just the permissions of banks to make of the loans that we are going for example the community disaster along we're asking the mayor for that your governor has recently revised the budget estimating that puerto rico's economy will shrink by eleven percent and its population will drop by eight percent next year thousands of jobs lost in the pharmaceutical and other industries what business is there in ponce do you see getting back on track this is the tourism the second one he has to be that are the oil industry that are there we should run to him them which will give you only incentive they can have it the third one is that the governor has to make laws that help also all the mayor who's in the take in money for the central government in taxes many of those things and all the things that have to be counted on his conscience about that well he's a great guy but intelligent people he's

a very intelligent guy he is trying to help all the mayors also not only in the loans that that we seem i can gave can give us but also in creating in creating and same improve our ties in for example the power system power system almost is owned by the by the by the government i think is now after foremost we can see there is no power in other cities so if it is is that she and you think that's a step forward the privatized is no it is one is very important that people are in favor of just right now maybe the union maybe protests because they're you know the deal of the board the house of representatives the senate or the president of the senate sort of the senate has tell us that he's going to have a lead that project he's going to check the technique part that a lawmaker in fiscal part and it will be open to competition so all others i'm over nice the. energy systems as you bring power back on line are you simply rebuilding

the old grid or is this an opportunity to go deeper into solar and wind and less centralized on what we want and that's what we want but the law or army corp of engineers and the people from the power system they are trying to raise it up by by time than say fema said that three to five years will take to restore everything the other ninety when power electrical what a norther thing have to be nice has to be asked to be you just rebuild the great you get another storm right back where you know heard it in five but we're going to be and this is a really great hurricane season again again yeah it's sad to learn that a murder and suicide are power the police there in ponce coping with this and other crime. i have a talk for for example there i mean the tax for there is

a puerto rican policeman when you support a policeman also levy agencies federal agencies and people in charge of universities will take the social part that i told you there is a social part we have to take care of people who worry about their that people are warriors are the way they they are going to leave without power without housing so we're taking care of those cases the money the way the fossil part he's working in them so they can be raise it up and they can have sure that we're going to get all . the help they can they can have the last question i have to ask is the toughest because i'm asking you to answer from your head not from your heart i want are all of that prediction when do you think things get back to normal. they said i brought back from say a sub the rural areas have the power so i hope i hope for the next four mons

the port of power will be ready. i just came here to look for solutions work for was i am the how you have the responsibility so i raise you know my city i am doing business in my city i just received a cruise ship last month i was even roller cruises this month mexico so we're working on where we're going in school we're working to head start schools primaries school also so we're doing jobs we're doing a looking for that so mine chain the economy running in the city it's a game of inches you have to work and remember serve not only was your mind heart and body but serving the people down while we are elected for thank you ponce puerto rico mayor maria melendez godspeed thank you thank you thank you for your time.

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morgan freeman asks. you're going to relegate my history to a month he said i don't want to black history month black history is american history as you channel surf this month you will see lots about black history respectful thirty second stories with commercials attached we don't play commercial so we have more time to give you a big picture in one nine hundred twenty six a story in carter g. woodson and the association for the study of negro life and history declared negro history week the second week of february to coincide with the birthdays of abraham lincoln in frederick douglass he said that african-american contributions were overlooked ignored and even serp pressed by the writers of history textbooks and

the teachers who use them fifty years later as we celebrated the u.s.a.'s bicentennial president ford urged that we seize the opportunity to offer the two often neglected accomplishments of black americans and every area of endeavor throughout our history this is now a perennial observance here in the usa and in canada and the u.k. and in the netherlands where they call it black achievement month joining us is sylvia cyrus executive director of that very same organization known all these years later as the association for the study of african american life and history sylvia thanks for being here thank you for having me how ninety two years later carter would since picture was on the google home page this week if he were here with us today do you think he would be satisfied that african-americans contributions are getting the recognition they deserve well certainly dr woodson

did so much of his life work to make sure that the contributions were even better known that then they were when he started this organization in one nine hundred fifteen but would he be happy i don't think though i think that there are so. still a lot more to be done and the contributions of black people are still not fully integrated into american history and so we celebrate history week we celebrate black history month because there's still that opportunity to share with so many people who don't know that there are many great americans whose work is not where it should be and that no one as it should be one hundred years now after the end of world war one of the twenty eighteen black history month themis african-americans in time of war and in those hundred years integrating the military has at times been a struggle one work remains to be done while there's still a lot of work but certainly we know that through the struggles of african-americans who have served in every war and conflict that america has ever had since the

revolutionary war and certainly in world war one that there is still more work to be done but we have made tremendous accomplishments and we have great heroes and heroines who we could point to that show that the fortitude of black people even within the military will just further prove that accomplishments that we have made and how we have served and made america great so abode what morgan freeman said don't relegate black history to a month but without that months many of these stories would go untold and soon enough it'll be march one what can we do in the other eleven months and heck what can we do this month well i'm going to say that the association that we call a solemn celebrates and commemorates black history three hundred sixty five days a year february is when we highlight some of those contributions so it is in this month especially in washington d.c.

