jr fifty years later what is dr king's unfinished business . well unfortunately there is a great deal of unfinished business dr king was in the process of launching a poor people's campaign in washington d.c. that was actually supposed to happen in april of one nine hundred sixty eight he saw the intersection between race and class and the struggle for equality in this country and he wanted to push for a basic income for all americans affordable housing universal health care and make sure that life was more equitable for all people and particularly people of color so we know that poor people's campaign happened to some degree after dr king's assassination the impact was nowhere near the vision that dr king had and so we see that poor people across the country are still being impacted as a result of an equitable access to opportunity and affordable housing and things like that beyond that we saw the proliferation of mass incarceration in the aftermath of dr king's assassination as a result of the war on drugs and since the war on drugs began we'

>> dr. king understood that you need to make people own their shame. >> it looks like the tear gas is coming out. >> their story of struggle and triumph. >> they took them into corridors and alleys and began beating them. >> -- is the american story. >> whose streets? our streets! >> a story still being told. >> right here!" >> dr. king said we have to create a crisis so that the power structures are forced to answer. >> if we don't get it! >> shut it down. >> we want the world to see. >> hello, sir. >> good. how are you? >> good. the reason i pulled you over -- you, your brake lights are out. >> on july 6, 2016, outside st. paul, minnesota, officers pulled over 32 year-old philando castile on a routine traffic stop. >> sir, i have to tell you, i do have a firearm on me. >> okay. don't reach for it then. don't pull it out. >> i'm not pulling it out. >> don't pull it out! >> you just killed my boyfriend. >> stay with me. we got pulled over for a busted taillight in the back, and the police just, h

after dr. king and we slightly atng to it.acknowledge for those of you that are not 50+ yet -- i am 29 for the second time to make up. i am still a millennial. [laughter] >> i'm commemorating dr. king. but not the dr. king that everybody wants you to dream about, i'm commemorating the dr. king that pushed us. that challenged us. the dr. king that told us to stir up some good trouble. the dr. king who reminded us that we should take care of poor people. was a championo for equality. let us use this moment next week to tell our story. to remind this country that we are not there yet, and that we are prepared to hurry history. areow some of y'all involved in, what is going to happen the donald trump. storm is'll a brewing. i'm going to tell you what is going to happen. 2019, got a job is going to wake up thinking everything is all right and by the end of that night when he sees out things are turning, how people are going out to vote despite their best efforts to suppress, to intimidate, to remove peop

and if it's about our children, why can't we march and dr. king after a lot of prayerin and discussion finally said, it is about you. mr. president job you know this, and for our pages especially it was those children advocating and they marched and they did have fire hoses turned on them and they did have guarding dos release at them and children braving that ugly face of discrimination landed on the front pages of papers all over the united states and all over the world. and it was transformative of the civil rights movement. adults in the u.s. knew there was discrimination but they said i think it is strong but probably never change but when they saw their children demanding of them adults, adult use say you care about children prove to us you care about children when -- the adult its of america were confronted with the example of their own young people. lethey had to shake themselves t of their complacency in difference, and a shoulder burtd that it's to shoulder. that's what these students at parkland are saying to us know that's what student

i'm commemorating the dr. king that pushed us, that challenged us. the dr. king told us to go ahead and stir up some good trouble. the dr. king reminded us that we must take care of poor people and speak up. the dr. king who was a champion for equality. let us use this moment next week to tell our story, to remind this country that we are not there yet. we are prepared to hurry history. allow some of you are involved in what is going to happen to donald trump. i'll tell you, storm is brewing. i'm going to tell you what is going to happen. 6, 2018, donald trump is going to wake up that morning thinking that everything was going to be all right. by the end of that night, when he sees how things are turning, how people are going out to vote despite their best effort, their best efforts to suppress, to intimidate, to remove people forcing voter roll, people in states to provide a provisional ballot. when they look at the results of 2018, they are going to be 1986, two years after jesse jackson's historic run, we were able to take back because of the buzz we provi

>> dr. king understood that you need to make people own their shame. >> it looks like the tear gas is coming out. >> their story of struggle and triumph. >> they took them into corridors and alleys and began beating them. >> -- is the american story. >> whose streets? our streets!

