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To introduce our next speaker, i will like to bring and the editor of our journal, wendy swanson. Wendy swanson i am very honored to stand at this pulpit and very honored to be introducing our next speaker, Edna Greene Medford who many of you know. She is a very treasured friend of the Lincoln Group and one of our members. She always provides us with wellcrafted, meaningful remarks. She is an author, much published. The chair of the History Department at howard and coauthor of the publication th...

Coming up next Howard University history professor discusses the experiences of free to slaves following the civil war. She discusses education and Political Rights. She talks about their struggle to achieve them. This program was part of a symposium of the Lincoln Group of the district of columbia. You may wonder why we have this pulpit here. This pulpit is one that the pastor would have used when preaching and lincoln would have seen the pastor from this hope it. It was in the old era. That is...

This program was part of the symposium hosted by the Lincoln Group. And you may wonder why we have this old podium. This pulpit is the one in the old church that pastor gurley would have used during the premartial era while the old church was in action. To introduce our next speaker, i will like to bring and the editor of our lincolnian journal, wendy swanson. Wendy swanson i am very honored to be standing at this pulpit and very honored to be introducing our next speaker, edna greene medford, w...

Going to last a lot longer and nothing short of absolute conquest of the south will end it. Today well talk about a Campaign Going on at the exact same moment over in the eastern theatre or virginia in this case. We will talk about the peninsula and the seven Days Campaign today. It starts in late march, early april, 1862 and is going to go until july of 1862. And it was the campaign that could have ended the war in the summer of 1862. The Union Strategy this time was if you can knock the confed...

Back at russia. The Obama Administration Holding Ground against russian president Vladimir Putin. Not much happens in russia without Vladimir Putin. He is chosing not to retaliate. Wait on the man who he has a friendly regulationship, donald trump. President obama slaps sanctions against moscows top intelligence agencies shut down two russian compounds in maryland and new york, and kicking out 35 russian intelligence operatives from the United States. This morning, russias foreign minister recom...

Each day on wall street. Snapchat Parent Company staff set to post its ipo going public today. The big debut when the stock trade. We will tell you about it. Futures indicate a Market Action like this. A nice rally. The dow february for the fourth month in a row. Looking like we are going to start march strong as well. Dow industrials to be up 90 points raised out. Nasdaq up 30 points. In europe stocks higher across the board. We skated between one and 1. 5 acrosstheboard gains. Asian markets we...

Here is video taken around Jacqueline Square yesterday. Nothing but blue skies. Lets see how long the good fortune will last and check in with rosemary and give her a round of applause. Did everyone get their sleep with the less hours . Thats right. Yeah. No wonder im tired. Its 6 00 in the morning. Seriously. You do that wait a minute, is that the right time, do i do that right. I kept thinking will my iphone come through. A couple of us slept in. Not us three but a couple on the staff that had...

Certainly no stranger to protests and demonstrations. Here he was part of a black lives matter freeway shutdown on interstate 880. And this photo posted on twitter was taken after mcbride splattered red paint at Oakland Police headquarters protesting police brutality. He was also arrested during the ferguson verdict protest. Keeping peace is simply to preserve the status quo, waging peace and making peace is around moving forward to ensure that we have justice for those who are most marginalized...

The Company Announced wednesday that its keeping more than 1,000 jobs in indianapolis instead of moving them to mexico. Lets go to our columnists. Lets start with general mattis, good pick . Terrific. My joke about mattis is that he can scare the feathers off a chicken. You want a defense secretary whos going to inspire respect. A secretary of defense is going to inspire the respect of his generals and of american troops. I think mattis, he was the first general to go into afghanistan and into k...

Keeping nearly 1,000 jobs in indianapolis instead of moving them to mexico. Lets bring in wall street journal columnist kim strausle. James freeman and mary ogrady and brett stevens. Brett, general mattis, good pick . Terrific. I mean, my joke about mattis is he can scare the feathers off a chicken just by looking at it. And putin too . You want a defense secretary who will inspire the respect of your adversaries and also, a secretary of defense who is going to inspire the respect of his general...