black unemployment has reached record lows. wealth of black families up 60% the last few years.e spoken to on the ground in north carolina and georgia and michigan say they don't feel the effects. so where's the disconnect? >> i think that millions of black people were lifted out of poverty. that doesn't mean everybody's gainfully employed. it does mean there were strides made that hadn't previously been met. and i think that's important to know. >> byron: even with big voices like hughley's amplifying biden's record, democrats' messaging isn't always breaking through. the last three presidential election cycles, black men were more likely than black women to vote republican. >> i believe that voters in our country are shifting under beneath the feet of the political parties. >> byron: that shifting of america, why is that, you think? >> at the end of the day, i think the american people just want commonsense policies that work. >> byron: congressman byron donalds is being considered as the vp contender for former president trump. this past weekend, he was by his side at a churc

i don't think in terms of black on black crime. specifically mentioning homicides, homicide usually is a crime that involves people in close proximity to one another, people who know one another. we can talk about hispanic crime . it is an approximate kind of occurrence. one of the things you raise is this idea that ecologists -- sociologists call internalized oppression. sometimes oppressed people pick up on the negative self-evaluation that comes in a racialized society. if you are a person who devalues himself or herself, it is in some ways easier to engage in violence against people who are like you. that is a psychological dynamic that happens in society in which ritualization is a huge factor. host: coming back to viola fletcher's testimony before congress and a forgotten tragedy, where there other forgotten massacres on the level of tulsa that happened in the u.s.? guest: there are a number of historical racial tragedies that occurred throughout the u.s. in 1919, in elaine, arkansas, a so-called right. longview, texas. any o

they form black college kids. they form black fraternal entities. affiliate of kappa alpha. you know, all of these that we've come to know so well black churches, these really take off in a big way in the late 1800s after the civil war and i think they're taking advantage this these opportunities that the developing feel of corporate law presents. and so that provides a basis for african-americans to organize and channeled their energies that is after all what a corporation is for. it is a legal tool that allows a group of persons, individual human beings to join energies, to pool their resources and channel it toward some that they ostensibly agree on. so what that what that does is it allows african-americans to these collective goals. the other side of the story, though, is when you look inside these associations, which you see again and again is this recurring tension over the question of whether members of associate black associates agents and corporations, whether they have rights, that a court can defend, or whether they merely have privileges which they hold at the p

what black women. the black women from diverse backgrounds. black women of different faiths.lack women from different parts, the country, different social class together to reflect what's at stake and to think through practical steps, to really. one might say, not simply protect, but but to build. to continue building a multiracial and inclusive democracy. so it's just simply means the world to me to be able to do this project and to be able do it. building off-earth. the biography on fannie lou hamer. she's no longer with us in the flesh, but part. what i was trying to convey is she is still with when you think about how her ideas her passion, her drive. i see that in the that that kim janey is doing i see that in the writings of rene i see that just all around me and that helps me to going to know we are together working to really to fight for this country and to not give up. even when we feel like giving up. so great question. thank you for that. thank you. thank you so much. i. you know, i love that you said who better to ask than black women. that leads directly into my

families with younger black men and black women.he revival of a black middle class in america. you see, during jim crow, during jim crow, the black family was together. during jim crow, more black people were not just conservative, black people always have been conservative minded, but more black people voted conservatively. and then lyndon johnson, and then you go down that road and we are where we are. what's happened in america the last ten years and i say this as my contemporaries you're starting to see more black people be married and in homes, raising kids. when you're home with your wife raising your kids, and then you look at the world, you're saying time-out. this does not look right. how can i get something to my kids, it goes back to the conversation of generational wealth. generational wealth. >> i am joined now by florida republican congressman byron donalds. thank you for being here. we played that lengthy segment, what you posted on your social media. the part of what you said that people take issue with is this line.

