the jim crow car. boise,k she is aware of du pre-naacp. her idea of protest resonated with her. resonateda of protest with her. the idea of protest and assertiveness resonated with her. given her roleme and what she was doing on the sidewalks in 1950, that she did not think you have to be a man to protest. i think it is safe to think she deviated there. also interesting to see that i think she really did want a higher role, a more prominent role in the naacp. drawing inferences, i think the is that there was not really leadership available to her. some of that may have been personality -- i do not know. that is one of those leaps i could not make. smart and she was had tove and i think she find a role for herself. i think that is what thompson was, she found the people who the lawyers, the activists, the people who served on your committee, she found the people, wherever they were, who believed as she did, that this was something to take on. >> we help everyone will join us for a glass of wine to continue the discussion. we want to thank joan for a very stimulating [inaudible] th

i'm here today not only as the naacp president, but as a pastor . i believe these are deeply, deeply moral issues. when you look at the fact that what this congress that we have now and its current extreme leadership, over 1000 27,000 days, has refused to do what the 15th the memory required the congress to do, and that is to fix the voting rights act. 1020 seven days, they refused to reinstate section 5. that act has allowed states like north carolina and others to engage in the worst attacks on voter rights and voter suppression that we have seen since the 19th century because preclearance has been basically nullified. we see the extreme amounts of toey, $10 billion expected be spent in this election alone, and the fact that they have refused to even hear the hearings on the supreme court nominee of president obama. this is notive says the awakening. the awakening as a ready happening in the country whether you look at the moral mondays, more than 1000 people were arrested as well, 80,000 people showed up on one occasion. black lives matter fights

coming up on tran one 4 news >>> the naacp is the latest group taking a stand against north carolinabathroom law. the state is taking fire over its house bill 2.>> the naacp is telling lawmakers to scrap the law. >> we are the laughing stock of the nation.>>reporter: william barber says the nation is watching to see what the state will do about house bill 2. he has a different name for, >> we cannot be silent. >>reporter: the law requires bathrooms and changing facilities be used according to biological sex. it also details discrimination protections, but does not include language related to sexual orientation or gender identity. >> this is not about bathrooms, north carolina. it's about money and votes.>>reporter: opinions on house bill 2 in north carolina very. >> i am embarrassed that we have this bill.>> we are enforcing our constitution. >>reporter: lawmakers say the law is a commonsense safety measure for north carolina. >> i think state lawmakers are committed to protecting our young people. the interest of all of our young people. >>reporter: they also say charlotte city coun

let's bring in the naacp president. > great to be here. >> let's talk about what the candidates are doing and if they are addressing effectively the concerns of african-american voters. are they? >> i think not. and what i mean by that, they have not addressed these issues with sufficient vigor. and so the number one issue on the top of the agenda is the right on vote because we're entering the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protection of the voting rights act. and according to the balance of 20 million americans are at stake. in other words, we have seen these machiavellian calculated strategies to disenfranchise voters from north carolina, to alabama, to ohio across the country. and so the naacp with 300 organizations, we're gathering together saturday, sunday and this coming monday in washington for something we call democracy a wwaken awakening. so that is the first issue. the second issue would be these criminal justice challenges. we see all across the country racial profiling and the raci

the section of black activists, organized by the naacp. we talked about how this isiance vote learning math into office as the first elected mayor of the city. although the coalition was short-lived, adult permanent low to the premises of power. looking at this moment from the multiracial lens renders it different. by connecting it to politics and to the larger world, a new scope of activism becomes visible. this multiracial perspective also allows for new continuity. the leader of the cities it militant african-american faction pictured here on the left, tj sutton, and activist on the east side, he carries it these experience of the straightforward. in 1948, he formed a tactical alliance with the mexican-american attorney general. and both men were elected to serve on local school. they're both representing their communities in a president and ways. soon after, the manteno -- middle, organized the loyal american democrats. it had a somewhat unorthodox name. its true purpose as an insurgent was as a civil rights organization. succeeded in g