i think dr. king was the best example of how peaceful protests can bring about great change but we cannot allow his legacy to, in some way, diminish by virtue of our not doing our share, our duty to protect what he has delivered to us, which is a society, quite frankly, that can move forward together. he did remind us that if we don't learn to live together as brothers and sisters, we will pearish together as fools. >> wise words, congressman al green. thank you so much for spending part of your saturday with us. >> thank you. >> congressman, thank you. >>> tomorrow night nbc special documentary "hope & fury: mlk, the movement and the media" explores how media and movements have influenced each other. watch it tomorrow at 10:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. >>> california is the target of president trump's latest twitter tirade. how the war of words escalates the immigration debate. peninsula trail? you won't find that on a map. i'll take you there. take this left. if you listen real hard you can hear t

dr. marten luther king.d he see today, what would he think today if he were to be here looking at what has happened? i brought up ferguson, baltimore, i also bring up what happened yesterday in 800 cities around the world. what would he think, phil? >> you know, we asked ourselves often through the course of making this film what would dr. king be with a twitter account or, you know, an instagram and facebook, what would his organizing look like? inevitably, it would be global. and it would be essential. would he feel distressed by the state of affairs? if all likelihood. if he had made it 50 years forward, maybe we wouldn't be dealing with a lot of the same things that we're dealing with today that he may have been able to finish the task that he set out to do and we'd be further along. so i'd like to think if dr. king were still here, we wouldn't have needed a march for our lives yesterday. >> and rachel, i was thinking, again, of the documentary and seeing the march of hundreds of youth, right, as we were

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dr. king's death. in this hiser to he can speech, he called upon- historic speech, he called upon americans to react to nonviolence to the assassination. senator kennedy stated and i quote, what we need in the united states is not division. what we need in the united states is not hatred. what we need in the united states is not violence or lawlessness. but love and wisdom. and compassion toward one another. and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country whether they be white or whether they be black. unquote. the site where senator kennedy delivered the speech is currently located in a city park established in 1961 and has since served as a community gathering place. in 1994, the landmark for peace memorial sculpture was erected on the site of senator kennedy's speech. april 4, 2018, marks the 50th anniversary of robert kennedy's speech and dr. king's assassination. i commend representative carson and representative brooks for working across the aisle othis bipartisan and im

dr. martin luther king jr.'s assassination.housands are expected at the national civil rights museum in memphis where the civil rights leader was killed. the museum is planning an all-day event, several days of events, with performances, speeches to celebrate king's life and message. including appearances by the reverend jesse jackson who was with king on the night that he was killed, and congressman john lewis who spoke at king's 1963 march on washington. here with me now is martin luther king iii, good to have you back here. >> thank you. >> i've been thinking that the celebration of his birthday is something that we celebrate other birthdays in this country, and we kind of know how to do that. but the commemoration of an assassination is a different thing. how would you want people to commemorate this day, the day that your father 50 years ago was killed? >> what is very interesting to me personally and you're absolutely correct, my mom always focused on the birthday, although on the date of his passing or his killing, we ac

. >> we learned so much from dr. king and from you.hank you for your re-election. >> watch tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. on nbc. and i want to give my thanks to betsy woodruff and evan mcmullan and jennifer rubin. and i'm kristin welker in for nicolle wallace. >> good to see you. >> another slow day. >> another slow news day. we haven't had breaking news in ten minutes so hurry back, will you. >>> if it is friday, it is fight-or-flight to mar-a-largo. tonight how john bolton's appointment as national security adviser changes america's relationship with the world. >> he has a world view that i think will help the president make us safer. >> he has a history of being a war monger. >> plus the president ordered new tariffs o

but there's this principle by dr. kingre. what that means is how our community is will be affected in the future if we don't make a change. if we're not acting like a family now, we won't act like a family in the fewer f pain is in our community now, pain will forever be in our community in the future if we don't make a change. our community has been affected by gun violence for so long and will continue to be affected by it if we don't do something. but through my friends and colleagues, i found help to come up out of a dark place. everyone doesn't have the same resources and support system as i was lucky to have. myself, and a few other peace warriors were able to take a trip to visit parkland students and share our trauma with one another. we left not only knowing that we were supporting one another, but also realizing that without the problem gasroots resources, this issue of violence will not be solved and we will not stop until we are properly resourced in our communities. so family, let's continue to fight for what'

