dr. martin luther king was more than a hero. >> they marched together during the montgomery bus protests. >> he inspired him to become a preacher. more than 50 years after dr. king led the nation towards the equality towards all they were invited to the national memorial to reverend king. >> all of those messages. >> 14 inscription's all picked from kings around the memorial. >> i heard him in montgomery. >> the mountain of despair represents the civil-rights struggle. only they can describe to what it feels to walk out and witness the hope. >> it is phenomenal. >> there will be unveiling on august 28. >> for me, it is like standing on sacred ground. he is surrounded by his philosophy, his words. it is simply more than the man. it is what makes the man who he is. >> and memorial brought to light. >> uniquely blessed are the people of color. but the god blesses everyone. >> these ministers say it will face the test of time. >>> the unique way to treat posttraumatic stress disorder for soldiers. it involves ancient techniques. >>> and we take a look at cuisine served in the white house thro

dr. martin luther king. the principles that the practice, the compassion, the vision, the perseverance, are all those same kind of values and principles that i know are being practiced within the iranian american community today as well. whether you want to see a green iran or whether you want to help participate in the civic process in california or in your own city, this is what is very heartwarming, by us coming together on a night like this. i very much appreciate all the dedication that has been applied in making these nowruz events as special as they are. i also would like to say that we would like to have -- we like to have fun. it is really the best part of introducing what nowruz means. that is why over the last six years, we have had art shows in my office. we would have exhibits down here, supported by the mayor, and introduce it to people exactly how we like to celebrate, through the arts, with great food, civic engagement, and it is wonderful to see, and it really helps us appreciate just what a

dr. martin luther king jr. they killed. >> they were killed by the authorities. >> yes. this is all documented. >> bill: a former georgia congressman woman rooming around the muslim world saying vial things about our country. we have a factor investigation. >> o for oil, i for israel. l is for logistics. >> acaviar? >> i hope so. >> bill: also tonight jesse watters goes to the hamptons, tally who he. and dennis miller on the proposed junk food tax. >> it's a fakeout. it's a fakeout. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. why a debt deal can't get done. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memos. first of all, we taped this program earlier today because right now at this very moment i'm on a plane to california. if anything happens this hour shepard smith will magically appear before your eyes. do not be horrified. if anything happens, our hard news people will be on the case. now, the reason the debt deal

dr. martin luther king was also a young man when he made some of his revolutionary changes to this world,want to encourage you to stay vigilant and stay inspired, and i want you to feel supported. i am here to continue to support your education if you need someone to continue to talk to, and allied. i make myself and my staff 100% available to you, but we are here to talk about technology and the commitment and the impact that technology has on education. i opened with an example of google and how it was a young college students that revolutionized how we communicate. and i hope that the next great application will come from the hearts and minds of some of the young folks in this room or maybe the next new piece of technology, which will revolutionize how we speak to each other, not just here locally but globally, or come from some great mind right here in this room, this institution. i am very excited to be here. thank you, michael stott, for your contribution to the students, and i also consider this to be an investment, so we have to make good on their return that our community is inve

dr. martin luther king, jr. would consider this a civil rights issue.e used to have a prohibitions against interracial marriages and say that could not be a marriage. i don't have a problem. the church can call a marriage who they want to call a marriage but when we are talking about benefits that should be afforded to all americans that is where people are making the distinction >> we can get into the debate whether gay marriage is right or now, the fact is where people in any state in the country have been given the chance to vote on it and there's 31, voters everytime in states like california rejected it. only has gay marriage passed when the courts put it into play or a state legislator put it into play. the state is the right way to go because the folks are elected officials. and yes, i think you are right that younger folks are more accepting of gay marriage but younger people grow up as younger people -- le me finish this -- and to say they start looking at the long-term implications of things that it can change their mind on this. and i will sa

pioneering plans for corporations to privately run schools funded by public tax dollars well dr martin luther king. said injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere so it's harder today but it could be in new york from our or it couldn't be chicago next week benton harbor is one of roughly one hundred cities or towns in michigan reportedly on the verge of this whole collapse and economic just for ration that would be the way for financial martial law to spread throughout the states critics say that would lead to a deepening demise of democratic rights the u.s. has always claimed to stand for. you know for nigh on benton harbor michigan. and still ahead here on r t foreign minister sergei lavrov here at our taste studios we'll show you his tour around our studios and share what he thinks about u.s. cooperation with russia. and. we are going to break. i think. either one well. we never got as the safe get ready because the freedom. well earlier today russian foreign minister sergei lavrov paid a visit to us here at our take you toward our studios as you can see behind me and he was also int

pioneering plans for corporations to privately run schools funded by public tax dollars well dr martin luther king said and justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere so is there to harbor today but it could be in new york tomorrow or it could be chicago next week exit harbor is one of roughly one hundred cities or towns in michigan reportedly on the verge of this will collapse and economic desperation that either way for financial martial law to spread throughout the states critics say that would lead to a deepening demise of democratic rights the u.s. has always claimed to stand.