cornell william brooks, president of the naacp, is leading that effort. welcome to the program.ll: thank you. it's good to be here. fernando: thank you, sir. these voting rules are having an impact, keeping certain groups of americans from voting. what the data? what is actually happening? cornell: here is the data, which is pretty clear, irrefutable. out of 10's of millions of votes cast, there have been a handful of instances of voter fraud. now in the wake of a handful of instances of voter fraud, we have seen state legislatures pass these voter id laws that combat a problem that doesn't exist. so in other words, you are more likely to encounter the tooth fairy standing next to santa claus at the ballot box than encounter an actual instance of voter fraud. but we pass these laws all across the country and they have a deleterious effect on the right to vote. fernando: proponents of these laws say if someone can't get their act together to get an id, they shouldn't be voting -- which is not democratic, but nevertheless, what's the reasoning? why can't people get these ids if th

aristocratic chairman of the board not only with the naacp majority to enlist in the infantry at age 42, but this is how other hbcus to lay down their lives for a deeply racist country. he noted man of letters, teddy roosevelt and civil liberties and pair gon was also an assimilationist jou for zionism and conviction that enrollment for democracy was a passport to full citizenship or lazarus's very new peoples. he believes it was conclusion and officer and commissions and a special, separate, but equal camp in remote iowa on condition that they showed public enthusiasm for the segregated opportunity sufficient to enable the washington allies to push the department to approve the camp. much of the class opposed it as one distinguished spokesman argued that now while the war lasts is the most opportune time for us to push and keep our grievances to before. he ignited a firestorm within the so-called talented contempt among marcus garvey's followers and ridicule from the small activist readers from randolph's messenger magazine advertised as the only radical magazine and others are only

the state naacp president has another name for that measure. >> hate bill 2. we cannot be silent in the face of this. >> i'm really embarrassed we have this bill. >> what are senate is doing is enforce the constitution. the house bill also details discrimination protection, but does not include light which about sexual orientation or gender identity. bruce springsteen canceled a concert scheduled in greensboro late last week, telling fans that standing up against the bill was more important than a rock concert. those fans will start getting refunds tomorrow. conventionsf four have canceled in the state and the charlotte regional authority says nine others are not considering north carolina while 30 others are hesitating making plans. has banned all city government travel to that state. now the race for the white house, to make hillary clinton attended a fundraiser in mclean posted by virginia governor terry mcauliffe. hours earlier, she was in baltimore to receive the endorsement of congressman elijah cummings. look. riviera has a >> the admirable hillary clint

but he's approached by the naacp. the reason that thurgood marshall chose the brown case and not the other case was to avoid a dispute about whether or not they were equal. it was confusing according to marshall and that's why he picked a school where there was no allegation of separate but equal. he was assessing the fact of what she said of her upbringing. the fact that she had to walk six blocks to a school bus and take a ride to another school which was seven blocks from her house. for her and her father it was an and it indignity. >> it was filed in 1951. the argument was represented by carter and greenberg. they were arguing for lester caddell. the judge wrote the opinion. can you tell us anything about that opinion that we should know about the stories. >> i would say that although the judges rejected the application of two cases where the naacp had prevailed, it did include an effect that segregation of schools was harmful which is incredible. it's precisely the issue that was so controversial before the suprem

walter white is executive secretary of the naacp. in their dealings with at eleanor you think about the constituencies, their organizations and their political constituencies. pauli represented no one other than young people like her so. she could deliver votes. -- couldn't. and she was brash and they apparently were afraid to go very far because they were always thinking about the medical consequences. always calculating. so pauli believed and i think she was right better relationship was different because in subway she felt like she had nothing to lose and she could speak her mind. there were other young people and african-americans, that eleanor had relationships with. and what is harry belafonte. they became friends. i don't know if they met at the world's fair in brussels, maybe before that but they became friends. and he still to this day speaks the for as his mentor. i heard him recently speaker for as his mentor. and she showed him a tremendous amount of compassion. when he wanted to buy or rent an apartment in an apartment bu

