it comes at a f special time howard university. this year began with issues with heir physical plant and then they had the student takeover which was driven by that. coming into d.c. on quite a weekend where there's protests and rpcountests coming in. the voeks here, the volunteers are not only helping them move their things, but making sure they know about the university't instional history. and they're putting all this in context as we hear from the vice affairs. of student >> i think what's going to be important is what happens afterwards. so starting tomorrow, we'll have our pinning ceremony and we're going to be having a lot of conversations talking about what happened in the spring, how can we move forward and meet the needs of students and res live is a big part of that. >> reporter: they say one of the goals this year is to have 85% of the housing either renovated or new. they want to get as many students to move on campus so they have that experience. another important thing happening today is voter straks. that's always i

he joins the nonviolent action group which is a smic affiliate at howard university in 1960 and he really becomes one of the most courageous activists of the era. he is a freedom writer who gets arrested in jackson, mississippi, and spends 49 days in a pen tent yaer in union of 1961. he becomes a leader of the mississippi democratic party. he is good friends with martin luther king jr. he knows malcolm x and is impressed which malcolm x. by 1965 stokely is one of the leading -- he graduates from howard university, he goes to live in mississippi and alabama, he helps organize share croppers in alabama who become the louns county freedom organization who are nicknamed the black panther party. that's where when wung about the black panther party for self defense it's lownes county becomes -- provides us the first sign of the symbol of what becomes the black panther party in '66, in early '66. stokely carmichael who calls for black power june 16th, 1966, during the meredith march in green wood, mississippi, and becomes this huge icon post the assassination of malcolm x. carmichael is named ho

. >>> howard university swimmer could be making some history soon at the olympics. >>> welcome back. ragwd is comin in high. it will continue to be the caset what a the heat wave? today is day one. how long does it last a what can you expect for labor day weekend? >>> all rigck. up. thank you. >>> there is plenty of evidence that aspirinel people that have already had a heart attack or stroke. research shows it is not the case forpreventing your first heart attack. they lead this study. it'she largest an longest of its kind. research showed a low dose of aspirin did not help people who smoked, high had blood pressure or high those who took the aspirin had more bleeding prlems. >>>here's a nudist colony of sorts here in the district that i'm about to rlly disappoint you. featuring hairless rodents? yeah, baby. that set up includes 25 feet of tunnels. part of them will be clear so you can have a chance to see them when you're actually there. who wouldn't want to see these cute little guys? >> a little scratch. >> it is information about individual mole rats. >> are those fangs on them?

another man is in surgery, after his double-shooting her not too far from howard university. back to you. >> nicole jacobs, thank you. >>> today, we could learn new s detabout the murder at makma makiyah wilson. both men were released from jail on drug charges three days before last month's shooting. the suspects were among the five masked men that opened fire on a crowd, killing that little girlt >>> we turn the latest on the child sex abuse scandals within the catholic church. >> an explosive letter the accusing top vatican ofcials of covering up chi se abuse. the former ambassador to the united states blasted the church in an 11-page eport. e says he told pope francis in 2013 aboute disgracedsh arch after washington but the pontiff did not do anything. he says that he haddmitted of making the mistake of sleeping in the same bed with some sell nar seminarian at a beach house. pope francis has not deni or confirmed the allegations made in the letter. >>> catholics in the d.c. area are calling for donald wuerl to resi resign. they had a protest where he livered a homily. a gr

deboyce is an important figure, william hub, a physician and professor at howard university and the first black anthropologist. he uses a lot of his medical knowledge to sort of make arguments about what racial difference really does and does not do, and how things like eugenics can be used to mobilize those kinds of differences for a greater good. >> tell me a bit more about w.e.b. deboiz. >> he's really interested in thinking about you the collective race can be improved on a social level through education, and also on a biological level. so his idea of a talented -- is framed as a kind of respectability politics. it's talked about in terms of education and moral improvement and religion, but there's a whole buy hodge call undiologic about who is fit enough to constitute this talented i have a i have a number of interesting little nuggets from his work. one was an article from margaret sanger's the birth control review, where he published in an issue called "a negro number," and in the concluding sentence like vegetables, quantity -- quality is what counts and not just quantity. so thin

