it is dr. kings inspires that led to these decisions, presidential and executive orders and concongressional and equality. the hero awards are living and profound symbols of this tradition. remind us that we here today are stewards of that great legacy, but more importantly that our collective work to advance human and civil rights is far from accomplished. today's historic observance is also a reminder to those of us in our commission to honor those 5 decades of service and accomplishments of the san francisco human rights commission in its fight for human rights in the face of discrimination. the history landmark initiatives and subsequent legislation generated by the san francisco human rights commission are not less than historic if not miraculous and too numerous to numerate. if i maybe so bold allow me to suggest that neither today's observance nor what we celebrate, a call to action from those we honor and upon whose shoulders we stand. they were not nostalgic figures in this history but with

of course, that goes back to the meetings that he attempted to have with dr. king in alabama. dr. ng was in jail at that time, but malcolm met with corretta. he said, you tell dr. king we got his back. we got his back. so another indication that the trajectory of their lives was an confluence of their ideologies, their flosscie philosophies, their political feelings, and they were coming together. when dr. king marched in tennessee. when he spoke out against the war of vietnam, he was coming to a place where malcolm x had been all along. >> speaking about malcolm speaking to everyone. in his grassroots speech i want to quote him. you catch hell if you're a black man. all of us catch hell for the same reason so we have to unite against the, quote, common ene enemy." malcolm x is right, today's white man is the global political system of racism and white supremacy. everyone who wants to say that racism is dead is today's quote/unquote enemy. andrew says malcolm x would be disappointed that 50 years later black people still have not taken our economic security in our own hands. i know

and speak about dr. king. it's impossible. i have a day job, a full-time job as a member of congress representing the people in georgia. but everybody would like for me to calm to address a group or college or university. and we get requests from hundreds of thousands of student groups to meet them on the capitol steps. we see a lot of young people from around the world, and i enjoyed talking with students and changing and telling them about the movement and shrunken photographs and videos. one thing, it keeps you young to engage with the students. and a lot of these young people, they don't believe it. they do not believe that i got arrested 40 times during the '60s. so how do you do it? did you think about giving up? i never thought about giving up. i couldn't give up. i couldn't get in. >> host: doug brinkley writes in forward to "across that bridge" about you. he forges onward, that rarest of politicians who draws the respect of every colleague on both sides of the portion file. -- partisan. when he steps

dr. martin luther king jr., thank you dr. king, because you shared your dream, i'm able to dream beyond what generations before me could even imagine. that is what fulfills my dream from my youth and my young adults. i truly just thank god that he allows know wake up everyday and do not only what i love but do what i feel i'm purposed to do. i want to thank the san francisco human rights commission for selecting me as the 2013 hero award recipient. i want to say thank you for nominating me. i don't think you will ever understand that the nomination means more than the actual award. if you only knew. i would like to briefly acknowledge a few heroes of my own on this day that marks the 50th year of the march on washington. wilhelm wundt -- one of the most profound speeches that we have heard. simply because i did not receive this award on my own. the first of my heroes are my parents. thank you for your support and love since the day i was born. it will allow me to find my purpose in this crazy thing we call life. i knew you wou

. >> my mother marched with dr. king>> one of the chicago black panthers. >> when they initiated the free lunch program. again, it was about education. when you say i am a hall of fame basketball player, but really i believe what most people are proudest of me of in this community is having my masters and getting a masters degree from berkeley. this is where we really preach education. when we talk about poverty in those times it was how do you get out of poverty? and we believe education was the best way. >> as we

this month is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of dr. king.er stone and peter kuznick -- >> of martin luther -- of john f. kennedy. 50th anniversary of the march on washington. "the untold history of the united states." that does it for the broadcast. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!] tavis: good evening. from los angeles, i am tavis smiley. nenight a conversation with an lamott. her book deals frankly with how to find answers to life's most ethical westerns. she does so with insight and with humor. we are glad you have joined us. a conversation with the always wonderful anne lamott emmy up right now. -- coming up right now. ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: they are the big questions that confront all of us. how to find meaning in chaos, how to start over in the face of deva

. >> my mother marched with dr. king>> one of the chicago black panthers. >> when they initiated the free lunch program. again, it was about education. when you say i am a hall of fame basketball player, but really i believe what most people are proudest of me of in this community is having my masters and getting a masters degree from berkeley. this is where we really preach education. when we talk about poverty in those times it was how do you get out of poverty? and we believe education was the best way. >> as we sat in the apartment in the late hours talking about this, one of the community organizers said that the story should not just be the violence. the story should be those that continue to fight and show that we're not going to run. we're going to turn it around. and that's what we must do. one note before we go. this weekend i'll be in dallas signing copies of my new book "the rejected stone." sunday morning i'll be at the friendship west baptist church in dallas. and then at 4:00 sunday afternoon i'll be at th

