, an african american woman would protect her man's manhood. there's this interracial romance that happens, black man, white woman, and how this is all viewed. she said how she felt her character had to really stand up to protect her man and as a consequence it became part of the play. the african american woman will not tell earl that his wife has actually left him already and run off with another man. she doesn't tell him that because she's trying to protect his manhood. those are things i think if you are a smart playwright, you really take advantage of your very smart actors and your very smart directors. again, this thing where it's always coming down it ego. at sundance, in every rehearsal process, i like being part of a very generous workshop. if you were in there you would say, wow, it's pretty free-wheeling. for example, you have 9 characters, 9 story lines that all are trying to be pieced together so they all are introduced, they all intertwine and at the end they are all resolved in some form or fashion. it's a delicate architecture.

how did african-americans do? there are two aspects of the african-american voters want to talk about. it's not like there was truly a national campaign in 2012. if you lived in a swing state, you saw politics was all consuming. that was all that life was about, the 2012 election. on the other hand, if you did not live in a swing state, you probably were not entirely aware there was an election going on at all. in terms of the black vote, want to point out a couple of things. before i point out be increase in the black vote, want to mention one thing about gender. a major aspect of this election was about appeals to women, the phraseology was i believe "the war on women." there were issues having to do with rape, abortion, contraception, that were major elements of the campaign. there was a gender gap, and the gender gap was essential in terms of the outcome of the election. but i want to mention there was a recurrence of the black gender gap. there has for a long time been bought heavily talked about, but there h

we were approached by the african american museum. we did it there, then other museums. what we are proud of is we have been able to touch so many people. the kid's a collection was adopted by the state of florida to teach african american history to 3.6 million kids. we have a curriculum, k-12. each year, we do more. we have an ipad app coming out in january. it is amazing, because we keep touching these points. with the exception of "america i am," we don't know of anybody else trying to do it quite like this. failure is a four-lane highway, success is under construction. we are under construction and we are driving this thing and we want to build this highway. tavis: as we have been talking, our director, jonathan, has been flashing through some of the items in the collection. give the audience some sense of the collection. there is a whole book, obviously, but in terms of the kind of artifacts. you have paintings, you have -- >> paintings, books, manuscripts, documents, going back to the 1600's. tavis: you have a combination. >> we have a combination, and bernard has

in the united states twenty five percent of the african-american population is eligible old enough to vote doesn't have valid photo id twenty percent of the asian twenty one thousand percent of the dinos college students eighteen percent of them don't seniors they've abandoned their cars are no longer driving people earning less than fifty thirty five thousand dollars and then we get down to whites eight percent and so it seems like there is a real difference here and it's almost like you know paul weyrich could play the clip earlier he said i don't want everybody to vote somebody set down with this chart and said ok let's just pick off these groups. as this is a paradigm you know no comments where we have the voting rights out that's why we're winning our cases because these are a form of poll taxes some people could afford to pay the poll tax and the greatest civil rights legislation the voting rights act of one nine hundred sixty five said that poll taxes and literacy tests and obstacles the manipulation of the vote that have a discriminatory impact are also illegal in this country

and it wasn't only african-americans. it was also jewish american donors who gave them -- it was oprah winfrey who worked hard for him and was frozen out of the white house, and caroline kennedy and on and on. and here was a president -- a man who felt he deserved -- he was entitled to all this support and didn't owe anything back in return. >> host: ed klein, what about michelle obama? what is her role in the white house? i. >> host: i love that picture of michelle obama. she is a very attractive woman. she has been on the cover of many fashion magazines. in fact vogue had her on the cover with the headline, the first lady the world has been waiting for. michelle liked to tell the american public she has no interest in politics, that she doesn't like politics and doesn't want to get involved in politics. her main interest is in raising her children, taking care of her husband, doing some work for her antiobesity campaign, but my reporting turned up a very different profile of michelle obama. a woman who in fact grew up i

he won 13 primaries and caucuses and proved an african-american could win white votes.n 2007, senator obama decided to take the leap and run for the white house. >> we had a meeting to talk through whether he should run, and michelle said to him, what do you think you can contribute that no one else can contribute? and he said, there are two things i know for sure. the day i get elected, i think the world will look at us differently. and i think millions of young people across this country will look at themselves differently. >> he always said that he didn't think that the outcome of the race would depend upon the color of his skin. he thought that the american people would make their decision based on who they thought was best positioned to lead our country. >> obama saw that his youth, he was only 45, his early opposition to the iraq war, and yes, his race could work in his favor. he believed he could win. >> if you sense, as i sense, that the time is now to shake off our slumber and slough off our fears and make good on the debt we owe past and future generations, th

