and brown changed my life entirely. but for brown i would not be here. and it has very little to do with education. it has very little to do with being able to go to school. all of the schools i went to were segregated until howard. and virginia union was african american. and so what brown did for me, i had just come back from fighting in korea, front-line duty. and i never could understand how i was sent to korea to fight for the freedoms and the rights of other people and i didn't have them. >> but the army was segregated. >> no, the army was not. the army was not segregated at that time. but the country was. and harry trueman had the wisdom to with executive order not arguing with congress or anything else, he said this is not right, this is wrong. and he did that. so i'm fighting for these people's rights and i have none. and i come back and i had given up. i had been reading about the mowmow and others and what they were doing. they might have a point. i was so distraught. my major was chemistry. i was always at odds with wanting to do the social b

but you have to know how your voice 'feels'. >> brown: how it feels, not how it sounds?how it feels, not how it sounds. because what the audience is hearing is not at all what you're able to hear, so you have to know that if your voice is feeling well, and your shoulders are relaxed and your voice seems to flow with your breath, then you're alright. >> brown: so that's the production of sound? >> that is the production of sound, yes. >> brown: but, then, the art comes in. >> then the art comes in, of course that is with study and training and practice. and the thing that changes, what is so wonderful, is that everybody's voice is different because you're different on the inside. and that is what changes your voice. >> brown: i had a laugh at one line when you said, "i acknowledge that i can bore a conductor to tears wishing to rehearse a phrase more often than he feels necessary." >> yes. >> brown: that does happen? >> i'm afraid so. and, but i try not to be completely ridiculous. there's only a certain amount of time on which the orchestra can be with you. and so theref

sister of linda brown and the daughter of oliver brown, the from kansas in the brown case. she was trying to make it here but asked if i would read this behalf. to the director counsel, chair, members of the board of the l.d.f. fund, on behalf of my inily and fellow plaintiffs brown v. board of education, we regret not being able to join you at the national press club your commemoration of this historic decision. it's fitting that you note this conversationith a with two african-american men, former governor douglas wilder massachusetts governor deval patrick, whose political inningss offer hope and inspiration. from my family and all of those involved in the five indications the brownised decision it was a source of pride to stand with the naacp attorneys who used the rule of law to topple the oppression. their actions brought our nation to a cross roads of values political goals. the benefits of their legal strategy are reflected in society.ary and how the 14th amendment is applied in the protection of our rights as people of color, women, citizens with disabilities, mid-

brown vs. the board of education argued and won by the legendary justice thurgood marshall, rewove the fabric of our divided nation and moved our country down the path toward the civil rights victories of the 1960's. the decision was, according to the current president of the naacp legal defense and education fund, quote, the beginning of the end of legal apartheid in the united states. laws of the jim crow that were intentionally designed to ensure that blacks and whites were not treated equally were finally questioned by our nation's highest courts. the dream of a country where all men are created equal and treated equally under the law became a potential reality. but it would still take decades of tireless activism by multiple generations of civil rights leaders and organizers to get us where we are today. brown vs. board, this decision was the first step toward a reality of equality and was a drastic change for a court that had previously been detrimental to past civil rights actions and ca

in the brown case. she asked if i would read this on her behalf. and the council on behalf of my family and the plaintiffs, we regret not being able to join you at this historic event. -- for mying that you family and all of those involved in the five cases that comprise the decision, it was a source of ride to stand with the attorneys who used the rule of law to topple the goliath of oppression . their actions brought our nation to a crossroads of values versus political goals. the benefits of the strategy are reflected in contemporary society, and how the 14th amendment is applied. today we know that the struggles with the meaning of the 14th amendment are fueled by those who are looking to legitimize a concept of a 21st-century ruling class. in may of 2014 we take comfort in knowing that the defense fund is there to speak truth to power. at 12:52 p.m., for brief moment we believe that the founding documents and creed of this nation would have meaning for all of us as citizens of color. iq for remembe

