than talking about what african-americans offered. even the solutions to the quote negro problems posed an interesting question. and i found these white administrators talking about the ways in which, you know, focusing on gerald lewis, where the music is duke ellington for the federal theatre projects would give the african-american community figures to identify the representation while at the same time not actually, you know, stirring up any real political tension. but what's interesting about the project and this is sort of an unanticipated consequence is that another story emerged as i was doing that research, with the story of racial representation in the black freedom struggle and the african-americans who were involved in these programs and people like walter wright really capitalized on the opportunity to take these programs and to try to improve racial imagery and can see if of representational agencies, the idea that you control how people are going to present to you, they're going to offer images that view and grasp that in

as an african-american. when he goes to get his car, he's has keys throw to him as if it was assumed as the people who was going to pick up the car as the guy who gets valet parking. when skip gates get arrested in his home and handcuffed, i have guess that would not have happened to me. so these things happen. there are racism in the country. there are have beens for racial profiling car. it's not the same as is the 64 -- it's not same as 1964 and out of the nowhere where the idea came from, it's unbelievable folly. how about right here? because i think i know her. >> i have a question, in reading his autobiography, i was very interested in the part about his movement from accidental to columbia and particularly the period of columbia when he's withdrawn and seems to have been very reflect i have. -- reflective. i wondered in your research if you uncovered about your period and the people who influenced him and what you made of that time. he's a great question. he spends his first two years at accidental wh

free of african-americans. african-americans were here a lot earlier than my relatives who have been around for generations. and there's no american culture without african-american culture whether it's music or literature, et cetera. this is just who we are. so it affects all of us. and you're seeing the difficult side of it now. you're seeing -- >> that's what i'm asking about. was he thinking about some of that element -- >> it wasn't going to happen smoothly. whether he got elected or not. and you see in the tea party movement -- i'm not suggesting everybody in the tea party is racist or in the majority or even the remotely the majority. there are real economic concerns that bubble up and have caused this throughout american history these kind of movements happen. but at the far end of it, you have seen and heard some pretty ugly things. and it can't be by coincidence that the nature of these ugly things are this conbustion -- combustion of insecurity. it's t-creates a certain kind of vocabulary and outrage

african american history is american history there's no american history free of african-americans. we will hear a lot earlier than my relatives who had been around for generations. there's no american culture without african-american culture whether it is musical literature etc. it is just who we are so it affects all of us. and you are seeing the difficult side of it now. >> that's what i'm asking about though are you thinking about some of that element? >> this wasn't going to happen is mostly whether he got elected or not and that he party movement i am not suggesting for a second that everybody in the tea party move that is racist or the majority or even remotely the majority are real economic concerns the doubled and calls this through american history and these kind of movements have been. but at the far end of it, you've seen and heard some pretty ugly things and it can't be by coincidence the nature of these things are this combustion of economic uncertainty and anxiety and an african-american president and it creates a kind of surgeon vocabulary and a certain kind of outra

are considered african-american. i think it's absolutely fascinating. and so i really wanted to just dive into -- to write a book how race changed over the past 35, 40 years. >> what do you think -- how has it changed? what's the biggest thing you've seen today versus growing up in the '60s? >> well, it's questionable. because i think many people think race relations have move forward in a very positive way. and i question that tremendously. you know, we still have a massively segregated society. 86% of whites within the suburbs are living in neighborhoods with less than 1% african-american residence in their neighborhood. we think things have changed massively but mixed race -- you know, my kids, how will my kids identify themselves growing up in an all-white area right now in rural america. i'm not sure, for example, on mixed race identity, i think it feeds off the current polarization of african-americans and whites in the society. there's still a great polarization of african-americans and whites in society. alth

there is such a mystery to african history. i have been talking about africa, pieces in my music. and it was what i did to make the theme africa. and so once damian said let's make the theme about africa. i said yeah, i jumped on it. it felt good, me being from the hip-hop community. and i felt like that would be cool with a voice from the hip-hop community to acknowledge that connection. tavis: why africa for you? >> well, africa in particular, the idea came up in the management teams to do ep idea from africa. and i thought it was a good idea to be where we come from and to shine light on that particular moment and time would be great. and in the process of doing it, i thought that the album would be stronger. tavis: to your point as you talked about this in bits and pieces for years. what is so hard to get traction on that subject matter? you think of all the subject matter that rappers rap about, why is it hard for the motherland? >> it seems so far and kind of pushed back from our minds since we were kids. being born in am