how did african-americans do? there are two aspects of the african-american voters want to talk about. it's not like there was truly a national campaign in 2012. if you lived in a swing state, you saw politics was all consuming. that was all that life was about, the 2012 election. on the other hand, if you did not live in a swing state, you probably were not entirely aware there was an election going on at all. in terms of the black vote, want to point out a couple of things. before i point out be increase in the black vote, want to mention one thing about gender. a major aspect of this election was about appeals to women, the phraseology was i believe "the war on women." there were issues having to do with rape, abortion, contraception, that were major elements of the campaign. there was a gender gap, and the gender gap was essential in terms of the outcome of the election. but i want to mention there was a recurrence of the black gender gap. there has for a long time been bought heavily talked about, but there h

african-american community has more than one opinion.ink parishioners are still going to go vote and in large numbers they're going to vote for the president. >> reporter: abc news polling suggests there has been no significant dropoff in black enthusiasm for obama than in 2008. >> voting for obama? >> yeah! >> reporter: but aside from the usual support democrats reveal on, the series reveal one additional motivation. >> this pat has a deep hatred for white people. >> this man hates this country. >> reporter: a simmering anger many blacks feel about how they believe the president has been treated. >> we seen that governor put her finger in his face. when you have seen somebody do the president like that? >> i think it is a deep-seeded racism that we have not yet confronted. >> reporter: there will be people that hear that and say, you know, there they go again. >> yes. >> reporter: when you hear that mantra, let's take america back, what do you think they're talking about? >> i really think they're saying, let's take the paradigm back to

this will be cosponsored by the english department and the african-american studies department. and we are acknowledged their generosity for bringing up to this historical room. that everybody would be able to find it. it's like a landmark. the great poets of the road, great of the world. we want to welcome richard hudson, professor to preaching on behalf of this department. he was professor emeritus and a member of the affiliated faculty of the american studies program and interdisciplinary program that was key founder 25 years ago. he came to you see berkeley's english department in 1964 and retired in 2009. although he's continued teaching until this summer. his special interest has been american cultural history, especially from the civil war to world war one. he's now president of the western literature association will host 300 to 400 people in berkeley at the annual conference in october of 2013 and practices good luck with that. [laughter] >> i basically just want to say a word. you happen to be in the jewel room of an edge department. this department has, unlike other r

what they saw was an african-american woman and they worry would i be fair to their people?-woman said to me michele obama has said that she is the descendant of slaves and slave owners and she embraces the history, that is her story and they said to me she is on the right side of history and we are on the wrong side of history. but even when these descendants and i were having these conversations and they were looking at me as someone on the other side, being able to talk about it was a good thing. so the website you are talking about sounds fascinating. is a great thing. >> i would like to talk to you -- thank you. >> i was wondering. does the dna testing since you were able to take it back to irish-americans, you able to use that in africa to see what region she is descended, from one area in africa? >> it is not as precise as one would like. in fact the family, the white descendants actually know the history, they know they are irish-americans and deshields were all shields at one point and the dna certainly suggest west africa but that is a very common thing. beyond tha

one african-american bishop in virginia says voting democrat is a terrible mistake if you are a black american. >> my name is bishop e.w. jackson, chairman of ministers taking a stand against w. a message to christians in the black community. it is time to end the slavish devotion to the democrat party. the democrat party has created an unholy alliance between certain so-called civil rights leaders and planned parenthood. which has killed unborn black babies by the tens of millions. planned parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the kkk ever was. and the democrat party and their black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide. they say opposition to same sex marriage is the same as opposition to interracial marriage. that is an insult to human intelligence. it is a lie. no christian should support this. yet, the democrat party has now declared same sex marriage an official part of its platform. and black christians remain in that party? the civil rights establishment has embraced the lie and betrayed the black community and god almighty. for 30 pieces of silve

