i was not in selma on that day but i was here in atlanta. and-- obvious that things were going on hearing about them by telephone. my job was to publicize the student nonviolent coordinating committee, the things they did, and to let the people in the field know what was going on and to summon them to do something about it. >> in a sense, you were a forerunner to twitter. you were sending out the news and information before we had that-- >> you could say i was an early twitter. it was-- >> you were the first tweeter of the era. let's talk about that.. now, with ferguson with tamir rice in cleveland with what we saw the horror in oklahoma of those fraternity brothers on a bus how important are images video, telling the story? >> they are enormously important because they do show to the looking public what is going on, what people are doing, what's happening here in ways that you couldn't show them before. you could show photograph pictures of things, but take a couple of days to get them out. but today, bam bam bam, whatever you wanna see you

i was not in selma on that day. i was in atlanta.ious things were going on hearing about them by telephone. saying my job was to publicise student nonviolent coordinating committee, things that they did, and let the people in the field know what was going on and for some of them to do something about it >>> in a sense you were a forerunner to twitter. you were sending out the news and information before we had that. >> you could say i was an early twitter >>> the first tweeter of the era. tell me let's talk about that. now, with ferguson with tamir rice in cleveland, with the horror in oklahoma the fraternity brothers on a bus. how important are images video telling the story. >> they are important. they show to a looking public what is going op in ways you couldn't show before. you could show photograph pictures of things but it would take a couple of days to get them out. bam, bam - whatever you want to see you see >>> the selma march, the fact that the images went worldwide, how much of an effect did that have on the work you did

i was. >> not in selma on that day but i was here in atlanta and obvious that things were going on, i was on telephone. my job was to publicize the student coordinating committee and let them know what is going on. i was letting them know what was going on and that to do something about it. >> you were sending out news and information-- >> you could say that i was an early twitter. >> the first tweeter of the era. but tell me, let's talk about that. now, with ferguson. with tamir rice in cleveland with the horror in oklahoma of those fraternity brothers on the bus. how important are images, video telling the story. >> they're me another mustily important because they do show--looking public--what is going on, what people are doing what's happening here. in ways you could not show it before. could you show photographed pictures of things but it would take a couple of days to get them out. but today bam bam, bam, whatever you want to see you can see. >> so the selma march, the fact that the images went worldwide how much of an effect did that have on the work you all were doing on the g

king took his struggle to selma, ael al. king and 600 civil rights supporters attempted to march to montgomery, alabama, by way of the edmond-pettis bridge. they were met with tear gas and billy clubs. the clash was televised around the world and would become to be known as bloody sunday. a few weeks later, on march march 21st 1965 dr. king successfully led the march from selma to montgomery. where he delivered speech to the al alabama state capitol where he quoted battle hymn of the republic in a song that became the anthem of the civil rights movement. here with us today is the washington performing arts children of the gospel choir who will perform a medley of spirituals. get on board, little children, oh, freedom. and america the beautiful. they will conclude with the battle hymn of the republic echoing the conclusion of dr. king's montgomery speech. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ is [ applause ] ♪ oh, freedom ♪ ♪ oh, freedom ♪ ♪ oh freedom for thee ♪ ♪ and be that i a slave and be that free in my life ♪ ♪ and the home to my lord ♪ ♪ and be fr

if they say that that will be okay with me. >> 100 years from selma?right. >> somebody says what do you want julian bond to be remembered for when it comes to civil rights what would you say? >> i want people to say, he was a race man. that was a man who cared about his race and wanted to help them as much as he could. >> you said race is history. you said history is race. not race is history. >> right. >> what does that mean? >> it means history is race because we are always learning history. we are always reading history. we are always seeing it, what's happening in history, and we want to look at it more and see what's happening. >> you are a race man? >> yeah. i am a race man. >> thanks very much. >> thank you. >> we take science fiction and turn it into science fact. >> addressing nasa's critics. >> we are the best nation in the world when it comes to exploration. >> and mankind's next giant leap. >> we can become multi-planet species. >> every sunday night... >> i lived that character. >> go one on one with america's movers and shakers. >> we wil

without that we are not going to have future sits no selma prop k won't be realized we won't have the sites to build affordable housing those are big steps and i appreciate the staffs responsiveness on the one side you see our detailed look at the complex of the 4 big or 5 sites other 4th and brandon this is a special use district is he see up to 4 million feet of office space on those sites a big concentration of office space but the street level the first floor and the ground floor this has to occur so the 4 million office space is really constricty part of our future south of market neighborhood that's our approach i like the staff with a variety of open spaces connecting to the 4 street streetcar with the from me lesson becoming greatest places and major retail south of market population is growing dramatically we need more supermarkets that is the perfect place it will serve mission bay residents and, of course, the affordable housing we say community garden and playground the kind of pun fatality that can't do our nonprofit staff can do and finally i mentioned last week, we is a