. >>> freshman at howard university are now settling into their dorms. about 1,500 incomingfreshman moved in over the weekend. students used large bin supplies to move into their new rooms. hundreds of volunteers were ere to help the students as faculty and alumni helped them move in. >> it's official. it started. >>eel it creeping up on me. >> it's not creeping, summer daf sleeping in or barely sleeper are over >> doctors are encouraging families to develop sleeping habits now. a simple habit that could help ur kids do better in school. >> did you know each school day your child is taking in several streams of information at any given moment. we're not jt talking about what is on their smartphone or tablet screens. >> in the classroom, kids are attending to five or six different things at once. e lesson plan, learning, following the teachers' social cues, all their friends social cues. >> reporter: over time sleep could derail learning. a sleep specialist at children's national hospital. he said now is the time to take s to improve your child's sleep an

after they came back from the olympics, they toured howard university and historically black colleges and others and they really became supported. people like kareem abdul-jabbar and bill russell and jim brown, black athletes very conscious at the time supported them as well. >> a few minutes left in this segment. we started by asking dr. joseph where the end of the civil rights movement was the end of 1967, beginning of 1968. where do you think it was in 1968 as 1969 dawned? >> it was a crossroads of possible options. those who wanted to go to africa and those who wanted to go to community service and those who wanted to work in the community. we shouldn't be out here, we should be organizing and building community struggles and solving issues, those who wanted a university. it was a panorama of possibilities in the '60s, all of which are in some way, level, being part of our culture. >> kathleen cleaver is at the -- at emory university, school of law, senior lecturer and research fellow there. joseph is the director of the study of race and democracy at the university of texas and a

thomas is also an alumnus of howard university. bisons forever. there she is, ok. is the chief equity and service officer at the national school boards association. she provides leadership and management over educational equity programming content and research. before joining, she was the chair of the board in prince george's county public school district. and she was president of maryland association of board of education. .nd she chaired an sba to -- q she knows boards, she knows urban. she is a go to. fraley, so glad to see him. he is the press president of asa. and he served for almost a decade as superintend in texas and has more than 70,000 students. he retired, at least that's what hometown ofen his said he neededs an interim he served as interim, but i bet he is going to stay. he's also a member of the urban academy committee. harris, director of education policy and practice. she works with a variety of partners to further and ea's agenda and is the primary liaison to the department of education. 2012, i'm not a say who 12,elected, but in 08 and she served

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howard university, thanks for stepping up. this is a different paradigm than any other kind of job that there is. there needs to be specialized a training that occurs there. for the superintendent academy, you are doing the lord's work. it's very difficult but it is very rewarding but, let me remind you of this, some people want to be superintendent but they don't want to do superintendent. there's a big difference. some people don't want to make the courageous decisions that you need to make on behalf of students when you have the stakes that are so high. be thinking about that as you go along your journey. of course we have to keep all of our items factual, not just because ron c-span but because all these superintendents know me. all the gentlemen and ladies that are in the room that have been a great inspiration for me, i get my energies off other superintendents. just exciting, i work with double essay as a coach and a teacher and i get energized around superintendents. thank you for your introduction. even if i wrote mys

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there are many times that i went to howard university. many times i can tell you the programming that came to our campus was focused on the african-american community, poverty, low income, your stereotypical issues. i can tell you there was never a conversation that i know of, even though we have a wonderful bunch on campus, that talks about the role of what you can do as an officer working on europe or eurasia issues. he just gave me his resume and i was like, i cannot wait to talk to you after. we have break the status quo of what we have always done to do things differently, without the boundaries of the things we normally consider the first things we go to, the conversations we normally have. >> to add to exactly what she said, the conversations about poverty, around certain policy, these are common to the human experience and they are happening in each of the countries we work in around the world. part of my justification engagement in european affairs, i've spent a number of years helping support and mobilize the afro descendents in