. >> by the way, coming up i'll also be speaking with a top bernie sanders supporter, the former naacpsident ben jealous, he'll be joining me here as well at the brooklyn navy yard. much more coming up. our coverage continues right after this. hey sweetie, it's time. ♪ eye of the tiger tv anncr: good afternoon everyone. morning rituals are special. when you share what you love... ...with who you love. kellogg's frosted flakes. they're grrreat! every auto insurance policy has a number. but not every insurance company understands the life behind it. those who have served our nation. have earned the very best service in return. ♪ usaa. we know what it means to serve. get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. help individualize our cancer treatment? now through advanced genomic testing, we may be able to pinpoint and diagnose what makes your cancer different, which can reveal precise treatment options that were not considered previously. with this important breakthrough at the intersection of science and technology, we've arrived at precision cancer

so she ended up with a young guy, reese marshal, who had been apprenticing at the naacp with the defense fund in new york and had come down to florida to continue apprenticing to get more experience, and he completely -- was completely on board, sound of blind to the racial aspect but as the case was progressing he kept trying to interest big-time groups in new york, like the naacp legal desk fund, and she said he couldn't get any traction. finally when the case had been granted certiorari bay the supreme court that the lawyers started saying, wait a minute, there are black women, too. the sex provision applies to them as well. and they got onboard and started realizing that if you're excluding a subset of women like mothers of young children, that it was almost, first of all, black women were disproportionately in the workforce with young children second of all almost an endless list of plus factors. what if it was race plus -- we won't hire any black people who are right-handed. we won't hire any black people who don't have a driver's license, and excluding all of these subsets of prot

the political activity of the union, the alliances with separated faction of african-americans, the naacp. i showed how this alliance puts mavericks into office. although the coalition was short-lived, it dealt a permanent blow to statewide supremacist power structure. looking at this moment through a multiracial lens renders a different by connecting it to politics and this larger world. of activism becomes visible. it also allows for new continuities to become clear. a decade after the strike, the leader of the cities militant african-american factions, and activist undertaker on the east side, he moves these experiences forward. in 1948 he formed a tactical alliance, and both men were elected to form on local school boards. soon thereafter, the man in the middle begin organizing the barrios to a group called the loyal american democrats. it has a somewhat orthodox name. its true purpose was an insurgent club. in 1952, they lord a campaign activist to give a speech. he also began building a relationship with the african-american leader, who was elected in 1952 but continue to serve as a

the banned mass as. record of darker races was almost 10-year-old organ of naacp. is was a card-carrying socialist who endorsed woodrow wilson in 1912 on a gamble that the democrats needed black votes to win in a three-way presidential contest. he rued that decision and despised the president's political bad faith, all the more so as the worst race riot in american history erupted in east st. louis, illinois as the wilson administration sat silent a month after the nation entered the war to save democracy. mr. wilson's war profoundly unsettled and divided naacp board directors and staff. a board member, grandson of william lloyd garrison was a passivity as talented 10th harvard a alum, grimke. socialist marion stood with her party's antiwar vote. chairman of the board of not only broke ranks with the naacp majority, to enlist in the infantry at age 42 but extolled college men that at fisk, howard and other hbcus to lay down their lives for deeply racist country. he noted, man of letters, teddy roosevelt, mugwamp, civil liberties paragone was also an assimilationist

the alliances with a newly independent faction of activists organizing the naacp and the national legal conference. i have shown how this alliance put maury maverick senior into city, andyor of the also the coalition don't a permanent blow to the states white supremacist power structure. looking at a familiar moment through a multi-racial lens brings a new scope of activism. this multiracial perspective allows for new continuity to become clear. a decade after the strike, the leader of the african-american factions, pictured on the left, and activist undertaker on the east side. he carries these experiences of the strike for. in 1948, he formed a tactical alliance with the mexican-american attorney and both men were elected to serve on local school boards, representing the communities in unprecedented ways. soon after, the man in the and to begin organizing the loyal american democrats. it had an orthodox name but it purpose as true enough that political club and civil rights organization. in 1952, they succeeded in learning a candidate to give a speech. effectively announcing the prese

