do you consider yourself american, african, african-american what are you? >> america. >> so you are not american. >> i wish i was. >> you have the accent. >> no, i went to school in america. my earlier childhood i was raised in africa. when i graduated high school it was a choice of africa or the u.s. greater. >> you are the perfect example true. >> thank you. >> millions of africans who make it to the states, and who don't, you know, have the same success and the same luck as you have. what would be your advice to a young african who is emigrating to the united states today? >> this advice will go to any person migrating into the states. ultimately you can't change who you are. the biggest obstacle is that when people come to the u.s., they kind of alienate their origin or parties, way of life. and they conform to what is there. accepted. integrate? >> absolutely not. first of all, there's no way you can move forward, and you are not you. like, one thing i do notice about america, is they respect other cultures, they admire other cultures, when they see th

indian south africans and white south africans we leave those two groups alone. white south africans, about 1.3 million families and a third have an active home loan from a financial service institution. look at monthly expenditure levels and there in blue are the 12 million black families. of those, 8 million in orange, are spending less than 2,500 rand a month. only 660,000 are spending more than 10,000 rand, approximately $1,000 a month. and a number that correlates very closely to the half a million home loans, especially when you consider that we have drown these numbers out of a sample size of 12 million mixed race, indian asian, and white south africans about two-thirds of them will spend in excess of 10,000 rand a month. this is a very brittle middle class. the takeout number, only 5.5% of black south african families have an experience of spending more the equivalent of $1,000 a month. south africa remain as poorer country than it is often able to portray itself as to the rest of the world. if you want to turn that around you need to be able to turn this

the first figures relate to what we call black african black south african families. you are about 12 million of those families that you can send orange bar but only half a million, 459000 have a home loan. an excellent indicator of middle-class status mean they could access formal financial services. mixed-race south africans, asian, indian south africa's and white south africans, middle groups alone and white south africans about 1.3 million families of which about a third have an active home loan from a financial services institution. look at the expenditure level of households and you see the picture emerge. in lieu are your 12 million black families. of those, 8 million orange are spending less than two and a half thousand rand as a direct conversion. only 660,000 are spending more than 10,000 rand possibly a thousand dollars. mixed race india and asia and whites south africans about two-thirds of those will spend in excess of 10000 rand a month. this is very small and very personal upper-middle-class. only 5.5.5% of black african families have experienced spendi

african-americans had a black historians, and virtually all african-americans were slaves. that makes us a very interesting people, right. that we thought our struggle, we always thought our struggle to be of some importance, and we always thought our history to be important. so we produced historians. so i do the civil war comes george washington williams, who writes the history of the black participation in the war. then there is joseph wilson, who writes about the war. and then you have more historians, with the historians because of the war. so of that generation, at this point, no college-educated people -- excuse me, phd's writing books about the civil war, and benjamin quarrel comes much later. but those people who write about that war, they will write about the american revolution in the negroes' part, but you don't have the black historians doing that. it really talks about the watershed that takes place with the rise of the civil rights movement and, more broadly, the black freedom movement which would include black power. and perhaps the most telling part of this

in two, african-americans have been denied admission to the dress circle at the opera. and in one, railroad officials had refused to allow an african-american woman to ride in the lady's car of a train. in october 1883, the supreme court did in eight to one opinion, declared the civil rights act of 1875 to be unconstitutional. congress declared it did not have the authority under the 13 -- 13th amendment to pass such a law. being denied access to the dress circle and opera, they said, was not slavery. in the court's majority concluded that the 14th amendment provided redress only against operation of state laws, like the black codes or actions by state officers, not the actions of private individuals and we see that in the 14th amendment. nor shall any state, and that means the state government or officials, not private citizens. it did not give congress the authority to create the code of municipal law for the regulation of private rights. in his majority opinion, justice bradley added this rhetorical flourish, which looks particularly unfortunate in hindsight, given w

and, he posited in a speech at the white house, suffers for african american men, 180,000 african americans who had fought in union ranks. agency run by the military that would aid the slaves' transition into freedom. and he commented at a speech at the white house, separates for at least some african-american men. 180,000 african-americans who had fought in the union ranks and as he would say, very intelligent african-americans because he had met people like douglas. at that speech that he was giving, john looks good was in the crowd and he says, you know what that means? that leaves edwards citizenship and now i will put him through. the following good friday, one week after lee's surrender, john wilkes booth assassinated lincoln at ford theater. a long and often chaotic struggle to define the war meeting began between the new president andrew johnson, the republicans in congress, and the justices of the supreme court. upon taking power, andrew johnson immediately tried to define the meaning of the war unilaterally. he was only in office for one month when he announced a sweeping reconstr

