it is black-owned media and black media. unapologetically giving news to black americans, other networks, and newspapers. host: you talk about your book, you write about black journalists. say, our activism is rooted in serving the underserved. you say, he used to push against the description of my work as accurate -- as activism, because that was delegitimizing my work. but over time i have come to accept and embrace that description. take me through accepting and embracing that description. guest: let me tell you something. for 25 years i have considered myself a journalist. i don't care what people say. be it democrat or republican. democrats used to say i was a republican. republicans used to say i was a bleeding heart democrat. i must be doing my job well. but when you happen to be black and you are reporting about an underserved community, the first thing people want to lop at you, you are an activist namely that -- activist. not. i'm not that person walking down the street fighting for power, i'm not out there marchin

and what does that then do to black and black ideas about blackness itself? thank you for that. i mean, i really appreciated the fact that you brought those two sides of the same family. for the first time. and i think that is one of the things that's one of your biggest contributions there are a lot. there are multiple concerns, actions that you make to several of history. but that is one of the ones that i appreciate most. can can you tell us a little bit about your sources? because, i mean, i was taken away by the depth and the details of your research, and i was like, where did she get this information from? mean you had conversations and both sides of letters and so what were your main historical archival sources this so this book. well i as i was telling you before the biggest source was marlon spingarn at howard university or warren spingarn is a treasure in terms of the arc material they have on african people letters family stories is a lot of what i was able to glean about the family the details the grim brothers enslavement from archibald graham, his deathbed conversa

on blackness and our political future". really happy to be here with you, welcome. we've got plenty of time. i want to dive into the book. just to table set a little bit. let's talk about who you are, your background and how you get to the doctor you're working on this book. >> guest: i come from an advocacy background. i'm a lawyer by trade, started in chicago doing policy work around people with criminal records and trying to remove barriers to employment and one of the things that became clear to me is that it didn't matter if you shift the policies if you don't shift the culture so i became interested in not just narrative work but in general what are the different structures of media ownership, the ways in which people communicate so that took me into the field of media justice, access and representation. i did that at center for media justice until i got brought onto color of change where i spent many years overseeing the economic justice department and kind of doing that work around advocacy and corporate accountabil

women and black bodies.s an acceptable way of saying, "you don't belong," rather than saying, "the color of your skin doesn't fit in." >> let me read you something that you write about, regarding your early years at abt. quote... >> yeah. even to this day -- maybe in the last two years, things might have changed because the conversation really opened up, you know? and, you know, what's incredible is that the ballet technique is a language that transcends, like, so many cultures. i can go to russia, i can go to colombia, i can go to anywhere, and i may not speak the same language, but as ballet, like, we understand each other. and so youan train in different parts of the world and come together and look unified. so there is this -- this amazing commonality, and i think that makes the dancers look like one. it's because of the technique that we've all learned in the same language we speak. but it doesn't have to be so literal as "every dancer has exact same skin tone, exact same body type." and i think that it

history, not america's black history, what happened with riots in black communities where black people had a certain amount of economic power that allowed black people to use quid pro quo to manipulate and move legislation and politics in the direction we needed for our communities. riots made it seem like there were good people on both sides, or that both people exercised the same violence when it was white people specifically attacking black people. could you talk to the audience about that? guest: let me also address something else you mentioned, which was that black people were brought to this country to be a permanent underclass. in point of fact, that is debatable. in 1619 when the first slave ship docked in virginia, it was not clear what the role of blacks were going to be in this country. we spent the next 100 years sorting that out. a significant number of blacks in the beginning were not slaves. they were indentured servants the same way many of the white people brought from england were indentured servants. they had the right to be able to earn their way out of servitude an

we have black. we we've seen a erosion of black institution, whether that be in media space, whether that be each with each of his views, whether that be black economic centers and economic centers. right. there are any number of reasons these things, like i said, in some cases of these economies, environments set up explicitly because the denial of access, almost all of them are set up that way. and so now that there was access to other spaces, better resource spaces understandably see a splintering of the population and yet because of that you start to lose some of your sense of shared collective black identity, both cultural and right. what we also now see in a more globalized world, a post-internet world right, is a world where there where people now the ability and access to information in some ways even specifically to be connected to the places where they are from to, trace their ancestry in ways that they had not before to connect with the diaspora writ large. right. and so in some ways what

to black potential homeowners, to black businesses and black consumers, it's certainly greater thanmainstream banks. combine these banks, they probably have less than three billion in assets. a relatively small, even on a combined basis. the growth opportunity is significant. what they need is equity capital. they can plus that up and landed at a greater rate. to the extent that you and this committee can find ways -- i would say, senator toomey, this issue of strengthening black businesses in the 70s, 80s, and the 90s and even into the early 2000s with the bush years, was an area of bipartisan consensus. there was a tremendous effort. this was one of the things that never brought the same amount of partisan friction. i would agree with that. i think we need to think about that. as far as cdfi's are concerned, one way to assist cdfi's would be to figure out a better way to fund the loan loss reserve component of their capital structure. that tends to be very difficult to raise the money, to sustain them. that is not money that you -- it is money that you raise and hold to offset non