without that we are not going to have future sits no selma prop k won't be realized we won't have the sites to build affordable housing those are big steps and i appreciate the staffs responsiveness on the one side you see our detailed look at the complex of the 4

without that we are not going to have future sits no selma prop k won't be realized we won't have the sites to build affordable housing those are big steps and i appreciate the staffs responsiveness on the one side you see our detailed look at the complex of the 4 big or 5 sites other 4th and brandon this is a special use district is he see up to 4 million feet of office space on those sites a big concentration of office space but the street level the first floor and the ground floor this has to occur so the 4 million office space is really constricty part of our future south of market neighborhood that's our approach i like the staff with a variety of open spaces connecting to the 4 street streetcar with the from me lesson becoming greatest places and major retail south of

king took his struggle to selma, ael al. gas and billy clubs. the clash was televised around the world and would become to be known as bloody sunday. a few weeks later, on march march 21st 1965 dr. king successfully led the march from selma to montgomery. where he delivered speech to the al alabama state capitol where he quoted battle hymn of the republic in a song that became the anthem of the civil rights movement. here with us today is the washington performing arts children of the gospel choir who will perform a medley of spirituals. get on board, little children, oh, freedom. and america the beautiful. they will conclude with the battle hymn of the republic echoing the conclusion of dr. king's montgomery speech. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ is [ applause ] ♪ oh, freedom ♪ ♪ oh, freedom ♪ ♪ oh freedom for thee ♪ ♪ and be that i a slave and be that free in my life ♪ ♪ and the home to my lord ♪ ♪ and be free ♪ ♪ oh freedom ♪ ♪ oh, freedom ♪ ♪ oh freedom over thee and before i be a slave i'll be buried in my grave ♪ ♪ and go home to my lord and

r50ig9 the conversion of pdr to office use or residential utilities pending the central selma plan the second piece of legislation coming out of the housing compose is the housing balance count legislation which is a implicit the to the voters of san francisco to make sure we have the tool as decision makers to see how we're doing relative to our goals it requires the planning department to provide a bio annual right away report to the planning commission and the board of supervisors which calculates housing affordable to mocking zero to one hundred 20 percent of the medium income within a 10 year timeframe this calculation is for affordable housing unit that may have been eliminates or the loss of rent control earl or sro unit we'll consider the housing balance goal of 32 percent of housing constructed that is affordable housing and annual data will be recorded at various income levels from zero to thirty percent thirty to 50 and 50 to and to one hundred and 20 percent as well as one hundred to one hundred 50 percent bmi we know that the affordable units is important to the mayor the

"eyewitness news" at the liberty museum in olde city for a contest inspired by the film selma. it asked students their thoughts on individual freedom, and self determination. evan layman from st. louis, missouri and this one man from rockaway, new jersey shared the top prize each getting $5,000. kyw news radio community affairs reporter cherrie greg mced that event. >>> well delaware's only national chess champions are looking for a repeat. >> the tournament gets underway this weekend in kentucky. one group of inner city students want to make sure that their school, and community is proud. "eyewitness news" reporter steve paterson has their store friday wilmington. >> reporter: at 12 years old what could be more important than the the 30 minute, of freedom. >> when you are one of the 20 kid in this room the answer comes easy, defend a national championship. >> i want to win bad. >> reporter: students on the the the team at thomas edison charter are the first national chess champions in delaware, this week, they aim to be the first to win back to back. >> chess teaches kid a cri

an understanding that neighborhood in the western central selma we built thirty percent of our housing and as a city from 1999020 percent of our housing is affordable housing when the market sinks and we're building the high-rise they've shut down their cranes on the other hand, the affordable housing is a small percentage of what is currently entitled moving forward in order to reach the goals we need to start with data and understand the baseline and be able to turn the antidotes the evictions that happen the housing that was built that people tried to get into data that we can use what's affordable for low income and moderate income and what rent control we're using we need to understand that by invades supervisor wiener we have huge high-rise how much inclusionary is being built in supervisor cohen's neighborhood that are in the dog patch how much of that is available in bay area is that all in the shipyard those are all - >> thank you fernando do any other speakers? >> hi, i'm robert i'm in the fifth grade and my family has been here for 5 generations i go to sferts. >> wow. my da

r50ig9 the conversion of pdr to office use or residential utilities pending the central selma plan theof the housing compose is the housing balance count legislation which is a implicit the to the voters of san francisco to make sure we have the tool as decision makers to see how we're doing relative to our goals it requires the planning department to provide a bio annual right away report to the planning commission and the board of supervisors which calculates housing affordable to mocking zero to one hundred 20 percent of the medium income within a 10 year timeframe this calculation is for affordable housing unit that may have been eliminates or the loss of rent control earl or sro unit