[applause] >> thomas is also an alumnus of howard university. verjeana jacobs come there she is okay. verjeana jacobs is -- [applause] provides leadership and management over educational equity programming content and research. before joining cauchy was the chair of the board and the prince george's county public school district. and she was president of the maryland association of state board of education and she chaired the cube, which is counsel urban board of education. she knows boards. she knows ruben. she said go to. alton frailey, so glad to see him. he is the past president of aasa and dessert for almost a decade as superintendent in texas and has more than 70,000 students. he retired from katie, at least that's what he said, and then his hometown of macintosh is texas need a super get and he said he was service interim turkey says his interim audit that he's going to stay. he's also -- a member of the urban academy steering committee. and donna, high, donna harris-aikens is director of education policy and practice at national educatio

is going on on the ground in africa and in african nations you know like i am professors at howard university that that you know which is my alma mater that i know for a fact are you know all the way from from d.c. deeply engaged and aware of african politics of course being on the ground an african country and there's nothing that can replace it and also being an african or being a south african there's nothing that can replace you know that direct insight but i think it's a little bit you know a little bit of a reach to sort of just kind of say that you know we kind of have this shallow understanding. you know shuttle approach i would say you know i don't really think that's the case and i think sometimes people just kind of underestimate the insight that african-americans that many of us actually do have i mean i get a lot of african-americans don't know you know i don't have any interest in what's going on in africa but at the same time there are others that do like myself you know and i think that can be done is to give us a chance you know what we are starting we're starting from you kn

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he joined the nonviolent action group, which is at howard university in 1960. he really becomes one of the most courageous civil rights activists of the era. he gets arrested in jackson, mississippi and spends 49 days in a penitentiary in june 1961. he becomes the second congressional district leader of the mississippi freedom party. he is good friends with martin luther king jr. he knows malcolm x. and is impressed with malcolm x. by 1965, he graduates from howard university, he goes to live in mississippi and alabama. he helps organize sharecroppers in alabama, who become the freedom organization who are nicknamed the black panther party. that is where, when we think about the black party panther for self-defense, it is that county that provides us the first sign of a symbol of what becomes the black panther party in 1966. it is stokely carmichael who calls during the meredith march and becomes this huge icon, post the assassination of malcolm x. carmichael is named honorary prime minister of the black panther party. initially, field marshal by executive orde

phil enrolled at howard university. he experienced what it was like to be a minority. it strengthened his empathy for those that faced bigotry and injustice. phil returned to his beloved season fran and immersed him in the anti-war movement. phil became a project director at the new mobilization to end the vietnam war, organizing a demonstration in 1959, which brought 250,000 people to golden gate park. he continued to organize events and built friendships with many performers. and many of them were clients of his, leading him to be called the san francisco rock 'n' roll lawyer in the local press. in 1970, he opened his law practice, specializing in criminal defense and entertainment law. over the next 37 years, he developed a high-profile practice and was often in the limelight as much as the movie stars, public officials, sitting judges, authors, rock stars and sports figures that he represented. in the courtroom, he cultivated a flamboyant style and was a master storyteller, who strongly believed that whatever attorney told the best story would produce wins. phil to

that's a new blocks away from howard university ho this is video from the scene as investigators work to piece this together. a cond man was hurt there. no word on his condition right now. s.lice want to hear from anybody that knows about t >>> today will be an emotional day for a griing d.c. mother. >> she could learn more about the murder of her ughter. nicole jacobs is live outside d.c. superior court wit the latest. nicole? > eun and aaron, makiyah wilson's mother will have an opportunity to lay eyes on the man police believe was involved in her 10-year-old daughter's murder. investigators are making this arrest and issuing a parewarranr the arrest of this man. this is a previous mug shot of quentin michals. police released video of four men jumping out of a car and random sprayingullets into a crowd of people in northeast d.c. in july. 20-year-old quentin thomas was t arrestedday and will face a judge today. little makyiyah. there was outrage from the family and her community. her mother believess this a stop towards justice. >> keep fighting. keep don't give up on my baby. if an

>> it's ground breakingg programm set an industry standard and it became a legacy station at howard university campus. there's a change coming at the top of the station. > progressive 96.3 whur washington. >> from the very first days on ai it's been elevating the reach of music. my started volunteerin time, and the next time i was chief engineer. and we hit the air with 60-degree total bla experience and the rest was history. >> reporter: now after more than three decades ushering in some big moments. >> here i amn a picture in the "washington post" when whur got their first arbitron radio. >> watkins is one of the longest nning general managers at the radio station's history. who built the operation into a network of sixst ions. >> this is whur, data processing, research materials. ratings monitors. >> reporter: watkins can retire knowing he was the founder of the original hit storm. >> we moved on tohings like being the first station in the gital. being the first african-american station to hav two channels on xirius fm. beyond syndicated talk shows, but watkins wanted his all music station

then the school superintendents association and howard university hosting a discussion of challenges facing urban school superintendents. >> "washington journal" live every day with a news and policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning, cbs a election and surveys discusses his book "where did you get this number?" about how polls worked and what to watch for in the elections. and precision medicine, and how it can improve strategy, talking to stephanie delaney from the national institutes of health. journal" liveton at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> senate minority whip dick durbin spoke to reporters after his meeting with supreme court nominee judge brett kavanaugh. his remarks are about 15 minutes.