>> africans are writing about it. you know, what's his name? i can't pronounce it, but and what's the name of his book? the most -- the thick one. [laughter] >> there are a number of africans who are writing great and very important political satire. not a lot of african-americans because we are not that the money with what's going on there. >> let me mention at least two or three of them out there. there was when rain clouds gather was a book by bessie head, the late bessie head. in fact, she wrote quite a few books that begin to touch on not only satire, but insurance are dealing with the reality of the african situation, which has to be done first. we can talk about all this here kind of politcal satire out there, but when you look at the "new york post," for example, on page six, what they did in terms of dealing with sharpton and with obama, we need to have a response to that. that's where our critical response comes in in terms of politcal satire. we deal with their cartoonist. we deal with their riders potential come at us with a sense o

one reason the african concept is having a problem is because there are no african nation states in africar the benefit of europeans. and to try and maintain those boundaries is to try and maintain european hegemony. on top of that, nationalism is based in fact up on symbolically, putting a flag to claim, or to put it a better way, putting a dick in a whole. nationalism is about systematic oppression limit. you cannot own land, you cannot own women. and until we deal with that, we're not going to move forward. we're going to go in circles and think we are moving forward. this is a black writers conference and we don't even know what black as it took one of the hallmarks of blackness, i ain't black. so as soon as you see a dark skinned% say i ain't black, you know that person is what? black. recently we've had two major pollsters make the transition. one was lucio clifton. some would say the quintessential black poet of this era. the other was i, who did not claim to be a black poet. our blackness must define and embrace them both. and if they cannot do that it's not really blackness. becau

there are a number of africans who write great political satire. not a lot of african-americans because we're already familiar. >> let me mention to were three of them. win rain clouds gather, in fact, she wrote quite a few books that would touch on not only satire but the reality of the situation that has to be done first. we can talk about the political satire out there but when you look at "the new york post" under page six what they did with nine sharpton and obama we did not have a response to that. we deal with their cartoonist and writers to 10 to come at us with a sense of demolishing and reducing it is like one time we had amos and andy and suddenly you have something that two men created the symbols of the african-american community and then calhoun, that was ridiculous but watching these kids on television who said i now want to be like this guy then he becomes the emblematic the shady go for this. if you had it in the context of a larger perspective to see what is happening within the african-american community it is okay because they h

>> like most -- not like most, but like a lot of people, african-americans lived i chicago, detroit,k, summertime your pents sent you down south. so many smers it was split up. it was spent half with m father's mher which is in snow, alabama and the other was spent in atlanta, georgia with my mother's mother, and she's the e that put me through morehouse and the nyu graduate film school. e lived to be 100 years old and she's an art teacher. she taughtrt for 50 years and the south a for 58 she never had one white student because of segregatn, and a lot ofhite students missed out on a great teacher. anywayshe saved her sial security checks f 50 years and used that money to send her grandchildren to college. so since i washe oldest i had first dibs. >> when you read about spike lee often in the media, it is said the lead tag line controversial. do you accept that and do you buy at? >> i think that peoplere very lazy today. journalists, so instead of trying to be create or do thei job, it's easto use a one-wordabel to define one person. how can you use one word to define anybody and the

britain's supermarkets are stocked with south african items. how does the country view its former colonial master? we have this report. >> this luxury yacht is a symbol of our relationship anchored in history, language, and culture, which nearly 500,000 brits visiting south africa every year. >> we drive on the same side of the road. the architecture is english. so one really feels home from home at times. >> remember when britain claimed to will be waves? it is no longer love. -- alone. there are plenty more fish and sea. south africa is the gateway to the rest of the continent, but britain still takes more from britain -- from south africa than it gives back in trade. now with stiff competition in east, south africa is looking for a more equal partnership with its former colonial master. the recent visit to britain was packed with pageantry. he even arrived in the royal carriage. he asked for the keys to no. 10 -- leaders cannot rely on the heels of the past. reject deals of the past. get to johannesburg, and is it s as if time stood still. n