this year marks the midpoint of what the african union has called african women's decade. the african union has also declared, as we have discussed 2015 to be the year of women's empowerment and development towards africa agenda 2063. africa shares the u.s. commitment to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls within the post 2015 development agenda and the national action plan for women peace and security. the u.s. strongly supports the great strides and commitments many african countries and the african union have made to increase women and girls 'em powerment through steps to promote good governance and rule of law, accelerate growth, enhance food security, advance respect for human rights promote peace and security and improve access to services such as health care and education. but african women and girls still face significant challenges, including high rates of gender based violence educational opportunities, difficulties accessing credit and employment. lack of influence in the decision making process. hiv/aids and high rates of maternal mortality.

it's being co-hosted by the african union and the african ambassador group, the ambassador to the u.s. is expected to participate. and this event happening the day after with the united nations calls africa day may 25th each year to celebrate the continent's achievements and reflects on its challenges. it also comes on a day where the african economic outlook was posted today. "wall street journal" saying the trend indicates that african economies will return to closely tracking emerging asian ones as the world's fastest growing regions progress is patchy, they write and precarious. east africa writes the "wall street journal" is seen growing at 5.6% this year, still turbo charging the expansion while economies are expected to stagen an impressive recovery with a 5% growth. but "wall street journal" writes that southern africa wants the continent's economic leader mainly because of south africa's performance is becoming a drag on the overall growth in the economy. that reporting on the outlook for the african economy from the "wall street journal." >>> you're watching c-span 3, we're

he ever kidding for african-american voting rights? dr. mckenzie: most americans are unionist, and that is going to be the support for the brownlow government, so the only thing to perpetuate control is to in -- indefinitely -- that renders state government fundamentally essentially illegitimate. so brownlow's feeling pressure from the very beginning to back away from the policy that had is in franchise disloyal white confederates. so if you are gradually going to ring him more and more of that white population back into the confederate, you are going to lose the state government unless you can put the ballot in the hands of the state of tennessee's black male population. the state legislature will enfranchise blocks as late as the 1870's. dr. harlow: i think apart -- a part we are missing is a black initiative. what were blacks doing about these issues? were they in front of brownlow or the following brownlow? and they were in front of brownlow on the suffrage issue. in 1864, 6 men returned from syracuse, new york, the national colore

we want a change in african women. >> i apologize -- >> born and raised in african. not on television not in radio, not in newspapers. there has to be a change from today. you will be seeing me knock on your offices. and don't close your door. thank you. >> okay. i want to try and take another question here but it's -- before time runs out. i apologize if we have to move along. yes. >> you excellencies, thank you for this opportunity. i'm university of california student. i'm currently at the african women's leadership. this organization invests in women professionally and through leadership and networking and i want to ask in what other means can diaspora individuals and groups outside of africa be invested in so they can help enhance this mission of women empowerment that was just established in 2015. >> let's try to address some of those and i'll try and get back to as many as we can. we had a question about the whole historical issues of borders and whether that is contributing to the problems. we have the question around rural women, in particular. then this las

these are not black africans these are black americans, and treat them as such. if you want to be respected in the black community, treat black people with respect in the black community. quit -- stop all this name-calling thugs. these are just white, black, and brown people who have no future. if they had your future, they would feel differently. live in their shoes for a month. see what it is like to be picked up multiple times for a charge that you did not commit. things would be different. we have to stop the culture of the police. host: catherine from ohio, thank you. ms. wright, go ahead. guest: catherine, you make great points, and i am all for blacks being treated with equality, that is why my parents, who are the products of the 1950's in the 1960's, they sat at the counters, my father was one of the first blacks to go to dental school at his college. i think about martin luther king as we sit here today and see the tragedy unfolding for black americans in cities like baltimore, new york city ferguson, and detroit. but i want to address one thing that mr

