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we start today with the fight to advance the dream that dr. king laid out in his speech at the march on washington 50 years ago this summer. we remember this milestone in the wake of the supreme court's decision to strike down the key product of the voting rights act. we must not let states roll back the clock on our voting rights. people fought too hard. marched too long, even gave their lives to win those rights. heroes like medgar evers, field secretary for the naacp in mississippi who was assassinated just hours after president kennedy addressed the nation on civil rights. we must honor those sacrifices by continuing their struggle. joining me now is the widow of medgar evers and a civil rights leader in her own right, marly evers-williams. it's an honor.

it's an honor. it really is an honor to have you with us here today miss evers-williams and you and your family gave so much and you picked up the baton and to go from a woman that walked outside of her house and watched her husband die from the fight for civil and voting rights to where i sat and watched you walk on that platform and speak at the second inaugural ceremonies for the first african-american president it's been a long journey but you ever ever stopped fighting and you personify what essence and the strength of our women is all about. >> reverend sharpton, you're very kind and i appreciate all of that, but we are a people that are very, very strong. we have been through so much from being brought to the shores

of america as slaves to where we are today. who would have thought even 20 years ago that you would have been in this powerful position. i do say powerful position that you are in with the media along with all of the work that you did in the civil rights era and you continue to do. i consider myself very, very blessed to have been a part of this time, little did i think i would ever be in a position to speak out or to do what i have done, not by myself, but by support of lots of other people and i recall so well medgar saying to me upon one of the discussions we had about the fear that i had of his losing his life and he told me you're much stronger than you think you are and i said, no, i can't go on without you and he said, you must, because he knew what was going to happen. so one thing after another can lead to success or it can lead

to failure if you decide to step aside and let history determine what you are going to be instead of taking history and massaging it and making it what you hope it will be. so it's a journey. >> now, we -- we are facing challenges today. what do you see as the key challenges that this generation must fight and stand for, black, white, latino, asian all over the country? what are the challenges that you want to see people deal with today? >> you know, those challenges that we are facing today are very much the same challenges we faced in the '50s and the '40s and before that time, but we have a congregation, if i might call it that, of much younger people who are not really versed

in everything that my generation went through. i think partially to blame was my generation, who did not talk about what we had done, what we had been through because we wanted to dismiss it and we said we have done our job and that's it. but there is always a job to do in educating and nurturing our young people with our history, because if they don't know that history, then how will they be able to move forward? i think of all of the other things that have happened where my generation, if you will, we kind of slept through it, lo and behoelld we've had a very loud wake-up call with the decision particularly that the supreme court has made on registering voting. what did we do? start all over again? well, if we have to, of course, but we must do it in different ways this time. >> now, in terms of the personal

qualities, one of the things that we emphasize this week here at essence festival is that change comes from within and then you can help change the world and no one has done that more than you have. what do you say to people watching, male and female, but particularly women that they must do to develop that internal strength and character to help make a difference wherever they are at whatever station in life? >> the women have always forgive me been the strong leaders even behind the scenes in the movement, and the men have certainly moved forward and assumed shall i say their rightful position as leaders, but we have to come together and be a unit of one and promote those things that we feel are so critical to the success not only of america but of

african-americans. i have been greatly disturbed as have so many people by the recent supreme court decision in voting. a group of us were discussing that and said, well, what do we do? we don't have to count how many bubbles in a bar of soap. we don't have to count how many peas in a jar. but we do have to have the mind-set of knowing that there are blocks to keep us from moving forward. these states that have chosen to act almost immediately upon the supreme court decision need to be challenged how dare, how dare they come up with laws within 24 hours that say we will not be able to register and to vote unless we have the types of i.d.s that are necessary. all of that is geared toward i believe african-american

citizens in this country, so we have to stop complaining about it. we have to bring our knowledgeable people, we have to bring the ages together and say what is it that we're going to do? i don't know how many people will remember what happened in gary, indiana. >> right. >> when there was a massive gathering of people who were leaders who consider themselves leaders and came up with an agenda for black america. we need to do that again. we can't continue to complain. we have to act, and i'm kind of pulling myself in another direction now in developing the medgar and myrlie evers institute of which we hope to have young people very involved in that through scholarships, through ideas, through conferences, reaching out to get our younger people involved in

