dr. king received his in 1954. but, my mother finish cordova high school in washington dc, and during her high school years she lived two doors down from dr. bunch. my mother and his daughter, joan bunch, were best friends in high school. so there was a connection. joan bunch called my mother one day and say, jean, is martin luther king jr. living in your home? and my mother said, yes, joan. and she said, my father wants very much to come and talk to him about this upcoming march. and my mother assured her that , if dr. bunch came to selma, she and my father would take excellent care of him. so the trip was planned. my father went to birmingham, picked dr. bunch up at the train station and brought him here. dr. bunch, of course, spent his life negotiating and standing for peace for people not only in this country, but around the world. he and dr. king shared similar goals, similar wishes for people in the united states and around the world. so he knew that this was such an , important march for voting rights in this

dr. king it is incredibly humbling for me to stand here at this moment on this day. he was a man, a husband, a father, a son, a brother. he was a preacher and a scholar. he was a visionary, a strategist, a leader, a servant. he was a radical thinker. a believer in the concept of peaceful, direct action and civil disobedience as an effective means to affect chang he he believed in the promise of america for all people. we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. yes, he was a dreamer. he had a dream. but he wasn't simply a dreamer, but a man of action who made the ultimate sacrifice. peace, harmony, and integration were goals. but so were equity, access, and opportunity. economic economic equity, education alec w -- -- educational equity, access to safe neighborhoods, fresh food and sound health care. and the opportunity to achiev

dr. king's career into halves. the reluctant ascending king from the bus boycott all the way up to the nobel prize. through that. through this sit ins and the freedom rides an old miss and birmingham and freedom summer in saint augustine, he was trying to get into the white house. in some senses like a conventional politician. but he was also reluctant, he didn't go on the freedom rides. he refused he was very reluctant to get involved in the sit ins. all along, he saw himself as somebody who is impelled by his beliefs. now his belief didn't change, i do challenge a lot of people who think, grade him like a professor and his ideas changeover times. -- changed over times. he said the movement's goal is to redeem the soul of america from the triple scourge of bigotry, war and poverty. from the 1950s. an astonishing claim of movement to a group of people who had no access to no political weapon. they do want to free themselves they wanted to free the whole world. he said they were inexplicably related. violence of the

dr. kingks from here. many declared that dr. king was just another false prophet, crying the abandoned wilderness of despair. we stand here this evening to proclaim and to declare that the promised land that moses and yes, dr. king saw, yet exist even today. and its existence is not contingent upon who occupies the white house. nor does it rely on the mutual cooperation of the united but nations. but it exists because you gave us a promise. and it continues because your word is true, and shall stand forever, so this evening we serve notice to all of the negative and oppressive powers that be. that it is true that the mantle failed 50 years ago, but like the prophet elijah, we are that generation that ran over and picked up that mantle. and today we will leave here carrying the mantle of justice, the mantle of liberty, fairness, the mantle of equity and equality, the mantle of mutual respect and most of all, love. and as elijah called upon you, the god of elijah, with this mantle. we shall we s

but to embrace dr. king what the nation has really done in terms of the mainstream is really dee radicalized king's message and his anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, really his courageous ability to speak truth to power and to talk about white racism, white privilege and turned him into sort of this soft fuzzy teddy bear, this figure that everybody could love even though the last three years of his life when he is in chicago battling mayor daley, when he no longer is political friends with president lyndon johnson, people are castigating king and saying that king -- there's one newspaper report in '67 that's saying king and stokely carmichael are the batman and robin of the movement and saying that they are two sides of the same coin. so we choose to remember only the king who ends with the i have a dream speech at the march on washington and we don't even interrogate that speech because that's a speech about reparations, that's a speech where he says we are coming to cash a check that has been stamped insu

