tavis: booker t. is among the best. an accomplished musician, record producer, and songwriter, something of a child prodigy, he played the oboe, the saxophone, the trombone, the piano at school, an organ at church, and at only 17, he produced his first million-selling single, the iconic "green onions." over his long career he's worked with everybody from willie nelson to ray charles to neil young and dozens of others, and has produced dozens of his own albums, including earning individual grammys as well as a lifetime grammy achievement award. his new cd is out. it's called "sound the alarm." let's take a look at a clip. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ tavis: so i should start by asking, what are we sounding the alarm about? >> you're sounding the alarm because i'm hot. [laughter] i'm on fire. tavis: you're hot, but it was said so cool. you said it so cool. >> thank you, tavis. [laughter] tavis: this has got some wonderful collaborations on it. >> thank you. tavis: tell me about some of these collaborations, man. >> well, estelle from england,

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i want to thank my guests senator john mccain, diablo cody, booker t. featuring mayer hawthorne. next. have a great holiday weekend! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thank you, very much. [ applause ] oh. [ applause ] that's what i'm talking about, right there. welcome, everybody. that's a great new york city crowd. welcome to the show, everybody. this is "late night with jimmy fallon." you guys feeling good tonight? [ cheers and applause ] welcome, welcome. thank you for watching at home. here's what everybody's still talking about. anthony weiner. [ laughter ] see i -- here's the latest on this. now, yesterday in an interview with the spanish language channel, univision, anthony weiner said that he created the online name, carlos danger, as a joke. weiner was like "come on, what's funnier than the name carlos danger?" they we're like "uh,

. >> ma'am, you sure you want to name your baby curtis booker t. payne? >> oh, that's your name? could just bake you a cake. >> that's a good call. >> what are you talking about? that's a good, solid, family name. >> yeah, so is george herbert walker bush, but you don't want to name your kids that. >> look, bart and keenan, do y'all mind going to get the stretcher so we can take crystal and the boys to the hospital? >> my pleasure, chief. >> no problem. >> like a good baby. hey, uh, c.j. you might want to get your blanket cleaned. ooh. ♪ oh, oh, oh, come on, people, now ♪ ♪ smile on your brother ♪ everybody get together ♪ try to love one another ♪ come on, people, now [ female announcer ] breyers. the taste you've loved for over 140 years. ♪ right now everything is better with sabra hummus. observe... little carrot. little bit of hummus. oh, lonely wing... well we have got the perfect match for you. shiny knife. oh, you had me going there for a second. of course you can't beat the classics. delish... sabra hummus. come on. dip life to the fullest. ♪ but do you really? [ female an

wb and booker t. and then more recently there are people writing about the club women, the color club women bound and social organizations. even after i recovered the reparations that bend and even after i documented that this woman started a movement with 300,000 women asking for reparations in 1890 for all those legs and she was an ex-slave herself, even after that was documented and everybody gave praise and gave their prizes and all that, when they went about the reconstruction of the great migration they write about w.e.b. and booker t.. and then they migrated to the north. and so it's really hard. part of it is that she was a washerwoman and these ex-slaves were poor people. i think eslanda robeson has a better chance of being included in the narrative then making a full picture of rosa parks. you did a wonderful book, both of you good but since robeson was, you know she was -- rosa parks was a working-class woman, down-home woman. didn't go to college and all that stuff but robeson wrote things

and the music of booker t, featuring mayer hawthorne. and now, jay leno! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jay: thank you very much. hi, everybody. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] thank you very much. thank you. welcome to "the tonight show." welcome, thank you very much. oh, nice to see everybody. hey, i guess you -- you know about this. the, the big fast food worker strike all across the country yesterday.

booker t. washington. malcolm x. martin luther king jr.. you know the names you recognize in history class in february. [laughter] why -- because before black nerd, it was called black leader. can you dig it? at some point in the 1980's, it became uncool for black people to read. i'm not going to point at -- point fingers but if i was going to, i would point at crack and reagan. what is this person doing? reading? reading? the constitution? this nerd wants to understand his country as a concept and vision by our forefathers and see if there is a gap between that and how it is practiced by our elected officials. that way he can join the system and work within it and make the country better for the citizens and citizens of other countries since we are a world power. nerd! 7 [applause] that child ran home to his mom saying they are making fun of me and then she said, don't you worry about that, barrak. thank you very much. [applause] craig: good night, everybody! baron vaughn! ♪ you have to let me know ♪ so i don't make my worst mistake ♪ ♪ tu

