it can't be what's good for black america or latino america, it's what's good for america. >> we can'tegislation that he's put forward he hasn't had to put a black label on. it's affected poor people, black people, middle class people. so we can't skip over that. >> i have to hold that thought real quick because i have to take a break. when we come back we'll wrap up. stay right there. we'll be back with more "black enterprise." i think the republicans clearly, cannot count on the american people to have amnesia on where they brought this country. ♪ it's that chocolate ♪ it's that whipped cream ♪ it's that caramel, and espresso you mix in ♪ [ male announcer your two favorite flavors together. new mccafé caramel mocha. ♪ ba da ba ba ba ♪ ♪ it's that chocolate ♪ it's that whipped cream ♪ it's that caramel, and espresso you mix in ♪ [ male announcer your two favorite flavors together. new mccafé caramel mocha. ♪ ba da ba ba ba ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back. i have a very little amount of time left, but do i want to ask, if there's one thing the president should work on in the next two years. what

. >> we have to look at the best ways to bring about prosperity in black america.ger government and more taxation and increased bureaucracy has not given us the results we're looking for. therefore it's prudent for us as african-americans to look for the best resolutions possible and perhaps there are solutions that we feel, we feel confident in, that the republican party offers when implemented properly will bring about better iscation for our communities, et set ta ra. >> why would black people make this choice as opposed to using the same arguments in the democratic party it? >> i wasn't always a republican. my parents came from haiti and they identified with the democratic party because they were told that's what black and working-class people do. what's sort of converted me, if you will, after i began working in the inner city as a school counselor and witnessed how a lot of democratic policies purported to help black people to their detriment, that's when i sort of reevaluated my allegiance. >> arm strong, you identify as a conservative but don't identify as

the whole thing with black america. >> host: why then did your father not support the civil rights act? >> guest: you know, i really wish i could answer that. the civil rights act at the time in the 1960's, the republican party was the one that forced that to be passed. i wish i could answer that. >> host: you never asked? >> guest: never asked. >> host: it does seem like a contradiction in retrospect. >> guest: on his christmas vacation president obama was reading a biography of ronald reagan. >> host: a white book. he chose wisely. >> guest: there you go. what do you think he just that book? what do you hope he lands from it going forward to back. >> guest: interesting because you get to the archives, more democrats in the study of ronald reagan and republicans. republicans "him, but democrats study have. if you listen to barack obama speeches and bill clinton speeches you hear a lot of reagan asked terms. you say, gosh, it would be nice if the republicans could pick those up. it is not stupid to pick up a book, probably the best biographer. he can the full spectrum. he started over

the fact is that as a young officer during world war ii black america purchased the firebombing of tokyo. it seems to me he will still emotionally unable to see asians as fully human. so it is understandable for me that andrew jackson and the georgians of the era could not acknowledge the impressive credentials, impressive achievements of the georgia cherokee nation. they were still man who they regarded as their enemy. after world war two, you remember the nuremberg trials in bavaria. it was our attempt to mitigate german collective kilts. the trials were intended to establish which individual nazis had been responsible for those unspeakable crimes. but post war literature out of germany and much of it written by writers far too young to have been blessed suggests that a collective standard of guilt can be hard to shake off. i've come to wonder whether we might not even feel guilty you're about in justices that occurred in our lifetime. again, from 1945 rehab this example. reading the newspaper, on august 6th of that year and do something fundamental had changed in the world when americ

one group was the abandoned, non-middle class black america. and then the other groups were, you know, i did think that the existence of a small but very powerful elite was something new. and so i call that the transcend cant group. and then i needed a category to deal with, with other groups that didn't fit the other categories like immigrants, for example, from the caribbean and africa and also biracial americans. and i thought that they would kind of fit into an umbrella group i called the emergents. so that's how i got to four. >> i notice that you put new immigrants and biracial people together, and you were comfortable with that, grouping them under the same umbrella? >> well, i was mostly comfortable with that. it was not precise, and it didn't make for as clean a category as the other categories. however, i thought the similarities were, this concept of emergent groups that were becoming more prominent that kind of hadn't been around in larger numbers before or at least acknowledged in those numbers before and that i thought were going

