mr. boyd-pates: that deserves applause. i agree. [applause] and, that was: the perfect segue into my final questions for you all -- in the years since world war ii, there have been many opportunities to protest, both at the olympics, and at home. just to name a few -- muhammad .li and the vietnam war the 1968 olympic statement of black power. discussions of protests around sochi winter olympics. recent protesting the u.s. associated with black lives matter, i.e. colin kaepernick. my question to you all his many americans are offended by the idea of athletes making political statements, however athlete themselves are citizens of the world with a social conscience and a freedom of expression. are these displays of protest courageous, or disruptive, and i will give this to melina abdullah first. ms. abdullah: well, i think courage and disruption are sometimes the same thing. it is courageous to be disruptive. we have to disrupt systems of oppression. we have to. and i think that the work that ath

mr. boyd. >> michael boyd. i been on the advisory committee. i worked in special systems [inaudible] roberts worked for jerry brown for eight years in the largest disability organization in the world. after which he got a macarthur genius fellowship could he was inducted into the california hall of fame and this will be the sixth year that had the state hold a in his honor at roberts state january 23. he was paralyzed by polio and for 45 years he made the joke, he said i think walking is highly overrated i have not walked in 45 years. i took his one-of-a-kind 1970 wheelchair to the smithsonian and spoke at a memorial ceremony at the office building . berkeley honored tom bates and loni hancock this year. fred roberts day because they were his next door neighbors and even very well. but because san francisco is kind of a nursing home city, he was never allowed into san francisco. no one knows who he is. no one in the house storm and or in-home supportive services as celebrated his state holiday. i have some information here. a woman named diana

mr. boyd. >> michael boyd. i been on the advisory committee. i worked in special systems [inaudible] roberts worked for jerry brown for eight years in the largest disability organization in the world. after which he got a macarthur genius fellowship could he was inducted into the california hall of fame and this will be the sixth year that had the state hold a in his honor at roberts state january 23. he was paralyzed by polio and for 45 years he made the joke, he said i think walking is highly overrated i have not walked in 45 years. i took his one-of-a-kind 1970 wheelchair to the smithsonian and spoke at a memorial ceremony at the office building . berkeley honored tom bates and loni hancock this year. fred roberts day because they were his next door neighbors and even very well. but because san francisco is kind of a nursing home city, he was never allowed into san francisco. no one knows who he is. no one in the house storm and or in-home supportive services as celebrated his state holiday. i have some information here. a woman named diana

mr. boyd. >> michael boyd. i been on the advisory committee. i worked in special systems [inaudible] roberts worked for jerry brown for eight years in the largest disability organization in the world. after which he got a macarthur genius fellowship could he was inducted into the california hall of fame and this will be the sixth year that had the state hold a in his honor at roberts state january 23. he was paralyzed by polio and for 45 years he made the joke, he said i think walking is highly overrated i have not walked in 45 years. i took his one-of-a-kind 1970 wheelchair to the smithsonian and spoke at a memorial ceremony at the office building . berkeley honored tom bates and loni hancock this year. fred roberts day because they were his next door neighbors and even very well. but because san francisco is kind of a nursing home city, he was never allowed into san francisco. no one knows who he is. no one in the house storm and or in-home supportive services as celebrated his state holiday. i have some information here. a woman named diana

mr. boyd-pates: -- p.m. --y night at 8:00 10:00 p.m. eastern on "after words.' now, author howard blum talks about the life of betty pack, a washington, dc debutante who worked as a spy for the british and americans during world war ii. howard blum describes her ability to seduce diplomats and officials in order to learn secrets and provide information to her handlers. this talk is part of a multi-day conference at the world war ii museum in new orleans. it is about 45 minutes. >> our next speaker is howard blum, who brought the story you are about to hear to our local audience earlier this year while he was on his book tour. we thought so much of it and of howard that we wanted to bring him back for you all here today. one of his previous books that i'm sure you all know of is the brigade: an epic story of vengeance, salvation, and world war ii, about a group of jewish volunteers who fought the nazis and the postwar actions of a few of them. in today's presentation, the last kiss good night, howard has found another remarkable story about a dazzling american de

mrs. miller, resurrd glory. and there is a lot of star power in this show. both debra monk and boydd james lupine has won a slew of awards and a pulitzer. mrs. miller does her thing is at the signature theater in arlington through march 26th. >> it is funny. i just saw it on tuesday night. it's delightful. it's great, but it also has a lot of heart. it looks at her relationship with her husband who was ailing and her relationship with her niece and the times the '60s and more. it does have a lot of heart, not just her singing goofy. >> i said to her, a lot of people are going to think you're trying to do the meryl streep florence foster jenkins. she said we were working on this years ago, ten years before. and so this is their own thing. >> beautiful natural voice. you do get to hear her sing in this. i worried for her. i thought, is this going to ruin your voice? i encourage you to see it. it's just delightful. >>> now to a traffic alert. the rock 'n' roll marathon taking over the streets of the district tomorrow. this is a big deal. there will be rolling road closures in place all