but his family and the naacp say that he was shot in the back of the head, which is one reason why they're questioning that ruling. he was also found in a wrecked car. the family says that police in the town of redding rushed to judgment because he is black. redding's police chief says that he cannot comment on pending litigation. >>> the nypd wants to find the driver who hit and killed a pedestrian in queens and kept going. it happened last night in police say the driver struck a 45-year-old man and left him in the street to die. that driver was in a dark toyota that has damage to the windshield. today proposed legislation was announced that would include the installation of speed cameras in 2,000 school zones in the city and operate 24/7. >> we must do everything we can to help reduce traffic injuries and fatalities, not just for our kids, but for our parents grandparents and all new yorkers. >> another bill would suspend the registration of any driver who gets five or more speed violations per year. >>> a bill will raise fines for drivers who illegally pick up passengers who hail them o

how the president -- president clinton defended the comment even after an apology went forward to the naacp that even after the secretary said she regretted it. and for the president to continue to defend that kind of language when it's put toward african-americans, it is offensive to our community. so that was the difference. >> it's interesting, van, hillary clinton, when i asked her about it, i said basically isn't there sometimes in conflict, you know, bill clinton pushing for hillary clinton for president and defending his legacy, sometimes it's tough to do both. >> i think so. but first of all, hillary clinton was masterful. i mean, her -- what she did today on criminal justice past, present and future could not have been done better by any politician or any leader. what bill clinton did could not have been worse. he just ripped off scabs that are very, very hard to talk about without getting emotional. there was a lot of pain and suffering in the black community, it's true. there were black preachers and homeowners pleading, will you do something about the crack epidemic? but what ha

who is that, the president of the naacp or some [bleep] i don't know that mother [bleep]. show me the president of the united states. >> people expect the president of the united states and the elected officials in this country to treat these problems seriously. >> larry: shut the front door. (laughter) that is the president? damn 2016! soul daddy just got a pride boner, right? right? damn! i guess the black panthers came through. i told you they would. i knew american would embrace them after a while. good job mother whreep bleep you fixed racism, good on you. that's some good [bleep] man all right who else is running. >> when mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. they're bringing drugs. they're bringing crime. they're rapists. >> larry: i [bleep] i guess you didn't fix racism, right? this [bleep], you know what i'm talking about right? wait, hold on a second. hold on, that trump cat looks just like this honkie named donie that i partied with back in my day. donie is crazy-- hold on donie is crazy, his dad sells rae and [bleep] like that i could swear th

. >>> legal analyst, the scene of the clarion hotel where the naacp hosted a gala, he was recognized the event, he is the managing editor and founder of latoison law. fight back and rebuild an economy. so does she. we need jobs that provide dignity and a bright future. new penalties to stop companies from moving profits and jobs overseas. for businesses that create manufacturing jobs, a new tax credit. and let's invest in clean energy jobs, with 500 million solar panels installed by the end of her first term. a real plan to create new jobs and industries of the future. hillary clinton. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. in the last eight years, the fracking industry has spent over $40 million dollars on lobbying in pennsylvania. so it's no surprise that even though they've had over 4,000 violations, all they've ever gotten is just a slap on the wrist it's time for that change. i'm josh shapiro, and i'll hold the oil and gas companies criminally liable for poisoning our air and our drinking water. i'll be an attorney general who always works for you. democrat josh shapiro