dr. martin luther king junior. >> when dr. at i wanted to go out and travel with him and sing for him. because i had sung for my dad, and i'd like to sing for dr. king and what he's trying to do here. i appreciated what she was trying to do, bring people togeth together. or certainly get parity in some way and lighten up the discrimination and give people a chance to make a dollar. so my dad said if that was what i wanted to do, it was okay. >> you can see there, this is shot fairly recently. i'm not exactly sure of the date, but she was thin there, dealing with what she was dealing with. you're going to hear much more from that exclusive interview throughout the show tonight. make sure you stick with us. we've got a lot of people here to celebrate. some of her closest friends and colleagues, and i want to bring in one of them now, and that is another legend, gladdys knight. how are you? >> i'm fine. how are you? >> i'm okay. i want to do this to honor her. she's called the queen of soul, and a voice like hers, i love her song

dr. king's movement. just want to commend mike for the work he has done with this book i hope everyone will recognize the importance of digging deeper into what dr. king was about. he wasn't just about the gods he knew's footage that you look at with him standing up in front of the lincoln memorial and delivered a speech about i have a dream was really about economic justice the movement continues. for poor people for working people it is one that will not stop until there is justice that rolls pulls down like water. and righteousness like a mighty street. this is being broadcast if you could come to one of the microphones. wheelchair to take it from there. you can step to the microphone i was previously introduced but go ahead sir. for my knowledge could you introduce yourself i forgot my hearing aids tonight. my name is rodney strong. i'm from memphis tennessee originally i'm an attorney here in atlanta georgia i work on issues associated with minority business disparity diversity supplier diversity eco

dr. king's papers, claiborne carson. good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. 50 years ago, on the balcony of the lorraine hotel in memphis, a man who dedicated his life to non-violent protest was brutally assassina assassinated. martin luther king junior, cut down at the age of just 39. and just a day after he delivered his final and prophetic speech in which he worried about his own survival and that of his movement. >> i've looked over, and i've seen the promise land. i may not get there with you, but i walk to the northern nights that we as a people will get to the promise land. so i'm happy tonight. i'm not worried about anything. i'm not fearing any man. mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord. >> indeed, in the 50 years since his death there has been progress in black america. there is a black middle class and the country has elected its first black president. and then came this anguished reaction on the night of donald trump's election by the renowned politic

he said when dr. kingis time i see that the seeds are not lost . they have begun to sprout and come up everywhere. the beloved community is here. and 60 miles south from here in batesville, mississippi there is a man alea grove monastery where a statue stands holding the scroll of the community. it says to build a community that lives in harmony and awareness, that is the most noble task. it was a relationship between these great teachers that attracted me to engage buddhism. i wanted to join their vision of the beloved community and practice the art of mindful living. and our tradition, dr. king meant peace and love. and through their inter-being these human beings saw it the same way. nonviolently, manifesting through the beloved community. ingratitude for dr. king, may we all join together to nourish our worldwide beloved community. so that piece is truly present in ourselves. all people and all beings. and our precious mother earth. peace in oneself is, peace in the world. [ applause ]we come from a lo

dr. king had a dilemma. tightrope trying to make sure that nonviolence was the way in which people went about things. how we captured the attention of america, especially black people, when we were all listening to malcolm x three years after he was dead. we were listening to stokely carmichael, phil hutchens, who is from newark at that time. when we were listening to a mary baraka.- to imiri how do you capture the spotlight and put it on nonviolence as it had been in that period of time in which he was working? campaign.poor people in addition, he wanted to bring in the whole concept -- he wanted to bring in economics. race, we understood race. we don't understand that much about economics, but here was a man who said we need to have a guaranteed minimum income for people. just before his death. so he decided, we are going to have to do this poor people's campaign. and i am wrapping up now. i am stopping now. we are going to have to do this poor people's campaign, and i am going to leave it at that to let s

so what did this have to do with dr. king? it meant america was on a powder keg, dr. king was at a horns of the a dilemma. he was in a great deal of, he was on a tightrope trying to make sure that nonviolent, nonviolence was a way in which people went and did things. how to capture the attention of the people of america, especially black people, when we were all listening to malcolm x now, three years after he was dead. listening to stokley carmichael and phil hutchins who was from newark at the time. how do you recapture the spotlight and put it on nonviolence as it had been, nonviolence movement as it had been at the period of time in which he was working? in addition, he wanted to bring in the, the whole concept of, of he wanted to bring in economics. race was our trump suit. we understood race. we didn't understand that much about economics. here was a man who said we need to have a guaranteed minimum income for people. just before his death. so he decided, essie elsie decided we're going to have to do this poor people's campaign and i'm wrapping up now, ms. malvo.