freedom, so we have martin luther king and ronald reagan freeing the white man, the whole thing with black america. and ronald reagan is thinking about freeing those people behind an iron curtain. >> host: why then did your father not support the civil rights act? >> guest: you know, i really wish i could the answer that. the civil rights act had the time in the 1950's the republican party was the one that really forced that to ultimately be passed. because i wish i could answer that for you. >> host: you never asked? >> guest: i never asked. >> host: that's interesting. it's interesting like a contradiction in retrospect. one of the interesting things that has come out on his christmas day vacation president obama was reading a biography of ronald reagan luke cannon comer role of a lifetime. >> guest: he chose wisely. >> host: there you go. why do you think he chose that book and what do you hope he learns from it going forward? >> guest: it's interesting you find as you go through the archives of the reagan library there is more democrats studying ronald reagan than the republicans. republicans

have martin luther king and ronald reagan, one freeing the white man and the whole thing with black america. ronald reagan thinking about freeing the people behind the iron curtain. >> host: why then did your father do not support the sofa rights act? >> guest: you know i really wish i could answer that. i really don't know but the civil rights act at the time in the 1960s, the republican party was the one who really force that ultimately the past. i wish i could answer that for you. >> host: you never asked him? >> guest: never asked. >> host: that is interesting but it does seem like a contradiction to you in that respect. one of the interesting things that have come out on his christmas vacation president obama was reading a biography of ronald reagan by lou cannot and you make the point -- guest go he chose wisely. >> host: there you go. why do you think he chose that book and what do you hope he learns from it going forward? >> guest: you notice interesting and you find at issue go through the archives of the reagan library there are are more democrats starting reg and then republicans

freedom, so we have martin luther king and ronald reagan, one free white man the whole thing with black america. ronald reagan thinking about freeing the people behind the curtain. >> host: wife and did your father not support the civil rights act? >> guest: you know, the civil rights act of the time in the 1950's the republican party was the one who really forced that to be passed. >> host: that's right. >> guest: i wish i could answer that for you. >> host: you never asked? >> guest: the fer asked. >> host: it's interesting. the contradiction. one of the interesting things that has come out is on his christmas vacation president obama was reading a biography of ronald reagan, and -- role of a lifetime. >> guest: she chose wisely. >> host: will there you go. why didn't he chose that book and what do you hope he learns from it going forward? >> guest: it's interesting you find out as you go through the archives of the reagan library there is more democrats that studied ronald reagan than republicans. republicans called him, but democrats after we study him. if you listen to barack obama's speec

according to the target market news report the buying profile, the buying power of black america released two weeks ago, african-americans spent $9.4 billion on cellular phones and service in 2009 which was an increase of 30% from 2008. with respect to current spectrum policy, mtc has three specific recommendations that will help close the digital divide facing minorities as producers and consumers. first, we would like low power television stagtss to be aloud to participate in dtv intentive auctions. the bill is flowing around congress and ambiguous whether they would be. a handful of full power ssks tagss are minority owned anymore. 15% of low powers are minority owned. these are experienced entrepreneurs who produce compelling content that will be very useful in driving minority broadband adoption. second, we have asked the commission to authorize am radio stations to migrate to analog television channels 5 and 6 and be transformed into fm stations. fm sound you hear if you tune that way. two-thirds of minority owned radio stations are ams and most minority owned am stations are burden

it is black history one and aol's black voices is celebrating with stories on america's black inventors. >> these are things that took time and energy for people to develop and some of those persons developed those things and were african-americans. >> reporter: some were just for fun, like the super-soaker that lonny johnson stumbled on to while conducting a more serious experiment. kris clackum, nbc news. >> interesting stuff there. >>> 4:56. coming up, stanford university may expand their borders. we'll tell you why the school could soon go coast to coast. "today in the bay" begins right after the break. and here's a live look outside this morning as we are keeping tabs on your friday and weekend forecast. hopefully not as rough as it was yesterday, but we'll have details in a few more minutes. 3q a wipe is a wipe unless it's also a scrub. lysol complete clean dual action wipes have 2 sides that go beyond ordinary wipes. you can feel the difference. one side for everyday touchups. and one to scrub tough messes. all while killing 99.9% of germs. for tips on a healthy home visit lysol.

