liberia was a location where freed slaves set up their own government. lincoln investigated central america as his primary space where he was opening to obtain land. in 1862 lincoln held a meeting at the white house to pitch this proposal, this colonization proposal to them. he had obtained $600,000 in funding from congress to subsidize and support their transport and he was in the process of negotiating contracts with the government of colombia, the government of haiti which was interested in obtaining population, one of the two free black governments at the time and the other being liberia and later british honduras and the modern day country of guyana. menard saw this as an opportunity. while he did not agree with the notion of separating the races on account of civil rights, on account of civil liberties and the belief that the united states government should be a white man's government, which was the argument at the time, menard did see this as an opportunity to obtain his own end through the immigration movement and find a location abroad that woul

the other being liberia. and the other, and this is where menard comes in, the government of the united kingdom through the colonies in the west indies, modern-day belize and the modern-day country of guyana. frederick douglas denounced it. he said that the president had made himself look utterly ridiculous in taking on the approach of an itinerate colonization lecturer. menard saw this as an opportunity. while he did not agree with the notion of separating the races on account of civil rights, on account of civil liberties, and the belief that the united states government should be a white man's government, which was the argument at the time, menard did see this as an opportunity to attain his own end through the immigration movement. and find a location abroad that would accept african-americans as equals. and allow them to participate in the direction of their lives, to own property, to participate in government, to vote, to serve on juries, everything that was denied here by the dread scott decision and c

after the war, he becomes one of our first ambassadors to liberia. he was an ally of menard's. and another event happens the british government establishes b belize as a colony. this is a copy of the agreement. this was signed on june 13th, 1863 at the white house. menard was aware of the agreement. and this is given to a man by the name of john hodge and his partner. they are both in the employ of the british company. anderson is important because he has a long-standing role in the british anti slavery movement. he had been a crusader in the british empire and he travels with hodge to washington to meet with lincoln at the white house. anderson was based on the island of jamaica. this is the first time that they meet. anderson was a wealthy and very religious philanthropist type. he devoted his cause to bettering the condition of the blacks on the island and fighting for abolition. they had a natural agreement. but after this contract of sorts was signed, the u.s. immigration office decided they needed to investigate the sight. and check it out to see what they were getting in

friends of liberia office of liberia. i welcome you all the saving that. these women. they are placeholders. sometimes they are the boldest of all of the people trying to stop the war because they have so much invested they know it's their daughters that are going to get great they know it's their sons their are going to be picked up as child soldiers it's their husbands who are going to get killed so they care deeply about stopping that violence. could you who khumbu who come to. understand. that you convince looking to. one million two. hundred. one or and they came with machetes spears shouting and looting hoeing us they were after the ethnic tutsi thought towards. the shores there was so much negativity during the genocide the people also showed humanity here it were people who dared during the genocide to hide their neighbors despite the threat to their lives because they could have died because people. she took me into the holes and suggested that i hide up on the roof she put me there. or in sick i took him in and instructed him to hinds in the attic. when the w

>> senator, it's been a year and a half ips i was over there on the liberia side. previous contractor had been done, was unsatisfactory with the government. my sense in talking with both the president and the american ambassador there and the chief of defense was at that time they had been very happy. all my reports have been very favorable. >> admiral, do you agree with that? >> i do agree. it's a very worthwhile fund. >> all right. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. senator hagen? >> thank you, mr. chairman. general amos, i wanted to ask one question on the camp lejeune water situation. in a recent statement made immediately after the airing of the semper fi issue, the commander of the marine corps said we are committed to finding a responsible solution to this challenging situation. i understand that the agency for toxic substance and disease registry has the lead in studying the contanl natimm nat. is there anything that congress can do to expedite the care for the families and the service members for those who have contaminat contaminated? i know that's on

1812, there was a colonization effort to remove all freed blacks from america and to send them to liberia. now, my -- one of -- two of my ancesto ancestors, two of my great, great, great grandmother's children were freed to colonized liberia. she lost two of her children that way. what she did to cope was to earn enough money to buy her own freedom and the freedom of most of the rest of her children, which she was able to do. she was very fortunate because she had a skill. but that -- i mean the colonization efforts and there were free blacks in the north especially james horton who was a revolutionary veteran and the ministers robert allen. and this was -- to fight this saying no, we will not be sent out of this country. we will stay in this country because part of our job to stay in this country is to help free the people in the south. >> one of the other things about the free black population is that they were frequently, certainly those in the north were frequently run aways. not even a generation removed from slavery. they are run aways who are now exercising some degree of freedom i