keene -- dr. king and malcolm was on a convergence, on a trajectory in their lives where their ideas would come together and what a formidable combination that would be. in terms of striking against the inequity, the evils in this country. racism, poverty, militarism, those are the things that he began to really struggle with in the last moments of his life. and the poor people's campaign was going to be that reality to bring it to the nation's capital. of course he never made it to that particular plateau of his life. reverend abernathy picked it up. carried it forward. i think later on this afternoon you'll hear from bernard lafayette, in terms of some of those people who were just on the ramparts and pushing that particular initiative forward. dr. king was very much concerned about all people. obviously the whole issue of black americans, and the situation we face, i was looking at some statistics just the other day, was saying that there's more than 40 million people in this country below the pover

dr. king was on the balcony of the second floor hotel room when according to a companion, a shot was a -- shot from across the street. the bullet exploded in his face. police keeping a close watch over the nobel peace prize winner were on the scene almost immediately. they rushed the 39-year-old [null] leader to a hospital where he died of a bullet when -- bullet wound to the neck. the mayor reinstated the desk to dawn curfew he imposed on the city last week on a march led by dr. king erupted in violence. the governor has called out 4000 national guardsmen. the police report has touched sporadic acts of violence in a [null] section of the city. in a nationwide television address, president. johnson addressed the nation's shock. >> america is shocked and saddened by the brutal slaying tonight of dr. martin luther king. i ask every citizen to reject the blind violence that has struck dr. king. he lived by nonviolence. i pray his family can find comfort in the memory of all he tried to do for the

first that brought us back together the generate the votes after martin luther king i would ask him if he remembers where dr martin luther king's coeur rating was a most white people at the time of his assassination or how about these approval rating was at the time that he refused to go fight a white man's war in vietnam so it you know this is. this is just one of those. topics of wait for julie to. really read a situation who are on comfortable talking about a system of one percent privacy that benefits them versus. anthony just so you know we have lost our connection with dave we're trying to get him back for now i'd like to continue talking to you you mentioned earlier earlier the cost of the upkeep of this statue a lot of that was actually because it was being vandalized to be fair and so my question is what do you think of the way that this was removed you were saying that putting it in museums would be a better option but people took this into their own hands and actually pulled down the statue you know defacing public property what do you make of that move from them. yes i understand that and you kn

she was there with dr. kingration behind the civil rights movement that i'm not sure if she underestimated it but she was being a bit humble right there. >> we are getting all of these reactions, don. we just heard from the mayor of detroit. she started singing there at her father's church. he was a minister there in detroit. he said for the city she loved so de so dearly and called home, we are saddened. what she did for detroit, for the people of detroit, we just got a statement from former president clinton and former secretary of state hillary clinton. mourning the loss of aretha franklin, calling her he wi ini utterly uncompromising in her artistry as well. they talk about all the good she did. her final performance last november at a benefit supporting the fight against hiv and aids. don, aretha franklin, her accomplishments, you cannot list them all. she was the first woman to be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame in 1987. a year before the beatles. >> she got a medal from the president of the u

when he was vice president, he was speaking of dr. king. he and dr. king had formed an alliance of sorts to promote a civil rights bill in 1957 and to be honest, i think to push the eisenhower administration a little more aggressively in that direction. the party in 1968, this is for the republicans think today's americans are frustrated about the future and frustrated about the past. mastering rather than permitting them to master. our convention in isis 68 could spark. which translated into it is time for a change. every out party suggest that every four years. what is significant about 1968, not the convention but what happened as a result, it had begun earlier in 66. there was a period of republican dominance which continues to this day with exceptions. if you remember, jimmy carter is an unconventional democrat. the southern governor, not a creature of washington. not a new deal democrat. and bill clinton, famously said the era of big government is over. and to confirm, the country moved to the right. permanently in reaction to vietnam but also an

