described, and one point, as having descended into a hot air balloon in petersburg. i tried tracking that down. i found a record of a balloon ascension during the 1830's, but i haven't been able to find anything else about him. i'm doing a second volume of the hemmings family story. i will try to figure that one out. people periodically appear claiming to be the descen

the small locket which harriet wore contained photographs of herself and her husband.hese are the personal elements that survived the bombing of their home in 1951. another example of pre-civil rights era activism comes from of john's island, just south of charleston. the jenkins created a group called the progressive society which operated a store, small motel, and gas station. they bought a volkswagen van and began ferrying individuals from john's island to their jobs in charleston. but it wasn't simply a transportation service. during the ride from the island and back at night, jamie would teach the individuals literacy skills, teach them how to read and write and use the constitution of the state of south carolina to teach them about voting rights so that they would have the opportunity to take the test and apply for voter registration. they combined a service along with an opportunity for african-americans to gain their rights. in the midst of a segregated society, transportation was one of the great challenges for both african-americans and whites. how to create

my name is harriet garrett. my daughter is missing.nd they're trying to give -- we're trying to get some news coverage. >> like so many of the volunteers that day, alison rockwell wasn't a relative. she was looking for nique, her co-worker. >> i love nique. nique was great. she was so great to work with, very smart. lots of energy. positive. wonderful. just a wonderful person. >> on the morning of the search, alison recalls that she and another colleague from work, a man named derek, were running late, and that would turn out to be an important twist of fate. >> 40 minutes late, actually. everyone else had started searching. >> were you given a grid or an area to look at? >> yes. we were given the front of the neighborhood, the very front of the neighborhood. on the right. >> it was one of the last unassigned sections of the organizers' search grid, a patch of woods near a busy road. >> derek and i went into the woods together. and i remember having to walk up and go over a large tree. and there is this pile of leaves, and it's in the

some people know this name as harriet tubman. i know her as susan.nd it are those are the words of michelle alexander and those opening three paragraphs in this stunning new work " "becoming ms. burton: from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women." michelle, before he go to break, how you see susan story fitting into this larger narrative, the way you have framed your book, , especially in the era of trump? >> when you read susan's story carefully, easy it is not only a story of individual trauma and struggle, survival and heroism, it is also a story that explains how a system has been born in the united states that criminalizes people in the year of the industrialization and globalization that has criminalized individuals for families, and communities, locking people up who are now deemed disposable, their labor no longer needed, their services no longer required in the current economy. and how we have chosen to treat drug addiction as a crime rather than a public health problem, and how the liberal war that has been declared

up next, national archives hosted a panel discussion on harriet tubman's legacy. this is about 90 minutes. >> during the civil war, escaped served the union side as a scout, cook, and spy. for all she endured, her life is legendary.

mike lee and ted cruz would not vote for harriet iers, and you could have somebody who's too much of an outspoken conservative. probably you'd have to worry most, you know, if the nominee has say like someone like pryor who said roe was wrongly decided. but a good, i think a good reason for optimism is that mcconnell did such a great job with -- i think he shocked us all the way he held the caucus together on garland. and then he probably doesn't get as much credit as he should for the nuclear option because there were several republicans who were wavering, and, you know, behind the scenes and in some cases with advertising, you know, they all came around. so i think mcdonald -- sorry, mcconnell has showed himself to be a master here. now, you know, i think if the democrats were smart, they probably wouldn't try so much to defeat the next nominee, they would try to influence the pick. they would be smart if they, of the 20 people left on trump's list, if they made it clear to the president that be the you pick, you know, in this perp or these two people -- this person or these two pe

because harriet stanton bailiff is doing soap box going after women on the streets. we though the association. inez has spent her teenage years in britain where they're quite ahead of women suffragists in demonstrations, etc. so she goes to the president of vassar, and she says we'd like to have bailiff come speak on our college campus, and he says, no, we're not here for you to be recipients of propaganda. we're just going to educate you. she does not take no for an answer. so she leaves one spring day -- leads one spring day, about 25 students and faculty follow her from campus next door to a cemetery, and there all these women listen to these 20th century women who are independent. they're all about freedom, agency, the ability to live meaningful lives and have personal and professional full illment -- fulfillment, talk about that and why women should be able to vote. the president is furious, but the press loved it. and that's sort of the beginning of the press be' love affair with inez milholland. >> host: you said she was rich. ing who was her family? >> guest:

