Heurich was 11 years old living in germany. In 1853, she 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. Mytrilla came in 1851 and only had 100 in her pocket when she came. Most people thought she would be arrested or killed when she said what she wanted to do. And although there were abolitionists who sympathized with her cause it was like her own independent project. I first thought for a while when i first read about the story she might have been some kind of tool of the Abolition Movement, really, she came down here all on her own at the start. She first established the school by the force of her own will, something almost unimaginable, giving the cultural firsts that opposed her at the time. Remember, this is a woman who came by herself to a city she never visited before, a city where slavery was st
Punishment, and whether private prisons healthy functioning of our criminal Justice System. Prisons have been making a comeback under president trump, poised to grow under his law and order approach and his immigration policy. The trumpy, administration reversed last years of Obama Administration directive to phase out privately run federal prisons. Biggestices for the two private Prison Companies have about double to, doubled, the geo group and cca. Have a really incredible panel joining us tonight. Shane bauer spent four months as a private prison guard and brought us a firsthand account of what happened in these prisons. He is the author of sliver of light. [applause] next, we have the former warden andan quentin state prison, the former undersecretary at the California Department of corrections and rehabilitation. [applause] santos is an investigative journalist for the Marshall Project, a nonprofit News Organization covering the u. S. Criminal Justice System. She wrote an extensiv
Gentlemen, i am the executive director. I would like to welcome all of you to this special briefing. It is focusing on the shakeup in riyadh regional and international applications. Sincehe past 12, 13 days, the fourth or fifth of november, some serious and very significant changes and steps have been taken in the kingdom of saudi arabia that attracted the attention of media and political analysts all over the world, as a matter of fact, and as all of you know, there have been hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of articles and interviews conducted, written about the significance of these immediate,erms of midterm, longterm implications, domestic and locations, regional implications, International Implications. And for the kingdom united states. Countries that have extensive interests and special relationships with the kingdom. Although it has been a couple of that of hyperactivity at level of analysis and reporting, more questions have been raised than answers. I do not need to rea
Children. This is one hour and 45 minutes. [applause] thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and come piercede 26th distinguished lecture series. This was established with a generous gift from the family, many of who are here today, as well as at t. The lecture is presented by Clinton Foundation and Clinton School of public service. Please, give the family a big hand. Will you stand up so we can recognize you . I insist. Dean, come on, stand up. Theyre right here in the front. [applause] like to say ao very special word of thanks to our sponsors, who are here and they made this celebration possible, so thank you to our sponsors. [applause] begin what i anticipate will be a lively conversation, i would like to thank all of you for joining us. Oday as you can imagine with this giant group, it would be nearly impossible to recognize all of our distinguished guests individually. Groups of to ask people to please raise your hand when called. You ready . Or former a current elected official, p
And we will be talking politics. Will you be doing it during this thanksgiving holiday . All coming up on washington journal. You can send us a tweet. Good morning. We begin with afghanistan. American troops on the ground in what has become americas longest war. Joining us live is brig. Gen. William graham. Thank you for being with us on this holiday. Thanks for having us. Happy thanksgiving to you and all your viewers. Host he is joining us via skype. So there is a little bit of a delay. Lets begin with what is americas longest war. From your standpoint what are some of the Biggest Challenges on the ground . Guest in just a minute and we will get that out of the way. This is my second tour in afghanistan and what i will noisywith you as another helicopter flies past is that there is optimism here with the Afghan People. The new u. S. Policy and its our nato allies is playing well with afghanistan. There is true optimism here. By someed here today amazing american patriots. You guys ha