kamau bell. as a comedian i made a living finding humor in the parts of america i don't understand.nd now i'm challenging myself to dig deeper. i'm on a mission to reach out and experience all the cultures and believes that add color to this crazy country. this is "the united shades of america." >>> if there is one thing in the united states that shows the diversity of our country it's our vast system of colleges and universities. there is a college for everybody. colleges for cooks. colleges for clowns. and even colleges to show how to give massages where nobody gets arrested. but there is one group of colleges that is absolutely linked to the founding of this country. historically black colleges and universities. or as they're known to be people down with the king, hbcus. how can you guess how hbcus came into existence if you said racism you're right. i also would have accepted bullshit. most were founded in the 1800s, when black folks were seen as a threat and weren't allowed to go to white universities. and i'm talking no schools at all. because of their stories history whether

kamau bell. as a comedian, i've made a living finding humor in the parts of america i don't understand. now i'm challenging myself to dig deeper. i'm on a mission to reach out and experience all the cultures and beliefs that add color to this crazy country. this is the "united shades of america." to explore the vast topic that is latinos in america, i'm in los angeles. los angeles has a population of 3.8 million people, and nearly half of them are of latino descent, and the rest of them are kardashians or married to a kardashian or waiting for a kardashian to get divorced so they can marry them. i'm looking at you, khloe. normally when i go to l.a. i go to hollywood or beverly hills for my big-time show business meetings with my big-time show business agents who never return my calls. big-time. but this week i'm going east, east l.a. and boyle heights. those neighborhoods are just slightly more latino than the rest of l.a. by slightly, i mean they're both well over 90% latino. east l.a. and boyle

kamau bell is back with an all new episode of united shades of america, and this week kamau heads toe his family roots and unmask some myths of the south. take a listen. >> can you explain mobile to me? >> no. >> that's how i feel about mobile too sometimes. people outside of the south think that all the south is the same. like they think south carolina, mobile, alabama there's no difference. >> no. the way people talk is the biggest difference i'd say. >> what's the difference in how they talk? >> well, it's really redneck country. >> okay. all right. >> and here it's kind of -- i don't know how to say this without -- >> say it. just say it. >> kind of uppity country. >> uppity country. i like that. >> you know what that means. >> i know what you mean. i think that's soirntding because i think people outside of here would not realize there's lowbrow country and now what you call uppity country. >> there's a big difference. >> i will say that i've had the best bowl of shrimp and grits in mobile. >> was it near here? >> yes. right down the street at mama's. >> okay. all right. you ain

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kamau bell. as a comedian, i've made a living finding humor in the parts of america i don't understand. and now i'm challenging myself to dig deeper. i'm on a mission to reach out and experience all the cultures and believes that add color to this crazy country. this is the united shades of america. so for the first two sundays of this show i might have mentioned live in the bay area. >> i come from berkeley california. i live in the bay area. >> the bay area. >> berkeley. >> berkeley. >> berkeley berkeley. >> i live in berkeley where people have pants free days. >> dispute how many times i say it it's not entirely true. i'm o i'm also from palo alto, boston, as we all learned last season, chicago. but also sort of from alabama. kamau, how can a lefty liberal snow flake k leader be from alabama? because i am. and this episode is all about the stereotypes and the realities of alabama. and when i say alabama, i specifically mean mobile. now you'll notice i didn't pronounce it like a cell phone. mob

nick paton walsh cnn, san >>> coming up, kamau bell heads to college on a brand-new united shades ofese as monolithic places, you understand people because you're all black, but you're saying there's diversity amongst black people. is that what you're trying to say? >> that's what i'm trying to say. >> okay, all right. and you deserve it on the best network. verizon. plus right now you can get a great deal. oh, we're going? sure-- ehh, not my thing. ♪ (vo) now's the time. get up to 50% off our best phones. like the samsung galaxy s9 and google pixel 2. plus get the best unlimited starting at $40 per line for four lines. because unlimited is only as good as the network it's on. ♪ ♪ i love you baby applebee's 2 for $20, now with steak. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. with my bladder leakage, the products i've tried just didn't fit right. they were very saggy. it's getting in the way of our camping trips. but with new sizes, depend fit-flex is made for me. introducing more sizes for better comfort. new depend fit-flex underwear is guaranteed to be your best fit. you're in th

