the biggest antiwar activist was carmichael, and carmichael, and he is the person who is one of the people who inspires thing to come out forcefully against the war. carmichael gives a powerful speech at the university of california at berkeley. over 10,000 people. he criticizes the war in vietnam and talks to white students about american democracy, racial privilege, and what can be done to transform democratic institutions. i have interviewed people were their. what they say is, that speech was a human rights speech. his antiwar activism inspired them to speak out. by april 15, 1957, they are on the same platform in new york city at the un building carmichael speaks before king. he criticizes the war, violence in the united states, and connects the war in vietnam to the civil rights and black power movements domestically. martin luther king speaks after, and they meet after the demonstration is over. stokely teases came and says the only reason you are coming out against the war is the activism i have been doing. if you can imagine stokely carmichael teasing martin luther king jr., it gi

and stokely carmichael. he was born on june 29, 1941 in trinidad and he comes to the united states two weeks before his 11th birthday in 1952 and he moves to this section of the bronx and he is one of the only black families in that neighborhood and he is a precocious and very intelligent child and always identifying with the underdog and has a wide array of interracial friends are usually charismatic and this is something that the best in new york city. and so what is extraordinary is that in 1956 to 1960, it is really during some of the key years of the heroic period of the civil rights movement and in high school he becomes an organizer and a key has a social democratic local activist that is openly gay, one of the most early and minds of the civil rights movement. he sees him as a teenager and he asked a friend who is that speaking up there. and somebody replies to him that that is the socialist and so he says that his lion going to be when i grow up. and so when we think about this, it's very important

hoagie carmichael and cole porter. go, hoosiers!ad to ease that in since you mentioned their names. >> yeah. >> you mentioned also, annie, that you obviously weren't born in this country, weren't raised here. scotland is your home. and you've interpreted so many songs in the "american songbook" that were put out -- how do i nut put this as charitably as i can -- put out when america was introducing its dark side, night side especially for people of color. a long way of asking how it is that a white girl growing up in scotland ends up being so connected -- >> yeah -- >> -- to the struggle of people of color in this country, of people of color in south africa and around the globe. how does that happen for you? what was the answer to that? >> you know, even when i was a child -- i have to tell you, i come from the northeast of scotland. i was dancing to motown and stacks of music that came through our dan halls. you see -- dance halls. you see, this is the beauty of music, it travels, it journeys. all the teenagers were dancing to the

the whole idea is impossible without stokely carmichael. self-determination and black people thinking of themselves in ways that in the 1960s were profoundly in some ways impossible, eloquent, beautiful, intelligent, have the right to disagree with each other and the mainstream, it is impossible without stokely carmichael. i guess we are going to take some questions at some time. i will conclude by saying, the saying, the most important thing to me was providing an introduction to a whole new generation of americans who did not realize the profound impact that he had on american democracy. providing an introduction, whether you agree or disagree, it was always personally sincere. his sincerity and love and passionate belief is what really stands out. the fact that he really walked the talk. this is this is someone who did not just say that they were advocating. he lived a life of advocating, even when that meant injuring himself and not getting access or benefit that would have come if he had ameliorated or moderated his stance. the importa

we could not wait for a proper fix so we used our power to book the real lady edith, laura carmichaela chat. >> joining is now was a really talented actress from one of our favorite tv shows "downton abbey." it reminds us a lot of our own lives. laura carmichael, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> the show is extraordinarily popular everywhere. we are huge fans and we watch the show. we know a lot of americans who watch the show. talk about the difference between how people in britain see the show versus how americans see the show. >> it is crazier here. i get recognized more here than at home. people say people are watching it and it is only when you come when you experience the fact people are crazy about it. >> people are obsessed. i have seen the entire upcoming season, but you have sex with a ghost in the upcoming season. what was that like? >> it was great. it is terrible. i felt so bad because you can never really give away the storyline. >> people are not that really interested in the storyline. >> really? >> we are journalists. you play a columnist. you

