it can't be what's good for black america, latino america, it's what's good for america. >> i think the other piece, we can't overlook this, is the fact that much of the legislation that he's put forward, he hasn't had to put a black label on. it's affected poor people, black people, middle-class people. we can't skip over that. >> hold that thought real quick. when we come back we'll wrap up. stay right there. we'll be back with more of "our world with black enterprise. ". >> i think the republicans clearly cannot count on the american people to have amnesia on where they brought this country. rrator too many bills? think you can't afford auto insurance? did you know there's a state program that makes it possible to get liability insurance for under 400 dollars a year? good drivers owning a vehicle valued at 20,000 or less who meet the income requirements may qualify for the state of california's low cost automobile insurance program. find out if you qualify. call 866-602-8861. do you qualify? great! what are you waiting for? call 866-602-8861. >>> welcome back. i have very little amou

the reality is, we have crisis in black america that are unprecedented at the moment. crisis in terms of education, health care, imprisonment. on and on. and so we do need those crisis addressed in particular fashion, not just by the president, by congress, by our local state governments. we have to be organized in order to get that kind of response, right? so yes i do have that critique of the president, but not exclusively. >> every president has a responsibility to the citizens of this nation, and i think particularly the most vulnerable citizens. i give the president credit, he's made a lot of important appointments to the courts. his economic policies helped to get the nation out of a ditch. but the unfinished business of more targeted focus on those areas where the unemployment rate is higher. my encouragement has been to articulate an urban policy, to articulate a policy that's more focused on those areas. >> an urban policy? >> i want do push back to you -- this idea of an urban policy seems like he can't say our names. even president bush and president clinton

when i was fired, it caused a ruckus in black america, on the radio, on the internet, on television.>> why were you fired? tavis: about an interview that i sold to abc when somebody thought i should have sold it to cbs. i offered it to cbs, cbs turned it down. i sold it to abc, and when it aired it kill cbs in the ratings that night and the folks realized doesn't this guy work for b.e.t., whom we own. so i was fired and it was a very public firing. got fired immediately, all over the news, "new york times," time "time" magazine, washington post. so it was very public but i found that the public appreciated what i was doing every night on television in a real and significant way that that kind of ground swell is what led to pbs being interested in me and npr and cnn, i used to co-host talk back live in the day at cnn. all those networks came to me because i could see the following i had on b.e.t. and they were, like, if this guy can do o.k. at b.e.t., we should give him a shot here so that's how i failed up. >> you believe we're all have an act ii? >> i think we do, but i think we're

it's still largely about black america and white america trying to find each other. and right now 1 out of every 6 children america and i think i got that statistic right is latino and the conversation has not caught up to that. i mean, if you visit -- and it's not just in southwestern cities. it's really all over america. there's a fast-growing latino population and the conversation of race and it's is not fully -- does not fully embrace that except, you know, in the main, when you're talking about immigration and that's often a conversation that is very prickly and is born of debate but there is a very interesting conversation right now that i fear we in the media sort of don't get to as much as we should, as fully as we should. >> hello. i'm a librarian, a public librarian, in prince george's county. i have been for 20 years. and as an aside, if i had to describe the two of you to say -- you're both wearing blue so i'd have to say well, gwen is the dark skinned one and michele is the light-skinned one and they both have great training. >> my mother would be so hap

. >> well the line is a holdover from white and black in america. that's the line. >> things may be changing. eldorado county supervisor office tells me tonight, inmates saw our original story and even convicted criminals are outraged. angry that these tombstones lie not far from their prison walls. so the prisoners have now offered to make the 36 replacement stones, remove the old ones, and install the new ones at no cost to the county of eldorado. so supervisor knight is fast tracking the prisoner proposal. recommending approval of the plan at the next board of supervisors meeting may 24. >> fact that prisoners incarcerated can watch a news story about us making a request and their given difference and our work over a decade is thrown in the garbage can once again. >> well there is more cbs 5 has learned tonight that a branch of the department of justice, that specifically deals with hate crime is now involved in this controversy. to what degree? no one would say. i contacted a mediator based in san francisco with the department of justice and she