leaders from the naacp are expected to offer lawmakers their version of a bill the group says should been passed. people protesting the bathroom law rallied in charlotte, north carolina yesterday. charlotte's mayor called on religious leaders calling for an appeal of the law saying it limits the right of the lgbt community. >> we hope our legislature will do the right thing and rescind hb2, what reverend barber has called hate billç 2. >> they claim the measure of the law helps maintain modesty and safety. >>> sales of prince songs are skyrocketing since his death on thursday. 2.3 million songs were bought in the three days after his death. meanwhile, tributes continue for the icon ♪ to get through this thing called life ♪ >> there was a moment of silence just before the puck dropped at yesterday's money min wild playoff game against dallas. the arena glowed purple. >>> coming up on the "today" show, remembering prince, tributes from family, friends and fans as investigators continue their investigation into their death. that's this morning at 7:00 a.m. >>> now your nbc 10 first ale

let me bring in former president and ceo of the naacp and also former president of the naacp, and a hillarypporter. great to have you here. i want to hold off on the presidential talk for a minute. because there's another race in baltimore. an unexpected announcement from the mayor. not soon after saying she would not seek re-election, an open and contested field here. and it feels like a cross roads election for the city of baltimore after what has been a very tough 12 months since freddie gray's death a year ago. what's your feeling about the election? >> this election is monumental in the sense that it's going to set the tone about where the city goes and what direction and what its priorities are going to be going forward. we're a year after freddie gray and you and msnbc have done a great job documenting all that was going on. the question now becomes, what happens after this? so it's a hotly contested race. there are a number of candidates, they're all over the place. but it will all be settled tonight, and i'm hoping that people in the street get behind the next mayor as we all must,

. >> reporter: reverend amoss brown of the naacp in san francisco had this message for officers engaged in discriminatory policing. >> stop doing what you're doing. will you not be welcome, will not be kept in the police department of the city of st. francis. >> reporter: the new texts were found during an investigation of two officers. now retired lieutenant kurtis liu was charged with obstructing a rape investigation involving this officer, jason lye, who has since resigned. earlier this week san francisco public defender released other texts and said the scandal may impact 200 criminal cases, three of them murder cases. mayor ed lee has sent an open letter to all officers telling them to uphold their "not on my watch" pledge by reporting intolerance or anything that brings dishonor to the department. the police union president said the racist text messages released are disgusting and deserve condemnation. any officer who sends racist text messages does mott deserve to wear the uniform. big tree like this needs to be stamped out. henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> to the weather now as w

leaders from the naacp are expected to offer lawmakers their version of the bill the group says shoulde been passed. >>> people protest the bathroom law rallied in charlotte, north carolina yesterday. charlotte's mayor joined religious leaders calling for repeal of the law they say limits the rights of the lgbt community. >> we hope our leegislature wil show some sense for a change and rescind hb2, hate bill 2. that's what it is. >> they claim it offers modesty and safety. >>> hundreds marched one year after freddie gray died in police custody. organizers said the goal of the march was to show solidarity with gray's family. gray's death sparked violent protests in baltimore you'll remember. the marchers said their event carried a message of change. >> because of the uprising, things we've tried to sweep under the rug are on full display and will have to be addressed. >> the marchers also held a moment of silence and spoke about the importance of voting in maryland's primary election, which is tomorrow. >>> 5:18. beginning of the workweek, people getting on the road and heading out. >>

. >> and did rachel dolesal have a tattoo on her forehead when she was ranking that chapter of the naacpaybe, i don't know, she turned out to be a white lady. but, okay, amen. >> amen, demons walk among us, church. and earthly demons like bill o'reilly may pretend they are the victims, but we know better. though they cry the tears of oppression they are the ones who are doing the oppressing with their blasphemous lies. i think i need another amen. >> yea, i need allowedder amen. i need allowedder amen. >> amen. >> that's better. >> yea though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death known as fox news, i will fear no evil, for truth art with me. whose truth wins. >> you. >> lean me not into temptation but away from bill o'reilly. let us cast him out from these airwaves, cast him out, cast him out. you don't hear me. cast him out. >> or just don't watch fox news, even though i realize your options for quality news programs are limited. can i get a hallelujah. >> much like jesus, we will be right back. >> amen! >> can i get another amen? can i get a hallelujah? can i get a halleluja

