the idea that white women were ofsive and virtuous, outside the male-dominated political white, the rate of women. we sat through all of birth of a .ation that includes the classic trope. we looked at the mythology of reconstruction. the scene where the white daughter of the southern family is stocked by gus, the black criminal. she throws herself off the clothes rather -- the cliffs rather than be raped. at anovie we were looking example of that true. today what i would like to talk about is the way in which women themselves participated in that dialogue. some people want to know what have,uthern white women particularly in the 1890's when it was at its height. how did black women begin to critique the systematic violence perpetrated against their brothers, fathers and friends. in this lecture, i'm going to spend time comparing a woman name rebecca latin america felton with ida b wells. largely the lecture will be on ida b wells. let me just give you a little bit of reminder about what we examined when it came to lynching. two or three black southerners were lynched per week whether the

support among white men. we talked extensively about the myth of the black rapist. and how that evolved around the idea that white women were passive and virtuous, outside of the male-dominated political sphere, the suppose it rate of white women. rape of white women. we sat through all of birth of a nation. that includes the classic trope. we looked at the mythology of reconstruction. there is the scene where the white daughter of the southern family is stocked by gus, the black criminal. she throws herself off the cliffs rather than be raped. in that particular movie, we were looking at an example of that trope. today what i would like to talk about is the way in which women themselves participated in that dialogue. some people want to know what did southern white women have, if anything to say about lynching, particularly in the 1890's when it was at its height. how did black women begin to critique the systematic violence perpetrated against their brothers, fathers and friends. ? in this lecture, i'm goin

here was a white possibility. a great white hope. a white american who might reclaim the heavyweight title. this fight takes place in june of 1982. there is an interesting coincidence going on. a big blockbuster movie in the theaters, rocky iii. let's talk about rocky. any rocky fans out there? ok. the first two rocky movies are films in which a white italian-american boxer fights a cocky flashy brash black heavyweight champion, apollo creed. i'm going to ruin the ending for you. rocky is a heavy underdog in the first film 19 loses of the first film. he loses in a split decision. no one thinks he's going to do well. he does remarkably well but he does not win. in the next movie he knocks out apollo creed in the most implausible boxing scene ever filmed. rocky wins. these were both very popular movies. these are movies about race and american history. though fictional characters, rocky balboa and apollo creed are meant to signify and represent real fighters. apollo creed is muhamed ali. there is no doubt about it. he is brash and cock

well, if they helped build the white house, then they must have helped the white house run, because those same presidents who were slaveholders in their home plantations, they didn't stop being slaveholders when they moved to washington. they must have brought some of them with them. there had to be a story there. that meant that barack obama wouldn't be the first black man to live in the white house. he would just be the first president. but no one knew who these people were. and i knew i had it right then and there. that is what i was going to write about. i was going write about the slaves who lived in the white house. now, after i had that -- i remember being so excited that i had this idea. i remember calling my editor and saying, this is what i want to write. this is what i want to do. she said, calm down. and make sure you're doing something that you think is worthy of spending time on. so, after i wrote my first book, i knew i wanted to become better at writing books, so i actually went back to school. i went to college, and made this part of my -- my people are here, yeah! so the

jesse: the horses at the white house. oh, yes.here is a great book and this, maybe somebody has already written it. andrew jackson, american war hero, also, a big gambling man. he loved the horses. he brought -- i've feel pretty safe in saying that he brought the only franchise to the white house. he imported some of his thoroughbreds from tennessee and brought them up to washington, d.c., and kept them at the white house. he was also a politician. he made sure that the horses were always run under someone else's name. but, they belonged to him. and andrew jackson ran horses at racetracks around the d.c. area while still president. he was a stable owner, he was almost like dan snyder where he was the major sporting franchise owner in washington, d.c. if you wanted to run a horse, more than likely andrew jackson's horse was in the race. he was known as one of the most powerful racing owners of that time. he ran racing in tennessee and when he became president, he comes up to washington and he brings some of those horses with them a