. >> well the line is a holdover from white and black in america. that's the line. >> things may be changing. eldorado county supervisor's office tells me tonight inmates at folsom prison saw our original story and convicted criminals are outraged. angry that these tombstones lie not far from their prison walls. so the prisoners had now offered to make the 36 replacement gravestones, remove the old ones, and install the new ones at no cost to the county of eldorado. so supervisor knight is fast tracking the prisoner proposal, recommending approval of the plan at the next board of supervisor meeting may 24. >> the fact that prisoners incarcerated can watch a news story about us making a request and their given difference and our work over a decade is thrown in the garbage can once again. >> that meeting was right here in rancho cordova, but no commitment from him. cbs 5 learned that a branch of the department of justice, one that specifically deals with hate crime is involved with mediating this case. no specifics on how they plan to resolve this mat

black america wants him to be a great president. that happens when you lovingly and respectfully help push them into their greatness. here's the bottom line. we have to respect the president, we have to protect the president against birther vulgar attacks, you have to respect him, appreciate hprotec also correct him out of love. that's our job with this president and for that matter any other president. >> let's talk about your book because i'm in-treepged by the sense that failure can sometimes be a good thing. >> the great nobel poet put it this way, ever tried, failed, no matter. try again, fail again, fail better. failure is not fatal. fatal is not final. there is no success without failure. and over my 20 years in this business, i've learned that what i've done and what most of us do is failed our way up. anyone who successful in any field if they're being honest would admit they've learned more from their failures than they've ever learned from their successes. so failure is a friend. all i'm trying to do is remind the america

look out for his new album, "black and white america," this summer.

black folk. divorce rate across america is one thing. when you don't separate and think about the totals and sums of the black community there is always this picture of doom and gloom and that inaccuracy feeds that crisis notion. love is dead. >> divorce rates are high. people are writing books about it. is black love alive? >> i think it is alive but they used to say a sniffle in the large community in the black community. i think the divorce rate, it is a national trend across all groups. but in the black community i see this as a crisis because we're seeing less and less models for positive relationship, long-term relationships or marriage in our community. >> are those the same thing, positive relationships and marriage? >> i think i agree in the fact there aren't many images to look at and to follow. you're right, the obamas certainly are one now. i think our only other example were the cosbys. other than that, there weren't that many in between. so when you look at young folks today -- we certainly know that in their own lingo, in t

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at that point, i was fundamentally shaken by the position of being a young black man in america and really had a lot of unanswered questions about where i fit in the world and where the future help to me. then i went to grad school and o. j. simpson was on trial. that is what really gave me the start to focus on the history. tavis: my advancing in the world of the medications is so connected to those two very things. i live in los angeles, so the beating of rodney king opened up all opportunities for me to become a commentator. the o. j. simpson case allowed that to burgeon. what strikes me about your answer specifically with regard to run the king, i am trying to figure out what the connect is with you and rodney king. you are an academic. rodney is writing down the street in a hyundai. your world are very different experiences you tell me that you are now connected with rodney king. >> i was not always an academic. i grew up on the south side of chicago, a largely segregated community. it was a working class family and i was deeply rooted in a family that carried about the least of these

our guest once described rap as "america's black radio station." if that's the case, we're joined today by the program director of an entire movement. please welcome the founder of public enemy, chuck d. [applause] you're a man of opinions. what i didn't know until reading a bit more about you was that your folks were both activists, that you grew up in a household of opinions. did that shape the way you look at the world? yup, 'cause my parents kind of, like, raised me to be independent and have independent thoughts, not so much as follow my peers, and to challenge information. so, i mean, to be an activist just means that they were conscious of certain facts that were circulating. and in the '60s, they were in their 20s, late 20s, so that was a time where you had a conscious movement where people were actually looking into themselves, finding out about themselves, and trying to do something to better themselves. and my parents encouraged me to do so myself. i understand that a kind of a pivotal point in your own career path was listening to dick

heal black america, you heal your family.t. there is enough land and food and water and sky. there is enough with common sense and love. what i am saying to you is bring those. bring what is missing. bring love and critical thinking. life is on your side. life is on the side of healing, justice, regeneration, and sustaining itself. the explosive rise in technology has made advances that were unimaginable even a decade ago, affecting every aspect of our lives. these are revolutionary times. a rector from time magazine said this is a revolutionary tide, and anybody who does not understand that and believe deeply in themselves -- there is a name for those people, and it is victims. we don't want to be that. look who is in the white house. barack obama is in the white house. people in his old -- in his own family did not believe it was possible, but he did. he knew the holy spirit was trying to heal the world. he said send me. that is your secret talisman. a belief in itself standing for a higher purpose, something more than maki