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my father founded the first chapter of the naacp. he filed suit against the county to overturn the primary because they couldn't participate in voting at this time. he also sought the annual celebration january 1 of every year to celebrate their emancipation by lincoln. my father was a lifelong republican who identified himself with abraham lincoln said he was quite a social activist. my mother was a schoolteacher and because of my father's activism to try to get the vote improving the economy of the retaliation was my mother never got a job teaching schools in the county. so, in that environment, fortunately for my brother who is a year and a half older, my brother went to savanna to live with relatives for the year to attend school because the schools in georgia were not very good. we got to hand me downs. we from the school. when they got new books, we got their books. they had a band and we didn't have a band or instruments. my father was somebody that worked to address that is because he was serving in the community, the whites c

had if you went on the ground knew voices represented by black lives matter they also have the churches, naacp and others who were part of a broader coalition. it will now become an urban league center. what i push back on is the notion that a new movement is in opposition to traditional or complementary because the question for all his do they remain conscious or more and mature? >> there is a line that i will paraphrase. democracy is not about marching for a board room. changing the context, trying to bring it out. we have a form of black leadership in which you do your job, go back they're and lord knows what would happen, but the idea of a robust form of democratic politics where they outsource work to leaders like yourself or others, what does it mean? requiring representation of the voices of all. >> what you are speaking to his people need to be more engaged and active. you need less spectators. we need to get rid of this model of leadership. she was to cultivate the capacity of everybody. >> i have been an elected official. before that i was an anti- apartheid activist and believe ther

in 1919, african-americans fight back by joining the naacp in record numbers. by making it a strong civil rights organization. and i can just point to one example here, from charles houston, who writes some years after the war that fellow americans convinced me there was them.nse and dying for i made up my mind that i would use my time fighting for men who cannot fight back." this is just one example, i could give you more. you may not have heard of charles houston, but he is the guy who devises the naacp rules for brown versus board of education. he is a genius of our time that made the modern civil rights movement possible. in 1919, it is not a success story. 1950's,ward to the those successes start here. this is the foundation of that, coming out of the first world war. now, the second sort of big movement that we have here is the suffrage movement. and again, we look at this cartoon here. it is like if you are good enough for war, you are good enough to vote. kind of like giving the impression that a grateful stowed the vote on women for all of that knitting

racial aspects because the case was progressing he kept trying to interest the big-time groups like the naacp defense fund but he couldn't get any traction. it's finally been the case had been granted by the supreme court that they started saying wait a minute. the provision actually applies to them as file and they got on board and started realizing that if you are excluding a subset of women like mothers of young children that it was almost more disproportionate. but second of all. we won't hire any black people that don't have a driver's license. by excluding these classes you've got the race discrimination lawyers interested in thinking it's something we have to do something about. there had always been this sense that the differences are okay to tolerate. there's even a provision allowing for certain jobs pic naked and circumstances that doesn't exist for race survey hasn't always been an easy relationship but i think it's improved over the years and is better now. the philips case ended up being helpful to women that live at the intersection who can show they were treated badly that an

we have amazing scholar web du bois, the naacp leader and the legendary prison activist angela davis. ibram kendi is a native son of jamaica, queens, new york, where he lived until he moved to virginia. he went to the florida and them for the undergraduate, and got his doctorate, from temple university. he is now a professor at the university of florida. ibram kendi will give the background under the history of racism in america. professor d. watkins put together a number of essays, living and dying while black in america. the book chronicles his life story in many ways, talks about the things he grew up with and the things he witnessed but professor d. watkins is able to talk about racist policies we have had in america, how they impacted him growing up in baltimore city and the urban environment. d. watkins is a young man who turned his life around from the early days gaining education showing the power of reading and how important it is through education is the key to success. d. watkins is a graduate with a masters from john hopkins, he also teaches a creative writing program at t