facing we knew aggression in the black sea. long as russia is willing and able to directly change international norms, other powers will remain aligned with this effort and enable russia's attempts. to avoid this scenario we need to shape the regional environment in a way that makes it possible for moscow to renew its aggressive policies. this brings me to my final point, achieving a secure and resilient black sea region, which requires an active, predictable u.s. involvement and support coordinated of course with us, with the eu and nato, and regional allies and partners. the u.s. clearly placed, it is clearly placed interest to develop it in the black sea region. it has interests in denying revisionists powers, a showcase victory, and sphere of influence. its capacity to engage across the full spectrum of security, stability, economy and energy with all, with all regional allies and partners is unmatched. the adoption of the black sea security strategy by the u.s. department of state last year, and its future development in a

at the spring meadow, as greenwood championed black independence black entrepreneurship, black strength. mary jones, parrish, a local typing teacher, was one of the first people to call it the -- wall. but more than riches was you, parrish greenwood was, quote the wonderful cooperation, observed our people just this terrain. but this terrain, the agreement it cultivated, it was contested neighborhood success starts on the in the minds of many white oklahomans. oklahoma, at its founding a declared that black ambition and intellect were at odds with the white agenda. as a rule, -- are failures as lawyers, doctors and other professions. william murray, a future governor, governor of oklahoma, said of the state's constitutional convention. it is an entirely false notion that the -- can rise to the equal of the white man. not long after murray speech, the state showed a show to segregate train cars, even phone booths in tulsa, interracial baseball games were banned. harper hateful rhetoric and dehumanizing laws inevitably lead to violence and so it was in these united states during the 19 te

black men in the 1850s. it is meetings with african-americans in 1864 that push lincoln on this issue. he begins working behind scenes to push for black suffrage. a day after, i believe the second meeting took place with this delegation, lincoln sent a letter to the governor of louisiana, where he said that black men should have the right to vote. he, for instance, those who are very and especially those who have fought gallantly in the ranks. he said they would probably help in some trying time to come to keep the jewel of liberty, the family of freedom. in other words, black voters will help the nation survive during reconstruction, which might ugly. and it did. and required black voters, officeholders to help push the nation forward. all right. i think it's my favorite time. more questions. he's a great one. this is an excellent segway. dr. white, the letters seem so eloquent. american history has taught slaves were not taught to read and write. who taught them to read and write? it's a wonderful. literac

my doctor was black. my denis was black parents divorce lawyer, black.h, you know, it's you know, i tell people all the time, think this was your story as well. and i mean, you know, i be insensitive about this because growing up in dc, the eighties and nineties, the narrative was very different and the mainstream media, hence me being in the mainstream media. but i tell people all the time, whatever insecurities had as a kid, being black wasn't one of them. yeah, no, i know i hear you and i talking about. it's like growing up in brooklyn in the eighties and nineties. yeah you know? i mean, we were like the middle of the crack epidemic. we would find crack vials and in our front yard, i would hear my neighbor, who i write about, you know, it's like a composite. you know, i would hear her like know on a high just screaming, throwing things next door. and i remember, you know, i remember having so much love for my my neighbors because we always looked out for each other. we always there was always someone that was going to shovel the front of the front sid

white and black students.d that progress was being made and recruitment of african-americans to medical school peaked in 1994. by 2018 pew research study showed that the poor foundation of stem education in k through 12 was the root cause of the recruitment problem for medical schools of medical students. there's a wealth of data showing better health outcomes when black patients have black physicians and this applies across different cultures and this is because when you have cultural connectivity, you have better communication, you have shared experiences and you can overcome the mistrust that has developed over the decades. alabama has a population of 4.8 million people, 25.8% of whom are black and yet we only have 7% to have physician workforce as black. we are dealing with some serious healthcare issues in our state particularly with limited access to healthcare and we had closure of rural hospitals and clinics particularly in the black belt of the state and we have to come up with some real solutions. mo

