let's talk about the al album "black america again." ow. you're an artist. it's always a precarious decision to make. do you get involved in a conversation around race and politics and you've clearly decided, yes. why now. >> we know it's critical times right now. >> trevor: yeah. >> and i think, you know, the artist can deliver a lot of motivation and that's really what i chose to do because i feel like it's my duty. i have a microphone. i have on outlet to speak to multitudes of people. so i have to use this music for that. >> trevor: yeah, you have powerful songs on this album. comes out at midnight. i'm waiting to get the album after midnight. but i've gotten to listen to some of the snippets and you have powerful songs speaking about everything going on, the shootings, police violence in chicago, in and around what we're seeing, even, you know, really calling out donald trump for what he's doing. >> yeah. >> trevor: when you're writing those songs, when you are thinking of that, what are you hoping you achieve? >> i'm hoping i activ

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black children and their childhood, robbed of our names >> "black america again" tell me about the title. the word "again." >> it's there because of the repetition of ooppression, and really just not valuing black life. so when you see what happens with a terence crutcher, or sandra bland, or trayvon martin, those things have happened throughout the years. black america again, again. again really ends off with, how do we write a new story? a new narrative? >> was there ever a point where somebody came to you manager, agent, somebody and said, hey, common, maybe if you went a little more commercial with it, you could sell more records? maybe if you didn't dive so deep and so strong into social issues your career might be bigger than it is? >> yeah, around '96, the label said we i was thinking how do i do this and keep it organic? i wrote a song about chicago, i wrote it from my heart, but it didn't turn out as great as i wanted it too. at the same time busta rhymes had dropped "put your hands where i can see" and i thought that's music, that's a hip-hop song. i hear the purity in that mus

this has been happening in black and brown communities for all of america's history. rown families have always known the police could go sideways. but we as a nation have refused to believe black and blown bloun people when they tell us these things. what cell phones cameras have done is expose our unwillingness to believe black people when they say, "hey, sometimes the cops aren't so nice to us. sometimes they kill us, and we shouldn't be killed." we see video after video, stories after stories, there is some where there is a gray area, and others where a guy is clearly getting shot in the back. before cell phone camera videos no one believed those things happened. every dead black guy must deserve it, they would say. >> trevor: what's interesting about this book is you've taken a slightly different approach to strict journalism, and that is you have involved yourself, which is really personalized the stories, not just of the victims but of you being in this role. because when you went out to ferguson, i don't think even you anticipated, from what i read in the book,

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his recent piece is headlined, "black america and the passing of fidel castro." kornbluh is the director of the cuba documentation project at the national security archive. he is the co-author with william leogrande of "back channel to cuba: the hidden history of negotiations between washington and hahavana." and joining us via democracy now video stream is lou perez, j jr, professor of history at the university of north carolina at chapel hill. he is the author of several books including, "cuba in the american imagination: metaphor and the imperial ethos" and "cuba: between reform and revolution." welcome you all to democracy now! peter kornbluh, let's begin with you. your reaction to the death of fidel castro. >> well, the world has lost one of the most famous leading and dynamic and dramatic revolutionaries who ever lived. he is going to have a very controversial legacy, but it is indisputable that he took a small caribbean island and transformed it into a major actor on the world stage -- far beyond its geographic size. he stood up to the united states. he be

almost every arena. >> brown: so that astonishing rise of a culture and political presence of blacks in americatant has it been to overall progress? >> oh, it was crucial, and it's a result of affirmative action. when i went to yale, i entered yale in 1969. 96 black kids entered that year as opposed to six in 1966. what, was there a genetic blip in the race that all of a sudden there are smart black people that never existed before? we were the affirmative action generation. we were there and part of the element that integrated white institutions in the power structure which is what we were supposed to do. but what happened, lonnie, my friend at harvard used to say affirmative action is a classes cay later. so we were on the classes cay later going up the socioeconomic scale in the united states and somebody hit the off switch. all those who weren't on the escalator were left behind. we have a huge class gap within the race. part of the reason i did this series was to remind those of us who benefited from affirmative action and who have done so well over the last 50 years, that there is still a

well, that's exactly what this panel will do, black in america. we will sit down, and today is an important day within the black community because on today, april 16, 1862, if i'm not mistaken, we looked at the emancipation of washington d.c. with us. we have doctor ibram kendi from the university of florida, author of the book stamped trump in the beginning. it is a definition of the history of the racist ideas in america and this is a booklet spent a great deal of time researching. a book that chronicles the entire story of the anti-black racist ideas and their power over the course of american history. ibram kendi has done this through a number of ways, he uses the life of five major americans, intellectuals throughout the time period of history, the first with the puritan minister who sits down and talks about that and how he looked at some of his ideas. the next individual, thomas jefferson, talk about him and his family upbringing and the thought he had in framing the constitution. we sit down and look at the abolitionist who was strong in ma

