first of all, there were not african american slaves. there were africans. that mattered. it secondly, the slave owners were not american slave owners like john c. calhoun or others. there were cuban slave owners. that may it easier to vilify the cubans slave owners. so it is a little bit different, so it is a little this safer, but i would emphasize, that is not an easy distinction to maintain. in other words, i have never read about any american slave owner who would have liked to see and it's like that. you don't glorify and lionize slave rebels. the spanish government pointed this out clearly. yes, you're going to say it is legal for these people to kill a white man, a figure of authority and capture a ship? all the slaves to america would be very interested to get this days. the do believe the fact that it came from outside the that states may it a little easier, but the other thing which really does matter is that this was a really very dramatic events. and what has struck me about the popular side of it is that they were interested in here these people were as afric

and it has happened because the african countries under african union leadership collectively made a determination that that's what they were going to do. i was privileged in about a year and a half ago to be invited to a very, very small meeting of african chiefs of defense from a small number of countries in east africa who had been directed by their presidents to say you guys develop the military strategy to defeat al-shabaab. .. >> but it was african lead. and i think that's a pretty good model, and i think that's a pretty good success story. the nation is not complete in somalia. somalia has a long way to go but the fact that president is on was hit lastly, that our secretary of state formally announced the recognition of that government, this is inconceivable just a few years ago. i think again that's where we are at our best. not necessarily leading, supporting, training, equipping, helping in ways that the africans ask us to help. that's what we do best. >> good afternoon. i am with the institute for policy studies, and just really want to applaud the center for hosting this

, 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.

not just black south africans, but black and white south africans which is something that was never donenified. they really prepped us really nice and set an example for us. [playing south african national anthem] ♪ nkosi sikelel' ♪ ♪ iafrika ♪ mndebele: i think the idea of us singing the south african anthem it came from paul. it was the forbidden one at that time. as soon as we start the song paul would step back because he didn't understand the lyrics, you know. but i think after two or three days, we said, "no, paul, you have to learn the lyrics because we are all one here and this is about you and all of us, so you need to learn the lyrics," so we taught him. ♪ nkosi sikelel' iafrika ♪ simon: to be standing on a stage with people whose lives were scarred by apartheid was very, very powerful. i really felt privileged and honored to be asked to be a part of it. ♪ lusapho lwayo ♪ simon: as "graceland" became a phenomenon people began to put a very clear human face on the victims of apartheid. suddenly here's joseph shabalala, suddenly here's miriam makeba, here's suddenly these charism

there is talk about african-american slaves fighting for the confederacy. there's no evidence for this. there are some slaves hoped up in the confederate army and were taken by the openers as basically body servants. by the opened the war there was discussion about whether the 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 regiment 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 openers, but i just have never seen evidence that is compelling along these lines. >> host

c-span: dressed in african garb. >> guest: she dressed a great deal in african garb. i mean, she's very--was and is very savvy about--you know, she's a psychologist--about perception and how people take that as a sense of pride in what she stands for and what she does and how that sort of rubs off on her business. c-span: did you take a point of view into these interviews or did you stay out of it? >> guest: i tried--i tried very much to stay out of them because, you know, i mean, there's something at--at once sort of shallow about narrative--i mean, travel narratives, and what i wanted to bring by sort of incorporating oral history was, you know, sort of a witness from the place. so when i talked to them about where they grew up, i wanted to let them have their say. and so i tried to stay out of editorializing on their comments about the place. when i stood back and sort of said, 'well, here i am in burlington, vermont,' well, i sort of told you what i thought, i mean, because it was, you know, my subjective response to a place is as valid as anyone else's. so there'

while african-americans make up 6% of san francisco's population they accounted for 54% of drug sales and arrests and 40% of drug sales arrests in the city. that is african-americans were 18 times more likely to be arrested for dealing drugs and 10 times more likely to be arrested for possession of drugs than the city's other races combined. this large disparity is not explained by racial differences in drug use as estimated by drug deaths, so from 1995 to 2009, 62% of drug deaths were white non latinos and 22 were african-american and 10% latinos and asian islander so that disparity is unique to san francisco. our study showed prior to the 990's san francisco drug enforcement resembled state wide. after 1995 san francisco's rate of felony arrest of african-americans increased dramatically and not occur elsewhere in the state and for other racial categories in san francisco. in 2009 data shows that african-americans in san francisco experienced felony drug arrests seven times higher than the rest of california. these trends are apparent in other areas but to varying degrees. we were u

