" black -- you're black, black, black, and i wanted know what i meant. >> camille, you can jump in or i can ask a more specific question. >> you mentioned that you a -- as you were writing in this particular work, the motion of respectability politics. was on your mind, and i wonder maybe kind of digging a little bit deeper based on what we were just talk us about. >> i think in part what nafissa is saying of seeing the variety and range of black experience. i mean, sort of always on this history question. growing up in d.c., if it was a very black city -- i should say was a very black city. it's not as black as it was. so -- -- [laughing] but when i was going there, like, '80s and 790s, blackness was very present. and i think in part because of that -- not that racism didn't exist, obviously, but there was a way that because you saw black people at every level in d.c., that some of that could recede a little bit and then other things that divide he people. so class is one of them. and when i was writing the book, that was something i thought a lot about, of us also policing each othe

we saw black people in college and there was black folks being neighbors and governors. jackson running for president. in the time where it seemed like things were possible. rodney king, and my own community, a young man shot by police officers, but largely i think, it was a time where things seems like they were looking up for black people. the american dream may be possible. my parents and i think our parents were the first real generation to benefit from things like affirmative action, they were benefiting from the registration of the 60s. many owning homes, higher rate. things started to seemed like they were looking at. but i think, the american dream was potentially possible for black america. probably for the first time in many years. it seems like it all fell apart when obama got nominated for president. then our political climate totally changed. i think for me, it was the idea that when the american dream maybe possible for black americans but maybe it was this idea that we can do better than your parents if you work hard. it doesn't matter. but it doesn't seem

>> other black women. >> other black women. at the time where black women beauty manufacturers supplying our products and all of this stuff. there was no on the police chief could go to and say fire her because she owned a home business. she was economically autonomous and that position for her and other beauticians were able to take risks because they did not have fear of retribution because women and men would lose their jobs all of the time if there civil rights activity was found out. that is a big reason. what is another reason? >> you mentioned how one of the positives was that they aimed to mobilize beauticians because they are like missionaries. everyone they come in contact with and their proximity to their customers and the community really are like missionaries to spread the word and spirit activism. >> yeah. any of us who have ever been to a beauty salon for those who have a long-term relationship with one particular stylist, there is a certain kind of intimacy and bond that develops between a hairstylist and their

>> other black women. >> other black women, right?n her manufacturing, this is at the time when black women, beauty manufacturer, who were supplying her products, all their stuff, so she wasn't, there was no one the police chief could go to and say fire her, because she owned her own business. she was economically autonomous. and so that positioned her and other beauticians well to be able to take risks, because they did not have to fear retribution. because women and men would lose their jobs all the time, if their civil rights activity was found out. so that's definitely a big reason. what are some other reasons? yes? >> you mentioned how one of the politicians said that the aim to mobilize beauticians because they're like missionaries and everyone they come in contact with, they make voting as important to them as god, so their proximity to their customers and other people in their community really allowed them to be like missionaries and spread the word, and spread activism. >> yes, yes. this is reallily, any of us who have ever b

millennial's. >> i think that for so long young black people growing up, particularly young black people like myself, who had the idea that you could be anything and do anything. that is what we are told us kids. i grew up in the post- civil rights moment. we saw black people in television, their black folks being married in governors, jesse jackson was running for president. this was the time over was on television. in the time where it seemed like things are possible. there were errors rodney king, and my own community a young man was shot by a police officer, but largely i think it was a time like things seemed like they were looking for black people. and that the american dream maybe was possible. my parents and our parents were the first real generation to benefit from things like affirmative action, they were benefiting from the civil rights legislation of the 60s, many were owning homes, entering corporate america at higher rates than ever. things started to seemed like they were looking up. the american dream was potentially possible for black america. probably for the first time

one of the many must sees in the black forest. every year thousands of tourists full pir to like t.t.c. in both summer and winter to stroll along the problem dogs live. in. a few kilometers away. it is even more water like shanxi. you can walk the entire perimeter of the black forest biggest lake on an eighteen kilometer trail. nestled in a valley you'll find santa claus in cathedral its dome is thirty six meters in diameter. like many towns here as santa claus in is surrounded by dense dark woods the local most black hence the name black forest the abundance of wood is reflected in the local products the best known is the cuckoo clock. the wrong bank of the house company in china has been making them for more than a hundred g. is. under four hundred instanter with this design issue the wall it's called a shield cloth it's hand painted and it's the original cuckoo clock time divide of the value in our company has developed variations on market so now we also make contemporary cocoa. went and they all strike the hour. and other reg

