beef and daniel johnson, incredibly talented songwriter. one of the things i admired more than anything was the documentary about daniel johnson called the devil and daniel johnson which i recommend to all of you. so we imagined frank to be a mix of all these people, completely out of the blue, michael fast bender said he wanted to play frank. definitely aware -- he is aware. so he was a great thing. chris passed away when we were doing that screenplay. publicly shame about bad things that happened on social media. something good to happen. chris died and the day after his death it was announced in the local paper that he was going to be buried in a plotless grave. what is that? have we gone back in time 200 years? it turns out there was such a thing. if you died penniless. i sent one week, a few thousand county could be scared this grave and by the end the day over a thousand people had sent in 23,000 pounds which was more than enough to bury him exhumed and reburied him after a certain time. that is when we got together. >> host: robert i

johnson freddie be danielle and john. >> hello, everybody my name is ken johnson a native san franciscan from south park my parents had a claernts with devastated when we built moscone center we lost our cleaners and but then as a i grew they built the moscone center i was part of an organization called black man powering power we have the contractor for this moscone center and we make sure that resident of san francisco worked there and we had you know the different minority and everything had a equal different people from different communities and i want you all to do the same thing with the new development because you have people residents that live in the city that own all this development you don't have people that work in the city not working you need to make sure that the residents are trained if you have an untrained citizen once the project starts by the time it the finished he's got a skill so you have got to reduce crime you need to have an compliance office making sure the residents are hired from the community i wanted to also found out if urged to have an ongoing community

the event marks the 50th anniversary of a study on black america conducted by johnson administration labor secretary daniel patrick moynihan who later represented new york in the u.s. senate. this panel focuses on restoring the family. it is just over an hour. >>> just want to keep things moving, if we could take our seats. we will continue with the third panel, then we'll grab a bite. i hope everyone found the previous two panels informative. i certainly have. we will move to panel three, restoring the family. i will introduce the panelists. the moderator is kay hymowitz fellow at the manhattan institute, contributing editor to city journal. kay writes extensively on childhood, family issues poverty and cultural change in america, author of four books including marriage and cast in america, separate and unequal families in a post marital age. and liberation's children parents and kids in a post modern age. and again, kay will be moderating the panel. the panelists are -- start with ron haskins, senior fellow in the economic studies program at the brookings institution, and senior consult at the anna can e

event marks the 50th anniversary of a study on black america conducted by johnson administration assistant labor secretary daniel pasha moynahan. who later represented new york and the u.s. senate. -- daniel patrick moynihan. this includes former maryland governor bob ehrlich. it is an hour and 10 minutes. >> good morning. maybe we can get started. again good morning, everyone. my name is jason reilly, a senior fellow at the manhattan institute for policy research and i would like to welcome everyone to the symposium entitled prosspects for black america and moynihan report turns 50. if you are looking for a white america symposium you are in the wrong room. that would be any of the other rooms in the building. i will be brief with my remarks because we have excellent panelist lined up and i want to give them as much time as possible. i will get a chance to speak later on this man. -- this afternoon. i started working at the manhattan institute for policy research in february of this year. but the idea for this conference on race first occurred to me many years ago when i was on staff at the wall street journal.

i want to go back to 1965 when daniel patrick moynihan, who was working for president johnson, who wroteomething called the "negro family," commonly called the moynihan report. at the time, he was assistant secretary of labor to democrat president johnson. he said i am very concerned for black america. i am seeing a disturbing trend of more black households headed by single women, a higher incarceration rate for black men, and a growing dependence of black americans on the welfare system. he said if we do not look at this and make sure we are creating opportunity economic opportunity for black americans, we will have a big problem. at the time that senator moynihan wrote that report, you had 23% of black babies born out of wedlock. today it is 72%. i do not know how anybody can sit up there and say when more than 50% of our prisons are populated by blacks, we have blacks committing disproportionate amounts of homicides, we have blacks not only being killed but being killed by each other, killing each other -- how can anybody sit up there and say we as black americans are not responsible

anniversary of a study on black america which was conducted by then assistant secretary daniel patrick moynihan under president johnson, who later represented maryland in the senate. >> good morning. maybe we can get started. good morning, everyone. my name is jason reilly, i'm a senior fellow at the manhattan institute for policy research and i'd like to welcome everyone to our symposium today titled prospects for black america, the moynihan report turns 50. white america symposium you're in the wrong room that would be any of the other rooms in the building. i'll be very brief with my remarks because we've got some excellent panels lined up and i want to give them as much time as possible for discussion. i'll get a chance to speak a little later on this afternoon so i hope you can stick around. i began working at the manhattan institute in february of this year. but the idea for this conference, a conference on race, first occurred to me many years ago when i was still on staff with "the wall street journal." i came across a book called the fairmont papers which essentially is a transcription of a conference that oc

