he came back and attended an hbcu and he became the first black minister. me he was proud of it, but that wasn't the assignment, that he said my job was to follow the will of god and follow the word of the lord and i think about in this moment i am very proud to be the first black governor in the history of the state of maryland, but i come in and say that's not the assignment. the assignment is that we actually have a unique chance to make history, we have a chance to make child poverty history, environmental injustice history. if i can do those things, then i think it truly underskoors the fact that i understood the assignment. >> you know, maryland also legalized marijuana. is one of the things that you are thinking about doing, you know, there are a lot of people who are in jail for doing what a lot of folks in colorado and other states are getting rich doing, who do not look like us are getting real rich selling marijuana right now. would you consider wiping out those sentences of people who were convicted of state marijuana crimes in maryland? >> 100%

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won the first black one. the first black guy was the first black woman to win an oscar. yeah and she but yard backstory. of her life and her brothers lives in menstruals in black -- shows. yes. it just gives it such so much more of an edge and when you go into that in the whole thing of minstrelsy and it's an integral part and in the same similar way and you you may you could have lots more to say about this you talk about margaret mitchell and the point you portrayal a young woman who goes after college discovers their colored people there and goes back home again. and writes a novel which is a huge success with a movie based on it. martin luther king yeah, you martin luther king. who was in not my uncle but anyway singing in the choir at the opening of the show? yes, but he also got the conversion of margaret mitchell when her maid again bringing in the maid when her maid can't get medical help and she then donates money to who is it to to the morehouse medical school right right more house. yes. that's a very beautiful story. in its own way and for its time. margaret m

but in terms of pressure to excel, i didn't really know that i was the first black american legacy to who had the potential to graduate until it was announced during an all school like an all school assembly. um, about black history at taft. and that was like kind of when i realized like, oh, okay, this like a thing. and there were also a bunch of other kids there who were freshmen when i was a senior who were also legacy students at the time. and we were all friends just because all the black kids at the school friends. so in terms of excelling like i did feel pressured to do well outside of that that fact just because like i knew that i was there i was at the school. a lot of my friends from maplewood where i had gone to public school through the ninth grade, i had a lot of friends who would leave between like eighth and ninth grade and they would go to other schools like they would go to my care. montclair kimberly or like kent place, other schools in new jersey. and the idea of having to then like go away to that privileged school and then come back like that was sort of like an e

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and you are the first black governor in the state of maryland. joining a very exclusive club, even black men and women. the idea of thinking about blue leadership position in general. the idea of making history. as opposed to putting in the rearview mirror things that you want to see in the past. what do you think will be your guiding light? >> i think about for the state of maryland. we have the state of harry tubman. thurgood marshall. and frederick douglass and i don't i take that oath and become not just the 63rd governor the state, but the first black governor. i know the shoulders denim standing on. and help our people had to work to include people in my own family. where -- inside this country. and he was just a toddler. the ku klux klan rent my family out of this country. and they want to jamaica. most my family always pledge today would never come back to this country, most a.. but my grandfather did. eventually, he worked in hbcu. he became a minister, like his father. this is a man who passed away when he was 87 years old. but a deep t

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president and state senator in new york and she capstoned her career by becoming the first black female federalon judge and women of cor lawyers like my late colleague who was the first black woman and kamala harris and justice ketanji brownji jackson and was indicted and cited this pathl. breaking lawyer as a role model. >> it was not as a person who should be well p known by all of us because as i said, she really did lay thee, ground work for modern and society changing the legal and social landscape. >> and fanny lou hammer. >> fanny lou hammer rose up to be an incredible leader in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. she had an entirely different lifeli trajectory than con stan. in 1917 her life was engulfed in hunger and lack of healthcare and education and obtain add sixth grade education and also became a path breaker and to really change the landscape. she came out of the earth of mississippi and she was very different than the elite civil rights organizers and figures that we know today so well. the martin luther kings-over the world and rosa parks of course and othe

she was the first manhattan borough president, as well as the first black female state senator in new york. and then she capstone her career by becoming the first black female female federal judge, appointed by lyndon johnson in 1966. as you can imagine, she has inspired a generation of lawyers, including women of color lawyers, like my late colleague, the first black woman appointed to the faculty of the harvard law school. and judge ketanji brown jackson, who cited constance baker motley as a role model. so, motley is a person who should be well known by all of us, because, as i said, she really did lay the groundwork for modern american society, changing the legal and social landscape. >> and fannie lou hamer? ms. larson: fannie lou hamer rose up to become an incredible leader in the 1960's, but as was brought up, she had an entirely different life trajectory than constance. it cannot be underestimated the deprivation and poverty that she was born into. in 1917 the 20th child of a mississippi sharecropper, and her life was defined by a hunger , lack of access to health care, educat

