throughout the country and black people, every black person will have an opportunity to have the alex haley experience. >> the mormon church has done this. and, of course, they bought the names from the national archives. and, they put it on the computer desk. and it was met and freely distributed. you can type in your name. and go all the way back to 1865 when lincoln emancipated the slaves. and that will help you then have a journey towards that. that's the role of the church. and you will see black churches working with them. >> let's go back to that. please join us. >>> welcome back. if you been with us, you know that they talked a lot about the involvement of our churches. you heard the expression i'm spiritual not religious. >> yes. i believe that i don't know what you mean by your spiritual but not religious. i think that we are all god's children. i tried to simplify the notion. we all have cell phones. most of them have gps requirement. and to be religious and spiritual, that means that you have to be in a tune with that heavenly father or some supreme being. where was heaven itsel

it was based on a 1976 book by alex haley, abt his familyn africa and cing to ameca as ashe secenturies just black-america's story. >> we might have come over in the bottom of the ship. but we, all, came over on ships. >> stay put but it don't mean stay alive. >> as a 19-year-old kid, you know, roots is my first job. >> we're not children. we are very close to being men. >> what's your name? >> kunta. >> the character that i got to portray in roots, the adult, was a dream role. >> it was really genius to cast all of ameri's favorite-television dads in the roles of the white-slave owners and the villains. >> i will be by to fetch you in the morning, captain. sleep well. >> it is difficult to explain in today's culture, how unprecedted roots was. no one had ever seen the story of slavery before, told from the point of view of the africans. >> if may be the first time that television allowed an embracing of black pride. waso incredibly popular is notts because abc had so much faith in it, but because abc didn. >> earlier-mini seriesere broaast in weekly installments. and the abc executives

because this is a strong community, this is where elizabeth state university is, this is where alex haley once went to school. this is a strong activist community. what people want is full transparency, truth and accountability. today has been 17 days since this killing, since this young man was shot in the back. and i want people to know, we already know he was shot in the back because the audio told us that and the autopsy told us that. four times in the arm, one time in the back. the back was the kill shot. 17 days and the family has only seen 20 seconds. now they're talking about a portion of the two hours. that is not good. the community has not seen anything. these tapes should be public record, just like the audio is public record. we want truth, we want transparency, we want full release of the tape. we have already said that in this case there must be account accountability. we believe it needs to include not only the sheriffs office, but the d.a.'s office. when the d.a. went to court, he sounded more like the defense lawyer for the deputies, rather than the district attorney for

the alex haley and monroe were stationed in kodiak when admiral bell served as their commander. we had the retirement ceremony for admiral bell and then the following day we flew out to kodiak to attend the decommissioning of the monroe after 40 years of service, pretty admirable run. but i can imagine that these tours help sow the seeds of home for admiral bell and his family. as i mentioned, i had the opportunity to be there when admiral bell passed on the rules and responsibilities of the d-17 commander. it was april 21. he was honorably awarded and recognized for his outstanding service and retired. but again, i think it is, it's noteworthy. this was not your average retirement ceremony. we had covid-19 protocols that were still in place. senator sullivan and i were in the front row. it was a pretty limited gathering. i think they were limited to 30 people joined by the governor of alaska. over 300 people watched by live feed. but behind us, so to the speakers, in the speaker's view and behind us was this exceptionally distracting view, the beauty of menenhaw glacier was beh