this 32 number of african-americans running is the highest number since reconstruction.ent obama when he was elected, a lot of folks close to him said this will now create a real surge in terms of african-american participation in politics, because folks will believe they can be elected. no doubt it has. it's empowered african-americans, not only democrats but an unusually high number of republicans. of these 32 republicans, gop sources i spoke to said about four have a clear path to victory as mr. west to florida, mr. parker of arizona, mr. fraysier of colorado, and south carolina. these candidates are soliciting report from the tea party, a group a lot of folks have claimed to be racist against african-americans. these folks see them as someone they want in their tent as a path to victory. a unique, interesting article. after november 2010, if we wake up with four african-american congressional house members, that is a huge story that nobody in washington saw coming. peter. >> certainly getting some inspiration from michael steele, head of the rnc. luke, thanks. >> rep

. >> next, the first african- american to serve in the fourth circuit court of appeals. he talks about diversity in the the judiciary. . . >> there is that room over there in the back if you need to have a conversation or something. and a reminder to put phones on vibrate or turn them off and all of that. and i think we are just about ready to go. so i would ask people -- oh, and i would encourage people phof te up to those stanchions there or that blue tape over here. you will be fine just as long you are not right in the shot. but it is nice actually to have people sort of around so that it looks like a live event. so i would like to start things off by asking juan ortega to come and start us off. >> good evening. i am juan and the chair of the minorities in the court committee. on behalf of our committee, it's my pleasure and honor to welcome you to tonight's reception, the important of a diverse judiciary. i would like to extend a special welcome to the students here tonight through the pipeline legal outreach. given their track record, i will confident that these st

so many african-americans have lost the right to vote. more than 1.5 billion.that felony disenchant seismic is playing a role in close election, most notably in the debacle in florida in which fellow played in much more decisive role than hanging chads. this racial is a should of criminal punishment and historical lessons i think kind of hit me like cold water in the face. when i visited a cellblock and an old plantation near galveston that was reserved for juveniles sentenced as adults to adult facilities. as i walked down the tier and past cell after cell after cell, i met the eyes of african-american boys of high school and in some cases middle school age, kids. many of them facing a lifetime without liberty. one day 16 year old told me he was doing, i asked him what his a sense what he said 99. at first i thought he meant months. which was a very long sentence for a child, the way the fellow looked to me. but, in fact, he was doing 99 years. it's hard. the guard, the guard choked up himself in memory. because he was explaining how this child's parents never

women and non african-american women.do strive for that and we are achieving that. i would like to bring to your attention one steadied that that we currently have under way called the community child help research network. the goal of this network is to involve the community itself along with the academic side to develop the interventions, to try if we could understand the disparities. and to try to see if we could identify potential intervention. >> thank you for your answers. mr. chairman, thank you. >> i think that completes the questions for this panel. thank you very much. it was helpful in terms of what we're trying to achieve. we may send you additional questions from some of the members within the next 10 days to answer in writing as well. i will ask the next panel to come forward. let me introduce the three of you. on my left is dr. alan fleischman who is senior vice president and medical director of the march of dimes foundation. next to them is dr. charles mahan. finally, dr. paul lawrence to is vice-president

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african american -- 13.4%. hispanic working mothers, 11.8%. both higher. >> given the economic challenges facing families during this recession, have more mothers enter the workforce and searched for work. -- and searched for work? >> the answer is yes. labor force participationas gonn down during the recession. it has actually gone up for women with children -- foremothers. >> how has the experience of working mothers compared to prior recessions? >> in prior recessions, working mothers have had a higher than average increase in their unemployment rate. in the 1990 recession, the unemployment rate increased by 1.6 percentage points, comred to 1.3 percentage at " for women without children. -- percentage point foa woman without children. this time, it is almost double that. >> my time has expired. mr. brady. >> thankou, madam chairman. normally, america bounces back quickly. it is not happening this time. we do not have a v-shaped recovery. it is a very gradual recovery. it is a third as low as that 1981 and 1982 recovery. i'm convinced it is