so as a black consumer, the service you got was directly connected to the amount of black people that were actually providing the service. so it just kind of -- it was a like,roadening of that, understanding of how black people really could leverage their economic power in the consumer sphere in the workplace. prof. parker: absolutely. yeah? >> what i thought was interesting is what i immediately thought of was the h&m boycott. there was the image of the little boy in the t-shirt that said "coolest monkey in the jungle." i thought how a lot of, you know, working-class people, not just black but white, decided to put their money into other stores like primark or walmart because they felt like the brand as a whole wasn't contributing to their cause. and even like what nike with their sports hijabs. but i never -- in the context of the worker-consumer alliance, i never thought about the black people or working-class people that were working in the stores that weren't too affected. so just kind of like -- i guess my question would be how can we use that in a way that isn't just like, ok,

that black mecca of upwardly mobile black folks that is so prominent in the black imagination.ut i can't. i look for it every time you visit the south. look for in the stories instead of finding a bit of a feeling of freedom and comfort, all they feel is the weight of the past that doesn't feel so distant. so when i read that, my family of course is from the south, african-american, i have the same conflicting feeling that you have felt in the south. yet, people are so drawn to it, to the wide open space, to the better weather, to the opportunity, to the community. that exists in the south. yet at the same time, we have you know the south overwhelmingly was for donald trump whereas most black people as you point out, voted overwhelmingly for the democrats in the 2016 election. and so i'm wondering how does one reconcile the south history and the fact that someone might donald trump appeals to the people of the south and that hostility that happens there with the fact that we are from there, our community is there and the weather is much nicer. >> i wish i had the answer. you kn

people, black children. make sure to tell them about the purple gang which was a eastern european in the gangster jews who were in detroit. even with bushwick, while there is no violence in this book i make sure to mention that there was an act of violence and this wasn't from the black people, the italian mob for committing violence and bushwick. in that way i plant those seeds so that young people know that they are not the reason for whatever violence or trauma that is happening to them. i make sure to state that when i do school visits and hopefully the teachers who are helping young readers on pasty stories can recognize ottawa as well. it is my job to plant those seeds that make them fully human on the page. >> for me, one of my hardest stories to write was also a joy in my easiest story to write. it was called that laughter here. it discusses the topic of the month mean. translator:soon. it was a hard story for the publisher to publish. but i was upfront about what i was going to write about and they

anderson abbott, also black. he attended a white house reception where, according to a baltimore newspaper, they were kindly received. dr. abbott recalled that the commissioner of public buildings, benjamin brown french, greeted them. that is, he greeted him and dr. augusta, with all the urbanity imaginable, and conducted them to the president. upon catching sight of major augusta, lincoln grasped his hand. as they exchanged greetings, robert lincoln, who had been standing nearby, next to his mother, approached and as dr. abbott remembered, quote, asked a question very hastily, the purport of which i took to be, are you going to allow this invasion? referring, doubtless, to our presence there. robert was almost certainly acting at the behest of his mother. lincoln responded, why not? without a further word, robert retreated to first lady's side. the president then heartily shook hands with both dr. augusta and dr. abbott. the author of an 1864 biography of lincoln described that scene, quote -- "when two or three

you're the sassy black woman. oh, you're smart for a black woman."re trying to dissect those ideas. the book is really, really in-depth, but at the same time, easy to understand. why did you break it into essays, as opposed to writing one long book? >> i don't know that one long book would be enough for the story of black women. oddly enough, essays are a better approach because you can take these slices of our life. and you run the risk of people thinking this is a definitive book on what it is to be a black woman. one of the things that happens when you're a black woman and you have some public personalities you become everybody's black friend who doesn't have an actual black friend. >> trevor: right. >> and i didn't want to give the impression that by reading one definitive text about black women that you know everything you need to know about black women. what this does instead is give you a slice of life and the thinking and the philosophy of black womanhood as i understand it. not just as someone who lives it and has experienced it, but someone