administration officials have lauded johnson suhrleaf as africa's first woman leader and liberia has received hundreds of millions in u.s. aid since emerging from civil war last decade. president obama has directed officials to use foreign assistance and diplomacy to promote gay rights across the country. >>> and the white house says that the president's oldest daughter, malia, is safe, was never in danger during a strong earthquake today in mexico. malia is on vacation with a school group in the southwestern part of the country, according to reports from the region. and the u.s. geological survey says a major earthquake was felt strongly in that area. >>> back in one minute with more "washington today." >>> listen on the go with the free c-span radio app. four audio streams of commercial free public affairs programming. congressional hearings, white house briefings and speeches from national leaders. supreme court oral arguments. book tv. american history tv. and the sunday talk shows on the weekends. and podcasts of some of our regularly scheduled programs like q & a and news maker

clyburn, when we went to liberia, it was a boiling hot day. boiling hot day. and we all went to the a.m.e. college there and that the time the a.m.e. university and they were honoring donald payne for his everything. for what he knew about africa, for the values and how he was concerned about, get, -- again, policy as it related to people, the knowledge that he had, the great wisdom that sprang from that knowledge, the plans that he always had to make things better, and the way people just flocked to him because they would learn, they would be inspired and they would love donald payne. it was boiling hot and we go there and they decide that we're all going dress alike that day. so it even got hotter as we donned our robes and here we were seeing not only telling them the esteem to which he was held in congress, that was the least of it, because what we were hearing was what people from around africa, the esteem to which they held him, name ad lietum brear for him at that university in -- named a library for him in liberia. he was school teacher and he never fo

most recently he's traveled internationally, president of liberia and africa's first democratically-elected female president. barry landon was one of the original interviewers with the history project. police commissioner of baltimore in the '50s, former deputy superintendent of the state department of education and governor mceldon's son. dr. landon received his doctor rate from temple university, served as the first chair of the auto history association's committee on education and founder and past president of the oral history in the mid-atlantic region. dr. michelle scott, an associate professor and her work specializes in race and ethnicity with emphasis on african-american history. black musical culture and women studies. dr. scott is contributed to the martin luther king jr.'s paper project and the guide to african-american history from 1939 to the present. and william sorsy, he was a reporter and son for nearly 23 years before leaving the newspaper to right for television in 202. a baltimore native wrote for the last three seasons of "the wire" on home box office, hbo, and also acte

one collision right now, for virginia commuters, centreville .oad and liberia avenue metro rail doesicipate any issues and are planning to start on normal service systemwide. back to you. >> thank you. 4:54. season 14 of dancing kicked off .ast night celebrities have the floor to show off their best dance moves. singer trying to get to the top and a tennis star much love from the judges. >> singer catherine jones and ballas did the foxtrot with a high score. jaleel white and kym johnson got sameame score for the dance. this is only the beginning. >> it's a great start. we will go up and down. >> it means i am drinking tonight. was emotional and will be as stressed next week. i can handle it. >> william levy is third according to the judge's, rochon should be high atop. >> i was blown away by the whole experience. >> this is like a horse race and about it just came out of the blocks. everybody's in the same place 10 seconds into it. >> energy and excitement and i looking forward. maketold everybody i would them look pretty. >> two teams tied for fifth place. >> going first is so nerve

a native of liberia, she survived three wars.he arrived in america and faced the biggest fight of her life. >> i was taking a shower and felt a lump in my breast. >> reporter: she was only 32 and what she heard next still haunts her. >> the doctor said you are too young to have breast cancer, forget about it. come back in six months to year. >> reporter: karmo did have breast cancer and by the time she did come back six months later, the lump had doubled in size. >> i had this beautiful 3-year-old daughter. after getting diagnosed it was rapid speed from there your whole life turns upside down. >> reporter: at a time when support was badly needed, she found herself more alone than ever, her fiance walked out on her while she was undergoing treatment. now she was struggling as a survivor and a single mom. >> i thought i can sit here and cry about this and feel sorry for myself or i can use my life to make others live and that's what i chose to do. >> reporter: undergoing her second round of chemo, lying in bed, losing all her hair

most recently traveling internationally serving to the president of liberia and africa's first democratically elected female president. dr. barry landerman was one of the original interviewers for the mckel done jackson oral history project. among his notable interviews were james heparin, police commissioner of balt plor in the '50s. governor mill larpd taos, david w. zimmerman, former deputy superintendent of the state department of education and governor mckel don's son, theodore mckel done junior. dr. landerman received his dock rat from temple university section vd as the first chair of the oral history association's committee on education and as founder and past president of the oral history in the mid atlantic region. dr. michelle scott, an associate professor at umbc and her work specializes in the study of race and ethnicity in the american experience with emphasis on african-american history, black musical culture and women's studies. dr. scott has contributed to the martin luther king junior papers project, volumes two to four and the fourth coming colombian guide to african-americ