so now we come to what brought dr. king to memphis. dr. ple's campaign. a major campaign to radically reimagine how the nation addresses poverty. we are now in our mlk 50 legacy remembered exhibit. you get the preview. >> the first ones? >> the first ones. this is the first set of color photographs that i have seen from the silent march in downtown memphis. when people come to visit the museum, they will see a large number of photographs that have not been seen before or rarely seen before. >> it is hard to believe 50 years passed and still photos that have not been seen. >> our museum is a timeline. it brings you up to the final moment. which is room 306. where dr. king spent his last hours. >> it is surreal. >> it is. >> that is the most powerful part of the museum. >> that is the part i remember. >> yeah. you know, if you had not been to memphis or that museum, i would strongly encourage you to go. >>> that will do it for us on saturday morning. tomorrow on "sunday today," willie sits down with actor john goodman with a conversation of g

i was eight or sold when dr. king was killed. it they subsequently bounced around and i taught history in new orleans and eight at being called a magic bus to take college students and i think creative tailored for civil rights tours and went to montgomery, birmingham, studying the civil rights movement. when i go to montgomery and there's no memorials for rosa parks. there was one street named jefferson davis avenue intersected with rosa parks. and so i wanted to see where rosa parks lived on december 1, 1955 and she became the mother of the movement. it was the most decrepit, underfunded housing projects in a room without exaggerating her home was the size of this stage. i mean, she lived with her husband, raymond in this impoverished way, yet her integrity level was so high. she didn't go to college, but she went to an industrial school for girls where they taught home economics in those days. it was the booker t. washington industrial schools in the south. and then she worked her way and would do things like work as a secreta

so, i wrote dr. kingi was 17 years old, and i met him in 1958 and i got involved. i started studying the way of peace, the way of love, studying the philosophy and the discipline of nonviolence. and then started getting involved in the sit-ins, going on the freedom rides and participating in marches. these children, these young people almost made me cry yesterday, and i think i was crying inside. there are so smart. they are so gifted. they are following in a very rich tradition, that when you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to say something and do something. it will be these children, these young people that will lead us. they will help us get there. >> what is it about being young that affects how these children are perceiving the world? what do you remember? did you feel powerless and like you needed to push back against the way the adults were doing things? i mean, what we've been hearing over and over again from these kids is that the adults, the syste

dr. king's dream. when atlanta wins the bid for the olympic games, it was dr. legacy that presents atlanta as a city that had transcended the racial history of the american south. >> thank you for the lecture. really enjoyed it. i am a native georgian and came to atlanta in 1976 to go to clark college. i am familiar with the history from that point forward. the question is, with all the history of atlanta, the rich history as a "black mecca" what do you see as the future of this black mecca? prof. hobson: this is a million-dollar question. i get this six ways to sunday. i get this question daily. you know, this is a unique place. this is liberated territory. a very conservative red state. historically, marginalized groups have often had to rely on federal policy to protect marginalized people, to right the wrongs in states that often have been noncooperative with the federal government. however, most recently, we are in uncharted waters. it is now time for marginalized people, and i mean this in the broadest sense, women, latinos, the lgbt communicable -- commu

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dr. kingnd his staff were very, very savvy. they knew exactly what was going on. >> you want me to just make a statement and not interview -- you don't want to interview? >> you got it. >> and they strategized how to use their coverage to their advantage. >> racial, i love that fourth wall moment with dr. king. it sort of talking about the mechanics of how you talk to the press, is this off the record? is this an avail? because it shows we get him through this sort of film sort of iconic look but there is someone who very much knew what he was going to talk to the american public through this meeting. >> absolutely. dr. king was really, he's so one-dimensionalized by history and i have to confess i was astonished at how much i learned in the course of making the film about how sophisticated he was and how much he played the media. you know, that's not a cynical thing. that's one more example of his genius but there are these moments we captured in our material that were just fantastic where yo

the civil rights movement through the lens of how television news captured it at the time and how dr. king proved to be far more media savvy than he's often remembered for. >> we have no moral choice but to continue the struggle not for ourselves alone but for all americans. >> reporter: king developed a strategy of resistance that was designed to challenge the status quo. while never making white america feel threatened. he consciously set about creating a character palatable to all of america. martin luther king understood that if you're only telling the story, you know, among the black press and among black people, you're preaching to the choir. you've got to get outside the church. >> what special instructions or advice has been given to the negro people? >> if there is violence, that it must not come from negro people. >> reporter: king's efforts to woo the media started to pay off. soon king was the story, and the story was the movement. >> more than 12 months now we, the negro citizens of montgomery, have been engaged in a nonviolent protest. >> reporter: the boycotters faced death