that. i just looked at a show with a young man who was doing the dance and whatnot, you know, forgive me, i don't know the name of it. i guess that says something about my age but how marvelous it was to see that energy and see that energy dispersed among the crowd. you do the same thing with your shows, reverend sharpton, and we need to build on that and that's what i hope will be happening in the next months and years to come, that we will reach out to young people at the college level, be able to provide scholarships for them, move forward as we develop plans for them and they're in a number of things that we must do and we can't sit around and complain anymore about what the supreme court decision has done. we have to act. >> we have to act. that's myrlie evers-williams. thank you so much for your time. god bless you. we love you. >> thank you for you.

>> thank you. >> all right. >> and on saturday august 24th, we will be in washington, d.c., for the national action to realize the dream: 50th march on washington, the 50th anniversary, we're going back, our fight for progress is far from over and we'll continue to push forward for dr. king's dream to become a reality for all of us. coming up, health care is a big issue at the essence festival and in the city of new orleans, that's next. this is a special edition of "politicsnation" live from new orleans. stay with us. wi drive a ford fusion. who is healthier, you or your car? i would say my car. probably the car. cause as you get older you start breaking down. i love my car. i want to take care of it. i have a bad wheel - i must say. my car is running quite well.

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heart disease, hypertension, obesity, diabetes and hiv infection. these are literally life and death problems and we've all got to work together to improve our health in the community. joining me now is gospel superstar and grammy award winner lady tremain hawkins and, of course, a superstar in her own right in academiacademia, t director of morehouse school of

medicine and also founder of the center for women's health research and the harry medical college that studies diseases that disproportionately affect winl of color. thank you both for being here. >> it's wonderful to be here. >> let me go to you first, dr. rice. you have worked hard in this area for many years so you're as anyone can see very young. but you've given your young life to this. tell us about the disproportionate impact of health issues and what we need to do about it. >> well, thank you, dr. reverend sharpton first of all for having me here. it is really, really important that we continue to recognize the challenges that we are seeing as african-american and particularly african-american women and the essence festival gives us a wonderful opportunity to talk about these issues while we have more heart disease, diabetes, hiv, clearly the diabetes and cardiovascular december is secondary to one i

think our crisis and that is obesity with over 00% of african-american being obese we really do have to start addressing this, acknowledging that it is an issue for our community and then talking about what those interventions should be. and so for me and my so north who i'm really trying to garner support around is that it's exercise, watching what you eat, the exercise, 30 minutes at day at least three to four times a week and then making better choices about the food that we're eating. and then also not glorifying the fact that we are overweight but recognizing that it's not so much the size that we are or the weight that we are, it is the size of our wasteline because that clearly contributes to the increased risk of having diabetes so it's really acknowledging that we have an issue and then taking small, baby steps to make a difference. >> lady tremain hawkins, you have touched millions with your

voice. you have an unusual gift that has brought a lot of spiritual healing and solace to so many including me. i'm your number one fan. >> thank you. >> and you have also lent that voice to various health initiatives. i've seen you all over the country. >> yes. >> helping hiv drives and other drives. why is health particularly women and women in churches so important to you? >> well, i think we have such a wonderful platform as far as getting the word out, reverend, and the church is a place where we congregate. we have all of our, you know, exciting times that we enjoy the gospel music as you know so you know you'll get a crude there so it's a wonderful platform to really reach out and touch the community. women, you know, we are the care givers and if we don't take care

of ourselves and be what we need to be, how can we care for our children and our mothers and our sisters? we have a generation, as you know, of young people and i think a lot of times we immediate to really kind of look back into the family and make that a really basis for knowing what we can become and looking to our grandfathers and our grandmothers, those who have walked the walk and talked the walk, you know, talked the talk and i'm grateful that i had a mother and a grandmother that tried to eat healthy even before healthy was healthy, you know what i'm saying before we were into all of these health, health diets and everything. my grandfather used to eat sauerkraut. >> wow. >> and he used to juice before juices. isn't that something way in the '60s and so i'm grateful that he has passed that legacy on to me and my husband and i,

