the problems in detroit are not detroit problems there. american profit, this is an american city, a great american city. so when you talking about a wholesale withdrawal of governmental support for industrialized cities and, you know, i think that the flag being near the train station is quite appropriate because like i said, this is not just the symbol of detroit play. this is a symbol of america's play, neglect to play lou. ready detroit's recent history might be one a decline, but this was as darrell says, a great american city it was also an instant one a population of 28501900 reached almost 2000000 in 1950, filled by the needs of one industry d industrialization is a common issue in the developed world. my own home town of nottingham in the u. k. went through in the 19 eighties and nineties, but detroit's problem started long before that in creating the motor car for the mass market. detroit. so the seeds of its own decline when the car companies wanted to create new production lines all wanted to teach unionized labor a lesson. the

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, downtown detroit that is very well preserved and maintained. so i didn't want the whole book just to be a decay i wanted it to be a dialogue about the city and about its history. this is a sort of signature picture from the book. this is a high school which is in fact where philips studied typing. this was in a chemistry class room after the vandal and the intense heat of the fire melted the thin plastic face of the clock so the face of time is literally dripped over the hands of the clock. and i am a great lover of the kalin photographs, and so in the photo if you can also read the name of the clockmaker it says national time, so that's the name of this photograph. and this is on bell island which is one of the great escapes of detroit, sort of their central park if you will. this is in what had been the boat house and this is a little different where a lot of pictures show the ruin for the destruction. it was a place that had just sort of been emptied out. everything has been removed. the structure still looks okay but everything else is gone

around detroit. those 10 counties during the same time when detroit went from 2,700,000 has gone from 3 million to 5 million population. leftof the industry that downtown detroit resettled in the counties around detroit. if you look at the five top economic new economy sectors in 10 counties around detroit are among the top five. greater troit is flourishing. the detroit from the 19th century, bound by these ancient, antiquarian and observe boundaries -- we have to readjust. we have to talk about cities in terms of metropolitan regions. we have to redefine our cities in terms of the demographics and economics of the 21st century. that is also a political battle. tavis: michael bloomberg is going out as a three term mayor of new york city. expectation in new york city that de blasio would do something about not just quality-of-life issues that bloomberg did a pretty good job on by and large, but on the issues of poverty and disenfranchisement and class. give me some sense of what you think he might be

the city of detroit is where our story begins. detroit was once the economic envy of the world. the people of detroit help to power america to its position of global dominance in the 20th century. [crowd boos] [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. when we were governed by the america first policy, detroit was absolutely booming. engineers, builders, laborers, shippers, and countless others went to work each day, provided for their families, and lived out, totally, lived the american dream. but for many living in this city, that dream has long ago vanished, when we abandoned the policies of america first. we started rebuilding other countries instead of our own. the skyscrapers were not in beijing and many other cities around the world while the factories and neighborhoods crumbled right here in detroit. our roads and bridges fell into disrepair, yet we found the money to resettle millions of refugees at taxpayer expense. today, detroit has per capita income of under $15,000, about half of the national average. 40% of the city's residents live in poverty. over 2.5 times t

the city of detroit is where our story begins. detroit was once the economic envy of the world. the people of detroit help to power america to its position of global dominance in the 20th century. [crowd boos] [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. when we were governed by the america first policy, detroit was absolutely booming. engineers, builders, laborers, shippers, and countless others went to work each day, provided for their families, and lived out, totally, lived the american dream. but for many living in this city, that dream has long ago vanished, when we abandoned the policies of america first. we started rebuilding other countries instead of our own. the skyscrapers were not in beijing and many other cities around the world while the factories and neighborhoods crumbled right here in detroit. our roads and bridges fell into disrepair, yet we found the money to resettle millions of refugees at taxpayer expense. today, detroit has per capita income of under $15,000, about half of the national average. 40% of the city's residents live in poverty. over 2.5 times t

the other detroit, maybe they see it out the window. the detroit i show, the detroit i love.ur detroit but it's what i saw. >> this is vicky's barbecue. there are no renovated houses or new businesses on this block, just vicky's barbecue. like 700,000 citizens, it too has endured. ♪ >> who lives here? >> some would say it's an abandoned city. this neighborhood, i mean, working class. i actually live like a mile and a half that way but it's completely different environment. >> george, born and raised in southwest detroit. >> it's weird, like in detroit, it's super contrast in like certain senses. if you go down jefferson towards gross pointe, it's like once you hit gross pointe it's beautiful million dollar estate homes but right before that, it's the slums. there's no in the middle, i guess you would say. that's the problem with detroit. there's a general consensus of fear of this city, you know what i mean? >> wait a minute. you have a whole hipster resurgence going on. >> it's great. lot of people talk that it's positive. when you are a city left without options, you know,