you had the assassination of dr. king in april. two months later the murder of robert kennedy on the nike wo -- night he won the california primary. we will never know what might have been. lyndon johnson had been driven from the contest by the upstart, improbable candidacy of the other minnesota senator eugene mccarthy, who had run on an antiwar platform. not even show up in chicago. it is interesting how it came to be in chicago. the first mayor daley presided for 21 years before the second major daily. he was the ultimate machine democrat. in -- on the sure i can carry 8068 unless you have the convention here. ironically it backfired. it blew up not only in the mayor's face, but in light of the nominee. days, the american people saw -- four years earlier the republicans for themselves apart inside the convention hall with the rockefeller battle. democrats for themselves apart inside and outside. television cameras were broadcasting what the walker commission subsequently referred to as a police riot or something like 10,000 demo

dr. martin luther king jr.old more than 2 million copies. january 1987, she becomes the first woman inducted into the rock & roll hall of fame. then what happens? well, her pipes start to earn her all types of awards and accolades. she was more than an entertainer. she was a voice. she was a vessel that delivered others to a place of pain and longing and desperation for more and better. justice. you know, politicians can give a great speech. they can inspire. but what aretha could do was literally transport you, take you somewhere where you could feel the pain, realize the promise of potential change. so powerful, in 1994 she was chosen for the kennedy center honors. she was just 52 at the time. made her one of the youngest people to ever earn that honor. a decade later, president bush 43 awarded her the presidential medal of freedom. she won her 18th and final grammy for best gospel performance for never going to break my faith with mary j. blige. have you heard that? you must. 2009, she gave a memorable perfo

the idea of any formal alliance and much less that dr. king would be on the ticket, i do not heard of that. party, howepublican the dam brace civil rights within the platform? guest: one of my vivid memories was when dr. abernathy -- dr. king's designated successor of the soft -- of the southern christian leadership conference. will go live now to the roosevelt room in the white house were president trump is reeouncing his drugf community program grant. pres. trump: we have never done anything to this extent or this large that will reach of so many people. great people. the drug-free communities program is a proven success cutting alcohol and prescription average of 20%n among high school students and participating communities. a 20% reduction is at the top of the pack, incredible what they have been able to do. you should all be extremely proud of your life's work. very important life's work, so great going. also want to tell you, deputy director -- somebody who really is inat the heart, and he love with what he does and that is jim carroll,

but dr. kinge kept right on singing. she sang for carter, mandela, clinton, obama. b after all, before we had this level of technology, -- there s a group. i was called last week to see aretha. i met with her at least a month for the last three years. she called me at night and jackie would say get the phone, aretha is on the phone. we'd pray a while and cry a while. i came last wednesday, aretha was in a coma. she had not been able to wake up or move in some days. i was with erlene and i said wake up, baby, wake up, baby. she opened her eyes. i rubbed her hands one more time. it was a hard good-bye. we came back that night and had another prayer meeting. shakespeare said when she shall die, took her hand and cut it up in little stars and she will make the heavens so fine that all the world will be in love with night. aretha had the power to make the film directors cry. she touched all of us in very deeply and profound kind of way. as she got sicker, we would talk more and more as she would talk l

dr. kingand she got happy and kept singing. and dr. king asked someone to go over and tell aretha, we got to close it out, it's getting late. but she was feeling so good about being there to perform for dr. king and the movement. that was the last performance that dr. king witnessed of hers. >> i watched an sbriinterview t morning right after this news broke. she was minimizing her role as a civil rights pioneer saying she might have been at the marches, but she was in the back, that she didn't think of herself as such an influence. i'm assuming you would dispute that. >> i would dispute that because she did so much. she would help gather people together, to raise money. i think she was deeply motivated and inspired by not just her own music but also by the teaching and preaching of her father. >> there are different ways to make your point. you were on the front lines, sir. you were jailed. you were bloodied. you were beaten. how important is it as you're trying to make your case, largely to