mr. tommy richardson, we have incorporated getting away from sugar and get ago way from starches and breads and things that put on the calories. >> and you know what's unusual about that with you, lady tramaine is that a lot of gospel singer, i grew up in the church as a boy preaching don't get involved in a lot of things and you always did. i remember from black export chicago years ago to the blacks on hiv when we started that in new york. >> that's right. >> you would always step outside the church and do things and now i understand you were raised in that legacy. >> i certainly was and i'm grateful for that. i am -- i'm just so proud, reverend, that not only, you know, issues like this, we're bringing it to the forefront for our community, for our black people, for our african-american society. you were doing such a wonderful job in showcasing this and the doctor here, you know, it's just -- i think it's a community affair and i think that all

walks of life, especially people that can reach people. we reach people by music. >> right. >> they listen to our song. >> that's right. >> and so why not use our voice to say to them, let's be healthy. let's look at inside and take good care of ourselves so that we can help take care of somebody else. >> dr. rice, as long as i've known you, you have challenged a lot of people in the faith community that we can't preach abundant life in the pulpit and in the church cafeteria serve death with the wrong foods and you are now heading up in morehouse a first woman to head up the school of medicine. what do you hope to teach? what are you going to interpret that historic black college that produced martin luther king, dr. menti benjamin mayes going to be like. >> it will be capitalizing on what's available in our community. the sister here talks really

positively how how we use the church and one thing we're doing with big bethel church we have a program called eat healthy strides in which we have brought technology into that church with executive coaching and other tools and resources to help those members understand how diabetes leads to cardiovascular disease that leads to death an we have an exercise and nutrition program that started from morehouse school of medicine but we are now extending out into the community so what you will see on the montgomery rice era is more outreach into the community, listening to the community, because many people in our community have the answers but we have not done is leveraged the resources appropriately to them given them only the choices that would be the great choices or the right choices about how they choose what they're going to eat. getting rid of the fact that their food deserts where people

cannot go and get healthy choices. the other issue i want to make sure we address, reverend sharpton is that when we look at childhood obesity, we have a lot of programs that i am really excited about seeing, but we're not going to make a significant dent in childhood obesity until we as mothers and women as fathers address the obesity issue with us because as i tell people, i don't know many children who cook their own food or who go to the grocery store. we make those choices for them. so we have to empower that family to use the resources to help make the choices for the children so that they are only exposed to the right choice. >> dr. valerie montgomery rice and the lady of gospel music lady tramaine hawkins, thank you both for your time. >> wonderful to be here. >> coming up, i'm heading into the great crowd here essence festival to hear what is owe on their minds. stay with us. ♪ [ male announcer ] this is bob,

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♪ we're back. we're back. we're live at the essence fest here in downtown new orleans. let me go in the crowd. how's everybody? [ cheers and applause ] how are you enjoying the essence fest? >> what's your name, where are you from. >> my name is kawanda and i'm from clarksville, tennessee. >> what are you enjoying at the essence fest? >> just about everything today, the gospel has been really great. we was over at the walmart center. i really enjoyed that. >> now, tell me what is on your mind. this is also a party with a purpose. what are the issues bothering you today? >> well, i'm pretty politically -- i love to watch your show because i love the way you hit the issues dead on. you get to see the different viewpoints and stuff from the

side i think a lot of us as american, african-american community would like to see so just being here today and watching your show really more

over here. who are you and what's on your mind. >> my name is jerome carter.

austin texas and i've been watching you for years, mr. sharpton. i mean i actually grew up with you and times, the marches and everything else and watch you for a long time and so glad that you still pushing the issues for us. you don't know how much it really means to me that you are still someone we can follow and understand that you're fighting for our community. the thing with us right now is jobs for our young men because there are no jobs to support their families, we've been divided for so long against our sisters, you know, that we can't afford to take care of them or our sons or being -- these things are driving us out of the park where we can't have a decent family value. >> it's a party with a purpose. we will keep american out front. we'll be back more with "politics nation." live at the essence fest in new orleans.

