for example, in chicago, the black site -- there a strip club the black belt or black people could live. if they tried to move outside that area, their homes would be bombed and any attempts to break out of it would cause huge problems. their major riots that are today here. there were riots by other workers in chicago, for example, other workers in the stockyards of the factories. irish people, germans, lithuanians joined in black people had moved in charleston and washington and connecticut. it was soldiers and sailors. and in the south in places like knoxville, tennessee and other places. it was mostly white mobs that include a run from a judge, sitting judge down to the local farmer. in austin, texas, the timeline theatre at the naacp visited in the summer and was beaten by a white mob that included a sitting judge and then the governor the next day absolutely defended and said these troublemakers shouldn't even show up in this town. so, briefly onto talk about two kinds of racism that were permeating american society at the time. one is the one we all know, the long-standing view f

i am black succeeding. see me? succeeding. here comes blackness. all of my disagreements, one thing absolutely agree with them about is that the existence of the obama first family does not itself indicate anything about the realities of black families in america. i mean, so i disagree with them on a bunch of stuff, what he is right that this success is not. and so derek bell was so keen when he talked about ethical ambition, to remind yourself the easiest thing to do is allow your own ambition to stand in as an ethical statement about everything. if you as a marginal persons exceed that it is easily ethical. don't worry. owned by ge and bank of america and all of that. microphone that is paid for by all of these corporations to say things about black people. don't get on me about that. no. of course. you know, that is plantation. that was the plantation. i mean, all of that is. all that is blood. there is no moment about that that is not. so i just want to say, when i hear that question i don't have an answer to it and the sense that i can say, oh

black women.t to affect the things that impact black women, black women are the ones who have been on the front lines of social justice movements as well and also because so many families are headed by black mothers that if we don't deal the way gender traumas affect them, then we're creating a further crisis in our community. one thing is gender dynamic, right? not only how -- how men respond to it. how is this playing out in popular culture? >> do a lot of work with boys and men around the country. i've spoken to thousands of men at high schools, colleges, charity settings, sports settings all over the country and there's a lot of defensiveness. a lot of guys are very very, defensive and there's a lot of deflection, mark. there's always pushing the issue back on to the woman as if the woman is the source of the problem and that we can't be several-critical. we can't think about our own attitudes, our own behaviors. that deflection does not allow us to be several-critical. it does not allow us to

million black people free within the south. and 4 million black people who are forced slaves. that population grows low little more than a million at the time of the revolution. >> host: are all for migrations did surge in demand for labor? >> guest: i think that is true they're driven by changes of economy at the bottom. that is the necessity to find commodities. mostly sugar. tobacco or rice, corn is the you could sell of the international market and hopefully from the perspective of those planters as layoffs, a lesson demands. that, of course, and drives the trans-atlantic slave trade. of course the, and drive, that internal slave trade. and, of course, the rise of manufacturing in the north end of those two world wars that drive, you know, that they're great migration. of course changes in the world economy drives this latest migration since 65. >> host: how many of these migrations forced? >> guest: the first two are forced, in of -- enormous : dramatic movements of people. and we go beyond that, this question of forced en

getting studios to recognize the value of black film and black audiences.t they see that? why aren't they pouncing on this the same way as hip hop music or the same way they do football players or basketball players? >> one thing i would like to say, you said getting studios to recognize the value of black film. that's one way to go. i think it is also, how do filmmakers individually and collectively empower themselves so we don't have to rely on studios. so that we're creating our own innovative distribution model that's are sustainable in the marketplace. that allow our films to reach our audiences and tell our stories. so i think it is getting people to think outside the traditional parameters and constraints that studios will put on our content when it goes through their controls, their vehicles to hit the marketplace. >> what do you say to those folks, and there are plenty who say black folk don't want sophisticated content. the reason why these films are successful is that's the stuff black people wantto see. when it comes to black audiences, they wan

this is our celebration of black history month.e to city hall to recognize this and to recognize the great work that pat williams is doing because about the stories that need to be told. and i, as my life becomes unfolding in front of a lot of other people you're going to hear about me and i want you to know there's a lot of part of the black community that has to do in my peam and gsh famed -- family and so i want to tell you a story. it's a true one. so when i was growing up in the projects in seattle, washington, my neighbors were black. we had businesses in the black community because that's where we could start. that's where my dad was able to cook in restaurants. and there was a gentleman who owned the gas station. his name was darnell. and he came to the restaurant every day to have his meal and to support my father's struggle as he tried to make that restaurant business succeed. well, it was during those times that i learned very quickly observing things in the restaurant who were the gp friends to my father and who was jus