about harriet delile and trying to run in order of nuns through the civil war.ou have calamity in all 4 directions. we do not have time to dwell on it, but as you can see from here, they made a made-for-tv film starring the vanessa williams on this amazing, religions woman's journey. henrietta delile. war, the end of the civil we find a young woman getting ready to fight out west and trough in the wake of the u.s. army's and she decided the soldiers life was for her. after the civil war, she spends a year and a half, these are her discharge papers. kathy williams, no, she did not enlist as kathy williams. yes, i understand your skepticism and you are right. it was not what it is today. [laughter] here we go. ofartist or reproduction her. she would be the first female buffalo surgery. -- a soldier. house, goes to the sea she is already down south when at the 54th massachusetts makes is charging to history against the stone wall of four waggoner. she had a friendship with robert , she was from the black elite, the city of brotherly love. her father had been a busi

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the library of congress recently acquired a rare photo of young harriet tubman. >> it looks like exactlyd harriet tubman because black don't crack. [ laughter and applause ] >> seth: marvel comics recently revealed a new lesbian super hero who will fight evil aliens. >> as opposed to a regular lesbian who will fight anybody. [ laughter ] >> seth: jenny, i can't imagine you in a fight. you don't seem scary at all. [ laughter ] >> seth: the cw network is currently developing a show about an african-american super hero. >> he shows up late to every crime and then gets arrested for it. [ laughter and applause ] >> seth: two gay penguins at a zoo in china have begun stealing eggs from other penguins in an attempt to become fathers. >> while two lesbian penguins are writing a folk song about it. [ laughter ] >> seth: a california elementary school was placed on lockdown recently after a black bear was spotted wandering around the parking lot. >> meanwhile, white bears walking around all over the place. [ laughter ] [ audience ohs ] [ laughter ] >> seth: according to a recent article, 2% of ame

shut harriet caldwell said down, shut down, shut down.ne more event with the lead up to the french presidential election. the debate that will take place between the two leading the pen you can and le see at 2:55. also go to our website for more information. we will talk about other things as the morning goes on. tension with north korea and the latest regarding the budget. joined by gerry connolly on the republican's effort to make changes to the affordable care act and reaction by congress. if you missed the passenger treatment on airlines, they heard directly from the ceo of united airlines about the passenger dragged off of an airplane. here is a bit of that testimony from yesterday. [video clip] >> the reason i'm sitting here is because on april 9, we had a serious breach of public trust. i would like to apologize to dr. ao, his family, every person on flight 3411, and customers and employees worldwide. i am personally sorry my immediate response and the response of the airline was inadequate. no customer or individual should ever be

following the resignation, labor was led harriet harman.words were exchanged as they filed through parliament to hear the speech and the plans for government expected to last five years. >> my government will renegotiate the relationship with the european union. >> as she congratulated prime minister they made the remark that turned out to be. [inaudible] >> although he and i have many differences in some ways we are quite alike. in what one of the things we have in common is that we are both, by our own admission, interim leaders. [laughter] we will support the government's bill for a referendum. [applause] we believe it will be better for britain if we stay in the european union. >> we have a strategy of renegotiation, reform and referendum. the bill in the queen's speech indicates that it must take place by the end of 2017. >> it was a scottish nationalist party. >> i congratulate the prime minister for his election success, in england. [laughter] and it's an honor to reply to the queen speech on behalf of of the third-party in the house

you will also see the story of harriet tubman. she also served as a union spy. finally, you will see the story of susie taylor who served as a nurse and opened up her own hospital. why don't we go forward and look at some of the artifacts that really speak to freedom during the period of emancipation? how do you tell a whole population of people that they are now free? in fact those same men that , frederick douglass fought for to ensure they would be able to fight for freedom on the battlefield were responsible for carrying things such as this, the very important, tiny, the but powerful, handheld emancipation proclamation. handheld in a method patient proclamation from plantation to plantation and told men, women, and children they were no longer enslaved. what does that mean at this point in time? the space we are in is quite powerful. behind me you see the legislation that started with declaration of independence and carries all the way through the exhibition until you come to this point. we see through the agency of african-american men and women, we come to