in his early teens, he will start his acting at the african grove theater, which was the first african american theater in the united states. what amazes me is how this show man in his early teens, 13 or 14, knew what he wanted to do in life to the point where he realized at about age 15 that he was not going to make it as a black actor in the united states. he takes himself off to england. talk about initiative. he is still mid-teens. this is 1824. he will leave new york city bound for london. in 1824, robert e. lee has just won acceptance to west point. in 1825, lee will gain admittance. he has to wait a year, but he will gain admittance to west point. in 1825, aldridge has been in england for a year and will star in his first role as "othello," one of shakespeare's plays. that is the character we see him dressed as in this portrait. this is by an english artist. it came to the gallery in 1972 through an english estate. what do people think about this? an african american in that role? the reviews were mixed. african american theater was often criticized and mocked in the united stat

these were some of the only professional jobs for african-american women in the city of topeka.hat was going to be lost once the schools were integrated in while there was support for the idea of integration, there was also resistance, especially from the teachers and the local chapter who feared the loss of these institutions and the loss of those jobs. that was not unwarranted. when the middle school integrated a few years before, thereafter american teachers who lost their job. there was a tension between what would be gained, full access to neighborhood schools, where it is african-american children lived, but also a sense of loss of what would happen to these teachers in these institutions. the museum was very much designed to tell the broader story of the struggle for civil rights and american history. the roots go back to slavery in the united states. you will be greeted by a park ranger and the focal or the -- or beginning point was a 25 minute series of films, set up as a dialogue between a young woman an older man, which basically traces the struggle of civil rights. t

these were some of the only professional jobs for african-american women in the city of topeka.hat was going to be lost once the schools were integrated in while there was support for the idea of integration there was also resistance, especially from the teachers and the local chapter who feared the loss of these institutions and the loss of those jobs. that was not unwarranted. when the middle school integrated a few years before, thereafter american teachers who lost their job. there was a tension between what would be gained, full access to neighborhood schools, where it is african-american children lived, but also a sense of loss of what would happen to these teachers in these institutions. the museum was very much designed to tell the broader story of the struggle for civil rights and american history. the roots go back to slavery in the united states. you will be greeted by a park ranger and the focal or the -- or beginning point was a 25 minute series of films, set up as a dialogue between a young woman an older man, which basically traces the struggle of civil rights

after iowa when african americans saw a mostly white state support and african american nominee for president could win. >> african americans began to believe. they began to think this isn't just something that is being built up to be pushed back down. >> did you start getting guys like charlie rangel the leaders in the black caucus big shots did you start getting them after that? when did you start picking up leaders like jim clyburn? >> i'd have to look back but my guess is it was probably after that when people began to think it was possible. >> about the fact that now he seemed winnable in the white community, which has the most vote, it was a different deal. >> let me say this and robert my recollection may be a little slaer to yours, but i differ a little bit. jim clyburn at that time was neutral. and the problem was when south carolina happened the problem was here you had an african american, the first time a really viable african american could be president and won iowa. people in iowa saw that his values kind of lined up with theirs. and then you had the issue with south carolina th

with a trade agreement only 7% of african trade is between african nations. one country has this and the other that, they need trade. they have high tariffs. they don't have roads or railways. they are not doing amongst themselves the trade that could help businesses develop. european tariffs are quite low with regard to africa. so it has to be done by the africans. how can we help? we have to tackle corruption more correct them -- more aggressively. when european firms do business there. they pay, be it shale, or whoever. they pay kickbacks to local elites and that has to be punished here. let's face it. as the german say, it is water on a hot stone. in the end it is african business. ms. pohl: you made some good points. it is important that we look at the things we can do. companies like bmw and others are making business with corrupt systems. they support the corrupt structures. this is something that germany and europe -- germany itself is as strong and powerful as we are, as stable as we are, we need to think in the european perspective. but we can say w