jeffries who might have known and worked with for many years launching his bid this week to become the first black man to lead the house democrats as the first woman speaker of the house, nancy pelosi retired from house democratic leadership this week. and senate democrats are waiting the final configuration of the next senate, which will hinge on the georgia senate runoff between democrat raphael warnock and republican herschel walker in two weeks. vague show tonight so let's begin. >> joining me now is senator tina smith, democrat of minnesota, senator thank you for joining us tonight. another eventful week and washington, certainly but before we get into politics in a moment, i have cause have to ask you about the special counsel appointment by attorney general garland to oversee the doj probes into donald trump's potential mishandling of classified documents retrieved from his mar-a-lago residence. and separately, into his role in the events of january six. now given that garland's decision was precipitated by trump's announcement this week that he will seek the presidency a third time, what i

becoming the first black man -- democratic caucus.the impression that this will happen, senator, what are you hearing? >> well, reverend al. my efforts have -- i was so fortunate to work directly with the speaker when i was in the house for four years on so many different issues. and to now benefit from her leadership, her partnership, on so many issues not only health care, but i share the agriculture and nutrition committee. she and i have been warriors together for children, and school meals and summer meals and what needs to happen. when she says take upon, to give a punch for the children, she really means that. i've been proud to be her partner giving and taking those punches on that. she's incredible, incredible. and to see that she has the vision and leadership, and commitment to the caucus, to the country to be able to now handoff to another person who will make history, hakeem jeffries, it will do an extraordinary job and to see the house democratic leadership, not only care about democracy but be committed to the future, wh

first of all the fear and the anxiety that was provoked by being a black person. coming down from neww york. the antithesis in many ways of mississippi was considered and daring to come into a courtroom a federal courtroom and to stand up as an motley stood near 6 feet tall and claim that a black man should be allowed to enter old miss the university of mississippi. and she did that despite hostility from her cocounsel who refused to recognize her. he would call her that woman. and motley challenged it. she said to the judge who himself was a segregationist, but on the spectrum of segregation even he knew that was wrong. and so he admonished the opposing counsel went motley said he should call me by my name mrs. motley. who at least call her the woman from new york is but he ended up calling her. and another point i want to make sabout the ways this was a difficult case. mager evers was the main naacp operative in mississippi would pick motley up from the airports. he would travel with her, take her to the courthouse. she stayed with evers and his wife and childre

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female state senator in new york and then she capstone her career by becoming the first black female federal judge appointed by lyndon baines johnson in 1966 and as you can imagine she has inspired a generation of lawyers including women of color, lawyers like my late colleague, the first black woman appointed to the faculty at harvard law school ,, harris and justice jackson when she was introduced cited constance baker motley as this role model c. so she really is a person who should be well known by all of us because as i said she really did lay the groundwork for modern american society, changing the social landscape . >> so fannie lou hamer rose up to be an incredible leader during the civil rights movement . she had an entirely different life trajectory than constants.s. it cannot be underestimated the deprivation and poverty she was born into. in 1917 the 20th child of sharecroppers and her life was defined by hunger, lack of access to healthcare. education. she reached she obtained a sixth grade education and also the incredible violence that permeated life in mississippi. an

wes moore will be the first black governor of maryland and only the third ever black governor in americaany votes still being counted, some of the top races are still in the air, but we are getting a clearer picture in other important races. >> please to be joined by josh kane, senior reporter at the examiner, with his take. i want to talk about someone who was not even on the ballot, mayor london breed. and yet she was on the ballot because it seems that every person that she decided to endorse won or is winning currently. >> yeah. good morning. it is a very astute observation that mayor breed had a great night. with all of her appointees, brooke jenkins, matt dorsey, school board members, even a college trustee, the mayor has pretty much run perfect when it comes to appointees. i was asking her yesterday, do you think this will give you a mandate? she kind of brushed it off as this is just the will of the voters, but there's no doubt that mayor breed will be taking a lot of momentum from this and some of the ballot propositions. >> can i add one more thing about this? something that wi

