Historic home of d. C. s most successful brewer. We are not going to be talking about him today. This is a special story for us about Myrtilla Miner. Myrtilla miner opened a school here. In 1853, Myrtilla Miner who was a white woman from new york moved down here and built the first africanamerican Teaching School for free africanamericans in washington, d. C. This is before the civil war. It was also called the miner school for colored girls. She established the school in 1851 with 100 in her pocket. Most people thought it cannot be done here and worse that she could be arrested or killed when she told them what she wanted to do. Although she rallied support of abolitionists and others that sympathized with her cause, when she came here it was her own independent project. I had thought that she might have been some kind of tool of the abolition movement, really she came on her own at the start. She first established the school by the force of her own will, something which is unimaginab
Life changing. Plus, marine a is a free man. Royal marine Alexander Blackman, who was jailed for shooting dead a wounded taliban fighter, has been released from prison. Overnight. He received a life term in 2013 for murder, but his conviction was reduced to manslaughter. His wife spoke to this programme in march when she heard the news that he would be released. I spoke to him shortly afterwards and i think it took a little longer for the realisation to hit. I think he had worked very hard to prepare himself for not such good news, so once it had finally dawned on us that we were going to be together soon, we were very happy. Well bring you all the details in the next half hour. Hello, welcome to the programme, were live until am this morning. So much to talk about today, please get in touch, please get in touch. Porna bell was married to rob, a Science Journalist for three years before she discovered he was a secret heroin user. We have been speaking to her in her First Television int
Ever get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. Thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. Ed leads our transportation efforts. Were lucky to have him. This is a founding sponsor of iweek. Does anybody besides us say iweek . Its a thing, all right. Were a founding sponsor of iweek. And were really proud to be a part of the bipartisan Steering Committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event has grown in reach and in scope and programmatic activity every year. You know more about infrastructure than i will ever learn so i dont have to tell you what a big problem this is for our country. This is a nationwide challenge, so it has to be a nationwide conversation. Over the next five days businesses around the nation will gather and focus on infrastructure with government officials at some 100 event
Ever get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. Thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. Ed leads our transportation efforts. Were lucky to have him. This is a founding sponsor of iweek. Does anybody besides us say iweek . Its a thing, all right. Were a founding sponsor of iweek. And were really proud to be a part of the bipartisan Steering Committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event has grown in reach and in scope and programmatic activity every year. You know more about infrastructure than i will ever learn so i dont have to tell you what a big problem this is for our country. This is a nationwide challenge, so it has to be a nationwide conversation. Over the next five days businesses around the nation will gather and focus on infrastructure with government officials at some 100 event
Im suzanne clark, senior evp here at the u. S. Chamber and i am delighted to welcome you here today. Now, when you have my job, you get to be in this room and say that sentence a lot. But i actually mean it today or mean it more than usual. Not just because youre a charming audience, but because i started my career at the American Trucking association and you know you dont really ever get it out of your blood i dont think. So its an important topic at the right time, so thank you so much for being here. Thank you to our partners, thank you to our sponsors. Thank you to ed mort aher and his very talented team for putting this together. Ed leads our transportation efforts. Were lucky to have him. This is a founding sponsor of iweek. Does anybody besides us say iweek . Its a thing, all right. Were a founding sponsor of iweek. And were really proud to be a part of the bipartisan Steering Committee and we have been proud to see how this annual meeting as an event has grown in reach and in s