it will be so good for detroit. we will also give our police and law enforcement the funds in support they need to restore law and order to this country. [applause and cheering] thank you. without security, there can be no prosperity. [shouting] [crowd boos] without security, there can be no prosperity. we must have law and order. we must have law and order. [applause and cheering] by the way, our police in this country are really unrecognized for the incredible job that they do. thank you. [applause] in the coming days, we will be rolling out plans on all of these items. one of my first acts as president will be to repeal and replace disastrous obamacare, saving another 200 million american jobs. [cheering and applause] we will also rebuild our military and get our allies to pay their fair share for the protection we provide to them, saving us countless more billions of dollars to invest in our own country. [applause] we also have a plan on our website for complete reform of the veterans administration. [applause]

you have to be innovative in detroit.t kind of artist who is always thinking outside of the box. when you think back to jazz through techno, all of those areicular genres of music happening in detroit because of people who think outside the box. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to detroit, michigan to learn about its rich history. to watch more video from detroit and other stops on our tour, visit c-span.org/cities tour. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. each week american artefacts takes viewers into historic sites around the country. we visit the rise up exhibit here at the museum to learn about the 1969 stonewall riots and how they served as a catalyst for the modern lgbt rights movement. >> we are here at the prologue of our newest exhibit. innewall was in an event 1969, an uprising in a gay bar in new york city that propelled forward the l

the city of detroit is where our story begins. detroit was once the economic envy of the world. the people of detroit help to power america to its position of global dominance in the 20th century. [crowd boos] [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. when we were governed by the america first policy, detroit was absolutely booming. engineers, builders,laborers, shippers, and countless others went to work each day, provided for their families, and lived out, totally, lived the american dream. but for many living in this city, that dream has long ago vanished, when we abandoned the policies of america first. we started rebuilding other countries instead of our own. the skyscrapers were not in beijing and many other cities around the world while the factories and neighborhoods crumbled right here in detroit. our roads and bridges fell into disrepair, yet we found the money to resettle millions of refugees at taxpayer expense. today, detroit has per capita income of under $15,000, about half of the national average. 40% of the city's residents live in poverty. over 2.5 times th

let's look at white detroit. you can imagine, begun, what the map will look like, the small kind of enclave, the community that is centered in the middle of the screen in 1940, right, which had been a black population since 1900, right? that is going -- the white in there is going to expand, right, when we look at the inverse. again. let's look at we study -- let's look at chicago, black chicago. i will let it play one more time. okay. again, you can imagine the inverse is true for white chicago. let me do two more. let me do oakland, the oakland belt that you read about in the robert self article. here is the black population in that bay area from 1940 to 1990. again, the reason i picked these years, 1940 to 1960 is the years that hirsch points to as the emergence of the second ghetto. we'll talk about what that means. as african-american populations are concentrated in and around oakland, that's where they grow. one of the interesting things about this map, i didn't create it, but there is less pronounced kind

half of all detroit residents do not work. detroit tops the list of the most dangerous cities in terms of violent crime. [shouting] [applause] >> thank you. thank you. detroit tops the list of most dangerous cities in terms of violent crime. these are silent victims whose stories are never told by hillary clinton but victims who are suffering is no less real or permanent. in short, the city of detroit is the living, breathing, example of my opponent's failed economic agenda. [cheers and applause] every policy that has failed this city and so many others is a policy supported by hillary clinton. she supports the high taxes and radical regulation that forced jobs out of your community. and the crime policies have made you far, far less safe and the immigration policies that have strained local budgets and the trade deals like nafta, signed by her husband, that have shipped your jobs to mexico and other countries, and she supports the education policies that deny your students choice, freedom, and opportunity. [applause] she is t