black in america, came out with spike, talks about how the media increases the amount of the information regarding blacks, including the negative violence, homicides, and that attributes to the stereotype which americans create revolving blacks. and he says it's an insane amount, like 70% of the information you see in the news is entirely negative for blacks. can you talk about that? what are your thoughts about that? >> well, i don't have the precise figure. there have been many, many studies on this that blacks are routinely portrayed as criminals or entertainers, or somehow engaged in topology. i think that has been found to be true year after year. i'm happy to say that this year with barack obama's presidency and his election, we will automatically see more positive portrayals of african-american males. that's a biggie. you know, to see every day an african-american in a positive way is something that is still new and different. and i think it's new for all americans, black and white here every year i teach a class called, i like to call it so-called minorities in the media because

our guest once described rap as "america's black radio station." if that's the case, we're joined today by the program director of an entire movement. please welcome the founder of public enemy, chuck d. [applause] you're a man of opinions. what i didn't know until reading a bit more about you was that your folks were both activists, that you grew up in a household of opinions. did that shape the way you look at the world? yup, 'cause my parents kind of, like, raised me to be independent and have independent thoughts, not so much as follow my peers, and to challenge information. so, i mean, to be an activist just means that they were conscious of certain facts that were circulating. and in the '60s, they were in their 20s, late 20s, so that was a time where you had a conscious movement where people were actually looking into themselves, finding out about themselves, and trying to do something to better themselves. and my parents encouraged me to do so myself. i understand that a kind of a pivotal point in your own career path was listening to dick

but they rewrote it little by little by little that by 1900 black people in america had no writes, they couldn't vote, we had complete segregation which was against the amendments. now, if this is not a political action, i don't know what is. tavis: but how do you explain to folk, certainly young folk who are taught every day in civics class, in history class, that the supreme court is an apolitical body? >> it's very difficult because everywhere you read, the two political branches of government, the executive and the legislative, as if the court is somehow different. but i would say, look at key decisions, how many times does a justice render a decision that goes against his ideology? bush versus gore, five conservative justices vote for bush, four liberal justices vote for gore and i don't distinguish between conservative and liberal justices. i think that people bring their own particular point of view to the law and it isn't necessarily that they're cynical. this is how they see things. but politics in a democracy is people seeing things in different ways, getting together, and com

. >> reporter: the history of jews and blacks in america have not always been harmonious but there isabout. ♪[ music ] >> reporter: san francisco's own johnny mathis is back home to sing the praises of an exhibit at the contemporary jewish museum called black sabbath. >> the music was all around me growing up in san francisco. synagogues all over the place. catholic churches. lots of baptist, methodist churches. and i went to all of them. ♪[ music ] >> reporter: more than 50 years ago he recorded a prayer for jews on the holiest day of the year. >> we found a single of johnny mathis from the 1950s and were completely blown away by it and that started a conversation about what is this cross culturallization that's happening. >> reporter: they looked harder and found a lot more examples which today make up the black sabbath exhibit set in a space meant to feel like a nightclub from that era. ♪[ music ] >> reporter: this is one thing, but you haven't lived until you've heard the temptations doing fiddler on the roof. ♪[ music ] >> reporter: or when ertha sings this song. nothing like i h

