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king, belafonte, and other leaders of the movement. but it was the death of trayvon martin that mobilized him to action. >> i think we all know at some point what our purpose is, and the murder of trayvon seemed like people around the country wanted to do something about it. and so really i just followed that. so i was able to get back into activism during that time, and since that time i've been on a journey to figure out and rediscover, but maybe who i'm supposed to be not in the eyes of anybody else or in the eyes of society who i'm truly supposed to be, but also on a journey to tell other people about that journey. tell young people that, look please do not conform. please do not conform because i think once they take that away from our children, that desire to be different, to be unique, and question everything and think critically about what is around them, question everything, that's when they win. they can control our minds from a very young age, and so i'm very excited being able to talk to people and tell them about my experi
king, belafonte, and other leaders of the movement. but it was the death of trayvon martin that mobilized him to action. >> i think we all know at some point what our purpose is, and the murder of trayvon seemed like people around the country wanted to do something about it. and so really i just followed that. so i was able to get back into activism during that time, and since that time i've been on a journey to figure out and rediscover, but maybe who i'm supposed to be not in the eyes...
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king, belafonte, and other leaders of the movement. but it was the death of trayvon martin that mobilized him to action. >> i think we all know at some point what our purpose is, and the murder of trayvon seemed like people around the country wanted to do something about it. and so really i just followed that. so i was able to get back into activism during that time, and since that time i've been on a journey to figure out and rediscover, but maybe who i'm supposed to be not in the eyes of anybody else or in the eyes of society who i'm truly supposed to be, but also on a journey to tell other people about that journey. tell young people that, look please do not conform. please do not conform because i think once they take that away from our children, that desire to be different, to be unique, and question everything and think critically about what is around them, question everything, that's when they win. they can control our minds from a very young age, and so i'm very excited being able to talk to people and tell them about my experi
king, belafonte, and other leaders of the movement. but it was the death of trayvon martin that mobilized him to action. >> i think we all know at some point what our purpose is, and the murder of trayvon seemed like people around the country wanted to do something about it. and so really i just followed that. so i was able to get back into activism during that time, and since that time i've been on a journey to figure out and rediscover, but maybe who i'm supposed to be not in the eyes...
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harry belafonte conversing with the leaders of the march. the reverend andrew young, executive assistant to dr. martin luther king, on the right. among those who will be heard from the speaker's platform this afternoon, dr. ralph abernathy of the southern christian leadership conference, who is a williams -- jose williams, the undersecretary of the united nations, dr. ralph bunch a. philip randolph, ray wilkins executive secretary of the national association for the advancement of colored people, james farmer, and john lewis chairman of the student nonviolent -- student nonviolent coordinating committee. dr. martin luther king, jr., head of the southern leadership conference. consultations still proceeding immediately in front of the speaker's platform as the marchers continue to stream onto dexter avenue one half-mile away. turning off montgomery street. the trip from st. jude's to the capitol this morning primarily traveled through the heart of the negro district of montgomery and then into downtown proper. alabama conservation workers at
harry belafonte conversing with the leaders of the march. the reverend andrew young, executive assistant to dr. martin luther king, on the right. among those who will be heard from the speaker's platform this afternoon, dr. ralph abernathy of the southern christian leadership conference, who is a williams -- jose williams, the undersecretary of the united nations, dr. ralph bunch a. philip randolph, ray wilkins executive secretary of the national association for the advancement of colored...
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. >> faces in the crowd harry belafonte. harry belafonte sammy davis, jr., alan king, they were all there alock with many others. belafonte joined the march yesterday for a few miles. picking up at the edge of montgomery and moving into st. juds. this march left selma and more than 4,000 people stepped off the first agt miles on a four-lane portion of the u.s. highway 8 0e. on monday, about a thousand marchers began the day with their numbers decreased to about 300. when they reached the two-lane portion of the highway. 16 miles covered on monday. yesterday, they concluded the march and reached the city of montgomery proper. and this morning in 90 minutes, they covered the four miles from st. jude's to the capitol. live from montgomery, alabama, the now historic march. as the reverend andrew young, executive assistant to dr. martin luther king on the right. among those that will be heard are dr. ralph abernathy. jose williams. roy wrksz ilkins, executive secretary for the national association of the advancement of colored pe
. >> faces in the crowd harry belafonte. harry belafonte sammy davis, jr., alan king, they were all there alock with many others. belafonte joined the march yesterday for a few miles. picking up at the edge of montgomery and moving into st. juds. this march left selma and more than 4,000 people stepped off the first agt miles on a four-lane portion of the u.s. highway 8 0e. on monday, about a thousand marchers began the day with their numbers decreased to about 300. when they reached the...
