but if you look at the 10-point program that the black panther party developed, you see this schools and health care and into the occupation of the police in black communities and all the other things are still very much on our agenda. the demand has never been fulfilled. they are still there. we still need food. we still need clothing. we still need schools. we still need an end to police occupation. we still need something done about the enormous number of people, especially black people, who are in prison today. >> i'm glad you said that when we come back, i want to talk to you about the prison crisis, and what your answers are for resolving it. stay right there, we'll be right back. >> at that time there were only a couple hundred thousand people behind bars. today there are more than 2 million. this is a room where an army vet put his life back together, where a family lived when they were displaced by a flood. but it's more than a room. it's a room at volunteers of america, and the pathway to stronger communities. because when lives are improved, communities are, too. to help st

out with a black panther.ago in this very chair sat at the white. i just -- sat bety white. i have the most delightful conversation with her, and i raise that because she was in dancing in age. you are still working. why are you -- she was advancing in age. you are still advancing in age. you are working. why are you working? is your brother working and? >> he cannot sing a note. we just did a play together. we sang for obama who last august at the ford theater in washington, and we sang for michelle and obama, and afterwards, he said, will you teach me those moves? i think he could do them, too. >> how cool was it for you and the guy to perform with the president? >> especially her, she said, you are my favorite television show, and he said, she never misses it. i had not had butterflies in years, but i looked out there, and my angelou and the supreme court. -- maya angelo and the supreme court. tavis: there are some stories about how you have severe stage fright, and at one point source in your mouth because

your father was a black panther. >> yes. >> stephen: do you bring any black panther fight the power mentality to your music or is this the way you live your life. >> i bring it to all parts of my life. i practice what i preach and i preach what i practice, so my music is no less an extension of my life and the things that i was taught and the way i was raised in chicago. >> stephen: you said chicago was an unbelievably racist place. >> it is very segregated city. >> stephen: i lived in chicago for years. i didn't notice any racism in old town or the gold coast. that was very nice up there. i didn't see any black people. (laughter) this album, lasers this was being held on to by atlantic records. >> correct. >> stephen: and 250 of your fans marched on atlantic records and demanded that it be released. >> yes. >> stephen: and then they did so. >> yes. >> stephen: is that because with today's music business if 250 people buy t it's the number one album? (laughter) (applause) >> well, actually, 200,000 kids can bought the first week and that made it the number one album. >> stephen: damn! congrat

the domestic terror groups, the earth underground and the -- the weather underground and the black panthers and also people like the reverend martin luther king jr. so one of the things that sort of comes out of this is this new set of guidelines of how to conduct surveillance on domestic groups. now, what's interesting is that the man who is in charge of setting that up at the department of justice is someone named alan cornbloom who ends up in the summer of 2001 still the person enforcing the rules that keep the fbi, the fbi agents in new york who are working al-qaeda from being told by the cia that there are al-qaeda operatives working within the united states. these two men, of course, end up being two of the 9/11 hijackers. but that this tension over how you create an environment where the fbi is not wrongly persecuting innocent americans who have not done things wrong ends up creating exactly the environment in the 1990s that leads the fbi, i think, to underprosecute and underpursue terrorism. >> host: massachusetts is up next. your question. sorry, let me -- i've got the wrong order.

>> i started as a lawyer working on the case but geronimo pratt, a black panther case. that ended up after 27 years to be proven. and we have learned that law enforcement' officers had good evidence or statutory evidence, let people commit perjury, said in the room and -- sat in the room to destroy evidence to convict someone who was innocent. and that is how i started my career as a lawyer. when i started that case, i began thinking this was a big conspiracy to frame this man. what i learned is -- and i discussed this with geronimo -- we are experiencing men and women who thought the end justified the means. they thought they had a bad man and it was ok to do anything necessary to convict him. as i look back on my career, present and future, i think we see that that is the concept that runs through police misconduct. i am sure there are officers who were just bad, let's say. i think officers see what they consider bad people, and they feel like they have to do what ever it takes to convict them. and i have seen it when i was a young lawyer, when we had narcotics teams,

