rachel il swarns for the 272 the families who were enslaved and sold to build th american cathic church. in 1838, a group of america's most prominent catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, which is now georgetown university. in this groundbreaking account, professor swarns follows one family through nearly o centuries of indentured servitude and enslavement to uncover the harrowing origin story of the catholic church in the united states. rachel swarns is a journalist, author and associate pfessor of journalism at new york university who writeabout race and race relations as a contributing writer for e new york times. her articles about georgetown university's ros in slavery touched off a national conversation and about america's universi days and their ties to this painfuleriod in history. her work has been recognized, raised and supported bthe national endowment, the humanities, the four org ford foundation, the leon levy nter for biography, the biographers international organized nation, among others. as a correspondent for the times swarns r

all swarn to secrecy. when its existence was discovered, israel said it was textile factory, never admitting its true purpose, making pluotoneum for atomic bombs. we need answers and we go to meet one of the few people in israel that knows what is going on inside demona, we are dealing with this element of weapons of mass destruction, meaning nuclear chemical and biological, we're the only ngo dealing with this. right now in israel, when you believe that this are the weapons that keeps you safe, when this is the common belief, then the question raised, are we the next country to use them? israel is nuclear armed state, chemical armed state and biological armed state. nuclear weapon is not a weapon that aimed at an army, it's a weapon that destroys a city. are we willing to destroy any city in the middle east, mothers, children, fathers, citizens, not. soldiers, we want to know more about the most secretive nuclear program in the world, is transmitted at the request of the is the israeli nuclear plant to de

very clearly from our passengers that they want to see more uniform presence on the trains from our swarn police officers and our unarmed civilians. >> b.a.r.t's new chief of police says the the answer to crime and rider anxiety is more patrols, the current response time to serious incidents is four minutes >> that is exactly how quick you can do it when you are looking for incidents that just occurred >> 4,000 cameras across the system. while the station activity can be reviewed in seconds, the train cameras can not. >> correct. >> the videos from the trains currently are a system that is recorded on individual train cars. >> reporter: b.a.r.t is hoping to upgrade from thumb drives to realtime access. but crime like robberies, assaults, that is just one part of what has riders concerned. >> they have not done anything about the homeless. they are laying all over the place. they are doing crack, this or that. >> hello, i am going to touch your arm and say how are you. >> reporter: crisis intervention specialists are deployed offering help to those that might accept it but they often serve

rachel swarns, a journalist, author and associate professor journalism at nyu. she writes about race and race relations and a contributing writer for the new york times, where i first read her on the subject. she wrote book on her work, been recognized by the national endowment for humanities, the ford foundation, the leon levy center i biography artists residencies and, other programs. she is the author. first book was american tapestry story of the black, white and multiracial ancestors of michelle obama, and she is a coauthor of unseen, unpublished black history from the new york times, her most book is the 272, which we'll hear about in a moment. kidada williams is like me, a professor of history. she teaches at wayne state in detroit. she is the author of two amazing books. i death coming, which she will be talking about today. and they left great marks me her she is a coauthor of the charleston syllabus, which was a collection of writings, was put out after the massacre in charleston. that was an amazing thing. kidada and she is the creator of a podcast se

and and i think just recognize using these folks and having them seen is really important rachel swarns descendants all of you, thank you all so much for being here. thankthis course course, as you, examines the development of the us. well, first state the way americans have gone about making social provision for themselves. social provision includes the range of programs at reducing risk or enhancing quality of life. as you know, our focus has on the specific issue of poor relief because relief of poverty seems to present the american system with its most intractable, intractable problem. and i'm going to depart from our usual format here a little bit. i'm going to do a fair amount of reading this afternoon because i'm concerned about covering all the material that we have to cover over the course of our exploration of the construction of the american welfare. we've encountered several different persistent themes. a among these are the idea that in the united states, social provision is divided, public and private institutions. public provide government provides welfare programs. the p