and brown changed my life entirely. but for brown i would not be here. and it has very little to do with education. it has very little to do with being able to go to school. all of the schools i went to were segregated until howard. and virginia union was african american. and so what brown did for me, i had just come back from fighting in korea, front-line duty. and i never could understand how i was sent to korea to fight for the freedoms and the rights of other people and i didn't have them. >> but the army was segregated. >> no, the army was not. the army was not segregated at that time. but the country was. and harry trueman had the wisdom to with executive order not arguing with congress or anything else, he said this is not right, this is wrong. and he did that. so i'm fighting for these people's rights and i have none. and i come back and i had given up. i had been reading about the mowmow and others and what they were doing. they might have a point. i was so distraught. my major was chemistry. i was always at odds with wanting to do the social b

i read the words of chief justice earl warren in the browne browne decision brown v board of education is doubtful any child could be expected to succeed in life if denied an education. such an opportunity where the state is undertake ton provide it is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms. catherine lhamon, 60 years later, the majority of all large school districts in america are majority non-white. have we fulfilled that promise? >> we've come far but not far enough. that's the depressing reality that has to light a fire under all of us and certainly under me and the work that i do and we need to be working to deliver on that promise. but there are so many things that are different that are better in the 60 years since brown was decided. my mother was 10 when brown vs. board of education decided. he attended racially segregated schools before and after. but it changed her life experience. i didn't attend segregated schools and my children don't and i'm grateful for that. i work every day to make sure other people's children can also learn in the educational envir

brown is seeking a record fourth term 40 years after winning the race. the iconic democrat is embracing something he rejected in the 1970s, the tradition and the long view of california. kqed john myers caught up with brown at the historic governor's mansion in sacramento. >> reporter: it's part of california's rich political history, the house that served for more than six decades. to the public, it's museum. to jerry brown, it was a home, although a home not every governor that lived here apreegs ua -- appreciated. >> some are used to ranch houses, one story. this is a victorian house very common. >> reporter: brown was 20 and in school when his father, the late pat brown took office and moved the family into the sacramento mansion. in the last few years, though, jerry brown has been quietly bringing this place back to life from private dinners with laeg sl -- legislators to bringing in to celebrate his 76th birthday. >> i have literally met not dozens but hundreds of near-term cousins in california and even in neighboring states. so i try to capture t

brown was 20 years old and in seminary school when his father the late pat brown took office and moved younger brown refused an official home when he first became governor in 1975. a campaign he ran, thumbing his nose at tradition. >> i need add more modest apartment, which i got. >> reporter: it also fit 234 with theç times for you. >> it fit in with the times. >> reporter: but times have changed and so has jeer where brown.( now 76, he seems to take defendant in tradition and history and the old mansion has become a favorite hangout from private dinners have legislators to inviting in distant relatives to help celebrate his birthday. >> i find a certain strength, orientation and clarity by thinking about where we came from. >> reporter: brown made the long view of california a focus of his governing philosophy. the state was facing a $25 billion budget deficit when eh took office in 2011, when he it's expected to include a multi-million-dollar surplus. brown is pushing to put extra tax revenue in the new moreç robust rainy-day fund. >> when the money is here, they tend to think it'

isaac brown stayed behind.int denise was able to remove her gym membership card and hide it underneath a card board box leaving proof that she had been in cabellero's apartment. when cabellero returned with messer, he sexually assaulted her then used electrical cords from the heat rocks to strangle her to death. the trio wrapped denise's body in the sheet using the bet, shoe laces, and the electrical cords. they used denise's car to drive to the canal were they dumped her body. they tracked sand into the car and left their fingerprints behind. later, the three went to breakfast. >> they were absolute bash aerians. they should be burned alive all three of them. and they say let he who has no sin cast the first stone. let me tell you i would have no problem casting all the stones. >> robert messer was tried and convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years. isaac brown was convicted of five counts, including second degree murder. >> louis cabellero was convicted of kidnapping and murder and he now sits on d