et to the freedom of black women because of black women were freerything black women faced, it meant. you know, all of those things on my mind as i was writing thend when the book came out reading it and just the sense of hope, it's very you know, a lot of reasons to once someone had confused me at work with ianother writer jane austen held and they said, oh, are you the person whoncouraged joy? and i said, no, i couldn't do it.but you can't just through le that way, because thou up. and that's how the terrorists win. so important thing is to keep that message out there and not just an empty you know, that's what we have. have our souls, we have our hearts. we have our minds. we have to use them. get this country where it needs toe. it's not even a matter. it's a matter of saving democracy, but it's also a matter of making home that's which it never been. and i think that'swork that needs to be done and not by black women, but by everyone who actually cares about this country. absolute much. so the next■v question is for y. honorable kim janey. i absolutely loved reading your chapter

black sea strategy. [applause] >> thank you madame foreign minister for the overview and i like the framing of the need for secure prosperous and connected black sea region and so in my conversation here with you i think i want to make sure we touch on all of those 3 elements. unfortunately as i was preparing for this and then t that framing, i think a lot of the topics fall security unfortunately because of the events that you described so we broaden it. the one thing that i wanted to t up front that we are not going to get into today that i want to flag i think it's important historical context for the u.s.-romania relationship. when i was president for europe -- radio liberty we returned to romania rel romanian language and manyab visit and the thing that the americans need to u romania's freedom and it's now in their dna and that an important bond given the work for radio europe during mm i had this experience in my countries i operate in but romania was most servant. with tears in their eyes, the ro

black voters.t they forgot to show was how overwhelmingly white that church was and how many empty seats there were. in fact, if you looked at the carefully selected images you would guess the crowd inside was overwhelmingly black and pro trump, literally cheering for him and chanting his name. you would be forgiven for believing that this re-enforces what seems to be the new hot narrative, that it is black people, specifically black men, who are driving trump back into the white house with their overwhelming and historically growing support. and the actual reality that you can see with your own eyes and know if you peel back the layers just a little bit is trump spoke to an overwhelmingly white crowd inside a large detroit church that, yes, does indeed have a black pastor, but which merely served as a venue. and that the people who participated in the roundtable like those in the audience at that church, were already trump supporters, not some new historic black supporters of trump. trump was in d

i have an entire chapter in here, the black church and the. and the what? the black church.hat it's a generalization. and although some churches are doing some things as a collective. it ain't what it was. and i talk about the the, the, the how capitalism has it has caused some of this and these megachurches. now, what the church used to be communities you just there on sundays you were there all week you know and so we the church in this book, we talk about public education system. we talk about those environmental and social injustices. we talk about these structures. and the most amazing thing about these structures, i.e., criminal justice system, is that it ain't broken intended intended. they're profitable. and so i talk the fact that the only way we can fix it is if we go in with the mindset. we're going to deconstruct these systems and rebuild them in an image that looks like us. and so the prescriptions know, like, like i said, this book is just meant in the words ferrell. it keeps the people going. hopefully it'll give you something to chew on. all it's meat, not. t

you the black panthers were black.hat we've made today. and unfo relationships. so one of the relationships which i talk about in my vanishing country that a lot of people don't know was frayed, that i wish they had an opportunity to to bring themselves back together before their death was john lewis and julian bond. oh, oh, my god. and you in the movement. they had a lot of of those personalities. and so i try to lift them all up and share their and share their light. that was a beautiful with that,e final question. and i just want to celebrate a■d salute this great man, bakari cnn analyst, lawyer, civil rights lawyer, author, father and just amazing husband and, a husband. we can't forget that amazing human being. and if you don't have this book. please get book the not only tht get it for yourself a couple for other friend like for juneteenth gifts christmas because i'm serious but pass it along because they're banning our books and when they ban our books we don't know our history this is history yesterday and toda