"black america again" is available now. to hear more of my conversation, including what to do about the epidemic with gun violence check out our web extras. >>> next week, anna kendrick, she kid, nominated for a tony at the age of 12, before moving on to movies like "pitch perfect." next week on "sunday today." >>> dylan is back with another look at the weather. >> it's not going to feel like november this week. we have warm temperatures expected almost all week long. at the get rainy in the pacific northwest. we'll see scattered showers and storms down south tomorrow into tuesday, all week across the going to see temperatures eventually start to cool down, especially across >>> and that's year latest forecast. >>> tropical storm brokaw joins >>> tropical storm brokaw joins us live. you totaled your brand new car. nobody's hurt, but there will still be pain. what are you supposed to do? drive three-quarters of a car? now if you had liberty mutual new car replacement?, you'd get your whole car back. i guess they don't want y

and a black america. we're not a collection of red states and blue states, we're the united states. he spouted this transformational promise that we could be so much better, right? i think that one of the reasons black lives matter and these activists become so mobilized during the obama years is because of the false promise of a black presidency. our friend and the writer jelani cobb says that we needed to have a black president to see the limitations of a -- >> there's a sort of mismatch of the reality on the ground and the iconography and symbolism of him in the office. >> so many are trying to tell the stories of many of them because i believe if you understand one person from ferguson, one person from charlotte, one person from charleston, you can understand everyone on the street. so many of them had voted for barack obama and canvassed for him and worked for his campaign and they believed in the system and working for the system. and then trayvon martin was killed and it had not gotten rid of the t

causes you and i having consumed these ideas to look out at america and see the disparity or see people enslaved were to see 2 billion black people in jail or to see hundreds of thousands of people coming over to america and viewed that as normal. that's the power that the ideas have had over the course of american history. and i try to chronicle that from the beginning that these ideas have been powerful enough to make us believe that inequities are non- cut that inequities are normal. and we will have more time to play to talk about that but i wanted to give a brief introduction to stamped from the beginning. >> it's very important to know that with these policies and throughout the history where are we today, what's going on in the community and how have these policies impacted us at the grassroots level and that's why we have professor watkins, living and dying while black in america, professor, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. so, doctor ibram kendi has done amazing research that these things into context and i think it goes well with this book because it actually breaks down how these things hit

not illegal or legal immigration black america loses 0.3% of their income. there has been a 700% increase in immigration since the 1970's. we have gone from $.67 against the white dollar to $.54 against the white dollar. tpp is another issue that impacts black america. president-elect trump opposes it. it is dead in the water. the united auto workers is on nafta.ing race, whichsing on is what the democrats want us to focus on. guest: that is a very astute comment. race is exactly this question. do you have a minority driven agenda or are you trying to lift all boats and just see it as an economic problem. absolutely, the argument can be made that illegal immigration has hurt working blacks. the argument can also be made that trade has hurt manufacturing industries where working blacks were employed. so, efforts to address these one could argue would naturally help black america. host: rod from toms river, new jersey. caller: good morning to your guests. to definition of insanity is impeach something that does not work and repeat it and expect different resul

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as the speech he talks we're not a black america, a white america, a hispanic america, in the election night speech, he said we're not a collection of blue states and red states, but we're a united states. he was incapable of bridging this gap. our politics are more divided if not more so. so many voters, so many people who projected onto president obama the hope for a different country for a different world, for a politics where outcomes and experiences would not be defined by race, then became remarkably frustrated when that prophesy was not coming true. that trayvon martin was still dead and we were having conversations about race and ethnicity in colleges and cultures and seeing diversity issues in our popular culture, and i'll never forget an activist looking at clair mccaskill, the senator from missouri during a town hall and she was encouraging the protests, encouraging activism, but she said, you know what you guys need to do register to vote and turn out, what we often hear how people should politically engage and i remember an activist saying, i voted for barack obama twice a

when we think about "say it loud, i'm black and i'm proud," we have to remember what a thinker brown was about how to dealing in segregated, racist, apartheid americames brown understood from the experience he had as a child. >> dark-skinned black people are especially hated in this culture. they are the true black peopled that were hated. >> james brown's impact on the cultural life of people my age is profound. there's a way in which the music he makes, i don't know if unmitigated blackness is the right way to frame it, but he's just black, like unashamed, direct, forthright, powerful, in your face black. >> sreenivasan: "black america since m.l.k.: and still i rise," tonight on most pbs stations 8:00 eastern, 7:00 central. >> sreenivasan: stay with us. coming up on the newshour: a couple's love that broke through all boundaries; and an outpouring of tributes to our colleague, gwen ifill. france has been commemorating the first anniversary of the paris attacks, where isis militants killed 130 people and wounded nearly 400. the attack, on friday the 13th last year, was the worst on french soil since the second world war. so how are the survivors c

donald trump campaigned in north carolina yesterday where he laid out his new deal for black america. when asked what black america was, he said, "haven't decided, but probably off the coast somewhere." [ laughter and applause ] [ audience ohs ] "i said i haven't decided. why are you groaning?" [ laughter ] yesterday was hillary clinton's 69th birthday, which means she probably spent today going through her facebook wall to a messages from friends and family. let's check it out. okay, ben posted, "happy birthday, hillary." janet posted, "you rock, hills." let's see who else wished her a happy birthday. let's see clinton aide huma abedin posted, "happy b-day. don't tell my husband about this website." [ laughter ] president barack obama posted, "party at my place, and don't try to move any of your stuff in this time." [ laughter and applause ] birthday shoulder rub coming their way!" [ laughter ] republican nominee donald trump posted, "if it's your birthday, the calendar is obviously rigged." [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] trump campaign manager, kellyanne conway posted, "happy

i am a white american if it was a black america i would have been dead i have been denied health care for preexisting condition i have been locked in prison for something that is no legal for a car was fired from my job because of the economy . i tried to be the best american i can possibly be and now i suffer from other conditions that i also have pooa the and poorly cared for in this country that we live in . go back 40 1/5 years ago when then and indians and black americans. >>host: anything we have three-point is there a larger picture we can draw from your book to try to experience. >>guest: of course, . i am sorry which sounds with the difficult set of circumstances that we canth empathize but what we have seen over the last eight years is so large protest movement born out of political frustration . rty ag but as they take the senate but the movement for black lives, very often rewind to set up the juxtaposition . but that type of sense? i do see some democratic duty and in many ways to interact with our government the ways that the country was founded . and what is surprising