. >> reporter: and chopper 4 again live over the scene right now here on adam clayton powell boulevard and 139th street. adam clayton powell is closed between 139th and 140th as an investigation of this accident involving two police officers continues. they were taken to harlem hospital with minor injuries. >>> now to brooklyn where a man was shot in the head just steps away from a subway station. you can imagine the horror as witnesses looked on. lori is on scene. the gunman was dressed in disguise? >> reporter: sibila, police are out here right now. they're searching for a man wearing a construction outfit who may have tried to blend in with some nearby workers here before he shot and killed the victim. in the middle of this busy east new york intersection just beneath the subway, a shocking crime. 41-year-old charles jones executed, shot in the head outside his front door, just two months after he was released from prison. >> i saw him take a gun and shoot him in the head three times. >> reporter: she ran for cover while this man closed up his nearby beauty shop. >> i heard a gunsho

and one was a biography of adam clayton powell. when adam clayton powell came to congress from harlem in 1943, he was only the third african-american in this century post reconstruction. >> right. >> the other two had been fairly docile people from chicago. so when he got to congress he was told as a black man that he could not use the house barber shop, the house swimming pool. the black maitre d' of the house restaurant told him he was not allowed to eat there. >> right. >> and powell said, the hell i'm not. and he did it. >> i came out voluntarily in 1987 and began dating. and i read powell's stuff so i said here's our rule. we are not going to do anything just to make a point, but we're not going to not do anything because somebody else wants to make a point. so from the beginning i insist on that. and jim's a natural. he's a guy that people like. so he became -- in fact, in some ways, again, more popular. he says at one point the senior republican on the committee iing with -- and i sometimes get a little cranky -- >> really? h

eastern, we are live with author will hagood to discuss his books on the river, the life of adam clayton powelland the life of semi-davis junior. and the life and times of sugar ray robinson. and a book about thurgood marshall and the supreme court that change the nation. he will take your calls and answer questions from noon to 3 p.m. eastern. sunday evening at nine eastern on afterwards, america online founder looks at what is next for america, and entrepreneurs vision of america. he discusses how to navigate the ever-changing digital age. he is joined by congressman john delaney of maryland. >> people need to think about how they can think about their own jobs in a world where there is more of a definition of where the work has changed. 34% of people are in the freelance economy, and some call it the flexible economy, the nature of work has changed. there are positive and negative, that will continue to develop in a third way. how do you position yourself? wasockey, wayne gretzky great because he did not focus on where it was going, but where it would be going. maybe they can position themse

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adam clayton powell came to speak in 1964. dick gregory came here to speak. the students had invited people like that to come down here, and in some of the more radical students decided they didn't want any kind of impediments to bring in speakers and admitting asia out of this by infighting eldridge cleaver, jerry rubin an idea often and tom hayden, to speak your, and president rose said no, we can't do that. had they come to speak they would have, the university would've gone under legislature for drastically. the thing about frank rose was he knew what battles worth fighting and what battles were not. for instance, we had a program called emphasis that started in 1966. objectivity was the first keynote speaker for emphasis when he was sent to do. emphasis 67 was called revolution, and it involved revolutions and is also the 50th anniversary of the bolshevik revolution in russia. and with a magazine that accompanied his that had articles in it. one was about a black student from berkeley your her father was a number of the american communist party. she wrot

adam clayton powell came here to speak in 1964, dick gregory came here to speak. the students had invited people like that to come down here. and then some of the more radical students decided they didn't want any kind of impediments to bringing in speakers, and they made an issue out of this by inviting eldridge cleaver, jerry reuben and tom hayden, founder of sds, to speak here, and president rose said, no, we can't do that. and had they come here to speak, the university would have gone under the thumb of the legislature very drastically. the thing about frank rose was he knew what battles were worth fighting and what battles were not. for instance, we had a program here calls emphasis. it started in 1966, bobby kennedy was the first keynote speaker for emphasis when he was a senator. he kicked it off. we'd bring in people to discuss issues from different sides. emphasis '67 was called revolutions, and it involved revolutions, and it was also the 50th anniversary of the bolshevik revolution in russia. there was a magazine that had articles in it, and one of the

the southbound lanes of adams, clayton and powell between 139th and 140th are closed as they conduct their investigation and try to piece together just what led to this collision here. but again, two officers now in the hospital. two people in custody. as we get more details, you'll be the first to know. i'm aj ross, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you, aj. >>> [indiscernible] news copter 7 over the scene. shannon, what can you tell us? >>reporter: you can show you the damage from above. you can see it's the right panel on the police cruiser that took the brunt of the damage which hit the back of the car which sent it into a parked car. as aj mentioned, you have closures in this lane. it's powell boulevard that's shut down. if you're heading in the middle of your screen, you can get through. police put in a secondary closure further back at 141st street. everyone being detoured. it's going to effect you if you're on a city bus. easy detour to get around. you can go to frederick douglas boulevard or malcolm x boulevard. not too bad all things considering. live over harlem, shannon

eastern, we are live with author will hagood to discuss his books on the river, the life of adam clayton powellthe life of semi-davis junior. and the life and times of sugar ray robinson. and a book about thurgood marshall and the supreme court that change the nation. he will take your calls and answer questions from noon to 3 p.m. eastern. sunday evening at nine eastern on afterwards, america online founder looks at what is next for america, and entrepreneurs vision of america. he discusses how to navigate the ever-changing digital age. he is joined by congressman john delaney of maryland. >> people need to think about how they can think about their own jobs in a world where there is more of a definition of where the work has changed. 34% of people are in the freelance economy, and some call it the flexible economy, the nature of work has changed. there are positive and negative, that will continue to develop in a third way. how do you position yourself? wasockey, wayne gretzky great because he did not focus on where it was going, but where it would be going. maybe they can position themselves