i would like to introduce you to carol jenkins, author of black titans and making of a black american millionaire. a writer and producer and an emmy award winning former w. nbc-tv television anchor and correspondent and founding president of the women's media center. she is executive producer of the pbs documentary what i want my words to do to you which won the freedom of expression award at the sundance film festival in 2003. carol jenkins enjoys an award winning tenure in several new york city news department including 23 years that w. nbc tv where she coanchored the 6:30 p.m. newscast. she was most identified with reporting of national political stories including from the floor of the democratic and republican national convention that yielded president carter, reagan, bush and clinton. give a round of applause to carol jenkins. [applause] >> next up we have dr. julianne malveaux, author of surviving and thriving 365 black economic history. she is the fifteenth president of college for women leaders' unrecognized for progressive observation. she is an economist, author and commenta

dream big, black people. (laughter) hey, you don't have to be a pimp, prostitute or drug dealer, you could clean up people's (bleep). (applause) hey! come on! gingrich, 2012! yes, we clean. (laughter). >> jon: larry wilmore, everybody. we'll be right back. (cheers (cheers and applause). >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight is the director of the edmund j. safra foundation center for ethics at harvard university. i didn't know they had one of those. (laughter) and a professor at harvard law school. his new book is called "republican lost: how money corrupts congress and a plan to stop it." please welcome to the program lawrence lessig. (cheers and applause) thank you for being here. >> great to be here. >> jon: "republic lost." sir, if you were to remove money from congress and its corrupting influence, does that mean we're going to have to get more involved? because... i'm not so so sure we would be able to handle that. (laughter) >> i think some of you... okay, maybe not you but some of them would, sure. t

women and the answer is quite simple why do they only as black women because black women were enslavedand they could say no a white woman could refuse a black woman could not so everything from history. ectomy to be removed of the ovaries to appear of something called. a very painful surgery all these things are perfect in black women and men certainly were not exempt men were also used as experimental subjects dr seem to relate how he removed half the job done of a slave who didn't want his job only moved but dr sims had. ten medical students tie him to a chair and he did the surgery forcibly so and then as we progressed beyond in slave when we find it was african-american bodies he's disproportionately teaching in clinical materials you have to remember that during the victorian era. there's a very strong sentiment against using the human body for the section medical students needed bodies to the sect but nobody wanted to be that body in fact the only legitimate source of those bodies was a sentence of death in the section if you're an especially heinous criminal you had to be really

bikila the colony grew black woman. we can be in solidarity error detected rates every day and both of you walked right out of feminism in 15 moves flat. that said, i still think of this moment is a space of progress over and above all moment 20 years will end 40 years ago, another in some russian law until but i just tell filling a because the fundamental matters. i like to tell the story with dead not cellblocks. [laughter] fantastic, hard. my mom would bake a cake for my birthday and make sure it was a marble cake. baghdad, even when i was a little girl would give me a birthday card, and it would not say love dad. my birthday card always said mr. greuel continues. [laughter] [laughter] that is not a joke. six, 72 ways to move lenya's sold. mr. greuel continues, daddy. the problem now is i get that from low volatile with the helpful parses a move mobster. is. mr. roh continues. >> to use the to the imbalance but will of the royal warrant to have these for stability's, to some degree as a conservation bill is an inhere

you know, at present, just talking about the black population more than 5% of the black population, one in the 20 is an immigrant. if we take the black population of the immigrants and their children it is one in ten. immigrants just don't go anywhere, they go to particular places. so here in washington the immigrant portion of the black population is 17% in the new york is

we have black members in the insane but more white than black. it's more white people. gds are more our black branch as far as we are. we are just a branch off of them. brothers is a struggle. we struggle to survive together. me personally i don't have too many problems. i haven't had words with nobody since i was transferred here. i hang out with a little bit of everybody. a lot of blacks and a lot of whites. i meet in the middle. >> gerald ritchie, a member of the saxon knights doesn't believe such harmony between blacks and whites is possible. >> we're two different beings from head to the toe from root to crown and we are not compatible. the only time a white dude is compatible with a black dude is if he is a fag or b wants to be black. that's the cold hard truth about it. people are going to watch this on the news and hate me for it. believe that. >> and prison officials believe that racial pride might have contributed to an assault that landed ritchie in the secured confinement unit. >> what you see here is you see ritchie and another guy, a guy out here. and basi

