some of the greatest black baseball teams. a sportswriter who thought to introduce jackie robinson to the major leagues. the greatest black playwright came out of this relatively small industrial town in pittsburgh and there were other black communities like that in detroit and in baltimore. chicago, cleveland, st. louis, etc. i will not get into the reasons why those cities declined but those neighborhoods now are v astly worse off than they were 50 or 60 years ago. which is amazing when it comes to the quality of living in america. you have to make a distinction between black folks living in y direities that are trul are issues and those who living in the middle class. there's problems on campus and in professional workplaces but it is hard to argue that the black middle class is worse off than it was in terms of opportunity. the discussion of race, let's have a conversation about race seems to forget the that theseems to think is theof black america same across all classes. there are horrible problems for lower class black am

black lives matter. the book titled, "when they call you a terrorist: a black lives matter memoir" is a call to action to change the culture that declares innocent black life expendable. patrisse's story follows her childhood in los angeles in the late 1990's and early 2000's, as her mother worked three jobs, struggling to earn a living wage. and it puts a human face on the way mass incarceration and the war on drugs hurt young black men, including her relatives and friends. sse's father died at the age of 50. her brotother spent yearars in prprison for nonviolent crimes stemming from his battles against mental illness. he was once even charged with terrorism after being involved in a car accident. the police would target patrisse , too, rating her house without just cause. in 2013 after george zimmerman was waited for the killing of 17-year-old trayvon martin, patrisse co-founder black lives matter along with early cigars a an opel to nettie. the movement began online but soon spread acroross the countr. blblack lives matterer became te rallllying cry off protest decrg the popolice killingngs of michl b

nothing says klan like hang out a black dude. for those of you tuning into racism late, here's a quick refresher. the klan was initially founded after the civil war by a group of confederal soldiers who are all like dang, we weren't finished imprisoning black folks yet. the klan came back after the great depression, during the civil rights movement, and then recently after this happened. >> and cnn can now project that barack obama, 47 years old,ill become the president-elect of the united states. >> but that black guy isn't headed down a dark road at night. this black guy is. i'm here to meet with an arkansas leader of the ku klux klan. how come this can't happen during the day again? >> all right. there's a car with the headlights on. if that's him, he'll blink his headlights. [ exhaling ] let's go. >> this guy said he was coming alone. why did i believe him in camera crew or not, this seems like a bad idea. >> when you hear my ice, it's going to be disguised, right? >> absolutely. >>nd i'm going to let you know, i'm the imperia

by adopting a black suffrage and then the republicans were , breaking a promise to constituents. their platform in 1868 was black suffrage in the south under the reconstruction act, in the north every state decides for itself. , a federal constitutional amendment guaranteeing black suffrage throughout the country was breaking a promise to their constituents. republicans may have calculated that if you're going to break a promise, if you're going to lie to your constituents, it is better to do it immediately after the election rather than before the next election. by november 1870, republican voters would've forgotten what they had been told to years earlier. third and finally, some republicans were beginning to conclude that the most direct and conservative way to and reconstruction was to in franchise black bass enfranchise blacks and you could end military role in the south. it's like voting were truly secured, african american in the south would be able to protect their own rights. federal military intervention at some point would be withdrawn, and it was growing increasingly c

not bad for a black inner city kid raised in poverty in the 1950s and '60s, i'd say. i became a journalist because it's really all i could do. dr. carson clearly had many other options in life, and i want to thank him for opting to join us today. so, dr. carson. >> thank you very much. well, thank you, and good morning. it's a real pleasure to be here with you. and i'd like to thank your president and all the talented men and women who work at the manhattan institute. the panelists and the moderators for tackling such an important topic today. and all of you for braving the cold weather and the threats of terrorism. you know, it will take a lot more than a failed bombing to discourage new yorkers. in his 1964 address to graduates of the university of michigan, where i went to medical school, lyndon johnson said, "we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society but upward to the great society. the great society rests on abundance and liberty for all. it demands an end to poverty and racial injustice to which we are totally commi