america. >> the black panther party doesn't attack anyone but we will use self-defense in the event that it's necessary. >> they sent a clear message. they would not hesitate to use violence if they found it necessary in their fight for freedom and equality. and in 1967 to reinforce that they executed a bold demonstration in the very halls of power. with an armed march to the assembly chamber in the state capitol building. >> i have these black panthers up here with guns on the second floor. >> velda davis covered that story for kpix. >> we didn't have a camera there that day. we didn't have any idea they were going to show up. we had to play catch up on that story. so they told -- i guess people who they felt would not betray the surprise of it. >> you place me under arrest? are you putting me under arrest. >> the conflict was at times violent. in april 1968 a 90 minute shoot out would leave the first recruit and party treasurer, 17- year-old bobby hunton dead. police said he was armed, the panthers said he was stripped to his underwear to prove he wasn't and officers murdered him. >> we wer

being in older black america, i understand how those people feel, but i also know that this country hasall of those countries in order to get what they want. and then these students who we have educated over here go back and these younger people take back, because they are much smarter and much more educated than our kids are in the united states. and that i can back and they will their parents and their younger siblings what has happened in this country and how bhacks got in the street and whose heads were beaten and water hose were put on them. and nobody said anything not any other country. not france, not israel or anybody. host: let's hear from our guest. guest: well, i think the analogy of the civil rights moment is an interesting one and rimets us in a way that this is a universal people. people who and try to insist on get a fairer share of whatevers the they may be looking for. political space. economic rights, ability to participate in public space. so i think the analogy is an interesting one and certainly the shiah in bahrain might feel a strong some darity with the civil ri

according to the target market news report the buying profile, the buying power of black america released two weeks ago, african-americans spent $9.4 billion on cellular phones and service in 2009 which was an increase of 30% from 2008. with respect to current spectrum policy, mtc has three specific recommendations that will help close the digital divide facing minorities as producers and consumers. first, we would like low power television stagtss to be aloud to participate in dtv intentive auctions. the bill is flowing around congress and ambiguous whether they would be. a handful of full power ssks tagss are minority owned anymore. 15% of low powers are minority owned. these are experienced entrepreneurs who produce compelling content that will be very useful in driving minority broadband adoption. second, we have asked the commission to authorize am radio stations to migrate to analog television channels 5 and 6 and be transformed into fm stations. fm sound you hear if you tune that way. two-thirds of minority owned radio stations are ams and most minority owned am stations are burden

black community. a stunning report from august says america's education system is failing boys in the community.er than half graduate from school of african-american males. 78% of the white counterparts graduated from high school. cecilia vega takes a closer look at the report and filed this report back in august about why so bay area educators are not surprised by the results. >> there is a crisis in the classroom. >> there is a crisis in oakland schools, the graduation wait for black students is just shy of 50%. for other races it's 70%. why black students in this largely african-american city is not graduating is one of the problems principals are solutio. they now have a goal. >> we're saying in the next four years, we have to double the graduation rate for african-american males. >> a new study found that oakland is hardly alone. schools around the country are failing black males. nationally the graduation rate for black high school boys is just 47%. in california the numbers are only slightly better. a 54% graduation rate for african-american males. 78% for whites. males in new york and ph

in 1971 he founded the black america west museum, the only one of its kind dedicated to telling the storiesoys, men like bill pickett and deadwood dick. >> the slaves broke the horses, so who would be better than a man born into it? >> reporter: while stewart shares oral history, the hanes family teach people things like calf roping. i got it! and barrel racing. >> ladies and gentlemen, we have mara schiavocampo from new york. >> all right, walmart. let's do it. >> for the championship and $10,000. ♪ >> you're a cowgirl now! >> reporter: just one family passing along often forgotten african-american traditions before riding off into the sun set. though the rodeo circuit is a way of life for many of the participants in the rodeo, most have day jobs. kanesha jackson told me she wants to compete professionally after graduating from college. >> mara schiavocampo may stick to her day job. >> for sure. >> a little more time at rodeo school for you. >> the outfit looked good. >> that's half the battle. >> to learn more about black cowboys and the american west head to thegrio.com. >> still ahead,