britain is the biggest export market for south african wine. little wonder, then, that the possibility parliament thousands of miles away is being talked about right here. >> with the home government, it might slow down progress. >> whatever robert intakes politically, south africa will remain a key partner, even if it has its sights set on new horizons. >> iceland's cloud of volcanic ash has made an unwelcome return to the skies above the u.k. airport is closed. hundreds of flights have been canceled in scotland and northern ireland, and forecasters are warning the cloud may drift towards northern england and wales. >> a fresh plume of volcanic ash in iceland stretching thousands of feet into the air. the volcano has been erupting for weeks, but once again, it has just got worse, and the winds have been blown that heavier ash cloud in our direction, causing yet another day of disruption to thousands of travelers year. the main scottish airports have face restrictions. belfast and dublin have also been closed for much of the day because of the

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that's why we don't have african-americ waiters and african-american restaurants. that was not the america for which i stand. strom thurman, however, said, and other democrats -- now, he didn't stay a democrat, as all of you know, throughout his career. said no, we'll keep people separate. and because you're driving down route 1 from new york to florida and you stop and you're a little girl, ask when howard johnson comes by, can i have an ice cream cone, you say to your little child, i'm sorry, you can't go in there. you're the wrong color. can't stay athat hotel. now in their era, they thought they were being good americans, i presume. and there were filibusters after filibusters to stop treating people as -- to start treating people as people, with their god-given inalienable rights. ladies and gentlen, look to your hearts and your conscience. look at the debates of 1948. is there one of us -- is there one of us that would say general powell as chairman of the joint chiefs of staffs undermined the morale and the effectiveness of the united states army? is there o

we have plenty of candidates who get plenty of african- american votes. i think rand paul had a tough week last week. if you'll focus on providing a check-and-balance on a run-away government he'll be elected. >> schieffer: what about this whole business for the tea party? will it prove to be a good thing for republicans or is this something that you need to be worried about here? >> any time americans want to get out of their chairs and focus on jobs, debt and terror and checking a run-away government in washington we want them in our primaries, as our nominees and we want them in the united states senate. i think it provides diversity in our party. it makes us a bigger tent. gives us a lot more energy. i think the american people are really upset right now. this election is going to have a lot of fresh faces, a lot of surprises. but the mood is let's throw the rascals out in washington. and the democrats are the rascals by a big majority. i think we're going to have a lot more republicans in november for that reason. >> schieffer: but there are no democ

as my friend knows boston city hospital serves mostly the people the african american communities. i was astounded by the fact and primary-care i saw very few young men. particularly men of color. but when i walked to the emergency room, orthopedic clinic i saw a lot of young black men most of them injured by violence and most of them thought to be thugs toward drug dealers by the providers taking care of them. but one day i was walking through the stairwell and ran into a colleague of mine. and african-americans surgeon who i knew from my time training and he was frustrated and said i saw you a few weeks ago and he had been shot and almost died. i took him to the operating room and we were able to save his life but a few weeks later i am writing in my car and i hear the same young man is dead. there is knowledge we have about the recurring cycle of violence and people who were injured get injured again. we have to do something. i did not know what to do at that time but i did not completely understand the lives of the young people i was interacting with. i have grown up in queens

the firefighter-- the africans here, the african-americans said that this had a discriminatory or disparate impact on their-- on the minority applicants for firefighter jobs. and they sued the city because of that. its lower court, the district court here actually ruled in favor of these applicants. the city conceded that its practice was discriminatory and had a discriminatory impact. but the city had argued that these applicants had filed their discrimination charges too late, that the time to do it was 300 days after the city announced it was going to use these test scores. >> suarez: now the court has ruled in the past on cases involving a time line and ongoing discrimination, most notably in the lily ledbetter case. this time they said that the ability to sue wasn't time limited. how do they explain that? >> first of all this case involves discriminatory or disparate impact cases. and there you do not have to prove intentional discrimination. those other cases like the ledbetter case did involve that. but justice scalia who wrote this opinion, he looked at the language of the statute,