grant in the white house? >> well, grant -- i'm not sure whether this is a -- grant, one day, got a speeding ticket. he had his civil war horses and he had a buggy, and he liked to go out on rides around town and one day he was speeding down -- i don't know what the road was, going way too fast and a washington policeman pulled the president over, he was by himself in this carriage. and he started to give the president a ticket and realized oh, it's the president. and grant said, no, no, no, do your job, give me -- it was like $5 tick the or whatever it was and grant thanked him, went back to the white house. that's one of my favorite grant stories. president got a speeding ticket while in office. doesn't happen today, i don't think so, yeah. >> i had read that eleanor roosevelt used to have all kind of people come in and stay at the white house. >> true. >> over the time period. what was the wackiest one she had? >> well, that's a long list. eleanor roosevelt -- eleanor roosevelt would sometimes just invite t

in the truman era of the white house, it nearly collapsed. they gave margaret a p get it margaret the pian o and the lake of it fell through and they really thought it would collapse. they had to move into the blair house. it was interesting. it was expanded deep below ground, too. any other questions? >> you talked about coming into the white house early in the morning and seeing the dining room lights. can you tell us about what it is like to have the job you have and what are the sum of things you have found to be a pleasure in the job as well as a burden? , >> the pleasure is the reason why i decided to run. -- the reason i decided to write a book in the first place. it was such a privilege. you are enveloped by history. when i was in the easter last weekend -- i have been in there a million times -- but when you into the center of the room and you have the famous gilbert stuart painting on the wall was where he was sworn in, after nixon resigned. with gerald ford, sworn in after nixon resigned. the history is just remarkable and you cann

member ofward-winning the white house. he distributes content for clients around the united states and abroad. he is also a washington columnist on how -- on finance. he moderates panels on topics and energy.ecurity he's a frequent speaker around the country before all sorts of groups. an innovator in social media. he has the biggest following among all accredited members of the white house press corps. he won the award for best journalist on twitter. has 240 6000 followers on his twitter account. i was talking to him earlier and i set him right on your heels, i have 400 followers on my twitter account so, watch out. , but, when it became all the rage, it was like, who is running that. we are delighted to have paul here. he worked across wall street and was a foreign correspondent. he covered the collapse of the soviet union. he has traveled over several continents. more than george washington. he is on many boards. one factoid to give you is part of the investment capital group that purchased the russian rights to air the

the table for a family with a white -- with a working class job among whites in the south particularlysome other numbers. 72% of why evangelicals say america has changed for the worst since 1950. 80% of why evangelicals believe america is still in recession. and so these politicians are speaking to something that is very deep among these white evangelical. >> michelle you know a lot of these people. the people who give to campaigns, and frame strategy. if this election does not go well is there going to have to be a reconsideration of the place of this particular strain of appeal inside how republicans run for whatever, governor, senator, president, whatever. >> absolutely, we are seeing a splintering of the republican party that quite frankly i feel is very dangerous. when there -- there are studies that have shown, for example, based on people who look at google analytics that when you look at the map of the united states, and the numbers where donald trump has the largest number of support, and you transport that with a map of google searches that are looking for things that are ant

exactly what we see now as the white house. brian: you talk about some kind of structure being built where i think slaves lived, right in the spot where andrew jackson's statue is across from the white house. jesse: when they were constructing the white house, the slaves had to live somewhere. over aroundhanties lafayette park. this was where the workman lived. there were quite a few other buildings around the white house that are not there now. i would love to see a map where all of these were. there was an ice house. stables. shanties for slaves to live in while they were working on the white house. there were houses for freed men while they worked on the white house. they were all on the white house campus but they are all gone today. what the white house looks like today and what it looked like back then, that area is completely different. it would be great to see a map. brian: presidents hid the fact that they bought slaves. james polk bought 19 slaves in the white house. boughthe came in and slaves while he was in the whi

the white house got his first telephone. number of the first white house telephone was one. that was the number. but not everyone could call because there were only other -- orause there were only two three other phones at the time in washington. it may have been only three phones in all of washington at the time. if you were one of the other two guys, the president actually answered the phone. i am pretty sure that does not happen today. [laughter] let me come back to lincoln for a second. i want to tell you about the greatest misunderstandings about him and it concerns the so-called "lincoln bedroom." you see the air road there. arrows -- you see that there. that is what is called the lincoln bedroom. not so. in lincoln's time, that was his office. he called it the shop. this is what his office looked like. this room of the nerve center of the lincoln presidency. speeches here. he issued the emancipation proclamation. everything happened in this room. hehad maps on the wall where could track the civil war. you see the window on the left, there is the unfinished washington