. >> dr. king was coming there and he was -- i mean, he was really shaken. he said, if the hundreds of secret service can't protect the president, any time they want us, we got to be ready to go. because there is no protection. he took the president's death as a sign of his own assassination. >> and it just -- to hear that sound made me realize what a tense and tu multiuous time it was. >> it was just a few years later that dr. king was killed after giving that memorable speech, i've seen the mountaintop. it was a chaotic time in america. we had obviously john f. kennedy killed, we got much deeper in vietnam, 60,000 people, almost 6,000 death toll there. dr. king is killed, kennedy is killed there are other incidents across america. judge jackson in california, black panthers, and abuse by the institutions, there was a chaotic time. but it didn't just all begin with athe assassination of john f. kennedy. even if he lived, a lot of those things probably would have happened. what would he have done about vietnam? i'm persuaded he would have stayed a while long

assassination to an almost all black audience and urging the crowd to embrace dr king's message of love and unity instead of letting hate and anger blind them after winning two state primaries he was shot on one of his campaign stops by a twenty four to four year old palestinian man i'm so handsome and and died just over one day later and while controversy surrounds the assassination of his brother john there are still plenty of and answered questions over what happened to robert nearly enough the inconsistency of the official narrative near his brother's death for example according to salon dot com the forensic evidence from the event proves there actually twelve bullets fired that day as their hands or hands gun we held eight this is just one of the many oddities regarding robert's death so many in fact that even the l.a. coroner refused to conclude that so hands around was the lone perpetrator. unfortunately will probably never know what happened to our of k. or his brother or what would have happened if they had lived but there's one thing we do know. his powerful message still reso

dr. king's death. tical assassination to advance a political agenda. it was the buried bodies of kennedy and king that gave johnson leverage in '64 and '68 and it was the broken bodies of civil rights protesters like current congressman john lewis who in the spring of 1965 gave johnson a wedge to pass voting rights legislation reform. what happened on the bridge during the bloody sunday march was the martyr moment that allowed the big texan with the distinctive southern drawl to stand in the well of congress and say this. >> because it's not just negroes but really it's all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. and we shall overcome. [ applause ] in this country, civil rights and voting rights have been purchased with the precious cost of blood and the fearlessness of a leader willing to spend the moral capital those martyrs provided. but today that legacy is in jeopardy. just this week the republican-controlled state senate in ohio passed the bill to shorten early votin

it's almost exactly what it was the day dr. king was killed. means that some of us have been able to take advantage the gains made possible by the sacrifices of the pioneers of the civil rights movement but a large percentage of our people are still left behind and look at the percentage of the number of black men in prison. martin luther king would be shocked if he came back and found that out and i'm hoping that we can have the real conversation about race by integrating the curriculum. every time there's a racial incident our lears talk about a conversation about race. this is a town hall meeting talking about you. people are testifying saying i used to be a racist but i'm better now like an a.a. meetin then two weeks ler there's another racial incident. whe in america are citizens shaped? they're shap in schools. theye shaped in schools invisibly everyday. what do you learn in first ade? my country 'tis of thee, america the betiful, i pledge allegiance to the flag,eorge washington chopped down the cherry tree. your teacher doesn't say "i'm

dr. martin luther king is coming to the area, dr. her king is going to be in town. >> my pastor was -- he was highly on members being aware and participating in that march on washington. he said he wanted all the members to be a part of that, a part of that history. so i was determined that i was going to be part of that history. >> we would have conferences every summer, called the youth congress. and at the youth congress in the plenary session, i think it was, they qr talking with -- we talking about the march at the ending session, one of the elders, ministers, got up and said, i nominate loretta. i said, oh, my god. i won't be able to go. he said, yes, you will.

dr. king's advice and followed the montgomery method.ined up with other young african-american and white men and women who trained themselves in nonviolent resistance. by the time he was 25 years old, they were leading that march from selma, alabama, to montgomery for vote rights. by then he was a seasoned veteran of many campaigns, including lunch counter sit-ins and freedom rides. he had been beaten and arrested dozens of times. by then, he led the student nonviolent coordinating committee. he had already been the youngest speaker at the 1963 march on washington, alongside his hero, the reverend martin luther king jr. now, as the only surviving speaker of the march on washington, now in his 27th year in congress, civil rights icon john lewis has decided to pay it forward, working with acclaimed comic book artist nate powell and with a young staffer named andrew iden, who was so captivated by the idea of that 1958 comic, that he wrote a masters thesis about it. these three men together created a graphic novel about the life and the life

dr. martin luther king. >> dr. r king came to me because he knew two years prior we had had a bus boycott. we gave the know how. >> he commanded respect from politicians on both sides of the aisle later becoming the president of the national baptist convention. he passed away in baton rouge earlier this month at the age of 95. lying in repose at the louisiana state capitol, something that would have been unthinkable in that state before he came along to do what he did. reverend w. franklin richardson who eulogized him and one of my mentors said you don't judge a giant by how tall he stands. you judge him by the footprint he leaves in history. we will miss reverend jemison because when it was time for justice and fairness and courage, he never missed showing up for us. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> fear itself. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this, no sooner than the president tried to avoid a third war, th