populous, and where it's coincidental, but it is a correlation, where women have been involved like liberia, the chances of it lasting are at least greater than not. so this week i am issuing the first ever policy directive. it contains specific steps on protecting women and gender policy on every aspect of our work, on our policy, our budgeting, our program management and training practices. women are often the canary in the coal mine. when it comes to transitioning to democracy or sustaining democracy, we need to pay attention to whether they're thriving or not because that's one of the earliest indicators as to whether any society is going to sustain its democratic progress. and i'm counting on your leadership as chief to mission to implement this guidance around the world. i should also note that there will be changes in our ambassadorial core this summer and following the november elections as is customary at the end of a presidential term. the foreign policy of the united states, however, does not stop for elections. it requires consistent direction and management, so it is important

named a library for him in liberia. he was a schoolteacher. he never forgot how important it was for us to put our students first. he called them the bright lights of our nation's future. for investing in their potential, inspiring them to succeed, igniting the sparks they had in them to do their very best. he was very proud of new work and serving there. i remember when he first came here, his work on behalf of his constituents, his neighbors, the middle-class, working people, people who were striving to reach into the middle class. he was always working for them. he was new jersey's first african-american member of congress. he remained committed champion of equality and opportunity for all. again, he and his accomplishments, both on his committee, where he served with congressman george miller, who holds him in the highest esteem, and his foreign affairs committee, where he served with congressman howard berman -- to hear the two of them talked today as if they have lost a brother, and we all have. they have full appreciation of his hard wo

and the controversial tradition of remembering alsace veterans as heroes liberia nationalist gather for an annual march condemned by half of the population and seen as an inspiration for young neo nazi. next as the u.s. a led campaign in afghanistan suffers a double blow both from the taliban and the afghan government crosstalk ways up america's struggling strategy. can. stand. alone and welcome to crossfire computers of all the quagmire continues after the killing spree by a u.s. soldier the burning of korans and the desecration of taliban corpses the u.s. says it remains committed to its afghan strategy this is at a time when some american super hawks contend the war is all but lost the occupation is coming to an end but under whose terms. can. get crosstalk tense u.s. afghan relations i'm joined by salt landau in berkeley he is a senior fellow at the institute of policy studies author commentator and filmmaker on foreign and domestic policy issues in washington we go to richmond peter she's an award winning journalist and author of seeds of terror and in los angeles we go to christia

fragile states in which we have an interest in their success in place like south sudan and haiti and liberia. it is keeping the peace in fragile places from the golan to cote d'ivoire. these are places we have an interest in stability and security, in protection of civilians, in helping to foment and stabilize fragile democracy. if the united states were to try to support this on our own rather than at a relatively better deal, a burden sharing of 27%, the cost to us would be enormous. or were we to leave these situations to fester without the benefit of international peacekeeping presence, we would be suffering the longer-term consequences as these places unravel. and we have seen what that looks like in various parts of the world. for example, at different times over history in haiti. so it is a cost-effective way to share the burden of peace and security in a manner that serves our interests. we talked a lot about sanctions this morning. iran and north korea are among the many sanctions regimes which the u.n. supports, but they don't just vote the resolutions. they actually monitor their

making has put together this incredibly moving documentary about an epidemic problem of child rape in liberiao a story on another topic but then ran into this issue. and just was blown away by what she found. she chronicled the problem, particularly this young girl named olivia who was raped when she was just 7 years old. so it's unbelievable. some victims as young as 21 months have been victims of rape. the ironic part here, that country has its first female president ever, who actually won the nobel prize in 2011 for work on women's issues. yet child rape remains a huge problem in that country. so she emptied her savings. she and a friend went to liberia, chronicled the issue. >> good for her. >> and now has done this documentary called "small small thing." it's a project now on kickstarter looking to raise funds for the etding and narration, the promos, the trailer. they're looking for about 25 grand to raise between now and april the 8th. so go to smallsmall thing.com and help her out. there's a little trailer, too, on kickstarter that you can watch. it really is amazing work. eye-opening