was, my childhood memories of dr. king in atlanta. i was 8 years old when dr. king was killed.i sub swently bounced around, got my doctorate. and i taught in new orleans. i had a thing called magic just and take students around the country and take students to historic sites. we went to birmingham, atlanta, studying the civil rights movement. when i go to montgomery in those days there were no memorials for rosa parks, jefferson davis avenue intersected with rosa parks boulevard. i wanted to see where rosa parks lived on december 1, 1955, when the montgomery bus boycot kicked in and she became the mother of the movement. it was the most decrepit underfunded housing project she was living with, in a room, without exaggerating, her home was the size of this stage. i mean, she lived in it with her husband raymond in this impoverished way. yet her integrity level was so high. she didn't to to college, but industrial school where they taught home economics. of the she worked her way, would do things like work as a secretary for the naacp for no money. nixon, the big kingpin of the r

eastern on c-span3, archival events including walter conk right announcing dr. king -- dr. king's assassination. civil rights of leaders, including john lewis, gina bellefonte, and tamika mallory. the 50th anniversary of the assassination of dr. martin luther king jr.. on c-span and american history tv on c-span3. this sunday on "1968, america guests are our former black panther and lecturer kathleen cleaver, and the neil joseph, professor at the university of texas at -- watchand author of " "1968, america in turmoil," live on sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span's "washington journal" and on american history tv on c-span3. c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and today, we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span has brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. "washington journal" continues. host: our guest, michael farren, a research federal at the merc

dr. martin luther king's day. but even today, the exercise of religious freedom is so critical in the black community. i do want to say one other thing. i want you to have a sense of how important this biblical interpretation is to king. he bases his efficacy of the struggles of civil rights and in biblical understanding. you see it in the "i have a dream" speech. anduotes isaiah 40 describing his vision for african-americans his vision of , the future. "i have a dream that one day every value will be exalted, every hill and mountain laid low, the rough places will be made plain and the crooked laces that places will be made straight, and the glory of the lord shall be revealed. and all flesh shall sit together. this is our hope." so king is explicitly championing the responsibly of every christian to follow his or her conscience and to be god's -- obey god's calling when any conflict arises between the two. between god's calling and the duty to civil society, which professor wilkins was talking about earlier, tha

as a whole, sometimes people who have an agenda bring up dr. king. they quote the dream speech.in a color blind society where our kids can go to school together. they quote this one part but they don't quote the part about him being against the environment war. they don't say his letter from birmingham jail where he talks about the white moderate and nobody asked themselves, am i the white moderate? >> trevor: right. >> so everybody now is pro-king and not racist, but nobody is reading king now for how to be anti-racist. >> trevor: how do you think it plays out? because martin luther king exists in a place where some people use him to stage a protest and others go, we should use him to sell trucks in america. every one sees him in a different light. if martin luther king were around today, from what you've read and learned, like, how happy do you think he would be? would he think people would have reached a mountaintop? >> i think, from reading him, his thing was never being satisfied with where we are because there's always space. a mountaintop, in that speech, wasn't the place

drugstores, department stores, dr. king and others would have adults go, sit in, african americans and their allies, and be arrested, and yet wave after wave of arrests notwithstanding, including the arrest of dr. king, the city leaders would not back down. they would not shed the discrimination that violated the equality provisions of the constitution. as this was going on, children in the birmingham schools started to come to dr. king and say we want to march, too. dr. king and his lieutenants really struggled with this. they were parents. they didn't want their kids to be arrested. they didn't want their kids to face guard dogs attacking. they didn't want their kids to face fire hoses directed at them. and they had a natural parental reaction that we want to protect you. the children kept coming and saying, we want to march, too. finally they said, isn't this about us? as much as it's about adults, isn't this about us, your children? and if it's about our children, why can't we march? and dr. king, after a lot of prayer

dr. king's dream. when atlanta wins the bid -- won the atlantic for -- atlanta for olympics -- lecture.you for the really enjoyed it. i am a native georgian and came to atlanta in 1976 to go to clark college. i am familiar with the history from that point forward. the question is, with all the history of atlanta, the rich mecca" what "black do you see as the future of this black mecca? the onebson: this is million-dollar question. i get this six ways to sunday. i get this question daily. know, this is a unique place. this is liberated territory. a very conservative red state. historically, marginalized groups have often half -- had to rely on federal policy to protect marginalized people, to write the runs in states that often have been noncooperative with the federal government. arever, most recently, we in uncharted waters. it is now time for marginalized people, i mean this in the most hottest sons, women, latinos, -- in the most broadest sense, women, latinos, poor white people, whoever, to weaponi

