so he trick the amistad africans. eventually they saw that lacking food and water, they were not going to be able to make a long voyage, and so it was asked by montez, do you want me to take you to a free country? and they said, what free country is this? that free country is the united states. well, we're talking about one of the leading slave societies in the world in 1839. not exactly a free country. but to make along story short, the africans actually sailed the vessel all the way up to the norway end of long island. where they were taken by a u.s. navy ship, carried to new london, connecticut, and thrown in jail. charged with murder and piracy. now, as soon as word got out that these africans had come ashore, abolitionists from up and down the eastern coast flocked to the jail to try to assist them, thinking this cause might help them to advance their struggle against the institution of slavery. well, a long legal battle took place, for 19 months the amistad africans were in jail. they did receive support from no

inevitably, and african- americans. we must also come to terms with our past and stop romanticizing certain features, including activities of africans, said that is just one of the things. tavis: yes. to the point you made a moment ago, i am always leery about asking about africa. it is such a vast continent. but talk about the struggle over the years and even now for africa to come to terms with its racial identity. this is separate from african americans coming to terms. let's start with africa and its journey over the years with its own racial identity. >> i do not think it very large majority of africans have a problem with identity at all. there is an attempt to turn africans in to sort of second- class europeans. a type of colonialism. if you take the french, the french set a target. the british, on the of barehand, but there were totally incapable of absorbing british culture. assimilating africans. thinking not so much of themselves as in the european cultures. a recognition. this is what we are. so even those t

first of all, they were not african-american slaves. they were africans. that matters. secondly, the slave owners were not american slaveowners like john c. calhoun or others. they were cuban slaveholders. so that made it easier to vilify the cubans slaveholders. okay, so it's a little bit different. it's a little bit safer, but i would emphasize, that is not an easy distinction to maintain. in other words, i have never read about any american slaveowner who would have liked to see an image like that. [laughter] you don't glorify and lionize slave rebels. the spanish government pointed this out very clearly to the american. are you going to say that it's legal for these people to kill a white man, a figure of authority, and capture a ship? all of the slaves in america will be very interested to get this news. so there are contradictions there but i do believe the fact that it came from outside the united states into the united states made it a little easier. but the other thing which i think really does matter is that this was a really very dramatic event. and what has

in order to enshrine african american literature in the academy. look, if you are from the whitest place in say, idaho and there are no black people around and you can't get black books in the bookstore, if you can get one anthology, there's no excuse not to teach african american literature. so you buy one book, you get a whole semester course. and i wanted to do this, as i'm sure ilan did, to make it possible for people to teach and to study african american literature and latino literature. and there's some overlap between african american and latino. >> hinojosa: and so is it the same thing for you, ilan? the sense that you just wanted anyone-- any part of the country or the world-- to be able to say,i want to understand latino literature, therefore i have the anthology?" >> well, i wanted, first and foremost, to say, "we have arrived," and the norton anthology is a cultural moment. it's a statement: "we have made it; we have been both participants and witnesses of dramatic american history and we have something to show and we can put it all to

, 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.

about 185,000 african-americans in all, and about 80% of them were from the south. there is talk about african-american slaves fighting for confederacy. there's no evidence for this. there are some slaves who end up in the confederate army taken by their owners as basically body servants. by the very end of the war, there was the discussion about whether this confederacy in order to preserve its rebellion, and to enhance its military capacities ought to try to enlist slaves. the recognition, by anybody who thought about it was that you couldn't do that without abolishing slavery. at the very end of the war, the confederate congress does pass an emancipation bill that provides for enlistment, but no guarantee of emancipation, but the war ended really before it could go into effect. the only other case is the louisiana native guards, a -- a regimen of free people of color in new orleans, who initially support the confederacy, but as soon as the union army moves into new orleans, they switch sides, so i know there's talk about this as an example of loyalty to owners, b

