colvin could make your way.cribed as an artist who speaks the truth we desperately need to hear, is a harvard law graduate, prison activist, hip- hop artist, grand slam poetry champion, actor, author, and educator. his new book, "the ugly side of beautiful: rethinking race in prisons in america" will be published later this year. the start of the off-broadway hip-hop theater production, he has lectured and performed at over 100 colleges and correctional facilities in the united states, africa, asia, latin america, and europe. he has released two albums to critical acclaim, taught at brooklyn college, new york university, the new school in columbia university, and is now touring lyrics for lockdown. one of those is sponsored by the naacp. i learned that he is beginning rehearsals for the remakes of "the wiz." let's welcome him. [applause] our moderator for this afternoon, world renowned anti- racist, multicultural educator. [applause] yes. as many of you in the audience know, she is an accomplished front line tea

colvin, without you we would not be where we are. [applause] thank you for sharing your story, and keep telling your story because we need to know, and our children need to know, and our children's children need to know your story. and we want to thank our sponsors today. we have the san francisco unified school district. we have marked as bookstores, who will be selling this -- ms. colvin's book, written about her, by philip house. we have sponsorship from the african diaspora, and the friends of the san francisco public library. i serve as part of the african- american interest committee that helped put this program together, and i want to thank all of you for coming, and i want to thank sfgtv for taking the program today. we want to thank the department here at san francisco public library, and we are having a reception in l58, and we want to thank read your catering for providing some delicious food for us to nibble on today, so will you please join us and say thank you again to mrs. colvin and also to byrin bain for telling his

colvin earlier. she said the media has a certain way to take people and put them up and you do not hear about everyone else. as if these are isolated incidents. so they called and his producers were like, we want to interview. we want to interview you on your campus in cambridge. i said, my brothers would like to, too. we have been putting this case for five months. basically, i said we are not going to do it. this is bogus. my porter rican red-haired cousin, he has funny hair. he was there, too. so we came back and they decided to do it with everybody. when that story came out, i started getting harassed. the police were giving out my social security number, my name. i had 50 cases of identity theft that followed. the next thing you ask to talk about was november 23, 2002. this experience changed my life. we started going to the prisons with a purpose now. we turned into touring artists for the prisons around the country. talking to the folks who were incarcerated, folks in the local community to in

tyler colvin scored on the air and the cubs won it 4-3 in 11. >>> from the padres/nationals game, check out the reflexes. spectacular grab on the line drive. look out there. take your time to get up, levo n. that was a scorcher. to the fence, robbed danny espinosa of a home run. padres won it, 7-3. that's your early look at sports on "early today." have a great weekend. i'm fred roggin. >> hear why experts might agree which film will win at the box office this weekend, but they have no idea exactly how much it will make. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. plus, we'll introduce you to a man who truly believes there's nothing he can't do. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back. here is a look at your forecast on this friday. forecast in the west coast 76 in m medford. 65 in seattle. let's take you through your weekend forecast. this is where we will see warming up. 77 in medford. phoenix up to 101. 102 in phoenix, 95 in vegas. sunday's forecast look iing mil there. if you are watching us on knbc, tee the tale of a writer trying to live under the same r

within syria elizabeth our correspondent there were let's bring into the conversation first of mark colvin now joining us from u.k. or bursting thank you for being on the program ok well the signals we've heard them coming today from the russian foreign ministers suggest that moscow's patience is running out will nato do you think listen and change the way it's sounding the libyan problem. i doubt it in a sense it is not a blank check in the way that it interprets the u.n. resolution and it's politically suicidal i think for president sarkozy of france david cameron of britain or for that matter brown not to carry through this intervention which is what it is to the end they have moved from protecting civilians which was the justification for the resolution to promoting regime change and that's turned out to be much more difficult than they expected they expected of me to be out of power by the end of march and right now in june around an all could report out from the un just yesterday alleging that both the rebels and gadhafi forces have committed war crimes in libya it makes it hard for

value because of that back you know how much traction will we get in this you know this move but mark colvin utah yeah well that's a good question i've seen it raised on the blogs and people are suggesting that well this is a way for the state to hat get people to get out of their precious metal possessions and to liquidate those precious metal possessions and it's a way for the kind of the intention being the opposite of what we're suggesting here that there are some benefits and as part of a trend to move away from fast currency. but i would imagine the answer to this would be that you need to start the circulation of precious metals trend somewhere and once it hits a certain critical mass then it takes on a life of its own and people than the benefits of having a non of having a currency that's not being the purchasing power is not being whittled away from inflation over overcomes that the perceived shortcomings of the fact that you're swapping out of fear for precious in the very short term you know you lose both sides wiley is pretty much it's going to make the future an issue so there'

turkish prime minister's wife of colonel gadhafi exit guarantees to wherever he chooses professor mark colvin the oxford university says the libyan leader's position is not as weak as the west is making else. obviously under pressure. but he also. in the u.s. congress a resolution was passed critical of war. since the bombing started. the mission in washington and perhaps in the west in general in charge it's very difficult for the u.s. of its major allies britain and france to accept any kind of. ruby. at least but any second one can only follow who is leading our question in the car. on the other hand all that we have science that is trying also to get our feet out of the rubble some of the rebel leaders who were in discussions of the nature leaders last week that they also. have a problem but for use in charge of running the politics on the ground in libya. not necessarily. leaders look like. it's a gathering of political and financial elite and its veil of secrecy is in force by an army of security guards it's all bankrolled by swiss taxpayers even as europe tightens its bills and forces

officer john colvin has volunteered to demonstrate for us.ve this voice commands by turning on the car's lights and sirens. >> : 3. >> right faro. >> he can switch between views on the computer screen. >> radar screen. >> and the old cars, they use a laptop and button panel, but in the new system their hands free. >> this is a big learning curve from a lot older technology to a updated system. >> the other advantage is that this can now communicate with other law- enforcement agencies. for example, is this car was sent to a katrina's out disaster the moment that it arrived see the officers would have a radio communication instantly. >> would be able to communicate with the local pd, shares and fire departments. >> so far they have a dozen in the bay area they're not saying how much it costs, but he thinks that is worth it. >> this is a great tool to help the officer out on the road for his everyday duties. in oakland, charles clifford kron4 news. >> into a lot of rainy weather and cloudy skies this morning by the afternoon, the storm front is