or that i had help getting in and i didn't hear that from the black students. black stude. . . . . we are looking for things to be perfect. like i need to have this type of job and environment that i am in. one of the young men that you interviewed who happens to be gay and would talk to people -- can you speak to that? >> guest: he was really fascinating and touched on something that i think we don't talk about a lot in terms of the importance of class and relationships and how crucial that is. new york is a hard place. everybody is trying to be presented in a certain way. he talked about how he felt like it he pointed to show that he made it and wanted that reflected in his relationship but he also talked about how he only dated for western class people because they could relate to him more, so i totally understand that. our struggles are sometimes different even though the end goal might be the same. you look at the statistics and people with similar incomes and similar education levels often do better than particularly black women often are known to date people with lesser degr

today and i'm off to the black forest in the southwest of germany. with my tour starts in freiburg the region's biggest city in attracting some three million visitors every year. to. the old town is pretty killer lee impressive. frederick's biggest landmark is the cathedral here the beauties in the detail take these cargos if you look closely here realize that each of them is unique. as you stroll through the city you'll see little channels called places you know they can be found along many of freiburg streets during the winter months they're empty but in summer they're full of water . those have been around since the middle ages and they stretch out over more than fifteen kilometers back in the day they were used to assure water supply but nowadays they've become more of a tourist attraction and a pretty dangerous one legend has it that whoever steps into them will have to marry a freiburg or so be careful. frederick is germany's southernmost city and the perfect starting point for a trip to the black forest. during the winter months the region's b

d the black >> how did they come to be called the black boys? actually, this was something of an issue writing the book. had discussions, because some may think it's about something else. omething to do with african-american history. boys ere call black because they disguised themselves with charcoal in the initial raid. i think they probably did that part of who they were, continuing to black their faces to strike fear in others. the other thing, we suspect is that this image of james smith, scarf there, d it's believed that the black boys have red bandannas so this of smith, which is done much later in life, is really interesting to think about, ecause here's smith trying to reflect back on his life and so know, a ring, you eather jacket as a frontiersmen. he's also wearing a black suit might expect a george washington or john adams to wear o there is a lot of different imagery that he has built into the portrait. they blacken their faces to disguise themselves. wore red bandannas. >> when you speak, got it close to your mouth. sensitive.ery >

existed throughout time really have been about white people's fear of black people in fear of black congregation and what black people would do if they come together because i mean i even as a contemporary grown woman in my past twenty years of work in the workplace have even experienced at the water cooler at the copy machine standing with a mother a black colleague or two or three and don't let it be for a white colleague would even say what are you guys conspiring to do over here what are you guys cooking up over here and i know that was just like a really you know blanket statement the person didn't mean any harm but it just the vokes these id. about black fear and even some of the stores like corner store as in black and brown neighborhoods have these pop policies just like maybe written on notebook paper on the door no more than two people in here at a time two or three people so these ideas of black people being together and being destructive and dangerous are really deeply rooted in the american psyche. you know . i'm not even sure it's so much even so much of like there's m

people's fear of black people and fear of black congregation and what black people would do if they come together because i mean i even as a contemporary grown woman in my past twenty years of work in the workplace have even experienced at the water cooler at the copy machine standing with a mother a black colleague or two or three and don't let it be for white colleague would even say what do you guys can conspiring to do over here what do you guys cooking up over here and i know that was just like a really you know blanket statement the person didn't mean any harm but it just the vokes these ideas about black fear and even some of the stories like corner stores in black and brown neighborhoods have these pop policies just like maybe written on notebook paper on the door no more than two people in here at a time two or three people so these ideas of black people being together and being destructive been dangerous are really deeply rooted in the american psyche. you know. i'm not even sure if it's so much even so much of like there's more real fear of like you know ok this black presence

my face in "black lives matter" faith in "black lives matter" and what it has done and this generation is high. that is not disrespecting all those who have before us, we are using what we learned from them and coming up with new ways to make this movement go forward because it has to. you can't do the same thing that they were doing and i really think it is inspiring. i learned a lot from teenagers. >> i think we all did. [applause] >> this isn't particularly new, but i think there is more attention drawn to the fact that black women have taken such a strong lead role in creating a lot of events. a lot of people didn't realize that it was started by a black woman in toronto. there are more conversations being had about not only our role in this movement, but about how many of the things we face have been historically ignored. starting with you dr. davis, as someone who was part of movements when they were very masculine, what can we do today to better support black women who have deep roots in these movements? >> first of all, all of us who happen to be alive at this moment in history