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first thing in the morning, before i spoke to the national press club, we went to the dr king memoriali thought of his, "i have a dream" speech, and it was given on the steps of the lincoln memorial. we went there and saw president lincoln there. when we looked across the mall to the far end, i saw it has the national nut house, just the day before the government had been opened. >> the national nut house would be the capital, the house of representatives and the senate. >> yes. >> tell me about that. >> you use the word whacko. >> no, i think you used that word. >> i used that word in the speech. the tea party people are crazy. i mean, they are luna ticks. they closed down the government, throw people out of their jobs, hundreds of thousands of people and say that they are doing to ultimately in the interests of creating jobs. madness. and, you know, my life has been shaped by that kind of situation - madness, craziness by our democracy and shining ideals of our dem okay wassy mem wrorial esed by the -- memorialized by the monuments at the other end of the mall. incarcerations of japa

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the black upper middle-class has quadrupled since 1968 when dr. king killed because of affirmative action. at the same time, the percentage of black children living at or beneath the poverty line is almost identical to what it was the day dr. king was killed. >> ifill: so there's this huge wealth gap even though we have a black president and we're supposed to be past all this. >> and for those of us able to take advantage of affirmative action and then replicate ourselves over the years we believe able to take advantage of more access to the means of production than any generation of black people before us. >> ifill: including telling our own stories. >> including telling our own stories. also we have a huge market. a huge group of black people who can afford to go to movie theaters, buy a ticket, tivo, buy d.v.d.s. you see these forces coming together. so i think that we are in a kind of renaissance, but it's the result, paradoxically, or curiously enough, of the civil rights movement and affirmative action. we're just seeing its effect 40 years later

thank you very much to dr. king lun, ceo of the bank of china asset management.to you. >> thank you very much. which stocks do you own in your 401(k)? we'll tell you the five most wildly held if you own individual stocks if your 401(k). we'll get this answers, we have those answers right after this. >>> when it >>> when it comes to your retirement plan having the right stocks in your portfolio is key but many americans don't even know which stocks they own. our sharon epperson with the five most widely held companies. >> it's easy to figure out what mutual funds are in your 401(k) but requires a little more digging to find out the most wildly held stocks in those funds. we did the work and took a look at some of the top mutual funds and 401(k) plans and they told us that among them are fidelity's contra fund and spartan fund and american's funds growth fund of america and two vanguard index funds and then morning star to find out the most wildly held companies in those funds and ranking five is cisco systems. it's in about 1,000 mutual funds altogether making it

assassination to an almost all black audience and urging the crowd to embrace dr king's message of love and unity instead of letting the hate and anger blind them after winning two state primaries he was shot on one of his campaign stops by a twenty four or year old palestinian man i'm so handsome and and died just over one day later and while controversy surrounds the assassination of his brother john there are still plenty of and answered questions over what happened to robert nearly enough the inconsistency of the official narrative near his brother's death for example according to salon dot com the forensic evidence from the event groups there actually twelve bullets fired that day. her hands her hands gun held eight this is just one of the many oddities regarding robert's death so many in fact that even the l.a. coroner refuse to conclude that was the lone perpetrator. unfortunately will probably never know what happened are ok or rather what would have happened if they had. but there's one thing we do know has powerful message still resonates today. cannot continue to deny and. th

dr. king's words from the birmingham jail. i've seen that all the time, people who are i think in their core good people who don't know what to do who tend to send the paradigm that boys will be boys and girls will be girls and we're trying to shift that paradigm. and that's why in okahenapen we have an accountability document that calls for --. >> (inaudible) with the idea, like i said, there is not a state going that we don't have a parent that has a dead child. we are dragging everybody to the party because at what point do we say, we can't even say, kids are dying. hundreds and hundreds of children have died when this should be the best times of their life and our most sensitive, compassionate, empathetic, our children are not surviving their childhood. >> one thing i've learned in my line of work, and again i want to thank you for your remarks and your doggedness, civil rights is about persistence. you exude persistence. i have attempted to live a persistent life. the civil rights act of 1964 was first introduced in 1948,