but we needed to look at stars very close to the black holes. in this case we're looking at stars within about a thousand light years of the black holes. that sounds like a large distance. but that region is at 300 million light years away so it requires very sharp eyes. that is, you need to have very good glasses in order to see these stars. in our case we relied on the state-of-the-art telescopes. >> ifill: tell us about why these black holes matter to us? does that say something about the galaxies that we know of, that we live in? does it say something about the universe? >> yes, absolutely. astronomers have known for some time that bigger galaxies seem to have bigger black holes. that is so say, the black holes seem to know about the big environment that they live in. they live at the centers of these galaxies. this correlation is very important because it indicates that when we learn about these black holes when we do these measurements that can also help us understand how their parent black holes were assembled. galaxies are after all the

black child. you hear what i just said? to try and console their families and try to give meaning to a life of no purpose. how many of those eulogies have been said in our community? because we have been wayward. you remember the song "i got plenty of nothing, and plenty of nothing is good for me?" i don't like that song. i like the song "god bless the child that's got his own" because that's what i got to do. anyone that professes to love this country must know history. we were taught his-story. that george washington cut down the cherry tree and did not tell a lie. nothing could be further from the truth. because if we were taught history we would know about the great and wonderful people called african-americans and how much they gave and sacrificed to build this country and leave a rich legacy of -- to all of us. not just black folks, to everybody. this country was built by africans, yngsdz and americans. we came here in 1619, one year before the mayflower. we did not come here as enslaved peo

their slogan for black history month is educate 12 months, celebrate one. so we have a lot to work on, to look back to, and to look forward to. i just want to say, that is something we cannot miss. when we talk about episodes like bryonn described, if it happened twice, it is an accident, twice, an accident. but when it happens three, four, five times, it is a pattern. we need to ask how we can address this pattern of injustice and racism. i want to ask what difference does it work has made as an artist in this field? we understand things can be different, you know. >> i am actually doing a show talking about my experiences. i worked with a talented group of other artists to tell the story of my experience of being thrown in jail for a short period of time, alongside the story of a brother on death row, the father of the crips, should have been pardoned. the excused him. after being nominated for the nobel prize. he left los angeles, was in texas. he went along with a drug deal. it went bad. somebody got shot. he was locked up for 18 years of his life and w

guy. >> on the black guy.w of hands. who thinks they did well? so nobody thinks they did well? >> i did okay. >> i think you guys need to be a little bit harder on yourselves. and let's be clear. my goal to say that is to not to belittle anybody in this room. my goal to say that is that i need you guys and want you guys to understand the vastness of this opportunity, right? you guys walked through palo alto to get here. this is probably the most black people who are in the town right now. let's be honest, right? so you need to understand the reality that you're in. >> no one that walked into that room knew they were about to pitch. >> let's say you walked in there and mark zuckerberg was in there and said, hey, i want to hear your idea. so you're going to tell me that it's okay to say, oh, well, i didn't know i was going to pitch to him and i shouldn't be ready? you can make those excuses and at the end of the nine weeks not be where you need to be. but you got to recognize that the only person that was in con

slavery denied black folks the ability to be mobile. you were trapped on one location, in a plantation. it broke up our families. it subjected us to daly wants and violence. anything can happen to you -- an example to you for somebody else. it exploded us for our free labor. all of those things happen in prison today. the u.s. has 5% of the world's population and over 25% of the world's prison population. that is a big part of the equation. i am not waiting for superman, but somebody might be. if you look at the conditions of our schools, our schools have not been restructured, have been left alone to become the perfect feeder to prison prefatory. public schools are designed -- if you have any spirit, the spirit of a claudette colvin, they do not want to adapt to you. folks always ask, where are our leaders? they are in rikers island, san quentin, some of the greatest minds which had not found a space to tap into their genius. that is a big part of what has happened. not talking about the prison industrial complex as well as the militar

why santa can't be black. reason why santa can't be black people wouldn't be able to decide on his appearance. some would want him to look one way, others wouldn't. the second reason is for safety. what police officer do you know that is going to realistically believe a black man broke into a louse to put presents there. >> i'm appreciative but like a bow or bag or anything? >> no, man. i don't wrap. >> i like that. >> i like that too. >> that was clever. >> and to tell us why he doesn't think santa should be be black is the only black man i know named scooter. why don't you think santa claus could be black? >> growing up i saw the movie santa depicted as an old, fat, white guy and santa can't be black because if you watch the video, i mean, safety, mainly. are you going to go into the hood dressed in -- no, it just wouldn't work out. >> isn't it time to reconstruct this stereotype of a white santa? i think it's time we have a black santa. >> you can look at it that way, but any way that you make a black santa

who tend to target and kurtz and kill black men -- and hurt and killed black men. i really want my boys to be appreciative of everything that is given to them. not just by me, but i know my son c.m.e. talking about appreciating the women in their lives. and wanting them to make -- to be good brothers. i feel so blessed to be growing up with three smart and created an independent and wonderful black men. they taught me early on to love black men. expressing appreciation for all the good brothers there out there doing the right thing. and one in my sons to be among them. and they are. i am incredibly proud. tavis: put the cover of this book back on the screen. before i got into the book, i had some expectation because of the way the title is laid out. i can tell that you were involved in this. the way the title is laid out -- "brothers (& me)." i ask whether or not you have gotten over that. have you changed your perception about your relationship to the men in your life? does this cover still reflect where donna britt is? does that make sense? >> it does make sense.