could make the case that you had a sort of black communityin geo terms of the housing and so forth, that, you know, it was substandard and so forth,ederal could get a lot of federal dollars to tear it allit dow do build a new housing project that is supposed to improve the lot of black america. and well, what happened is two things. one in pittsburgh and elsewhere, it was going to be that effort that destroys, you know, the heart of those traditional black neighborhoods. what were supposed to be the kind of modern and more humane housing projects became prison, and even worse prisons for the black community then. and if you are looking at city after city after city, and all of the way from the north to miami and ifif you saw moonligh you know, it is less of a - high-rise, but the community that, you know, barry jenkins the director and the o playwrig grew up in as they portray in that movie, is sort of a, you know, it is a florida version of the housing project. disastrous turn in terms of the conditions for blacks across the country. >> we a

my journey to be a black kid has been quite a struggle. she has been gone 22 years so i could not say any of this to my father decidedim consciousness so now in a place with my mother the made. both of them my father was the assistant attorney general under jimmy carter he chose to raise me in places where they have the biggerto house i knew -- and never knew how to say white boys will be your friends but they will never date you. i cannot find the wherewithal to say then why did you me here? doesn't my adolescence matter? don't i deserve to be loved? so my mother has borne the brunt of this. struggling with a white jewish husband in these two kids.s. i'm trying to raise my kids in the era of black livesen matter. the black ancestry. in the coalminer ancestry. and to help children have with that experience of ethnicity. that was never offered to me as ae child. but trying to figure out who i was. and to find yourself nodding vigorously in places. to generalize my experiences and also be very specific because that specificity will help peop

puts a black child in a hoodie that reads and the coolest monkey in the jungle and the white child is the survival expert and now fox are pretending like they don't know the black children have long been racially characterized as monkeys. is just irony i highly doubt they were like let's put the monkey who. make it seem there is a white supremacist who works for the thought it was funny to make a blackboard mandala hoody coolest monkey in the jungle it's an am is not an american company brands do not have to be familiar with usas or other countries hysterical conflicts on how to do background research for advertising a simple hoodie you're all going to feel how your feel about the. situation by folks who do was cute see you me a little black boy in a monkey hoodie of course it's offensive but it's so obvious i'm hysterical over the lack of awareness by. joining us live now. from spike magazine and ready for their of models of diversity and advocate for more variety in fashion thanks for joining us on the program great to have you both on today if i can go to you first perhaps luke i m

though it wasn't until 1965 that the amendment became a reality for most black voters. american history tv, from a symposium entitled in franchising of quality, 115 amendment,e 15th they discussed the flaws and exportation of african american by both republican and democratic parties. the university of the south in sewanee, tennessee host to the daylong symposium. this is about 30 minutes. >> he received his jd from stanford law school and a legal history from the university of oxford, where he was a marshall scholar. after law school, he clerked for the honorable ruth bader ginsburg on the united states court of appeals for the d.c. s served at he ha of law, thety stanford law school commented yale law. he has won numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship, which concentrate on constitutional law and history. his first book from jim crow to civil rights, the supreme court and the struggle for racial equality received the 2005 bancroft prize in history. in 2007 he published two books. brown v. board of education and the civil rights movement, and unfinished busines

a visit. that's all the boring stuff. areas of research include black families in white communities, identity and the role of race in the classroom. a nationally recognized authority on the racial issues in america she's toured extensively leading workshops and preventin preventing identiy development. after many years, the professor and administrator she served as the ninth president of the college from 2002 to 2015. her first project was to work on updating and revising the critically acclaimed book why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria and the others about race. over 100 pages longer and covers the impact of changing demographics, school and neighborhood segregation, affirmative action backlash, the recession of 2008, election of barack obama and post-racial narrative, the black lives matter and campus activism in the early days of the trump presidency. 20 years after first published, the approach of direct and open conversation about the identity and communication is what we need to hear and have to act on. please join me. [ap

so one the one hand we have symbol of electing a black president. on the other hand, in very close proximity a dramatic rise in participation in white supremacist activity. and the backlash that we see today manifested in the streets of washington, d.c. and elsewhere post the election of 2016 really has its roots back in 2008 as the response to the election of president obama. we also see that there has been a narrative, a postracial narrative, that was popular after the election, 2008, but that then quickly has been put aside, fortunately in my opinion, because it certainly wasn't accurate, that we were in a postracial state of being, but certainly that narrative was challenged by some other events in the last 20 years. most recently, the documentation of police shootings that we've all seen with these of cell phone video. we know about the impact of trayvon martin shooting in 2012, and the acquittal of george zimmerman, a man who shot him. we know about, certainly, and i don't need to rehearse all of the examples of police shootings, whether we thi