i am sure you havepolls showingt biden is losing support among black v black men.ning? guest: no question president's numbers are strong and black america. i saw week at the white house for the juneteenth celebration. question that his numbers are at best soft and he has experienced someyet, i w not believe the posters have it right. i do not believe it is a size 25% of black men voting for donald trump. i think that will be the reality on election day. voters for granted, and that is part wrong may they be, there's something there. black voters are ten for granted by the democratic party and flat out ignored by the republican party. i am glad to see that this time around, black voters are in play. ■dblack voters matter. joe biden says it all the he would not be president if it were not for black voters, particularly black women in south carolina who came to his rescue four yearsgo. rest, as they say, is history. he understands the importance of black voters. donald trumpalth agenda is antithetical to the best interest of like people, he is courting blackhe spoke a

children i mean i speak at one point in the book to to a black black psychiatrist named dr. tammy benton, who in her research has found that like when black children who are suffering with emotional challenges or mental challenges come to emergency rooms in the middle of a crisis, they are dismissed, discredited and turned away. and less than 50% of the time they're able to get ongoing mental health care treatment, even if that's what they really deserve. and so you can't understand, one, without the other and probably about to get cut off by said good but thank you that is really such a crucial part of the heart. this book to you all. thank you so much for coming out tonight. man, this is a tremendous achievement. let's give it up for antonia so we're going to be in here. new orleans, 1895. she's beautiful in shape

to say that you can't support black women, specifically to go after black folks, want to support black. >> black women said, we are going to get ourselves together and support ourselves and then you have people who are still fully coming to attack. i asked people to become aware of because it is under the radar. we need to shed light on it. support organizations like the lds, the association, the naacp. equal defense fund, support the organization. when it comes to housing termination, their pursuit, i knew that their organizations like the national fair housing alliance that does that sort of work to protect you. so we have, over generations, put into place the blueprint and organizations to combat and fight this law, we asked the people join the fight. this is a call to action. when evil people plot, good people have to plan. >> before i let you go, what can you tell us about superman? >> superman is a great, great example of american ascetic at work, right? that is all i can say about that. but i am so happy to be a part of it. i play the editor of the daily planet. >> wow. i can't

family and black fathers and black mothers and black fathers must stay with black mothers and blacke not black. so it's very perplexing to me that you have these huge indictments of the black family, and you are part of what the black person, if you have this great investment in it, and you're making yourself an expert on it, then i would think that that would be important to you in your own personal life. but it isn't. because it isn't about the black family. because if it was about the black family, you would care about fair housing, fair wages, health care, voting rights. the john lewis voting rights act that byron donalds voted against and then went back to his partner who happens to not be black. so it is a racial security blanket, as some great folks said on social media. and i think about an article from the heritage foundation saying black needs a black wives matter movement. it is a grifting on your race, it is the blueprint from my book, and it is really disappointing. and my father, his birthday was this week, was in my life every step of the way. my grandfather was raise

black life. to the images printed in the black press that circulated across the country we must also see till mobley asks three and orator and four and educator due to her, that still story should always be told and taught. given her interest in subjects like english and poetry, and her experiences as a public teacher, playwright on the south end and playwright on the south side of chicago, mamie till-mobley believe that knowledge creation is a transformative because. she did not confine herself to the classroom. till mobley was also political lobbyists. she was a fighter for racial and was committed to holding state powers accountable for the roles that played in the death of her son. this image here shows mamie till-mobley canvasing on the us capitol a or so after emmett till is killed. and next we must see mamie till-mobley as a four mother. a few years prior to her death, till mobley was asked about her legacy and the role that she played in making the world. a better place. some things are b

and what did he mean to a lot of the black athletes out there? even beyond the black athletes? you talk about the the representation. of black people across the city. you know he could not buy a home when he came here. right and that he had to really hold out and and wait for that, and i think he represents that resilience that, um resistance. spirit that folks look for, i think the idea that he smiled and that he was here for folks and the committee. that he stayed. do all these years to stay connected to san francisco is huge. but i think he also for black athletes. represents star power. i heard people talking today about how they don't know that we've ever seen anyone. like him or that we ever will. and they talk a little bit about steph curry and other folks, but it's the spirit. the kindness. the generosity. the ability to connect with young people at any age. i think that's what people really want to see. and that's what they're remembering about. yeah. he was truly a legend and an icon, and he's going to be dearly missed. dr cheryl davis. thank you very much for joining