>> the message that dr. kingwas one who was not only a dreamer, but a strategist, and a person who had some deep core beliefs that this country's soul needed to be redeemed in terms of racial and economic inequality, and he fought for that, ended up giving his life for that, and i think he was a strategist that understood that if you expose what wickedness does, people will then develop the will to say we do not need to be that kind of nation, and that challenge is still before us. that's why tonight's special is so important. >> it is indeed. all right reverend al sharpton, on a palm sunday no less, you are certainly busy, to make some time thank you so much. >> glad to do it, thank you. >> we invite all of you to watch "hope & fury" 9:00 eastern here on msnbc. >>> my next guest is the coauthor of a new article in "the washington post," why stormy daniels says working in porn helped prepare her for public scrutiny. i have type 2 diabetes. i'm trying to manage my a1c, then i learn type 2 diabetes puts me at great

when owner clayton was a good friend of the kings, dr. king and his wife, when they decided to create the great neighborhood initiative, the great society initiative to strengthen neighborhoods she was appointed as the head of that program and she had a bunch of different neighborhood captains and the mayor came to her and said listen, i have to warn you, she was an african american, still is, that hasn't changed, one of your neighborhood captains is a grand dragon in the kkk, just so you know and she described that first meeting where all the captains came in and one of them refused to touch her. he would come in from time to time, sit in her office downtown and she would talk to him about whatever. she says dr. king told her you don't try to change hearts. leave that to god. you have no control whether a heart is changed. you don't have that power. but you can be a human being and respect the land they would talk to each other. he came two or three times a week and at one point she asked him why do you keep coming here? you don't even like m

so those two start off the year, and then when you get to april 1, april 2, dr. king was assassinated. then robert kennedy assassination june 4th or 6th, so it was a very disruptive year and that -- those events caused more demonstrations and more disruptive demonstrations where property and what have you was destroyed. and so there was nothing -- there was nothing settled about that particular year. >> what were his personal feelings towards bobby kennedy? >> he never expressed them to me or to those around us. but we knew what his feelings were. he felt that bobby kennedy would not have been elected in '64 in new york had johnson not had such a landslide victory up there. he felt that bobby kennedy was constantly undermining him and disrespecting him. and he felt that bobby kennedy was different from either jack kennedy or ted kennedy whom he liked each of those brothers. so what all went into that and that feeling -- those bad feelings happened before i worked for the president and i can't comment on that, i don't know. but it was a very strained relationship. i kn

she said dr. king told her you don't try to change hearts, leave that to god. you have no control over whether a heart is changed, you don't have that power but you can be a human being and respectful so that is what she did. he ended up coming sometimes two or three times a week and she asked him why do you keep coming here? you don't even like me. he said i know, but i like to talk to you. >> you can watch this and other programs online@booktv.org. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening, everyone, good evening and welcome. i'm harold holzer, director of roosevelt house. on behalf of the president of hunter i am delighted to welcome you here for this evening's discsi

dr. king's life this wednesday? >> i will be in memphis, honoring and commemorating dr. king's life. and i just have to say, that speech that he gave at riverside church a year before he was killed, he talked about the triple evils, as martin luther king iii just mentioned, racism, poverty, and militarism. and we have to reflect upon where we were then and where we are now. when you look at militarism, we're looking now at a defense budget that's over $700 billion. wars that are unauthorized. $125 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse, yet no one is saying anything. these funds could be used for building schools and affordable housing and for all of our economic issues, better wages, better future for everyone. when you look at racism, recently senator harris, who was a member of the commission report, he came out with a book, we'll talk about this on the hill shortly, as it relates to the still racial inequality and disparities, and economic disparities and racial disparities. when you look at young black boys and the expulsion rates and expensed rat suspension rates in our schools, we