black radio was disco. and so, when you're in the ghetto, and you're listening to y.m.c.a. or i love america by patrick juvet on your black radio station, there's a disconnect, and what always happens when culture, you know, rises above the masses or rises to a different aspiration than what the masses have, then the masses create new, and whether it was, you know, from the jazz to blues to rock and roll or to rap music, it was that they had to create their own, and rap music was a return to funky-- even rock and roll, but funky beats-- and a return to artists who looked like and spoke to the needs and the minds of the people, and that's what t rappers were at that time. early on, you worked with kurtis blow. my first artist was kurtis blow. that's correct, and he made christmas rap in 1979, and i remember that when the record came out, it was successful in amsterdam, and he and i got on a plane-- and i had never been on a plane-- and went to amsterdam, and the record execs took us out and bought us drugs, and it was like-- it was the most amazing thing that ever happened to me. i was thrill

the black press helped establish a new extended community of african-americans all across the united states of america the black press expanded in the years prior to the civil war, as over 40 publications across the nation provided african-americans with viewpoints on issues such as emigration to africa, emancipation in the south of the united states, and, of course -- of course -- abolition and freedom. frederick douglas was one of the many who publish add black newspaper in which he, like many others, urged african-american men in the north to enlist in the union army. the post-civil war era saw a period of rapid growth for the black press. the first daily newspaper -- the new orleans tribune -- was published in 1864, and newspapers continued to open across the country, as african-americans migrated from the south. by the 1880's, it became evident that the growing african-american population need add newspaper. christopher j. per riy followed the void. he moved to philadelphia to start a newspaper because, "for my people to make progress, they must have a newspaper in which they can speak and speak

said you know, it is a question about why people writing about slate history or black people writing about the history of america he said that is not what it is about. these are our shared stories and whether white or black is important to share the stories and come to understand them so in the story even though i am white i can think of no greater role models than charles deslondes or a a kook or sublif. these men were heroes in it was really an inspiring story want to hear. >> i'm curious about how did you you -- the free people of color, the slaves who are a lot of them got along well with the people, the french and the spanish so what was the impact after the revolt on the people who were in the city? >> absolutely. in the city there was a free black militia which many of you might have known. after the revolt the government of new orleans operative accommodations to the free black militia for not participating in the revolt. would they have participated in the revolt had the slaves gotten closer? i don't know, but i severely doubt this free black militia would have fought on the side of the white planters.

know, it's not that there's a question about people writing about history or black people get to the the history of americahe said that's not what it's about. these are shared stories with their white or black it's important we share them and come to understand them so in this story even though i'm white i can think of know-how greater role model and these men were heroes and an inspiring story that i wanted to share. >> i'm curious about the impact of the people, the free people of color, this leaves a lot of them got a long while, the french, spanish, so what would the impact of the revolt of the people in the city? >> absolutely. so in the city there was a free black militia many of you may have known. after the revolt, the government of new orleans offered an accommodation for not participating in the revolt. within half participated had the sleeves gotten closer, i don't know. i sincerely doubt the militia would have fallen on the side of the white planters. as for the impact on the sleeves, the impact in the slave quarters, i think that history still survives today and i met earlier the rebels leaves

something% back are not, but i would say iraq obama's a real black, he's a black that blacks can be proud of. all america can be proud of. and attack it doesn't happen to agree with you and reverent and luther can't is the reason that he is seen by all kinds of americans, white, black, brown, yellow, red, as a leader. and would not be seen as such if he held those views. so i will have to fundamentally disagree that's a problem. thank you, everybody, for staying calm and thanks for coming. [applause] >> eric alterman is a columnist for the nation and the "daily beast." as well as in english and journalism professor at brooklyn college and cooney graduate school. he is the author of numerous books including "what liberal media?." >> here's a portion of one of our programs. >> in addition to a questionnaire that covered a wide variety of background items, the astronomers were asked to imagine the nation's history from 1966 to the end of the century. in other words, the year 2000. and so they were looking ahead or 34 years and imagining what they perceived or what they were viewing as what would happen to o