i've served in liberia, i've served in kosovo, i've served in afghanistan.-- as a matter of fact, i got back from afghanistan in late 2002, 2003, and then i got on "snl" in 2004. >> jimmy: is that right? >> yeah, just a year after i got back. >> jimmy: isn't that fun? >> yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: well, thank you for your service and thank you for your comedy as well. >> thank you. thank you very much. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you're a good man. now you're in "the lorax." this is like, every kid on earth wants to go see this movie. it's gonna kill. >> it's a fun -- well, you had danny on last night. >> jimmy: yeah, danny devito on last night. >> so good, right? he's such a good dude. >> jimmy: and he's a legend. >> and he's fun. >> jimmy: and he's a legend. oh, he's so good. i love him. so, this is your character here. explain what your character does. [ laughter ] >> i am the bad guy. i'm the bad guy. aloysius o'hare. he's about as tall as this. he's about that, yeah. he's about that tall. >> jimmy: yeah, he's like really tiny. >> but i wanted to give h

over to virginia where accident cleanup continues here in manassas on route 28 near sudley road at liberia so watch out for police direction right there if you're heading for 66 using route 28. no problems out of manassas into centreville. let's take a live look outside. here's what it looks like on the dulles toll road at route 7. all of those corridors coming out of leesburg, route 7, route 123 in tysons, all of those are incident free this morning. we'll go back over to the maps, this time northbound on i-95 where you've got that slow traffic forming from the prince william parkway as you head up to the occoquan river and newington into springfield, let's go there live right now where you're going to see that traffic is slowing down trying to get over to the beltway on our camera on the northbound side of i-95 and again all lanes are copy main and hov lanes, just slow with wet road conditions. further north now on 395 and here's what it looks like at duke street. lanes are open as you head for the 14th street bridge. in my next report we'll take a look at 270 at 6:00. >> thanks, monika.

discoveries in algeria, brazil, china, ghana, ivory coast, sierra leone, mozambique, new zealand, liberiaday they had their annual investor meeting, and it got slammed falling $1.12 on a day where almost every stock i follow was up. the reason? the market didn't like its production guidance. on the surface it seemed lower than the target of 7% to 9%. if you dig a little deeper, you realize that the disapointing headline number didn't account for the company's asset sales, and it relee flekts a slowdown in drilling for dry natural gas. that's exactly what you want to see given the insanely low price of natural gas, and that's why anna dark yes yo has 0% of its expenditure budget to oil and liquids. in other words, anadarko was punished today for doing the right thing. when you consider they delivered a spectacular beat and throw in the fact that the company has some major catalysts on the way later this year, two of its mega projects come on-line, i think today's pullback could represent a real bargain. so let's take a closer like with jim hackett, the chairman and outgoing ceo of anadarko

women like lima bowie from liberia who launched a peace movement in leash ya and drove out the tyrant charles taylor. she's magnificent and lights up a room. and people liking the doctor from somalia who's incredible. here's a woman with 90,000 refugees on her farm in somalia. she was captured by rebels, she faced them down. >> rose: and tell me about the young woman i'm going to talk to on stage tonight. >> this is a very, very brave young woman who's a refugee who wond up in burr ruin di and her entire family was slaughtered in congo, her sister, her mothers, brothers, everyone killed. she escaped with a brother to new york through the u.n. and now she's living in up state new york and she's become a terrific photographer, a star student and the things they've been through, these people, are just remarkable and you want to hear them tell your stories and they're inspiring to re-evaluate what our own lives are. i think a lot of women in particular will come to the summit. it's almost as if we need to feel this kind of reenergizing in a sense as women here because the feminism movemen

which they held him, name ad lietum brear for him at that university in -- named a library for him in liberia. he was school teacher and he never forgot how important it was to -- for us to put our students first. he called them the bright lights of our nation's future. investing in their potential, for inspiring them to succeed, igniting the sparks that they had within them, to do their very best. . he was very proud of newark and serving there, remember when he first came there, his work on behalf of his constituents, for people who were striving to reach up into the middle class, he was always working for them. new jersey, as has been mentioned, their first african-american member of congress he remained a champion, a committed champion of equality and opportunity for all. again, he in his accomplishments bolt on his committee, where he served with congressman george miller who holds him in the highest esteem and then his foreign affairs committee, where he served with congressman howard berman, to hear the two of them talk today as if they had lost a brother. an we all have. they had an a

the provinces come together and women from all over the world, including myself and florence from liberiad states gathering together to put together an integrated women's platform where we're bringing to the president this evening. i really believe in haitian women know what haitian women need and local solutions to haitian problems. >> and, specifically, i was reading that you say that giving the money to haitian women is the smart thing to do, why? >> that's right. people say, oh, to think about women and girls is important. it's not important, it's just smart. it's statistically proven that when women hold the purse strings in a family, more money goes to their children's health and education. the more women that are in elected position, the more democratic the country is. so, it's just the smart thing to do. and to work towards women's economic opportunity in haiti right now, to work towards their full political participation and to work towards a cultural shift that allows women's voice to be heard and reconstruction is very important. and also to push our government to take into acc