. >> i must tell you, as a black man in america, and i've been a professor at ivy league schools, got a ph.d. from princeton. what is enough? it's almost as if barack obama is brought before the school council because he stuck some gum underneath his desk, or it's as if barack obama has to show his papers to prove legitimate. i know these are extreme metaphors. the reality is that barack obama has been called to account by a man who has nothing near the intellectual credibility or the social standing that the president has. >> schieffer: do you think barack obama should have gone and taken that last step? >> well, he had no choice. in the sense that, and i think brother gerson is right. he uses it to his strategic advantage, but he had no choice but to give in to the vicious bigotry out there to say let's put an end to this. "finally, i want to step forward and prove that i am a legitimate american." but he is standing in for the rest of us as african-americans. we are constantly questioned as to our legitimacy whether we belong or not, and barack obama is our big brother in that case

an america which will not tolerate poverty, deep poverty amidst great prosperity, a nation which does not tolerate 40% of its young blackchildren not finishing high school on time each year, an america which would cut aid to education to housing, to health care, and children while main taping huge subsidies in tax loopholes for the wealthiest interests in this nation. we can want be comfortable. we cannot be comfortable when the great recession has cost millions of people their jobs and millions of people their homes. we cannot be comfortable with a future where the wealth gap in this nation between those who have, those who have not, and those who have more is on the rise. class of 20 is -- class of 2011, please do not fall prey to commercialism, materialism, and militarism. your task like the freedom riders of 50 years ago, like the students that challenge the vietnam war, like those who sat in at the lunch counters are the students a generation ago who marched and later became young advocates who carried that spirit of change to their workplace and their communities. you must have the courage. you must have the commi

is particularly pronounced in black and urban communities, making the success of entrepreneurs in those communities critical to our nation's economic recovery. when americawins the future, i hope to see black-owned small businesses at the victory party. i'm alfred edmond jr. >> for this tuesday, may 17th. good night, everyone, and tom, good night to you as well. >> tom: have a wonderful evening, susie. i'm tom hudson, and we hope to see you back here tomorrow night. this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> be more. pbs.

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book clubs are as old as the first book clubs in america was formed by black slaves who secretly got together to teach each other to read. it's a very old tradition in america to get together and read books, and i just don't think that's dead. i really think that when you look at this, you're looking at it through the object of the publishing industry which is -- is hoping around for its beat like the newspaper industry. they are in trouble, but i don't think they are in trouble because people stopped reading. i don't believe that. >> what do you think the future holds for books? >> well, i think as i said, they have to adapt. i do think that what the industry's are going to do best are the industries that tap into the community needs that just don't get sort of obsessed with the latest books. i think that's why used books are popular. .. >> they invited me back. how do you self-publish? once you self-publish, how do you deliver and distribute the book? that used to be something that was set up by these traditional publishers. you had to beg them to publish you. that's all changed. an

hip-hop empowered me because i can identify with some of those black people in america.t we have to stay optimistic. ( singing along with rap music playing ) >> narrator: xiaolei identifies with african american culture, but his lyrics draw on what he knows best: the world he sees around him, his relationships, and ancient chinese myth. >> ( translated ): this is yingliu, an ancient goddess. she could sing and was very beautiful. everyone loved to hear her sing. it's a fairy tale. this is the word "reckless." i think this character is pretty cool because it's chinese. i've always felt that it's better than having an english word tattooed. >> narrator: xiaolei was starting to build a fan base. he was scraping by, working as a dj in one of beijing's few hip- hop clubs. >> ( translated ): i don't make enough money. just enough for me to eat. i need a big house, and then i can make music on my own. live in a big house and have enough to eat. my house is small. big house. small, small. this is what i live in every day. it makes me crazy. and the roof leaks. ( music playing )

an america which will not tolerate deep poverty amidst great prosperity. a nation which does not tolerate almost 40 percent of its young black children not finishing high school on time each year. an america which would cut aid to education, to housing, to health care and children while maintaining huge subsidies and tax loopholes for the wealthiest interests in this nation. we cannot be comfortable when the great recession has cost millions of people their jobs and millions of people their homes. we cannot be comfortable when the wealth gap in this nation between those who have and those who have not is on the rise. you must not fall prey to commercialism, consumerism, materialism and militarism. your task, like the freedom riders of 50 years ago, like the students that challenged the vietnam war, like those who sat in at the lunch counter, or the students of a generation ago who marched against apartheid and became young adults who carried that spirit of change to their workplace and their communities, you must have the courage to commit to work for social and economic equality for all. you can do well, have a good job, an