one is tomorrow, the night before the wisconsin primary and the night of the naacp championships and that doesn't make much sense. the second date is april 14th. this one might be in the mix. april 15th there was a good morning america debate proposed. sanderings thinks that makes no sense. april 14th is the one on the table. that could be a cnn debate. other jobs won. >> absolutely. >> there is a proposal on the table for maybe a debate that night. what can you tell us about that? >> i can tell you very little. i'm not part of the team doing that discussion. some of it is logistics invol involving two campaigns as well as the dnc. they have a role in all this. you bring in other news organizations and it gets very complicated. >> does it matter, matthew, if these two candidates debate. on the g.o.p. side there's no debates. >> yeah, there's candidate forums available for the g.o.p. event. i actually think it matters to each of them. each of them wants a debate for different reasons. bernie sanders wants a debate to keep any of it going. i think hillary clinton wants a debate in order

the naacp calls it an an front to democracy. the justice department says it is disappointed in the ruling. >>> the five states voting today have economic characteristics that have not been seen before. maryland has $76,000 of income. connecticut with $70,000. southern connecticut and northern maryland have three of the wealthy counties. there are a lot of office jobs in and around the cities in the states. that helps boost the numbers. our theme of one america two economies holds true. the unemployment rate in connecticut is well above the national average. rhode island is also higher at 5.4%. the rest of the states are below the national average. >>> new information on helping unravel a murder mystery in ohio. eight family members killed. what investigators are now revealing. that's next. ♪ approaching medicare eligibility? you may think you can put off checking out your medicare options until you're sixty-five, but now is a good time to get the ball rolling. keep in mind, medicare only covers about eighty percent of part b medi

because last summer at the naacp convention, president clinton said the scope was too broad, too many black people were incarcerated. so to hear him back pedaling now seems inconsistent at best. black voters have been the most consistent voter base for hillary clinton. the south, she does have that firewall she spoke up. that's a place bernie sanders has not been able to permeate. so if he's able to get even a little bit of that electorate, that can make a big difference. >> this is her adopted home state. we ran a report on how many times she swiped the metro card and how it should have been easier and she went on the subway and maybe she violated rules. it lot a lot of press and people said it doesn't look real. we know she doesn't take the subway. [ all talking at once ] >> you've got political pundits with too much time on their hands, so they're going to obsess about the metro card. >> she went on the subway like she's woman of the people. >> did you see ted cruz yesterday? >> problems on both sides. >> here's the question, robert. i think we all know, because when she came out o

the obama administration and the naacp had sued over the law saying it unfairly targets poor and minority the father of missing florida teen agreed to share with authorities any information found on his son's phoenix phone. -- iphone. remember this story, 14-year-old perry cohen, and austin stefan, they disappeared off the coast of florida. they found his phone on the boat. the cohen family wanting the phone turned over to investigators. >> we actually don't know what the iphone has and that's really what the big mystery is which is why we feel very adamant about the phone staying with the authorities, especially until the boat is back in florida. >> experts still aren't sure whether any information can be taken from the phone because it was under water for so many months. nasty weather headed towards central and southern plains and it's happening right now, in the forecast, hail, violent winds, tornadoes and then they're going to mix in a little snow too. storm expected to stretch from northern texas to southern nebraska and stretching through many cities including dallas, oklahoma city,

disappointed with the limitations of his mandate and he returned and was awarded the 1933 medal by the naacp. in 1935, he became the second president of the national negro conference. he went on to be quite active on the left and in 1940, he became the first african-american faculty member at city college and introduced the first course on negro history and culture at that institution and one of the first everywhere. he then became involved in the council on african affairs, which was founded by paul robson, supported by councilman benjamin davis and various african-american intellectuals of the left, famous for his loyalty to him. wilkerson, very active in the jefferson schools of the immediate post war period. in 1948, an audit of the council on african affairs budget revealed that max had, in fact, misappropriated large sums of money that had been raised for relief and education in south africa. that resulted in a great explosion within the council and dubois was asked to sort of on a special oversight committee to get to the bottom of all of this. he did. and in doing so, a letter of bla