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when the cities of america went up in flames. and black people decided they were not going to talk to the white media. if the white media found black camera view crews they would talk to them. i was among those people want to be a reporter, here, so you can go cover this enormous story that white people are afraid to cover. so it wasn't affirmative action but it was a recognition that there were things that we could do that others could not do and that was a useful thing to have in the newsroom. i anchored the news on abc weekends for 15 years. which is a long run for anybody doing a newscast. and i still had colleagues other correspondents, white core respondents who felt -- correspondents who felt i had the job because i was a black female. i had the highest rated newscast of all of the networks. but yet these so-called friends of mine believed that i kept that job not because i might be 0 good at it and because i was getting good ratings but because i was a black woman. >> was it harder being an african-american or a woman in the newsro

but it's the black and the blue of the loving on the shoes, let alone a dime or water, america, you are always scotched earth in our mouth. always a rain of disaster of streams of our broken eyes. now the rags are the most turn. our pores the poorest that can be worn in the souls shop. now that all is lost and there is only nothing to lose. long live the courage and the poor. they begin to waiver. [applause]. >> vennetia. i was enranged at your body enettia. chicanery that cried out of an awfulor gast. slowly i found you should side streets where you practice a strolling stillness without any engine sounds and the skies turning on into color and then eternal magnificence of twilight, it accompanies your every move and theirs doubt about it, you are more adorable without the car wrapped around you, where you can be what you are. walking water. that gently laps. i have come to you this midnight and lane down in your black body with it's soft red blush and pulled the starkly blue cover over a cheek or moon blushing through the midst. and the final for me. juna. that's juna bomb. that she l

black history mo kick off at city hall. coming up is a presentation. kinzie collection that collection depicts 400 years of african-americans in america. i know we'll have a more rebust presentation and how we can involve our school children in that. thank you. >> i wanted to briefly -- because it is 1:a. i'm going to make available, i have a hard copy of the review of waiting for superman which is wonderful. she was one of the speakers there. mainly this is the thing i want to say. preparing some of the extraordinary background term. we need to have a legislative platform. proposals and a lot of talk there are principles in that that i don't think will agree with. we started to prepare those principals probably flew the rules policy that would be my recommendation. we have the opening for the representative to the elections commission. if anyone is interested in applying for this sent your information to 555 franklin street room 106, san francisco 94102. email your information to ecafcoe at sfusd call 2 # 1-6493. lsz information about the elections commission on the sfgov website. we'll be taking application until february 16th. i wan

america. it is not less pertinent for you because it comes from a black person just like a great achievement by an anglo american is less important. tavis: that's the answer i knew you were going to give. >> i get passionate about it. tavis: i know this. i wanted to make the pointer, and you made it clear that it is all of ours. at the risk of violating your personal confidence and our private conversation, i want to put this out there because i know it to be true and i really want you to open this up. juxtaposes nicely against your comment now that jazz belongs to all of us, and yet i know that it does, you tell me, hurt, sing, disappoint. you know where i'm going. where you look out in the audience across the country and don't see african-americans in significant numbers. tell me more. >> you know, it is painful. it is painful for all the -- before me. we talked about it. we could go on and on. i saw my father and them and the gigs they did. our people don't support the arts in general and it is painful. for me, as a person who is in the arts and as someone who understands the magnitude of ou

america needs?" and someone replied, "to treat black people better?" they said, "well, that too.rtantly, we definitely need a dog show. [ laughter ] [ applause ] we'll get to that. look how cute these dogs are though." ♪ thank you, the four dummy guys for identifying the subjects i want to learn about and then insulting me. [ light laughter ] ♪ thank you, person i'm waving to, because i thought they were waving hello to me but really he was waving to someone behind me. [ laughter ] that's cool. i got it covered. i'll just pretend i was waving at someone behind you. [ laughter and applause ] ♪ ♪ thank you, magazine racks. [ music stops ] [ laughter ] ♪ thank you contestants on "the bachelor" who miraculously fall in love while going on dates in exotic places. you want to know if your love is real? see how you feel about a mall in delaware. [ laughter ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, subway, for claiming that you have exclusive rights to the term "footlong." [ laughter ] damn, if no one else can use the term "footlong," what am i supposed to call my -- [ cheers and applause ] -- my sandwic