but i think a lot of depth is required in the approach of african african-americans and the only way to do it is to seize the opportunity. visiting africa, not the french africa or the air of africa or the british africa. but part of the african continent when they say yes, i can smell and feel and taste africa. to go there and sit with the cultural and spiritual leaders, to expose themselves as almost like a kind of process of osmosis in which you actually understand the totality and the comprehensive nature of the culture underneath such a society. from which the architects draw their strength. not the opportunistic slogans like all that kind of thing which is caustic rhetoric. no, but if you find in there, spread the word. you convey the essence. you show that it can be done. and if you have no feeling for, you have no feeling for it. looking for african roots, it can be a total disaster. one ambassador looked at the negative side of africa and he abandoned hope and ended up being japanese. [laughter] but just to go into it, exposing these experiences. >> just to clarify a point t

african nations need to take the lead in military operations.oining us live from the capital, what is the latest on the fighting? >> we have heard reports from the north overnight back french bombers have been in action against targeting timbuktu. the reports we have heard speak about three airstrikes on sunday. the first two were within half an hour of each other to the northwest of the city. then there was a report of another air strike to the north of timbuktu where the rebel group was. and is unclear whether the vehicle was carrying explosives. on the ground, the latest we have had are those by the strong as supporters of the french military regaining the town and also this village that fell to the rebel forces after the french air strikes began. it was important from a strategic and a psychological 0.0 view to push the rebels back from that village. >> there pushover african troops to take over this intervention. this intervention was not supposed to start until much later this year and was supposed to be african-lead. do think african trip

it's interesting that gregory wallace, an african american man, was supposed to play mr. oge, an excentric neisei who likes literature. i thought it would be an interesting thing to do. but after a while we did a reading and we realized as good

there should be a bustling african market, but it is silent. as if a funeral procession is passing by. many stores are closed. hardly anything is being sold. the rebels seized most of the vehicles here. and nearly all of the fuel supplies. petrol is four times its normal price. small u.n. fact-finding team meets with a commander, once a bullfighter, now wearing a uniform of the army. after several satellite phone calls, there's an agreement for humanitarian corridor. >> when armed groups fight, the people suffer. we're leaving the door open to all organizations that can come and help the population. >> help is desperately needed. in the rebel attacks, government offices were not the only buildings luted. houses, shops, and farms were rated. if 24,000 people have fled from this area. this is the main hospital. non urgent cases waiting outside. when rebels attacked, a doctor offered free treatment and drugs in an effort to stop any looting during the succeeding. -- to stop any luting. he succeeded. but now the drugs have run out. this is a conseq

american indian, asian, pacific islander, black, african-american and -- >> she picked african-americanial. >> becca khalil is also filling out college applications. >> i don't want to sit and have a long conversation about what bubble i should fill in about my ethnicity. i think i am african-american. >> what box do you check? >> i check white. >> you check white? >> yep. so that i can avoid any troubles with getting into college. i am 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 you meet me because i have to audition for these 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 will be like i am black, and people will be like, that's what's up. >> i am a firm believer in the ability to self identify. becca says she's black, i would agree that she is black. >> give me a positive about bi racial? >> maybe these girls get to help dissolve these boxes. they have to say fo

is an interesting photograph, and speaks to complex connections within the african-american community with gender and power, but beyond that, i don't know. >> host: professor hahn what do we know wrongly about slavery in the u.s.? >> guest: one of the issues i try to do with is the process by which slavery ended and the geographical reach of slavery. the view that tends to be handed down, the country be divided between the free states and so-called slave states and the civil war growing out of that conflict. my issue is not if slavery is that the root of the civil war but what interested me was the relationship between the early emancipation of slaves in the northern states in the later emancipation later in the southern states. slavery was legal in all other british colonies and all of north america and gradually the northeast and mid-atlantic states abolished slavery but it is a gradual process we discover there were slaves in new jersey 1860's and most that abolished slavery between 1780 and 18 '04, had to do it again later in the 19th century because there is so much ambiguity wit

the third african-american in the u.s. senate. i spoke to him after his great victory in illinois at a time when most people knew him as a skinny kid with a funny name from the south side of chicago. the phrase you have been accustomed to using, the skinny kid with a funny name from the south side of chicago. beyond that issue, how did you get beyond getting beyonpeople o vote for a guy whose name they could not renounce? >> they still screw it up sometimes. the call me alabama or yo mama. one thing that i confirmed in this race is the american people are decent people. they get confused sometimes. they're busy. there stressed. they are tired. sometimes they are watching fox news, that will get them confused. tavis: yeah. >> when you talk to them about issues, the things we have in common, our belief that every child should have decent shot at life, the vulnerable around us must be cared for and the government have role in that, people respond. one of the things i started off this campaign believing was that if people knew who i w

