langston: : they're not selellig whatat we are seselling.ssius green: no, there's no amoununt of money that'd make me do that. >> here's the starting salary. cassius green: and i'm m going o have to get meme some new suits! detroit: it is morally emaciated. i can't ride w with you. cassius green: i''m doing something i'm really good at. steve lift: cash, i'm going to make you a proposal. i i can see that you'd want t to say no, but i wouldn't do that before yoyou see what i i'm m offeri. cash, you are awesome. amy goodman: "sorry to bother you." that's part of the e trailer. boboots riley, so, he is pushed upstairs as the people at regalview, the evil telemarketing firm, are starting to organize. you have this big norma rae moment in ththe film. but talk about that. and we're talking about this as, well, just today, amazon prime day, there are people who are protesting in poland and spain and germany, to prorotest working condiditios at amazon workplaces. >> am i wrong to say the protests are taking the form of work stoppages? i think that i

shots were fired on langston place in southeast washington. a stray bullet hit a little girl in the area. she is going to be okay. she was struck in the ankle. certainly, a close call and a ry scary situation. not a lot of information at this point. it was 9:45 and happened on the 2700 block of langston place. police are trying to figure out who fired the shot. but the child transported to the ghospital, she isoing to be okay. >> megan, thank you. >>> new details on the death ol two cn and a woman inside a home in herndon this week. based on whatroe're hearing neighbors and police dispatch calls the woman is the boys' mothernd killed them and then herself. the father found his two young sons dead and called 1. all three victims died from gunshot wounds. they found thes woma body upstairs. her brother spoke with our news partners at wtop, and said his nephews were around 9 a 11 years old. >>> an emergency on a school bus ended with a child ing. >> rignow, little is known about the incident.ju in finch is live in learn herndon, where paramedics

. >> this was the scene in lo langston place. the child was hit in the ankle and is expected to be .ok police do not have a good description of the shooter. >>>age emergency on a fairfax county school bus enldzed wi ene death of a child. >>usn finch is live in herndon, where paramedics were caed. >> we know fairfax county police have begun an investigation and th fairfax public schools are investigating. they and others, including parents, want to know more about what happenedn that bus and how that young student las life.is we have a look for you at where this happened. this was a mixed use neighborhood off of the 2300 block off dulles station boulevard. this is a newer too far from the airport here. we have a look at the school bus here. we know that boy was the only student onboard that bus. other student there. and a few other adults, as well, when he sufferedhis medical emergency of some kind, not specified what ts.t but that bus did stop and 911 wascalled. fairfax county fire and rescue raced to the scene here, tried to sav

john mercer langston from virginia. he was a very prominent african- american, even before the civil war. he was actually one of the first blacks in the country elected to political office in a town council in ohio. so, he had a national reputation. after the war, he serves as a minister to haiti. then, in the late 1880s, he is elected to a virginia seat and comes into the house. but he has another african- american who faces a contested election and by the time he is seated, he only gets a seven or eight month term. his ability to legislate is curtailed. that is really the story of a lot of these men who had roadblocks thrown up. everything from poll tax that affected constituents, to violence at the polls. now the federal presence in the south had been rolled back. the very last individual who serves during that period is george henry white of north carolina. he represented a coastal district in north carolina that had elected african-americans before. he serves for two terms in the late 1890s. he is the last african-

langston hughes as the other african-american writer. "esquire" is definitely surgery transformative publication for literary sensibilities and to begin to present the american male not necessarily as the breadwinner and father figure, but sort of more as they hit the james bond figure. himes becomes one of their most highly regarded artists. he publishes during this time in venues like "esquire," what we call white life stories. there's only second or african-american stories are the protagonists in so short stories read into what our white american men and they are enraged in your sorted dealing with their inner world and the struggles they have about confinement and sort of longing in desire, but especially again, this rage. chester starts to think about what his career would be like as a novelist. someone who writes his way out of incarceration. he has a couple of strong advantages. one of them was his cousin, henry lee mood. he winds up being the press secretary for robert weaver, the first african-american, sort of like the housing

that happened last night on langston place in south d.c. a 6-year-old girl was struck ink the here. police say she was not the intended target, but theap shoopened right outside the front door of h home. residents tell us they hear gunfire in the neighborhood every night. chris gord season talking with the residents about the outbreak of violence happening there. his report at the top of the hour. >>> it has been four years today since sarah and jacob hoggle -- do you remember them?le li children who went missing from montgomerycounty. their mother charged with murder. >> their father has never stopped searching. >> darcy is live in germantown to tell us how the father plans to honoris children tonight. >> reporter: i remember being ih parking lot four years ago. this is where they launched the search four years ago. the father is going to be back here this evening for a vigil, reminding everyone to keep looking. you could say troy turner lived on caffeine for the last four years, every since his children disappeared. >> i would stay up four, to six days over a overagain. >> reporte

