and i think that pastor janay is the dream of harriet tubman, a manifestation of the sacrifices of harrietman. were there no harriet tubman, there wouldn't be a place in the world for voices like pastor janay. these two incredible women i think are facing injustices and taking up the mantle to lead so many. and so yes, they carry a heavy burden. and with that comes tremendous emotions. and these are emotions that i invite. i don't necessarily try to push them away. i don't necessarily try to, you know, take part in a lot of self-care. because i'm aware that i'm living a life, you know, that is blessed because of the sacrifices of these women. you know, and so where else do i put these emotions? you know? on a broken heart -- i mean, where else i would put them but into the work, you know, and to afford these emotions a voice and a space where they can be used to tell these stories, to push these narratives forward. i don't think it's by mistake even that these two voices, you know, are housed on the same night, you know, in the same vessel. i think that god is pretty deliberate about, you

the user environments in which harriet tubman with arrive. also the world that william still had contact with. david davis pointed out these of the people, prosperous, some prosperous black mostly working-class blacks who run the underground railroad. who do the jobs connected to transportation who operate the churches and wish people could succor.or -- nots really harriet tubman once but probably over and over again. does anybody know about the wild and scale -- wellman scale? five points. the subject is developed. i think this area is right around a five, close to the top of what you can imagine. what is important about all this? anything new on harriet tubman is important and i think we can all agree on that. i like to associate her more with the working classes, ordinary people of southern jersey. theould help to make underground railroad more visible. a big dividen between popular history and academic historians but myself about the underground railroad means. that is changing rapidly. the last 10 years and seen an upsurge of studies, wa

among them is one biography on harriet tubman. we know that frederick douglass included -- collected other people's narratives and that included harriet tubman. don't rememberi him commenting on harriet tubman in his autobiography, which is why have not explored that relationship. douglass was always someone who forued for citizenship people who were disenfranchised. and i think very powerfully, not to deflect too far away from your question, but in the 1870's, the 1890's, the time of his death, he was are going for citizen rights for asian americans for so-called coolies. that put them in the real minority of voices during that time. know less about his interest or champion of native americans. more about other immigrants who he was championing for citizenship and was arguing for voting rights for women. excepted -- accepted the constitutional amendments that initially gave black men and not white women the right to vote. and that led to extraordinary friction for a couple of years between douglass and women's rights advocates. a

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we're telling the story of harriet tubman through dance. the fine arts program at bishop mcnamara high school are taking their talent to warner theater for a new show. >> hello. >> hello. thank you for inviting us. >> absolutely. this is a big deal. >> yes, it is a big deal, yeah. >> huge. local high school heading to the warner theater. tell me about that. >> yeah, yeah. we actually have the premiere school and it was sold out in two hours and it was well received by the community so we decided to actually go out there and show the wider community in d.c. so that's >> nia explain the role of harriet tubman. >> we go through her rescue missions mostly and her life saving the slaves and we even touch on her helping in the civil. >> what decided you to join this african dance. i'm sure this is something new, right, relatively. >> i've been doing african dance since the age of 10, yes. >> okay. >> when i heard they were doing the show of harriet you a like oh, my gosh, why not audition. >> i got to be part of that. >> yeah. so why not audition

you are harriet tubman as well and i have to tell you that. i thank you so much. [applause] the courage, the loss, the passion and intellect that you have, that you bring to such a sensitive issue thatis literally destroying our communities . you are blessing all of us quite yes she is. >> my question is for both of you and that is where do you draw very strongly, where do you draw your strength and courage from? >> thank you. shine like the sun. and in that space and loss, the love was still there. so that love of my son goes out and that that void is filled. so i've had 300 kay kay's since i lost kay kay. 300 women have been reunited with their child. so it's the love for life, my community that drives and sustains me. it can't be put out. and it has to flow. [applause] it just has to flow. so i recognize that career, the passion and the drive. it's unending. >> thank you susan. >> i think it's important to admit that this work can be really depressing and discouraging sometimes. i think we just, you know, have to acknowledge sometimes it's not easy to stay moti