they have had acting with harriet harmon, for labour.ives, ithink. if labour. but it is hard for the conservatives, i think. if they're female representation does not improve, i think there will be questions. theresa may, why aren't you looking at an all women short list in a moderate form? many of the leaders will be sparring tonight as the leaders debate programme — being broadcast on itv — takes to the air. but, there are two notable exceptions. in the blue corner, theresa may has refused to debate live on tv with her fellow leaders. and in the red corner, jeremy corbyn says he won't be there while theresa may is a no—show. now a lot is made of the adversarial nature of politics, particularly if you watch prime minister's questions every week. so we thought we'd take it a step further, and get four candidates to slug it out in the ring, and fight for their own policies. noel phillips asked a couple of voters if they landed their political punches. in the red corner, hoping to land a punch for his party is the former labourmp and punch

and affectionate mention unapologetically reasserted a description of antebellum life attacked by harriet beecher stowe 27 years earlier and uncle tom's cabin, probably was not. there is more to terrorist aggression on tom strother then picturesque entertainment. taylor'sis more to digression to tom strother then picturesque entertainment. a model serving in wartime, tom also served to illustrate during postwar reconstruction a phase of southern life now passed away. once again, taylor employed him not to brew coffee and wash linens come but to make a point that extends beyond mere entertainment. readers have had so much fighting lately, and are about to have so much more, as to render unnecessary an apology for introducing tom's history. this is the only appearance of the phrase my readers. the only moment when taylor commented so explicitly on his own narrative. context, so much more fighting about to come, was the 1862ing on sunday june 1, with jackson near strasburg as well as the later battles of the campaign in the following 8 days. then there was the fighting in the louisiana after

some of the women include harriet tubman, course her mother. former first daughter will talk about the book on "today." >>> we talked about the fearless girl statue. >> not everybody is a fan. angie goff in the newsroom to explain what one artist did with his outrage. >> reporter: aaron, eun. new york city sculptor says he believes the statue had nothing to do with feminism. he created his own statue of that small dog there that appears to be using the restroom on the fearless girl's leg. you can see the new pug in the picture. he's really small. he's saying that the fearless girl statue was involved to disrespect the artist creator,s girl and the bull. many people called the addition misogynistic and they said the statue has been removed. as for the artist who made the famous charging bull sculpture, he is suing the company that installed the fearless girl for trademark and copyright. >>> calling for change after a campus attack. still ahead, how the naacp is getting involved in the murder at university of maryland. >>> plus, a state legislatu

just one example -- krauthammer's opposition to white house counsel harriet miers not only helped blocktion to the supreme court. a comment on the panel apparently gave president bush a way out. >> i remember thinking, "how do they get out of this?" and it came to me while on the set of "special report." i think what the administration ought to do is to say, "look..." >> his face-saving solution basically went like this. because miers' legal writings were covered by executive privilege, the senate couldn't vet her, so she had to withdraw. >> and three days later, that's what they did. >> are you surprised by the amount of influence that you have with your column, with "special report," that you hear or see things that happen as a result of a column or a statement? do you ever think about it? >> i think about it, and i find it worrisome. >> [ chuckles ] >> the reason is that when i was totally unknown, i could say anything i damn well pleased. >> coming up, power players and power hitters. from the all-star panel to the ballpark in eight minutes flat. ♪ just turn on cars.coms on tprice d

want her name to become one of those sort of household names, like a frederick douglass, a harriet tubman, because she runs away, decades before they do. right? so the title -- i'll give you a quick story about the title, "never caught." this is one of hi first choices for the title of the book. i presented it to some people at the publisher and they hated it. they said, gives away the story erica. i said, yeah, but so does o'12 years a slave." honestly, we understand, right? 12 years, it's going to end. with "never caught" this is a history of how a woman who was a fugitive never found freedom. she was never free. she simply was never caught. and i think it's a big distinction and one that i wanted to make, especially is a was trying to kind of dismantle what we think about slave slavery in south and north at this moment where the nation is new, and i think that's one of the other thing is was really trying to do with this book, was to allow us to see what the early days of this new country looked like through the eyes of the enslaves. >> you can watch this and other programs online at b