movement of which i was a part in the 60's has declined and morphed into a race grievance industry and booker t. washington at the turn of the century said there are groups of blacks who thrive off the grievance of their fellow blacks. if they lose their grievance they lose their income. unfortunately that's what we have today. >> bill: you believe that extends all the way down to the folks we established last night very very vividly and nobody has challenged it that last saturday's march in washington was funded by the teacher's unions and the money went into al sharpton's action committee and otherivil rights concerns and there is big money involved. do the rank and file african-american folks in your opinion's the government money to continue to flow and, therefore, get behind the grievance industry? >> as i said, bill, in 1965, bill raspberry, a banner headline on the front page of the "the washington post" said poor negroes are not benefiting from the gains of the civil rights movement. even from back then until today, the interests of the so-called leadership has often been at odds with t

particular that supported home ownership invested money to the -- i group in segregated community where booker t. washington is sitting on the step tsh this is before i was born. i'm not quite that old. -- [inaudible] insurance company went out of business. now, i don't want to preach. i've already done that. your point about our psychology and the gentleman last night talked about misinformation. with you went to a segregated black school and you mention the churches. the churches taught on sunday you couldn't to school. you had a segregated system black folk weren't allowed to school nine months a year. you had community, agencies, and organizations that provided the necessary reinforcement. one of the smallest black segregated community, we often talk about the list of black ph.d. that came out of that community. we had to go to teach at the black policy. so the misinformation that the young people have been given, i had a young man tell me black people ever owned nothing. why should she get he an education? so you hustle the street. they them risk and give them everything except pride and --

in her home in albany, she not only welcomed as a dinner guest but as an overnight guest and booker t. washington. host: we have 12 minutes left. as arthur finishes three years, lucretia is establishing herself as a widow and enormous the popular first lady. -- enormously popular first lday. -- lady. how did she do that? people are curious about her moved to pasadena, calif.. -- california. guest: she could not take the cold winters in colorado anymore. she maintained a home in washington as a presidential widow. host: at the house should continue to work on. guest: there were times when she would lease the house or property because it was just more feasible. her brother was the manager of the house, but california in the 1880's, there was a real opening up as a sort of a promised land, sunshine, and a lot of california was settled by wealthy midwesterners. she went out to pasadena in 1900 and she was distantly related to two famous architects, green and green, known for the california craftsman style architecture. she had a great interest in architecture so she worked rate closely wi

i grew up in a segregated south community where booker t.shington -- [inaudible] sitting on the steps -- this was before i was born be, i'm not quite that old. [laughter] but people from tuskegee came in to educate the black community because people couldn't go to school. black people -- [inaudible] in that part of arkansas, but after 1960 and we saw the dream, the insurance companies went out of business as we got a piece of the rock. now, i don't want to preach, but your point about our psychology, and the gentleman last night talked about less information. when you went to a is segregated black school and you mentioned the churches, the cur catches taught us on sunday, when you couldn't go to school, the churches arranged classes. black folk weren't about to go to school for nine months to a year -- [inaudible] so you had community agencies and organizations that provided the necessary reinforcement. growing up in a small southern, black, segregated community, we often talk about the list of black ph.d.s that came out of that community. w

propels booker into the special election on august sixth on october sixteenth scuse me but have reason n.s.a. surveillance concerns played any role in this election or will they in any upcoming elections r t political commentator sam sachs reports. so cory booker won big last night and he's likely to be the next senator from new jersey but this election is important for another reason it was the first national attention grabbing election in which the surveillance activities of the n.s.a. were in issue they were made that way by congressman rush holt who when he learned of the n.s.a. leak said screw it and introduced a bill in the house to repeal everything both the patriot act and the five amendments act and since he was running for senate at the time against cory booker he ran this ad specifically hitting booker on a number of things including supporting massive government spying i'm rational you may have heard i'm the scientist who needs a supercomputer in jeopardy rush home so why am i running for senate against cory booker. we need to pass a carbon tax to stop climate change which make up the wall street banks and stop the government spying on innocent american. cory booker doesn't su

t. it's already destroying jobs in this country. already going to take away 100,000 new jersey residents health insurance. that report came out yesterday. cory bookernk it's good, he thinks it's great. cory booker is too liberal for new jersey. that's the real story. because win in new jersey reignites the entire republican party and sets the agenda fort republican takeover in 2014 of the senate. >> steve: the dnc said about national republicans, quote, they did this autopsy five months ago and this is what they have? look at the races we've seen since. mark sanford, gomez and now steve. they clearly haven't learned from their mistake. it's distinction without a difference. the end result is they have these far right candidates who are going to cost them an election. >> far right candidates. i grew up in ridgefield park. my dad was a korean war vet. when my dad died, i was raised by my italian immigrant grandparents. i've been married 32 years. both daughters are gold award girl scouts. they call that far right. i represent the main stream. cory booker is the liberal. >> brian: we look forward to the election coming up in october. >> steve: we did