i grew up with the black panthers doing peace and freedom benefits for them.o on the one hand i like the softness of spirituel the day, but i also like the energy that you need to be a warrior where you need to be. i love martin luther king, but also malcolm x, sometimes you have to really hold your ground. compassion, kindness, education. rather than more killing. >> when you graduated in 1965, it was the height of the civil- rights movement. you just alluded to the environment that you were growing up in. as a young musician, what was it like for you in san francisco at the time? >> it was heaven on earth. we would go down to the fillmore and see these great band, the doors, and jimi hendrix, cream, and then go down to the grove to see other music. you could go to the mission district to hear mexican. everywhere i went there was this multi dimensional color and i felt like it was on necessary for me to do just one. like baskin-robbins, i want all the flavors. you cannot just be a mexican play music. there is a lot of beauty in that, but it was not for me. i

the weather underground the black panther party, the watergate chaos, the fbi, a black day jobs of palestinians offices across the country. you have the pow hostages coming home from vietnam. this was a troubled time in america and it is easy to look back at these cases to say why wasn't this solved then? the original fbi agent told me that to we have so many leads on so many different cases that we have zero ability to do all lot on any of them to do that well. they were not prepared to do this kind of case but anybody who was a student of terrorism that current events resonate today what is going on in the middle east with the top look of 1973 because there is not a lot of changes in that time period and israel is doing the best that it can to protect themselves during that time period. >> tell us about the background and why he was interesting and worth killing from certain bad people? who was he? colonel alon was a child of the holocaust. his family was killed by the nazis and he had fled czechoslovakia to israel. i fade when you look back over a man like an ad and think about that. as a st

bars twenty nine of them in solitary after prison officials discovered he was a member of the black panthers and he says pinned a murder charge on him not to murder through the course we're talking about. right. now cleared thank you to the advocates against the use of solitary confinement. but innocent or guilty the conditions are harsh many say even cruel and inhumane and often result in permanent psychological damage self mutilation and even suicide told us why mendez the u.n. special rough a tour on torture slams the widespread use of solitary confinement for long periods of time it's not the same to somebody and. so you can find him for one day and to put him or her there for months it's common for those placed in solitary to be there for twenty three hours a day. last two decades the number of supermax prisons in this country has grown to more than fifty david fati director of the a.c.l.u.'s national prison project says the boom was not a result of higher crime what happened in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. was there was really a wave of hysteria about super predators and predicti

there are key well i think the only reason that this common thing and his visit to cuba and this black panther story is being covered is because they can use this incident the impulse of a scary black man coming to the white house to hang out with another black man and they're clearly taking over they're just trying to scare people and it's straight racism and that's the bottom line for me it's the thing with newt gingrich saying that he's the most successful food stamp president but it's not a coincidence that most people use food stamps are single black mothers i don't know if i would go as far as racism but i do think it shows that fox is pretty inconsistent on the culture war thing and that makes me really uncomfortable i would rather not have the president hosting events like this so i would rather have been focusing on the economy and not on letting go is really how we're treating it's kind of guys come on to bring some culture to the white house and the first lady actually you're right the first lady was the one who was doing it not the president he is busy with plenty of others to mich

second amendment you may refuse to prosecute the crimes of the bush administration you can let the black panthers violate civil rights you may dispense of the constitution you swore an oath to in your own heart but you are not entitled to your own facts and the officer that you see here pushing the camera away might not look particularly fit or intelligent or deserving of your unflinching obedience but thanks to attorney general holder and the supreme court we have given law enforcement officers legal privileges only suitable for the baptist country we have become this man who knocked down your door because he heard a flush beat you with an interest of your life for resisting steal from you in the name of collecting evidence even rape you are a family member and there is usually at least no legal recourse this is the measure of failure of our system of justice because the very mechanisms intended to protect our lives and liberties have become the greatest threat to them and we've heard mr holder. i did catch you off guard what he really meant to say i think was mr progress the drug wars purpose i

and they cite a report in which we interviewed a league zusha gaza national chairman of the new black panther party so using a gas as an example of what they call you know fringe coverage and moving along to the next slide we have jonathan sanders now he is a c.b.s. former c.b.s. correspondent he says if the names of american guests on our tier are unfamiliar to many americans there is a reason see it jonathan their guests are people on the fringes of respectability and cranks. all right now that was a global media war as some columbia journalism students kind of clubby a university journalism students did that project and then they were interviewed on n.p.r. and had many of the same criticisms but back to the matter so yes we are friends we have friends gas that you are never going to see anywhere else mainstream respectable news stations would never be interested and any of our own respectable extreme gas it's ok you know what let's take a look at some of these fringe and respectable extruding miscasts that we regularly have on the show called tape. to get immediate feedback. or think at th