our battle are america is larger than our btle with the russians. we predict a black. you'll retreat from our land and collect the body of its suns back to america. >> that interview was just before the blowing up of the u.s. embassy bombings in east africa. now, today, after the death of osama bin laden, american troops are being told to contain any sense of jubilation. not to give any excuse to any group of people that might want to blame america right now for doing something overtly like that. >> the celebrations as we have seen here. not playing well in some parts of the world. >> it's got a potential not the play well. people understand the capture, the death of this man is so important to americans. they're being urged not show the celebration. >> talking with some family members. it's exciting news. but knowing they needed to contain their excitement. we were also talking about some calls from the muslim world saying, all right, get out of afghanistan. that's far from the case. zr exactly. by and large, people are saying this is a good thing. also that osama bi

want to thank you very much my pleasure tonight thanks now still to come tonight race in america a look at how blacks and whites view bias in the last report it just might surprise you then we'll talk about school safety to protect students some schools are turning a biometric system in spain the print scans radio frequency identification systems the track students every move but are these new security measures turning our schools into prisons well ask an author who wrote a book on the shingles and. let's not forget that we are in the park right. on the world. we have to go that shows they're going to say get ready because you don't. rachel martin here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture a. new web site which twenty four seven live streaming news times what to do about the ongoing financial heart unlimited free high quality videos for download. and stories you never saw on mainstream news. media political. machine more on our t.v. just say. hey guys welcome to shelley tell the obama show we've heard our just stop to say on the topic now i want to hear. just go on

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black radio was disco. and so, when you're in the ghetto, and you're listening to y.m.c.a. or i love america by patrick juvet on your black radio station, there's a disconnect, and what always happens when culture, you know, rises above the masses or rises to a different aspiration than what the masses have, then the masses create new, and whether it was, you know, from the jazz to blues to rock and roll or to rap music, it was that they had to create their own, and rap music was a return to funky-- even rock and roll, but funky beats-- and a return to artists who looked like and spoke to the needs and the minds of the people, and that's what t rappers were at that time. early on, you worked with kurtis blow. my first artist was kurtis blow. that's correct, and he made christmas rap in 1979, and i remember that when the record came out, it was successful in amsterdam, and he and i got on a plane-- and i had never been on a plane-- and went to amsterdam, and the record execs took us out and bought us drugs, and it was like-- it was the most amazing thing that ever happened to me. i was thrill

you know black lung disease i really feel is one of the great scandals in america and really one of our darkest secrets every day three coal miners still die from black lung disease and this is a disease that we god knows ten eighteen thirty one but black one sort of symbolizes the great big cold denial because you know up until one thousand nine hundred sixty eight the coal companies even deny that black lung caused any kind of damage whatsoever they even said in front of the u.s. congress that black lung we cured loss' and so here we have twenty six out of twenty nine miners who who are killed we have lacked one disease typically about six to seven percent of our working miners today have black on disease so the upper big branch was really a bombshell to say that we have to really begin to force more laws because once again black lung disease like these other disasters is completely of wood of all it's something that can be prevented if you follow the proper regulations oh it's just a matter of keeping the coal dust out of the air where that we're going to breathe air having to wear r

black c.e.o.s of fortune 500 companies. i think america grew. i grew. >> stahl: sharpton told us that having a black president is a challenge-- if he finds fault with mr. obama, he's aiding those who want to destroy him. so he's decided not to criticize the president about anything, even black unemployment that's twice the national rate. have you told other blacks not to criticize him publicly? >> sharpton: what i've told them is to be genuine about it. there are some blacks that said, "he needs to go with a black agenda. he needs to do this." he said when he was running he wasn't going to do that. duh, surprise. >> stahl: but just because he didn't campaign on improving unemployment in black areas, why aren't you out there saying, "we need more done?" >> sharpton: what i don't want to see is, because he's black, that we act like he's not the real president. "he ought to be leading the black cause or the labor cause"- - he's the president. to minimize who he is, i think is an insult to the achievement of having him there. >> stahl: given his loy