you are harriet tubman as well and i have to tell you that, thank you so much. [applause] >> the courage, the love, passion that you have, that you bring to such a sensitive issue that is literally destroying our community. my question to both of you is where do you -- where do you draw your strength and courage from? >> i lost a son. in that space of loss, the love was still there. so that love of my son goes out and that void is filled. i had 300 kks since i lost kk. 300 of the women have been reunited with their children, with their child. life, my community, that drives and sustains me. it can't be put out. it has to flow. it just has to flow. so i recognize that is where the passion and the drive is. it is unending. >> it is important to admit that this work can be very depressing and discouraging at times. you have to acknowledge it is not easy to stay motivated and inspired, it is people like susan, that keep me going, or presenting people who were victims of police brutality and racial profiling and i saw what was happening and everybody had to just find

the library of congress recently acquired a rare photo of young harriet tubman. >> it looks like exactlyf old 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

and then of course, you all know, because he's just started with this -- harriet tubman. you were many layers to this woman, she was not only a conductor on this underground railroad, but she actually let a regiment of the united states color troops on this river raid. in the aftermath of the war she has to fight to get a pension as a soldier, even though she did lead a regiment of men. she fought for years and years and years to get a pension for that work that she did. in the end, she never gets it. in the end, she gets the pension from the united states army but not because she actually served in the army, but because she married a man after the war who had been in the army. so she gets a pension as a widow of an army man even though she had served in the army. eric, that is -- those are the sort of unusual ways that women go into the war. the sort of more beaten-down path, the path that we have records of many women attempting it, through the more traditional routes. prewar groups that had been working on solving moral problems in their communities easily became local

. >>> new at 5:30 if you drive past the soccer field behind harriet tubman high school you are going to see a soccer match going on. the players are the neighbors who live around there and most of them are latino. they have played on a field that nobody else wanted until now. marsella robertson story. >> for omar gonzalez and the latino community, soccer is everything. and this field is home. >> we just come and just celebrate life a little bit and we get to do that through the beautiful game of soccer. >> not a lot of people even cared about this field a few years ago. >> it used to be dirt and rocks. now it's a lot nicer and can be used a lot of people do care. >> a funny thing happened. soccer leagues started applying to the city to use it. during a neighborhood pick up team last week a league team came and asked the players to leave saying they had a permit to use the field squeezing the neighbors out. >> you know, we got together, we wrote letters and called our local chair and made sure our voices were heard. >> and they were heard through a petition. thousands of signatures la

. >>> new at 5:30 if you drive past the soccer field behind harriet tubman high school you are going going on. the players are the neighbors who live around there and most of them are latino. they have played on a field that nobody else wanted until now. marsella robertson

that i think the great freedom fighter harriet tubman who said she could have freed more slaves if they knew they were slaves. so you buy into a certain narrative, sometimes that holds you back. so i heard the joke that he cracked. i'm also wonlderidering if you t allow a narrative to be written for that you held you back? >> exactly. one of the best ones, it's in the movie, mr. wax, our high school business teacher told myself and misch i will gilliam in front of the class the two of us would never succeed at anything. we were passing notes back and forth. i went into the navy afterwards. i got out of the navy and my friend said how about your buddy michelle? he said don't you know? i said, no. vietnam is flaring up. they said, that's michelle fill toipz day at the mommas and poppas, your buddy is a superstar. she found mr. wax on my 50th birthday and brought him down there. we told him what he said and we never listened to him. don't listen to people. no matter what your race, color, creed, religion is or how much money you have or don't have, you can make it if you believe in yoursel