reporting featured an interview with the league zulu shabazz the national chairman of the new black panther party and moving on to some other criticism next slide please according to a former c.b.s. correspondent he said if the names of american guests on r.t.e. are unfamiliar to many americans there is a reason let's see it. guys their guests are people on the fringes of respectability and cranks now that was coming in a actually a report that some columbia university journalism school students did which then they were interviewed by n.p.r. and kind of continued to say things to that effect but back to the matter. yes you got it we're so friends we are so fringe but you're never going to see any of our guests faces anywhere else because mainstream respectable news stations would never be interested in any of our own respectable extreme guests you know what let's take a look at some of these fringe and respectable extremists guess that we regularly have on the show all the state. to get immediate feedback. i think at this point we're all trying to scramble to part all the facts. yes we are

and a long relationship from the beginning black panthers party until then. my husband and i were born in the same town. our fathers knew each other. and so i had friends who helped them in the early days to become what they eventually became, internationally famous. but for some of the wrong reasons. i keep going further but i'll stop. and if you have questions, i'd be happy to take them. do you see -- do you see a change in that or do you think that it will have to go back to the way it was where black people will have to find her is to get information that represents their community? >> well, or in a business ready industry. the business of journalism has changed radically. we are still trying to figure out what the formula is for the future. we know that technology is the greatest killer of jobs in terms of reporters that is out there. we have not -- i worked very closely with the television union and the american federation of television are to stand in the years i was the eeo chair fighting for more employment. it is difficult when you are in an environ

among the animal were two panthers, a black bear, two leopards, one monkey and a marmacet.re drugged but alive. the suspect is charged with possessing and smuggling endangered animals. years old today. it long ago became -- i don't know how this videotape wound up in our control room. we mean the other "situation room." >> brian williams of nbc was referring to the white house situation room. this photo of president obama and his top staffers watching the assault on osama bin laden's compound. maybe the most iconic picture in its five decades of operation. the situation room was established by john f. kennedy. brian williams apologized to wolf blitzer for the supposed error. but it appears the whole thing was an inside joke. wolf told us that brian is an old friend. they covered the clinton white house together and he did it on purpose. wolf thanked brian williams for plugging his situation room. >> i was at the white house with wolf and brian in those days, and brian is a very funny guy and they're good friends and wolf is not at all upset. do you think? >> no, i don't thi

the -- what degree of interaction was there between the chicano students and black students back in the day? >> >> the panthers were very helpful to us. the walkouts included the dorsey/washington. in fact, i would go over, see, the tactics in the black community, the kids, they wanted to sit-in. they liked the sit-in idea, they didn't want to walk out. [laughter] we wanted them, also, to be out there in the streets with us. so i'd go every day, every evening about 2:00 in the morning and open all the gates, steal the locks and then leave. you see, the problem with l.a. city schools is there was one key for every lock. [laughter] it was a cheat key, those of you are retired or with me during these periods, it was a c key. so i kept taking locks. i'd go that same night, they'd have new locks. every day they're putting new locks in there. i think they had a run on locks. but the kid, they decided to stay in. but the panthers were extremely helpful to us. there were coalitions and, also, they helped open channels for the kids to walk through safely so there wouldn't be any problems. oh, yes. it was a beautiful th

two leopards, a panther, black bear, and a monkey for good measure. all live animals. passenger faces just a long laundry list of smuggling charges. the worst part here is that investigators say that he has probably done this before. look at that cute little guy. and probably got away with it. >>> we turn to california where three people have been arrested in connection with several robberies and a murder of an mtv producer who was shot in the back of the head. investigators say they linked the crimes from similar descriptions of the robber and the shotguns that were used. >>> also, the smoke detector in your house, you need it to protect you and keep your safe. the fire department in atlanta recalling more than 18,000 smoke detectors after they were found to be counterfeit. the fbi is investigating the people who sold those devices, thanks to a local news investigation by wcgl. >>> also, to south carolina, a man was arrested for spitting in the face of an officer. but look at the mug shot, folks. you notice anything here? probably. what is that on his forehead? that's

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