protective and supportive factors for youth, particularly for youth and families at the bessie carmichael school, the only school in the soma district. this will allow them to have an even wider reach to soma youth and provide college prep services for them. they propose to serve grades 8 through 12 with this money to provide academic support and tutoring, individualized case management, counseling sessions as well as training for parents related to financial planning for college. the contract if approved would be two years starting july 1, 2015 and sending june 30, 2017. the united playas proposal is to serve as a down payment to acquire the building at 1038 howard street where they have been operating their clubhouse for the last 5 years. they recently celebrated their 30 year anniversary providing antiviolence services to soma and across san francisco. the cac and the soma fund have long been wanting to acquire an asset for the community in the form of a youth-serving space. it's been on their wish list since the beginning of the fund but there has never been any viable opportunities t

stokley carmichael. brown. jim farmer. brendan jordan. eleanor holmes norton. wyatt t. walker.oger wilkins. james babel. marion barry. these of the soldiers that built the new south. dorothy heights. marion berry. his name was on the honor roll of freedom fighters. these are but a few of the honor roll of freedom fighters in the sacrificial service of the new south. no southern governor or public has his name on that list. but that was not enough. many started in 1960 and some stopped in 1965. they cashed in their pensions. but marion was a long distance runner. the black in d.c. did not have much. when black congressman robert nixon, william donaldson, they could not get their hair cut in the capitol. when blacks in d.c. could only live in certain parts of town. they had never walked the carpets of city hall at any authority or served on commissions, airport and commerce. in d.c. marion helped emancipate washington and much of southern maryland and northern virginia all about the work of marion barry. [applause] marion never stopped fighting for d.c. statehood. 660,000 people

de la cruz a parent at betsy carmichael two children enrolled there i'm a very reactive member of the pta as well thank you >> (speaking foreign language.) >> good evening after all you ami and have two children one of them third grade and one in kindergarten they attend the valley. >> good evening superintendent and president fewer and commissioners i'm caesary banks two students i have a daughter in 6th grade and ethnic grader at gateway thank you. >> hello good evening. i'm he esmeralda micro i have a son at the elementary school and active parent in the community in the school and i'm a busy parent. >> thank you very much for your patience georgia you want to say anything. >> first, i wanted to take a moment to say thank you commissioner maufas for your years of service on the board and for the support and more importantly thank you for your groundbreaking work as one of the original pack members with the structure; right? the portfolios and the by laws for the nitty-gritty work and i i really want to say thank you on behalf of the pack members it's appropriate that tonight is the

the principal of bessie carmichael got word out to parents and tried toics plain about the closure. there are about 50,000 students and 8,000 employees in the school district. the decision to close was made at about 1:00 today and officials relied on facebook, twitter, e-mails and fliers to warn parents about what is ahead. parents took it in stride, but the children were a little nervous. >> for the safety of the kids. we are fine with it. you know. the teacher will e-mail us. >> we are not willing to risk child safety. >> ha are you going to do tomorrow with no school? >> i'm going to go take a nap and driveways. school buses will be running. parents should expect deplays. the schools will serve alternative meals. >>> pg&e is getting ready in the event there are widespread power outages. tom vacar is live where space responders are working now to coordinate efforts. tom? >> reporter: what is happening now is people are filing into this place for the city to make sure that everything goes well. pg&e's system will start up about midnight here though the north bay center is already o

nobody can answer that. >> after hearing rumors of what is happening, journalist carmichael races tothe scene to file a report. by the time he and his friend, daravuth arrive, survivors and the dead have nearly all been removed by rescue workers. [ sirens ] >> we were on the bridge, dar is shooting some video and taking some images to help me out. there were just hundreds and hundreds of personal possessions lying on this bridge. then down the other side, they hadn't yet cleared, and there were dozens of people lying dead. >> hospitals stretched far beyond their limits scrambled to receive and treat the injured. >> we saw the scene of the hospital, chaotic scenes of the hospital, people desperately looking for friends and relatives, the corridors packed with the injured. the hospitals were overwhelmed. >> despite the efforts of rescue workers, 347 people are killed and hundreds are injured. >> the overwhelming cause of death, according to the hospital authorities, were people suffocating in the sheer crush or broken bones and people having their bodies crushed in the crowds, or in so

de la cruz a parent at betsy carmichael two children enrolled there i'm a very reactive member of theta as well thank you >> (speaking foreign language.) >> good evening after all you ami and have two children one