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dr. martin luther king. on the surface, atlanta was a well-integrated city.ined separate and unequal. >> my prayer and the prayer of everybody in there was we wanted the person to be black and the reason why you wanted him to be black, i knew what it would do if it had of been a white person or somebody of another race. >> in the black community in the early '80s, a black serial killer was unheard of. all the classic serial killers were white. never black. >> didn't mean we didn't have one there. >> today, black serial killers are not rare. in 2009, here in cleveland, as well as in milwaukee and los angeles, each time the accused serial killer turned out to be african-american. dr. eric hickey is a psychologist who keeps track of serial killers. >> overall in my study, one out of every five serial killers is african-american. in the past, since 1995, over 40% are african-american. we're finally saying, what blacks do, there's two. >> there were whites who fed the fear in atlanta. as fbi chief john glover had moved into this upper class white neighborhood, his

dr. martin luther king who fought for people's civil rights and was assassinated for their rights, but there man harvey milk who bravely fought for everyone's civil rights and he was also assassinated for his efforts. it is not natural to teach one and not the other, and in the context of an ever-growing and phenomenon of brutal bullying on school campuses which have led to multiple suicides of 12 and 13-year-old kids who can't take the pain anymore, that this is important that we better inform the students. in fact, in ventura, california, two years ago there was a 12-year-old boy in his sixth grade class shot dead by a fellow 12-year-old, and when the teacher asked the assailant why did you do this? he said that his classmate was too girlie. we are failing the students when they think that because someone is different from how they see the world, that that person is okay to murder. we need to better educate our students of the fact of the differences among us. >> and mark, we have to go, but do you think that the governor brown will sign this. >> i have a habit of not speaking for the gove

dr. martin luther king jr.. he said, "the ark of the moral universe is long, but it been stored justice." -- it bends towards justice." today, the commission completes the arc. i say justice demands this result. thank you. judge? >> it is always a challenge to follow commissioner jackson and her poetry. [applause] i do want to explain my thoughts for retroactive application of the permanent amendment that we sent to congress on may 1. before i get to those parts of the amendment that reduce guideline sentences for crack offenses in accord with the reduced penalties, i did want to spend a moment talking about part c of the amendment, which incorporates the guidelines for all offenders, not just crack offenders -- is certain mitigating factors that is not part of the amendment that the commission is applying retroactive effect for. i wanted to address why that is. the aggregating and mitigating factors in part c of the amendment in my mind would involve time-consuming and administratively difficult to apply factor

dr. martin luther king. and everybody in the classroom raises their hands, including students who i have who have only been in the united states two weeks. then i ask and how many of you have heard of bayard restin. i get out of a class of 45 students, maybe two or three. he was actually martin luther king's right hand man in many ways during the civil rights movement but particularly, he was the organizer of the 1963 march on washington and is pictured with dr. king when you see the famous "i have a dream" speech. he is in the photo towards the left-hand side of dr. king. and he's incredibly important because during the civil rights movement and the african-american leaders of the civil rights movement discussing how can we make the biggest impact for this march on washington, they discussed restin and they discussed his being gay. he was out of the closet and they knew that in particular, white conservatives were going to use homophobic tactics to try and say let's, you know, to scare the african-american

dr. martin luther king who fought for everyone's civil rights and was assassinated for his efforts. why are we not teaching there was a gay american by the name of harvey milk who fought valiantly for everyone's civil rights and was assassinated for his efforts. >> the more knowledge there is and acceptance that there is will really make kids safer and happier during this time while they are growing up. >> rachel norton, a commissioner at the school district's board of education says the district has had a successful curriculum including gay history since 1992. leno says that school districts where gay history has been part of the curriculum bullying has decreased. but one opposing the law says he doesn't buy that argument. in a statement released yesterday he also said jerry brown has trampled the parental rights of the broad majority of california mothers and fathers who don't want their children to be sexually brain washed. he says some misinterpreted what people do in their bedrooms or to out figures. the curriculum is expected thefocus on the gay community's past and current st