people for black people.of the members of the party were not african—american, or african. they came from everywhere. and our collaborations were with all the organisations that wanted to make a change, so that there be no barriers between human beings. you talked about the police harassment, you talked about the violence, and we'll talk about that some more, but i just wonder whether even the social activism, the free breakfast clubs, the free medical clinics — were they part of the harassment? was there an effort by the authorities, the police, to close you down? absolutely. as a matter of fact, police often came in to church basements where many of the... church and school basements, or gyms, where the breakfast programmes for children were held, all over the united states, and by the way, replicated all over the world. however, in the united states, the police came in with guns drawn to shut it down. and i remember reading a memorandum fromj edgar hoover to his field officers, saying that he wasn't concer

it is black-owned media and black media.logetically giving news to black americans, other networks, and newspapers. host: you talk about your book, you write about black urnalists. we say, our activism is rooted in serving the underserved. you say, he used to push against the description of my work as accurate -- as activism, because that was delegitimizing my work. but over time i have come to accept and embrace that description. take me through accepting and embracing that description. guest: let me tell you something. for 25 years i have considered myself a journalist. i don't care what people say. be it democrat or republican. democrats used to say i was a republican. republicans used to say i was a bleeding heart democrat. i must be doing my job well. but when you happen to be black and you are reporting about an underserved community, the first thing people want to lop at you, you are an activist namely that -- activist. not. i'm not that person walking down the street fighting for power, i'm not out there marching. i'

black conservative. he licks not interested how people vote because at that point we are voting in a large block. but what people's political values and ideologies expect, and how they self identify. so i wanted to break down those categories and tried to do it using world's blackest cafeteria metaphor. i thought one it's really important for i think people to understandat black people are nt monoliths. we all have different categories that we fit into an overlap. and what is actually cap just tethered is the idea of linked which is another term from doctor dawson which is this idea we have to work and act to uplift the group. and when something happens to an individual within the group, it is happening to us. that is part of the reason traditionally with black voters you have seen someone who may express a personal ideology of being conservative. of being against abortion. pro- low regulation or no regulation on gun rights instantly consistent democrat voter. because ultimately we have felt for generati

create or multiplying effect of investment and other black communities and black invest -- black businessesurs found a 50 million dollar venture fund be start-up to not only provide the seat and start of capital that businesses need but particularly to support the need to grow and that's both have capital but also the post investment support mentorship and entrepreneurship kind of examples that they need and i've given examples of one of our board members, the founder of shame moisture, and the deal he brokered with to acquire shea moisture was part of it creating new voices fund. 100 million dollar fund to invest in black women entrepreneurs, and through that, fund just the last two, years it created over 30 black millionaires and you think about the multiplier effect of those and to partners that invest in other black businesses and mentoring other black businesses and reinvest in their community, that's what we're trying to unlock and there's absolutely so much potential there if we help companies get out of their own way and investors get out of their own way and invest in black and bro

the black belt is named because of the -- black people were brought to pick cotton. county, bloody lowndes , one of those areas we had such as the jackson family and whole community that had gone to stand up and recognize that in these communities where basically all types of vigilantism -- chief of police and where all the law enforcement officials as well as the other elected political positions in the state of alabama. talking about a land grab, talking about dispossessing people, then your movent needed to reach not only those officers of -- law enforcement officers, but you needed to also make sure you could get your people elected to vote -- axes come ected to office and then elected to vote and then become part of e whole apparatus. in fact, if you have the numbers and yet the local organized people, then you ought to take control. we believe in majority rule in this country. so if you are 80% of the population, then you ought to rule. that helps to form the thinking that went into the establishment in lowndes county. understand, there are those communities wh

so all the black churches, all the black businesses everything had to move to east austin, which now of course to this day is to austin is the black side of town. but, you know, we've met people in austin, some older people who are that's this is still the great trauma, you know, and the threat was if you don't move, we're turning off you utilities. i mean, it just so the first place that the college was in was a a methodist church in downtown austin and a black church and that had to close. so it had to go over to the east side of town. so but our country is full of these stories and and we have amnesia about it's not tautness schools, you know. and it brings us to another awkward question that we talked about and talked about. what about reparations? all of those stories that you said that are in this book about the injustices that took place after the civil war, after emancipation are pretty stark and pretty def, you know, terrible. so should there be reparations? that's an issue that we're grappling with today. it is. so. so ginger and i had a long conversation about this saturda