. >>> the host of "united shades of america" here on cnn kamau bell joins me now. you saw mr.uzman. there was barbecue becky. and now we have permit patty. her name is alison calling the police on an eight-year-old girl selling water. what's going on here? >> you know, this is the rhetoric of trump and the trump administration being put into action by people who feel they are deputized by the president and the people around the president. we talk about civility. these people don't think they are being uncivil and doing the president's job. and it is happening in oakland. and permit patty in san francisco. the most liberal party in the world. >> she denied as an issue about race and she was only pretending to call the police. >> you can tell when somebody -- yeah. >> police are allies. >> i am sure, yeah, yeah. i am pretending to call the cops on you. like the little girl and her mom pretending to call the cops. that doesn't help the situation. she doesn't get to determine whether or not it's racist. >> allies, equal footing. she by herself is an extension of the law which is t

. >> kamau bell when we come back. to deliver up to 7 hours of sleep support.ctor recommended remfresh - your nightly sleep companion. available in the natural sleep section at walmart. >>> we're remembering anthony bourdain tonight, globe traveling tv host, best selling author, chef and for a lot of us here at cnn, a friend. a friend who will be dearly missed. joining me now is kamau bell, the host of cnn's "united shades of america." how are you doing? >> this a rough one. thanks for having me on, don. >> you met tony for the first time the emmys, right, your wife took this picture. so tell us about that. >> everybody assumed from the moment i had a job at cnn i was like hanging out in the cnn cafeteria with bourdain and you, and i hadn't met him before. i was so happy to be nominated for an emmy and i saw him across the room and started geeking out. and my wife knew i was a big fan and he walked over to me and said he liked the work i was doing. and he said we should work together some time, i couldn't imagine he would see anything about it. and i also knew

. >> kamau bell when we come back. mom? dad? hi!r fender bender tonight in an unreasonably narrow fast food drive thru lane. but what a powerful life lesson. and don't worry i have everything handled. i already spoke to our allstate agent, and i know that we have accident forgiveness. which is so smart on your guy's part. like fact that they'll just... forgive you... four weeks without the car. okay, yup. good night. with accident forgiveness your rates won't go up just because of an accident. switching to allstate is worth it. ♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪ ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ ♪ ♪ though rare, it can take your teen's life in just 24 hours. even if they had the first dose of mcv4 vaccine at 11 or 12 years, they need the second-dose at 16. call their doctor today. >>> we're remembering anthony bourdain tonight, globe traveling tv host, best selling author, chef and for a lot of us here at cnn, a fr

kamau bell, thank you, sir.> make sure you tune in to an all new episode sunday night at 10:00 only on cnn. and before we leave you tonight, i just want to share a story and pictures that everyone can see. pay attention. this is brit harris holding her 2 1/2-month-old daughter christian. saluting behind her mother and daughter, the members of the 2nd battalion 1st brigade combat team. brit is a widow, and christian will never meet her father. but thieve through these soldiers and her mother, she will know the measure of the man. specialist christopher m. harris was killed in action in afghanistan on august 2nd of last year when his convoy was attacked by a suicide bomber. it happened just one week after christopher learn head would become a dad. brit said being a father was his top goal in life. and since losing her husband, well, she has had the support of the soldiers who worked along side him. when they finally met baby christian this week. her father's brothers and sisters in arms took her in theirs. this is

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comes to a general understanding about how things work but this is donald trump's campaign promise kamau america first and he's delivering on it thank you to kimberly how could in washington and hello to complete parents in canada. now criminalizing charities which help migrants navigate the system it sounds a little bizarre but that is what hungary's palm and is actually debating today as part of a crackdown on immigration by prime minister viktor orban is right wing government it wants the constitution changed so other e.u. countries come to transfer asylum seekers to hungary join whole expose that story now from budapest. where once there was an open border of the european union now there's an electrified fence migrants and refugees still trying to enter europe on welcome in hungary alone slide win in parliamentary elections in april has encouraged prime minister viktor orban and his feet as party to go further despite protests by the e.u. and local activist groups a new law is being debated that would criminalize any supporting clued in legal advice given to asylum seekers who do mak

winner on sunday night he will become the most powerful president since turkey's founder mustapha kamau ataturk became the first in one thousand nine hundred twenty three bernard smith al-jazeera and current as. an anchor near the act party headquarters and somali polls are just officially close how did the death of a single. well generally smooth laura turkey has a very long and proud history of high voter turnouts usually eighty percent and above it is by far the highest voter turnouts in terms of democracies in europe consistently and today is nothing different in fact people are expecting it to be even higher possibly closer through ninety percent as you heard there in berners piece there's also tens of thousands of or rather thousands rather of observers that our presence across the polling stations in every part of the country because not only is this something that is tightly contested it is something that's it will have a huge impact both inside turkey but obviously regionally as well so there's a lot of interest from difference observers and different organizations to see how s