brown addressed the totality of it. if you listen at the last freezes that were recorded this , they were speaking about how you not down the world. how you break down the door. this is our collective jobs. it is so important. we are in an integrated society. we had just a few more minutes left. i want to adjust some of the things people say remain challenges. we want to do this very briefly. how they support it. thought that it would have this effect on black schools. martin luther. king. there were no more black businesses. it is so dispersed. what do we do about it? as wes the role of lds see the challenges in the society to brown going forward? very briefly. i want to say something else at the very end. >> all of that. i do not think brown is not responsible for everything that has gone wrong. i do not think he was opposed to have solved everything that was wrong. we have been talking about piercing the membrane or having different ways of imagining our community and our country. is rest of us -- rest of it up to us

, >> brown: in the white house rose garden this afternoon, there were strong words for moscow. the president warned more severe economic penalties are coming unless russian leader vladimir putin backs off. >> our hope is, is that we shouldn't have to use them. we're not interested in punishing the russian people. we do think that mr. putin and his leadership circle are taking bad decisions and unnecessary decisions and he needs to be dissuaded from his current course. >> brown: mr. obama said there will be no choice but to act if russia disrupts ukraine's presidential election on may 25th. chancellor merkel agreed. >> ( translated ): the 25th of may is not all that far away. should that not be possible to stabilize the situation, further sanctions will be unavoidable. this is something that we don't want. we have made a diplomatic offer, an offer for a diplomatic solution. so it's very much up to the russians which road we will embark on. >> brown: earlier, though, a spokesman for president putin declared ukraine's military actions today have nullified last month's agreement ai

they said, to be clear, sexual assault at brown is not tolerated.ery student at brown has the right to feel safe from threat of sexual violence. receivedwho report substantial support in the dean and other advocates. in cases where crime might be committed, they have options for filing a criminal complaint. paxson also said brown is accelerating a planned review of its policies and procedures. lena sclove, your response? >> avenue is very poor choice and wording. notay that that is tolerated a week after my press conference, which demonstrates that it is. the vice president of the university denied my appeal. we can get to that when we talk about the sanctions. the president was quite aware of my case. clearly, there is a tolerance for them. i do not believe that statement. as for moving forward, that would have happened anyway. every five years, this is up for review. this is the year. they were going to redo the code of conduct anyway. >> you reported to the administration? >> there is a hearing on october 11. witnesses are present. withs this who

jeffry brown has the story. >> brown: the latest addition to g.m.'er-growing list: 218,000 chevrolet aveo's recalled just this morning. they have a dashboard lighting module that could overheat and catch fire. a day earlier, the company told customers to bring in nearly 2.5 million vehicles for seat belt, gear shifter, and other mechanical problems. it all started in january, with nearly 2.6 million vehicles recalled, for ignition switch defects going back a decade, and linked to 13 deaths. g.m.'s new c.e.o. mary barra faced senators in april. >> sitting here today, i cannot tell you why it took years for a safety defect to be announced in that program, but i can tell you that we will find out. >> brown: by now, g.m. has called back nearly 14 million vehicles, the most ever in a single year. the 29 separate actions include: last thursday's recall of 2.7 million chevrolet, saturn and cadillac models for taillight and other malfunctions. the march 13th recall of 1.7 million buick, g.m.c. and chevrolet vehicles for brake and airbag problems. and the mar

it is likely that brown will win but it's important because the republican candidate that opposes brown setting the tone for the party statewide. >> you ran bay to breakers, how do you feel today? >> i feel fine. there were people dressed like minutions from "despicable me." it was great. >> you didn't do that, right? >> i dressed like a very tired woman. that was my costume. >> thank you so much. >>> time now is 6:512. south korea is taking drastic action in response to last month's ferry disaster. details on the plan to expand the coast guard coming up. >> california chrome may be breathing a little easier. the announcement that may put the horse in the running for the triple crown. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, this is what we want to show. wireless routers have certain speeds going in. but with our xfinity wireless gateway, you get more speed going out, giving you three times faster in-home wi-fi. got it. we know what to do. first, without xfinity. oh. oh. and now xfinity. [ laughs ] that's my tablet. was your tablet. [ female announcer ] the fastest in-home wi-fi for all your devices -- the x1 en