[applause] >> why was is detroit different? >> how was detroit different from chicago? and being the motor city could you comment on the fact that gm and chrysler. >> another said bankruptcies but the question was how is detroit different from other cities i would first say that i think it is on trend from past decades and by the federal government into the peaks of the late seventies and following steadily between 80 and 88 in response to the financial crisis with the sequester but all those that have balanced budget requirements turn around and pass the cuts to cities and they have been left to balance their budgets by going into the financial markets and all of that risk that was accumulated didn't harm for the financial crisis. so that was representative and in some ways it was largely a wine industry town that has suffered from mobilization and suburbanization and about cuts to the gm plant so that is certainly that detroit is unique on the other end because of the car industry , it is a place where philanthropic foundations because of the historic american spirit

let's look at detroit. let's look at so-called black detroit. from 1940 to 1990. i'm just going to let it play a few times. this is 1940, all right? the shaded-in sections represent the concentration of black people in detroit in 1940. i'm going to play the maps as they go through to 1990. play them a few times. and again, you can see the spatial dynamic of segregation. you know, what it looks like. i'll let it play one more time. now, let's look at white detroit. and you can imagine, again, what the map will look like. that small kind of enclave, that community that's centered right in the middle of the screen in 1940, which had been a black population since 1900, that is going -- the whiteness in there is going to expand when we look at the inverse. let's look at chicago, black chicago. i'll let it play one more time. okay. and again, you can imagine the inverse is true for white chicago. and let me do two more. let me do oakland -- the oakland belt that you read about in the robert self article. here is kind of the black population in that bay area from 1940 to

that story. >> after decades of decline, detroit is poised to elect its first white mayor since 1974. former hospital ceo heads into tuesday's election, with a strong lead over fellow democrat wayne county sheriff benny napoleon. the most recent poll has duncan ahead by 24%. >> about those ruts so far, i have a three letter word, wow. >> university of detroit mercy, marketing professor says his lead shows that in a city that's over 80% african-american, there's support for new leadership regardless of race. >> it appears duncan's reputation is being a fix it man appeals to voter whose are looking for change. he has been touting his record of overhauling the bus system, and rescuing eight hospitals from fiscal ruin within the detroit medical center. >> we talk about a black city, and this white guys so somebody beliefs he can do something. who has a familiar face to detroiters. >> whoever becomes mayor, their immediate impact may be limited. an emergency manageser in charge of the city for at least another year. sheriff napoleon says his first order of business, will be to change that.

which separates east detroit from west detroit. anybody i -- everybody identifies themselves as east detroit or west detroit. go down a mile and there is motown. this row, series of houses that is now a museum. i did most of the research. going there, interview, doing a lot of archival research. all my books i say they have four legs to a table. one leg is the observation of being there, understanding the cultural geography of a place. archivald leg is the research, find a contemporaneous documents. the third leg is the interviews. and i found as many of the people that i could from that era. i had to travel other places as well. barry gordy is in a mansion in bel air in los angeles. i went to see him and a lot of other people around the country. the fourth leg is looking for what is not there. there is always a conventional wisdom about something, trying to find other ways to explore the reality. >> interesting interview that you had to you mentioned very gor -- barry gordy. what did you learn? probably 80 83, four by now. he was

how is it buying only products in detroit, farmers in detroit, helping detroit?it. everyone here lives in detroit. >> if i ask the same question, i say i don't [ muted] i'm doing it well. i'm doing anytime a place i love. and i am demonstrating that yet another person gives a [ muted ], believes in it enough to be here. >> you're 100% right. i never really thought about it until you asked that question. it's like -- to me it's just obvious. >> what will the detroit of the future look like? whatever you may think it should look like, it will probably taste like this. that's a man interviewino.for a job. not that one. that one. the one who seems like he's already got the job 'cause he studied all the right courses from the get-go. and that's an accountant, a mom, a university of phoenix scholarship recipient, who used our unique --scratch that-- awesome career-planning tool. and that's a student, working late, with a day job, taking courses aligned with the industry he's aiming to be in. ready to build an education around the career that you want? let's get to work

of detroit. in this role, she tackles both the city's economic and workforce development functions to attract and retain businesses and provide pathways for worker success in the job market. grateful to have you with us. look forward to your insights today. we will begin with miss mack for your opening statement. miss mack: good morning. members of the senate health committee. i'm the executive director of new york's association of training and employment professionals, which is new york's workforce development association. we were founded in the late 1970's and we represent every county in the state. our members include local workforce boards and career centers as well as training centers and community colleges and adult literacy and education and job training and employment service providers. our member server over one million new yorkers each year. covid-19 has laid bare that the labor market does not -- treat all people equally. while many new yorkers have lost their jobs, the disproportion o

for "nightly business report," i'm brian sullivan in detroit. >> and on the heels of that detroit bankruptcy today miami was accused of securities fraud from three bond offerings in 2009. they said they issued false and misleading statements and miami cannot play shell games with the finances. the city was reprimanded in 2003. >>> steven a.cohen is one of most successful fund firms of them all but that could change. a civil complaint is filed against cohen to super vice two of his trader employees. that are accused on an insider trading scream and bar cohen from managing other people's money. scc capital said he's done nothing wrong and will fight the charges. do today's fcc moves forshadow moves to come? ron is a journalist that worked with cohen. why is there so much attention with him? >> he's one of the most successful hedge fund people in the industry. he started with $25 million, he himself is said to be worth $9 billion and at it's peak, sac was managing 15 or $16 billion. so quite a big success story, and he's also known for some of the things that have come with that success, a larg