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kamau bell. as a comedian, i made a living finding humor in the parts of america i don't understand. and now i'm challenging myself to dig deeper. i'm on a mission to reach out and experience all the cultures and believes that add color to this crazy country. this is the "united shades of america." >>> canada. to many americans it's a utopian version of the united states. it's supposed to have everything. like the mom in commercials who nailed the work life balance. allegedly canada has it all, racial harmony. no gun violence and doctors handing out free health care like the weird deuced on college campuses handing out credit card applications don't take it. when the going gets tough some americas talk about getting going. >> canada's immigration website has crashed. >> funny how americans didn't crash mexico's immigration website. but is canada all that awesome in all hugs and snowball fights? and is everything covered in grave judge? now i want a gravy covered snowball. pitch that on shark tank

. >> here we are, kamau, this is the ends of the infrastructure we have in place.n't span the border, at least not yet. but that's what the border used to look like there. >> that's where the. >> those sticks and those barbed wire fence right there. >> wow. >> you know what you're walking on, that's the trail. you can see it's already started growing back. >> oh, this here. >> this used to be a trail where immigrants were walking through. >> wow. >> not that long ago because somebody ate candy here recently. >> look at that. >> still kind of fresh. >> you just smelled to find out how fresh that candy is. people at home are seeing this and saying this is why we need a bigger wall. this is -- i'm quoting. >> i understand. air quotes. >> but even this is not a hard thing to get over then you got to go through this. >> exactly. that's the dangerous part. but see over there in the distance what's that? that's our tower? even though he thinks he is not seen we're watching him sfaft they finally saw you wave. >> where is my passport? i'm with you. it's all right. it's all

kamau bell and back with me today. for rolling through and we'll talk about how you went home to alabama for your show but quickly, this whole crisis on the border wha , is your take? >> jeff sessions is quoting the bible and he has what a lot of people have is selective christianity, using the bible when it suits you and not using it when it doesn't suit you. quoting the bible to talk about why we are separating families at the border is a ridiculous thing to do. a hurtful thing to do. and a disgusting thing to do. and jeff sessions we'll talk about in alabama is from alabama. i want to be clear. this is not how all alabamans think and that is what we'll have on "united shades of america". >> let's look at a clip. >> doing okay, but my dad is way more impressive. the insurance commissioner for alabama which made him the highest ranking black person in alabama. the first president of the national association of insurance commissioners. he's met with multiple presidents. clinton, obama -- nope. but before all of that, h

kamau bell heads down south to debunk some myths. >> my career is doing okay but my dad's is way moree was the insurance commissioner for alabama, which made him the highest ranking black person in alabama. he was the first alabamaen to become the president of the national association of insurance commissioners. he's met with multiple presidents, clinton, obama, nope. but before all that, he was a struggling artist in the bay area. so that's where i got that from. but his life really started in a shack in alabama a hundred miles outside of mobile. it's got a population of 312, and the shack is on land that my family still owns. right off of, don't get too impressed, bell road. >> be sure to catch "united shades of america" tomorrow night on cnn. >>> coming up, with the world cup under way in russia, a taxi rams through a crowd in moscow. we're live on the scene. you're in the "cnn newsroom." don't go away. a bachelor. and that's how he intended to keep it. then he met the love of his life. who came with a three foot, two inch bonus. for this new stepdad, it's promising to care for his

hey there kamau a spokesman for a libyan warlord says his forces have seized control of two major oil terminals the reuters news agency says the half tyra's fighters have taken over the oil ports of ras lanuf and see there but a rival group denies that the u.s. state department has condemned the violence and is calling for all fighters to immediately withdraw from the area where the bill where he reports now from tripoli . it's really difficult to. to say exactly whole controls what because because we have to two different accounts of the same story but have to sources say that they have recaptured the oil terminals of us and russia the north on the other hand a pretty rigid zines force a say deny that and say they still maintain their locations in a silver and arsenals but we've spoken to locals local sources eyewitnesses in the north they they said that of the image of the run was that all last night his forces with little was there all last night and they they recaptured ruslan of this morning now the oil the national oil corporation been advising branch has announced it that have