to be black. that's the cold hard truth about it. people are going to watch this on the news and hate me for it. believe that. >> and prison officials believe that racial pride might have contributed to an assault that landed ritchie in the secured confinement unit. >> what you see here is you see ritchie and another guy, a guy out here. and basically they are just hanging out. they already know what's planned. i mean, it was premeditated. >> the men are waiting for a black inmate to exit his cell. >> he is immediately met by ritchie who was standing at his door, waiting for his door to be opened. he assaults him and chases him around. this guy is a spectator at this point. another inmate comes running from this side. now you've got the three white guys running around, assaulting the one guy right here. finally they corner him and all three of them get on him before the officers can respond and activate their chemical agents. >> the victim received treatment at a nearby hospital and ritchie was tr

vote or any black infusion here.n he left, he had heard for the first time in... with some passion who dr. king was. and i said that if he were to make such overtures and show some evidence of caring about that he would then not have to worry about celebrities. heould have to include in his platform some sensitivity to this and one moment in this period dr. king was arrested in some minor traffic violation and because he was an activist violated the conditions under which he was released from sentence 30,-day sentence in jail. and when he went i think that said he violated his parole and they gave him two years on the chain gang. udience reacts) and that was verythreatening. and we went into complete mobilization on saying the first thing to do is get martin out of the chain gang because his life is in severe jeopardy. and it would be easy for the state to maintain some derange convict killed him and we petitioned to nixon and the kennedys. nixon ignoreds all together but the kennedys wrestd with it and when bobby to

at the same time, i do not think black capitalism is the solution to the problems of black folks who have been the victims of capitalism's boot. >> making sure that that kind of information becomes available. that could be the subject of what we deal with in black history month. you know? hal the wealth is developed. who developed it. loans what? how one gets to own it. we could do that. it could be touchy, but it could be useful. i'm just saying that we could use occasions for teaching about things that could make a difference. so i just say raise questions, and sometimes, raise hell when you raise the questions. [applause] >> i wanted to know if there was an african-american district attorney working in texas to review some of the cases that were -- i guess, tried, and some of the evidence was not valid. looking through investigating some of those cases to find out if they should be released because of the false information that was acquired. >> the attorney who has been the lead on the team that i have been in communication with is a guy by the name of morris moon, and he would be

history day, not just black history month, but every day be black history and honor that? thank you. and how do we really teach our children, our students really not what the media portrays, not what -- but really, what happened? i did get a chance to experience "eyes on the price" and i thought that was just the tip of the iceberg -- experience "eyes on the priceze." >> i do not know how to go about it, but what i would suggest is the reason why i did what i did, why i was brave enough and courageous enough to not give up my seat, because so much history was in my mind, and one of the things they were always asking me was why i did not get up when i was asked, and my answer would always be history had me glued to the seat. [applause] i think that what is left out of american history -- you should not be ashamed to say that we enslaved these people and mystery these people, a race of people. it should be included in the american history, and it would be every day. [applause] >> really quickly, it jolla i went to school with named sol williams said, "stealing as was the sma

is that a black thing?ack thing, pat. >> jimmy: what is this mac and cheese you speak of? i had no idea. apparently my family is black. what is this you speak of? speaking of awkward interracial exchanges, wolf blitzer somehow wound up on "the soul train" awards again this year. he was on the show last year too and this time again he was paired with legendary rapper doug e. fresh, and suffice it to say, it was not a proud moment to be a white person. >> last year we made history when you taught me how to do the dougie. i learned how to beat-box. >> really? >> watch me beat-box. watch me beat-box. >> jimmy: maybe if you repeat it twice more, we'll -- did you understand, watch me beat-box. okay. wolf got on the road to recovery this afternoon thanks to an interview with herman cain. another woman today came forward with sexual allegations about herman cain. i think she's number 9-9-9 now. her name is ginger white. unlike the others, she's not claiming cain sexually harassed her. instead she said they've been