eyewitnesses to the assassination say dr. king left his room, 306, at the hotel just before dinner to get some air. he walked over to the railing at this spot, and noticing some friends below, leaned over and began to speak with them. police say 205 feet away, in a window in a clubhouse, the assassin waited. he waited, police believe, in a bathroom down the hall from the room he rented four hours earlier. to get a clear shot of his victim, the assassin had to lean on the bathtub, leaning forward to plant his arms on the window ledge to study his rifle. this was the view he got. he fired a single shot, hitting his target squarely, and then he ran -- out of the bathroom and along the decrepit hallway, racing down the rickety wooden stairs. one policeman said he simply faded. just to date this morning, dr. martin luther king's body was brought for an hour. hundreds pay their respects. old, dressed for work, middle-aged with families. young, well-dressed, curious children. and they were almost all black. for some, the experience was j

the focus is on dr. king rather than reverend king. but this is a man driven by his faith, strengthened by his faith. he endured death threats, bombings of his home, and injuring his wife and children, based on the strength of his faith. see, early in the campaign, the bus boycott in montgomery, he was terrified by the violence. in the middle of the night, he was sitting in the kitchen, trying to figure out what he would do. and he hears jesus speaking to him and telling him he must have faith. the humanist stand up for stand up forst righteousness and he must do what is right. and as he hears this, he becomes a man that he goes back to time and time again when he faces crisis in pursuing the civil rights movement. he is strengthened by the memory of that experience. in fact, david guerra, who is not a man of faith at all, as far as i know writes a , powerful biography of dr. king, which does not come from a religious aspect or perspective. it is completely secular. event keeps coming back, through the eyes of a writer, how important t

dr. king used a similar tactic, that you have to get these images out there, as painful as they may be. >> right. >> his legacy from then to now, how far have we travelled in eradicating this heinous issue? >> from a statistical point of view, i don't know that we traveled far at all. i think now we know what the facts are. these statistics, this data cannot be denied. how do we move forward from here? police where they have engaged in the communities, there's been a noticeable and measurable impact. that needs to happen in every city, every neighborhood in the country. there's nothing preventing that from happening. it seems to me perhaps a growing amount of anxiety on the part of black america now that these images are so universal and so easily can be seen in the day of body cams and personal videos and so forth. everybody is aware of it. but very little has been done where people can talk about faith and their personal life lessons and what they have done in order to overcome certain thing

even dr. king knew this wasn't the case. this was part of -- of how he understood the american south, but the truth of the matter, the conversation around the black and the south and there are a lot of debates going on in the field of history are based on two things. the first is the civil rights act of 1964 which buttresses the 14th amendment and grants equal protection and due process under the law coming out of birmingham which grants citizenship. the second is the voting rights act of 1965 coming out of selma that buttresses the 16th amendment and grants universal suffrage. what's particularly interesting about this is those two pieces of legislation create a new movement called the black new south and it's something that we must pay attention to because it's that kind of movement that produces an atlanta as a black mecca. now i want to fast forward a little bit. this is a picture of maynard jackson that says king of the south. this is something they pulled from the archives, and i am grateful to maynard jackson's family

dr. martin luther king. civil rights activist, dr. king's movement, all of which he helped to put through. would his voter fraud campaign of what he's doing in terms of rolling back on criminal justice reform, police reform, he's undoing the king dream and he has not really put into position black republicans like you on the west wing that says this is my person that is working on an agenda for black america, which he promised. i mean, where is his robert brown that nixon had? where is his arthur fletcher? don't you black republicans feel like you have been abused, misused, ignored, marginalized? >> look, i think there are a lot of african-americans, reverend sharpton, who aren't necessarily a part of the conversation. i know several who are, indeed, making efforts so that they can be a voice for -- >> do you have a point person for black america that's republican on the west wing of the white house? >> no, no, there isn't one. the last black african-american that was in the west wing in this administration was omarosa. now that she's