a 7th and 6th grady at betsy carmichael middle school and a kindergarten. >> good evening, president fewer, commissioners, superintendent carranza, i'm georgia williams, coordinator for the parent advisory council. >> i am going to be presenting the parties that we had picked. just bear with me, because i am visually impaired. >> thank you for waiting through the public testimony. i know we took it out of turn. >> we as members had picked out six items, and one is going to be support the planning, design and implementation of the family academic -- basically for university. second will be strengthen the implementation of the lau plan, supporting programs and services for english-language learner, including increased access two to district information in their home language. no. 3 is support the momentum for vision 2025 including the implementation of sfusd's building the digital district plan. next one is strengthening the implementation of the restorative practices. building stronger connections with families to improve school climate and culture, and the next point will be advocati

finally opened the signal an ross for many families that walk across the street to go to betsy carmichaele today to open this signal (clapping) is it so exciting that improvements that we've been able to make on the last 4 years to make this neighborhood a safer place for you'll have us and remind the people 3 walk and commute through the districts that seniors and kids live here on isle on fulsome and howard and significantly again, this wouldn't have been possible without our residents that took the leadership to make it a realty want to thank our city agencies for working hard to put this on the ground as quickly as possible tilly chang the prop a dollars that helped to fund this today and, of course, edward reiskin but also with an night the engineer that put this on n place an significantly street the sf pd side commander is here oh, my god oar commander ali and commander and i will i is the traffic commander to make sure you're increasing the enforcement in the tenderloin and the south of market and the city to make sure we're telling the chiropractors and pedestrians what how we ca

and the biography of stokey carmichael and carnell west discusses the book of "black prophetic fire"ooking at african-american leaders of the 0th century on c-span 2. >> here are some of our featured programs you'll find this holiday weekend on the c-span networks. saturday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, the supreme court justice alaina cagen at princeton university and then on q&a, glenn kessler on his end of the year biggest pinocchios of 2014 awards. on c-span 2 saturday night at 10:00 on book tv's "afterwards" editor gamen root on supreme court activism and

this afternoon at bessie carmichael pre through eight grade, the principal was on the playground to warn the parents of the closurement she went classroom to classroom to explain to the students what the situation is. >> they took it seriously. this is something that is new to them. we just told them that we want them to be safe and that there is a storm coming. but everything will be okay. >> it is bad that he is missing his school because he loves school so much. but i would rather have him safe at home than anywhere else. >> reporter: and staffers passed out these fliers warning about the closurement they were written in english and spanish. and the last time the school district saw a closure like this was on 9/11. >> david, i imagine a lot of the kids are excited to have the day off, but will they have to make up this day during the summer? >> reporter: we talked to the superintendent of schools late this afternoon. he said he doesn't believe that will be necessary. that the california school code makes provisions for these types of emergencies but so far, he believes they won't have

. >> reporter: at san francisco's betsy carmichael school, on the playground to warn parents of tomorrow's districtwide closure. >> this is something that is knew to them. we just told them that we want them to be safe. that there is a storm coming, and everything will be okay. >> reporter: the last time san francisco schools closed in an emergency was on 9/11. parents we talked to around the bay area agreed with the decision. >> it's bad that he's missing his school, because he loves school so much, but i would rather have him safe at home than anywhere else. >> i will be available, but it is a concern for working parents, and they didn't have enough notice perhaps. >> reporter: with school closed, the hope is that students will stay out of the weather, safe at home. >> that's the plan. stay home, and be safe. >> and study. >> and study, right guys? >> yeah. >> reporter: the school building maybe one of the safest places to ride out a storm, but for many of the bay area districts, the safety was for parents and students on their way to sool in the morning and on their way home from school