black america, 15.7%.'t you find it odd a lot of these cities where black americans are struggling? the numbers are on the screen. it's not dan bongino's opinion. it's a fact that these liberal cities are run by democrats. black americans have worse health outcomes, too. listen to the numbers. here is life expectancy numbers. 3.6 years late. not days, not months. years. doesn't that strike you as odd? we can offer a solution here. how are we losing the black vote? at least these big liberal cities with large black populations. at least they are kicking ass on education. you would be wrong there be too. the percentage of bachelor's degrees. here is a "wall street journal" article i read all the time when i give a speech. just 2,000 of the nation's 20,000 high schools produce half the high school dropouts. but nearly after of all black students wind up in one of those dropout factories. folks, that's inexcusable. i get it, the media tells black america all the time, republicans are a bunch of racists. then w

it is black-owned media and black media.logetically giving news to black americans, other networks, and newspapers. host: you talk about your book, you write about black journalists. we say, our activism is rooted in serving the underserved. you say, he used to push against the description of my work as accurate -- as activism, because that was delegitimizing my work. but over time i have come to accept and embrace that description. take me through accepting and embracing that description. guest: let me tell you something. for 25 years i have considered myself a journalist. i don't care what people say. be it democrat or republican. democrats used to say i was a republican. republicans used to say i was a bleeding heart democrat. i must be doing my job well. but when you happen to be black and you are reporting about an underserved community, the first thing people want to lop at you, you are an activist namely that -- activist. not. i'm not that person walking down the street fighting for power, i'm not out there marching.

, black, black, black i am.people see them, a practice known as "shadow banning." unice: are you stressed? are you mad? are you upset? are you sad? sorry, what? unice: i guess you tend to get a lot ofhadow ba for speaking up about stuff such as racism and stuff. you could mention one words, black, say all of this, and your video could get shadow banned. when you post a video, the video just, it's on the app. it's just, you're not going to get any views for it. so you can see it, it's just on they go onto your account as well. so it's up there, it's just it's not going to gain you views. avani: last year, tiktok creators noticed the algorithm was suppressing posts with the hashtag black lives matter or george floyd. male: so, word on the street is that tiktok has banned the black lives matter hashtag. avani: one of those creators was sydney man, paniora nukunuku, who had created a video using a pool table to explain the black lives matter issue to australians. paniora nukunuku: this is a white australia table, an

of investment in other black communities and in black invest in black businesses and then the b.. a entrepreneurs fund as well as a $50 million venture capital fund. we stood up um to not only provide the, the seed and start up capital that businesses need, but particularly the support they need to grow and that's both capital, but also the post investment support mentorship and entrepreneurship kind of examples that they need and i give an example of, you know, one of our board members, richelieu dennis, the founder of shea moisture and the deal that he brokered with unilever to acquire shea moisture. part of it was creating the new voices fund, $100 million fund to invest in black, particularly black women entrepreneurs and through that fund just in the last two years it created over 30 black millionaires and you think about, you know, the multiplier effect of those entrepreneurs that investing in other black businesses than mentoring other black businesses and reinvesting in their community. that is what we're trying to unlock and there's absolutely so much potential there. if

person particular to angry, black boy does not live to be an alive black, may it. so as on china, also say in that in that piece is that like i'm, she's not really, really forgiving. she's taking some of what she has heard from the church and she's wrapping that around is sort of like understanding it, like it's ignorance. that is really god and he's why christian nationalist do not do what they do. i'm fully aware, grand mom of the 90 percent of the things you've told me about why christian nationalism. they will do everything they can to destroy us no matter what. but in a mist she has to put on another costume of taking care of her grandson, walking him away from what she would call a cliff. and actually like that's a conflict, but i think that conflict creates depth. i don't think that conflict is necessary, a contradiction is a black southern light creased kind of depth to me that i think we sorta neglect or we think about that age. a black woman who got us here. yes, 11. thank you so much for joining me on up front. i'm so happy to be with you. mark . always

the congressional black caucus is not only about representing the issues of the black community, it is fighting for the needs and over the issues have all communities and to stand against discriminate shun and hate wherever it is. >> you mentioned hate. let's finish on twitter. it has been nearly a month and a half since elon musk took control of the social network and we continue to get new reports that hate speech has exploded on the platform. as mask offers amnesty to ban accounts and fire content moderators. mosques response on friday was to say that even if the amount of racist messages is going up, the number of views each individual hateful tweet gets is going down. this is a private company, but it also is a public resource. it has been an important for him for black people. isn't there a role for regulators to play and getting this situation under control? >> absolutely there is. i was just reading an article about the level of hate posts that have been made and the level of his increased, just since elon musk has taken over it is over 200% against the black community alone. t