dr. martin luther king jr. spread out over three volumes and just completed and even mcdowell, it's a monumental piece of ice achievement and piece of journalistic biography. for instance, nobody here may know this, the t. and i had the same high school american history teacher different times in the south and denigrate junior. later we both worked as john oppressed journalist for the washington monthly, which was kind of our journalism school. so i have been reading taylor's work my whole life. one thing i'll note about taylor that is in his younger days, he had a thankless political organizing. which is running the george mcgovern presidential campaign in texas. [laughter] and he was codirect during the other codirect it was bill clinton. so another strand in his career has been the clinton strand and he just for a book about a long series of very searching and private interview that he had with president clinton why he was president, probably the most real-time access any president has ever given a journalis

dr. martin luther king, jr.f people like gandhi and we look to people like mother teresa. they didn't accumulate great wealth. but they accumulated greatness. accumulated a reputation, a chiefed a reputation that lived far beyond their years. in the end, it is better to leave a good name than a full bank account. i would hope that we return to values and we judge our

dr. martin luther king jr. spread out over three volumes and just completed. we think it's soon to be an hbo series, but even without that it is a really monumental piece of life achievement. i happen to know a lot of other things. i could go on and on. for instance, nobody here may know this, but he and i have this same high-school american history teaches. different higher schools at different times. a man named immigrate junior who set us off on our course in life. later we both worked as yang oppressed journalists from the washington monthly, which was kind of our journalism school. and so i have been reading taylor's work my whole life. there is a lot of it that is wonderful, besides the monumental king biography. one other thing i will not about taylor is that his very rare happenstance and life as a journalist, and his gender days he had a thankless political organizing assignments, which is running the george mcgovern presidential campaign in texas. [laughter] he was co-director, and the other co-director was bill clinton. so another strand in his care

dr. martin luther king. i remember quite clearly as a very young person walking along madison street which was the main commercial corridor and the neighborhood after that time of their nine hits and still be able to feel the heat from the flame, the five-year that it consumes. there was one day during the 66 riots where we literally had to hit the floor because bullets were flying and we were fearful that something would happen. so not only shaped my view of what was happening in america at that time and the course of a preteen and teenager it shakes you if your community and neighborhood but also of the press in some ways. and it's hard to think that far in some sense. >> each year gets harder. >> yes. >> i basically became a writer of that, and the short story is that all i remember reading the newspapers at the time even as a kid i did read the newspaper and remember reading the newspaper at the time and thinking that the neighborhood was being reported about in the newspaper. the neighborhood full of th

dr. martin luther king both assassinated. >> reporter: but again, is it going to be, you know, like said and his two moms? are we going to be teaching about the lifestyle, the choice, or is this about the -- >> a chapter of civil rights history. keep in mind -- >> reporter: so it's not going to be about -- >> this is history. this is history. a chapter of civil rights history. as recently as 1972, when i was a young man coming out, the american psychiatric association listed homosexuality as a mental illness. today we are talking with the state of new york and its governor signing into law equal marriage rights for same-sex couples. this is a fascinating chapter of history. >> reporter: all right. let me play devil's advocate. >> go right ahead. >> reporter: gay marriage right now is working its way up through the courts and the political system of america. not everyone agrees with it. we're split here in california. if it was to be a curriculum on that, would it -- how would it be taught? >> teach it as it's happened, that the california state supreme court ruled that it was unconstitut

dr. martin luther king jr. and don the in the postwar age of colonization. he is that big a figure. when we think of the post civil-rights era malcolm is written out of that script. what is very important for us to understand about mao x, he is an organizer. what is great about this book is it showed the inner workings of how malcolm transformed the nation of islam. there has always been a dialogue with nation of islam and malcolm x in the aftermath of malcolm x's assassination. people say malcolm could not have been what he was without the honorable elijah muhammed. he was the greatest fruit of that tree but when you look at what was going on and how he organized the nation of islam you see a real dialectical relationship. a real symbiotic relationship. nation of islam has few numbers before malcolm x and once mao:joins the nation of islam he is paroled from prison on august of 1952. the next 12 years he works day and night to transform the nation of islam and not just as a religious institution but a political institution. when we look at malcolm x, he is the quintessential organi

dr. martin luther king. on the surface, atlanta was a well integrated city., it remained separate and unequal. >> my prayer and the prayers of everybody in there was we wanted the person to be black. and the reason why you wanted him to be black, i knew what it would do to this town if it had have been a white person or somebody of another race. >> in the black community, in the early '80s, a black serial killer was unheard of. all the classic serial killers were white. never black. >> didn't mean we didn't have one now. >> today black serial killers are not rare. in 2009, here in cleveland, as well as in milwaukee and los angeles, each time the accused serial killer turned out to be african-american. dr. eric hickey is a psychologist who keeps track of serial killers. >> overall in my study, one out of every five serial killers is african-american. in the past since 1995, over 40% are african-american. we're finally saying, you know what, blacks do this, too. >> there were whites who fed the fear in atlanta. as fbi chief, john glover had moved into this uppe