following his resignation, labor was led by acting leader harriet harman. her words were exchanged between the party leaders as mps filed through parliament to hear the queens speech and the legislative plans for a government expected to last five years. >> my government will renegotiate the united kingdom's relationship with the european union and pursue reform of the european union for the benefit of all member states. keith: as she congratulated the prime minister, the acting labor leader made a remark that would turn out to be remarkably prescient. >> although he and i have many differences, people have pointed out in some ways, we are quite like. one of the things that we have in common is that we are both, by our own admission, interim leaders. [laughter] so we will support the government's bill for a referendum on britain's -- we believe it will be better for britain if we stay in the european union. >> we have a very clear strategy of renegotiation, reform, and referendum. the bill in the queen's speech makes clear the referendum must take place, at

following his resignation, labor was led by acting leader harriet harman. her words were exchanged between the party leaders as mps filed through parliament to hear the queens speech and the legislative plans for a government expected to last five years. >> my government will renegotiate the united kingdom's relationship with the european union and pursue reform of the european union for the benefit of all member states. keith: as she congratulated the prime minister, the acting labor leader made a remark that would turn out to be remarkably prescient. >> although he and i have many differences, people have pointed out in some ways, we are quite like. one of the things that we have in common is that we are both, by our own admission, interim leaders. [laughter] so we will support the government's bill for a referendum on britain's -- we believe it will be better for britain if we stay in the european union. >> we have a very clear strategy of renegotiation, reform, and referendum. the bill in the queen's speech makes clear the referendum must take place, at

following ed miliband as resignation, acting leader harriet harman, no words were exchanged between partyeaders as they filed through parliament to hear the queen's speech and the legislative plans for the government expected to last five years. >> my government will renegotiate the united kingdom's relationship with the european union and pursue reform for the benefit of all member states. keith: the acting labor leader made a remark which turned out to be remarkably prescient. >> he and i have many differences, people have pointed out we are quite alike. one of the things we have in common is we are both by our own admissions interim leaders. we will support the bill for a referendum. we believe, we believe it will be better for britain if we stay in the european union. >> we have a clear strategy of renegotiation, reform and referendum. the queen's speech makes clear the referendum must take place by the end of 2017. >> the party, 56 mps, scottish nationalists. >> may i congratulate the prime minister for his election success in england. it is an honor to reply to the queen's speech on

the best way, un demanded, and we've had so much that far history here, harriet tubman, for marylandwhole underground, came through the area. >> positively. you know what i think it is,& it might be? >> no, i was going to say something very political. don't go there. who bought it, sinclair? >> sin declare, yes. >> they have a history, let's get to jenny joyce. summer fast back up and running, look, she is playing mini golf. >> oh, well put put. >> here at summer fest, you get to play mini golf, get to go roller skating, like whole boardwalk, actually, they'll bring rides, down here, to penn's landing. we'll show you more, coming up next! >> testing. >> testing. >> testing. packed with flavor, one hero was on a mission to save snack time. watch babybel in the great snack rescue. you want a piece of me? good, i'm delicious. creamy, delicious, 100% natural cheese. mini babybel. snack a little bigger. ♪ >>> boy, third season for summer fest at penns landing. >> yes, we have spruce street harbor park and summer if he, i love going there. >> okay. >> is there a special addition this year.

we caught up with that passenger harriet mackey. we saw the chaos unfold firsthand. and you're evacuating the building. >> exactly. >> a few thousand in there? a few thousand people still inside? how are you going to get them out of there? >> well, the police will be -- >> the police. >> what about luggage. >> reporter: this morning the painful taak of sorting through mounds of luggage left by passengers. b.a. is apologizing for the system failure. one that abc's aviation consultant steve ganyard believes was avoidable. >> this just shows a failure of british airways to invest in appropriate infrastructure and especially on information technology. >> reporter: now, the airline says it'll accommodate passengers and give them full refunds, but analysts like steve ganyard are calling this an epic fail for british airlines. one that will cost them tens of millions of dollars and a lot of bad pr, but more disturbingly it shows how vulnerable that airlines like this who haven't updated their systems are to hackers and cyberattacks. dan and paula. >> a lot to worry and a lo