. >> good afternoon commissioners john president of the taco group i'd like to dooushgs to the selma plan your staff released several policy papers for public review their drafts i urge you all to take into account it there are very, very crucial items that are interesting proposals worthwhile i'd like to dooushgs to the one today about 127b89 the puncture line of the paper is recommending a echo district one is a water plan and an energy basically engineering those are worthwhile you little to do with the community buildings and another major area a habitat that has real potential it is not much daily and for some reason that omits community gardens which are a long established neighborhood greening strategy that is worthwhile and popular i hope they release they left it out i want to directing your attention to our freeway the sustainable plan ignores the freeway that freeway the i 80 was built in the early cvs i saw it coming from my family from oakland a lot of distribution down the bridge then it was south of market and i'll not forget it hocking hundreds of housing many small f

we're trying to make that work just so your up to date we continue to press for changes in western selma regarding the llp the commission discussed motion to strike now and put forward their desire so we're still staying on supervisor kim's office to draft some legislation although we've not seen anything yet we're continuing to bring those venues that come to our attention in those areas that are zoned right now not to allow llps in there's a list ever them and she can have some backing of community in that regard so when that comes into being we'll bring it right to you also wrote in here the 90 words on the second yormd if we've talked about that that's the day after i was still in what i days but we preceded with our third annual 90 awards and it was i think the most successful we've done to date so i'm really happy it is still around and went into the black important a nonprofit and you know you'll be hearing hopefully more about it as we go towards the fourth 90 annual awards and lastly the compact, go report is complete at this point it is being held basic for about another week f

don't think you can knock off slave owner by marching in selma. >> when you're a celebrity and you haveower to be able to say to your public, hey maybe i don't want this in the news, i don't want this out there, if you have the power to say that, why not draw up an email? >> larry: you think his people said they didn't want it in there? >> maybe. >> larry: i don't think so. i'm mad at harry louis gates for not putting it on! you know what i mean? (applause) of anybody he's supposed to keep it -- if i've got a show and i have ben affleck and i find out his great grandfather was a slave owner, that's in the title! >> you know where you guys are getting it wrong is here at the crossroads on what gates is doing is at the crossroads of info-tainment. if he wants to have ben affleck george clooney and all those guys, they have to feel protected. >> protect id? it's his past! it's not like a slave will knock on the door and say hey, ben, how's it going? let's hang out. we found out your uncle helped plan 9/11 i mean, that would be too close. let's talk about this espn. >> i love this one. >> l

martin luther king, jr., who led the civil rights march from selma to montgomery, alabama. dr. king, who is the winner of the nobel peace prize, is president of the southern christian leadership conference. he is in san francisco, where he delivered a sermon this morning for bishop pike at the grace cathedral. our panel of reporters is in washington, d.c., and we will have the first question now from lawrence e. spivak, permanent member of the meet the press panel. mr. spivak: dr. king, former president truman was quoted by the a.p. as saying that the march from selma -- and this was his word -- was silly, and can't accomplish a darn thing except to attract attention. there have been two murders, many beatings and a federal expenditure for troops of about $300,000. would you say that what the march accomplished was worth that cost? dr. king: well, first, i would say that the march was not silly at all. i would think that the march did more to dramatize the indignities and the injustices that negro people continue to face in the st many other sections of the south more than anyt

>> i'm hesitant, i'm hesitant to compare to selma. what people had today those who were during that movement, the civil rights movement, it was different. it was a lot different. there's some comparisons no question but the people who were out there, they have to be concerned with life or death. i mean the people out there who just wanted to peacefully protest. now, there are some issues that particularly young blacks and young minorities have to deal with and people in poor communities have to deal with, but in selma we saw the picture. we saw what happened to just a person who just wanted to simply express their right to be heard. i'm hesitant to compare them, but there are some, there are some comparisons. >> mr. bell, the justice department in its report, i know you've had a chance to look at it found discrimination against african-americans in that city on an industrial scale. i think you'd agree with me on that. do you feel a personal responsibility moving forward to do something about it and what is that something? >> that impl

