. >> belafonte was booked by the chp and not taken to jail. he assumed to be picked up later. there were one to either taken to jail or the they offered no assistance. >> no comment >>. no comment? he cannot talk? you know i can reach him? >> know. >> no files out for charges for this man. he is a substitute teacher accused of in a properly touching a dozen students. reporting to the sec clarified deputy office there is more than a dozen occurrences. mostly forced the graders at mckinley elementary school reported that he molested them over their clothes during class time. he was arrested back in october and does not plan to return to teaching. i look out side of traffic and boy, can you tell that is a holiday or holiday evening. but it is in san francisco. the 81 split. the top of your screen shows at the up that is that at this holiday. it is moving well with no problems on the set by 11. slow but not bad. it will be right back. police in san jose are on the line for a man that perez shoppers and store clerks in the valley fair, with the rifle hidden underneath his trench co

harry belafonte, the jay-z of his day marched with doctor king.oday i'd have to march with jay-z. >> let me pick up with the institutions. one the critiques is it is no longer independent, it's been co-opted. >> in my church new york city politician speaks on sunday morning. there's churches that fling their door open if the mayor is running or governor is running, that he gets center stage. in our church, if they don't stay for the whole service, i won't even call their name. >> we are in a position to independently decide what political positions we will take, what political arrangements we will have. to me that speaks to the independence of the african-american church. >> everybody speaks to the power of black preachers. >> i'm going to be a cynic for a minute. >> that's why we have the professor on the panel. >> what we have to be very clear about the way many churches function. they don't cultivate a kind of democratic space for every day ordinary folk to engage in the kinds of exchanges for them to make intelligent decisions. >> that's true.

and so roger moore and liv ullman and harry belafonte and many, many artists are unicef representativesntative, i've traveled to vietnam and to bosnia, croatia, macedonia. it's--it's one challenge after another. does that--does that journey leave you with the sense that--that we can fix the world's problems? or is it just a succession of challenges that we--we can never seem to clear the slate? there's always something, something somewhere that judy collins needs to address. well, there's something somewhere always that all of us have to address, and i think that's probably at the root of our-- of our efforts. and there always will be, because that's what life is, is a series of evolving joys and evolving challenges. and to be a part of one's culture and to be involved, i think many, many, many, many, many people-- millions of people are involved in-- in the process of saving the rainforest, of raising money for-- in this recent tragedy. the outpouring of--of giving to the families of the firemen, the rescue workers, the families of those who--who have lost so many people. the work of o

you know, we had harry belafonte here not long ago, and it was interesting to hear him talk about how the causes he believed in and the culture he pursued-- his work-- initially were not combined, but they grew together in a way that he began to make career choices that were based on his beliefs. as a young actor, you would not have had that option early on. you did television shows, twilight zones, guest appearances. at what point did you recognize that you had enough star appeal, enough clout to begin to make choices that reflected your values? when i was able to produce my own work, which started in 1969. and i was getting more and more anxious as an actor. i was happy acting, but there was something missing. and there were a number of things that came together at the same time. one--the fact that i was an actor, getting to satisfy-- the nature of the business was turning-- it seemed to me that it was beginning to lose something and that i was getting tired of not having any choice and seeing the work that i did controlled by somebody else who didn't understand what-- and i thought

lights of blacks intellectualize like lorraine hansberry, lake kenneth clark, like lena horne, kerry belafontethey all showed up at rfk's apartment to give him a kind of state of the nation for the black community in the united states. and after welcoming his guests to his apartment, robert kennedy kind of recited some of the games at the kennedy administration was claiming for civil rights. he went down the list that included the hiring of more blacks than any previous administration. and included having more executive orders for civil rights. it included support for a number of different civil rights initiatives. the money was finished, he opened the score for discussion and for questions. the senior members of this group turned to young jerome smith and some luck, mr. attorney general, we want you to hear directly from someone who is in the line of fire on this. in jerome smith was sitting right in front of robert kennedy. robert kennedy was sitting in the chair the middle of the living room and jerome smith was right at his feet. the first thing that jerome smith told the attorney general