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androgel 1.62%. ♪ bottoms up bottoms up ever see ♪ >> welcome back. welcome back to essence fest. i want to talk to you with the man who's using his voice to improve our community. he's a singer/songwriter/rapper and actor, the one and only tray song is here. >> thank you, thank you. >> he started first starting performing at essence fest back in 2010. he's released five highly successful albums and has also been acting in movies and tv and he's held get out the vote concerts for president obama and he's met with the president and discussed key issues affecting the african-american community and he killed them last night on stage. i must say this is a party with

a purpose but last night i went to see you and my daughters was with me and i got up and wanted to take my shirt off with you but they said no. be cool. i'm not going to do that. >> you're going to take my shine. i can't allow that. i'm happy to be here. i'm doing great. >> tell me, you know, one of the things that i never will forget is we were talking one day and you said, i don't want to just be another young, new superstar. i want to use my art to help change the world. >> most definitely. >> and you've gone out there with the president. you've encouraged young people to do the right thing and vote yet you kept your edge to be as hot as you are. what gave you that motive trey songz? >> having the opportunities i've been given is my duty to share that with the people who listen to my music to give them the insight that i have on the world and to give them hope that, you know, this is not all life is.

whatever you're surrounded by doesn't have to be your only -- the only escape. you know, for me music was something that people told me i couldn't do. i'm from a small town, very small town where most people don't leave. most people don't graduate high school go on to colleges a feat. and for me the people that listen to my music need someone that they look up to, sun that they relate to to help them understand that life is about so much more than just whatever it is people tell you or whatever it is you think you're supposed to do or whatever it is you think you're supposed to be. this is a dream for me. i'm down in essence fest for four years trait performed for 80,000 people. that's something i started in my high school auditorium. you know, so this is something that i could do then whatever it is you put your mind to you can do the same. i'm a living testament of that. as many times i could tell people and if that affects one life i've done my job. >> we had the bella ton taste and james browns involved and you have become that for this

generation, that kind of role model that's clean involved but yet you are what is a trendsetter. so people look up to you. what do you tell young men and young women your age that touches them so and that you hope can help inspire them? >> you know what i find so amazing you know the musicians we listen to, you mentioned bella ton tay, james brown. they played the soundtrack to your life. you remember where you were at certain moments when you heard this song so my fan base now share a connection that sometimes i don't even know about. you know, and they love me like they genuinely love me these people around taking pictures and they're here for me right now and that touches me in my heart so what i tell them is strictly to be honest and true to yourself. you know, and as cliche as that sound it really breaks down so many different things. if you're true to yourself and you really, really pray to god and think about what it is you

want to do with your life and think about the example you want to lead and so hard nowadays with youth and twitter and social networks and so much bully going on. being an individual is harder than ever so i encourage individualism and encourage my youth be strong in a final where it's so easy to be weak and cool to be a follower. step out and be an individual and chase your dreams and really stick to who you are. god only made one of you. if you try to be someone else you're wasting god's time. >> one of the things that really strikes me about you, you respect and revere women and you've been at essence as part of that and my daughters dominique and ashley talk about you don't downgrade women in your music and even how you act and i was on a plane once, asia and i awe sean this lady, i said that's tray songz's mother. >> she texted me.

>> you have this bond with your mother that's really a great example and i think you live that in your music, this respect for women. tell me about that. >> well, i didn't have a lot of men around when i was growing up. my biological father and i don't have a great relationship. i was raised by my mother, my aunties and my grandmother and what that -- what that really seeded inside of me was a respect for women that's unequivocal to anything. my mother -- i basically grew up with her. she had me when she was 17, risked so much of her opportunities and sacrificed so much of her chances to be all that she wanted to be in life to be my mother, to give me a great platform to live my life. to give me someone -- a positive role model to look up to and my momma there for me if i need anything. you know, i bring her down to essence every year. >> probably want up there the other night and last thing she said you coming tomorrow to see my son. i said, you bet.