but even the stokely carmichael mainly first chanted black power here, that was less important to thee menu, much the same. steaks, fish, the famous broiled shrimp, the lusco special salad with the house italian vinaigrette dressing and a healthy dose of anchovy. onion rings. >> salad makes me happy. >> yeah, me, too. >> mostly the anchovies make me happy. >> yeah, yeah, love those. catfish for mr. edge, the famous pompano for me. >> it's the kind of the mark of being a great restaurant in the delta if you have pompano. >> that's a big damn fish. no way i'm finishing this. sitting here, the booths, the curtains, the whole ring bell for service thing, it seems lost in time. >> we've got a long and ugly history. but one of the things you love about this place is you can't deny the burden of the past. like, it's on your shoulders, right there. america chooses to deny its problems, you know, in many ways. and then declares itself a post-racial society. that just doesn't fly in mississippi. you can't claim that. ♪ oh what fun it is to ride. get the mercedes-benz on your wish list at the wi

and the biography of stokey carmichael and carnell west discusses the book of "black prophetic fire" looking at african-american leaders of the 0th century on c-span 2. >> here are some of our featured programs you'll find this holiday weekend on the c-span networks. saturday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, the supreme court justice alaina cagen at princeton university and then on q&a, glenn kessler on his end of the year biggest pinocchios of 2014 awards. on c-span 2 saturday night at 10:00 on book tv's "afterwards" editor gamen root on supreme court activism and judicial restraint. and sunday at 10:00 p.m. eastern, book critic johnathan yardly who recently retired after 33 years with the "washington post." and on c-span 3 saturday at 3:00 p.m. eastern, the civil war, historians and authors discuss president lincoln's 1964 re-election campaign. sunday afternoon at 4:00 on "real america" tried by fire, a 1965 film chronicling the 84 infantry division in the battle of the bulge. find our complete schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you're wat

. >> neil carmichael. >> will the prime minister join me in thanking businesses, schools, my festomane and the college for organizing the week-long festival of manufacturing and engineering in my constituency, which was opened by the prince of wales? does he agree that by focusing on innovation and productivity, this government will deliver more exports and higher standards of living? >> i certainly join my honorable friend. people might know that this is an annual week-long festival, championed by him, that showcases local manufacturing success stories. i remember that when i visited his constituency we watched a 3d bike being printed in metal. it was extremely impressive. we need to continue with the long-term plan, which is delivering a more balanced recovery, with manufacturing growing, as well as construction and services. our commitments to increasing the number of apprentices, to helping companies with research and development and to keeping tax rates low are all delivering a very strong manufacturing success rate for britain. >> dame tessa jowell. >> millions of people will wor

gentleman that you have on the "today" show who are really an extension of the ella bakers, the stokley carmichaels of the past, the president has to step up because we are all americans. african-americans are part of this country. you can't speak out about immigration and speak out about all these other pressing social issues and not speak out about black lives mattering and not speak out in a policy way too. professor dyson, what we need when we think about social movements, creatively disruptive, morally impassioned, policy specific. body cameras for the police are not enough. we're talking about ending mass incarceration and we're talking about a new social contract between americans and the government. and that new social contract includes a greater great society, a newer new deal, real anti-poverty, a war on poverty and not a war on drugs and a war on poor black people who are put in prison by the hundreds of thousands as nonviolent drug offenders. >> well, look, that's an excellently stated point. there's a rally next week, protesters marching for mike brown and eric garner aren't anti-polic

carmichael. brown. jim farmer. brendan jordan. eleanor holmes norton. wyatt t. walker. soldiers that built the new south. dorothy heights. marion berry. his name was on the honor roll freedom fighters. the honorbut a few of roll and the sacrificial service of the new south. no sudden governor or public has his name on that list. but that was not enough. stopped in 1965. they cast in their pensions. long.rion was a distance runner. d.c. did not have much. when black congressman robert nixon, william donaldson, they could not -- to the capitol. d.c. could only live in certain parts of town. they had never walked the carpets of city hall at any authority or served on commissions. helped emancipate washington and much of southern maryland and northern virginia, all about the work of marion barry. [applause] never stopped fighting for d.c. statehood. 000 people living under occupation. had to get a budget passed with hostile attitude towards his people. congress governs d.c. without the consent of the governed. from havana, cuba, to beijing, moscow, the capitals representing

