i'm coming to you live from the sweet auburn festival in downtown atlanta, georgia. the crowds are coming out and we're getting fired up. we're here as part of msnbc's growing hope initiative. to help people share their hope for change and raise awareness of americans giving back to their community. just steps away from here is ebinezer baptist church as martin luther king organized some of the greatest triumph ofs of the civil rights movement. he succeeded in growing hope for the entire country and it's up to aum of us now to continue and extand his legacy. >> we start tonight with tonight's lead. and president obama throwing down the gaunt let let for econ fairness. with. >> the republicans who are in charge of the house right now and want to take over the senate -- [ booing ] >> don't boo. vote. work. but they have said no to every proposal that we know could make a difference in the lives of hard-working americans. they have said no to equal pay for equal work. in fact, they denied there's even a problem. i'm just saying. they said no to increasing the minimum wa

downtown atlanta. ice headquarters. the not one more coalition has successfully blockaded the facility. and for this short time at least, they've managed to do what president obama won't: stop the deportations. >> this issue's not going to go away. the reality is you have people in the shadows, exploited, with families being divided and no pathway to get out of this situation. >> what should be clearly understood is that anyone who knowingly and willingly enters the united states illegally should not expect amnesty. that to me is a clear bright line. >> how does it make sense to continue deporting people today who tomorrow could actually be eligible for a legalization program? >> get a hacksaw - we need a hacksaw! >> get a lawyer! >> to think that the state could actively separate families, actively take away the parents of us citizen children, i think we're going to look back on this time and probably be disgusted. >> misbehaving children locked up doing time while they should be in school. >> they have to prepare for

a special edition of "politics nation" growing hope, live from the sweet auburn festival in downtown atlantal look at ways we can all give back to our communities and improve the lives of people around us. we hope to see you there. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton, "hardball" starts right now. >>> a tail of dark sposs. let's play "hardball." >> good evening. let's start with the right wing efforts to scare off people with benghazi and scare off minorities who might vote democrat without outright voter pp

edition of "politics nation" growing hope, live from the sweet auburn festival in downtown atlanta. we'll look at ways we can all give back to our communities and improve the lives of people around us. we hope to see you there. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton, "hardball" starts right now. >>> a tail of dark sposs. let's play "hardball." >> good evening. let's start with the right wing efforts to scare off people with benghazi and scare off minorities who might vote democrat without outright voter suppression. this is aimed at the elections this november, obviously. one, drive up the suspicious right, including the second amendment people by saying the ghovt is lying to them about the death of u.s. diplomats, about the irs, about fast and furious to catch cross border drug dealers. two, change and restrict voter laws to discourage and confuse democratic voters. bottom line, a big republican victory this november. a veritable thumping of the democrats, set setting the stage of two years of administration frustration and obama hatred that seeds right up until the 2016 election. le

i'm coming to you live from the sweet auburn festival in downtown atlanta, georgia.ng out and we're getting fired up. we're here as part of msnbc's growing hope initiative. to help people share their hope for change and raise awareness of americans giving back to their community. just steps away from here is ebinezer baptist church as martin luther king organized some of the greatest triumph

in his heyday in the 60s or 70's was one of the two developers responsible for building downtown atlanta. in 1981 tom wrote an article in "the new york times" reviews a storied article and even to this day i find it hard to believe. the article said this tom will tell you the article said 80% of the prisoners in the state of new york come from six neighborhoods in new york city. tom read that and said that can't possibly be true. tom wanted to know if that was true. he called up the people and to find out if that's true. "the new york times" can actually report accurately. that's an amazing thing. that can't be true so he called the chief of police. he said i read the story in "the new york times." it can be true in georgia. the chief laughs and says that horse is true. if an nose that is true. in fact it's for neighborhoods in the state of georgia. all these for neighborhoods are terribly impoverished depressed neighborhoods and the worst one was the city named eastlake. eastlake was a terrible neighborhood. i have seen pictures. the employment rate there was 13%. not the unemployment r