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dr. king's life, she did concerts with harry belafonte to raise money so dr. king to be payroll.ork, she would call me, refverend al, what's that address? and would send a check to help even now. she was the type of person that was an activist in her heart as long as it was for civil rights and human rights for everybody. she never stopped with that. she would call my radio show. i'm on three hours a day in detroit. if she's home, she would listen to talk radio and call under another name and give an opinion then i would say, that's aretha franklin. yeah, it's me. she was the ultimate activist but not the kind to go out and show boat and didn't go to rally and marches, she was the one that would contribute in her name. i never forget when i turned 60, three years ago and we had this big party, birthday party and governors there and mayors there. and everybody from here is there. aretha franklin walked in and everybody couldn't believe it and she did a birthday thing for me. >> wait a minute, she sang at your birthday party? >> she sang on may radio show my birthday party. playing

franklin, who was a partner and co-activist with dr. king. dr. , in fact, used to tell me how she in dr. king's last year did several cities with harry belafonte raising money so dr. king could make payroll. and then from there, and we are talking the '60s, from there all the way till now she was always involved. she would call me when we were in battles and say, reverend al, explain to me the issue, i'm going to send you something. she would send a check to help us out with our work with national action network, she would come on my radio. so she came here in 30 rock and did "politics nation" and she did interviews very -- you know, very -- she was very selective. >> right. >> but for her to come to the studio was not something she would often do, but she wanted to come and show that she identified with us, and she was always concerned, always politically involved, always on the forefront of doing something, but her way. she said, i'm not there to lead marches. she said with the women's movement, i'm not gloria steinem but i'm going to use my pla

the fact she was willing to go on the road with dr. kingnt and compelling in that particular moment will stop even though aretha franklin's music was not overtly political, when you listen to "respect" and the way she stops to spell it out, it resonated in many wonderful ways of black folks who heard something more than simply a woman singing about the men that had done her wrong. we don't really get an overt political statement in her music until she does that amazing "young gifted and black album" or she covers in a simone and in many ways, it becomes her and him took knowledge the ways she was connected to this movement in a more overweight. we see her dress and were african style guard. point at the this peak of her career, at the peak of her powers, the peak of her maturity, and she can stand out on the lens and acknowledged she was a political force also. amy: you talk about 1972. can you tell us about her relationship with esther phillips and what happened at the grammys that year? >> you know, we hear a lot of things about the diva

dr. king and others were pushing very hard on robert kennedy as the attorney general and ultimately they got a bill to be sent up in 1963 and then after we lost president kennedy, it was enacted. so, this is a back and forth. this is aid very intersectional thing that takes place. president johnson, of course, said he needed the movement to push at him, which of course they were doing anyway. but all of those things that were done through the civil rights movement would have not come to anything if you didn't have the -- finally, not necessarily for the -- many people not so enthusiastic about it, but doing it. of course, this is where in terms of my involvement of this, having gone to work for robert kennedy, one of the first things that i worked on was the 1965 voting rights act. and so this in my small way, it's the three-dimensional process that has to take place to make these things happen and i had a chance to have a modest role in that. the other thing i would just put out there, as we

dr. martin luther king. in fact, dr. king appointed him the national coordinator for the poor people's campaign. please join me in welcoming our next panel. [applause] >> good afternoon. audience: good afternoon. >> where you could be your today. it is an honor to sit on the panel with these gentlemen. we are glad you could be here today. i thought what we would do today is take a journey to the past. because i think that part of what's important to me, is as we get older, those of us who are getting older as elders, is to , think about what happened in the 1960's, but where we are now. what does that reflection mean to us now? where is the society in relation to where we were, since we just heard that the war on poverty is no longer necessary. sorry. [laughter] >> bernard, let me start with you. i want to go back a little bit and get some root stories from both of you before we move into the rest of our conversation. and taking us back to 1960, to nashville, to you being part of the american baptist college, and what hap