i have a dream that enough is enough. >> powerful words, speaking of dr. king, as the 50th anniversary of his assassination gets closer. nbc is airing "hope & fury: mlk the movement and the media." >> martin luther king realized that if his movement was going to gain traction and to awaken the consciousness of the country, it was going to have to be seen. television news was still very young. but he recognized its potential. at the same time television news recognized what an incredible story was unfolding. >> "hope & fury" airs tonight on nbc bay area, that two-hour special begins at 8:00. >>> going to have a nice night tonight? >> showers coming through. that's part of the forecast tonight and tomorrow. 70s coming back starting tuesday. >> we're back at 11:00. nbc bay area news special, "we investigate." josephine hardy: cut, cut. i shouldn't have brought that up. announcer: renters emotional and frustrated by the lack of oversight in one bay area community. we look into how it may have allowed landlords to wrongfully kick out tenants for years. plus-- richar

but there is this principle by dr. king is the framework for the future. [applause and cheers] alex: and what that means is how our community is now, it will be affected in the future if we don't make a change. if we are acting like a family now, we will not act like a family in the future. if pain is in the community now, it will be forever if we don't make a change. our community has been affected by gun violence or so long and will continue to be affected by it if we don't do something. but for my friends and colleagues i found help to come up out of a dark place. everyone doesn't have the same resources and support system as i was lucky to have. myself and a few other people were able to take a trip to visit parkland students and share our trouble with one another. we left not only knowing we would support one another, but also realizing that without the proper resources, this issue of violence will not be solved, and we will not stop until we are properly resourced in our community. [applause and cheers] alex: so famil

dr. king had a dream, and dream that we as youth must now make our reality.s unity of the spirit through peace and love. for firpeter sayses in chapter , above all, you are not hearing me. it says above all, love each other. because love helps all wrongdoing, and so as we -- and everybody say we -- and let me hear you say we, as youth must now be the change that we see. my mother has this phrase that she used all of the time and she told me before i left home to come here she said if you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything. i stand for peace. >>> two young men from chicago, and listen, this is not about mass shootings here, a thnd this about drivebyt shootings, and suicide and this is about gun violence on the way that we are minutes away from hearing from emma gonzalez and you have heard her calling b.s. on television and the front cover of the latest "time" magazine issue, and we will hear from her momentarily, and meantime, will was a moment earlier that we talked about how this is about young voices and when i say young, how about a 9-ye

. >> as dr. king says he fought so black folks have the right to go to lunch counters and now he had to fight to make sure they can afford the lunch. this is what we are dealing now with valley and our colleague's report. i saw in your these that black children are nearly twice likely exposed to smog and toxins than white children and leading to respiratory diseases early in life. we are talking about children now. >> yeah, you look at the asthma number comes directly from that exposu exposure and many more times likely to die or have extreme complications from. all of that is from pollution, the original commissioner's report did not get into this. this was not on the leading edge of consciousness in 1968 of pollution and the idea of industrialization. the idea that over the following decades, it became clear that the environmental justice movement was a key cause of thinking about in the 50-year sense of what is the unequal and where is the disparity coming from. now, you have infant mortality rate

in the 1960s dr. king recognized the power of the brand-new tool to further the cause. evening tv newscasts. >> in many ways the american people that were seeing in their living room for the first time some of the brutality of the very famous now infamous clashes of the civil rights movement. >> lester holt narrates the documentary which also examined protest and free speech action in the present day. >>> hope and fury mlk the movement and the media airs tomorrow night right here on nbc. tune in at 8:00 for that two-hour special. >>> roller coaster fans, get ready. happening tomorrow great america officially opens for the 2018 season. there will be an opening ceremony tomorrow morning. now, this is video of the flight deck roller coaster and it's turning 25 years old and it's still a lot of fun for a lot of people. >> it is so fun. >> that coaster based on tom cruise "top gun." a look alike will be on hand tomorrow to mark the special anniversary. >> do you like roller coasters? >> love them. sometimes the older ones are the best. >> we will have to go. we get off early

dr. king's death.ressing a review commissioned by the magazine to examine its own coverage of race over its 130-year publication history. it found that even after the civil rights era and various global freedom movements, the magazine ignored black americans and reduced non-white populations in the global south to quote every type of cliche. but as the letter insists, to rise above our pasts weigh must be acknowledge it, and joining me is the editor in chief nor "national geographic" magazine, the first woman and first jewish person to hold the position, susan position, susan goldberg. susan, i thought this was a very striking and bold move for you to issue this letter. what is the background and what gave you the courage to take this kind of step? >> well, thank you, reverend sharpton. i appreciate being on your show today. i just thought that if we were going to do an entire issue devoted to race, if we were going to, you know, look everywhere else at how race relations are going all over the world a