john lewis frank smith, joyce and dory ladner ruby robinson cortland cox, diane nash james stokely carmichael, fanny lou hamer, ela baker, gloria richardson bernard lafayette and the rev. jesse jackson who will deliver the eulogy here today. all of us knew marion barry when he was being formed as a man by the civil rights movement. years later we were in washington when marion and i had different roles. i used to tease him on the dance floor about bringing those cotton chopping moves to the big city as marion did what he called dancing. he laughed. knowing that this was my way as a d.c. girl from up south of saying to my own old friend from the southern movement you have come a long way, buddy from picking cotton in mississippi to running the nation's capitol. [ applause ] but those cotton picking roots served marion barry jr. well. he challenged poverty by working himself out of it. coming from the cotton fields of mississippi he said i was used to hard work. it doesn't bother me. that's what he wrote in his autobiography. but it was the civil rights movement that equipped marion to challeng

bland learned, baba molders, ruby fay robinson, portland cox, diane nash, james forman, stokely carmichael, ivanhoe donaldson, fannie lou hamer, ella baker, bernard lafayette, the rapper to jesse jackson who will deliver the eulogy here today. all of us new marion barry when he was being formed as a man by the civil rights movement. years later in washington when marion and i have different roles, i used to tease him on the dance floor about bringing those cotton shopping moves to the big city as marion did what he called dancing. he laughed, knowing that this was my way as a d.c. girl from of south of saying to my old friend from the southern movement, you have come a long way, but he -- buddy from picking cotton in mississippi to running the nation's capital. [applause] but those cotton picking roots served marion barry, jr. well. he challenged poverty by working himself out of it, coming from the cotton fields of mississippi, he said, i was used to hard work. it doesn't bother me. that's what he wrote in his autobiography. but it was the civil rights movement that equipped marion to cha

. >> carmichael spoke to this about individual racism, why do people see these things different in thisabout individual attitudes or racism. this will change the school board and the makeup of the police force. change the zoning laws. structural factors that impact everybody because his argument is racism is not individual. it is individual, of course. as much as it is structural. we are faced with a similar kind of moment now which is if we come away from this incredible moment where people are not just talking about race, they are talking about institutions and the police and the legal system. about health as you mentioned. and i think what this moment calls for is not a feel-good molt. we feel better, we have a better moment and get along. certainly that would be great. it's more we have a moment to change the structures. and i think what is important about this moment is also to recognize that the structural factors that people were protesting against in the '60s are ironically far more entrenched right now this in this post-citizens united -- >> he gave an interview on bet to 106 i

ralph abernathy, fred shuttles worth, julius hobson, hilda mason -- [inaudible] stokely carmichael, barr nerd lafayette -- bernard lafayette, walter -- [inaudible] wyatt t. walker, sutton, wilkens, marion barry, these were the souls that built the new south. ella baker, -- [inaudible] [applause] marion barry, his name was on the other roll of freedom fighters. these are but the few on the roll of the freedom fighters in the sacrificial service of the new south. no southern governor or publisher has his name on that list. but that wasn't enough. many started in 1960 and stopped in '63, and some in '65. they cashed in their pensions. marion was a long distance runner. he had the will to run -- [inaudible] blacks in d.c. didn't have much, and much of this city was off limits to blacks. william dawson -- [inaudible] they couldn't get their haircut at the capitol. when blacks in d.c. could only live in certain parts of town, blacks in d.c. have never walked the corridors of city hall with any authority. in d.c., the emancipated washington and much of southern maryland and northern virginia's

, -- james forman, stokley carmichael, ivanhoe, donaldson richardson, lafayette and the reverend jesse jackson who will deliver the eulogy here today. all of us knew marion barry when he was being formed as a man by the civil rights movement. years later, here in washington when marion and i had different roles, i used to tease him on the dance floor about bringing those cotton chopping moves to the big city as marion did what he called dancing. he laughed, knowing that this was my way as a d.c. girl of from soup south of saying to my old friend from the southern movement, "you have come a long way from picking cotton in mississippi to running the mission's capital -- nation's capital go." [applause] but those cotton picking roots served marion barry, jr., well. he challenged poverty by working himself out of it. coming from the cotton fields of mississippi, he said, "i was used to hard work. it does not bother me." that is what he wrote in his autobiography. but it was the civil rights movement that equipped marion to challenge segregation and prepared him to become our mayor. if you