and around the country where our branches and members get together that we hold activities for example here in washington d.c. on february the twenty fourth we will have a phenomenal black history month luncheon where individuals can go to our website at. as a or and get more information and come out and support and join with other people who love history and the contributions of african-americans right now say that again for anybody who's watching us here in the washington area the web site is. a s a l h dot org and you can call us at two o two two three eight five nine one two sylvia we talked about your organization's history tell us about the operation today well i have to begin with the phenomenal founder carter g. woodson he was an amazing person and for us he's an inspiration because he shows the power of one he knew that although he was a scholar that our history was not going to get out to the public unless he engaged

other people and so he started this organization with the intent that the few scholars that there were in one nine hundred fifteen could share that information with communities with churches and we still that do that today were a membership organization and individuals can still join us and be a part of branches around this nation that do black history programming that go in schools and other institutions to share this important history so we encourage people to look for a solid to know that all the black history that you know probably has been touched by our organization and our members and some way and you too can be a part of that sylvia thanks so much for coming in and have a great black history month thank you you too. joining us now from shilly minneapolis where tourists are everywhere here's attorney professor activist minister and former minneapolis and the president in a key levy pounds welcome. thanks for having me each february we

see and hear and read wistful tales about dr king and rosa parks and jackie robinson and thurgood marshall back to the future years from now how will historians describe race relations today. i would say that historians would describe race relations today as being somewhat some ochoa with especially given all of the protests and demonstrations that have been happening since two thousand and fourteen what the birth of the black lives matter movement as well as all of the concerns that have been raised about donald trump's handling of race relations in the united states you mentioned two thousand and fourteen which i think might have been an inflection point i am a baby boomer and as a child in the one nine hundred fifty s. i witnessed the struggle on black and white t.v. in the one nine hundred sixty s.

people my age join protests but now armed with smartphones and powered by social media millennialists are broadcasting painful episodes like ferguson has this media evolution produced accountability noise both. why i would say that social media has been a very important part of the black lives matter movement and other protests that have been unfolding at least since two thousand and fourteen if you think about what happened in ferguson there was a lot going on as far as the demonstrations and the outrage that people had after mike brown an unarmed seventeen year old african-american man was killed by a police officer and the media was not covering those protests an initially and so people took to social media facebook and twitter to let the world know what was going on in the community there and the social the fact that activists

had control of their own narratives was extremely powerful and revolutionary and social media has been a significant tool since that time so as you know i participated in an in a number of demonstrations and i actually went to ferguson missouri in november of two thousand and fourteen the day after the grand jury decided that they would not and die the officer who killed my brown i was there as a legal observer to the national lawyers guild and i noticed a dichotomy between the way in which the national media was reporting the unfolding events in ferguson versus everyday ordinary citizens and activists in terms of how they put the narrative forward the narrative that came forward from activists was really talking a lot about the need for police accountability the need to focus on issues that

impact african-americans and other marginalized populations and the fact that they wanted the rest of america to pay attention to what was happening now that is not very different from what happened during the civil rights movement when you think about the effective ways in which dr king and other freedom fighters during that movement of. to fully use the media to show some of the brutality that they were experiencing at the hands of police and police dogs the fire hoses that were being sprayed upon them the fact that they were being jailed all while simply standing for their rights for freedom justice and equality and those images being broadcast around the world and like you said on black and white television played a huge role in garnering empathy for those who were fighting and fighting for their freedom during that particular movement and i think that it's had a similar impact in the twenty first century with the protests that have happened there been so many people who have listened to the narrative of activists people in

the community and family sue been impacted by police involved shootings that it's caused an explosion of people showing up at marches and demonstrations and participating in the movement and we've seen a broad cross-section of the community present at those demonstrations such as in december of two thousand and fourteen we had major protests at the mall of america here in the twin cities and that was over three thousand people about eighty percent were actually white and they were declaring black lives matter and i don't think that that would have happened had local activists not had the opportunity to tell their own narrative sure and to bring forward the stories that traditional media was not covering sure on filtered and when you ran for mayor there your slogan was we rise together i got about a minute as donald trump succeeds barack obama are we as a people more together or more divided. i would say that we are much

more divided in a lot of ways and unfortunately donald trump has helped to deepen that divide through the rhetoric that he used to during the campaign trail the rhetoric that he used the other night during his state of the union address and general comments that he's made in public and on twitter he has riled a segment of the white community that was very you have said with the election of barack obama as the forty fourth president and we've seen so much racial animus that's come to the surface that it definitely signals that we've taken a step back but with that versity comes opportunity sure it's time for the new leaders to step up sure thank you attorney professor activist minister and former minneapolis and c.p. president in a key moment levy pounds thank you for having me where were you forty years ago next week if you were in new

england and survived you have stories one hundred people died during the great blizzard of seventy eight which froze business unusual literally and figuratively for the rest of us for a week we bounced back quicker than the puerto rico that mayor melendez described earlier in the show but both crises remind us that no matter how much we holler at each other we're all just neighbors here. that is the big picture if you missed any part of this week's show or if you'd like to share it you can where you'll find all our shows at youtube dot com slash the big picture our team you can watch anytime anywhere on any device and you can see our t. america live on direct t.v. channel three two one or dish channel two eight zero m holland cook in washington until next week question war.