the first black woman to win an oscar. with your back story it gets so much more of an edge as an integral part and you have much more to say about this goes back home and writes a novel that is successful, martin luther king singing in the choir but there's also the conversion when again bringing in the maid and she then donates money to morehouse medical school. that's a very beautiful story and it's own way and time. margaret mitchell was astonished that she couldn't find the hospital to admit and care for and even though margaret mitchell was willing to pay for them, no white hospital would take and care for a made. it affected margaret mitchell so much that she wrote a letter to benjamin morehouse and while i would like to contribute some money to help train and help fund the training the young black medical students. she continued to send money which was very nice of her but it also showed she had been in a completely different world than her black maid that lived in a jim crow world in georgia and other human beings

pastor at the same atlanta church where martin luther king jr. once preached and was elected the first black senator from georgia in a victory that helps democrats reclaim the senate. >> we are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we've ever seen since the jim crow era. >> but senator raphael warnock arrived on capitol hill in a moment of deep division... >> whose house?! >> our house! >> ...and democracy tested. he's staked out positis on voting rights, abortion... >> keep your rosaries off my ovaries! >> i think that a patient's room is too narrow and cramped a space for a woman, her doctor, and the united states government. >> and what he believes will help americans facing skyrocketing inflation. already he's facing a political test from georgia football legend herschel walker, who has the backing of former president trump. so can faith hold americans together when polarization is tearing us apart? what does senator and reverend raphael warnock say now? >> "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible in part by... and by... corporat

shows he's very invested in thestory of her independent black town . >> the first independent ep black town. >> the first independent black town, thank you. she's also kind of ornery and irascible and outspoken. and all brilliant storyteller but part of what i find so important about her is me that's the thread. in some ways we were talking about before the reality of all of the multiculturalism of southern history that gets flattened into a black-and-white binary. she's tracking that in the 1920s and 30s. an amazing journalist and telling stories about race both in terms of the violence and in terms of the intimacy. she does. >> is pretty incredible and in fact her new book is on earth that just came out. >> you don't know usnegroes which was edited by my advisor . >> and skip gates are at the ford . you write in your book that a nation is an imagined community and then you say in our country that community is difficult to sustain, why is that? >> there's this fundamental tension between a narrative of an ever more perfect union , a multiracial inclusive democracy a, that ellis island

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character that more people should know about because of what they represented, but to be playing the first black they were fighting about what happened inside america. talk me through the ys. you are very intentional about why this movie and buy this character. >> well, i played super villain, and i felt this was an opportunity to play a hero. >> trevor: i love that. >> so i am from texas, dallas, texas, came off a certain way, jesse it's from mississippi. he was a son of a sharecropper. somehow, he made his way from those sharecropping fields to the stack and became not just a black naval aviator but the best black aviator. and i thought, okay, we've got stories about king and rosa parks and harriet tubman. we don't have a story about this guy. this is the first time they will say, okay, this is jesse. i wanted to be responsible for that. and i wanted to fly some planes. >> trevor: what did you garner from that experience that help you to tell the story? >> it was access. that is jesse's thing, access. it is quite provided. it's a metaphor in a way. if you can touch the sky in your life in that

the star of film and stage was the first black woman to be nominated for a tony award for leading actressmaica." the brooklyn-born horne, who died in 2010 at the age of 92, won a tony award and two grammys during her illustrious career. and that is tonight's "cbs evening news." i'm norah o'donnell. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

president and the nature of the threats to the first black president and his family on the one hand. on the other hand the challenge of the kinds of rallies and the kinds of rally goers in the trump years, to me those present real serious challenges even for a secret service at its best little owner secret service that is shortstaffed and under budget. >> true, director clancy, who was still director my forgive me, while donald trump was running against hillary clinton gave an interview in which he said it was the most chaotic campaign he had ever seen in his life and he was more careful in his language than others but agents told me they had dubbed donald trump the chaos candidate because he was inciting violence at his own rallies, with protesters who are anti-trump arrived, he would encourage his rally goers to physically attack them saying he would pay their legal bills. if you get in trouble i will pay your bills so there is a horrible scene where a woman from the university in louisville is in a kentucky convention center where the president is speaking, she has come to p