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. >> this ice the sne on langston place. police are talking to witnesses, marking shell casings and marking evidence. a stray bullet hit a child in the ankle. it's not clear who the intended target was. police tell us, they don't have a good description of the shooter. >>> our other story out of fairfax county, this morning. that's where a medical emergency on a school bus ended with the death of a child.ce pond pair mettics were called out to dulles stationbo evard in herndon. pair mettics took thehild off the bus and rushed him to the hospital where he later died. so far, it's not clear how many adults, other than the driver, may have been on the tus at time. the medical examiner is working to determine a cause of death. the school system released a statement saying it is cooperating with police. >>> breaking news in baltimore, now. a business celebrating its 150th anversary thisyear, destroyed by fire. bad one this is a we spoke with baltimore fire officials at the scene. they had to call in multipl units to try to fight

operations of the association out of his home from 1950, as well as , hosting literary giants, scholars, langston hughes worked here in the home with him. it is an exciting location. >> when did you become chief historian of the national park service? ms. lowe: in 2017. >> what does that job entail? ms. lowe: right now i say i am chief paper pusher and button pusher right now. but in my actual job, i am responsible for managing the history program of the national park service, writ large. the research that is done to educate the public about our national historic sites, our park units, we have 417 currently. the information is that is presented to the public as you visit the park. also to ensure that the information we are presenting is quality information based on primary sources, secondary sources, and current scholarship. >> you are the first woman and african-american to hold the job. what does that mean to? ms. lowe: i am. it means i have a very big drop. -- job. legacy to carry on for the national park service. we have a lot of traditions we are interested in upholding that we care for, and

langston hughes actually worked in the home during the renaissance. it is an exciting location to be an.>> when did you become chief historian? >> a year and four months ago pick >> what does that job until? >> right now i say i am chief paper pusher and button pusher right now but in my actual job i am responsible for managing the history programs at the national parks service. the research that is done to educate the public about the national historic site, the national park units, which we have 417 currently, what the information is that is presented to the public as you visit the park. also to ensure that the information that we are presenting is quality information based on primary sources, secondary sources and current scholarships.>> the first woman and african- american to hold a job.>> i am.>> what does that mean? >> that means i have a very big job. it means that i have a legacy to carry on for the national park service. we have lots of traditions that we are interested in uploading that we very much care for. i also have to forge my own pat

year-old girl is wounded in the left ankle by shots fired in front of her home in the 2,700 block of langston place southeast. neighbors report hearing a burst of gunfire and the sound of squealgires as the gunman flees in the car. >> gunshot. people are not safe here. >> reporter: the gunman is still on t loose. >> i was told when it happened they were arguing and shootg at one another. >> reporter: the commissioner was called to the scene of the ooting last night. he says the little girl was apparently caught in the cross fire. amily was that a just coming home from grocery shopping, going in the house and then she's subjected violence and then to be shot. >> reporter: theg shoot cops shortly after the killing of me kaia wilson. she was killed steps away from her hom in northeast washington. she and her siste and others were wounded. two suspects have been arrested and charged with murder in ate h of wilson. curtis lee watson wonders what it's going tohe take to stop violen violence. >> at some point it's got to be ration up here that someone says, we are losing too many of our children. >>

this video shot around 11:00 tonight on langston place southeast. see markers on the ground where officers is fou shell casings. we're told the child was hit by a stray bullet in the ankle. the girl is expected to be okay. it's notlear who the target was. police do not have a good description f theshooter. >>> also tonight, the worst possible news for the parents a fairfax county student taking the bus home from school. >> the child died after suffering a medical condition on that bus. and police and paramedicsth responded t call on dulles station boulevard and herndon. but asnews4's jackie bensen reports tonigh the child did not survive. >> reporter: fairfax county school bus 653 remains stopped on dulles station boulevard at exactly the spot where first responders is fire and police boarded in response to an emergency call to help young boy in medical distress. >> there was a juvenile on the bus that was transported to a hospital and unfortunately, you can succumbed to the condition or circumstances of the case. >> police say the child whose age w

look at this video from thursy nigh on langston place. a person hops out. a gunman begins firing andul stlet hits a six-year-old girl in her ankle. she's expected to be okay. f >>>r years ago one of montgomery county's most confounding missing persons cases began in the parking lot of aesast foodurant in jackie bensen was there asnd family friends of a little emrl braved last night's thunderstorm to rember them with a vigil. >> reporter: the winds picked up. the skies over germantown became ominouss a small tent erected for shelter threatened tolow away. a friend arrived to weight it down as thunder and lightning crashed overhead. none of it flustered trou turner no greeted everyone. a thunderstorm ihing to a man who has for four yearssu ered daily not knowing the where abouts of his two youngest children >> four days was too young. four years is ridiculous.o we're going t continue on. we're not going to give up on them. we're going to fight to find them. sara, three, and jacob two, were last seen with their mother in september of 2014. e is facing murder c