what our african-american media monitor base in washington, d.c. was able to glean from newspapers like "the washington afro," the range of black media, you can see from the endorsements, you can see from the kind of reporting they're doing, there is more of an openness in the african-american community to recognize that president obama inherited two wars and a crumbling economy and that they are willing -- they recognize that four years was not enough of a timetable and they are lwilling to let him attempt to turn it around. >> how much does voter oppression -- >> that's an interesting point. with the african-american community, we just saw in florida, one polling presignature, 1,000 votes through some computer glitch that could be explained, voting oppression was a key issue with some african-american voters that had not supported president obama, being ticked off, being really mad and looking at this as a republican tactic to suppress their votes and now they are going to be full scale with president obama. >> belva: as we wrap this up, have any

if you look at african america african americans -- two things you talk to strategists who know the african american community, there was an effort by republicans in states from pennsylvania, florida, ohio, to shrink the amount of days and ways in which african americans could vote. >> schieffer: you know, to me, most telling statistic in this whole race, dee dee, is when i read and learned from those exit polls that barack obama had won the cuban vote in florida. >> right. in florida. and the hispanic vote made up the entire marge nin florida, ended up being 73,000 votes. you can trace it a lot of different ways but that's one of them. that's pretty surprising. what the obama campaign will tell you, not only was their turnout operation every bit as good and better but their message was better. they won this because they appealed to middle class voters. they said who will do a better job taking care of people like you and middle cross voters resoundingly said yes. another thing john was alluding to, when you try to suppress the vote you try to-- it really makes them mad. and that helps to e

you can't just try to find an african-american or latino candidate who will mouth the same words. you have to change the party. >> alan west isn't going to make it. he did concede. thank you joy and jonathan. >> happy holidays. coming up the best of campaign 2012. think of this as a football highlight show after the big game. corporations are people. 47%. the first debate. we'll go over all the hits and misses with our all-star cast. this is a year in review thing. what do the following have in common? the watergate cover-up, iran-contra, monica lewinsky, katrina, they have happened during second terms. how does president obama avoid the kind of second-term disaster that has crippled so many presidencies? and, canned nuts the crazy conspiracy theories that the right wing spun this election season. here's one from rush limbaugh. democrats manipulated the weather forecast in tampa so the republicans would cancel the first day of their convention. really, rush? that's not even the nuttiest one. let me finish with a letter from the war front that a young pt vote commander once wrote y

world and no means of a world. 20 minutes of singing and then he comes out and introduces an african-american pastor from new york city where they had been renting space for their services on sunday and they were being thrown out that has been reversed at this point and his whole message was what's happening in new york is the to be happening in san diego. get ready. and then jim talked about that evening's panel which i was granted be a part in his tone was they are coming to get us and the only way that i could prepare you for when they come is when you come to light so be here and it was this kind of paranoid thing that i hadn't heard before. was 45 minutes long and i would never get away with that in new hampshire. [laughter] the first time god had a mention most 20,000 in and 40,000 minutes jesus got a mention and then it ended. i forgot to tell you right after the music come he comes out and says now it's time to take up the offering out of the gate and everyone cheered. i could use that in new hampshire. [laughter] there was a very weak kind of prayer and then a was over. i've never be

culture. >> most african-americans are against gay marriage. even so, the percentage of african-americans who support gay marriage is up from 21% in 2004 to 40% today. >> as more people are open with their sexuality, our friends, our family, our mothers, our fathers, our grandparents who may have at one point had a different view, say, "wait, that's my grandson i'm talking about now, or that's my son, or that's my nephew," and that's what's going to change the church eventually. it's going to bubble up from society. as society changes, the church will change. >> same-sex marriage is legal in six states. if maryland votes in its favor, it may be the first state to legalize gay marriage as a ballot initiative. for "religion & ethics newsweekly," i'm betty rollin in baltimore, maryland. >>> on our calendar, many christians this week observed all saints' day, a time to remember saints and martyrs. we have a belief and practice segment now about the eve of all saints' day, all hallow's eve, also known as halloween. it is celebrated each year at the

and the first african-american in nevada.n ohio, the second black woman in district three in the congress from ohio. in texas, district 33 and now texas has for black house members from texas. there are a couple of other races that have not been called yet. one is in arizona in the ninth district. there is a black republican candidate named vernon parker who is running only a couple thousand votes behind his opponent. all the ballots haven't been tallied and there is certainly a possibility this person -- he is behind by 2000 votes, but there is a possibility he could be elected. i do have to mention allen west. allen west right now is about 2300 votes behind his opponents. in terms of the swing states, the african-american vote was absolutely crucial to president obama in ohio, and michigan, also pennsylvania and florida, and in virginia as well. i would also throw out that there were several democratic senate nominee is who were elected who benefited from a substantial african-american vote. clair mccaskill, 20% came from a