dr. king's death deeply impacted my parents. when my sister and i were born, all of america was still grieving. back then, a big chunk of the republican party was in favor of civil rights. we forget about that. today we miss the kennedys. we also miss the kennedy-era republican party. too often today's gop seems like it's on the wrong side of history. i want to go to you on this question, this question of civil rights, marriage equality, do you sometimes worry that 50 years from now we look back at the republican party and you're going to say, maybe they were on the wrong side of history? >> i don't think so. i think we're where the average per is, we're a loving, open-minded party. the fact is most of is still believe that marriage is between a man and woman. the party is big enough to include folks who disagree. by i think we have an opportunity to move america into the 22nd century. finding a common ground, building a -- >> we had ralph reed here, a big party of your party, and he determined what a lot of that party can do. h

and we cannot allow the appalling silence of good people to become the status quo, to quote dr. king. we must empower them with the tools that they have and they need to move forward and that is why we spend so much time working together on these issues. we've been to the communities in south philly high school where we saw in one day alone 15 asian students who had to be taken to the emergency room as a result of a persistent pattern of harassment. they didn't speak the king's english. my father spoke ricky ricardo english as well and he would have been a victim of bullying under that circumstance. so we worked with the school district. we don't focus on the criminal prosecution of the specific bully. that's an important element and we work with our partners in local government on that, but our focus has been on the system's issues, of working with the school superintendents, working with the school districts to create a culture of inclusion, to create a culture where people can be accepted for who they are. we've seen bullying in the context of kids with disabilities, kids who coul

do not stand up and defend people like jeremy the judge said that he is not you know i'm a dell or dr kingi was a civil rights activist germany's every much as a progressive humanist as the spirit of those leaders as we said in the difference is motivated by his political beliefs his desire for transparency and his desire to highlight what's wrong with the private security industry and with government surveillance a total of two hundred six. five letters from journalist activists human and constitutional rights groups were sent to the judge asking for jeremy hammond to be released also thirty six prominent freedom of information activists sent their requests to the courthouse however the huge public support for jeremy hammond did not affect the judge's decision if we don't have jeremy hammond since we don't have edward snowden's if we don't have chelsea manning. we don't have a free press sometimes comes on the heels of the n.s.a. scandal continuing the debate on what should and should not be kept secret in the u.s. and for how long the unprecedented war on whistleblowers will continue as

scott says that the president of the world food prize dr king is queen and that's in worlds apart. i hate to be a downer but i really think the olympics have lost all meaning in the past when there was the cold war it was like a battle between two ideologies taking place in the abstract and the one nine hundred thirty six olympics nazi pseudo science their self-proclaimed superiority was put on trial for the whole world to see and spent the olympics having the majority of the countries on earth participating they're now horribly horribly bland one could argue that they have become a great way for countries to show off their ex used to build up some infrastructure by think this is a big misconception let's look back to the two thousand a lympics in beijing yes china is really develop in the last twenty years but the olympics really teach us anything about this country with a radically different political system or anything about their ancient culture or the way they think or the way they live no nothing at all all we saw were some flags and some pandas that rather unique stadium whi

a dell or dr king i was a civil rights activist germany's every much as a progressive human this as the spirit of those leaders as we said in the difference if we don't have jeremy hammond if we don't have had words snowden's if we don't have chelsea manning parent brown's we don't have a free press this sometimes comes on the heels of the n.s.a. scandal continuing the debate on what should and should not. be kept secret in the u.s. and for how long the unprecedented war on whistleblowers will continue as well as the war on freedom of information and artsy. it is supporters claim everything was stage managed by the f.b.i. that manipulated him to carry out the attacks on government websites david seaman a us journalist who's been keeping tabs on the high tech story things the jailed activist was late every step of the way. he was approached by an f.b.i. informant this came out an article in wired magazine this f.b.i. informant is apparently the one who quote unquote cheer lead jeremy into hacking into this organization this f.b.i. informant also allegedly gave them a list of other target

it's beyond his immediate fake is it that dr king said the prissy much all the matches by fleet street rapid economic progress are in decline people's real incomes falling more and more of it spent on basic essentials. uniquely based generation of young people is was educated and that parents and niece it's the female life expectancy and is tiled more time to see among the west in euro. if anything economics common tasted jeremy warn that says gray is guides but warns it is unsustainable. not enough exports is not enough business investment in this economy. now that it provided the economy continues to grow the hope is that these things will eventually come true but that the mind has left a little sauna. can you say that these key indicates it's a good thing sounds it's educates and health into all of that decline towards nevada. ever since the crisis began living standards of being on the amount of trash every day for the first time again the molten history. we are seeing the situation with people leaving the workforce of it aren't all that sure it takes it from the people joining the