her father was a civil rights leader with dr. king. she helped dr. king in her youth.e his money donors had dried up because he came out against the war in vietnam. so i think she embodied for president obama the journey that brought him to the white house. as he sat there listening to her in that kind of church rhythm that she never would lose, he was probably thinking about the journey that people took that made him possible. >> i ask you that because he put out a beautiful statement today. this is from the obamas. america has no royalty, but we do have a chance to earn something more enduring. born in memphis and raised in detroit, aretha franklin grew up performing gospel songs in her father's congregation. for more than six decades since, every time she sang, we were all graced with a glimpse of the divine. through her compositions an unmatched musicianship, aretha helped define the american experience. in her voice, we could feel our history, all of it. and in every shade our power and pain, our darkness and our light, our quest for redemption and hard-won respec

dr. martin luther king. in fact, dr. king appointed dr. lafayette the national coordinator for the national poor people's campaign. please join me in welcoming our next panel. >> good afternoon. glad you all could be here with us today. this is an honor for me to have -- sit on this panel with boast both of these gentlemen and i thought what we would do stay take t-- is take the journey to the past but bring us up to this moment, because i think part of what's important to me is as we get older, those of us who are getting older, that is to -- is to, as elders, is to think about what happened in the '60s but where we are now. what does that reflection mean to us now? where is the society in are relation to where we were since we just heard that the war on poverty is no longer necessary? sorry. bernard, let me start with you. i want to go back a little bit and get some root stories here from both of you before we move into the rest of our conversation. and taking us back to 1960, to nashville, to you being a part of the american baptist col

dr. martin luther king growing up.se friend of her father's, the reverend cl franklin. she sang at martin luther king's funeral, she sg at clinton's inauguration, she sang at obama's inauguration. as a symbol of positive black movement forward, it is immeasurable as well. rajini: i have to ask you, iug tickets to see aretha franklin on a couple of occasions and unfortunately she was too unwell to make the concerts, so i never got to see her live.ly you actuid see her final performance. just tell us what it is like to watch the queen of soul in action. jem: well, she was 75 years old when i saw her. this was at the elto aids foundation gala back in november. very high ilings, booming acoustics. peshe was thin. le were thinking, oh my gosh, is she ok? she nailed it. she wasn't the aretha you hear in the records of the 1960's, obviously -- no one can sing like that in her 70's. but she was great. songs, "i say a little orprayer," "nessun," she nailed it, the pavarotti song she did in the 1990's. i thought i hope that is n

we thank her for what she did with dr. king.hy, on sunday on my show i misspelled "respect" and a lot of y'all, a lot of y'all corrected me. now i want y'all to help me correct president trump, to teach him what it means. [ audience reacts ] [ applause ] and i say that because when word had went out that ms. franklin passed, trump said "she used to work for me." no, she used to perform for you. she worked for us. [ cheers and applause ] aretha never took orders from nobody but god. so, aretha, as you get your rest, my mother passed about six years ago, president clinton, my mother and i had a deal, she said, i'll meet you on the other side, you live the way you're supposed to and i'll see you in heaven. i said, well, ma, they tell me there is no bodies in heaven, just spirits. how am i going to know you? she said, i'll tell you, you meet me at the exchange counter. i said, exchange counter? what kind of exchange counter? she said, well, right after you get through the golden gates, there's an exchange counter. that's where you h

in -- when dr. king wrote we are caught in an inescapable -- ties in a common tied in a destiny -- common network of destiny. we are creating those connections. three folkslk about who taught me at a critical point in my life. i got my ba from stanford, but my phd in the streets of new york -- of newark. people took me under their wing and taught me what it means to be a leader, part of a network, what power is about. , virginia, and hassan. sharif was an incredible 96 is activist. he changed his name. he joined the islamic community and became an incredible leader, helped many people in my city get elected. activists were pushing to get into politics. to bethe game a shifting the youngest person elected -- he met me. i just showed up from your law school and he sat with me for a while and talk to me, checking out. such an authentic connection to the community. this is the advice he told me. you need to go out, you will not win this election unless you go out and knock on every single door in the distric