democrats will be deeply demoralized, african-american democrats more so.hink that the base of the republican party cares about only one thing and that is getting rid of barack obama and i think they will be infuriated and they don't care whether it's mitt romney or anyone else. chris: howard, big question to you. a lot of polls show it's possible that romney could win the popular. although it has no meaning in our constitution. will the right not accept the loss if they win the popular and lose the electoral college? will they cause trouble? >> i agree with joy. and my whole career has been about covering the rise of the conservative republicans in the south. as the defining principle of the modern republican conservative parlte. they will be full of conspiracy theories and craziness if barack obama wins again. it will drive them completely nuts. and i think we've had a decline in comity to use an old fashioned word in our politics since 2000. if the electoral college versus the popular vote i think and the president wins, i think you're going to see a rum

are they flexible enough to reach out to the classic american minority who are african-americans who have been around longer than the white people have been in this country, most of them? >> right. i think the problem is for the republican party, and it gets to some of what jonathan was saying is that their ideas and their philosophy, forgetting just their tone, which is very off-putting to african-americans, to latinos and young people. but their core philosophy is not popular with these minority groups. a lot of the messaging and the tone, you can't just try to find an african-american or a latino candidate who mouthed the same words. you're going to have to change the tone of the party. >> he did concede eventually. happy holidays. >>> the best of campaign 2012. think of this as a football highlights show after the big game. corporations are people. 47%. the first debate. we'll go over all the hits and the misses with our all-star cast. this is going to be fun. with verizon. hurry in this saturday and sunday for great deals. like the lucid by lg, free. or the galaxy nexus by samsu

if we had a white liberal running as a democrat instead of an african-american liberal or progressiveatever the term seems to be would there an opportunity for republicans to african-und that way, maybe a conservative? are they flexible enough to reach out to the classic american minority who are african-americans and been around here longer than the white people have been in this country most of them? >> i think the problem is for the republican party, and it gets to some of what jonathan is saying, the ideas and philosophy for getting their tone, which is very offputting to latinos people their core philosophy is not popular with the minority groups. when you look at into their core belief they have a belief the government has a role. so do latinos. in the time that the republican party has been messaging negativively to minorities during that time those very ]3 groups have been developing a democratic philosophy about government. now what you have, latinos and african-americans and asians as well, they poll very favorable to democrats on core issues. should the government step in a

that has to do with the fact we have an african-american president. there is going to be tremendous loyalty to him. the first person also benefits tremendously from group loyalties. here is the question, if we had had a white liberal running instead of an african-american liberal. would there have been more of an opportunity for the republicans to run an african-american and change things around that way? are they flexible enough to reach out to the classic minority who are african-americans who have been around longer than the white people. >> i think the problem is forgetting their tone which is very offputting. their core philosophy is not popular with the minority groups. a lot of the messaging and tone. you can't just try to find an african-american or latino candidate that will mouth the same words. happy holidays. the best of campaign 2012. think of this is a football highlight show after the big game. corporations are people. 47%. the first debate. we'll go over all the hits and the misses with our all-star cast. this is going to be fun. ♪ [ s

we proved we could win african-americans running on welfare reform in the primary against an african-americancandidate. >> the implication of that today well with the parallel before a republican? stand? >> you need a leader primary and though i think probably as early as possible to get it off the table. >> so my friend jonathan martin had a publication which shall not be named, floated that scenario yesterday where he said looking at these questions, he said quoted a republican strategist saying any potential 2016 nominee will be intimidated from joining a comprehensive immigration solutions because the likelihood at least one or two candidates will go into iowa and new hampshire in 2016 and run on repealing obama's amnesty in the same way they ran on repealing health care and again in a republican primary you have the catch-22 that the future never gets a boat in the room. the existing coalition 93% of voters as best we could tell were white and over 60% were over 50. generally speaking groups that are uneasy with a lot of what is happening demographically. a matt, how much leeway do you t