dr. martin luther king jr. who says, of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. we must avert the default crisis, let's lift the debt ceiling, pay our bills and avoid an economic catastrophe the good people of this country do not deserve and cannot withstand. i yield back the balance of my time. . the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. davis, for two minutes. mr. davis: thank you, mr. speaker. the latest census data dramatically shows how african-americans have made significant gains in the 1950's and 1960's. progress began to stall in the 1970's. four decades after the civil rights movement, blacks still earn only 57 cents and latinos earn 59 cents for each dollar of white median family income in this country. the coninfrastructure is even starker for network. that is the total value of investments, savings, homes, and other property minus debt. blacks hold only 10 cents of net wealth and latinos 12 cents for every dollar

martin luther king jr. >> the president of the united states is dead. >> dr. d violently last night in memphis, tennessee. >>. >> the elections of presidents. >> president -- >> president -- >> president of the united states. >> so help me god. >> congress, mr. president. >> you can see what we basically have down here on the moall is block party. >> humiliation of presidents. >> i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. >> you had to turn on the "today" show. >> why when he had it all did it happen? >> richard nixon was leaving in disgrace and the "today" show was every minute of it. >> iranian student continue to hold more than 50 hostages at american embassy in tehran this morning. >> iranian hostage, for all the days that lasted. >> the shuttle exploded -- >> the death of john lennon. >> he was shot and killed at about 11:00 last night. >> a big part of my time on the "today" show was the arrival of the space shuttle program. >> i still can't believe i'm actually going to be going into that shuttle. >> space shuttle tragedy forever in our me

dr. martin luther king. he spoke about inequality with almost every breath and yet he never, ever used the word gap. we used to know how to talk about inequality. and we need to relearn because the thing that we say that inequality is radically alters people's ability to understand it is a man made problem that we can and must address today. thank you so much. [applause] >> hand it off to nathan. [applause] >> was i right? i was right. so if we think about strategies for removing barriers and for diminishing the distortions in our society, collective bargaining has to be a core strategy for moving forward. [applause] >> luckily, that's what our next speaker is going to talk about, liz schuller is the secretary treasurer of the afl-cio. she is the youngest member ever of that federation's executive council and she's the first woman to hold the position of secretary treasurer. if the unions are moving forward in transforming themselves, she's one of the big reasons why. please help me in welcoming to the stage

dr. martin luther king, jr., he said racists do not fall in love and get married. individuals fall in love and get marrieded. marriage is a basic human right. no government, federal or state, should tell people they cannot be married. we should encourage people to love and not hate. human rights, women rights, these are issues of dignity. every human being walking this earth, man or woman, gay or straight, is entitled to the same rights. it is in keeping with the american premise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. these words mean as much now as they did at the signing of the declaration of independence. that is why congress must not only repeal the defense marriage act, be for marge equality for all citizens together with the privilege and benefit marriage provides. all across this nation, seam-sex couples are denied hospital visitation rights and denied equal rights and benefits and pension. because of the person they love happens to be the same sex. even in states where they have achieved marriage equality, these up just barriers remain all because

dr. martin luther king on the mall. when you think about martin luther king and nelson mandela and john lewis, you got to think about voting rights and how far the nation and the world have come in the last 45 years. and how long it took to get there. and to think that there are impediments being placed in the way of people to vote, whether intentional or not, i believe those impediments are being placed there intentionally to dissuade african-americans and democrat leading groups to vote in the elks. to stop president obama from being re-elected and the public to pick democratic representatives to switch the priorities of this house to those that would be more reflective of the middle class and people yearning for opportunities. whether they are intentional or not, if they have an effect that is harmful to voting rights, just like other laws, if they have an effect in practice, they are just as harmful and just as wrong as if they were intended to. and there's no question that these type of impediments to require peopl

martin luther king jr. who had to be humanized over decades of recognize him as a man. that is the stage we are at with this text and i loved it because precisely as dr. dyson said as a competing narrative you can never fully understand any human being. we are all the product of competing narrative's including those about ourselves. when you start reading an autobiography we all know that we talk about ourselves differently than other people would talk about us. you are reading a biased text. i love frederick douglass. write the story. just saying. it is the failure of our critical faculty. it is our investment has african-american people, we are very protective of our heroes. but sometimes it is to the exclusion of wanting to accept them as men and women and here is the danger and what i like this book. too much -- precisely what melissa said is true about malcolm becoming a talisman. what we do when we mythologize figures like malcolm x and martin luther king is we scare people from thinking they could be leaders. we make it look like the magical mystical -- you have to be born into it and have to be imprisoned and someone has to anoint you and we