be judged by the color of their skin not the content of their clarkt. >> whcharacter. >> raising a blackes can be frightening. >> her best efforts of shielding him don't make her son immune to reality. >> honestly i am a little scared unsettling. >> i am only 15 years old. i fear i'm possibly going to die before i even turn 18. >> what do you think of some of the unique burdens of being a parent to a black child, particularly a black boy. >> safety. i always have to worry about his safety. i believe he's prejudged before people get to know him because it's how it's programmed in society. >> i know it's a view this pa paranowia. >> the pain and suffering of african-american historically is not really engender broad-sweeping empathy. i think what racism has done is it has stripped african-american people from being beings to being things. >> he says kd stemming from lives lost on video. 32-year-old kimmed in the car with his girlfriend and daughter. there was elton sterling. and rice, too many others, faces who may not have made the news in these cases many of the officer who's killed them

i guess you would never think of a black pudding in the same way again. y it isa in the same way again. you could say it is a very special black pudding because although it tastes very nice, to me, it saved my life. johnny rutherford, bbc spotlight. he would have thought a black pudding could save your life. let's have a look at the weather now, phil averyjoins us. i have to say i did not see a lot of sunshine today but i wasn't on my own, but a better chance of sunshine, the north of wales even better towards the south—west of england where things turned out to be glorious. clear skies in some parts allowing fog to form overnight, rather akin to what we form overnight, rather akin to what we had last night. some spots with northern ireland having fitting flop, —— fog. if the breeze does not pick up, there's no cloud to get rid of the fog. they could be an issue first up on friday. bear that in mind if you're journeying through many central and western parts. through the day, a lot of dry weather. a sprinkle of showers through eastern parts of the british

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black power in mississippi in 1968. you also had leaders like h. brown who was also a major black power leader. but then, of course, you had some of king's aides, like jesse jackson. you, of course, had people like roy wilson, naacp. so there was, of course, a whole group of people who were trying to sort of make the case that racism was certainly a problem. of course, making different strategies as to how it ended. >> in january of 1965, president johnson outlined his state of the union address great society program that took place yet now, january 4. as you look back at what he tried to accomplish, lot of the focus is on the civil rights movement and inner city. how did he do? >> well, i think johnson simultaneously launched the great society and was, of course critically involved in the launching of the vietnam war. 2 very costly initiatives. i think historians have focused on how it became untenable for americans to support both. ultimately johnson, partly because of the protests decided , that certain people were not grateful, certain people were were noty, that people impoverished out of d

randal kennedy a black law professor at our law school wrote a book in 1997 in which he exhorted the black community to practice respectability in criminal matters by distinguishing between good negros, law abiding blacks, and bad negros, blacks caught up in the criminal justice system in any way. chris rock, we get to speak frankly now, right, chris rock who launched his comedic career since people are often putting a mic in front of him for social commentary, especially on racial justice issues, here's how he launched his comedic career. he walked back and forth in front of a mostly black audience and said, let me see if i can remember the routine. i'm going to be pretty close, the first few lines t's like a civil war going on in black america and there's two sides. there's black people and there's niggers and niggers have got to go. i love black people but i hate niggers. i wish they'd let me join the ku klux klan. i'd do a drive by here to brooklyn. he went on like that for 45 minutes. his core definition of an n word, a nigger, was a black who's done a crime. so according to that

there was a black dr. and his wife five months pregnant who are watching a movie at 11:00 p.m., came out and it was raining. he told her to wait under the marquee, he had discovered she had been arrested strip-searched for being a prostitute. let's assume perhaps counter factually but let's assume at the time the officer made that arrest a disproportionate amount of prostitution activity was taking place between the hours of 10 and 2:00 a.m.. a disproportionate amount of it was being carried on in times square. disproportionate amount by an escorted women and women of color. let's say all of the above is true. he would say i made a rational determination and under the rational amp friends that i drew, rational profiling but the reason we don't buy that or the reason we find what he did so odious and it was some sense was rational the social consequences of error given there is some risk of air and judgment and given the social consequences of that he should have waited longer and rick used the risk of air b

