he's also a tennis coach that taught arthur ashe and gibson. he came to train in lynchburg.moved from doctor johnson's apartment until i was five blocks from where this was in lynchburg where these two stellar athletes were being trained. also there was and spencer, she was a poet and her son was chauncey spencer who was one of the first aviators to petition congress to give money to create the tuskegee airmen. so i had three levels of integration without even knowing what was going on in lynchburg. that was a part of the journey in writing this book to find out the people that had an impact in my life that i didn't even know. so, do your history. [applause] [applause]

open is coming up and to have it named after billie jean king and arthur ashe, those two todayups. >> players we've ever had, they're close but they're the greate models i could think of to name our stadium and arenas after. >> what are you going to tell your children? you have two small ones right now. >> there's a lot of great people in the book to look up to and i think athletes in general sometimes get a bad rap. a lot of negative press around athletes and wanted to showcase there is a lot of positive stories in sports and a lot of athletes that do the right thing with their voices and platform. lebron james donating his own money back to his community and you can bridge gaps, religious, gender, any sort of equality gaps, it's a tremendous thing for kidded and i want my kids to be involved in sports as well to get that and to give them confidence. i see it in my 5-year-old already. you know, she's a little nervous, a little nervous then hopscotch turns into a little competition and she's got a new friend and i love that about sports. >> oh, well, thank you so much for sharing this

"ways of grace" inspired by tennis legend arthur ashe's memoir and james' own experience being mi foris story. he was one of the world's top tennis players. james blake, best known for his speed, the once fourth ranked player in the world retired from tennis in 2013 becoming chairman of the u.s. tennis association. but in 2015, blake was back in the spotlight after being brutally bodyslammed by a police officer in a case of mistaken identity. >> picked me up and body slammed me and put plea on the ground and told me to turn over and shut my mouth and put the cuffs on me. >> reporter: new york city's police commissioner offering a public apology to the tennis star after an officer mistook him for a man they believe was involved in a credit card fraud investigation. >> should not have happened. >> reporter: now blake is opening up about the ordeal and more in his new book, "ways of grace." it is a perfect title. great to have james blake with us this morning and i have to say about halfway through it i can't wait for the july 4th break so i can finish it all but first i want to say that

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so, um-- >> let me tell you the most exciting thing about arthur ashe and doing darrow there. whole center court. we're putting a stage there but we're bringing in 600 additional seats, of which 300 of those seats will be seats for and i want to announce tonight-- ( applause ) >> stephen: announcement, a special announcement. >> i want to announce tonight that in addition to the 300 seats that we're offering to young people, the 18 to 25-year- olds are for free. and i'm offering tonight an additional 100 of those seats, and if you go to www.kevinspacyfoundation.com, you can sign up for our lottery for those tickets. >> stephen: wow. ( cheers and applause ) we'll put that right up there. that will be great. wow. wow. speaking of young people, did you live in new york when you were first an actor? >> yes. i started-- i started my career after i went to juilliard, i know most of the band went to juilliard. >> stephen: you guys went at the same time, right? you guys went to juilliard-- ( laughter ) >> but of course, at that time he was in the dance division, s

arthur ashe big stadium. how did you choose that?ounds, so i really wanted to keep that way of doing us because there was a lot of audience participation. i go out in the audience, make them read things, and i choose my audience. there's something exciting about an audience watching an audience watching a play. >> who was clarence darrow? >> he was a remarkable labor attorney. he got for workers rights, for better conditions, for hours. in fact, he's the reason we have an eight-here day, although, charlie, you don't have an eight-hour day. he became a huge civil right attorney. he was never frade to put his head above the parapet. i think he managed to in all of his arguments use home-spun logic and humor to make his points an he managed to convince juries and judges that the issuissue s and causes he fought for were right and he managed to remove politics and statistics and just tell a person's story. when you tell someone's personal story, prejudice does fall away. >> he saved hundreds of people. >> 210. >> you bring the words to l

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