i don't know anything about what you are talking about with white supremacy or white supremacist. >> donald trump first dodging questions about the kkk, now tweeting he disavows the endorsement from former kkk grand wizard david duke. this as the candidates pile on the front runner heading in to super tuesday. >> i think if we nominate donald hillary probably beats him. >> donald trump is not a republican or conservative. he is trying to pull off the biggest scam in american political history. >> "newsroom" starts right now. hello. thank you for joining me. the search for clarity over who supports republican presidential front runner donald trump is intensifying this hour. we are talk ing about donald trump and the kkk. trump tweeting he disavows the white supremacist david duke. trump saying as i stated at the press conference on friday regarding david duke i disavow. he hogs r posted a clip of the press conference. >> go ahead. >> how do you feel about the recent endorsement from david duke? >> i didn't even know he endorsed me. david duke endorsed me. i disavow. okay. >> reporter:

whites after the civil war, dominant whites in the south were democrtermined it was goin be a white man's government. it was very difficult to counteract that. another kind of contextual problem that grant confronted was almost endless assaults by his enemies. nonstop really. isumner and adams. they were determined to take grant down even before he took office. some was selfishly motivated. some of these people were disappointed office seekers who thought they deserved a pointmepoin appointments from grant and didn't get them. those enemies would reach for any kind of criticism they could against grant. one of them was corruption. they charged corruption in the administration. so another problem that grant confronted during his presidency was the united states at that time was kind of experiencing a culture of corruption. and a sensitivity to corruption that tended to undermine his power in the white house. there was a belief at this time that the government was riddled with corruption. and that wasn't particularly new. it at least extended back into the civil war years. we know that ther

. >> he said, "it's from the white house." and i go, "talking about d.c. white house?"as just stunned. >> the white house neither confirms nor denies... >> what do you see? >> gold! [ laughs ] >> let's investigate! >> i scrape the paint layers down to the wood. >> and when you heard what it was worth? >> and sold! [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] >> i'm jamie colby, and today i'm in boston to meet an heir who has an inheritance so strange, it takes years just to figure out what it is. >> my name is mike meister. my siblings and i inherited something that goes back to our great-uncle more than a hundred years ago. we'd always been told that it came from the white house, but it was just a family story. hi, jamie. welcome to boston. >> thanks, mike. nice to meet you. >> yeah, nice to meet you, too. >> mike leads me inside, saying he has something amazing to show me. he keeps it in its own molded, air-tight protective case. can i take a look? >> sure can. >> you brought me all the way here, mike. this is... what is it? mike's strange inherita

i have not been to the white house in 40 years. would you consider giving a behind the scenes tour to a few of us? >> i think that i just did. there,t way to get in with security so strict now, is to go through your congressperson. that process is laborious. weeksve to start 6- in advance. to be on thepeople gate and i do not encourage jumping the fence. if you can take the tour, you should. it is wonderful. you see the east room and the state dining room. you can see the adams benediction. if you are lucky on the day you is there, when the president coming or going, they may take you out back and you can watch the chopper, which is really a thrill. i hope you get to do that. >> let's give him a big round of applause. thank you all for coming out tonight. a couple administrative notes. these books are for sale outside the door. in them to the desk. if you run out of the stock of books, you can purchase them from us at a discounted rate and we will ship them to you. you can have them personalized for you or anyone. it is a nice gift

check out these all white winter white looks here., again, the shoes, let's look at that again, jade has on black boots, tracey has on nude sued shoes. >> tracey in the same family because still neutral with her footwear, jade went with blank, black and white is always classic. another rule, mix in your shades every white, cream and beige. jade is wearing a white vest dress and cream coat. tracey on the other hand she has on cream pants, a beige blouse, with a white lays cape. now, if you notice, all four of my girls, i kept the silhouettes very simple. so there you have it. that's any take on how to wear winter white this season. keep it simple. don't over ac sell rise, you're already in head to tow white. so already making a fashion statement, girls. and your shoes, we're not going to do all white. we'll use pop of color. we will do some purple, some blues, and also, make sure that it fits. white shows everything. happy shopping. that's tori's take. >> oh, thanks, tori, i'm inspired now. >> yes, that's good advice about that, especi