. >> sreenivasan: jeffrey brown spoke to margaret a short time ago. >> brown: how do officials explaint's going on with vladimir putin and seemingly contradictory statements? >> reporter: they believe he's playing a double game. he wants to keep ukraine destabilized and torn between east and west. on the other hand, he doesn't want to be blamed entirely for messing up the election because the u.s. and europeans have made it really clear to him there will be tougher economic sanctions and you notice his remarks today came in an economic form of global c.e.o. in st. petersburg. so the intimidation campaign continues. he would like to make it look like the results are of dubious legitimacy, but i'm told people close to him are privately talking to the man considered to be the likely winner if not outright on sunday then in a runoff and that is the so-called chocolate king, multi-billionaire petro cherchgo. >> brown: what would be the impact on the donetsk people's republic? >> reporter: when we told them putin was going to move troops off the border, they look dismayed. this does not comp

where our schools stand 60 years after brown v. board of education. >>> and rove against the clinton machine. >> pagie ining dr. rove. >> 30 days in the hospital? when she reappears she's wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury. >> this was not accidental. >> he was one of the most prepared and deliberate speakers. >> e she later exhibited strange behavior in her benghazi testimony. she had a mastery of the facts and an unshakable facts all while wearing those stupid glasses. >> first they said she faked her concussion. now they say she's auditioning for a part on "the walking dead." >> i didn't say she had brain damage. >> you can't be upset about it. it's just the beginning. they will get better and better at it. >> this is just the beginning of the aak ta ks. >> i am running, around the park. [ laughter ] >>> that was my former boss hillary clinton making a surprise visit to honor barbara walters' last day on the view. i thought she looked good and sounded like the hillary that i know. she did no

jeffrey brown reports. >> we want our girls, we want our girls! >> brown: anger and frustration filled the air in lagos, nigeria, as hundreds of protesters demanded a stepped-up search for the girls. >> we want these girls to be rescued with immediate effect. we want them back alive because they are our tomorrow. >> brown: in all more than 300 female students were reportedly taken from a boarding school in northeast nigeria on april 14th. 53 later escaped. the leader of the islamist militant boko haram formally claimed responsibility today, but he dismissed the international outcry over the mass kidnapping. and, he declared the girls are now slaves. >> ( translated ): just because i took some little girls from their western education everybody is making noise. and i say stop western education, i repeat i took the girls, and i will sell them off, there is a market for selling girls. >> brown: already, it's reported that some of the girls have been forced to marry their kidnappers or taken to neighboring countries. >> we promise that wherever these

country. >> you talked about the promise of brown and the hope of brown. has it failed in any way, do you think? >> well, i think there's still work to do, and i think one of the jobs we have to do as americans is learn to talk about the journey toward justice around race and other ways of exclusion, because we have a hard time acknowledging at the same time the extraordinary progress we've made, much of it in my lifetime, and at the same time acknowledging how much work we have to do. >> in fact, i think sometimes when you've seen the conversations of the past couple weeks, when you've had an nba owner and a rancher in nevada, some place in the west, that the conversation seems to go places where it does no good. and then it gets dropped. what's the conversation that needs to happen? >> i'm not sure it's just conversation, to tell you the truth, or even mainly conversation. it's about how people live, you know, who they choose as their friends, where they choose to live. i remember a friend of mine describing brown versus board of education as being the e