. >> he's the first african-american president.hat's the first and only reason for all of this. >> this is all about race. >> it's all about race. >> at the end of the day you never asked for a birth certificate from a white guy. animosity and hatred that i saw directed towards bill clinton too so i can't say that all of that is about race, but the reason that these -- the conspiratorrists keep jumping from one historical fictional conspire toll account to another you have to ask why. there's only one reason. >> as a buying on ralpher that spent so much time with this man, living inside his world to understand who he is, the question of his birth, the question of any of these issues that have come up have all been asked and answered long ago. you're absolutely convinced? >> let me deal with, for instance, the birth. for barack obama not to have been born on august 4th, 1961 in honolulu this is the conspiracy that would have had to exist. first the two honolulu papers would have have been part of the conspiracy because they both pre

they do not want to extend themselves into being an african-american woman for two hours.nto being a white woman for two hours. that's why it's very difficult for women filmmakers in general to get stories about themselves on the screen. (narrator) independent films often need specialized marketing. "daughters of the dust" made variety top-grossing list and remained there for over 30 weeks, using an innovative grass-roots marketing strategy developed by kjm-3, a company of african-american film professionals. their approach included direct distribution flyers and asking ministers to mention the film in their sermons. (narrator) "laws of gravity," directed by nick gomez illustrates how many filmmakers faced with low budgets turn a lack of money into a creative challenge. the films i want to make are films that speak honestly about people who live in this country. (nick gomez) maybe with a point of view, maybe even a little bite. we worked out of our apartments about a year-and-a-half ago, and it's a hassle working out of your apartment. there's no separation between work an

by coach share from african-american and studies. after they look after a valve one due july and a. [laughter] to focus on race, michael tours, schooling, rationaliz ed identities pump promise five stanford and and 2011 requested to build an office in 200011 and integrate scholarly work with your commitment to community to engage scholarship and we want to welcome her here. and extend our gratitude to the african-american and studies to permit a co-sponsor for the word ceremony. [applause] >> good afternoon i am honored to be your brother 303rd broke awards. when israel approached me i was excited and thrilled to meet him as he it is a legend in the african-american world and long been unafraid to speak truth to power but as you may remain on non the award was also given to barber christian who was one of my professors what i was an undergraduate and she was both a brilliant scholar lonesome said teacher that cared about the growth of the students. it it is her legacy that i strive to enact as the new department share netted it is not and has never been just about publishing article

. >> you're also obviously the first african-american attorney general, the first african-american deputygeneral. you're certainly leaving. does it shape in any way sort of how you goÑi about your job or w you think about your job? 1 of the united states and i'm the attorney general for all of the american people, but i think about you know, generations of african-americans who did not have opportunities, that i have, and i want to try to make sure that opportunity is available to people of all colors, all faiths, all genders. it's one of the things that i think i have to try to do as attorney general. so there's a special pressure i suppose that's brought, given the unique fact that i am the first african-american attorney general, butfá again, i focus o the job, focus on the traditions of this department. i think i can do the right thing. >> it says relationship with presidentxd obama that's sometis challenging. >> we have a personal relationship, and i am his attorney general, but that means that our professional relationship has to be a little different. the attorney general has to b

same thing with african-americans. vote for president obama -- it would be racist to say they voted for president obama because he happens to be the first african-american president. they voted for him because he cares for them and his agenda is going to help them and mitt romney's is not. across the board. on jobs. on all of those auto jobs that came back. a lot of african-americans working those factories. mitt romney said close them down. we don't need america's auto industry. all of the jobs mitt romney shipped overseas, jobs taken away from americans, a lot of them african-americans on social security, on medicare, on medicaid on child care, on pell grants, a lot of african-americans benefit for benefitting from them. mitt romney against them all. there were real policy reasons -- and this is something republican party's really gotta think about. there are strong policy reasons why women and latinos and african-americans and young people voted. look at young people. you're going to vote. you think they're going to

in this vacuum in japan town, there was the fillmore district with african americans and a variety of other people and they moved into the community. and then japanese americans get out of camp and they come back to their neighborhood that has been populated and made into a different life and different world and what happens when those two communities overlap and intersect? whose place is it, whose home is it? who is an american? how do we sort of coexist in this post war period where the people from that community are by and large marginalized, yet you have this whole kind of other thing happening where it's -- the war has been won, this is like new things, television is happening, advertising, this whole advertising thing is happening. so you have these marginalized peoples and what happens, is it possible to develop a kind of at that moment a cross-cultural community? is it possible to have kind of a multi cultural community that emerged from that moment? and so, in particular, that's what i wanted to explore. and part of the back drop is there was this extraordinary jazz scene hap