others african superstitions. and for me this went to the heart of why the book became inevitable, or why for me gave me discourse all my life. very strange. i started today pretty close to 80. i should actually exist in an environment in which for leading what i believe or not believing what i do not believe of considered one of what i call terminal censorship. now, go back to history, and i don't just mean the person. i'm talking about the society in which i live, in which i was raised, the history of my people. as i never ate in "of africa," when the european explorers -- when i'm there rate in "of africa," the christian missionaries came to africa on the mission of conversion. we had a very serious problem. and that was we couldn't find satan. they couldn't find the devil. if you want to convert people, you've got to first or persuade them that their soul is in dire danger. headed for the ultimate bonfire on the other side of existence. and for that, you need to label them followers of the devil. diabolical hu

about 185,000 african-americans and all and about 80% of them were from the south. there is talk about african-american slaves fighting for the confederacy there is no evidence of this whole taken by their owners by the very end of the war there is a discussion about whether the confederacy in order to preserve its rebellion and to enhance its military capacities of to try to enlist slaves. the recognition by anybody that thought about it is that you couldn't do that without abolishing slavery that the very end of the war. the confederate congress does have an emancipation bill provides an enlistment but no guarantee of emancipation but the war ended before it could go into effect. the only other case is the louisiana native guards regiment of free people of color in new orleans who initially set for the confederacy that as soon as the union army moves and it invades the side, so i know there is talk about this as an ex able of the loyal to what i've never seen evidence that is compelling. >> professor hahn your narrative and the political world of slavery and freed

i'm not sure if many african-americans realize this. many took to the african culture. various cultures of the african continent, so that they are academic and they go beyond the symbolism. very profound material. it is necessary to query into the spirituality of any society. in order to be able to talk about the valuable cultural weaponry within the society. i am impressed by the consistency in which the kwanzaa , the season that is celebrated and it is coming up again in december of this year, it is a move in the right direction. but i think that a lot of depth is required in the approach of african-americans. the only way to do it is not just in the classroom. it is also to seize the opportunity of visiting africa. the real africa. but the french africa. nor the air of africa. not the british africa. but there are places on the african continent, whether they have been to certain areas or not, they can say that they can feel and smell and taste africa. to go there and sit at the feet of the leaders, the cultural leaders, spiritual leaders, just to expose yourself, it

i want to put african-american. i think i'm african-american. >> what box do you check?yep. >> so that i can avoid any troubles with getting into college. i'm applying for theater. >> she fears checking black could mess up her chances of acceptance. >> you look at black or african-american, you have this image in your head. then when you meet me, because i have to audition for the schools, you meet me and now they don't have any black girls. you know? >> 20 years from now, what will you be? >> i want to say 20 years from now i'll be like i'm black and people will say that's what's up. >> i'm a firm believer in the ability to self identify. becca says she's black. i would agree she is black. >> give me a positive one. >> maybe these girls get to help dissolve these boxes. they have to say for themselves, they have to define what is beautiful and who is black and who is not. by sharing images, by sharing stories, by sharing culture. >> the final work shop is all about sharing. >> going to write down ten things that identify you. write a poem about the things you have in co

that will be the africans that triumph. >> very different. this is something which we must stress, and there's no harm, and there's richness in stressing it. i don't consider culturally speaking i don't consider that the arab world is identical with the african world, and i believe that most arabs culture -- it's very unique. even some of them not only believe they actually articulate it and say that, it's spirit to african culture so they make a distinction, and what is happening in the sudan is a political manifestation of that dichotomy. people occupy the same land mass, doesn't mean they're the same, and there's nothing wrong in being different. the important thing is to coexist on an egalitarian basis. the moment there's any suggestion of superiority, that is when problem begins, and there's nothing more interesting than the fusion of culturals, where they can win -- the synthesis can emerge. one of the most innovative jazz musicians here, took both from black africa and from the -- and produced some beautiful music. and a south african

