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 journalists who are club members. if you hear applause in our au

. >>> next the challenges faced by the united negro college fund. last month the group's president, michael lomax talked about its continuing mission of advancing students of color in higher education. mr. lomax is joined in the event by congressman john lewis and danny davis after the q&a portion during remarks at the national press club. >> good afternoon. and welcome. my name is myron bellkind. i'm an adjunct professor of washington university school of media public affairs and graduate of school of political management, 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 journalist, committed to our profession's future through our programing, with events such as this while fostering a free press worldwide. for more information about the national press club, please visit our website at www.press.org. and to donate to programs offered to the public through our national press club journalism institute, please visit www.press.org

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 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 tim

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

and united negro college fund. tonight. the united negro college fund has told britain's daily mail that it 'won't' give back the money. >> catherine: then there's sterling's estranged wife rochelle. who was out to dinner with him just this weekend. >> catherine: she's reportedly suing his girlfriend - accusing stiviano of embezzling 1.8 million dollars during the four years she's been working for the billionaire. >> catherine: the wife accuses stiviano of taking expensive gifts from her husband - and tapping into sterling family money without her consent. she's demanding full restitution and other damages. >> catherine: meantime.former 49er roger craig talked about sterling today. >> he made a mistake. he is 81 years old creek i do not know how many more years he has on this planet. this is really going to hurt him. >> pam: >> catherine: donald sterling bought the clippers in 1981 for 12.5 million. today - even in a fire sale - he could likely get 750- million or more. >> pam: kron four sports director gary radnich joins u

donated nearly $1.4 million since 2007, with thousands going to minority organizations including the united negrollege fund and the naacp. >> how much money did donald sterling give to the naacp? >> it was not a significant amount of money. >> sterling even received a humanitarian of the year award from the black business association and a lifetime achievement award from the l.a. chapter of the naacp in 2009. >> we have to be careful about the money we take. we have to make sure that the color of the money does not taint us and that we can still carry out our mission. we cannot sell out just to get the money. >> sterling's foundation donated $30,000 to the museum of tolerance, but the leader is appalled and says it will not accept money from sterling ever again. >> we used that $30,000 to combat the kind of racism, hatred and anti-semitism that symbolizes what sterling said on that tape. >> cnn's calls to sterling's representative representatives have not been returned. and some organizations that have benefitted from his fortune want nothing to do with him now. >> philanthropist has a tendency t

donated $1.4 million since 2007 with thousands going to minority organizations, including the united negro college fun and the naacp. >> how much money did donald sterling give the naacp? >> it was not a significant amount of money. >> he even received a humanitarian man of the year award and a lifetime achievement award from the los angeles chapter of the naacp in 2009. >> we have to be careful about the money we take and we have to make sure that the color of the money does not taint us. >> sterling's foundation donated $30,000 to museum of tolerance but its leader is appalled and says it won't accept money from sterling ever again. >> we used that $30,000 to combat the kind of racism, hatred and anti-semitism that symbolized what sterling said in that tape. >> cnn's calls to sterling's representatives have not been returned and some organizations that have benefitted from sterling's fortune want nothing to do with him now. >> philanthropy has a long history of turning bad money into good. >> sterling's charitable foundation gifts total less than the nba fine. poppy harlow, cnn new york.

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

thousands have gone to minority organizations, including the united negro power fund, the na naacp. >ling give to the naacp? >> it was not a significant amount of money. >> reporter: sterling even received a humanitarian of the year award from the black business association and lifetime achievement award from the los angeles chapter of the naacp in 2009. >> we have to be careful about the money we take. we have to make sure that the color of the money does not taint us and that we can carry out our mission, we cannot sell out just to get the money. >> reporter: sterling's foundation donated $30,000 to the simon wiesenthal center's museum of tolerance but the leader is appalled, and says it won't accept money from sterling ever again. >> we used that $30,000 to combat the kind of racism, hatred, and anti-semitism that sim bombizes what sterling said in that tape. >> reporter: cnn's calls to sterling's representatives have not been returned. and some organizations that have benefitted from sterling's fortune want nothing to do with him now. >> philanthropy has a long history of turning

years, not just to the naacp, he's donated to groups advocating for the african-americans like the united negroon. some think it was to bolster his image over alleged racism. nicole is a crisis person. >> there is strategy that goes into who do we need to diffuse. i think maybe you are trying to get on the radar, get access. >> reporter: last month, washington redskins owner, dan snyder under pressure to change the team's name improved the condition of native americans. image consultants point to nfl quarterback, michael vick who spent two years in jail for running a dog fighting ring. >> you know who i am. >> reporter: after being released, partnered with the humane society. >> if you see animal cruelty in your neighborhood, speak up. >> reporter: for sterling, a pay off. numerous honors, including a lifetime achievement award from the los angeles naacp in 2009. he promoted his giving, often taking out full page ads in local newspapers. her organization will never again take his money. >> i would like to see him not be a public figure we have to deal with. i think he's cooked his own goose and

negro. our two choices in life are not between picking cotton and picking up welfare checks. the president of the unitedreasonable statement. >> if you want to talk about government subsidies i'll good there cowboy. remember the homestead act where the federal government you don't believe exists told your ancestors could have all the land for as far as they could get in a day. you know what they told my and setters? how far can you get in a day. >> jon: so the pioneers are a giant welfare program. >> he turned into a culture of dependency it's no wonder he is a thug. even rick perry has condemned his racism and that guy has a ranch called nigger head. >> jon: wow. what about donald sterlg. he is rich. wealthy beyond anyone. what is his problem? >> racists like him are not worried they are going to pass them. they look down from above and need them in their place. >> jon: and apparently that place does not include standing next to his girlfriend in an instagram photo. >> really magic johnson isn't good enough to be seen with your mixed race miss stress. magic johnson a man so universally respected even h

leader who is from nevada who referred to president obama as a negro who was light skinned who would be offensive. the vice president of the unitedocrats want to try to tar the republican party with one bigot, with one racist in nevada who is a rancher, i suspect we ought to look at senate majority leader from nevada who used the negro term in demeaning terms that gave harry reid and vice president a pass on. hypocritical statement. >> the problem here is democratic party doesn't have a problem in attracting minorities and the republican parties does. >> you guys don't cover it, carol. >> because of the media only? >> carol, let me make this clear -- >> this is what i'm saying. hold on. hold on. we have problems -- there are individuals in our party and when instances have occurred we're the first in line to call it out and say that's inappropriate and not part of the dialogue that needs to happen. frankly instance after instance occurs in the democratic party and on the left and nothing gets called out on it, of course the american people are going to believe. we have problems. in terms of incentiveseninsince it's not just one p

united states government as even existing. >> reporter: this week, the right's new darling talked about race. >> i want to tell you one more thing i know about the negros. >> reporter: comments gol viral about africans he says he saw outside a housing project. >> are they better off as slaves picking cotton, having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? >> reporter: the fallout has been swift, the distance from hero to pariah traveled at the speed of the internet, starting with his major supporters. senator rand paul called the comments racist and offensive. nevada senator dean heller called them appalling. even sean hannity, among several conservative fox news commentators, who championed bundy's cause, expressed disgust. >> i believe those comments are downright racist. they are repugnant. >> reporter: keith rogers, who's followed bundy's case for years, says the rancher has one logical move. >> i think cliven has to look inside himself and he might be a bigger man by saying i'm sorry. >> reporter: the dispute isn't over about grazing his cattle without paying fees, but bundy's role as an unqualified anti-gov