black man president of the united states. we can put racism behind us. and mainstream america has put racism behind it. and that is a good thing. and so that's where i stand, and as far as this ongoing rant of yours about racism, i'd say that the first person that raises the question of racism in a conversation is often the person who's a racist. >> host: long meadow, massachusetts. frank, you're on with our "in depth" guest on tv as we talk about books and ideas. please go ahead. >> caller: my issue is the debt. for the last 35 years we've collectively spent -- regardless of who was in power -- we have collectively spent $15 trillion and promised our full faith and credit to pay back that bill. my question then is, if we could implement a 2% tax on each seller and a 2% tax on each buyer of any credit product, for example, our last walmart purchase in south africa would have given south africa 2% and would have given the united states 2% from the buyer and, in effect, would have solved the whole world's debt. why don't we simply tax? taxed enough already is not adequate because it is not honorable. >>

and what follows is a trip into a diplomatic black hole where all that stands in the way of a reunion is the government of one of america's closest allies. here now is abbie boudreau for this "nightline" investigates. >> reporter: in a country half a world air way, we went in search of these missing american children. some as young as 3 years old. all of them taken by japanese mothers from american fathers. and now living in japan. how many of you had your children taken from you and now they are somewhere in japan? there are currently 140 american children there, cut off from contact with an american parent. >> i haven't heard my kid's voice in a year and a half. >> it's a black hole for child abduction. no child is ever returned. >> reporter: paul hasn't had contact with his daughter since she was 9 months old. she's about to celebration her ninth birthday. we went to japan, armed with photos. missing posters. and last known addresses. we found some children hidden in plain sight. like commander toland's daughter. erika was a little baby when she was taken off a u.s. military base in japan by her mother. years after she

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tell me what is in this bill that would help children growing up, poor people, in rural america. black, white, latino, asian americans, who are growing up and happen to be poured. the family cannot afford a doctor. do you think this is a major step toward providing health care to all of our people, and especially young people? >> yes. high-quality health care begins with health care. this bill ensures the old and young, millions of people, that they can get access to the care that can be made great for them. this -- if this bill goes away, people will wake up in the morning wondering whether they are going to lose their health care coverage or be able to get it. we are talking about a bill that has a guaranteed issue of insurance with children despite pre-existing conditions. a kid who has asthma cannot be denied access to health care insurance as a result of this bill. if you take this away, you heard that child. >> thank you very much, dr.. >> cindy for testifying today. to switch gears a bit -- thank you for testifying today. it was interesting to hear the president in his state of

america. he said that's not what it abood. these are shared stories and whether white or black it's important we share those stories to come to understand them. so when the story, even though i might, i can think of no greater role models and charles deslondes and it's an inspiring story and wanted to share. >> i'm curious about how the revolts impacted people in new orleans. the three people of color, the slaves to a lot of them got along pretty well at the people here, french, spanish. over the impacts after the revolts of the people in the city? >> absently, he was a free black militia as you might have known. after the revolt the government took new orleans, offered accommodation to the free black militia for not participating in the revolt. would be a participate of the slaves gotten closer? i don't know. but a severely date the free black militia would've gone on the side of the way planters. as to the impacts on the slaves -- you know, the slave quarters, i think that oral history still survives. and i met earlier today with some descendent of the rebel slaves who have kept the stories live. if you think the stories of