jackson: social justice was global, and she fought for dr. king, she fought for bara obama. her sense of community service was as broad-based as her music. aleem: aretha sang at the funeral of martin luther king. she provided the subject to african- progress long after that. - the soundtrack to african-american history and progress long after that. the most straightforward of choices to sing it barack obama's inauguration, as she d atwo previous inaugurations. he paid tribute to the woman who "with her voi conveyed the power and pain of the american experience." thamongstrip is today, carole king -- what a life, she said --nn annmie . sir elton john said "rejoice in her remarkable legacy." om sir paul mccartney, "let's give thanks for the beautiful li." people in the community feel like t member to a one who is generous and gave them a sense of worth. she released her final album last year. newinfluenced countless musicians and allowed them to influence her, too. >> ♪ rolling in the deep aleem: but t world has lost a musical giant. aretha franklin

dr. king's famous speech, was one of her mentors. after dr. as assassinated in 1968, franklin sang at his funeral. d ♪ for aretha, her music and her past were inextricably linked to her respect for everyone who helped raise her. >> when she decided to die, she deme to the city of detroit, downtown, and that was her choice. don't forget that. >> reporter: before the funeral, there will be a public viewing on august 28 and 29 at the ugseum of african american ere ory, right here in detroit. jeff, here in new bethel baptist, you can see the memorial behind me is growing larger by the day. k glor: fantastic work to you and the whole team there in ttroit. thank you very much. coming up next on the "cbs evening news," why there could be hurricanes in california's future. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong. when you barely clip a tpassing car. minor accident - no big deal, right? wrong. your insurance company is go

this is what dr. king said. he said, naturally we are compelled to ask the question who killed james reid. well, the answer is simple and rather limited when we think of the who. he was murdered by a few sick, demented and misguided men who have a strange notion that you express dissent through murder. there is another desperate question we are forced to ask this afternoon that i asked a few days ago when we funerallized james jackson. is the question, what killed james reid? and when we move from the who to the what, the blame is wide. finish and -- and the responsibility grows. james reid was murdered by the indifference of every minister of the gospel who has remained silent behind the safe security of stained glass windows. he was murdered by th irrelevancy of the church. he was murdered by the irresponsibility of every politician who has moved down the path of demagoguery and who has fed his constituents the stale bread of hatred and the spoiled meat of racism. he was murdered by the brutality of every sher

. >> when dr. kinge out in the early days of selma and rosa parks, i told him that i wanted to go out and travel with him and sing for him. because i had sung for my dad and i liked to sing for dr. king and what he is trying to do here. i appreciated what he was trying to do, bring people together. certainly, get parody in some way and to lighten up the discrimination and give people a chance to make a dollar. so my dad said, if that was what i wanted to do, it was okay. >> civil rights activist, former naacp chair merli stanford. >> i knew her. we shared the shame spirit in terms of justice and equality and excellence. she was a hero of mine, if you will. brave woman who took it upon herself to take a stance for justice and equality. she paid a price for it somewhere along the way. but never, never did she cease her efforts to try to see that people of all races, creed and color were shown as who they were, human beings with opportunities to achieve and to enjoy the promise of america, a very strong, a

dr. king's speech. it's the first time in the history of the united states that a non-elected political elite figure is given that kind of live coverage for a speech. why? well, who is newsworthy? who is credible? who is legitimate? so news organizations are really wrestling with this fundamental question and then cap this racial justice struggle which has changed some of the rules of engagement with the war in vietnam. again, hard to bring your head back around it, but in 1964, '65, '66 both parties, liberals, conservatives, they are all pro war. there is no anti-war faction within conventional political circles at this point. yeah, there's -- we can find a guy here or a person there, but overwhelmingly conventional wisdom, left, right, democrat, republican -- i mean, left, right, liberal, conservative, it's conventional wisdom, yeah, we are in vietnam, we were in korea now we are in vietnam. so, again, how does the mass media confront what donna suggested, which is by '67 the conventional truthfulness

dr. kingand her last act with with the people with aids in new york. >> her funeral is set for the 31st in detroit. >>> you're live in the cnn newsroom. thank you tore stayi thank you for staying with me. we begin this hour with a question. what does the special