and talked about the making of "uhuru afrika" which featured lyrics and liner notes by langston hughes. >> i wanted to create a work of music, the freedom of africa. poemton wrote a freedom for me. the song was dedicated to our mothers, sisters, those african women who were always in the background, who always supported as. amy: can you play a little? >> sure. ♪ withto see the full hour , as he played and spoke, youou can go to democracynow.org. randy weston died on at the age saturday of 92. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. juan: and i'm juan gonzalez. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. confirmation hearings begin this -- today for judge brett kavanaugh president trump's pick , to fill justice anthony kennedy's seat as the supreme court's swing vote. if he is confirmed, it would likely make the court the most conservative since the 1930's. kavanaugh is 53 years old and could serve on the supreme court for decades. critics warn his confirmation

she is working on her anthologies project and langston hughes is working on a project. he took the train there. she says well i'm going back up north, why don't we just drive together? he says i need to stop over in lynchburg. he stops in lynchburg and she meets anne spencer. they go on up to philadelphia. there was so much during this. -- there were so much during this period of time. it was a movement. time too, was a fun relax, think, write, whatever was going on here. you are now in the living room of the anne spencer museum. there are several things in the parlor that are of interest. we have a letter here from w.e.b. dubois, dated 1934. the interesting thing about this letter is there is a story that my grandmother would tell and woulduld say when dubois come to visit he would say he is going to bring some smart woman. she was usually a doctor or a lawyer. when i came across this letter, it says p.s. if i come, i will bring in interesting guest and imprint the seas female and md. we will come here to the sunroom. this room was added on in the 1920's. on i think du

so that you had equally as forceful, poets like langston hughes, intellectuals like you boys and writers like zora neale hurston and you have the brazenness of musicians who were inventing an entirely new art form with the development and evolution of jazz. so i see that it is a very complicated picture. it's never that art does something, it's that art can instigate a whole set of movements and counter movements . >> go ahead's counter to the question is yes, sir no? and in the 19th century there were lots of narratives of women at the center, like anna karenina and adolfo that i think did alter the perception of women and create more of a space of freedom for them. which may have led to women's suffrage. together was much more of a literary artist and let's say harriet beecher stowe with uncle tom's cabin who wrote hunting sketches and is sometimes credited with the abolition of serfdom in russia , at least played a part, what interests me about it again you was she then went on to write two other novels. fathers and sons and a bridge into soil and in fathers and sons, his portrait of

this was the scene around 11:00 last night on langston place.ected to be okay. we'll continue update this story inbc the washington app. now let's check on the commute with melissa mollet and your "first 4 traffic." good morning, melissa. >>> good morning. a couple of problems. laurel northund bw parkway at 197, still have a crash really slowing things. southbound lanes being impacted as well virginia,d lorton northboun 95 before lorton, right side blocked by the crash there this morning. and in mclean, look at that. southbound gw parkway after 123, crash in the left lane. >> melissa, thank you. >>> a check your forecast iup . ome guys! hi! you are gonna love the neighborhood! it's totally wired for fios. is that a good thing? good? fiber-optics can move crazy amounts of data at even crazier speeds. and fios is a 100% fiber-optic network, so you can stream, game, and watch 4k shows all at once. kid's right about that! see! we are gonna have so much fun here. 100% fiber-optic network. 100% phenomenal. get the fastest speeds available for the best

langston hughes in the middle of the harlem renaissance in the riots in harlem wrote, america has neverear this oath that0io america shall be. he said now we must take back our mighty dream again. not with the lie that there is a glorious pastor that we shall return. not with the lie that if we just get one man out of the white house then all of a sudden things are okay, but with the understanding and since this one man has called to the fire underneath the earth and the fire has come forth, it's time for us to breathe -- to spread the fresh water of the dream of justice one more time and take back our mighty dream again. america's never been america to me, but i swear this oath that america shall be. so if they want toéofb unite, ls unite what is right. justice is right. let us unite around that. unity is right. love is right. systematically dismantling racism and poverty and ecological devastation and the war economy and militarism is right, taking on the false narrative of religious nationalism that says that some people don't matter and others matter. that's what is right. so let us

martin luther king jr., thurgood marshall, marion wright edelman, langston hughes, katherine johnson, among so many others. and according to the national science foundation, between 2002 and 2011, the top eight institutions where african american ph.d.'s in science and engineering earned their bachelor's degree were all hbcu's. hbcu's annually generate $4. 8 billion in economic impact. they add more than 134,000 jobs for local and regional economies. in 2014, alabama hbcu graduates can expect to earn total earnings of $130 billion over their lifetimes. i could go on and on with these remarkable statistics for these remarkable colleges and universities. for all of these incredible achievements, though, every achievement that i just named, hbcu's in alabama and across the country are working against strong headwinds of serious financial struggles. the government accountability office recently investigated the capital finance needs of hbcu's at the request of my colleagues, senators pat at this time murray and senator casey, also congressman bobby scott and congressman g.k. butterfield s