a small group of african-americans pass. where he locked eyes with them and track them as they walked away. the menacing glare they exchange evaporators after a long moment and then roy looks back at me. what was that about i asked roy. what? this daring. yeah, that is just me roy said. i have got gotten my problem. [laughter] i said, and i problem? that is how i grew up. i just look at people. when somebody looks at me, i just have to keep looking at them until they look away. sometimes it causes trouble but most of the time they just look away and to go on about our business. he said you know how i told you about my parents, how they taught me to fight into crime? yeah, roy you did. while the other parents were teaching their kids to play baseball and coaching their soccer teams, my parents were teaching us how to beat up other people's kids. what roy was able to help me understand, and many times as we came together, was that young people who had no other way to see themselves, who felt so constrained by the circumstances

folks buying into the same startup in being even more so fearful of african boys and men themselves. i've had a colleague interacting with some of the students who said, look at that big old boy over there. you know, he is about a couple of minutes from to appear and then not even when you see young men on the street, in a crowd and want to go over there and you think they're too loud and being to boisterous. and first asking today, asking them that they're a bit too loud, just being as fearful of them and not understanding the maturation that you may see a young man, i am six-foot three. you may see a young man who is 61 but he is only 14 years old. and sing the physical thing doing him as an adult when, in fact, he still a baby. so those are the things, particularly with a napkin and american community that we may have to address our own biases towards african young man. >> i think you said it perfectly. i -- one of the struggle is that we have abandoned the word boy in part because of the meeting that it is had. were buoyed -- men were called voip, so that is often offensive. but

i want to say, the first person to go to the shore in boston was an african sailor. he infected another african sailor in boston. nobody actually ever blamed them for their race. they made their racist arguments from mather getting it from a slave, but no one ever blamed them. i thought that was interesting. it's really fascinating. who do we trace it back to? mather was able to use the medicine. being practiced all around china. that's medicine. i'm not sure if they could explain either. they were able to transmit this information to ease information to the enlightened europeans and columnist who were experiencing the revolution and so it's fascinating. like i said, mather always gave credit. never had the aha moment and never claimed to be a genius. i think that was very interesting part. again, thank you very much for your attention. [applause] >> last question actually. was it -- was there like those who have money could be inoculated and poor people couldn't? >> i don't know specifically. of course, there was a cost associated with it. you would have to, you kno

height's book and in her own words, it goes i believe it is the hand of god that led the african american woman to establish the center on the power halfway between the capitol and the white house [inaudible] it was both f lifting and humbling when the building was named the dorothy height building. from our house we must always be a strong presence and an unrelenting force working for equal the and justice under the freedom gates and for the open. i had the privilege to work with dr. height for 30 years and i learned so much for her, but there is one word that summarize and signifies what i've learned from her and i'm sure it is the same for you and this determination. when it came time to purchase the building in 1996, her determination was in full force. when she discussed the building with me i said the price is too high, the numbers don't work. she said mr. thompson, we must find a way to make it work. i said mother height, you must convince the sears roebuck company to drastically reduce the price. my friends, she did more than that, she convinced the company to cut the price in hal

southern sudan and central african republic affected by the activity. it also supports efforts by the people of northern ewe began dand the government to promote justice and reconciliation on both local and national levels. mr. speaker, it is important we pass the legislation today to draw attention to the l.r.a.'s reign of terror and demonstrate our support for the people of uganda. i urge my colleagues to support this bill and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from florida rise? ms. ros-lehtinen: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. ros-lehtinen: i thank the gentleman. i strongly support the policy objectives of senator bill 1067, the lord's resistance army disarmament and northern uganda recovery act. for nearly 27 year the lord's resistance army, l.r.a., has been terrorizing civilians, leaving a trail of death and despondency in its wake. the l.r.a.'s leader is a soulless mass murderer who has perpetrated some of the most deplorable hu

and the magnitudes of african-american unemployment in the 1970s because blacks were shut out of the unions and to get a real cost of living increase was to be a member of union or the budget deficits of the 1980s. the great society and the vietnam war wound down by 1975. there had never been a budget in the great years of the great society in the vietnam war that exceeded 20% of the gdp. that started to happen in 1976. after the era of the vietnam war, of the great society. a tremendous displacement of the real economy. 5% of gdp. and i did not tell you about how stagflation, inflation in particular aggrandize the soviet union because everybody wanted to hold commodities and the soviet union had commodities and they had western currency and they needed to finance their own economy and their adventures around the world. i didn't tell you anything about that. i had them right where i had you and i put of off the hook. you read about the economic history of the 1970s, you run and embrace the economic conditions of 2008 to 2010. what i would like to do here for a few minutes is just to