ourcity of detroit is where city begins. detroit was once the economic envy of the world. the people of detroit help to america for the position of global dominance in the 20th century. [crowd cheers] thank you. thank you very much. when we were governed by the detroitfirst policy, was absolutely booming. engineers, laborers, shippers and countless others went to work each day, provided for families and lived out, out the american dream. many living in this city that dream has long ago vanished. we abandon the policy of america first, we started countries other instead of our own. skyscrapers went up in beijing and many other cities around the world while factories and neighborhoods crumbled right here in detroit. roads and bridges fell into disrepair, yet we found the money to resettle millions of refugees at taxpayer expense today detroit has a per capita $15,000, about half of the national average. resident live in poverty. times -- over 2.5 times the national average. half of all detroit residents do work. detroit tops the list of the most dangerous cities in terms of

detroit, the french because of the detroit river. river, and this is important not only because of from thegetting goods upper region in michigan and the rest of the great lakes, but .lso at a strategic permission they controlled the entire span leading up to the rest of the great lakes. following the french and indian war, new france became british. right now you are looking at a .eally great model of detroit this model represents the town and the new fort built by the british. this was after they had torn down the original fort, fort pond to train. themay notice it's strange fort itself is behind the settlement. this would actually come back to bite the fort because when the americans took over, they noticed our cannons can't fire on the river. what good is a four that can't fire on attackers from the river. even though at this point in majority of residents were french. a couple of hundred within the city limits itself, but a lot out.on the farms the whole city burning down, for provided a fresh start a whole new city plan, the bo

detroit is the largest municipal bankruptcy in american history.etroit's finances had been in decline and unable to pay its bills. they left nearly 20 billion in debt owed to 1,000 creditors. he told us what went wrong on special report last night. take a listen. >> in detroit there was a lack of contribution there was multiple cases of mismanagement that went on for a long period of time with respect to pension liabilities in detroit. >> some credit tors were asked to take pension. they slunk from the peak of nearly 2 million 1950 to 700,000 today. the stays unp employment rate has nearly tripled since the year 2000 and it is more than double the national average. detroit's homicide rate is at the highest level in nearly 40 years. they have fwhanled one of the most dangerous cities in the u.s. for the past 20-years. detroiters wait almost an hour for police to respond compared to the national average of 11 minutes. 78,000 buildings abandoned. officials including the governor and kevin ore assure detroiters it's business as usual now. services will

obviously had ties to detroit and works in detroit and has initiatives in the city of detroit and also has a large film, called "just films." they were a major financier of the film. pbs was our second biggest funder. the private family foundation and finance documentary fund kicked in a little bit of money and impact partners which is an equity organization. the collection of us together, they financed the film. no one had editorial control. that was one of the deal that's we had. we were able to raise the money without having to make promises to anybody which including pbs and including broadcaster. >> dave bling was mayor of detroit. -- dave bing is the mayor of detroit. what mayor is he? >> he's a clean mayor. he's an honest mayor. there's a history of corruption and all kinds of business with some of the city council and the mayors of detroit including kilpatrick who is now on trial. detroit is just come out of a feeling of sense of being empty handed and betrayed and tricked by their previous mayor. i think most detroiters will say kilpatrick tricked them. dave being the right an

detroit. she talks about how detroit is the sort of place where people are doing things every day that you're not expected to do anywhere else. people come home from work and patrolling neighborhoods because their site every claiming the think that lots and turning them into gardens are concert venues. they're bored and i it houses. bible chapter in the book and i feel like that surprised me i guess, that the extent of that and how real and kind of inspirational that can be. >> some of the characters in your book are familiar characters. characters we see written up all the time in reference to detroit. one of them is by rick akin, someone who lives not too far from me and where i grew up. i've read i don't know how many different things about tyree who i've met several times and talked to. this treatment was very different than anything else i have seen and i wanted to read just a couple drafts of how you captured him and talk more about it. at the end of this section it says guyton said he b

that's what happened in detroit.ve twice as many government employees per cap at that a most other similar-sized cities. they still have a horseshoer in the water department. melissa: really? >> they don't have any horses. melissa: what does i do today >> he ds other work apparently. they don't have any horses. i don't know what he does. they won't, civil service, they're just reluctant to fire anybody. and then those small tech business. they're probably okay because they escape the licensing rules. but the current mor, mayor bing, who is well-respected says, we have oration compliance. we're going to close 20 unlicensed businesses every week. melissa: what a, shut down business. >> right. liz: you want, somebody out there trying to hire people. >> these are informal businesses and they have too many licensing rules. to be a hair braider you have to take 50, 100 hours of cours. melissa: really? >> you ought to be unlicensed hair braider. >> does it take that long to learn how to braid? >> no. melissa: no. what do yo