daniels, the butler. charles tells a great story about how he was in the infantry in vietnam. he said, please ask president johnsonis there anything he can do to get me out of this? i will be in the air force anything else. eugene allen said, if this was president kennedy or anyone else, maybe i could help you but i don't have the relationship with him. they are not supposed to ask for favors. that is a big ask. charles told me that it was just heartbreaking for him. he really wanted his father to push. eugene allen was the penultimate butler. he never asked for favors. he was very diligent. people say that he was not the one who asked for a raise for the black staff. i've been told that that was not something he would do. because he respected the institution of the presidency. the way the staff was paid, a lot of the african-american staff were not paid as well as the white staff, because the white staff worked as plumbers and in different positions. they weren't butlers. there was an uprising led by bill hamilton, the storeroom manager. the movie portrays it as something eugene allen did. he was really beloved,

daniel johnston who is this incredibly talented bipolar singer-songwriter. an early question about musicians i admire. one of the things i admire more than anything is the documentary called the devil in -- johnsonend to all of your listeners. and so we imagined a mix of all these people and completely out of the blue michael fassbender said he wanted to do subboard. are you aware that he wears was a big fake hat the entire movie and he never takes it off and he said he was aware. he got married and it was a great thing. unfortunately chris passed away while we were writing the screenplay and never got to see the movie. you know i have been telling stories because my book "so you've been publicly shamed" about bad things happening from social media. here's something good that happened. chris died and the day after his death it was announced in the local paper that he would be buried in a poor person's grave. we came back in time 200 years. but it turned out there was such a thing. so i set out once a week and said over a thousand people sent and 23-pound -- 23000 pounds which was enough to exhume him and rebury him a half a dozen times. >> host: rivered e-mails and rivered e-mails and it's hyste

daniel johnston who is this incredibly talented bipolar singer-songwriter. an early question about musicians i admire. one of the things i admire more than anything is the documentary called the devil in -- johnsond to all of your listeners. and so we imagined a mix of all these people and completely out of the blue michael fassbender said he wanted to do subboard. are you aware that he wears was a big fake hat the entire movie and he never takes it off and he said he was aware. he got married and it was a great thing. unfortunately chris passed away while we were writing the screenplay and never got to see the movie. you know i have been telling stories because my book "so you've been publicly shamed" about bad things happening from social media. here's something good that happened. chris died and the day after his death it was announced in the local paper that he would be buried in a poor person's grave. we came back in time 200 years. but it turned out there was such a thing. so i set out once a week and said over a thousand people sent and 23-pound -- 23000 pounds which was enough to exhume him and rebury him a half a dozen times. >> host: rivered e-mails and rivered e-mails and it's hysteri

johnson. >>> all right time now for the good stuff. a texas mom, sharon banks, watched in horror when the devastating earthquake struck nepal. her 22-year-old daughter danielleys of agonizing terror. danielle's whereabouts completely unknown by her mother. but this weekend, terror turned to tears of joy as you can see, mother and daughter were reunited in texas. danielle had been airlifted from mt. everest to the u.s. embassy and returned home thank goodness. as we say good-bye chris, i understand that you and i are going to be reunited back here in the studio tomorrow. so i will look forward to seeing you then. >> is that true? you've got better information than i do allison. as long as we stay on the stories that matter doesn't matter where we are. it's nice to have a little good stuff to end the show. >> so true. i think i will see you. >> a lot of news this morning. i'll see you soon. >> let's get you to the "newsroom" with carol costello. >> all right, thanks, chris. "newsroom" starts now. >> this is cnn breaking news. >>> and good morning. i'm carol costello thank you so much for joining me. we are following breaking news. a law enforcement source just

i want to go back to 1965 when daniel patrick moynihan, who was working for president johnson, who wrote something called the "negro family," commonly called the moynihan report. at the time, he was assistant secretary of labor to democrat president johnson. he said i am very concerned for black america. i am seeing a disturbing trend of more black households headed by single women, a higher incarceration rate for black men, and a growing dependence of black americans on the welfare system. he said if we do not look at this and make sure we are creating opportunity economic opportunity for black americans, we will have a big problem. at the time that senator moynihan wrote that report, you had 23% of black babies born out of wedlock. today it is 72%. i do not know how anybody can sit up there and say when more than 50% of our prisons are populated by blacks, we have blacks committing disproportionate amounts of homicides, we have blacks not only being killed but being killed by each other, killing each other -- how can anybody sit up there and say we as black americans are not responsibl