the second black chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. black women had of military units.ho are overseeing the most diverse and strongest fighting force in the history of the world. folks, the threat trump poses is good in the second term than in the first. it is true that when he left in 2020, something really snapped in this guy. aughter] no, i'm serious. that is why january 6 happened, when he unleashed an insurrection. now he's running again that he is clearly unhinged. he calls insurrectionists who stormed the capital "patriots." if reelected, he wants to harden, quote, "every one of them." let me ask you. what do you think you would have done on january 6 if black americans had stormed the capitol? think about this? if black americans had stormed the capitol? i don't think he would be talking about pardons. this is the same guy who wanted to tear gas you as you peacefully protested george floyd's murder. the same guy who still calls the central park five "guilty," even though they were exonerated. he is that landlord who denies housing applications because of the col

that's thetory of black people.orge washington carver, how did you do you just had willie mays died just a few minutes ago. when i was in sacramento at shiloh baptist church working with the blackduá g to be the next willie mays. you see my life was just a failure. that's all right. try again, fail again, fail better. my life is fa bettersituation. we would go see willie mays play with my daddy and my mom. my mom would said i never be one half of the human being she was, and she comes from texas juneteenth we celebrated juneteenth every summer o my conscious life because texas celebrated juneteenth every year . but they told us the truth about juneteenth. we knew it wasn't speech given by some general because the black folks word. quit lying about the history. we know that slavery was abolished in mexico in 1829 by a black president whose name wa guerrero. he was executer because the anglo elites man should have that kind of power, no black man oughtack people in that way. in 1820 nine, california was mexico. 1846,

it's a it's a directory of not only black health professional, but but non-black health professionalswho have committed to providing inclusive, you know, anti-racist care. and they they get continuing medical education around equity. there is the earth app that is more centered on maternal health that was founded kimberly seals that she's a black woman and that's how can find maternal health providers. so there are you know i feel like we're we are the ones that are trying find these solutions. in the book i write about the roots center in minneapolis in minneapolis as people know, you know, has like one of the highest, you know, racial, racial, health and equity ghing white people. we're doing very, very poorly there. center in one of the most impoverished neighborhoods and a black midwife opened it up with the goal of providing people with with dignified aid and respectful care. it's so simple. but they've actually found, like they've done some preliminary studies that it's they've they've lowered the rates of preterm births. they've they've lowed maternal complications. so i think

the black panthers. thank.ld have lesson in the morning we'd have to at a teacher from the elementary school come and give us a lesson in the morning and then we afterwards we do stuff like go and jump ditches or play basketball or something like that. and we had the tents and isolated out in the street. sometimes we go to her house and get them little tents. it yeah, i know what that is, right. like the love. i don't know what i'd be doing up here in the summer. no, not. no. okay. yeah. no, no, no. the little comes around. right. oh no, we had a little lady knock on the door and she had. that's what we get. hello. yeah. and if you if you had if you had if had 50 cent, you would have man, right but at the end of that summer, do you know the lady's. no, the icy lady. that was, that was her name when you saw her in grocery store. you like, hey, miss icy lady. but at the end of the summer, my dad would take us to kerwin, which is which is a theme that is on the border, north carolina, south carolina and we would a

families with younger black men and black women he is also helping so breed the revival of a black middle-class in america. >> we see during jim crow going to go back into region chrome we're back. >> family wants to get ready to reject crow more black people were not just conservative. you always been conservative library for more black people voted conservatively and then hew lyndon johnson. and you go down that road. and now we are where we are what's happened that america, the land as ten years, i'll say there's my contemporaries is, was his contemporaries you're starting to see more than black people been marriage in home, raising is as point you hall, which your wife raising your kids. and then you look at the world you're saying i waited minute. this does not look right how can i get something? >> so my kids goes back to the conversation of generational wealth that is having a job generational wealth now, we should note that many democrats who jumped on donalds to neh claimed that he said that blacks were quote, better off as you heard there, he didn't use those exact words in the clip.