. >> take him to detroit. >> no! not detroit! >> i love you, detroit. >> massive unions, massive pensions. >> yes, lavish pensions. on average $19,000 a year which detroit now says they will pay 10 cents on the dollar. >> when union membership goes down, so do middle class wages. >> then the unions came in. then the democratic machine came in. then the drugs came in. >> every politician who puts their hand on the bible and takes the oath of office has a duty to this city and to manufacturing in this country. >> it yields a cat like kid rock. it must have good stuff in it. but the dems ran it into the ground. >> they don't have a fiscal problem, steve. they have a cultural collapse. >> see all those people in those pictures? have you ever seen so many americans be a failure at so many things? here we go again. i will not let this story go. there is more evidence detroit is truly, truly a conservative utopia. yes, i'm not going to get off this story. and it is something this country needs to pay attention to. conservatives keep bla

i learned to love detroit. there's a certain greediness -- grittyness about it and a spirit to overcome. there are a lot of great people there. and did not like the weather. i stayed 1.5 winters and had to leave. the job was graphics artist. that was the job title. at grambling, part of the mass, major was that you learn reporting and editing like everyone else. i was the co-editor of the college newspaper. i started a magazine. when i got to detroit my goal was to figure out a way to married that reporting with what they wanted me to do in graphics. i told them that if something happened, i was going. they said that was fine with them. whenever i was feeling burned out or someone was shot, i was there on the scene so that i could visually tell that story. that became a valuable skill. not a lot of people were doing that in that space at the time. >> why did you pick grambling in the first place a historic black college? >> it was close to where i grew up. it is where my mother also went to college and where a

detroit may be the canary in the coal mine here.y got in my opinion about a dozen cities around the country that are in -- severe financial trouble. again, that doesn't mean they are going to go bankrupt. you are talking about my hometown or chicago. you are talking about a lot of cities by the way in california. cities like oakland, san bernardino, that are in severe trouble. the trouble with all of these sthgs the same. they have these incredible pension programs they can't pay for and that means they have to cut fire service, reply service, school. here's the big problem. let me say this. i actually think that bankruptcy is -- not a bad option here for cities like detroit. it is a way that -- for them to hit the restart button and maybe -- you know, start over again. i'm optimistic about american cities if they can start over and get rid of the huge debts, you know, many people are moving back to cities like chicago and so on. if they can get those debts under control. >> what steve is saying same thing when the governments start

in detroit, violence continues. police a national guardsman -- >> i am declaring a public state of emergency. >> it is a war zone. they are destroying the city. >> police! >> i'm going to assume you are all criminals. >> you don't talk about this to anyone, ever. you understand? >> ♪ >> change is coming! >> i told you what i saw. help here.ing to >> what is the matter with you? >> change is coming! >> they are trying to kill us. >> change is coming! >> ♪ melvin, you want to go home? what happened at the motel? charlie: joining me is the director, kathryn bigelow, the writer, and two of the stars. i'm pleased to have all of you at this table. welcome. previous --i saw a on previous occasions at this table. tell me how this came to be. >> the writer next to me his work is extraordinary came to me with a story set against the detroit riots, the detroit uprising in 1967. setue story, a true crime in the algiers motel. and it was simply put, an execution. and a portrait of police brutality and racial injustice that was e

having spoken at harlem and detroit. we are happy to have him and doctor reda the former director of studies at michigan state university and is currently professor of international relations and african affairs. she's written seven books, five in print and several journal articles on topics that include the comparative politics and relations of africa, corporate development. an exemplar for the studies excellent work if you haven't seen it, though bookstore and of course now the book entered today we want a complete sellout of that book. also the award recipient of the outstanding dedicated service to the community by the association for the study of african-american life in history into the charles h. wright. and the university of south africa on behalf of the board and executive of course president and ceo the staff and volunteers would welcome you and like you to join me in welcoming to the stage doctor rita. [applause] >> the man of the hour and activist, journalists and college teacher who's dedicated his wide-rang

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