so to make the color white, , especially this perfect white, the absolute white that you find insidefrigerators, on the hood of your beautiful new ford mustang, on an assortment of products, it is actually a very time-consuming process that dupont spent six decades perfecting. it took them six decades. they start with something called titanium dioxide which they mine , out and turn into a mixture close to lava. then it comes out in this consistency of face powder, and that is sold to manufacturing. it gets mixed up in your plastics. the white aluminum siding on your house is this. it is in everything from cars to even pages in the bible on your bookshelf. david: you mentioned this is a multibillion dollar business. there is interest around the world in getting this stuff. you focus on how it found its way to china outside the purview of dupont. >> yes. this is a very valuable process, and dupont is a world leader in this, producing the best titanium white by chlorination, which is what they call it. they own almost 20% of the market, and china wants it. china is a big manufacturer, a

i didn't know white folks call black people darkies. that night, she was talking on there's nobody here but me and darky. i thought she was saying dorothy. and she kept saying and darky this and darky that and we're doing fine and darky is doing pretty good. i kind of liked darky. i don't know what or why she kept saying that. my name isn't dorothy. it's ruthy. i went home and i was telling my grandmother what she was saying. and my auntie said, she wasn't saying dorothy. she was saying darky. she said, that's what they call us. i said, why would they call us darkies? and she said, because we're black. >> do you think in those days, that was okay in the minds of whites because they didn't realize it was a derogatory statement or they were looking and saying it? what do you think? >> right. the term "color" is a very polite term and it was used. i would hear my grandfather use the term darky. but he's in the 1950s, that was considered old fashioned to slavery. that term. >> and in your book, and katherine, i'll have you read something he

ashley white will be sentenced may 16th. in pulaski, justin ward, wdbj7 in the last 90- minutes, we've learned a rocky mount pharmacy suspect is in custody. police say joshua cundiff turned himself in tonight. armed robbery at family pharmacy tuesday night. no one is hurt after a fire at salem frame company tonight. crews responded to the scene on industrial drive just after 7:30. firefighters put the flames out quickly, but say it took hours to remove smoke from the building. investigators say the building was damaged by smoke. the deaths of two glendale arizona teens is being called a murder-suicide. the two girls were found at a high school earlier today. police say a suicide note was found at the scene. authorities say both victims were shot once and a gun was found near the bodies. it's unclear what relationship the two had. witness: "a man he came in and started beating up on another man i thought it was a personal thing he just started down the row hitting everybody, people were bleeding." a man was shot and killed by

she's showing off the white jeans, white on white. >> she's wearing a white denimjean. available at kohl's. this is your winter white mixed with off white. obviously in the season now winter white, off white are tones you should be wearing. off set it with tan, camel and taupe and stuff. we added a nude wedge with it. playing around with thewe kept the jewelry minimal. >> that's pretty. >> you can wear different kinds of white. >> absolutely. mix and match it.ing technique to look slender, long and lean. i love this absolutely. the jacket from new york and company. inexpen sieve but stylish. here we cinched in the waist with a belt. then the pencil skirt. of what color the skirt is, it is always going to be slimming. this is from burlington. it is about the fabric. you want spandex and lycra inrial to curve the hips nicely, come down and slenderize you head to toe. then we added a nude shoe to elongate the leg. that's from burlington as >> beautiful. >> a nude shoe. >> lyric is next with a white -- that's gorgeous. >> the dress is from london times available at maggie .

. >> he said, "it's from the white house." and i go, "talking about d.c. white house?" i was just stunned. >> the white house neither confirms nor denies... >> what do you see? >> gold! [ laughs ] >> let's investigate! >> i scrape the paint layers down to the wood. >> and when you heard what it was worth? >> and sold! [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] >> i'm jamie colby, and today i'm in boston to meet an heir who has an inheritance so strange, it takes years just to figure out what it is. >> my name is mike meister. my siblings and i inherited something that goes back to our great-uncle more than a hundred years ago. we'd always been told that it came from the white house, but it was just a family story. hi, jamie. welcome to boston. >> thanks, mike. nice to meet you. >> yeah, nice to meet you, too. >> mike leads me inside, saying he has something amazing to show me. he keeps it in its own molded, air-tight protective case. can i take a look? >> sure can. >> you brought me all the way here, mike. this is... what is it? mike's strange inhe