that's blocks away fro howard university hospital. call police if you know anything about this case. >>> c. police are also investigating a shooting that injured a man in northeast washington. the victim was shot in the shoulder last night. this was along trinidad avenue northeast. not far from gallaet university. police say he either himself or was driven to the road where officers were called. news4 crews spotted an suv with multiple bullet holes being toed away from that scene. the man is expected to be okay. >>> you are taking a live look at the white house right now, wheregs fre flying at full staff once again there. they were lowered surday to honor the late senator john mccain. the flag lowering lasted less than 48 and it breaks from i precedent thais lowered under burial. meanwhile events honoring mccain begin this wednesday and then head here to washington. tracie potts has more from capitol hill. reporter: the u.s. capitol flag flies at half staff this morning in honor of john mccain a war hero who spent 36 years working wit

she died a little over a year ago and she led student protests at howard university.rget it is in the south, the old mason-dixon line and they also had issues with public accommodation and all this sort of thing so she did that when she was in college. she later became a labor activist and leader and also became the first and i think only african-american president of the national organization for women. she quits now after she had been the president plans on how they figured out that it was okay to present an all white slate for officers and she thought this cannot be so she moved to california and maintained her activism and did labor organizing not just here but abroad. judy richardson, right there representing the young people of sncc. does anybody remember this line? it was a lifeline for the civil rights workers because what they did, people would go in the rural areas so people that need to know that they are still alive. these are dangerous times. judy's job was to take the reports and sometimes through tears contact the fbi. she talks about her frustration be

. >>> plus we'll introduceoou a howard university swimmer wak hopes to me a splash in the 2020 olympicsildren wilittle one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colorkif their but by the content of their character. i have a dream today. >> back now at 11:22 on the 55th anniversary of the revrtend luther king jr.'s most famous speech. it was on this day i bac august 28th, back in 1963, that he spoke on the steps of the lincolnmemorial. you know, my father-in-law was there. >> what an incredible momenhi i ory for him to experience that in person. >> and talk about it now. >> >>> more than 200,000 people were packed on to the national mallhat day for the march on washington for jobs and freedom. it is considered one of the most defining moments of the civil rights movement. those words still ring true today. >> i get chills. >>> the 2020 summer games may still be two years away but olympic has hit the campusho of rd university. >> a senior will be competing in the summer games in tokyo. she will be competing for the african country o cape verde. her sister and brother w

. > freshman at howard university settling into their new dorm rooms. 1,500 freshman moved i over the weekend. students used large bins to move into their new rooms and hundreds o volunteers there to help them as faculty and alumni help them. classebegin next monday. >> seeing all these students moving, it's too real for >> no longer coming, it's here. >>> for some parents and kids, the summer days of sleeping in or barely sleeping are over. >> doctors are encouraging families to develop healthier sleeping schedules. it's a simple habitd that co help your kids do better in school. >> did you know each school day your child is taking in several st of information at any given moment. now, we're not talking about st what is on their smartphone or tablet screens. >> in the classroom, kids are attending to five or six different things at once. the lesson plan, learning follow the teacher's social cues,ll of their cues. -social >> reporter: dr. daniel is a slp specialist at children's national hospital and he is anose is the time to take steps to improve your child's sleep and yours, too. o

she earned her doctorate from mit and has taught at howard university. additionally, she served as president of historic bennett college. her writing has appeared in such publications as usa today, black issues in higher education, newsmagazine, essence, and more. in addition, she is a commentator who has shared her views on numerous stations including abc, nbc, fox news, c- span and others. julianne malveaux's contribution have helped to shape public opinions across the nation. please help me welcome doctor julianne malveaux. i am so happy to see everybody here. i am so happy to be here. this museum is one of my favorite places in the world. the most important movements that we experienced. let's not forget what doctor king wanted to do. he wanted to literally shut government down. he wanted us to go to every government department and ensure that what had to happen with housing and education happened. of course, he died before the campaign took place. it was when people really couldn't camp outside in mud. many did for some time. a lesson for our young