this an excellent episode called minty, about harriet tubman.one point the tubman character referred to wanting to make america great again. that's obvious. but that stuff was here and there. now in dramas we're going to see donald trumps really part of the culture. are you going to have to say his name? no, are you going to talk about the world he has created which we're all living in? this is a world where literally look at the last week, look at friday, what happened on friday, if you had put that on the west wing or homeland people would go, so unrealistic. that's the reality today. >> thanks to hollywood we have a lot to look forward to. thanks to giving to us through deadline and on my show. that's going to do it for me this hour. thanks for watching. up next, "meet the press" on all of the white house chaos. stay with us. prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory. the secret is an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to r

we have added sites for civil rights, like harriet tubman. we added stonewall, which tells the story of the l.g.b.t. civil rights movement as well. we need to be telling that story, so that all americans feel part of the patriotic and symbolic values that this nation embodies. >> reporter: jarvis says they have also embraced technology, webcams, online chats, even video games. national park sites are actually "pokemon go" sites? >> they are. they are. the "pokemon go" community has spread these little monsters all over the national park service, and we're embracing that, because it's getting people outside and getting-- using technology in a way that sort of connects them to these places. >> whoa. >> reporter: here in the redwood forest, these 10-year-olds have found something better than "pokemon go" characters. >> turkeys. >> gobble, gobble. >> the evidence shows that when kids are exposed to the place, they learn, they retain, they become more interested and more excited about learning. >> whoa. >> how do you feel right now? >> being in th

we all know that talented people with disabilities such as harriet tubman, ray charles, stevie wonder, just name a few can have an everlasting positive effect on the minds of many. stephen has served as a content expert on disability and making the case for disability inclusion of the business sense. thanks, stephen. we in hollywood need to build a network of actors, producers and other key players for disability and color in the entertainment industry towards increasing storyline development and hiring said the abysmal 2.5% representation on tv in 0.9% in film is change for disability in black communities. the foundation and the usc annenberg center 2016 have done studies with similar statistics according to the u.s. census 2016. 20% of the united states population are 50% are living with disability amongst the population are the most talented people on earth. one year ago, stephen connected me to the diversity team. did i ever thank you for that? i want to say thank you again. one year ago, stephen connected me to the diversity team which led to a successful roundtable on disability

part of a conference at cambridge, maryland couples it by the national parks service and the harriet tubman underground railroad conference. it is about 90 minutes. >> all right, folks. we will get started here. good morning and welcome to the session. the title is "creators of the underground railroad." we are glad to have you here and looking forward to some good papers for my colleagues and some good question and answer at the end. i am christopher bonner, assistant professor of history at the university of maryland in college park.

harriet tubman. leadership from someone with this, harry belafonte. respect the ability. respectability is currently celebrating our birthday. we elected great new leaders and want people like you whether you're watching on c-span to join our efforts. along with our board member who traveled from out of town to join us today. we can't wait to hear from you and everyone else. before we kick off in our first vip speaker, oley cantos, and better board members and staff and fellows to please rise as you can or raise your hand if you can't rise so people can see who you are. donna and ronald and vivian from our board of directors and other leaders from our team. the people here will meet members of our team and our board. i say thank you for your service and thank you for what you are doing and especially to these amazing board members who give so much of their heart and their time. listen, this is a team thing. respectability as a movement and we are near when we want new people to join us. those of you here in person are watching on c-span, i want before introduced our first

. >> i love history i also love harriet tubman but i am a fan for reading maya princess a few years ago of course, the books the princess of mars they turned that into a movie but i love history and back it high-school and even in college to me it was important because if you look at that it was of matter to rearrange things it was always a matter of rearranging things looking at history there is a lot of ideas to create a new niche and a new idea with a new innovation in your creativity. >> so what's he doing too bad reading into your schedule?. >> i love thee ipad with different paths so i look at what is out there. it will give you a summary you can have the option of reading or by audio it will give you a snapshot or those key metrics of the takeaway of the book if you get it e-mail every day it is set to music gore science or whatever the area is so those are the ways to keep your mind active. especially somebody like myself where i have to go from foreign affairs to appropriations and then you get on the airplane to houston to the ratio -- the ratio to texas did you use some of th