>> that's right. >> glad to be with you tray songz. a superstar with a conscience. tray songz, y'all. [ applause ] it's an amazing atmosphere on the last day of the essence fest. ahead, how to empower our communities. stay with us. ♪ fill it up fill it up girl it's your birthday ♪ ♪ i know you're thirsty ♪ [ slap! ] [ male announcer ] your favorite foods fighting you? fight back fast with tums. calcium-rich tums starts working so fast you'll forget you had heartburn. ♪ tum tum tum tum tums you'll forget you had heartburn. they're the days to take care of business.. when possibilities become reality. with centurylink as your trusted partner, our visionary cloud infrastructure and global broadband network free you to focus on what matters.

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♪ we're back live from new orleans at the 19th annual essence festival. this weekend is a celebration of music, culture and the arts, but we've been saying is also a party with a purpose and the time to focus on empower ourselves and our community. joining me now is joy reid managing editor of the grio.com and the one only bishop nole jones, pastor of the city of refuge in gardenia, california.

his congregation has 17,000 members. thank you both for coming on the show. bishop jones, you're out in the community every day. what are the biggest needs you're seeing? >> the biggest needs that we have primarily in our group is what are we going to do to offset our young men going into the prison system? i just say a couple of things, one is 2% of our boys get to university. 2%, i'm working very hard on this. >> yeah. >> with one of my members. we put a company together. 2% of our boys make it to college. of the 2% that get into college, 70% to 80% start on the basketball and the football teams. >> wow. >> next to the federal government the ncaa gives more scholarships than anybody to everybody from around the world. the interesting thing here now is when any of the other college

sports need money, they're simply told by basketball and by football tickets here is a problem. when a fellow is on a basketball scholarship or a football scholarship says to his coach, coach, i can't make it on time because i've got some classes to finish. i've got some work to do, the answer is if you're going to start on my team, i'm not telling you what to do but you better be on time. if a white fella or any other group who isn't starting says i got some work to do the answer is real simple, see you when i see you. so ultimately, the fellow who is giving the scholarships to everybody else having one himself ends up driving a forklift to have to graduate so on the one side we've got 2% giving scholarships to everybody that comes to the universities and then on the other side, when we don't get the 2% in school,

making everybody else's education work, we've got 47% in the prisons making the prison system prosperous. >> and the faith community, joy, has a large role it can do with this, is that not right. >> no, absolutely. i have to start out first of all with a compliment to you. what i love about you, you have myrlie ever williams, trey songz and bishop jones on at the same time. the reason it's important we need all parts to work together. black people haven't changed that much but the difference between us now and in the '50s and '60s, everything was all on one accord. all parts whether faith leaders, popular culture, everything was driving in one direction because there was a sense of urgency. now what we lack is a sense of urgency so don't have all parts of our culture driving in one direction toward a common goal and i think for the faith community of african-americans still look to our pastors for guidance and for wisdom still more than any other part of

culture but younger african-americans look to pop culture so we need a bridge to get our younger african-american brothers who are in the media, who are in sports, who are in movies or television to get on one accord with our faith leaders and start to create a civil rights agenda for the 21st rent i. >> you have been able to merge the pop culture and the church unlike most ministers out here today. how have you been able to do that? >> the reason is simple, and that is that i have to allow the next generation the freedom to express themselves theoretically from a theoretical point of view and from a cultural point of view. they have to express themselves and their art form, whatever it is, when we came along, we -- i say it like this, when my fathers came along they hymned it. we gospel it. now the kids rap it. for you to eliminate their ability to express because you're trying to pull them into something that is past then you

