next, michael lomax, the president and c.e.o. of the united negro college fund. he talks about the challenges his organization faces. in continuing its mission of advancing higher education for students of color. this is an hour. >> good afternoon. and welcome. my name is maron belkin, adjunct and graduate school of political management. the former bureau chief for the associated press, and the 107th president of the national press club. the national press club is the world's leading professional organization for journalists. committed to our profession's future, through our programming, with events such as this. while fostering a free press worldwide. for more information about the national press club, please isit our website at www. press.org. and to donate to programs offered to the public through our national press club journalism institute, please www.press.org/institute. on behalf of our members worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker and those of you attending today's event. our head table includes guests of our speaker as well as working journalist

after that, michael lomax on the united negro college fund. glenn greenwald, laura poitras, and others appeared at the sources and secrets conference in march. they have not returned to the united states since the snowden story broke because they fear arrest or subpoena. this is 45 minutes. >> hello, please take your seats. and welcome back. this next event, i promise, is going to be interesting. it's a skyped interview on the snowden revelations, and it involves actually four skypes. that's a miracle of modern technology and it will either work or not work. it's very tricky. so somebody may go down, somebody may have a time delay, which is happening with one of our three guests. i guess it's analogous to the quadruple somersault ringling brothers done by miguel vasquez in 1982. so please bear with us, we'll have problems from time to time, but we have an excellent team of techies, i know, because i can't understand anything they say. and it is now my pleasure to introduce our interview ir, roger cohen, the op ed columnist for the "new york ti

after that, the president of the united negro college fund, michael lomax, on the feature in this organization. bend is a timber town. the timber qualities are almost completely removed. bend was at imbe timber town. at the height of the timber industry -- if you were to drop 1928, you would have smelled the mills, sawdust if you went through certain parts of town. you would hear periodic mill whistles from the two gigantic mills. it would've permeated everything. it would've been 10 minutes off the downtown corridor, but you would've seen the smoke from the smokestacks. you would've smelled it, you would've heard the whistles. you would've known you were in the middle of timber town, usa. looks at the life of a band, organ. -- bend, oregon. >> a conversation with the three journalists who received files from edward snowden. all appeared via skype at the conference in new york city. toenwald has not returned the u.s. since the story because she fears arrest or subpoena. this is 45 minutes. >> hello, please take your seats. and welcome back. this next event, i promise, is going to be interestin

michael lomax. [applause] >> thank you, myron. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. and great thanks to all of you for joining us today to discuss the current state of educational opportunities for college students of color in the country. and particularly the challenges facing our historically black colleges and universities or hbcus. ace look around the room i feel a certain a great majority of you know exactly who we are at the united negro college fund and what we do. i'm also aware that many americans of diverse backgrounds know us primarily for our iconic motto, a mind is a terrible thing to waste. without knowing precisely what our role is. let me take a few moments to clarify. uncf was formed in 1944. yes, we are in our 70th year of existence. to consolidate the fund-raising for a group of america's historically black colleges. uncf's core mission has always been to help fund these vital institution that have brought educational opportunities to african-americans for over 100 years. during our 70 years we have helped more than 400,000 students graduate from o

after that, michael lomax on the future of the united negro college fund. glenn greenwald, laura poitras, and others appeared at the sources and secrets conference in march. they have not returned to the united states since the snowden story broke because they fear arrest or subpoena. this is 45 minutes. >> it is an honor to introduce our next speaker, who made a bold political move, switching his party, his affiliation, as a sitting state senator, from democrat to republican. senator elbert guillory defended his party transformation in an inspirational youtube video that received over one million viewers. i was one of those, by the way. i watched it. i was stunned and moved. it was brilliantly done. i don't forward a lot of things on facebook, but this one i did send to everyone. it was very powerful. his message in the video focused on putting principles before quick results and freedom above all else. senator guillory became active in the civil rights movement in the 1950's before john dingell unitas -- before joining the united states navy. he graduated

after that, michael lomax on the united negro college fund. glenn greenwald, laura poitras, and others appeared at the sources and secrets conference in march. they have not