and i went to the naacp convention last year and said that and said it was way past time to change. just as hillary did you cannot let this get out of present must have education and training and job placement and transition support slept around and go back in. they need to be able to start again and rise again. >> reporter: he is standing by parts of this bill such as putting more law enforcement on the streets which he says has actually reduced crime. black lives matter protesters have made a point to protesting at campaign events for both parties. >>> ted cruz picked up 21 delegates in colorado at the republican convention. donald trump and john kasich did not get any. it's not over yet. there are 13 other delegates at stake tomorrow., to the primary awards delegates through a series of caucuses. >>> we're learning more about the allegations of sexual abuse against speaker of the house dennis hastert. documents claim is a wrestling coach he is honest at least 4 boys in the locker room and touched been inappropriately. and performed a sex act on one of them. the filing also said h

in use in the united states that included harlin dissent in cases but it is forgotten except by the naacp and others. it has been revised in opinions striking down lewisville and seattle to avoid resegregation of classes. roberts believes the only way to stop action based on race is to stop talking about it. it doesn't work. i don't know how the fischer case, which was argued last week, is going to turn out. that is the latest of the affirmative action cases. but if it goes against affirmative action look for what so sotomayor will write. >> part of being a great dissent means being on the right side of history. >> which you don't always know how to identify when you are writing it. >> our hero wrote the two greatest opinions about privacy and free speech in the 20th century. let's begin, and by the way, june 1st is the hundredth anniversary of brandeis'conformation. this is just a teaser of things coming in june. whitney is considered a dissent even though it was a concurrence. i will read a few of its beautiful words. those who won our independence believe making men free developed facu

of the campaign to help people get photo id to educate them for sororities and fraternities and the naacpand aclu and all of those organizations to be just as interested in to help people because while we fight it out in the courts there are primaries going non there are elections going on and people cannot participate in the also the picture ids for lots of things other than voting and those who don't are marginalized. >> host: see you are sitting there is a reality out here. >> guest: if you want to help the up or marginalized you should be concerned i saw a woman who could not get into the building for the doctor's office was and was said because she had no photo id six they had dissented from that and said we should just have photo id because pour people need identification anyway but my biggest concern is with gatt members in the amount of impersonation fraud compare that to the number of people who don't have photo id so let's let's get the data and once we get that did make some decisions but this is the argument that was made but they need it anyway so go ahead to be proponents. >

he founded the first chapter of the naacp in blakely. he filed suit against the county and the state to overturn the white primary because blacks could not participate in voting at that time. he also started the annual emancipation day celebration january 1st of every year in blakely for blacks to celebrate their emancipation by president lincoln. my father was a lifelong republican, and he identified himself with abraham lincoln. and so he was quite a social activist. my mother was a schoolteacher. and because of my father's activism to try getting the vote to blacks, improving the economy, the retaliation from the white community was my mother never got a job teaching school in early county. >> i remember -- yeah. >> so in that environment, fortunately for my brother who's a year and a half older, my brother and me, we were sent back first to savannah to live with relatives for a year, to attend school in savannah because schools in rural georgia for blacks were not very good. we got the hand me downs. we got the old books from white st

the clintons let black america down on prison reform, bill clinton went to the naacp to apologize aboutcrime bills. -- something he did on crime bills. clinton appointed more black judges, so it is good news, bad news story. on the other hand, i don't like it, i don't like it when black voters are taken for granted or ignored by the other party. she learned the last time around when you expect a coronation and find yourselves in an election in the dog fight this time around. john: mark: she says president obama will be more aggressive speaking on her behalf. how big a factor to think he can be in the general election, where his approval rating is, and the has become this? tavis smiley: i don't know what his impact will be outside of the african-american community, because the numbers are what they are. the numbers are getting better. with the african-american vote, it is not an automatic conclusion that one can draw on just because a black person says, vote for this person, they will all do that. it is a huge difference obviously, but you already know this. there is a huge difference be