first, african-american that you separate them into their own chapter. why is that? why are you telling that? >> there are a few african-american letters and other places, but the ones that are in a separate chapter tell a great deal because the new deal program from franklin roosevelt would need to go so far as to and those -- introduce an anti-lynching bill. they would have filibustered such a bill and so it would not college anything anyway. and he argued and he argued with eleanor. that things that were aimed, programs that were aimed at the war that african-americans were disproportionately among the poor and these would help them. and what programs did include was provisions that there should be no discrimination. of course, that didn't mean that on the local level that does not sort of discrimination and the letters in the chapter from african-americans can you see this a great deal that although people are not handling the really for other programs in the way intended and do something about this. one of the most striking things is some of the letters specific

>>> hundreds of years before president barack obama, another african-american leader made history in this new england town. i'll have his forgotten story. >>> we'll experience a centuries-old art form, through the hands of a master sculptor. >> the news you need to know, next on "teen kids news." >>> welcome to "teen kids news." i'm mwanzaa. >> and i'm jessica. >>> illegal drugs are a problem at high schools across the country, but one school district has an innovative way to help students say no. this is wayne hills high school nin ner jersesey. it's home to "be proud," a completely voluntary drug testing program. >> we don't want the school to seem like we are pushing the program on people, we don't want to force it on them. we want them to take it and grasp it for themselves. >> my mom had told me about it, and i don't feel the need to do drugs or use alcohol in an abusive way. so, i keep myself positive and up-and-up. >> reporter: students who volunteer are tested for a variety of substances including alcohol, marijuana and cocaine. but "be proud" isn't about catching kids who ar

and he was a working-class african-american guy who lived in the same fourplex. he lived in one of the four units, and lived in another, and there were two families in the other two units. and he approached me after i think a year since this woman hadn't paid rent. she had no defenses by the way. she was -- well, the light bulb went out. he said, look, i don't care about the past rent. i'm going to lose the note on this place. my family is going to wind up on the streets because i can't afford to pay the mortgage because she isn't paying rent. justifies just have her move out. i won't go after her for the back rent. need to get someone in there and i felt badly for the guy, and i approached a supervisors of mine, is there anything we can do? and he made the progressive liberal in some ways, and his response was -- after i laid out the story. he said, expletive him. he didn't say that -- it seems very callous to me. we were her lawyer and had to do our best for her. she was our client, but it seemed callous, and perhaps a small insignificant story but it stuck in

african-american folks who came out of the churches.and i believe that homosexuality has to do with conduct and behavior. with what you do. nobody has any control over -- i don't know people have control over their tendency or desires or things like that. they have control over behavior and conduct. but african-american are as god made them. and god made all men good. and i think there are evil people in every group. and so i think they are children of god and they're under the constitution so they have a right to be treated with respect and dignity and equality. now, is homosexuality -- i say homosexual marriage, is that equal to traditional marriage. homosexual marriage is abnormal. it is unnatural. it is morally wrong. it's inconsistent with our moral beliefs not only religious beliefs but in natural law. and so that is why it is -- it has never found the kind of favor that the civil rights movement did. as i mentioned, 70% of african-americans coming out of their churches in california voted to outlaw gay marriage. 53% of hispanics

the 5,000 african peacekeepers here are overwhelmed. as we watched the peacekeepers set up a new base in what was once mogadishu's fipest hotel, the colonel says he needs thousands of soldiers to fend off al qaeda militants. your biggest problem is lack of troops? >> yeah. yeah. >> reporter: washington won't likely be sending any troops. not again. in 1993 u.s. forces invaded to stop clan warfare. american helicopters were shot down, soldiers bodies dragged through the streets. the events retold in the film "black hawk down." since then somalia has degenerated into the world's worst failed state and an al qaeda safe haven. the u.s. is ramping up its involvement here again. the u.s. bankrolled the african peacekeepers are $180 million over the last two years and shipped the weak, often unpaid somali army 94 tons of weapons and ammunition last year. american weapons are now in action in somalia under the cover of darkness. at night we've been hearing the unmistakable sound of american drones circles over mogadishu. they fly low and make p

