que el voto hispano en nevada representava el 12%, pero anoche los latinos se acercaron al 17%, los afroublicano para lograr apoyo en las leyes de inmigración, pero que la comunidad sabía que él intentó aprobar el dream act. y que los hispanos ven en él un aliado. y fue por eso que obtuve su apoyo dijo. >>> apoyo a reid porque los demócratas creen más en nosotros, se hacen más por nosotros. >>> los latinos esperan que la quinta oportunidad sea la vencida para que reid los apoye en inmigración. >>> quiero poder realizarme como ser humano y eso me daría el dream act. >>> reid dijo que parte de la definición de su trabajo era crear concenso, que hoy más que nunca es necesario. >>> blanca rosa vilchez, univisión. >>> hay más latinos en el congreso, y más latinos en las gobernaturas, martín tiene las caras y los nombres. >>> varios miembros de la comisión hispana habrían perdido su puesto, como el de rodríguez y salazar, y el de salomón ortiz está por verse, díaz balart que también se retira, ellos son los que se van, las caras latinas que se van, pero están los que vienen, los nuevos congres

one of three churches to welcome most in our afro- centric worship. our ceiling which only has cosmetic and structural damage, the insurance would have covered at 140,000. not allowed to repair, all we got, and the property was purchased in mid 2005 with the intent of the chapel for the retention of all artifacts. in my personal conversations, he expressed wanting to leave it better than when he purchased it. we have successfully blocked the archdiocese with an injunction from sale or removal of the altars and roads. i gained his trust as well as his vice president. i was allowed to have my keys back to maintain my upkeep of the church since i have in november of 1980. i happily donate my time, my trust, my tools, and personally purchasing supplies to repair the roof. i also did weekly graffiti abatement. i did this so it was not cited and fined by the city. i paid for the repairs and was called. the sale of property was announced. [chime] >> if i may ask a question, would it be safe to say you have been a volunteer that has been helping caretaker for

i do get upset with people who think i am the only black woman who ever wore an afro. [laughter] i can remember when i was a high-school student in new york can end i saw those. then of course, later, why do they keep picking on me? i do not understand. [laughter] thank you for the question. [applause] >> i am here representing my professors from concordia college and the it by being imprisoned or buy society for the fried lobbying corrects but just what is imposed recent mahan and things like that? >> i have a very small short answer about internal freedom. i am from ohio. [applause] [laughter] there is always 10 that come to new york. [laughter] that have steel mills and shipyards african americans six akin sin europeans. a real diverse community. hot but we were citizens in some cases and the polish lady next door would bring us those things with me to in them. [laughter] and if we had something we would bring her. ever but a had third since. it was not throwing but old enough to know we were miserable. [laughter] my experience of race but might also grew up in a mi

afro-descended people, peoples whose ancestors were enslaved 400 years ago, who were brought to columbia to engage in gold mining, and they still live in the place where their ancestors settled when they escaped slavery, so it was initially a fugitive slave slaves settlement like a moran settlement and the people who live there now live on the same land and do the same work that their ancestors did 400 years ago. they still mined gold in this very different way. the women are minors and the children are minors, and the women talk about mining in this incredibly passionate way. the guys mind too. [laughter] they all mind. they all mind, but i mean it is interesting that the women say, i have been a minor since i was in my mother's womb. so the point that i am making is that now, even though they actually own the land, they were able to get the title to the land but not too what is in the land, the subsoil, the minerals, and there are a number of a mining concerns that are trying to evict them, so that they can institute these new industrialized modes of mining, strip mining and one of the

. >> london school of business finance offers afro gram through a facebook application 30,000 -- program through facebook application, 30,000 students are registered. >> courses are free. get this you only have to pay if you take the exam. >> nice. >> total cost of that online mba degree, $23,000. that is a lot cheaper than -- >> you just have to be motivated and -- >> quit checking your facebook status all the time. >> true. >> 6:26 a.m. bay area landmark getting a long over due make over. >> imagine going to school and being called a terrorist. new kind of bullying at bay area playgrounds and a specific group of kids who are targeted. >>> is there a connection between the chinese government and recent hacking attempt against google. what newly released documents are saying. >>> nice shot of tahoe. plenty of snowfall over the past couple days but right now no snowfall expected plenty of sunshine today's highs mid-30s. bay area forecast coming up ,,,,,,,,,, people! look at you! texting...blogging... all this technology, but you're still banking like pilgrims! it's time for new school ban