lose them completely. the next thing that is significant is your presentation cannot be a presentation to the culture to come to jesus and get rich. we told that to all of the other groups who are coming along in the time when economics was not that great and we would preach jesus and materialism and we need to fix that now because we broke something doing that. but right now these kids have to understand jesus from another point of view, not from the point of view of he'll make you rich because they're already rich. we have to present them in a way like i present him so people understand whether you're rich or poor, theology has to psychologically move you. so the whole system of the church has to be psychological rehabilitation, because that's the problem i find in the inner city, i find the same type in africa, just came from africa and that is that people can be delivered but still not heal. you can have all the opportunities around you but if you don't have the psychological

disposition that makes you feel good about who you are and go after it, so at the end of the day theology has got to bring us to the place where we say, when you meet god for the first time, you meet yourself. >> well, we're going to leave it there but we're going to have a lot more on "politics nation" with bishop jones as we go forward and certainly joy is always with us. thank you both for coming on the show. thank you for bringing the gospel to the essence fest. it's been amazing and inspiring weekend. we'll talk about it with the president of essence communication, michelle ebanks next. hey linda!

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just two gummies have 4 grams of fiber! to help support regularity! i want some... [ woman ] hop on over! [ marge ] fiber the fun way, from phillips'. the "essence" magazine as been known as the back woman's bible for life and for the last 19 years the magazine has hosted the essence festival here in new orleans over the last three days, hundreds of thousands of people have caught some of the biggest names in music perform with beyonce closing it out tonight. but essence fest has also always been about the bigger picture, a party with a purpose and this year is no different. joining me now is michelle ebanks, the president of essence communications. michelle, thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> this is the huge occasion in

black america every year and you've brought it to a whole other level brings the top issues, concerns as well as entertainment and enlightenment with empower. . it's really fantastic. tell people around the country what it is that you really hope people leave here with today. >> well, as you said, this is just an extraordinary celebration of the community of essence readers. and what you feel throughout the weekend is the love of community, the connection that people have with each other, the sense of being at home, having a great time, and focusing on the issues. we want people to leave knowing that there is so much joy and optimism and purpose within the african-american community, that there is a great deal of hope and happiness. and it is fantastic. >> well, one of the things i saw this morning, you had mothers who had lost their children to violence. and brightening up their lives

and honoring them in their strength. and one thing that essence does is directly shows the struggles, even in these contemporary times that black women have to go through from victims of violence to victims of bias, and nobody in media can focus on that black woman like essence and it is needed now more today than ever. >> absolutely. our editors, they focus on every aspect of her life, from her beauty, that's foundation, to her style, that's self-respect, to those real challenges that are in our community that she has to face. and too often alone. so we're there, michelle obama said essence is a community of support and a source of inspiration. that's what we have been for 43 years and that's what we will always be. >> now, a lot of people in the magazine world have been suffering during the economic change, during the transition to

technology. but your following, your subscribers, your base has not at all diminished. i know because my daughters, everyone i know subscribes to essence and it is transgenerational, from babies to great grandmamas. how do you explain that? >> well, always through the centuries black women have taught black women, mothers have taught daughters, mothers have had to tell their daughters that they're beautiful because the world might not think that that black is beautiful. but mothers pass that along, sisters, aunts, and that's what essence is. essence is passing along that wisdom and that optimism and that empowerment. that's what we do. and that's foundational within our community. and with the jgenerations of black women. >> you expose women that a lot of people would not have known. you have the beyonces and the kerry washingtons that you feature, but you feature women

in the trenches that are really doing a lot of work in between the beautiful women and the models and all of that in your pages. it is a balance that is no -- no one can match. >> absolutely. you see everywhere in media, in african-american media, pop culture, you see the images of the icons. but what you don't see are triumphant real women, is women who are holding our communities together, who are getting degrees at all levels. this triumph, that's what you see in the pages of essence that you don't see anywhere else. >> well, you've done a fantastic job in leading this whole communications industry around essence. and the festival is bigger and better than it ever was. i've been here all 19 years and this has been the biggest and the best. michelle eubanks, thanks for your leadership. thank you for your time. it has been a great time here at essence fest 2013. i'll be back with politics

nation at my usual time tomorrow, 6:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. until then, i want to leave you with some of the highlights and sounds from the past three days here at the essence festival 2013. ♪ ♪

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