she is our first african-american first lady who has white ancestry, african ancestry, hints of native american ancestry. we often think of this modern contemporary time we live in as an unprecedented period of immigration, interracial marriage, checking as many boxes as you like on the census. when you go back into history, if you look at the census of the late 1800'ss, there are whole groups of people classified as a mixed race and all kinds of labels, quadroons, a cruise, this is not new. we think of the president and his heritage, he is the son of a white woman from kansas, african man from kenya, we all have these connections in our families. >> people are interested in researching their own families and their own family trees, what advice can you give them? we may not have the same access to expert researchers but what advice can you give them? >> i like to say i am a preacher of the gospel of genealogy because it matters a lot. we often write books about our president and first lady's but what i loved about the first lady's story is her story is about ordinary people, we all hav

this is the south african council of churches.ater in the clip, we hear from a palestinian journalist and south african reporter. >> i have been able to visit israel and palestine on more than two occasions. and what i experienced there was such a cruel reminder of a painful past and apartheid south africa. >> we were largely controlled in the same way. the continuous checking at the roadblocks and to see this -- these young men and young women standing at the roadblock, having to perform duties of a military junta. these parallels with israel [indiscernible] while alice traveling in the country. i was traveling in the country. >> the settlements are linked by modern superhighways, which are jewish-only roads. palestinians are not allowed to use them. and these super highways crisscross across palestinian land, linking the settlements together and linking them with israeli cities inside the 1948 borders >> the separate roads you find the sediment infrastructure that you find in the west bank, for example, which in south africa we

. >> it was a time in peru when the africans were prohibited from playing or making instruments. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they were forced to make their own instruments. >> (speaking spanish). >> so they use the surroundings and big jars and they used to have water or other type was drinks. >> (speaking spanish). >> covered with leather skin. >> (speaking spanish). >> and they make the drums. >>. >> (speaking spanish). (drums). (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> this instrument is called dungo. >> spr (speaking spanish). >> we have two but only one was used. >> (speaking spanish). >> this is one that was used north of the capital. >> (speaking spanish). >> in the cities of the country >> (speaking spanish). >> when he was a child he was able to see those instruments and on extension today. (drums). (applause) . >> this is a donkey's jaw. it could be a horse or a donkey. >> donkey's jaw. >> and it's played by spiking it and to make the rattle sound and also creates this. (applause). >> (speaking spanish) sorry. (speaking spanish). >> this is the kahita and it is created as the -

every single case has been brought against african. people and therefore it seems as though it really is a kind of almost imperial or near or imperialist kind of operation but i think the idea is a sound one and if the other countries of the world that have not joined the i.c.c. eventually do so and that includes. my own country as well as china and india and japan a lot of other very important countries in the world. if and when that happens then i think we can move toward a. situation of impartial justice but not until everybody joins participates ok lawrence if i go to you i mean a lot of people are calling it the african criminal court yes that's right and again these want to some of the issues that the court confronts i mean on the other hand we should be clear that the african nations themselves were supporters of the court now obviously we've seen some tensions emerge between the african union and the international criminal court the african union has argued that justice actually can be an impediment to some type of peaceful res

that often gets confessed into the shorthand of african solutions to african problems.we firmly believe in this. i find it interesting that secretary clinton's last visit to the continent she expanded on that and said, yes, african solutions to african challenges but we need african solutions ss and participation in global challenges as well and that's a recognition of the evolving nature of things in africa. there are two documents that broadly guide what we do in africa, and those, i would commend -- probably most of you have probably read them. the first is the presidential policy directive for subsaharaan africa, and it is based on four pillars. the first, to promote opportunity and development. secondly. to spur economic growth, trade and investment. thirdly, to advance peace and security. and fourth, to strengthen democratic institutions. insurprisingly, we at u.s. a africa command focus on the third, building peace and security. but as a necessary precondition to achieving the other four objectives. so, again, i think it's best to think of us in, again, a support

the son of an african, black african and a white middle-american mother. a man who sought his identity and found it, who have raised by his, these saintly grandparents and so forth and so on. this was a story, a homerric story, if you will, because homer was with known for talking about taking a trip and coming to some understanding of one's self. this was the story that david axlerod fashioned for obama to run on, a brilliant story. the problem is, in 2012 there is no such story. we've seen that story, we know that story, that's old. he can't run on that story again. and he doesn't have a record in his first four years of success with the economy. i don't think anybody would disagree with that, to run on either. he can point to certain liberal causes such as health care, but we see in the polls that that is not a popular thing to run on. so what he's been running on instead of david axlerod's homer ric epic, heroic stories is negative campaigning in 2012. the negative campaigning has been to attack, attack and attack mitt romney for bain capital, for bein