black lives matter! black lives matter! black lives matter! >> hello, everyone.azing and beautiful to be around such fierce group of women! and you know my toes are freezing, but i just have so much energy. my spirit feels full to be surrounded by all of you. my name is christina jimenez and i'm the executive center of united we dream and i'm joined uwd, havez, leader from d.m.v. we are really proud to stand here, represent an immigrant youth and families from united we dream who are marching today here and all over the country. we are honored to stand here for all of the women and girls who are have been told no. for all the women and girl bo are living in fear of deportation. we are honored to be standing here for them and for their families. because let me be clear about something. lewis and i have all of the mbers of our community are undocumented, unafraid and here to stay. [applause] >> here to stay, here to stay, here to stay! here to stay! here to stay! here to stay! look, and i want to break it down very real for you. at united we dream, we have this thi

the same way that young black girls aren't given the same sense of youth or vulnerability. >> young blackirls are presumed to always be responsible for their desires people project onto them. the man wants you. you become responsible for his wanting. once you are a black woman and you have to negotiate for access to health care, education, work, that's what these big organizations negotiate for us. what we then make black women responsible for is for never being competent enough to access all of the resources that they should, that they deserve or need. what that looked like in the health care example which i try to use, there's no such thing as us being educated enough, economically secure enough, we can't be rich enough. we can't be successful enough. we can't be a celebrity enough. a celebrity in our culture is the great exception. >> if it can happen to serena williams, it can happen to anyone. >> beyonce talks about getting a medical establishment to treat you seriously as a competent subject so so that a when you say you are in pain, that they believe you. when they say that -- when

i first thought this must be special to all the black students but it's only howard students. for those that went to amherst or harvard so he was quite upset he resisted and fought it. he couldn't afford it and did not have the money. so now compared obviously to his income at the time. he had trouble scrounging up the money for another year he had several ways but he could never get around it.

we want black power! we want black power! >> black power!cry for black power first became a national figure and to many a frightening one. >> we want black power. >> it's two words that come to capture a whole host of white anxieties about race and about african-american civil rights activism. >> what do you want? black power. what do you want? black power. >> it has taken off like a lightning bolt in the media. it sounds kind of aggressive. it sounds on the verge of military revolt. i mean, everybody was full of black power. it drew all the news coverage. >> in baltimore, the concept of black power. >> the issue of black power here in grenada, mississippi -- >> here in watts, black power -- >> black power. >> black power. >> black power. >> the press was fixated on the notion of violence. >> are you talking in violent analogies because you want to see a negro violent uprising? >> when stokely says "black power," he's not just whistling dixie. three white male journalists as the panel, and they're saying to him, "well, don't you really mean

i mean historically black ku universities.it was a huge part of their identity, coming to terms with themselves and their blackness. people felt an ease in the south. going back home they felt welcomed. they felt race relations somehow, it was all out there. >> also economic opportunities, right? >> absolutely. absolutely. we have more black wealth educated. more networks for people to tap into. young black people are lieaving new york and chicago, places deemed the promised land. it feels like they weren't fulfilling the promise. why not go to places where it feels like home? >> raniqua allen, thank you very much for joining me. >> thank you for having me here. >> some sobering reflections there on the lack of structural change for the civil rights movement. join me tomorrow for my interview with the former british prime minister tony blair as they look to unstick the brexit stalemate he lays out options for the country and why he would back a second referendum on e.u. membership. that's it for the program tonight. thank you

my heels have black of the bottom. you gain some sort of social status, there is something psychological behind it when you are able to purchase and display these things on your person. >> first they had to fight to sit up counters, then they have it fight. to get people into management positions. of is am trying to think how hard it is to not get people of color followed in stores now. that still is not any means addressed on a nationwide level in any part of the country. you can be in the north, you could be in a place that is dominated by people of color who have money. guess i am thinking about how the consumer battleground is still strong. citizenship is like -- >> absolutely. the more we talk about the civil rights movement, it is clear that gains are being made at the roles are constantly being shifted or circumvented in order to be consolidated race discrimination. that is what is tricky. to consumer sphere continues be a battleground for civil rights and someone. is through the means of following people around