. >> today is move-in day for howard university freshmen.nd of preparing for that. lauryn saying it's going to be a little warm, perhaps showers as n lks are starting that move process. >> can i tell you i remember that day? >> good for you. >> over a decade ago. >> we've got derrick ward and we'll check in with him a little later and we'll check in., meantiour time is 8:33. final preparations under way for tomorrow's white supremacist rally. it's going to be happening right outside >> d.c. officials say they're trying to avoid the deadly violence that broke outn charlottesville last year. organizers of unite the right 2 have a permit to rally in lafayette square across from the white house. at least five groups of counter proteste plan to rally and march to lafayette square. authorities are ramping up security to keep both sides t. apar but one top d.c. official won't be in town. mayor muriel bowser say she's going along with a long-timed trip to el salvador. >> i'll make a designation that the city administrator makes any decisions i'm not

it set an industry standard and it became a legacy station at howard university's campus.ore now on a big change that's coming at the top. >> 9:00 in the nation's capital, progressive 96. >> reporter: from the very early days on t air it's been about elevating the reach of a music i exce. >> i came out to volunteer. and i started volunteering my time andheext thing i knew i was here. >> reporter: jim watkins was 19 years old. >> we hit the air with the 36 degree total lack of experience and the rest was history. >> reporter: after three decades of ushering in big moments. >> here i am on a picture from "the washington post" and whur got its first number one rating. >> reporter: that was 1986. most gm's last five years, watkins is one of the longest serving radio station general managers in the country having a remarkable stretch to wire the university's stand-alone ra commercial opeon into a network of six stations. >> this is whur. processing, autationing material. >> watkins can retire knowing he's put his own stamp on the a station kno the home of the original quiet sto

it was hosted by howard university and a asa and association represented his remarks are followed by a discussion about challenges facing urban schools. this is two hours. >> thank you. i will be back to you in just a minute. first of all, congratulations. for being selected to be a part of this premier organization and this activity that you will go through. i've been a member since 1994. and proud of it. it's a great organization and it has done a great job for public education and there are our champions. first of all, thank you for your work. thank you for stepping up. stepping into these tough issues as the urban superintendent has a different paradigm than any other kind of job that there is. .. .. so be thinking about that. of course, i have to keep all of my items and fax, not because we're on c-span but all the superintendent in here know me. i've been in superintendent for 24 years. not getting away with anything with all gentlemen and ladies that are in the room that i've worked with that of been a great inspiration for me, that i get my energy off of other superintendent.

howard university, thanks stepping up because being-- stepping up and stepping into these tough shoes as an urban superintendent is a different paradigm than any other job there is so there needs to be specialized training that occurs there. for the urban superintendents academy, you're going to be in the urban superintendent academy, that's yeoman's work. you're doing the lord's work. it's very difficult, but it's very rewarding, but, let me remind you this, some people want to be superintendent, but they don't want to do superintendent. and there's a big difference. some people just want the title and the recognition, but some people don't want to make the crourageous decisions on behalf of students. be thinking about that asking along your journey. do you want to be superintendent or do superintendent? so be thinking about that. and of course, i have to keep all of my items factual. not because we are on c-span because all of these superintendents here know me. i've been a superintendent for 24 years and i can't get away with anything with all the gentlemen and ladies in the room t

i went to howard university, i am very well-educated, but these ignorant motherfuckers trying to kill me don't speak but one language. so today i am talking to them. peace,want to speak holler at me later, but right now, we have business to attend to. you have three minutes to speak because we have business. we can talk later. the walk is waiting for us. franz. up, we have he is the founding director of heritage in d.c., a counter diplomacy organization that builds bridges and promotes understanding of the cultures. the history of the middle east, north africa, the iberian peninsula, and central and western asia. franz has also posted on topics of international and jewish affairs and offers services to those seeking to learn more about the heritage. much love and respect for you. thank you. [applause] >> so i am jewish with roots in the middle east and north africa. and to be honest, with a different perspective on israel from some of those who have spoken before me, but i am here for the same reason you are. inspired by my own underrepresented heritage and identity, i'm here with you