so that's what it all boiled down to, that you had to -- the white women and the black women, the white women were sub serviantservian t serviant to their husbands and they couldn't choose how much to pay the woman who worked as a cook. we always called her a cook in our family. but what she could do was give us the black family hand me got shoes for the kids, we got a sofa, you know, got furniture, a whole lot was given to them. and the best gift of all, that was in iowa. some of them worked in the south and then they came to the north. >> we'll talk about that. we'll take a real quick break here and come back. the reminder of the show will be online at kwwl.com. >> welcome back to this week he is's edition of the steele report. we have a special guest who joined us, this is annie stevenson. annie is a retired john deere community credit union worker. whether it was veridian credit union. i just learned you knew my late father-in-law and late mother-in-law. they were customers there of the john deere credit union and she happens to be charletta's mother. this is a unique situation. we'

oscars so white, that's the claim.s the hashtag that everyone is talking about. >> we'll continue fighting until we see more representative films coming out of hollywood. >> and it's overshadowing the film industry's biggest night. look at the nominations this career. you have films like "creed," it's the white guys, like sylvester stallone up for the award. the black film, straight out of compton, but it's the white filmmaker up for the award. only 28% of big roles went to non-white actors, and if you think that doesn't sound like many at all, it's even worse behind the scenes. in terms of the directors, only 12% of directors from other ethnic groups got the jobs. are we talking about oscars so white or from the industries. >> he's an industry veteran, and he says he knows what the root cause of this problem is. >> race is a fact. in this country. and it permeates this country. look around. >> is the academy racist some. >> i think that they think it's a problem because will smith and spike lee saying that it's a prob

to make the color white, especially this perfect whites, this absolute white you find in refrigerators the hood of your beautiful new ford mustang, on an assortment of products, is actually very tim time-consuming process that they spent six decades perfecting. it took six decades through refine this process from titanium dioxide, which is an ore, and they put through the process that turns it something close to law. -- lava. it has a consistency of face powder, and the use that to sell to manufacturers and he gets mixed up with the plastic. the white aluminum siding on your house is this. it has the molecular formula, tio2. it is everything from cars to the pages of your bible on your bookshelf. david: this is a multimillion dollar business and it was interest around the world in getting this stuff. you focus on how it found its way to china outside the purview of dupont. del: yes. this is a very valuable process. dupont is a world leader in this. it is considered to produce the best titanium white. they own about almost 20% of the market. china wants it. china is a big manufacturer,

i don't know anything about what you're even talking about with the white supremacy or white supremacist. i don't know. i don't know -- did he endorse me or what is going on? i know nothing about david duke. i know nothing about white supremacists. when you're asking a question i'm supposed to be talking about, people that i know nothing about. >> i guess the question from the anti-defamation league is, even if you don't know about their endorsement, there are these groups and individuals endorsing you him it would you just say unequivocally you condemn them and you don't want their support? at the, i have to look group. i don't know what group you're talking about. you would not want me to condemn a group i know nothing about. i would have to look all stop if you it's a me a list of the groups, i will do research on them and certainly i would disavow if i thought there was something wrong. but you may have groups that are totally fine and it would be very unfair. give me a list of the groups and i will let you know. >> i'm just talking about david duke and the ku klux klan. >> honestly,

ashley white sentencing hearing is scheduled for may 16. there were several family members in the court room today, but they said they did not want to go on camera either. live in pulaski bethany teague wsls 10. turning now to your forecast ... it was another brutally cold day ... with snow showers throughout the area. storm team ten chief meteorologist jeff haniewich joins us now. jeff ... a clipper system brought us more snow showers into the mountains, even with a few making it farther east energy will move away from us later tonight, but through the evening we will still have the chance for some snow showers. a coating -2" is possible in the nrv and highlands even perhaps into the higher elevations of the roanoke valley, with a dusting possible in spots farther east. it was cold outside on friday, but at least the winds were not all that strong. however, they strengthen big-time tonight. a wind chill advisory is in from nelson, amherst, bedford, franklin, and patrick counties and points west from 11:00pm tonight through sunday at 10:00a