existed throughout time really have been about white people's fear of black people in fear of black congregation and what black people would do if they come together because i mean i even as a contemporary grown woman in my past twenty years of work in the workplace have even experienced at the water cooler at the copy machine standing with a mother a black colleague or two or three and don't let it be for a white colleague would even say what are you guys can conspiring to do over here what are you guys cooking up over here and i know that was just like a really you know blanket statement the person didn't mean any harm but it just the vokes these id. about black fear and even some of the stores like corner store as in black and brown neighborhoods have these power policies just like maybe written on notebook paper on the door no more than two people in here at a time two or three people so these ideas of black people being together and being destructive and dangerous are really deeply rooted in the american psyche. you know . i'm not even sure if it's so much even so much of like

somewhere a black dad is beating his black son. the same way it happened to my friend oscar nominated director lee daniels. who through his tv show "empire" portrayed how as a little boy, his dad threw him in a trash can for wearing heels. took him out of the house and threw him in the trash can. that's a reality for a lot of little boys. those views of the lgbt people within the black community have consequences. so think of this. okay? we're about facts here. this is a news organization. the center for american progress says that 44% of homeless gay youth are black. that's huge. remember, black people only make up 12% of the u.s. population. among homeless transgender youth, 62% of them are black. those kids were likely kicked out of their homes or had to run away because of who they are and because of how our community treats them. and we have to talk about outreach. "ellen" a trailblazer and respected leader in the lgbt community, she really is, she almost lost her entire career for coming out, for being a trailblazer, doing it

we want black power! we want black power! we want black power! what do you want? >> black power!60s sees the emergence of a different approach to racial politics. it's not the civil rights movement anymore. it is the emergence of what comes to be known as black power. you have the emergence of a younger generation led by groups like the black panther party. >> black panthers adopted a more militant stance toward social justice and racial politics in america. >> the black panthers used style. they used their bodies. they used fashion. >> black panthers, the big symbol becomes the beret. they're taking a military look that's not part of the vietnam soldier look and adopting it to urban warfare. >> the black panther look, it was natural hair, it was wearing lots of black clothes, it was black leather jackets and it was definitely associated with revolutionary liberation movements around the world. that was a very, very powerful and stylish look that presented an image of powerful and chic and proud black people. >> black panthers, they pioneered a broader style culture that was not

predominantly black. so how did that change the schools' population for the whole city and how does it look now? >> yeah. i unfortunately don't want to misrepresent my own memory of numbers on that, but one number i can give you is that 10,000 students have, the enrollment of chicago public schools has dropped by 10,000 students in the last year. and the majority of the students leaving are black. so i can't speak to -- i mean, anecdotally -- i feel confident telling you that the proportion of black teachers in the city is lower than what it was. i can't tell you by how many. but the city is hemorrhaging people and hemorrhaging black people specifically. the school closures have been part of that because it's part of making the city virtually uninhabitable for poor black people. there is some really great reporting that just came out today and my colleague larue louis mccoy does really great work on the suburbanization, she does good work and others have done really good work on the way a lot of what we t

and so ended the days of black unity and strategy. and for many blacks, the days of black progress.six times as likely to go to jail as a white man. 25% more likely to die of cancer. twice as likely to die of diabetes. we are still the poorest and the sickest and the first to die. black on black homicide or murder is the leading cause of death among one age group of young black men. and black men who represent only 14% of the male population represent almost 40% of the male prison population. in 2014, blacks account for 40% of all the aids cases, and 50% of all the aids deaths. weapons of mass destruction may not have been discovered in iraq, but they certainly exist in our communities and across our nation. drugs and crime represent clear and present dangers. and if we ever needed a perfect storm to mobilize and to alarm us, that storm has made its arrival. in sub saharan africa, 547 million people have no access to electricity. four out of ten people, if they have water at all, they rely on rivers and ponds and other unsafe resources for water. unemployment in senegal, zambia exce