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belafonte.n of the group that was here last night. i think we're happily represented. ♪ >> go with me to that land go with me to that land. there ate no kneeling in that land. there ain't no kneeling in that land. and no kneeling in that land ain't no kneeling in that land and no kneeling in that land there ain't no morning in that land there ain't no morning in that land ain't no morning in that land and no morning in that land and no morning in that land where i'm bound. they will be singing in that land they will be singing in that land worm bound. -- where i am banned hash found it come with me to that land could come with me to that land could come with me to that land. come and go with me to that land. come and go with me to that land. come and go with me to that land. come and go with me to that land where i am bound. [applause] ♪ standing on the mountain over the hills and everywhere standing on the mountain let my people go standing on the mountain over the hills and everywhere standing
belafonte.n of the group that was here last night. i think we're happily represented. ♪ >> go with me to that land go with me to that land. there ate no kneeling in that land. there ain't no kneeling in that land. and no kneeling in that land ain't no kneeling in that land and no kneeling in that land there ain't no morning in that land there ain't no morning in that land ain't no morning in that land and no morning in that land and no morning in that land where i'm bound. they will be...
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but to mean harry belafonte's greatest role is as a civil rights leader. >> it is to be expected allould participate in the struggle for civil rights, civil liberties to be smeared and to be called names, but it requires much more than that to deter me. >>
but to mean harry belafonte's greatest role is as a civil rights leader. >> it is to be expected allould participate in the struggle for civil rights, civil liberties to be smeared and to be called names, but it requires much more than that to deter me. >>
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but to mean harry belafonte's greatest role is as a civil rights leader. >> it is to be expected all of us would participate in the struggle for civil rights, civil liberties to be smeared and to be called names, but it requires much more than that to deter me. >> he stood up at selma and at the side of dr. king. now he shares the stage with the next generation.
but to mean harry belafonte's greatest role is as a civil rights leader. >> it is to be expected all of us would participate in the struggle for civil rights, civil liberties to be smeared and to be called names, but it requires much more than that to deter me. >> he stood up at selma and at the side of dr. king. now he shares the stage with the next generation.
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and harry belafonte never to the. he always looks like head first into controversial issues of the day. things that could potentially sacrifices grew. i asked him a question and i said, what is it that it was so important to you to get involved in issues that other people stayed away from? and he says to me because, he said it helped me to live a more interesting life. and he said you know some people wake up in the morning and they call their accounts. i wake up in the morning and i called nelson mandela. whose life do you think is more fun? >> host: that's a good one aspect because it's like we serve both because it's the right thing to do but we serve because it just makes life more interesting. >> host: it is so true, yet we actually have researched links health benefits to volunteerism and service. which is fantastic to we know that make you happier. if you're volunteering there's health benefits like you live longer, you have reduced sense of isolation. your endorphins kick in to your stress levels are reduced t
and harry belafonte never to the. he always looks like head first into controversial issues of the day. things that could potentially sacrifices grew. i asked him a question and i said, what is it that it was so important to you to get involved in issues that other people stayed away from? and he says to me because, he said it helped me to live a more interesting life. and he said you know some people wake up in the morning and they call their accounts. i wake up in the morning and i called...
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>> the author of "the contender" also worked with harry belafonte on his book.s a well written book. deeply researched. con fwrat lalgss o that. >> certain. >> i want to ask what your background was. you describe cuomo as brash, aggressive ruthless no one's better at hard bawl. you say he has a hard-edged savvy that recalls lbj. >> he does. by the time i finished the book i thought of nixon achlt great twister of arms in the ledge legislature as johnson was but a dark side. you know. it's funny in the footage. there's a young guy, it's andrew, about 24. that was the young andrew cuomo helping his father. he had actually gotten his father elected as governor because he was that good a campaign manager. looking with great pride and perhaps the ambition to become governor one day himself. >> you depict him in the book as being sort of this bully. i have to say as someone who's watched from afar that's not the first. you know him bitter than anybody. i have to ask. do you think he's a good person? >> that's a great question. i'm not sure i can say definitively he's
>> the author of "the contender" also worked with harry belafonte on his book.s a well written book. deeply researched. con fwrat lalgss o that. >> certain. >> i want to ask what your background was. you describe cuomo as brash, aggressive ruthless no one's better at hard bawl. you say he has a hard-edged savvy that recalls lbj. >> he does. by the time i finished the book i thought of nixon achlt great twister of arms in the ledge legislature as johnson was but...
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afshths harry belafonte and cicely tyson aloe black, that mar braxton and patti labelle will be singingntgomery. dan. >> big day in selma and we will be watching and covering it right here on abc news and abcnews.com. steve, thank you to you. >>> we do move on to the new details in the new images this morning in that close call for harrison ford. the movie action hero bloodied after a real-life misadventure in a vintage plane and here's ford's wife, the actress calista flockhart visiting her husband at the hospital in los angeles, california and that is where we find abc's nick watt who's been on this story from the jump. hey, nick, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, dan. well, that's right, harrison ford is waking up on his second morning in the hospital here just a few miles from the crash site and the latest update on his condition from the family is still that he is battered, but okay. the moments after impact harrison ford dragged from the wreckage treated on the fairway, a dashing hero in the movies and now perhaps in real life. >> he had these fairways in front of him and h
afshths harry belafonte and cicely tyson aloe black, that mar braxton and patti labelle will be singingntgomery. dan. >> big day in selma and we will be watching and covering it right here on abc news and abcnews.com. steve, thank you to you. >>> we do move on to the new details in the new images this morning in that close call for harrison ford. the movie action hero bloodied after a real-life misadventure in a vintage plane and here's ford's wife, the actress calista flockhart...