>> it's 56% for african- americans for resisting arrest. stars we showed is that for african-american females they're nine times as likely as their white counter parts to be arrested for that particular crime. >> what is it you infer from it? what do you take out of that? >> it depends on the crime and who reported it. in the case of resisting arrest it's always the police officer who makes the determination as to whether someone's resisting arrest. because it's very subjective sometimes what constitutes resisting arrest. the officer is making judgments about african-american females that they're not making about white females. >> so this would be something where a camera on the police officer would tell the story one way or the other? >> yeah, body cameras would be instrumental. if you have an interaction with a police officer on video, then you're not going to get into the he said she said. >> okay. between this and the incarceration rates, do you feel that african-americans are being racially profiled and given a different standard of ju

my question, and i'm glad you alluded to the presence of olve african-american unions th soldiers, myyment of the african-american soldiers in virginia as occupation troops and maybe you could shed some light on the -- like in winchester, virginia i know g that african-american troops were there to occupy, as so occupying forces and could you a st shed someor light and relevant insight, maybe a story to what troops that was like? >> african-american troops are among those union soldiers who are occupation forces in locations around the south. there is some he hassitancy about using them in this capacity in ri the unioncan- because they understand that symbolically the presence of african-american troops in blue uniforms will be something that will provoke bitterness on the part of ex-confederates, so we will see that very quickly in the early days of reconstruction, confederates will begin to weave a very potent myth about union ave an occupation and about its harshness and they will begin to weave an argument that the hange union's effort to bring change to the south, political chang

in his early teens, he will start acting at the african growth theater, which was the first african-american theater in the u.s. what amazes me is how this show man in his early teens, 13 years old, and knew what he wanted to do in life to the point where he realized that he was not going to make it as an actor -- as a black actor in the united states, so he goes to england. talk about initiative. this is 1824, he will leave new york city bound for london. in 1824, robert e lee has just one acceptance to west point. in 1825, lee will gain admittance. he has to wait a year, but he will gain admittance to west point. in 1825, ira aldridge has been in england for a year and will star as a fellow -- othello. this portrait is by henry biggs, and this is ira aldridge as othello. this came to us from an english estate. what did people think about this , and african-american in that role? ideas were mixed. african-american theater was often criticized and mock in both the united states and england, but >> ira aldridge saw the chances for his success were greater outside of america better in england

so why is he advocating african-american voting rights? >> if you think about it if 30% of the adult white male population is unionist that's the core of any support for his government, the only way for him to get control is to sort of indefinitely disqualify the vast majority of the white male population and the views of an awful lot of native tennesseans, that that renders state government illegitimate. so if you're going to bring more of that white male population back into the electorate you're going to lose control unless you put it in the hands of tennessee's black male population. so that's ultimately what it and we look at his speech. he is calling for equal rights and sufferage that is the right to vote. march 5th tennessee becomes the first state to actually other than maryland and missouri to actually abolish slavery and they abolished it on march 5th. just months after all of that activity by african-americans. and then the next month april 5th, when they are closing in on richmond including 25,000 troops and the 25th army corp

this year marks the mid-point of what the african union has called african women's decade. the african union as also declared as we have discussed 2015 to be the year of women's empowerment and development towards africa agenda 2063. africa shares the u.s. commitment to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls within the post 2015 development agenda and the national action plan for women peace, and security. the u.s. strongly supports the great strides and commitment many african countries and the african union have made to increase women and girls' empower men through steps to promote good governance and rule of law, accelerate economic growth enhance food security, advance respect for human rights, promote peace and security, and improve access to services such as health care and education. but african women and girls still face significant challenges, including high rates of gender-based violence, a dearth of educational opportunities, difficulty accessing credit capital, and formal employment lack of influence in the decision-making process, h.i.v. aids an

students have had disproportionate levels of suspended. >> referrals the specific steps for african-american students and for a number of other categories it is incredible that we've put in there are for homeless students and foster youth specific people within the district and outside of the district nodes needs to be involved with the nature of those students that will help to insure our students are not fueling through the cracks to meet their needs if there's a way to also track similar to how we are tracking to make sure those steps are being taken as well so we that can't be just on paper how many times do we have that person call and that person intervention we're insuring we're staying tow truck true to the policy a specific set of data and support for the students to meet their needs so thank you for this i know this was a lot to say i'm proud to be part of the district with partners that believe in this work i can't think of anything more important thank you for leading. >> superintendant. >> thank you commissioner president murase so you want to thank that long list of partners is

why don't african-americans come to civil war sites? first of all, last night there were hundreds, if not 1000 or more african-americans out here. an extraordinary performance here on the main stage behind me. they held a mock symbolic burial of a former slave woman named hannah reynolds who was killed here on the morning of april 9. no one ever knew where she was buried. they do her name and who her master was, her owner and the african-american community of appomattox county got together with the national parks service and planned for months this amazing performance that was a living history burial, a funeral for hannah reynolds. the choirs were terrific. they same -- they sang spirituals. without any accompaniment. i was surprised stunned, and please define hundreds and hundreds of black folks. i have never seen that many of the civil war site. today there are almost none. that is a very very old saga. historic. it goes back to the years when civil war sites -- and this is changing by the national parks service, they have begun to ma