after pontiac's war, he leads the black boys rebellion. the black boys continue to persist. in 1768, he reforms his group and lays siege to another fort. fort bedford. again, attacks the fort and is able to capture a few men who are held prisoner. smith himself, these actions, don't harm him in his community. in fact, they embolden him and he serves in a number of different political positions culminating in the revolutionary government of pennsylvania in 1776. smith is integral in writing the constitution of pennsylvania. it's considered one of the most radical constitutions written in that period. and one of the things that it does is it gives the frontier counties equal representation for the first time, and so what this means is that the frontier now outnumbers eastern representatives 2-1. and because of that, the frontier people for the first time feel represented and are able to enact a policy that they had long advocated. smith continues during the revolution. his group of black boys join the continental army. they come through philadelphia and he says, if my boys are

suddenly wen realize there was a possibility .f a movement for black lives we recognize that when black lives matter, whenever that happens, that will mean that all lives matter. [applause] think, and is absolutely about our needing to experience our work in an expansive way. we cannot be narrowly focused only on the people we think are the closest to us and often times they aren't. we can't necessarily use of acular categories measure of our community. i'm someone that has been doing work around palestinian issues since i was in college. i went to a university that was theded in the same year as state of israel. i learned not only a lot about that process, but the occupation of palestine. beenthe decades, it has very difficult because of the unfortunate presumption that to stand with the palestinians means that one is somehow engaging in a form of anti-fe nism -- semitism. islamophobia, like racism, ,ll the forms of oppression the need to be part of indivisibility of justice. truly opposed to racism, they would have to be opposed to islamophobia and -- anti-semitism. it has been so dif

but it's become a symbol of the whole black forest. would these hats the inspiration for black forest gateau there's no proof but they could be because the chocolate shaving somehow look a bit like the doc woods and here it is a black forest sketch on a sponge cake basically could shoot your whipped cream cherries and chocolate shavings. in the black forest isn't just a place to go sightseeing or enjoy a meal it's great for winter sports. that million one thousand five hundred metres its highest mountain in the field but is almost guaranteed to have snow and it's home to the region's biggest ski resorts. the black forest biggest skiing ariad no way i'm missing that but first i need to fetch them gear no problem because there's a rental spot at the foot of the slopes. there are thirty eight lifts around the field back and some sixty three kilometers of peace a day pass costs thirty five you're. going to start with a blue slope one of the easier ones i haven't read in a while. great weather perfect snow and a view all the way to the alps

of course, with the black culture, black arts movement, movement to really celebrate black history, causes there to be a lot of interest in museums, and here, you see an article depicting the foundation of what would become the museum in chicago. founded by margaret burroughs and her husband. so that was 1961. in 1965, dr. charles wright forms the african-american museum in detroit. he started out with it being a mobile museum, so that it could go to neighborhoods so that kids and other people could access it. he was bringing the history to them. and there was an effort by dr. charles wesley, then the executive director of asalh, to put a -- get a bill through congress in 1968 to actually create a national museum or a national institute for the study of african-american history and culture, and here, you see dr. wesley's testimony in congress at a hearing in march of 1968 for that purpose. james baldwin also testified at that hearing. he told congress, yes, you should do this, but you should understand my history contains the truth about america. it is going to be hard to teach it. i parap

you walk out the door and you are black. there is no definition for black. just to be super open and to take on what somebody else has written so you get into this roadblock and give yourself some room what it would be like not to be in your own shoes. it sounds so simple but that i feel privileged to be able to do because i don't know how open-minded i would be if i wasn't an actor. [applause] i am a filmmaker i run a film festival i want to bring in one last question when we watch films where usually criticizing them but i didn't feel that way. >> i was waiting for that. [laughter] i felt like this film i wouldn't say perfect but i didn't want to replace any of the cast everybody was beautiful and perfectly cast but what would be the baldwin novel you would adapt? i know what i would do but i'm curious for each of you and i want to invite you to think about that what is the book you would adapt? . >> i would do another country definitely. . >> honestly this should all just be adapted. >> i'm going to say another country also. another round of applause. [ch