we had an opportunity to visit liberia and kenya, two of our partner countries and mali as well on this particular trip. but following the very, very tragic aftermath of the 2007 elections in kenya, there was a huge change that took place, lots of disruption, to put it mildly, and kenya has just gone through a whole constitution reform process. when we were in kenya, john sullivan spent time looking at the proposed constitution, meeting with the staff members and members of parliament in kenya and he was virtually immediately able to cite a number of discrepancies that took place in the constitution. and so his very, very shrewd skill and expertise has not only been utilized to the benefit of the united states house of representatives, but in kenya and other countries that we have visited, john sullivan has been able to use his expertise for the expansion of democracies around the world. he has met with a number of our incoming delegations and it has been again extraordinarily important work. . i'd like to express best wishes. we all know that w.i.c. has big shoes to fill but he's going

is just coincidental perhaps, but there is a correlation where the women have been involved like liberia. the chances of it lasting or at least greater than not read so this week i am issuing the first-ever secretarial policy directive on promoting gender equality. it contains specific steps to ensure that we integrate women and promote gender equality in every aspect of our gender policy development, strategic planning, budgeting and programming are monitoring and evaluation management and training practices. women are often the canary in decline. well, when it comes to transitioning to democracy or sustaining democracy, we need to pay attention to whether they are writing or not, because that is one of the earliest indicators of whether any society is going to sustain its space progress. and i am counting on your leadership as the chief of the mission to implement this guidance around the world. i should also note that there will be changes in our ambassadorial core this summer in following the november elec

clyburn, when we went to liberia, it was a boiling hot day. boiling hot day. and we all went to the a.m.e. college there and that the time the a.m.e. university and they were honoring donald payne for his everything. for what he knew about africa, for the values and how he was concerned about, get, -- again, policy as it related to people, the knowledge that he had, the great wisdom that sprang from that knowledge, the plans that he always had to make things better, and the way people just flocked to him because they would learn, they would be inspired and they would love

when we were in liberia, the african methodist episcopal university in monrovia, we were there when they dedicated their -- people came from all over africa to dedicate a library tape for donald payne at number of years ago. he not only do everything about africa. he knew the world but focused of africa. he not only do everything about africa, he not only the leaders of those countries, but they do him. those who were worthy of his respect return to that attitude toward him. it is a very personal loss for all of us in the house of representatives at i am proud the president has acknowledged his great contribution to our country. i had the privilege of navy have our house representative to the united nations general assembly in recognition of his leadership that service to our country. was that, i would be pleased to take any questions. >> the georgetown law student who told congress that contraception cost over $3,000 for a while but during her time of law school, yet the store and 3 miles away cells birth control pills for $9 a month to women who do not have health insurance. was her te

it is just coincidental, perhaps, but there is a correlation where women have been involved, like liberia, the chances of the lasting are at least greater than not. this week, i am issuing the first-ever secretarial policy directive on promoting gender equality. it contains specific steps to make sure we agreed women and promote gender equality in every aspect of our work, policy development, strategic planning, budgeting and programming, monitoring and evaluation, our management and training practices. women are often the canary in the coal mine. well, when it comes to transitioning to democracy or sustaining democracy, we need to pay to judge whether they're thriving, because that is one of the earliest indicators as to whether any society is going to sustain its democratic progress. i am counting on your leadership as chiefs of mission to implement this guide is around the world. now, i should also note that there will be changes in our ambassadorial core, but this summer and following the november elections that is customary at the end of a presidential term. the foreign policy of the

to help build the capacity in places like self sudan -- south sudan, haiti and liberia. it is keeping the peace in fragile places. these are places in which we have an interest in security and stability in protection of civilians, in helping to foment and stabilize the fragile democracy. if the united states were to try to support this on our own rather than with a rather better deal of burden sharing, the cost to us would be enormous. or, were we to leave these situations to fester without the benefit of an international peacekeeping presence, we would be suffering the long-term consequences as these places unravel. we have seen what that looks like in various parts of the world. for example, at different times over history in haiti. so, it is a cost-effective way to share the burden of peace and security in a manner that serves our interest. we talked a lot about sanctions this morning. iran and north korea are among the many sanctions regimes which the u.s. supports. they do not just vote for resolutions. -and monitor their implementation and build the capacity -- the