he was the first african american to run for mayor in san francisco in 1963, he was a longshore man, a golden globes boxer and a staunch community activist and his legacy continues to live on and you see it in his children and his grandchildren. sam jordan's bar has served as an important gathering place for the city's working class and the african american community. i believe land marking this place is long overdue. we have planning staff here to provide the committee with an overview of this legislation and landmarking request and with that i'd like to invite you to come up and make a presentation. thank you. >> i did have an image for the overhead. >> it takes a second. overhead, please. >> can we zoom out a little bit? >> i'm not sure if you need to do it from the machine there or not. i think you should just continue. >> good afternoon, supervisors, mary brown, planning department staff to present the proposed designation for sam jordan's bar as an individual poland lark under article 10 of the planning code. at the request of the land owner the project was added to the land ma

. >> just because you are black doesn't mean you are african-american. i used to identify as american. >> it's always been weird trying to figure out who i am. >> irish, italian, arab. >> black and white for a lot of my life, and black was something i rejected. >> you must have been told you are not really black? >> blackness is big enough to hold every shade. >> i am a black woman and these are my black daughters who happen to have a white father. >> i am black. it's never been a question, it's as simple as a beating inside of me. >> i am -- >> i am -- >>> over the last five years in this series we have explored what it means to be black in america. my mother is black and cuban and my father is white and from australia, and when i was born in the mid 1960s the census doesn't even track the number of mixed race children, because my mother was black eye always considered myself black and when i was a kid my mother would tell me don't let everybody tell you you are not black, and more often the question i was getting was, what are you? with the 2010 consen

african-americans again filled the streets. but this time over two hundred people and deputy sheriff. so here we. are at night when. things in such disarray and we're facing cops in the street. and they want to move to. do so when do we move. and so you're looking at one and. and your reading of people in the body language that says it's going to build up. and then they fired from around the brow. the so now. please. please my friday morning additional police were called in from all points of l.a. to squash what authorities were now termed a full scale life legacy because of the right to look. we were don't. see it as guerrilla warfare but the reason that you can't say it is because you never gave the so-called nickel up intelligence to be strategists and know the little. her little. leg then what happens is that it becomes a big newspaper story which increases political pressure on the authorities to do something. illegal and in a body of sixteen thousand national guard i don't know who to write. lengthy national guard particu

it wasn't only african-americans.it was also jewish-american donors who gave him vast sums of money and never got their phone calls returned. it was oprah winfrey who worked hard for him and then was frozen out of the white house. caroline kennedy, on and on and on. the portrait that are derived from all of this -- here's a president and a man who felt that he deserved it was entitled to all the support and didn't know anything back in return. >> what about michelle obama. what is your role as far as she's concerned? >> i love that picture of her. she has been on the cover of many fashion magazines. the first lady but the world has been waiting for. she likes to show that she has no interest in politics, that she doesn't like politics and doesn't want to get involved in politics. that her main interest is in raising her children, taking care of her husband, doing some work, like her anti-obesity campaign. a very different profile of michelle obama, a woman who grew up in a household where her father was a political op

it was -- >> she sees tremendous progress for african american women during the past 60 years despite what she calls the double handicap of race and gender. she credits civil rights laws including the civil rights act of 1964 and voting rights act of 1965 as well as the women's movement. which some activists claim haven't done enough. this progress proves women of color needn't choose between race and gender. >> when we advanced in the civil rights laws it didn't help just black people. it helped the whole country. we advance women, it advances the whole family. that's why i don't like to pit one against the other. >> she cautions laws alone won't eliminate discrimination. >> i know as both as an african american and a woman that is giving us the foundation. but we really have to act more vigorously because you don't have the expressions of black spines and white signs and white toilets and black toilets and men only ads in papers. we don't have those things. in the absence of those things it is so easy to try to pretend that the problems are gone, but they're still there. >> she beli