just the idea of blackness right it's just the idea. that there. are a lot of black people. you know and. so there is that. idea that exists is a threat to people enough to make people want to have it taken down so i like that you took us into the future black people exist in the future but i want to move us to the past just for a second because we got a video comment from the dean of the university of virginia school of law and she raises a point that you raised a little bit earlier terry have a listen to what she said when you look at these incidents in historical perspective they have a very long pedigree going all the way back to the beginning of this country and in england where there were laws that really essentially made it a crime to be a person who was out of place in any way in the one nine hundred seventy s. the supreme court made it more difficult for the police to use such laws and they struck down a number of those laws but as you can see from these incidents they still continue there are still some laws on the books that are in a similar vein. so she says you

they are not speaking for the black community. as if that would somehow disqualify whatever they were singing and he made a comments about james baldwin. he was very bitter about it all. he was a complicated guy in something about that sunk in with him. he absorbed it and processed it and he commenced his brother to introduce civil rights legislation and that's part of the fascination of the man that he was open-minded in his own way. he was fighting his own and thinks in a way and he was quite capable of changing and he did change very dramatically appeared >> the new biography about altman was civil rights work here in washington. why do you think it taken this long for people to write about the relationship between the kennedy at the time and the civil rights movement. >> you know, good question. it is hardly a matter of sentimentality. there is this great idealization of the kennedys afterward. this is white robert kennedy was so popular in the black community. it wasn't because they instinctively loves him. they didn't love h

>> well red black girl festival. it started in 2015 as a book club to celebrate black writers.it's now in its second year as a book festival. it begins with founder, gloria edim, followed by a keynote address by poet and activist patricia smith. >> hey y'all. [applause] >> we are going to officially start the debit i want to thank everyone for being there this one, or is it afternoon? what time is it now? good afternoon everyone. and you so much for joining us today. i am excited. are you guys excited? [applause] >> i see so many familiar faces. i see the excellent girls academy over there. i see folks from howard.i see my mama in the audience. it fills me with so much pride and joy to see so many women i love in this room. and men. and man, yes. let's keep it non-binary. so many folks in this room i love. i just want to say welcome and i want to just give a moment to say this is the perfect opportunity for us to be with one another. to celebrate one another and to really say we belong and all spaces, but especially

woman a black girls and black people and black children and children in general victims and so i think there are shows like how to get away with murder and queen sugar that are like complicating how people have experiences with the criminal legal system but i think you're right like people already have in their mindset that black people and brown people indigenous people are not worthy of justice and respect and so it makes it really easy for media to encapsulate it's an interesting thing with the two of the biggest popular shows in that is you know how to make a murderer like the staircase both don't was you know white people being. accused of something and indian potentially being innocent of it i want to thank you both for coming on today so she's just attorney and political commentary and activist lady di lady damon figaro he thank you so much for coming on today always a pleasure thank you. and today let's close with a little good moves in the world of cancer it's rare i know good news and cancer but well according to a new report the american cancer society has found that from on

those has heard the black community -- has hurt the black community and that is why we do need government. we cannot trust people to do the right thing. there have been in events -- have turnedthat this country upside down starting with the rodney king the o.j. simpson trial, and the election of obama. , thisince those things country is so divided because we have different opinions. , we elected obama and it has proven we are not. i think we need to go back to the basics and give some type of right to the lower and poorer class communities. host: thank you. king said he supported a policy of preferential treatment to rehabilitate the disadvantaged negro. dr. king supported forms of affirmative-action although he was not a policy wonk. ofwas the moral imperative understanding the government has to rebalance society to be able to compensate for this weight of history on the backs of african-americans. gets thrownaction into this debate where people are throwing facts at each other and trying to say it is fair or unfair. experience, why i think it is such an important policy. -- from a perso

of course black women, black women have always been at the heart ofg. social justice organizing, always. always. [applause] and i think we can generalize that and say that women usually to the most important work anyway. [applause] except that it never gets acknowledged. and so it's very exciting to be alivee at a moment when black women are being and knowledge, when women in general are rising up all over the world. i think it's so important not to only think about what's happened to us in this country, just as we don't myopically focus on black communities. we have to think about tino communities and indigenous people and asian americans. [applause] muslim-americans. we also have to look at what's happening beyond our borders. you see, there's this issue with the wall, right? and there's this scapegoating immigrants. one of the ways in which we challenge that, , of course we have to say no to the wall, and we have to recognize, we have to recognize that many of the people who are trying to come to the u.s.t have been hurt and injured by u.s. corporati