african-american americans live in different circumstances. baltimore is not typical. more typical are the african-american neighbourhoods in harlem, south side of chicago and so on. there, what you find is a highly variated population. people. you have stable working class people and the poor, and the disconnected. the problem here is not that people have moved out. they are there. the problem there is that the disconnect and the street people, the ones which the congressman talks about constitutes a problem for the majority of god-fearing stable people in the communities. we don't need to bring anyone. the problem is that they are caught between a rock and a hard place. the ill-trained police who, in fact developed a culture sees itself as an occupied force. the irony is the majority of stable-working people, god-fearing people, want the police to be there, they want the police to come in and people. when the police come in, they profile the entire humanity as criminals, and so what they find is a situation in which they are renting, it makes the police work harder a

the wellspring for everything african and spicy.d move constantly. it's a place where everybody is sexy, where even the ugly people are hot. unsurprisingly, this is where artists come from. african spiritualism, occult magic, candomble, and capoeira. >> caipirinhas. >> caipirinha. >> did i mention caipirinhas? they do those here, too. i like them. i like them a lot. >> what's magical about this cocktail is the first taste, it's like i don't know, man, it's a little too something. then like that second sip, it's like oh, that's kind of good. then the third sip, it's where are my pants? fortunately, food in these parts tends to be, shall we say, hearty. for instance, a delightful meal of fried meat with plenty of absorbent starch product like farofa, the perfect accompaniment to many, many caipirinhas. >> oh, excellent. obrigado. now we're talking. it's a tough town for vegetarians. oh, chorizo, good. i'll have six more of these, please. people are staring at me. look at the heathen hump of an american, how much he's eating. just line

these were some of the only professional jobs for african-american women in the city of topeka.hat was going to be lost when schools were integrated. while there was support for the idea of integration, there was also some resistance especially from the teachers and the local chapter of the naacp, who fear the loss of these institutions and the loss of those jobs and those were not unwarranted. when the middle schools integrated a few years before, there were african-american teachers who had lost their jobs. the feeling -- there was very much attention between what was going to be gained, which was full access to neighborhood schools are these african-american children lived in the was also a sense of loss for what was going to happen to these teachers and institutions. the museum was very much designed to tell the broader story of the struggle for civil rights in american history and the roots of that go back to the origins of slavery in the united states. so when you enter the building, you will be greeted by a park ranger. the focal point or beginning point of the exhibit is

. 97% of the african-americans were living in that section of wichita. we are talking a 500 foot high fire ball engulfing the block. 14 homes destroyed, fire is everywhere, destruction is everywhere, and 30 lives are lost through the tragedy. i have not found anything saying this is why the story didn't get the attention it needed. but there was a lot going on in 1965 america specifically three wars. the war on vietnam, a massive amounts of troops are headed into vietnam under johnson. we had the war on poverty and the war for equality. and all of that is consumeing the decade. these were turbulant times. everything in selma. and because of that i think this crash in and of itself didn't get the attention it needed because it happened in quote unquote small town usa, wichita kansas. i arrived at the air force base in 2003 never been to kansas and had no idea about the history. you can imagine me sitting there in this city taking in my surrounding and listening to the instructors there. they have a first term airman center and during this time you learn a

it may no longer be in the headlines but the central african republic remains volatile, fresh and african troops overaa peace between rival militia. nearly half a million people are now homeless christians forced out and muslims forced out by christians. the minority in particular is pacing the price of the violence. another half million people have fled over the border. here they are living in refugee camp entirely depend on international aid. this is the lean season in central africa and food stocks are dangerously low mothers and their children will most at risk of starvation. health workers say infant mortality has reached crisis levels and it is still several months until the next harvest. when there's a lack of food and other basic supplies people tend to move to where they believe they can get access to the things they need. this kind of competition over scarce resources in a tense place like the central african republic, may lead to further conflict. some of the groups have begun releasing children they recruited to fight with them. but the risk is never far away. the central afri