african-americans again filled the streets. but this time over two hundred people and sheriff's office. so here we. are at night when. things in such disarray and we're facing cops in the street. and they went to move to. see so when we moved. and so you're looking at one and. and you're reading the eyes of people in the crowd there's the body language that says it's going to build. a new fired from around the crowd. its own now. playing. political. elite. and then it probably has sixteen thousand national guard who don't know the terrain. thanks national guard particular one official explained to engage. i'll be pleased. at that point they went to the other extreme which was the iron fist they aren't. and this leads to a personal free fire zone where people could be shot. making the wrong time at the wrong intersection. or claim by police is that these were looters that were refusing orders to go to. the autopsies clearly show the people were shot in the back. one has to really question whether or not a human one is worth the

." >> the south african ruling thety gives jacobs amozuma thumbs-up. popular and populist, his man of the people reputation wednesday. some are saying that they overlook corruption allegations. >> the past five years have been bad for south africa. the unresolved allegations of corruption are as unsuitable as the leader. ♪ >> hello, welcome to "gmt." a violent setback of the rise against polio in pakistan. five health workers were killed following criticism of the vaccination program. seen but not heard, the queen sits in on a cabinet meeting at downing street, the first floor and i and 200 years to do so. it is midday in london, 7:00 in the morning in connecticut, 2:00 in the afternoon in south africa, where the president has survived a challenge from within the ruling african congress. he was reelected at a park -- at a party conference, making him the overwhelming favorite to win the nationwide general election next year. home and dry, plenty of people think that the allegations of mismanagement that followed him make him and unsuitable man to be pr

african-americans are underrepresented, as are latino and hispanic families. african-americans are about 7% citywide in that demographic, just about 1%, very low number in our ownership units. latinos 13% citywide and 5% in our bmr units. in terms of the outreach and the marketing for those units, because i think those demographics automatically lead to those questions. through the time i have been there with the department, so i started there about 2005, we have had grants to a number of strategic community-based organizations in order to increase our outreach, specifically on the homeownership side. so we have worked specifically the asian, inc., with san francisco housing development corp., san francisco's lgbt center, et cetera. specifically to try to target outreach to the api lgbt latino and african-american communities, as well as working with homeownership sf, which was a elaborative of all the different homeownership organizations, as well as consumer credit outreach. there are additional barriers to access those units. whenever anyone contact ours of

well when it came to supporting calls for democracy in middle eastern and north african states while denouncing government sponsored violence leaders of the west were vocally critical from our graphic has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave out a very clear message for president to said which is it is time for him to go but when scenes of violent clashes between riot police and reform campaigners came from bahrain the definition of democracy shifted and there was a suspicious response in the summer the u.s. state department came up with a statement expressing its concerns over the human rights situation and alleged torture in bahrain this was only several months after washington had restarted weapons sales to this gulf state dissenters in bahrain have been directing anger at their government for months but now stop arming the killers is a message they are more often sending out to the west so much of the impending blood is worthless and the libyan blood is more important it's just a book critical stand so here youssif often travels to europe to direct attention to what. and in

thanks for joining us here are to you today i'm already sushi the french embassy in the central african republic has been attacked by protesters urging paris to intervene to stop a rebel advance and surgeons reportedly control vast parts of the country and are now approximately seventy five kilometers away from the capital now the u.n. has ordered that staff to evacuate the country due to the unrest and lawrence freeman of the executive intelligence review magazine believes that france will only worsen matters if indeed it gets involved these developments do not occur overnight this is been brewing for years the french are playing a very bad role and if they get become militarily again in the central african republic that's not going to be healthy for african countries are going to have to move in and saudi's brown i think the french have a right to your embassy but beyond that if they become military you it's not going to be helpful to the central african republic or any of the neighboring countries of the c.l.r. what's going on there is what's been going on in most of the countries in