that is a transcript of somebody actually speaking named harriet. it is so common that you end up realizing, wait a minute, that is way people talk. those things change over the years in any human speech. so minstrel speech is often quite distorted. in the book i call about the actual distortions. it is not completely distorted. there is extent the way black people depicted speaking in minstrel shows was reflective of the way the dialect sounded then as opposed to now. so minstrel shows were absolutely rye pull sieve. even more so than -- repulsive. in many places they were just entertainment. it wasn't you went to this or that or maybe we'll go to a minstrel show. the minstrel show was all there was. if you watched people singing, doing skits and blacked up, doing little dances that were supposed to be black. that is how entrenched it was. the language wasn't a complete distortion. it actually gives awe window into something many of us would consider a non-topic, the history of black english. it is not just slang and mistakes, it is a whole another

savanna mackenzie cook, management, cutter harriet lane. thanks. cyril kirkland, cutter vigorous.ph custer ii, cutter monroe. alexander joseph labelle, mechanical engineering, cutter bursktoff. his commission will be presented by his father, u.s. navy retired. jordan samuel, civil engineering, cutter midget. his commission will be presented by his uncle, u.s. coast guard retired. mechanical engineering, flight school. alexander joseph lane, management, cutter joseph. yvonne, marine environmental science, cutter active. patrick wagner legend, electrical engineering, fulbright scholarship. kyle stanley leiby, mechanical engineering, cutter forward. joshua thomas lipp, mechanical engineering, cutter tampa. nicholas paul, operations research, cutter tahoma. kirsten page logan, electrical engineering, cutter valiant. monica rachel, naval architecture, cutter douglas monroe. susanna shey lyle, mechanical engineering, cutter seneca. taylor michael lion, marine environmental science, cutter spencer. james trout madden, civil engineering, cutter spencer. charles magesky, operations researc

and another helped the patriots' cause to secure a victory in the ttle of yorktown, to harriet tubman spoke out against slavery d said all men are created equal. they helped awaken the collective consciousnessness with the courageous actions from rosa parks and the montgomery bus boycott and the freedom riders and the bold vision of martin luther king junior that injustice everywhere is everywhere. and acknowledging the sorry tragic history in america. and the subsequent era of discrimination and economic deprivation after the civil ar. h.r. 1242 would establish a commission charged with celebrating the rich history of african-americans along with states and nonprofit groups. and uld execute activities encourage the distribution of information on african-american history. i urge my colleagues to support h.r. 1242. and i reserve. mr. comer: i reserve. e speaker pro tempore: gentleman from virginia. i yield the balance of my time to bobby scott. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. scott: i rise in support of .r. 1242, 400 years of african-american his

i would expect mike lee and ted cruz would not vote for harriet miers and then you can have the oppositeroblem where you have someone who's too much of an outspoken conservative such that you start to lose others. you'd have to worry if the nominee, someone like pryor who has said roe was wrongly decide decided. a good reason for optimism and that mcconnell did such a great job, i think he shocked us all when he held the caucus together on garland and he probably doesn't get credit as he showed for the nuclear options because there were several republicans who are wavering, behind-the-scenes with advertising, but they all came around. i think mcconnell has showed himself to be a master here. now, if the democrats were smart, they probably wouldn't try so much to defeat the next nominee, they would try to influence the pick. they would be smart if the 20 people left on trump's list, list, if they made it clear that if you pick this person are these two people there will be a lot of resistance. that would be the smart move, but they didn't exactly, they overplayed at this time so maybe the

we're doing something that, in my opinion, the great cold warriors, ronald reagan, harriet truman would not have allowed. yield back the balance of my time. >> time expired, mr. king, five minutes. >> before i yield to mr. gowdy, i have one question to ask you, and i realize we're in open session, so i'm going to word it a certain way, but i think you'll understand what i'm saying. in preparation for the report on the 2016 election, which concluded that russia favored the election of donald trump, who would have made the decision to include or exclude any evidence or indications of russian intentions that were contrary to that conclusion? >> myself, jim comey, mike rogers, and jim clapper relied on the experts, who pulled this draft together in the intelligence community assessment, and it was a process where the representatives from those entities wrestled with the language to make sure they had as much accuracy and precision and good sense as possible, so any adjustments that were made were made during the process. i met with some of my officers who were involved in it. i asked them q