the wellspring for everything african and spicy.and move constantly. it's a place where everybody is sexy, where even the ugly people are hot. unsurprisingly, this is where artists come from. african spiritualism, occult magic, candomble, and capoeira. >> caipirinhas. >> caipirinha. >> did i mention caipirinhas? they do those here, too. i like them. i like them a lot. >> what's magical about this cocktail is the first taste, it's like i don't know, man, it's a little too something. then like that second sip, it's like oh, that's kind of good. then the third sip, it's where are my pants? fortunately, food in these parts tends to be, shall we say, hearty. for instance, a delightful meal of fried meat with plenty of absorbent starch product like farofa, the perfect accompaniment to many, many caipirinhas. >> oh, excellent. obrigado. now we're talking. it's a tough town for vegetarians. oh, chorizo, good. i'll have six more of these, please. people are staring at me. look at the heathen hump of an american, how much he's eating. just li

whether free africans, africans that started as free africans, should remain free africans. or whether they should be considered no more than property to the people that bought them from the africans that sold them. so his argument turned right at the end to a recitation of justices who had been on the court and who were no longer alive. saying, in essence, you know, where is chief justice john marshall? where is this justice? that justice? he called them by name. he knew them. through his father, through himself personally, he knew the justices. all those that had passed away. and he called every one of their names and he said, the solicitor general that last argued a case against me before this court, this was back in the early 1920's, where is he? he had passed away. and he went on naming the names of justices who had been on the supreme court and died and then came around and he said, even the justice that started this case, where is he? he's not with us. they've all gone to meet their maker. their judge. and then he said the biggest thing about -- the biggest question a

and african-americans know it would be thug.f before you make your comments on national television how many millions of african merps, how many millions of african-american kids are you willing to allow to suspect that you might be racist? how many? and here is what's so very nutty about this whole thing. you don't need to use that word that create that suspicion the word that so many people on television seem so eager to use. we don't need that word. we don't need it. there is absolutely nothing that needs to be said about what has happened in baltimore that demands the use of the word "thug," nothing. so the good news is we can just drop it just like that. that's how easy it is to fix this problem of possible misunderstanding. we can just drop the word thug. we know how to do that. it's not hard. we now how to stop using words in certain ways or stop using them completely. forever. that is why no one is calling anyone who broke the law in baltimore wab need row, or a ruffian ruffian. if you continue to fight for the right to u

whereas african-americans continue to experience a large number of them great difficulties and that -- part of that has to do with context of reception. in other words, with the kinds of opportunities or absence of opportunities that those migrants faced in areas of destination. i can guarantee -- and i have the facts to support this claim -- that african-americans represent a truly exceptional case in terms of hostility they face. so what that resulted in without going into further detail is the presence throughout nation of highly segregated neighborhoods in which you have what wilson himself calls concentrated poverty. so this is different from having a few people, for example living in neighborhoods which are otherwise affluent and have resources. when you have a majority of people clustered in spaces in which everybody is black and everybody's poor, the dynamics of life are very, very different. for example, douglas massey -- my colleague at the office of population research -- has shown both in his book "american apartheid" and more recent material one of them climbing mount lau

we call african-americans thugs, and wonder why there is violence.o say they are destroyed her own community is very very naive. what they are lashing out against is that they are getting racially and economically exploited, especially in places like baltimore. they are resisting state violence. i'm not condoning destroying a cvs. it is because they do not feel they have anybody in in these communities. in these communities will stop if anything, they feel like these communities are marginalizing their very existence because of the ways the institutions do not work for them. host: ok, mr. joseph, only because i want to get some calls, linda, you are from illinois. your first up on our independent line. go ahead. caller: good morning. mr. joseph, you are so right. you are young, and you know what is going on. you are absolutely correct. your other friend over there -- there was a time i would have agreed with some of what she says, but now that i have then exposed -- the criminal justice system is so corrupt from the judges to the prosecutor and the l

unfochinately there was no closet african americans. we were african americans and subject to that >> thank you. your time is up. thank you. are there any other member thofz pubplic who would like to provide public comment? >> [inaudible] mta. i think we need to look at this very closely and see if we have a department of the sate that may be out of control. i'm seeing cookie cutter decision being made for all neighborhoods that might not be right for one or two neighborhoods or other things like that. i think we better look at, how do we be able to handle the fact that the mta has no one that can over rule them. i think we need to look at that legislation and see if we can modify it to make it better for this city. i heard from polk street and heard from all over the city now, they are very upset with these plans they pull from had neighborhoods. this isn't just one neighborhood, this is multiple neighborhoods. we need to really decide what is right for the city, for neighborhood character, the economic development of our different nei