black 1994 four-door chrysler. license plate. >>> in egypt today thousands of protestors are continuing their antidemonstrations. crowds in the square have been chanting down with america. they are disappointed despite president obama's tough comments last week. the u.s. has signed on to the idea of a gradual transition lead by egypts new vice president. the protestors don't like the vice president and they continue to insist that president mubarak step down immediately. >>> there are reports that a google executive whom disappeared more than a week ago in egypt will be released by egyptian authorities within the next two hours. why he had googling marketing efforts. he is one of the administrators of a facebook page that organized the antigovernment protest. his family hasn't heard from him since january 27th. initially the egyptian government would not acknowledge they arrested him. but yesterday a spokesperson said he would be released by 4:00 that is 6:00 a.m. our time. >>> in iran it is day two of the trial of three uc berkeley graduates charged with spying. shane bower and josh fatal entered not guilty charges. >> you know it's really in the hands of i would say

then thinking about doing that, and he came back to america . and that's when we had this tremendous discussion, all the time. as a matter of fact, the black panthers threatened me many times. they caught me in an elevator at the palmer house in chicago and said, "we know that you are with martin luther king, but we want you to be on our side. and if you're not going to be on our side, when you come to harlem we will get you. " and of course . scared to death with these four beautiful strapping men, you know, pinning me up against the wall for the wrong reason. (laughter) ek: you don't say anything. (laughs) absolutely quiet. and when i came to harlem to do the apollo theater, they were there when i was doing speeches on behalf of martin luther king and trying to . they were ridiculing me, of course, and they threatened that they would get me again. but i stood my ground and walked from the seventh avenue theresa hotel to, all by myself, back to the apollo theater, as slowly as i could, doing the window shopping. and . no matter how many words they threw at me, i stood my grounds and no harm was done. q: this is a show largely about free e

blacks and whites can definitely learn something from this documentary. because it really shows how sports brings us together. especially here in americawonder boy" isaacs, "pop" gates and "tarzan" cooper, they played their home games here in harlem. today it's an abandoned building. but back in 1939, that was the renaissance casino and ball room and the harlem rens were the best in basketball. they won the world championship in '39 but the team folded in 1948 when they were denied admission to the newly formed national basketball association. today nearly 79% of the nba is african-american. millionaires in shorts. >> these young guys think they made $20 million a year because they can play. they were just born at the right time. >> reporter: perhaps the harlem rens were born before their time. they never made millions, but they made their mark. byron pitts, cbs news, new york. >> yes, they did. coming up a little bit later on "the early show," an update from libya on the anti-government protests, as moammar gadhafi vows to fight to the end. >>> also, cell phone safety. details on a new study that looked at how it might affect your bra

america had won its freedom. the ideals of the revolution were permanently enshrined in a national motto, "e pluribus unum" - "out of many, one." for some, that included blacksbondage and slavery is repugnant to the golden law of god and the inalienable right of mankind, as well as every principle of the late glorious revolution." (maryland plantation owner philip graham) narrator: southern political leaders disagreed, and in 1787 made their views known at philadelphia's constitutional convention. quote: "religion and humanity have nothing to do with this question. the true question at present is whether the southern states shall or shall not be parties to the union. if the northern states consult their interest, they will not oppose the increase of slaves, which will increase the commodities of which they will become the carriers." (constitutional convention delegate john rutledge) narrator: the argument prevailed. when "we the people of the united states," finally ratified the constitution, it promised to "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity," yet did nothing to eliminate slavery in the south. some black veterans were reclaimed b

americas. >> they were organizing around california. in san francisco the third world liberation front was formed to challenge education. the front was spearhead by the blacktudent union who lead a coalition of hispanic and native american and others they had 15 demands intending to change the focus and the power structure of san francisco state. these 15 demands had 3 themes. the right of third world students to an education. the formation of a school of ethnic studies. and the hiring of third world faculty. school administration gave little response. history professor john martinez and george mirror were disciplined the school student actions were disrupted this had an increased police presence on campus. inspired by malcomx's philosophy, by any means necessary they made the decision to strike on november 6. 1968. hundreds of students disrupted classes and marched to the office. by november eighth class attendance dropped by 50 percent. students had police violence and arrested. many leaders within the third world liberation front were arrested and jailed cut off from actions on campus. the pressure was affecting the administration. college president rob