those battles--let me say this on the anniversary of brown. brown was no not for not. we have seen change in this country. we have seen a broader movement. what i'm encouraging people to do is to go back and read the brown decision. people talk about it all the time. it's so magical in its basic lodglogic. >> good to see you, as always. coming up on al jazeera america. a potential break through for anyone with bad knees. more on an amazing break through. we'll have more on that next. >> we may be one step closer. researchers at columbia university said they developed a way to grow cartilage from the lab in their own adult stem cells. what is this all about, jake? >> reporter: well, tony, i know you're an avid tennis player, and it's one of these things that human beings are growing older. we're staying active later in our lives. but the great evolutionary failure is in our knees. no other species put such weight on a tiny joint. researchers have created a way to take stem cells found in bone marrow and fat that can take them, harvest them from your own body and grow in

brown. >> blitzkrieg. >> mr. brown, the question was about taxes. (laughter) >> stephen: maybe, maybe so. and he was getting there before you so rudely interrupted him. clearly his point was that if you use it to bind the evil spirits behind the feds the blood of christ should be tax deductible. well, folks, before long and then after long, it was time for closing statements. walt sticks the landing. >> do you remember chernobyl? where the russians had a little problem with their atomic energy? chernobyl, when you translate that into english it comes out wormwood, wormwood is mentioned in the bible a whole lot and it is radiation. they gave those people that work there something called potassium-- potassium iodide and it floods up your thyroid gland so it won't take this radiation in. and another thing you want to know is our noring plants that is run by atomic, they can stand 1/15 of an earthquake like in japan and my bible says it will get worse and worse and worse. we better get at something, folks. >> all right. >> stephen: now that is a campaig

those who knew her best really weren't surprised. >> houston and brown traded rings in 1992. matched only by a professional one that very same year. "the bodyguard" gross in order than $400 million and launched the top selling soundtrack of all time. >> but even as the crossover superstar commanded millions for movies like "the preacher's wife," she increasingly struggled with her fame. >> did she ever talk to you about the stress of fame? >> she said to me you don't know what it's like being me. i'm stressed out all the time. >> that stress was only compounded by houston's often rocky marriage. >> they were very happy at first. but pretty soon their relationship turned pretty volatile. and when she was under pressure, she tended to turn to drugs and alcohol. >> when houston began a string of missed appearances and cancellations, many pointed their finger at bobby brown for his wife's mounting troubles with drugs. >> i hate to say she had started before she had met bobby brown. >> we got to live -- >> houston's increasingly erratic behavior even played out before the cameras

jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: the world health organization calls it an extraordinary eventhat threatens the decades-long battle to wipe out polio. on monday, the agency declared an international public health emergency. bruce aylward is leading the w.h.o. polio effort. he spoke during a teleconference from geneva. >> while the virus has re- surged, i think it reminds us that until it's eradicated it is going to spread internationally and it's going to find and paralyze susceptible kids, indeed it could become endemic again in the entire world if we do not complete the eradication of this disease. >> brown: worldwide, there've been 74 confirmed cases of polio this year, three times as many as the same period in 2013. they're focused in asia, africa, and the middle east. in all, the outbreak has spread across at least ten countries. the w.h.o. singles out syria, cameroon and pakistan as the main sources of the disease. of those three, the vast majority of cases have been in pakistan. >> this slum in karachi is one of the last places in the world where polio is still a threat.

over the past year, jeffrey brown and u.s. poet laureate natasha trethewey have been exploring that question in various corners of american life. they recently traveled to los angeles to look at how that played out with a graduate writing program at antioch university. it's the last chapter in our series on discovering ""where poetry lives." >> brown: on a recent thursday evening at a community hall just east of los angeles, alejandra sanchez led a group of latina women in a poetry writing exercise. >> you're going to use those five words. just freestyle with it and write a poem using the five words. >> brown: sanchez began the project as part of a requirement to get her masters in fine arts degree from antioch university, los angeles, which was founded as a satellite of the original ohio campus. the two-year graduate program demands that all students participate in a community service project to enhance the "writing life" of others. sanchez set up her field study project to work with low-income women who'd not had access to w

