next to me is ajet jordan reid. she is co-author with vernon jordan of "vernon can read: a memoir." she has a collection of 12 original essays and she edited and we're pleased she could goin us for tonight's program. to her immediate right is journalist gale buckley who has written for "los angeles times," "voeg "vogue" magazine and is daughter of leana horn and author of "the horns" which became an american masters documentary. her most recent book, american patriots, traces the history of the black american military experience from the american revolution to desert storm. her essay in "jubilee" talks about the roots of that experience in slavery and miss gordon reid's essay speaks to our experiences as family. let me go forth and make this general presentation and then we'll be coming back to sit with them to talk about these other things. over the last four decades, scholarship on the transatlantic and slavery has experienced something of a renaissance. scholars in europe, africa and the americas and caribbean have made the slave trade and slavery the objective of new historical,

> benjamin netanyahu is due on capitol hill later this morning to sit down with senate ma jordan liter harry reid and minority leader mitch mcconnell. >>> another blow for neighbors near fort dietrich who say they are live nation cancer cluster. a new report says two studies are unable to show whether people were harmed by pollutanted that contaminated groundwater in the area. it would be impossible according to the report to reconstruct people's past exposure to the chemicals. >>> police say on sunday, ellsworth culbert confronted a man with a knife about allowing a man to let his going get near his yard. they argued, fought and wright was stabbed. >> it is outrageous. the world is coming to a bad thing any time somebody's dog -- because the dog doesn't know better. so i just don't understand it. >> culbert has a history of run- ins with the law. the family took out a protective order against him claiming he was mentally unstable and physically aggressive. he had twice been barred from the wilson building in recent years for making threats. >>> these are coming to us from maryland's eastern shor