never have any african-american judges until judge gregory was nominated -- today, they have three african-americane senate. president clinton said, "it is unconscionable the fourth circuit has never had an african-american appellate judge. it is long past time to right that wrong. we all know that diversity in the courts as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation. having had the honor of parking for judge gregory, i know firsthand he has lived up to these words. the prospectus and experiences he has brought to the bench have allowed him to have a significant and profound impact on the fourth circuit's jurisprudence, particularly in areas of the law of that impact minorities the greatest. judge gregory has undeniably had an impact on the fourth circuit culture. prior to his arrival, at its annual conference, the fourth circuit sang a popular song of confederate soldiers during the civil war. needless to say, this was immediately discontinued upon his arrival. moreover, judge gregory has impacted the manner in which the public, particularly african- american com

that's why we don't have african-american waiters and african-american restaurants. that was not the america for which i stand. strom thurman, however, said, and other democrats -- now, he didn't stay a democrat, as all of you know, throughout his career. said no, wel keep people separate. and because you're driving down route 1 fr new york to florida and you stop and you're a little girl, ask when howard johnson comes by, can i have an ice cream cone, you say to your littlehild, i'm sorry, you can't go in there. you're the wrong color. can't stay at that hotel. now in their era, they thought they were being good americans, i presume. and there were filibusters after filibusters to stop treating people as -- to start treating people as people, with their god-given inalienable rights. ladies and gentlemen, look to your hearts and your conscience. look at the debates of 1948. is there one of us --s there one of us that would say general powell as chairman of the joint chiefs of staffs undermined the morale and the effectiveness of the united states army? is there one o

african-american folks who came out of the churches. and i believe homosexuality has to do with conduct and behavior with what you do. nobody has any control -- i don't know if people have control over their tendencies or desire or things like that but they have control over behavior and conduct. african-american people are as god made them and got me all ne good and there are evil people in every group but and so i think the air are children of gold under the constitution's the have a right to be treated with respect and dignity and equality. now, is homosexuality -- homosexual marriage, does that include a traditional marriage? here is what comes from me that homosexual marriage to me is abnormal, and is on natural, it is morally wrong, it is inconsistent with our moral beliefs. not only religious beliefs, but the actual law. so that is why it is never found the kind of favor that the civil rights movement did. as i mentioned, 70% of african-americans coming out of the churches in california voted to outlaw gay marriage. 53% of hispan

jagged cliffs tower over fickle seed and untucked beaches shimmer in the sun light and african eden,ficent, unspoiled. but look at beauty and beware. great white sharks prowl beneath violent storms that batter the rock-studded coast, whipping up waves so massive they swallow ships whole, spitting out their rusty hulls on nearby beaches, the wild coast is a nautical graveyard. >> there's a natural order of things and it seems like there always has been a rule to follow among souls and jeopardy of disaster at sea. women and children first is the rule. it was born not 160 years ago off this very coast when a ship called the birckenhead went down and 400 gallant men went with it, so the women and children could use the few lifeboats available. the natural order which was about to be broken on a modern cruiser off the very same coast. it was a glistening july day, mid-winter in south africa, in the port city of durbin, an aging cruise ship called the oceanos was heading out to sea. this moment the start of a seven-day sail from durban to cape town and back again with selected ports of cal

african-american movement -- highest-ranking african-american woman in the labor movement.she is here today to join us in new york city from the national afl-cio. john me in welcoming our leader. [applause] -- please join me in welcoming our leader. [applause] >> are we fired up and ready to go for immigration reform now? [cheers] >that is what i am talking about. we were here two days ago marching on wall street on behalf of our workers and our communities. today, we stand marching again in the streets all around this country. it is time for immigration reform and it is time for it now. just this past wednesday, we celebrated worker's memorial day. we remembered and honored all of those workers across our country who lost their lives or were injured on the job. that is painful enough. what i want you to know -- i am scared that those who are most at risk of dying on the job our immigrant workers. the workers who lack legal status, those who know that if they report to dangers on the job, they will be torn away from their families and their communities and deported. so i as