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 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, then

i mean after all the indictment against africans right now africans only yes that's true we just celebrated the tenth anniversary of the coming into operation of the rome treaty creating the i.c.c. and yet it's still a work in progress i absolutely agree that. every single case has been brought against african. people and therefore it seems as though it really is a kind of almost neo 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 n

. >> south african president said his government will send 400 troops to the central african republic to help assist with the demobilization of rebel groups. protesters gathered on the streets on saturday calling for a peaceful solution to the crisis. talks between the government and rebels are set to begin on tuesday. rebels known as the selectia coalition taking control of 11 towns in less then a month. andrew simmons joins me live now from the capital bangy. andrew, lovely to see you. what can you tell us about the south african troops? >> well, there is a development, interesting one and one that has caused several sources we have spoken to, to suggest that this consternation, surprise and indeed anger among fomac, international force already here. a thousand troops made up of central african states. there are ten african states in the regional grouping. they weren't aware of the scale of the south african involvement. and it all dates back, we saw some of these troops on the ground here just doing their business and getting into a store and out again. we were told on saturday tha

i would guess that you do not beat african forces it would be african forces and french forces there's some doubt about the manhunt forces but then there might be forces from other african countries that could be effective from nigeria for example this all remains to be seen very much in a particular thanks so much good to hear from you professor of political science at paris west university and on to work the phones good to hear from you thank you. stripping protest to citizenship police brutality and arrests over twitter posts seen it all and in the latest incidents and. tear gas during a demonstration we reveal how he had to fill site for some time even in his own home. the u.s. state prosecutor was warned freedom of information activist aaron swartz could kill himself stay with us for more on the life and legacy of the twenty six year old in just a minute but. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else. and realized everything you thought. was a big picture. of . the world with. science technology innovation al

i want to put african-american. i think i'm african-american. >> what box do you check?check white? >> yep. so that i can avoid any troubles with getting into college. i am applying for theater. >> she fears checking black could mess up her chances of acceptance. >> you have an image in your head and then when you meet me because i have to audition me for these 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 will be like i am black, and people will be like, that's what's up. >> i am a firm believer in the ability to self identify. becka says she is black, and i would agree she is black. >> give me a positive about bi racial? >> 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 shares images, by sharing stories, by sharing culture. >> the final workshop is all about sharing. >> write down ten things that identify you. write a group poem about the theme of what you hav

her study will track 12,000 people and four african countries and as part of the world's first pan-africanentific adventure examining the genetics of africans. >> we know body composition is what causes predisposition to diseases and diseases of lifestyle. it's really wanting to understand the genetic bases of it and how the environment interacts with the genetic experience to give us the risks. >> the risks of diseases like cancer and heart disease are set to increase as more africans start eating food with high calories. by 2030, the world health organization fears they'll overtake diseases like hiv-aids as the continent's biggest killers. though africa has the greatest genetic diversity of any continent, the population has been around the longest. very little is known about people's genes compared to europeans, americans or asians. yet that knowledge could be vital in combating a future health crisis. the research will also strengthen science in africa. >> it's opening up opportunities for young researchers such as myself, it's a way we get to collaborate other researchers from africa.

an african-american has a chance to be that person essentially says in a sense into. silence by family members and local clergy bound by fears and denial only strengthened the growing prejudice against those infected with hiv every black family has someone who has been addicted to drugs or alcohol as someone who was gay you know so that wasn't a new phenomenon what was new was that we were not about to talk about it in public i had a minister to said to me it's a real reverend cheek. homosexuality i don't have that problem in my church has had a problem. i said how because the church tweet thing we see twelve hundred people as a so and twelve hundred people and easily to say that ten percent of the population this gay and lesbian and you don't see anybody so you don't have anybody in your choir you don't have anybody on your deacon board on your ministerial staff on you in your administrative office no way you don't see no one gay and as i understand homosexuality and drug addiction are two taboos that were well entrenched within the black family but almost never open