the wind resistance from my afro would slow me down. >> but it didn't seem cool back then, but it wasi stayed with it. the recycling, the cheap electric car. very cheap to refuel and maintain. i stayed with all of it. pretty soon i could afford a sola oven. i kelt building until 20 years later i could afford solar electric. >> what is your hope as we move forward? there are people who still debate the warming on the planet and what is to blame for it. what is the next level? >> you can go to the nasa website. put that aside. the people who don't believe it won't believe it no matter what nasa says. let's lessen our dependence and put money in our pockets by doing it smart. >> you certainly led by example. we greatly appreciate you coming on. you have to teach me to come compost. >> oh, it's wonderful. >> that does it for this edition of "news nation." i'mç tamron hall. tomorrow on "news nation," chris jenkins of the new york jets explains a huge environmental het the final presentations ♪ ♪ sally, i'm gonna need 40 copies, obviously collated ♪ what's going on? when we're crunched for

now this cartoon in the baltimore afro-american hailed the verdict as a major victory.ere, little is portrayed as a champion boxer standing atop a bruised and battered jim crow. hoisting little's gloves into the air, her attorneys proclaimed victory and a triumph over a jim-crow racism. with stars swirling it on his head, looking tired and kind of overweight and his confederate shorts, old jim crow is finally down for the count. if we are to fully understand the role of gender and sexuality in the civil rights movement, and if we are going to provide what are now being called a truly loaded cost accounting of white supremacy, then we've got to include analyses of sexual violence and rape, testimony and protest that remain at the bottom floor of the modern civil rights movement. thank you for coming tonight. [applause] >> i guess now we have ambient sound. [inaudible] right here. right here in the red. >> what got you on to this research in the beginning? tell us the story about it. >> it's a great question. it was 1998, and i was a master student of the university of wi

>> afro-leninism!>> narrator: angry citizens, stoked by economic fears, outraged about bailouts and expanding government... >> the things that obama's doing are the exact things that hitler did. >> no public option. >> narrator: ...focused their rage on the healthcare bill. >> boom, the summer town halls literally blow up in our faces. >> radical, communists and socialists. >> the fat really hit the fire when we went home in august for what usually is a fairly leisurely stroll through the district... >> yes, we can! >> you're pathetic! >> ...to town hall here... ( yelling ) >> baby killer. abortion is murder! >> ...a summer parade there, an ice cream social here. no, it was all health care all the time. and people were... were red hot about it. it was a radioactive issue all summer. >> we won't pay for murder! we won't pay for murder! >> the surprise is just how out of hand these town hall meetings are getting. >> there is an ugliness with these fringe people who are comparing the president to hitler.

. >> i was a full fledged afro- wearing platform-shoes wearing come dore. >> reporter: he grew up ines met as freshman. lionel was planning to be an accountant. they soon found the stage has greater appeal and bigger rewards than the books. >> it was the most amazing thing in the world for me when you pick up a microphone, you grab the band and girls started screaming. over and out. it was the beginning of something. >> reporter: something big. ♪ it's a brick house >> reporter: the band played at a top of the charts through the 1970s with funky beats and ball adds. ♪ three times a lady >> reporter: they set out to be the black beatles. they ended up with a sound all their own. ♪ you're once, twice, three times a lady ♪ nobody, not one r and b band in the world was in this category. >> reporter: nobody was doing that. >> and if it worked, it was going to be amazing. if it didn't work, i'm out of business. >> reporter: but it worked. >> but it worked. >> reporter: lionel's song writing was working too. ♪ my endless > a duet he wrote and sang with diana ross was ross's biggest-selling s

. >> help folks watching remember the 1970s, and we're not talking about the big afros and bell bottomsd bunny killer. >> former president jimmy carter has a book out, "white house dia diary" and one thing he done talk about was the story behind the so-called killer rabbit, and we have him on reliable sources, and president carter explained what happened. this is an incident where a rabbit got close to the boat and the president splashed him with water and the rabbit ran away. there was a photo of the rabbit near the president and it was a one-week story and a headline in "the washington post" saying, killer rabbit. jimmy carter says this all started with his press secretary, jody powell, after this innocuous incident had told a reporter or multiple reporters about it in a bar late at night after some drinking had gone on, so the story got blown out of proportion. some people think the moral of the story is it that the media may sometimes blow things out of proportion. i think it's good that things never change. white house press secretary still giving out late information late in bars,

