audrina patridge (voiceover): every year, residents of astoria's welling court communities turn their this art project. how did it start? well, it started actually here in this neighborhood by people that live on welling court, so that's why it's called the welling court mural project. [music playing] audrina patridge (voiceover): stretching several city blocks, the welling court mural project has been beautifying the neighborhood every year since 2009. and at the center of it all is project organizer garrison buxton. garrison buxton: the biggest goal in the big picture is social change. it's about having people feel more engaged, and more supported, and more active in the spaces that they live in. i've been involved in welling court mural project for about six years. this is my community. it was very natural for them to have invited me to come and paint. solus: i come from dublin in ireland. i've been coming to new york the past few years. when i first started coming to new york, i just did one or two murals and now i have a full schedule. i'm a queens guy and i want to represent fro

when you're a rural, you know, country boy essentially walking down the streets of astoria with, queens, you don't fit in too well, ashley. i met my mentors, people i'm hearning from to this day -- learning from to this day. i never would have add had the same opportunities if i worked from home. in reality, when you're in a career especially just beginning a career, you need to be around as many people as possible to the learn, to make connections, to get mentors. the problem is we are stuck thinking that the system owes us something. ashley: right. >> essentially are, we're teaching socialism in schools, teaching people to be takers within the system not gives, and we -- givers, and we run to mommy, daddy and the government to complain. ashley: do you think we'll ever get back to where we were before we knew what covid meantsome. >> no, i don't think so. i think psychologically and behavioral there's been a big shift, you know? i don't know a time when government stops spending our money. when the government gets bigger and bigger, it's hard to pull back, and i tweeted this yesterday.

and even in the north, places like the waldorf astoria and the palmer house in chicago and these mightyculture did have strict race laws. and in accepting employment to go in these places, rigidly placed in my contract was the requirement that those laws and those rules be suspended and not be evoked during the time of my appearance. amy: harry belafonte, when did you first meet dr. martin luther king? >> it was right after birmingham -- i'm sorry, montgomery. right after the montgomery bus boycott had taken hold and the montgomery bus boycott association -- the montgomery improvement association. and we had all heard about this young minister and certainly we all heard of rosa parks. and i got a call before the strike had been settled even. they had not expected it to run so long. amy: so this was in 1956? >> 1956. dr. king called and he was coming to new york to speak at the abyssinian baptist church. there was -- at that time, the head pastor was adam clayton powell, who was in our congress. and he was going to give a lecture to people from the ecumenical community. and he said, "i'm

host: left's go to astoria, new york, sinclair is calling on the democratic line.r: thank you so much for taking my call. i just want to say something about the politics of the united states of america. realize that we are in a war right now. not all republicans are racist. but all the races are republicans. all of them? that's what i'm talking about. that's what we have to fight against. there is a war and a side which you have to be on. republicans, stand up. none of them stood up to impeach donald trump. you saw his ugly side and what he's done to this country. be reasonable. thank you. host: all right. next up we have ed. ed is in silver spring, maryland on the independent line. caller: good morning. host: good morning. go ahead. caller: i had a comment. i want -- i want us to remember all these politicians, anybody working in government agency, they all work for us. if we want to get solutions we have to prevent -- we need to talk to each other as people and not as members of a certain political party. come together as americans not as republicans or democrats

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