just because it happens in african america, no good deed, nothing in the film is specific to african-american. same is true of other films with african-american leaders. nothing specific to the african-american experience that whites, germans, foreigners can't get what the film is about. i work very, very hard to try to make films that are not culturally or ethnically exclusionary. i want to make films that are inclusionary and can be enjoyed by a wide audience. >> and lucius, and -- >> for inspiring filmmakers, advice, never give up. >> end of the day, hollywood is a numbers business, and if you can -- you can be making the greatest film. if they're not resonating, people aren't connecting, you'll find just continue to make films. i've made films with commercial success and am proud of that. >> you want to marry my sister, show me you're worthy of her. >> how am i supposed to do that? >> i'm going to take you on a ride along. >> i want to continue to raise the bar in terms of the quality level of the films i'm making. >> strictly a business relationship. not buying a new friend. you're hirin

arguably, the police have been stopping african-americanings and latinos and asians -- african-americans and asians at higher rates in these kinds of stops ever since they've first been used from the '40s and '50s and on. but the term really began to be used in the late '80s and into the 1990s. by the mid 1990s it's clear that most police departments in the midst of growing controversy around these sorts of stops had formally or officially banned the use of true formal racial profiles in law enforcement. nonetheless, it's very clear that racial minorities are still stopped at much higher rates in this kind of a stop than are white drivers. the racial disparity in investigatory stops is striking. we find that about half of african-american drivers have experienced -- when they report a stop in the past year -- have e appearanced an investigatory stop. this is far more than white drivers. white drivers typically experience a traffic safety stop. so they wonder what's the big deal about police stops? african-americans experience again and again and again a search on the basis of, i'm sorry,

roughly one million african-american children and incarcerated parent. in some communities, the rates of incarceration in terms of the proportion of the young male population are quarter, 30% in some well-defined urban enclaves. the circulating populations of inmates in and out of the institution causes the nature of social life in the institution and community to be in some kind of symbiotic relationship to one another pair the kinds of behavior, ways of carrying oneself that are necessary -- another. the kinds of behavior, the ways of carrying oneself that are necessary in the ones in the broader community. some criminologists have argued -- this is controversial and we call attention to the controversy in our report -- the variability of the communities to employ informal means of social control that are crime-reducing to discipline young people, for example, and maintain order through informal regulations, are undermined by the high level of imprisonment characteristic of those populations -- men coming in and out of prison in large numbers makes it

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we have begun to give hope to the people of the central african republic. >> reporter: the central africanc remains volatile. french and african police oversee a fragile police. nearly half a million people are homeless in the country. the muslim minority in particular are paying the price of the violence. >>> another half million people have fled over the border to chad cameroon and the democratic republic of the congo. here they are living in refugee camps. this is the lean season in central africa and food stocks are dangerously low. mothers and their children are most at risk of starvation. health workers say infant mortality has reached crisis levels and it's still months until the next harvest. when there's a lack of food and other basic supplies people tend to move to where they believe they can get access to the things they need. this kind of competition over scarce resources in a tense place like the central african republic may lead to further conflict. some of the armed groups have begun releasing children they recruited to fight with them. but the risk of renewed fighting is ne

as the african-american head of human resources, i caught hell finding black engineers. that's the reality. the head of apple globally the head of human resources for apple, is an african-american woman who graduated from an hbcu. this is not some plan. she's been with them 21 years. this did not start yesterday, who is trying to find it, but she goes in, and they are just having great difficulty finding people -- and this is not just qualified to do the job, but people who are willing and able to at least enter into some of the roles. we, again, changing the narrative to say that white america does not want to hire you. >> but the narrative out there is that silicon valley is racist -- >> and sexist, by the way. >> and it's -- so you have a jesse jackson going out, shaking down the valley pretending the low number of black hires has to do with bias and not the pool of people that apple or google or whoever is hiring from, and the fact that blacks are under remitted in that pool of people. we can do something about that problem. i mean, if jesse jackson really wanted to