it's all see we have a great team we need to strengthen before the free world cold and you're better than a legend to keep it so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred two that must qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that waving spirit to the. reason the had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best form since my last will come from the. those in the euro zone.

drive. left left left more or less ok stuff that's really good. the world is getting away from us dollars wall reserve currency a one road one policy linking up russia and china is out of the dollar every last trade oil away from the dollar countries are desperate to get out of the us dollar so the dollar is going to lose value no matter what anybody says here's the treasury secretary. larry we are trying to make it look like oh it's our balls or fall or falling down what he says a dollar has gone low as i've been saying for a number of years because the u.s. dollar is a crime seeing that other countries recognized as funding the war and the weapons and the property that they're trying to escape.

that image was quite controversial to a lot of people something to soar as irresponsible something to sort of dangerous threatening whereas other people including use or as a symbol of something very different was it. powerful. protecting. that it's more for. the people who criticize you what the basis. for right wing lunatic. eighteen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with the gun i witnessed the grim results of these weapons in hospital emergency rooms morgues in the confused of the mass of mass shooting sprees after each new massacre the newspaper headlines were always the side why did it happen

here. says my book was published in the year two thousand more than half a million americans have been killed by firearms in the us. five hundred twenty seven thousand people dead and many more injured i decided to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago to understand why despite this death toll there is such fierce resistance to even moderate gun control laws in the us. is there was a man on the trigger that's not the picture is about he's not trying to harm me. he's trying to protect me. i'm looking out for myself my family. my neighbors.

this is. relaxing. the thought that some people would want to take our guns away to me is so ludicrous because the bad guys thugs the murderers the ripest are always going to have guns and are you would be doing would be to take them away from the good guys from the law abiding citizens people in this country huddle in their houses and throw their

dead belts but i want not succumb to this gown that is apt there. we were at our church last sunday and our sunday school teacher mike asked the class how many people had gun permits in i would say over two thirds of the members raised their hands. this is a thirty eight taurus and it five so under robot for its second sealed hammer. and it is concealed so that way it doesn't get tangled or stuck on anything when you try to pull it out of your pocket or your purse if a bad guy tried to. it to my to my family member is he would had better lock with that better now i think it's fair and hearty when i have my baby.

close so this is going to stay it was just in this neighborhood were our venture a guess everybody in this letter i doubt anybody does not have a go. is a great sarah. oh absolutely i can promise you that's the reason they're not coming in stay away from me and stay were my home and we will have their problems. well this is one of my favorite things to do. myself. with a bible in one hand and a gun in the other we can make this country one nation under god once again. in the name of the founding fathers of this great country don't you ever acquiesce don't ever turn your weapons of war in safety don't ever turn those over to your government it is the great equalizer if two people have

a gun they're equal or whoever has the gun they are supreme. every time they pass another gun control law they promise a safety do you know who did the same thing adolf hitler now there's already three hundred fifty million guns in america what are you going to do you go confiscate a will. you're going to make it more difficult for the criminals to get them they already have them they can get them faster than you can the problem with crime in america is recidivism the repeat offender if you want to go after criminals who misuse guns the first time you arrest him. go after him keep them second make sure that the law abiding citizen is ready capable and prepared to shoot back. you know my motto comes right from the movie cinderella last year is my favorite movie really the motto is in

a really was have courage and be kind. god. i want my daughters armed i want my wife armed i want my sons armed and i want them to be able to defend their families we never hurt anybody we don't want to. but it's the same time we're not going to just make ourselves an easy target for those who would . rape robin plunder no no way. they have six machine guns in the house ten thousand rounds of ammunition in a closet with a license i have i could get on the phone today and get i could order one hundred

machine guns and here in two weeks if i could get anything you know i have a tank you know it is no and you know. two hundred guns is what i sell the a k forty seven s n e a r fifteen and i got everybody beat in time with the prices because i buy so many of the news people come in and i always blame the gun you know de asked me you know what happened why do you sell guns to kill people. well you know it's so when i tell him i said all these guns are on the wall last night and i walked in this morning and nobody was dead. you know it's stupid you know gun us to kill a people look at the people kill the people and they just used a gun to kill people you know use a fork and knife a hammer a screwdriver you know why keep blaming it on the gun or ok just give me just give me forty dollars i want. just to see if you are so good if you study the face every time i spoke with mr griffin yes go off it here if you carry that it's your job. for i don't know where you. would like that.

it's my birthday and i got a gun for my birthday what so i'm going to shoot it for the first time are today. we've seen just about everything m. sixteen assault rifles a ar fifteen some models hunting rifles with homemade silencers these guys could

have been used by anyone they could menus and robbers the message and also homicides there was nineteen years ago those words feel right. since the laws in the state of tennessee of chinese substantially you're allowed to carry guns in parks. guns in bars you know guns in your car so from a police chief's perspective i would definitely say that probably prefer if we do not have guns in bars. i got a for a tin shack gun from santa cause last year. right now our best selling rifle is the better wesson it's just you know a fine.