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Then finally, when i was 25, i took my fathers name. Cspan where did you get the name skippy . Guest from the time i was born the day i was born, my uncle raymond called me skipper, and then it became skippy. We were piedmonts on the river piedmont, West Virginia, is on the Potomac River, two hours west of washington, so theres a whole marine mentality there, and so i became the skipper. Cspan before we go back and talk about the past, what are you doing now . Guest im the chairman of afroamerican studies at harvard and a professor of english. Cspan and how long have you been doing that . Gues...

district. >> we have team coverage of the winter storm this morning. derelict is live in winter park where many roads still haven't been cleared. first, let's check in with meteorologist, chuck bell, who's monitoring the conditions from storm center 4. >> good morning angie and d derrick and everyone. the good news. the majority of the precipitation has already come down. not that much more accumulation. that being said what is coming down is coming down with temperatures at or below freezing in many neighborhoods leaving very slippery sidewalks and side streets. be careful if you ne...

family, admired family. cynthia was the school bus driver. nora was a very gifted, bright, lovely child. and everyone was completely stunned. : c-span: henry louis gates jr., author of "colored people." why the title? >> guest: well, we were colored in the 1950s, and this is a book that attempts to recount what it was like of african descent in the united states between 1950 and roughly 1970. and partly it's a book about names and naming, and not only the names that the race has given itself -- colored people to negro to black, ultimately to african-american -- but also one's own nam...