america's next toppenmy? with more on the search for next bin laden, we turn to lewis black and "back in black." al qaeda. for the first time in decades, there's an opening at the top, and they shouldn't have any problem filling it. it's got a good starting salary, great benefits, plus you get cable. so let's take a look at the applicants. wow me, people. well, the obvious choice is osama's second in command. >> ayman al-zawahiri considered by almost everyone who knew him, terrorism experts, to be dangerous and capable. >> dangerous and capable? i got the same performance review when i worked at foot locker. [laughter] you phase one eight-year-old. well, i'm satisfied. he sounds perfect. any down side? >> zawahiri, he doesn't have it. he's a classic number. two he's not a number one. >> i don't know. the last number one sure seemed like a number two to me. [laughter] i'm talking about poop. >> jon: yes. i know, lou. >> who else sent in a red -- resume? >> an war alawarki. he speaks english fluent obviously. he speaks in a language that young people can understand. >> he's down with the kids. he

was claimed in remembrance of the september 11 attack on the pentagon, america's symbol of military might. the inscription in black granite at the memorial entrance also says the park is in honor of the 184 people whose lives were lost, their families, and to all who sacrificed that we may live in freedom. but stewart took a victory lap through the memorial. he says there are days when you need to wave the flag, and this is one of them. >> the symbolic head of all this has now received his reward, though in a sense, he got off easy compared to what so many other people have suffered. >> military veteran ray mcallister walked slowly through the memorial, the pleat reflecting on his face, and what the death of osama bin laden means to surviving family members. >> i am reflecting upon those who died here and the families of those who are surviving, and how those families may feel today. >> for many, there pentagon visit became a religious experience. some blast themselves at specific -- blessed themselves at specific benches. all the names of the deceased are etched in front of the seats. the sound of trickling water

america. the defect of memory driving them forward to separate themselves from the shadows that follow all immigrants. fleeing went the puerto ricans, escaping the same blackness, but impeled by the fear of blood, both physical and hereditary, fearing with greater horror the prospect of losing themselves in the anonymity that america forces on all of its people, both groups fought the country's wish for that homogenaity. they both retained both their irishness and puerto ricaness. both sides spoke of the ancestral home as if it was the land of milk and honey. this stance was staunchly held to, even though the deprivations endured by many had forced them to leave their island homes, yet inflexiblely they remained branded in their hearts, each year marching in pageants of ethnic excess. that's the first part. and the second part: the second part has to do with having in front of you a very odd-looking sort of leprechaunish -- latino leprechaun. as a matter of fact, in my novel that margaret spoke about, about jazz, in it, billy farrell, who is one of a very large number of characters, is a jazz pianist and before he begins playing a black leprechaun appears to h

but it's the black and the blue of the loving on the shoes, let alone a dime or water, america, you are always scotched earth in our mouth. always a rain of disaster of streams of our broken eyes. now the rags are the most turn. our pores the poorest that can be worn in the souls shop. now that all is lost and there is only nothing to lose. long live the courage and the poor. they begin to waiver. [applause]. >> vennetia. i was enranged at your body enettia. chicanery that cried out of an awfulor gast. slowly i found you should side streets where you practice a strolling stillness without any engine sounds and the skies turning on into color and then eternal magnificence of twilight, it accompanies your every move and theirs doubt about it, you are more adorable without the car wrapped around you, where you can be what you are. walking water. that gently laps. i have come to you this midnight and lane down in your black body with it's soft red blush and pulled the starkly blue cover over a cheek or moon blushing through the midst. and the final for me. juna. that's juna bomb. that she l

america and also around the globe. coming up a little later for you, turning the black page of division forever, a reconciliation deal is signed. escape from misrata, almost 1,000 are rescued from an international aid ship, but hundreds more are left behind. the white house has decided not to release photographs of osama bin laden's body. since monday's raid on his compound in pakistan, there have been calls for the u.s. to prove the al qaeda leader is dead, but president obama says he is anxious the u.s. shouldn't be seen to be showing off trophies of war and is concerned the images could insight more violence. our correspondent has the latest. >> one demonstration in pakistan against the killing of bin laden. it's striking how few protests there have been and america wants it to stay that way. fusao bin laden in recent years, but his face is one of the best known in the world. the white house didn't want the proof of his death to provoke unrest. the president today greeting wounded veterans decided not to release pictures of the corpse. he said it would be a national security risk, a propaganda tool adding he is not a