talk to us about history, yesterday to today, is harry belafonte right? >> well, harry, my good friend harry is always right. let me just say that what i talk about in this book is what i think is important for this hour. hadn't planned to write any other books. tired of writing books. but it was time for this one. what talk about is all the movements in the past where people have organized to resist presidents who took actions or were trying to take actions that opposed our values and then we opposed. and most of the movements i talk about i do the history but i was involved in most of them, and in fact, we won in the case of a lot of them. so it's possible to win if you organize properly and if you are persistent. thinks like the free south africa movement that some of you were involved in. things like the antivietnam war movement, which we thought we lost, and i'm -- i not only was in the movement as a student at the university of michigan. i pretend i was a correspondent and went to vietnam and actually covered the war one summer. but we thought we ha

a couple weeks later i called hari belafonte to do another interview i. i said how is everything going? he is saying i don't see the activism i anticipated. thought see the pain i thought was there, and he is remembering the '50s and '60s. one of the greatest movements, civil movement in this nation. what is happening now? what is hang now? so we have an author here, civil rights icon, who is written a book "history teaches to us resist. "talk to us about history. yesterday to today, is harry belafonte right? >> well, my good friend harry is always right. let me just say that what i talk about in this book is what i think is important for this hour. hadn't planned to write any other books. but it was time for this one. what i talk about in it is all the movements in the past where people have organized to resist presidents who took actions or were trying to take actions that opposed our values and that we opposed, and most of the movements i talk about i do the history but i was involved in most of them, and in fact, we won in the case of a lot of them so

a stray cat it and scratch somebody near the 8000 block of ella font -- belafonte lane. it is white with a calico pattern. department if you have seen the cat. the minneapolis police chief resigned definite officer -- after an officer shot a bride-to-be. the chief quit because of a request from the mayor. it's been nearly a week now since the us trillion woman called 911 and was shot by a responding officer. developments, charges recommended against florida teenagers who taunted a disabled man as he driowned. >> were not going to help you. >> he's drowning. michelle: five teenagers recorded his struggle, mocking a man cursing. prosecutors say there is no florida law that requires the boys to save the man's life, but there may be a way to hold them accountable for inaction, possibly pursuing misdemeanor charges for failing to report a death. >> laughing and joking in the background, no, we are not going to help you, that was horrible. michelle: that was a family member of the victim. it is up to the state's attorney's office to decide whether to file the misdemeanor charg

and that would be everything from harry belafonte live at carnegie hall to machito and his afro cubans to tito puente, jibaro music from the folk traditions in puerto rico to, you know, jazz, brazilian music. i remember when he played something by sergio mendes and brazil '66, mas que nada. i go, "hey, pop, that sounds like spanish, but it isn't." and he said, "no, because it's portuguese." you know, that's what they speak in brazil. so he's giving me a little social studies lesson at the same time. >> hinojosa: so you said another word that i bet some people stopped for a second. you said jibaro music. so what is jibaro music? >> jibaro music is the music of the countryside, the mountain people from the island of puerto rico, the obreros, the workers, the farmers, et cetera. >> hinojosa: and what would, like, jibaro music sound like? >> well, it's very guitar oriented, very string oriented. we have a mandolin type of instrument in puerto rico known as the cuatro that has ten strings. and, of course, anybody that knows spanish, it's ten double strings. so people would go, "well, how co

and i had always adored harry belafonte. we decided to do one duet called "the path of glory.". i just touched his arm. the sponsor went crazy. my star doesn't touch a black man's arm. >> petula clark said, i'm not doing it over, and it's my show and it's going in that way. >> we weren't having any of that nonsense, no way. so it went out the way we wanted it to go out. i didn't really have any other problems with sponsors, but that sort of gave me a taste of what could happen. ♪ a car that's moving fast and clean and strong ♪ ♪ get the leather seats you can't go wrong ♪ >> in the tv business, the '60s was probably about the last decade during which the sponsors had a really iron grip on content. >> brought to you by dash. >> even if they tried to keep tv this white homogenous whole milk product, the world found its way in. it just had to. >> what's the trouble, driver? >> can't you ever remember to bring a silencer? >> it ruins the lining of my suit. >> with "i spy," robert culp and bill cosby were equals. cosby is this pioneer in terms of a black male lead in a drama. he made

danny glover, oliver stone, sean penn and harry belafonte praised hugo chavez.picture is still on walls everywhere, and one of his flunk key -- 401(k)ies now presides. is some of the people who voted for it are mad they didn't get all the goodies they were supposed to get, and others are mad because since chavez took over, venezuela's economy has been in the tank. the news site the pan am posts latin america and its experiments with social justice. its editor, what's going on? >> people living through a nightmare of socialism. it's been -- we're seeing the outcomes now that's been building for more than ten years. there is a wave of corruption, crime, inflation. the people are leaving in droves. so -- john: why does that have to go with socialism? this was supposed to your everything. >> right. they have ruined incentive to be productive. they've violated property rights, they've confiscated property. so they have taken away the incentive for companies to be there. so if you can't keep the fruits of your labor, what incentive is there to build a productive econo

it seems to me whether video, music or other people you bring along and with harry belafonte who hasbeen here, with his >> i adore him. >> you have to reeducate the young people. this is who they are, this is who is in the struggle. i can still visualize the fill another people being trained in the movement and how to do with that and how to protect the women in training camp and how to hold their body so they cannot be insured users to win there would've been ideas for people to sign up. for somebody to take it and do something with it. several of us are advocating for more. just as i challenge you to get 45 to the national museum of african-american history and we culture but he did go that week. >> he stay for five minutes. >> no i think it was two hours. >> there's a lot of that music. >> no, that's not enough. i think what you hear a lot of d people saying -- more is needed. security go from your. >> i think that activists see it. >> the cafÉ -- >> you are the celebrity. >> and me say this. a bl as someone, and i'm taking my journalistic had off. i'm a black woman in america. >>

and belafonte, savannah, what can we expect?o of the pulmonary hearing, where a judge will decide whether or not there is enough evidence to go forward. a grand jury always said, here in pennsylvania, a judge must also decide. it is contentious in court. the prosecution showing text messages between fraternity brothers allegedly trying to cover up the incident. day one, the prosecution showed hours of surveillance video inside the beta theta pi home, speeds last hours where he died with a fractured skull and spleen. they sent february 2nd, the 19-year-old penn state software was in a hazing ritual, where he drank large amount of alcohol quickly. over the next 12 hours, he repeatedly fell, but despite bruising and pain, the brothers did not call 911. they say tim piazza, he would be alive if his fraternity brothers did not haze and waited 12 hours before calling an ambulance. today, tim piazza's parents walk in with support again. lawyers say they are offended by how a defense attorney and fraternity brothers are acting in court.

leadership from someone with this, harry belafonte. respect the ability. respectability is currently celebrating our birthday. we elected great new leaders and want people like you whether you're watching on c-span to join our efforts. along with our board member who traveled from out of town to join us today. we can't wait to hear from you and everyone else. before we kick off in our first vip speaker, oley cantos, and better board members and staff and fellows to please rise as you can or raise your hand if you can't rise so people can see who you are. donna and ronald and vivian from our board of directors and other leaders from our team. the people here will meet members of our team and our board. i say thank you for your service and thank you for what you are doing and especially to these amazing board members who give so much of their heart and their time. listen, this is a team thing. respectability as a movement and we are near when we want new people to join us. those of you here in person are watching on c-span, i want before introduced our first