we are we have the definitive home of maya angelou's collection. james baldwin currently we only have correspondence between him and his brother. his collection remains in the possession of the estate and one day we hope to get it. but even the collection of correspondence between david baldwin and james baldwin is revealing and important to scholarship around baldwin. >> dr. muhammad. you're also an author? >> yes. >> what books? >> my only published book at this time is called "the condemnation of blackness, race, crime, of modern america." >> working on the second one quite a while. >> i have had administrative and fund-raising responsibilities. they made it difficult to forge ahead. i start ad second project. i have done a lot of research. i published an article from it. the second book is called disappearing acts the edge of white criminality in the age of jim crow. >> are you surprised by the past year in race relations? >> yes, i am. i'm surprised both in the way in which there have been callous shootings of unarmed people that seem to come

and recently we've worked together on this book on maya angelou about his relationship to maya angelou. but tavis is sort of the ideal collaborator because he appreciates what i do, you know, and shows me great respect. and also i love how he speaks and i love his voice and he's intrinsically a good storyteller. so it's, it's been a great combination. >> host: is the ghost writing business a pretty big business that we don't necessarily know about? >> guest: yeah. the one area we haven't talked about is deep ghosts which means that you don't have your name on it. you touched upon it earlier. but a deep ghost is a person who has ghost written a book for typically politicians will use a deep ghost because they want to give the idea that they actually wrote the book. and i don't know i haven't done a survey on it, but i think -- i don't know whether a majority of books written by politicians are ghost written, but a large number of books written by politicians are ghost written. so yeah, it's it's -- and i i'll tell you one interesting story about that. i was once on an airplane going to

maya angelou spoke two languages both taught at that school. and now longtime educator dr.. >>> and a new deal for extending a deal on the ballpark on route 1. the supervisors that sign it, they will have three months to finalize the deal with the owners of the hagerstown sun. >>> right now, a rough night coming to an end in a silver spring high-rise. we just learned that the power is now back on. we'll take you to the live desk with new information. >>> also ahead a break for investigators search for the cause of that tourist crash from alaska that killed people from our area. the technology that could help. >>> and breaking news on the roads here. a big problem on bw >>> breaking news right now on bw parkway northbound just after 32, we have a serious crash right now that has shut down the northbound lanes of bw parkway. as the chopper zooms out here you can see we have a 3 1/2-mile backup. lots of traffic being pushed on to 32 to get around this one here this north. that's going to be nasty this morning. as far as other travel times in maryland, looking typical right now

two schools in prince georges county now have new names, including one named after maya angelou. an ge lou spoke several languages, including french and italian which are both taught at the school. the county's oldest french immersion school robert godard also got a name changed. it's now named after dr. dora kennedy. >>> the national building museum has created a massive beach with plastic balles and even some beach chairs. news 4 and a few families were there to try out the experience for the first time. >> yeah. it's -- i'm pretty blown away. i think only a place like the building museum would have something this expansive. >> the interactive exhibit is open for a two-month run. for a small fee, you can relax by the sea or even try swimming in it. the balls are treated with a microantibiotic for safety. >>> that's all for news 4 this week. i'm chris lawrence. thanks for joining us. have a great weekend. is there an elk in your bed? with sleep number now there's an adjustment for that. only at a sleep number store. don't miss the final days of the lowest prices of the season. s

are here. >> guest: her archives are part of our permanent collection, absolutely. >> host: from maya angelou to this is evocative of a recent moment of slavery study several of which have appeared in the last couple of years and more particularly the stephen mcqueen film 12 years this late date this is the first edition of the solomon northrop story that expired and here's the copyright page. i am turning, published in 1853. >> host: it got made into movie couple of years ago. >> guest: that's right. this work for the schomburg center was part of his early effort by arthur schomburg and his successors to find books by people in a time where ex-slave narratives or enslaved peoples writings were not appreciated were not valued so once we got past the abolitionist movement, pass the civil war it had very little value in the book world so arthur schomburg was able to capitalize on this kind of work because it wasn't expensive for mantu is very much lower to middle class in terms of his income to very much part of a burgeoning elite that was committed to this kind of cultural space. >> host: ever

reflected the greater diversity and the demand and the debate and if we are better off reading maya angelou. not to pick on her but that is an example and at that time on campus in the world of finlay and educative liberals of restored division not brought to light with the radical of on guard and the traditional liberal faculty people who are raised and educated am brought up and thought it had value and wanted to preserve it so one could sense they were somewhat uncomfortable the so much with the ada to broaden the cannon to be more inclusive but the arabia said tried and true classic to civilize the influence is a good example of the common view of the conventional middle ground liberal is the radicals on the left are well-intentioned with the right idea but a little hasty and impatient moving too fast gore throwing something away that has value so what i found to be the case when you publish a controversial book is getting the public mind that you have to study and interpret but what i concluded in this case from long consideration is that dinesh came along he expressed the point of vie

and they say a lot of more nice things and quote maya angelou in here as well. a lot of support here at the hayward police department for the loss that they suffered. back to you. >> thank you for taking us there. we will talk to you later. >>> well, last night a candlelight vigil was held outside hayward city hall. the mayor says the city lost a shining light and people who knew sergeant lunger best, even total strangers, agree with that. the mourners wrote notes to the sergeant's family and also to the hayward police department. >>> close friends of sergeant lunger called him a compassionate man. an ideal police officer and a great father. sergeant lunger led the gang task unit and the s.w.a.t team. we talked to his former beat partner who choked back tears remembering someone he admired and respected. >> he was hesitant to become a sergeant because he didn't want to leave the line level guys. we forced him to go because he would be our leader then. a good friend, you know? we were planning a fly-fishing trip -- sorry. >> yeah. neighbors say lunger lived in br

. >> and from maya angelou to, this is -- >> yes. socktive of a recent -- evocative to have a recent moment explosion of slavery studies, several of which have appeared in the last couple of years. and more particularly, the steven mcqueen film, " 12 years a slave," this is the first edition of the solomon northrup story that expired that film. and here is the copyright page that i'm turning published in 1853. >> and just got made into a movie a couple years ago. >> that's right. so this work for the schomburg center was part of an early effort by arthur schomburg and his successors to find books by black people in a time where x slave narrative or enslaved people's writings were not appreciated, were not valued. so once we got past the abolitionist movement past the civil war books like this had very little value in the book world. and so arthur schomburg was able to capitalize on this kind of work because it was inexpensive for a man who was very much lower middle class in terms of his income but very much part of a burgeoning blac

the place for telling the story of the history makers from langston hughes to james baldwin to maya angelou to harry belafonte and sidney poitier who grew up in this committee the malcolm x. this is the place that those people walked through these doors in search of information inspiration, fellowship and walked out of the store smarter, more committed, more passionate to to the store to do the work to help change this country. >> dr. khalil gibran muhammad, what is the relationship with the new york public library? >> new york public library owns and operates the schomburg center as part of for research divisions of its large municipal library system. the new york public library was the broker of the deal that helped to bring the collection you along with the carnegie corporation and innocent enough the national urban league. the library itself was committed to serving the patrons of this community by finding this collection, and for these past 90 years the new york public library supported the operation of this venture as it does other research center associate with it. >> okay, 10 millio