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saying black candidates draw a lot of black voters, but let's get -- >> if it was latino it would be same thing. you understand what i'm saying? >> i'd push back. i get it. but this is one person's candidate. donald trump. mitch mcconnell said quality matters herschel walker is not a great candidate we should do better. if people looked across the state of georgia you could have gone out and recruited a lot of different folks that would have done better than hershel. there could have been a lot of candidates. >> just someone qualified? >> more qualified. if that's what you're looking for, you could have picked somebody. >> waerewolves and vampires. >>> a rough start to the 2024 campaign for donald trump, from dinner with a racist and anti-semite to his company being convicted by a jury. and also this -- >> how are you preparing to deal with a gop majority that is vowing to be very aggressive. >>> coming up we have kaitlan collins' interview with the number three minted democrat in the house, pete agulair. you could manufacture a whole new way of manufacturing. disrupt buying habits b

in black and white.in her latest book, "black women will save the world: an anthem" ryan offers an inspiring moment this year when america elected its first black women vice president and celebrates the tenacity, power and impact the black women across america. from the birth of this nation black women have transformed their pain into progress and a been at the front lines of the countries political, social and economic struggles. they include currentsu politicay or such as maxine waters, valerie jarrett and kamala harris, other activists anarchists like regina king air combining profiles and in-depth interviews, ryan explores the challenges black women into work and how the lessons they have learned can helpp us shape our own stories. with that,ea please welcome alex finnie and april ryan. [applause] >> hi, everyone. >> hello. >> hello, everyone. >> hello. >> hello. >> hi. how are you? you can do better than that. it's raining. that's right, thank you. that's right. [applause] >> good afternoon, miami.

we talked about this you and i, among certain black intellectuals, or black rabble rousers, for black something rather, at any rate they don't appreciate white heroes who come down. they see it as paternalistic. so they would see your book as somewhat paternalistic. that their own agency is how they made their way in through the world. >> i appreciate that question and i really thought about that every page of this book throughout the writing. and how to deal with that. i'm not sure fine successful at it but one of the reasons i tried to bring up to date all of the places where the richardson's worked. so those chapters in their, what happened in memphis after george left. what happened in austin after they left. what happened in each of these places. >> and one of these places is mantas and ida b. wells. tell that story. >> so ida b wells is a great american hero. you should know that name. so ida b wells had black newspaper. she was a crusader against lynching. there was some horrible slaughter spy whites against blacks in memphis and her newspaper was burned down. and she became pr

you're not listening to black women. but how many of you have pell grants? white and black. you're not listening. but look at it. you got a benefit of a black woman. you may not be listening, but everything that's happening, a black woman has helped, helped you to live a. white woman in america. you may not be listening, but you feeling the impact of black women? yes. thank you. thank you. and you and i know you're listening, but i'm saying for the collective. yes. yes. hello. about six years ago or so, i heard chris rock say. that. he said people are saying race relations are getting better. he said that's not what's happening. there's just a few white people that are being nicer and i've never forgotten it. and really i mean, this might be oversimplifying it, but it really feels like it's a lot of white people that have to change to make it. and i just wonder if you have any advice or insight to how white people can make other white people change. that's where the change is. i'm so glad. thank you for remembering chris rock's joke. but sometimes there's truth in the joke,

what is the water area of ​​the black sea. area several times larger than the size of an average european state. let's just say that this territory is of a huge scale over the entire water area. the black sea cannot constantly fly missiles, conduct combat operations, operate echo sounders and cause appropriate harm. here is this unique beautiful marine animals, and if i may say very briefly, why, in my opinion, the theme of dolphins is being pedaled, because the theme of dehumanizing everything connected with russia with special people continues. it's very dolphin friendly. dolphin is an animal with extremely high intelligence. there, if ukrainians wrote fakes, and unconditional ones would also be a pity . it would not find such a reflection. well , such a reaction from readers who may suddenly believe this nonsense. dolphin we are all from childhood brought up on cartoons on tv shows of scientifically educational dolphins. they find, of course, a response to their strength. well, you can say rationality in the human heart. no

nation. >> the shrine of the black madonna was part of the whole black power, black liberation movementtaking place. >> this entire church was packed. all of us were there to see and witness her display of what we called the of justice. >> the conclusion was that they were done. they were guilty of murder in the first degree. >> i do not think people understand how well trained mrs. parks was, i do not think they understand what a good organizer she was. i do not think they understand how long she had been in the struggle and i don't think they understood how radical her understanding of what the kind of change we need is. >> and it is a part of her magic, really, that on the one hand she can cultivate this notion of innocence, if you will, well acting on be half of and espousing very radical views. >> politically, we were changing, and black people were growing in the percentage of people in detroit and we are beginning to think that we had our own people representing us. they no longer wanted to be represented primarily by white people. >> it has been made a very bad neighborhood to l