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black voters matter.it particularly black women in south carolina who came to his rescue four years ago. the rest, as they say, is history. he understands the importance of black voters. agenda is antithetical to the best interest of like people, he isouhe spoke at a black church r he is appealing to black voters, as well. so it is a good thing that black voters are being taken seriously. this and it cannotv legislation passed -- the senate could not get meaningful voting rights past, but i am happy to see voters are not being taken for granted. blackoter88■7 i quote jesse jackson, we lose too many question -- absence at the polls. we elections by the sibyl margin of our absence at the simple margin of our absence at the s. if you are leading the american empire, i have a critique if you. i want to hold you to be accountable for the things you ■Ñsaid ran. cans, certainly black folks. joe bidenble. donald trump should be held accountable. host: you mentioned a speech by former president trump in detroit sa

families with younger black men and black women that is also hoping so breed the revised hi have a black middle class in america. >> you see during jim crow going to go back to orange and grow back family wants together during more black people were not just conservative, but you always have 50 serving of my are more black people holy conservative leak and then hew, lyndon johnson. and you go down that road. and now we are where we are now he could. have made that point without invoking jim crow. >> why the frame work of american apartheid around families and families staying together? >> well, first of all, yeah, like you said, like, i don't even know why he spent the rest of the week defending stuff that he brought up. but i think that he was dog listening to a particular part of his base, white, not the black men, but there is a segment of black men who wish that they could return to the days when women didn't have all the rights that's one of the parts of that that we don't talk about that he's kind of dog whistling to like after the civil rights act women also got rights and that is

black and white unions. most elite remained united despite continued efforts throughout the 20th century to racially divide them. the half half system was something that the black and white unions devised themselves, and this was important that labor strikes were not as prominent or massive as that 1892 general strike. this was important. it was important to workers, but it was really more important to the bosses. they really wanted to appeal to the workers at the turn of the century because the fortunes of the city were changing once again, the fortunes of the port of new orleans were dramatically shifting. and that shift was precipitated by a new commodity. and can we guess what that new commodity was that is entering the ports of new orleans around the turn of the century? someone say it, banana, as we can see them here. okay. bananas. so to talk about bananas, we have to talk about this man. enter samuel z. murray, who soon became known as sam the banana man and who has heard of s's murray or sam the ban

we see black rappers, we see black -- we don't see black entrepreneurs.hological shift that has to happen. alyssa: once you like help our generation understand financial literacy, then they'll be able to do it for that generation. and it'll really, like revolutionize the trajectory of what it means to be like a black person with money. capricia: what i'm seeing now is that we are in this financial revolution where people actually are being excited and taking ownership of understanding how to maximize their income, and also what it looks like to grow and to have ownership, which are things that weren't necessarily our story, in history. laura: joining me now to talk about the importance of financial literacy is robert smith, philanthropist and ceo of the private equity firm vista equity partners. robert: thank you. it's my pleasure. laura: what do you make of the current state of financial literacy in the black community? robert: there are a number of challenges. some of them are systemic. and some of them are personal. the systemic ones, our access to cap

there is a black woman.l end up with something. looked like rodney king, if you ask me. so unfortunately we i refer to this as cosright. there's genuine diversity, diversity and thought, etc. diversity in which the true diversity the true value of diversity is leaning intond wham unique. ask them how they can make things simply satisfying the employment discrimination aspect is not enough. you know, we have to go further if. we're going to get more women, more black, more people from different religions, name it in certain spaces, then have to tap into them to get the changes that we need. so unfortunately,ean, are the ae anecdotal situations that can happen because that officer is has a cultural so similarity to someone. sure. but in terms of of of why dynamic systemic change, diversity, i don't think will ever be the answer and not in. wee further. i mean, and there's a a similar dynamic at brownsville. this was probably my favorite part of the story. the timeline to report in the forties and fifties, a ge