we used to get picked up by the black mariah, which was a big van with the police in it. and they would stop us, they would search us and it was really uncomfortable. you know, it was your civil rights were being taken away from you. it was a very heavy period. but she didn't care. she thought she had a duty to do. she felt she needed to really help the community and help the youngsters that were having issues and problems. they needed someone at the time, you know? all those members of the police were all men, i was the only woman. and i thought i'd help, but some of the police officers didn't like the idea. i was called out and i went and when i got there he said to me, "the detective doesn't want you." and i turned my back. i came home. then the phone rang. it was the detective. he told me he's been waiting on me. i said, "but i was there and your sergeant said that, um, that you didn't need me." he said, "how could he say so? i never told him i didn't need you." right, so... ..so he said to me, "i have the little boy here. i need you to be here." if i had not attended

he had specifically to boston to build on the foundation that had been laid by black abolitionists like walker and mariah stewart and the paul family. there was a sort of thriving of black abolitionists who at the african meeting house, which is right behind the state house. and so garrison moved here essentially with idea to start a newspaper that he would call the liberator and to try to convert white bostonians to abolitionism. it's so important for us to remember that to be an abolition honest at that point in history was to be a radical and most white were very comfortable with the existence of slavery many who opposed it for various reasons still not think it should be abolished. they maybe thought it should end grabbed julie or maybe there should be time limits on it or maybe only certain kinds of people should be enslaved. but there wasn't. there are very few people who thought that it should meant immediately and without compensation to so can imagine. people would say that's just not going to work. the economy will collapse, what is going to happen to two or 3 million people who've been enslave

black. it came together well. >> you know me and deebo. rate minds think alike. >> with the red and gold report, i'm vern glenn. >>> mariah carey's all i want for christmas is you is in the number two slot on the billboard hot 100 charts. we will tell you what song knocked it off the top spot. >>> you can watch us anytime, anywhere on our streaming service, cbs news bay area. catch all of >>> coming up tonight, fbi director christopher wray warrants security threats to the united states are at a whole other level since hamas' october 7 attack. what you need to know about the elevated risk and how the director answered one member of congress who compared the warning signs to 9/11. those headlines and more on the cbs evening news. >>> a christmas classic is taking over the charts. >> ♪ >> who doesn't love brenda lee 's rockin' around the christmas tree? it is in the number one spot on the billboard hot 100 chart for the first time, believe it or not. billboard says the song has nearly 35 million streams and 21 million radio plays so far this year. it was recorded back in 1958 . mariah is fine. she has dominated the charts. all i want for chri

wrote a whole book about, it shine bright, for a black woman in music to receive the credits that she is due. i don't care if she is beyoncÉ, john jackson, mariahha franklin, it doesn't matter. it doesn't matter what accolades they are experiencing, what riches or fame they are experiencing, it is not what they're do. for the amount of work ingenious that they have going on in their creative lives. so why? maybe we can just look at the history of american pop culture for those reasons. black women, black people, when we do, it it's considered to be, i don't, know just normal. something we were born. with something we're able to do. something that is not that difficult for us to achieve. we're supposed to be the singing and the dancing of the -- am i right? and i think that's one of the things that so important about her film, renaissance. it is a demonstration of the work that is put in, the physical and mental, and creative labor that goes into a project like renaissance. she says in the film, it took four years to put this show together. and she is at the head of all of that creatively, behind the scenes, and then still has to get in 70 milli