there are about 7000 people, afro descendent colombians, many of whom still have african names becausethey have created a history and the culture that goes back to -- that goes back to resistance against slavery. and they're still resisting. as a matter of fact, they received an eviction order for august 18th and they refuse to leave. so yeah, and writing to answer your question -- britain protests is a process that could perhaps help us feel as if we are making communities. we are reaching out to younger selves and that we have emotional connections with people who live on this mountain and this village called hematoma. they have a mantra. >> in connection with what you said, angela, and i was beyond, they call the citizens. we were american citizens. >> were first class are second-class. >> yeah, but the word was citizens. now citizens suggest some relationship to her neighbors in the towns in the village. and there was a code word. that's all you could do. americans do in american thought. we bought things for status and not so were to do. now, what are we? we are taxpayers. [laught

and visited a community of people outside of cali who live in this mountainous area, afro-descendant people. people whose ancestors were enslaved 400 years ago who were brought to colombia to engage in gold mining. and they still live in the place where their ancestors settled when they escaped slavery. so it was initially a fugitive slave settlement like a maroon settlement, and the people who live there now live on the same land and do the same work that their ancestors did 400 years ago. they still mined gold in this very different way. the women are miners, and the children are miners, and the women talk about mining in this incredibly passionate way concern. >> what do the guys do? >> the guys mine too. [laughter] they all mine. they all mine. but, i mean, it's interesting that the women say i've been a miner since i was in my i mother's womb. so the point that i'm making is that now even though they actually own the land, they have, they were able to get the title to the land but not to what's in the land, the subsoil, the minerals. and there are a number of big mining concerns

the greatest afro going, our own gene shallat is calling it quits.have a tribute in just a little bit. >> it's not an overstatement to say that movie reviews will never be the same. >>> also this morning, great winter getaways, whether you're looking to get away from the cold or embrace it, we're going to have some of the best sun and snow spots out there. >> let's get a look at the morning's top stories. >>> president obama arrived in seoul, south korea this morning for a meeting of the g-20 economic powers. >>> a strange streak of fire and smoke across the california sky on monday night is still raising some questions today. nbc's pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski with the latest on what the military is saying. >> reporter: it's been a full day and a half since this mysterious flying object lit up the skies over california and the u.s. military still can't tell us what it was. it's a startling image, this video from a kcbs traffic copter shows us what looks like a missile soaring into the sky. the unidentified flying object streaks through th

. >> i had an afro. you want to go back into the '70s? we can do that. >> that would be fun. >> we hav a lot to get to this morning. we do want totart off with that breaking news and the release of the pro-democracy activist in myanmar. nbc's ian williams joins us on the telephone from bangkok with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lester. well, the first indication we have that this was actually going to happen today, was when barricades a riot police were removedrom the road leading up to her house, her lakeside house in rangoon. that was about an hour o, and enabled hundreds of supporters to pour up to her house where she's been able to address them for the first time in seven years. seven years, of course, being the most recent period of house arrest. very severe and restricted house arrest. she had, of course, spent 15 of the last 21 years under arrest in that home. we hear that party members are continuing to arrive at the use. the question now, of course, is what she does next, and what is she able to do with tha

he is a historian of american history, of afro-american history. he got his phd at berkeley, but he spent most of his career in academic administration. and i think he wishes that he'd done more as a writer, and he's really proud of this book. and he s... c-span: where is he now? >> guest: my parents are retired in southern california, in victorville, and he spent much of his career in the community college world. he was president of san jose city college; at one point in the early '80s at university of maine at augusta. i believe he was the first black person to be president of a state university or a university in that--in maine. and then he ended his career at compton college in southern california. c-span: and who is gloria skinner? >> guest: my mother. and so i had somewhat of a stage mother who--she's also very proud of the book, but she encouraged me in not only academics but public speaking and drama and other activities. and... c-span: what did--what was her career? >> guest: she sometimes was a homemaker; a lot of times she worked in chil

the greatest afro going, our own gene shallat is calling it quits.have a tribute in just a little bit. >> it's not an overstatement to say that movie reviews will never be the same. >>> also this morning, great winter taways, whether you're looking to get awa from t >>> this dry and cool pattern continues on wednday. good morning. i'm meteorologist tom kierein. right now temperatures are in the near 40s to 50s. lots of sun, sunny on veterans day with heise in the upper 50s and lighter wind tomorrow and friday should be bright and sunny. morning lows, 30, afternoon highs on friy, 60s. looks to be dry on sunday as well. partly cloudy with a high around 60. then a bit cooler with more clouds monday and tuesday. >> got a happy birthday, you're 60 degrees? kiss my wife. all right, you're next, lauer. >> i was there. i all right kissed her. when we come back, julie andrews and the von trapp children for a special 45th reunion, our anniversary of "the sound of music." [ monkey screeches ] ♪ [ male announcer ] a bath bomes even more pleasurable when you know