we have debate about the movie selma and how john son is portrayed. but they worked together to pass the legislation. then the white house turns against him for being so aggressive against the president and this war in vietnam. and then the last poll taken in his life the harris poll-found that nearly three-quarters of the american people thought he was irrelevant. white america turns on him and inside black america, that's zero percent of black folks that he was irrelevant. i mean the naacp come out against him. the urban league come out against him. the leading black journalist, ralph bunch a nobel laureate comes out against him. i can't quote what thurgood marshall, supreme court justice said about dr. king, what he felt about him during that era. so everybody turns on martin. the media, white house white folk, black folk and that's the life he has to navigate for the last you're of his life. he is talking about racism and poverty and militarism, and nobody wants to hear that. they turned their back on him. he dies broke. in the last year of his li

this movie "selma" how johnson is portrayed in the movie. johnson worked with him to pass that seminal piece of legislation. white house worked against him being against the president and war in vietnam. last poll taken in his life, "harris poll" found nearly 3/4 of the american people thought he was irrelevant. so why america turns on him. inside black america that number is almost 60, six zero of black folk thought he was irrelevant. i don't mean black folk. roy wilkins and naacp came out against him. whitney young and urban league come out of against him. karl rowe wan cams out against him. ralph bunch another nobel laureate, peace prize laureate comes out against him. i can't quote on c-span what thurgood marshall, supreme court justice thurgood marshall, about dr. king about him in that era. they turn on martin. media, white house, white folk, black foaming. that is the live he has to navigate. talking about racism and poverty and militarism. he dice broke. last year of his life can't get a book deal. can't get a paid speech. disinvited

. >>> the national liberty museum honor the winners of the nationwide selma essay contest. >> dr.g said, let freedom reign. i thought the fight for freedom was done. >> well, you heard from some of the winner they are named -- and took home money to submitting the top essays and video speeches congratulations to them. all the essays on display mark the 50th anniversary of selma alabama march led by martin luther king. lets say this is your tv and these are the channels you pay for with cable but these are the types of channels you actually want to watch what if you could pay for what you want, and not for what you don't so you could get kids channels sports... or entertainment mix and match, or get them all. now fios brings you a totally new way to customize your tv starting at $74.99 -- including internet and phone. cable just gives you channels. fios gives you choice. >>> in chester county a young girl and her mom are continuing their efforts to feed the hungry nicole and her mom are collecting food and today they dropped off 1500 pounds of food at the westchester food gate. the

patch lower and we'll keep you posted we also last week presented the draft survey for the central selma plan survey finding were presented by the survey team and our office there is a google map that's posted online as well as the contract statement new buildings on the landmark designation and number of buildings to list on reclarify under the article 11 of the planning code those will be incorporated into the plan and the survey and contact statement will reach you sometime late this year or early next week that is available online and happy to forward it to you. >> and lastly as a followup to our last hearing the cultural assets hearing the staff went to the small business commission to represent the hpc and the department and their discussions about the legacy business register they were - they have agendized discussing criteria and administration around the registry and another item open their calendar that took quite a bit of time and didn't have enough time we reiterated our willingness to assist and provide technical assistance to the commission in developing the registry and ov

and in downtown sunny skies and 80 expected throughout the financial district and selma. and tomorrow for the east bay and oakland, you know the drill, that car thermometer is going to spike up there as we have 87 in lafayette. and for the trivalley, also plenty of low 90s. a two-day event of hot weather. and upper 80s in san jose but if you're heading to san francisco, look at this. a little bit cooler on friday and by saturday 65. so 15 degree difference from thursday to saturday. and with all this sunshine and no rain you want to remember it's very basic, but the uv index will be at an 8. use spf 30 or higher to protect yourself. >>> still ahead, time is standing still for owners of the apple watch with tattoos. we'll explain. >> and we have jimmy. >> and kentucky derby, you have to watch. we're on next. (music) hey! let me help with that. oh, thank you! (music) introducing the one-and-only volkswagen golf sportwagen. the sportier utility vehicle. >>> if your inked up you may want to think twice before buying apple's new watch. the blog apple insider says the watch's i

we're going two helmets not one my other helmet will be displayed at 450i7b9 it is the only one in selma and if you don't know why we'll have to reminisce i was sent out. >> he was sent out to get paint to paint the hydrant and we know it is gold and it was dark when the sun came up that hydrant was silver and so were my shoes that's true i want to audio one thing someone wonderful sat next to me how many of you having seen the ferry building with the 1916 on that the man next to me made that happen up to september 4th at this point so you know the story of the silver paint so we will leave that alone but it did get us into the national press hit london nupdz that's impressive i don't care what you do down here i got a we fund from lowe's on the paint can i had a gold cap with silver paint only on one can the other can is in the museum the fire department museum it will be there forever mite fits my privilege to introduce the mayor of the city mayor ed lee. >> (clapping) and good morning, everyone we got up early to meet the 39 lilly (laughter). >> anyway, i'm glad to be here joining i e