there were three other teenagers with brown when he was arrested. police are trying to determine if he also victimized those girls. >>> students in seven low- performing schools in the bay area and southern california filed a class action lawsuit today over claims of lost learning time. the lawsuit against the state alleges students in high poverty schools received far less learning time than their counterparts at more affluent schools. it identifies a number of reasons, including a lack of teachers, the aftermath of traumatic lockdowns and so- called service courses, requiring students to do office work and other tasks. nystrom elementary in richmond and oakland's castle front and fremont high schools are part of this suit. >>> parents, teachers and students get an a for effort in their attempt to save the oldest charter school in the district. >> they have been very good to both of my daughters and i support them 100%! [ cheers & applause ] >> however, emotional pleas like that did not sway the school board, which voted at its meeting last night 4

but it ended up being filibustered with help from scott brown.huffington post" reports that brown, quote, called republican senate leadership to urge them to make sure that shaheen-portman didn't pass so as not to give shaheen something to run on. if scott brown thought the shaheen ads were going to be bad, wait until he sees the ads about him blowing it up for the pettiest of political reasons. joining me is a member of the department of public works and natural resources. can you tell me about this legislation that was destroyed in it struck me as not a huge deal but sensible and good and would save energy and money. >> chris, you're absolutely right. this was a very modest bill. this bill was supported by the u.s. chamber of commerce, not noted to be radical environmentalists and other business groups. but it was an important bill because everybody understands that the best way to save energy is through energy efficiency and weatherization. as you indicated, what this bill would do is save people substantial sums of money on their fuel bills,

brown is 1954.resident eisenhower has to call out the air force division to protect teenagers trying to go to school. when we talk about brown, let's not jump from the case the legal to end fund litigated segregation, the high moment of the supreme court declined a segregation violated laws, and then jump to 2014. you have to deal with the period after brown, which lasted until the 1970's, and it was met by the supreme court beginning reversal in the late-1970's around the idea of integration. that is a story that has to be told. ms. sherrilyn ifill, where do we go from here? guest: learning how to make change happen. brown was the result of a strategic plan implemented over naacprs by lawyers of the legal defense fund that below -- believed they could break the back of segregation, and we have to be vigilant if we want to break the back of poor education in america. but we are going at legal thense fund is how to make all-in push we have been talking about, how we can convince school district and a

in the meantime all the we can do is fight all these darned fires. >> reporter: governor brown is set to speak at a climate change conference today in sacramento. in the newsroom, kpix 5. >>> let's check the weather now with lauren. >> a little cool breeze around the bay area today. we're going to see the winds kicking up, to 29 miles per hour at sfo right now. even a slight chance of a couple of sprinkles. not much. but out the door we go, a lot of clouds now. those will continue to work their way on by. in fact we have an area of low pressure that is going to spin down the coastline. keeping us a little unsettled through the day and breezy conditions expected throughout the next couple of days. headed out the door today, planning on very cool conditions along the coastline. we're going to keep the temperatures way down. 50s now as you head out the door. as we look toward the afternoon numbers up in the 60s. and a couple 70s. already, let's check on the roads. >> that wind you talked about may give you a few trouble spots on the roads. we have a couple of accidents. let's get to the

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jeffrey brown has our book conversation. >> brown: a young black man narrates his story of friendship war in post-colonial africa. a young white woman narrates her story of meeting and coming to love that man in a small midwestern american town. the new novel "all our names" explores lost and found identities and a collision of worlds. its author, dinaw mengestu, was born in ethiopia but has lived most of his life in the u.s. he's a 2012 macarthur fellow and now professor of english at georgetown university. this is his third novel. welcome to you. >> thank you. >> i'm curious, did this start with you with the africa part of the story or the mid west america story or was it always intended to be together. >> it began very much with the sea and from there began to go and what happened to the mid west. my initial idea was to see if i could tell a story deeply rooted in the particular moment of africa's history i hadn't had a chance to explore yet in my work. >> brown: why that particular moment. explain it's in the 60's or so when the u.s. was off in the colonial period but fella par. >