a&m. historically black college or that time college, now university. he wants to get a doctorate in art education, his field, and he is thinking about going to florida state, which is also in tallahassee, but in 1954, even after brown vs. board of education, florida state was still a segregatedded institution. a whites only institution and he couldn't attend florida state, but the state of florida was on dated by law, according to the supreme court decision to provide access. so what did the state of florida do? it basically said, we will provide you access. we will give you a train ticket to pennsylvania. and my dad got his doctorate at penn state, and he would always tell me the state of florida didn't pay his tuition but they paid his transportation to help him get to pennsylvania so he could earn that degree. when he completed his degree in 1957, he and my mom decided they did not want to raise their children in florida, and part of the great migration, moved to massachusetts, which is where i grew up and where he became the first african-american p

marketing him down puts a black child in a hoodie that reads and the coolest monkey in the jungle and the white child is the survival expert and now fox are pretending like they don't know the black children have long been racially characterized as monkeys. is just irony i highly doubt they will like let's put the monkey who are. making it seem there is a white supremacist who works for h. and thought it was funny to make a black board model who did that coolest monkey in the jungle each and am is not an american company brands do not have to be familiar with usas or other countries historical conflicts on how to do background research for advertising a simple thirty year old gam if you know how you all feel about the nation and to the situation i thought to do was cute. little black boy in a monkey hoodie of course it's offensive but it's so obvious i'm hysterical over the lack of awareness by. we discuss whether the ad is racially insensitive with get off the editor of spike to magazine and write me a diary from models of diversity. the whole issue is with this artisan campaign it's

i sit with a 90-year-old black mother who is a mother of a church.his promoter of using got to somehow put forward -- this using god to sum up what this forward as part of it as well. wehave a history where discuss race as a part as if it is a club. therefore, if there is a white club -- a club has members -- mother talks to us about being sick and tired of being sick and tired. host: i want to give her a chance to address some of the issues you brought up. one was the economic factor. another was the world religion may play in this divide. did you find people talking about those issues? guest: yes, quite a few of the people i spoke with. cor bush, who is running -- -- tori bush, who is running for she was led to bring the best blessing and healing as she could. me -- i me people told do not know i was supposed to run for the devil because love pushes out hate. it is like that pushes out the darkness. it is one example of people who feel a mission in this work. reverend gray is another one. while there may be instances where religion is used in a neg

blacks mixed. hillbrow became aspirational. abeen denied, but was now accessible. people poured in in large numbers. many of them squatters from all over the continent. >> dj les: people come here. they come here with one intention. making a living, making money. black kids, black cars they start coming in. the white cars -- >> anthony: white landlords and tenants simply walked away from their property. the disenfranchised who moved in legally, semi-legally, illegally or just squatting, an influx of gangs and criminal organizations, the area soon slipped into anarchy. >> dj les: they say around here, okay? that this building's been hijacked. >> anthony: entire buildings were seized to become superstores for illicit drug operations. everything that could go wrong, did. >> dj les: people make a living from different things. some, they rob people to make a orome, they sell their bodies. sometimes, things are -- they don't always go according to what you plan. but this is where i live. this is where my life is. yeah, we go down here.

marketing him down puts a black child in a hoodie that reads and the coolest monkey in the jungle and the white child is the survival expert and now fox are pretending like they don't know the black children have long been racially characterized as monkeys. is just irony i highly doubt they will like let's put the monkey who are. making it seem there is a word supremacist who works for h. and thought it was funny to make a black board model who did the coolest monkey in the jungle so was the racially insensitive insensitive we got opinion from from spike magazine and also the emmy for daddy she's from models of diversity the whole issue is with this other thousand campaign it's an advertising company the. international it's an international campaign and it's so obvious that if you're going to use a connotation like monkey whether a child is a monkey you're going to choose a black child hold for the company and the child as a survivor of the jungle there is not going to have connotations it's ridiculous to think it's not going to have any contagions whatsoever i think is a really sad i

police., you see the if you're a black man, like i'm a black man, your see the police. and and, of course, you feel a grow upeery and you with it. it shouldn't be like that. i remember one time, i got police.by the i was with my white friend. she happened to be a female. we walking down the street. police run up on us. they tell my friend to go walk up the street. stop me and put me up against the tree and want to search me. saying?rstand what i'm >> i want to give christa a that. to respond to go ahead. >> well, did you have a specific question? or just... respond to the mood that this isn't just an issue for st. louis and the surrounding areas. you get a sense that, from the people you talked to there even, about sort of the national impact of all of this? >> sure. well, i think, to the caller's definitely as frustration that, you know, reallyis even had some great civil rights activists, going way back, even before some nationalses that made news, like with the lunch counter sit-ins, things like that. that there's a pride in history, there's also a frustration, like