it's worked before, with african wildcats. two are both interspecies clones-- so normal, they even mated the old-fashioned way and produced kittens. >> dresser: eight kittens, altogether. we had a couple litters. >> stahl: and they're totally healthy and they're african wildcats. >> dresser: totally african wildcats, totally healthy. and it said to us, "hey, this works." and now that we know we can do it, we can say to the world, "these animals do develop. they do reproduce naturally. and we can use this as a tool for endangered species." >> stahl: is she hissing at us? >> dresser: yeah, she's hissing at us. >> stahl: and dresser is working her way up. her next inter-species cloning project will use this non- endangered caracal cat as a surrogate mother for an endangered lynx; and after that, the eland antelope as a surrogate for its endangered cousin, the bongo. you know, there are still people who get nervous at the idea of cloning. they think there's something wrong about it. >> dresser: i'll tell you what-- if i have to ch

. >> the fact that jason was african-american, was that a--? >> absolutely.it was important how the story played out. i don't think it was important in the fact that he was a plagiarist. jason blair was troubled and he acknowledged that he had emotional difficulties, and that all played out at the "new york times." but the fact that he was black led some people to assume that gerald, an african-american man, who promoted diversity in the newsroom, was in some way aiding and abetting this journalistic criminal, when that was not the case, and in fact, jason did not like gerald, as he wrote in his own book, and because he could not get the support that he needed from gerald. so gerald did not hire jason. he did not supervise him directly and they certainly did not mentor ham, but the assumption was that there was a connection between the two. and i think that affected gerald's end of his tenure quite significantly. >> your husband died in 2006? four years later, you are publishing a book with his name on it, and an introduction by you. >> my times in black and

washington backer fee as part to of a new series we have started dove of the african-american biography because we noticed there were no short parties of major black figures for the general audience there were some high school books so we started this series that are about 200 pages in which 10 by eight authoritative historians and biographers to address that particular issue and we try to publish books that are entertaining as well as informative that sparked controversy. >> what was the biggest seller last year? >> guest: a good question. probably the book called safe for democracy which is a history of the cia covert operations, highly recognized and that book is a combination of his work over many years on covert operations of the cia. >> host: are there any other books upcoming that you're looking forward to? >> guest: yes. the book preludin to catastrophe we will publish in the fall is about the jewish advisers around president roosevelt. they're actions and inactions in the face of the nazi menace in europe and have responsible they might have better what they might have done to

i called independently but i'm a democrat and i'm an african-american and live in upstate new york. host: what is your question? caller: i was listening to your guest and he saeid men came illegally. that is all we want. i agree with the arizonans. i attend new york state and if i get stopped by the police i have to have i.d. that is the law. everyone in this country should have i.d. they should not have a problem showing the i.d. whether they are illegal or legally here. i don't understand what the problem is. you keep saying these people ar coming over here because they are such hard workers. it is kind of senseless to me as a citizen because we have citizens that can do the same thing they are doing. they are prisoners. we can make our prisoners do the same thing if they are going to say they are hard workers. they can wait in line the same way you and your son waited. my problem is the word "illegal." we need to enforce our laws. guest: and we need to have a penalty or punishment that is consistent with the crime, with the action. i get the impression that no one will be satisf

tucker worked to register african-american voters during the 1950 philadelphia memorial campaign. shortly therefore she became active in local politics, serving as the first african-american and woman on the philadelphia zoning board. driven by her brief belief that sno one should be denied the right to participate in democracy, she went to to participate in the white house conference on civil rights and to march from selma to montgomery with dr. king in support of the 1965 voting rights bill. in 1971 ms. tucker was named secretary of the commonwealth of pennsylvania by then governor shap, making her the first female african-american to hold this position in any state in the nation. under her leadership as secretary of the commonwealth, pennsylvania became one of the first states to pass the equal rights amendment, to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 and to institute voter registration through the mail. after leaving her position in pennsylvania state government, she continued to dedicate her time to public service and the promotion of civil rights through private organizations.