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. ♪ [music break] amy: "we are the wave," sung by harry belafonte. this is democracy now!racynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. aaron: indiana has come under fierce criticism following governor mike pence's new religious freedom restoration act that could sanction anti-lgbt discrimination by allowing business owners to refuse service to lgbt customers in the name of religious freedom. the move has drawn widespread outrage with connecticut becoming the first state to officially boycott indiana over the move. san francisco and seattle have also imposed bans on city-funded travel to the state. nine chief executive officers, including the heads of angie's list and eli lilly, wrote letters asking indiana state officials to "take immediate action" to ensure the act will not sanction or encourage discrimination. tim cook, ceo of apple, the world's most profitable company, slammed indiana's law and others like it, likening it to the jim crow laws of the american south. writing in a "washington post" that apple would oppose the legislation, saying, quote, "the days
. ♪ [music break] amy: "we are the wave," sung by harry belafonte. this is democracy now!racynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. aaron: indiana has come under fierce criticism following governor mike pence's new religious freedom restoration act that could sanction anti-lgbt discrimination by allowing business owners to refuse service to lgbt customers in the name of religious freedom. the move has drawn widespread outrage with connecticut becoming the first state to...
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. ♪ [music break] amy: "we are the wave," sung by harry belafonte.celebrated his 88th birthday over the weekend. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. our guest for the hour is m.i.t. institute professor emeritus noam chomsky, known around the world for his political writings. we're going to turn right now to the issue of russia and ukraine. john kerry's meeting with russian counterparts are gay lab rob in geneva to discuss the conflict in ukraine. the meeting comes just days after john kerry publicly accused russian officials of lying to his face about the military support for separatist rebels. russia and ukraine are also holding direct talks in brussels to resolve a dispute over the delivery of russian gas. the u.n. said today the death toll from the nearly year-old conflict has topped 6000. recent cease-fire continues to hold over a shaky start. also in russia, the murder this weekend on friday night of the opposition leader former deputy prime minister turned dissident politician. he was shot dead fr
. ♪ [music break] amy: "we are the wave," sung by harry belafonte.celebrated his 88th birthday over the weekend. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. our guest for the hour is m.i.t. institute professor emeritus noam chomsky, known around the world for his political writings. we're going to turn right now to the issue of russia and ukraine. john kerry's meeting with russian counterparts are gay lab rob in geneva to discuss the conflict...
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it was harry belafonte and myself talking about taking the energy of the movement into politics and we said you can go on to bed and get some sleep you do not have to be up until 6:00 tomorrow night, you can get some sleep. as he walked to his room he said , you all go on to washington, i am going to cut the 6:00 plane to memphis. and i said, well for? -- what for? and he said he will meet you in washington. it was almost illiterate on his part, when he felt his days were numbered you wanted to be with the poorest of the poor and chose to be with garbage workers . roland: i want to go with you and deal with your previous job, houses. most americans are able to build up wealth through houses. you look at the housing patterns in america from day one. at the end of the day, that is how americans create wealth. pushing into segregated areas and purchasing homes at a higher amount than they were worth. the new have the various laws, the covenants. -- and then you have the various laws, the covenants. the show homes for a profit and invest that in education or savings. it becomes the present
it was harry belafonte and myself talking about taking the energy of the movement into politics and we said you can go on to bed and get some sleep you do not have to be up until 6:00 tomorrow night, you can get some sleep. as he walked to his room he said , you all go on to washington, i am going to cut the 6:00 plane to memphis. and i said, well for? -- what for? and he said he will meet you in washington. it was almost illiterate on his part, when he felt his days were numbered you wanted to...
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it was harry belafonte and myself talking about taking the energy of the movement into politics and we said you can go on to bed and get some sleep you do not have to be up until 6:00 tomorrow night, you can get some sleep. as he walked to his room he said, you all go on to washington, i am going to cut the 6:00 plane to memphis. and i said, well for? -- what for? and he said he will meet you in washington. it was almost illiterate on his part, when he felt his days were numbered you wanted to be with the poorest of the poor and chose to be with garbage workers. roland: i want to go with you and deal with your previous job, houses. most americans are able to build up wealth through houses. you look at the housing patterns in america from day one. at the end of the day, that is how americans create wealth. pushing into segregated areas and purchasing homes at a higher amount than they were worth. the new have the various laws, the covenants. -- and then you have the various laws, the covenants. the show homes for a profit and invest that in education or savings. it becomes the present d
it was harry belafonte and myself talking about taking the energy of the movement into politics and we said you can go on to bed and get some sleep you do not have to be up until 6:00 tomorrow night, you can get some sleep. as he walked to his room he said, you all go on to washington, i am going to cut the 6:00 plane to memphis. and i said, well for? -- what for? and he said he will meet you in washington. it was almost illiterate on his part, when he felt his days were numbered you wanted to...