a force made up of central african nations will stay to make sure the cease-fire remains in place. regional leaders may be congratulating themselves on a deal which they say is a tangible and permanent. we have been here before. there was a peace accord which was signed here in 2008. a deal which then disintegrated. the opposition admits it is not going to be easy. >> obviously, it is going to take courage from both parties, the opposition as well as the government. to permanently find a way. >> the president heads back to the central african republic with his power considerably weakened. a nation that was on the brink of war now a step closer to peace. >> a military coup has been europe -- averted in the central african republic for now. there is a long history of instability in the country. in 1992, the president who came to foul -- who came to power by force in 1991 was pressured to hold elections. there were three serious mutinies in the mid-1990's. the elected president was kicked out and coup'ed by the current president. by 2009, he reached peace agreements with the main rebe

gender and sexual orientation african-americans tend to have sex with african-americans it's black men and black men usually it's black men and black women usually miss frayne death. among ourselves. both black man band women are at much greater risk of getting age i.v. compared to their white counterparts youth as well as adults. we began our investigation by looking at men who account for seventy percent of all new infections among blacks but what was surprising is that it's not just men who have sex with men who need to be concerned about hiv. i did everything possible to get in this position you know i wanted that you know the wendy of my life was famous and free so i pretty much got what i was looking for if i'm not mistaken alice and p. she communicates he clone and i think that's why our verse i first fell on top when he told me i didn't believe him because i had all these s.t.d. is like now i it all away he had. you know bad i was my thing in baghdad it overall way but it didn't go away and stanley's response was going now you know oh this doesn't need as like i already already

soon as possible several african nations have already sent troops or the larger contingent expected to arrive within the next week political analyst eric trade said believes any african led coalition will still be controlled by western powers behind the scenes. the united states is looking for any pretext to expand a military presence all throughout africa we know the story of the what could be called the invasion of twenty thirteen where the united states is sending troops into more than thirty five countries all throughout the continent but it's important to remember that the united states has had a presence inside of mali now for over a year well before the french intervention so what france is doing now is merely the surface of this and if we dig a little bit deeper we see that the western imperial powers are responsible very much and an integral part of all of the dynamics in mali but the reality is that handing it over to african troops is handing it over to puppet governments it's handing it over to troops that are beholden to so-called advisors remember that whatever forces

i was upset with african languages, what they would call african language.d to put it and african language, the poem. i went to langston and the freedom poem -- which means freedom. >> with a great congo flows. it contained swahili. i went to the united nations and talk to a number of diplomats at that time. i said, how can i use one african language when there are so many languages in africa? how can i choose one? the general consensus was, you swahili. so i had this guy who was a scholar of swahili. he took langston's poem from english to keep swahili. his diction and voice was so wonderful. you can see him on the recording. >> africa where the great congo flows africa, where the whole jungle knows a new dawning breaks africa a young nation awaits, africa' >> [indiscernible] then when you got to be good aircraft, he had to make a contribution to society. >> i'm joined by the award winning author walter mosley who has published 37 books, the written many others, including a series of bestselling mysteries featuring the private investigator, detectable in a

this was not just a picture featuring somebody of african descent. it was a clearly political statement opposed to american slavery. and in one of those rather amazing coincidences of history, the exhibition opened may 7, 1861, and the first shots had just been fired or fort sumter a few weeks previously. when the exhibition opened in may, all of london was atwitter about the war in the u.s., and of course all of london was talking about what role should the united kingdom take in the american war. there were many in britain, very much in favor of supporting the confederate states of america because of the amount of money that britain made from american cotton. there were, of course, many opposed to that as intel we all know that ultimately britain remained neutrality but on that moment on may 7, 1861, no one really knew what would happen. >> host: were there slaves in great britain at that time. no slavery had been abolished in britain its colonies officially in 1838ment so it had been a long time since britain had been directly involved with slaver

takes an in-depth look at the impact of a child v aids on the african american community.rep or loopy fiasco actually caused a fiasco by singing a song highly critical of president obama ironically at a concert in honor of his second inauguration according to the huffington post he was thrown off stage by security for insulting the dear leader the sounds really bad like something out of one thousand nine hundred four were thugs come out of nowhere the second you say something out of line about the party. to the song loop it was sunny had been going on for thirty minutes at that point this rant was more like a hip hop filibuster stopping the whole show and dragging on and on and on the so i think security just wanted to silence him in general not silence his anti obama opinions so you know loopy next time when you want to bring up obama's drone usage or total disregard for the constitution then keep it under three minutes and everything will be just fine but that's just my opinion. warmly. oh. that's the start of this strange new disease affecting healthy young americans lo