black americans. boiled over after a police officers shot dead a black teenager. in harlem the indian nation and revolt was embodied by one man. x. in photographs he projects a role intensity to match his stated indignation at the abuse that american blacks have suffered. malcolm x. was the spokesman for the nation of islam the black muslim movement that preached supremacy of blacks over whites. at the start of the one nine hundred sixty s. the media were constructing a combat that stirred the civil rights debate malcolm x. versus martin luther king leader of the civil rights movement who was fighting against segregation in the southern states. martin luther king the hero of nonviolent resistance was a favorite target of markham ex white men paid seven martin luther king subsidized revenue. so that revenue can continue to think the negroes to be defense. martin luther king never responded to malcolm's attacks he never agreed to debate with him the only time the ever met in washington the two men shook hands but barely spoke to each other. but one photo remains edge

there are a number of attempts to foreign and black airlines. ere is a guy named starts a business in haiti within a 25 or 50-mile radius and taking it back. we have stories about them taking their skills to ethiopia or brazil but there were a number of attempts by these black americans but this is where they connect because claude burnett was also wrong -- was also an investor. in the ethiopian airwaves. and then to undermine his investment that is part of the paradox of jim crow. mostly those did not take flight because the competition is so stiff. pan-american airwaves so if these major highly capitalized airlines look at these attempts. stiff if not stiffer. >> where did they get their experience? who was teaching black people how to fly? >> that's interesting. someone -- some were taught by europeans they were more interested to teach them skills. then there is the case of eugene. a black american who was born in georgia as a young boy stows away on a ship to france and wants to become a pilot in france. and then stays in france and then wor

"lost in space" started off as a black and white show and went to color. better when it went to color. >> dr. smith, you're alive. >> of course, i'm alive. do i look like a corpse? >> the period has a reputation for being tv as a kind of candy. sometimes it felt like there was in really aggressive innocence to it. >> you're only to blow that in an emergency. >> this is an emergency, you're standing on my foot! >> "gilligan's island" made no sense whatsoever logistically. how is the professor able to build all this stuff but not build a damn raft? >> this stick of dynamite that i made. >> it makes no sense if you pull any single thread on it, but it was just like the kind of show designed to live forever in syndication. >> who are you looking for? >> the nun. who else? >> are you kidding? >> "flying nun" is the most -- it's a crazy show. like what is that about? >> look, carlos, it's very simple. i only weigh 90 pounds and the combination of my cornet and the wind lifts me. it was just complete nonsense, let's face it. it was the height of the '60s, and eve

and as a black man voluntarily entering a town called whitesburg, i could use a drink.ent to see kentucky distiller colin fultz. >> just making a little liquor today. >> for those who are not initiated, what's the difference between moonshine and whisky? >> moonshine is a lot better. >> you might be biased about that, but, yeah, yeah. why is it better? >> the difference is most whiskeys and stuff's aged in a barrel. none of us stuff is aged in a barrel. >> is it illegal to make moonshine in your house? >> when you convert that mash to a liquor, when you separate that, that's the illegal part. >> when he is talking about mash, he doesn't mean my mom's favorite tv show. he's saying corn plus water equals mash. so this soup add a little sugar, a little yeast, throw it in a hot pot and after a while you get moonshine. after you drink moonshine, you thinking, hey, is that horse talking smack about me? he don't know me. why is that part illegal to do in your house? >> they can't tax that. it all boils back to the government getting their part. >> the government is like, wait

emphasize nonviolence be cause if blacks had breached spanned trying to defend them sad that would a bra jarrow the pole least depok man down own those demonstrators and why it's would have loved to have the chance to kill black people in distress you know the. king and malcolm had that tension. i am happy. with you but they. won't go down in the rear. as we're going to demonstrate. and the history of bombing television played a central role in the african american struggle for equality in one thousand nine hundred sixty three a series of events covered by the national networks reveal the scale of inequality in the south to millions of americans well they're right there in alabama nine hundred sixty three was the year of martin luther king's try and his relationship with president kennedy who had been in power for two years was key to his strategy but it was this alliance which wean king and washington this idyllic picture of reconciliation between blacks and whites that provoked the ire of marco max. it all started in birmingham alabama in the spring of one nine hundred sixty three k

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