also unprecedented, near congressman hakeem jeffries seems poised to become the first black leader ofouse democratic caucus. house democrats vote for new leadership this week, and republican minority leader kevin mccarthy pledges retribution for some of donald trump's most -- critics in the house. when the incoming republican majority takes over next year. i will talk to one of the highest ranking house democrats in just a moment about what all of this means for the party and for the country. and of course, the georgia senate runoff, less than ten days away. early voting now in its second day. democrat reverend senator raphael warnock and republican herschel walker both out campaigning this holiday weekend. warnock about to get in assist from former president barack obama, who campaigned with him earlier this week. so let's get started. joining me now, house majority whip, congressman jim clapper in. democrat of south carolina. mr. majority whip, thank you for joining us tonight. and as i laid out in the entry out there, i am sure i am not the only person who finds it surreal that a f

judy: we mentioned you will be the state's first black governor and you will be the nations fourth onlyr. we know a lot of candidates did not make it this year running for senator or governor. stacey abrams, cheri beasley, mandela barnes. as the democratic party doing enough for black candidates right now? mr. moore: i'm thankful because last tuesday, the state of maryland sent a message. let's be clear, this is a state that is the state of frederick douglass and harriet tubman and thurgood marshall. but it is also a state that understands progress is not inevitable, but progress is possible. when i think about what happened last tuesday, i am grateful -- not only did we win, but it is how we won. if you look at every demographic, if you look that we won areas in maryland that were urban, rural, suburban, western maryland and the eastern shore, i think it's because in this moment, this state was ready. judy: in terms of the other candidates i mentioned who did not make it this year, does it say some thing about where we are as a country? mr. moore: i think we know that the history of th

black panther fans without chadwick boseman. two years after his death, his widow, simone, sat down with whoopi goldberg for her first interview about his final days and how he is still inspiring so many black panther would forever changed. chadwick boseman is life catapulted him to a different stratosphere fail . the film earned more than a billion dollars worldwide, with chadwick becoming the first black superhero in the marvel universe. we knew that we had something special. that we wanted to give the world that we could be for human beings in the roles that we were playing 2020 after a hard fought and private four year battle with colon cancer, the 43 year old actor passed away now the news bull shocked and devastated fans around the world and it devastated his family, including the love of his life. his widow, simone bozeman. i can't believe that. i can't believe that i was so lucky. i can't believe that i got to love this person. and i also got them to love me to simone. two with me every day. i have to acknowledge you right now. i love you. it has been. the most challenging two years. i've ever had in my life. it was covid wh

you went to first black cheerleaders at uc berkeley, and now you're the first black woman ceo and mba. when you started scratching off a lot of these firsts, what will you look back at? what you've been able to accomplish? what stands out? okay, so first of all, i you know, most of the times when you first you don't know your first because as you just either try out or like when i tried out to be a cheerleader, i didn't know that i was one of the first. i assumed that i mean, people told me i was the first, but i think there was probably another one or two before me. and i keep researching it, but you don't know that there are few people or no people that that have done this that look like you before. and the only time i ever set out to be the first was when i was senior class president because i was at my sister's graduation, high school graduation as a freshman. and i saw these two white guys on stage and asked my mom if a black girl could be on that stage. and so that i got one of my buddies to run for student body president when we were juniors. and so two black girls ended up on

and your vote allowed me to put the first black woman in history on the united states supreme court. and with your vote, i am keeping a promise. my promise that no one should be in jail for possession of marijuana. and the record should be expunged. remember, the power is in your hands. you are one of the reasons why i've never felt more optimistic about america's future. look, america is reasserting ourselves. leading the world into the 21st century. and i have traveled this country and seen a great nation because i know we are good people. we just have to do member who in the hell we are. we are the united. and there is nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing beyond our capacity if we do it together. so get out the vote. god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you, thank you, thank you. [applause] ? ♪ >> campaigns when a 22 coverage continues on c-span. president biden live from bowie state university in maryland. we will take you live to dayton, ohio. former president donald trump two a campaign event tonight for ohio candidates, j.d. vance running for senate and govern

ryan offers an inspiring and heart tugging portrait of a momentous year when america elected its first black woman vice president and celebrates the tenacity, power and impact of black women across america from the birth of this nation. black women have transformed their pain into progress and have been at the front lines of the country's political, social and economic struggles. these sheroes, as ryan calls them, include current political leaders such as maxine waters. valerie jarrett and kamala harris, other activists and artists like regina king, combining profiles and in-depth interviews, ryan explores the challenges that black women endure and how the lessons they've learned can help us shape our own stories without. please welcome alex phinney and april ryan. thanks for. hi everyone. hello. hello, everyone. hello. hi, how are you? you can do better than that. it's raining. you made it. that's right. thank you. that's right. good afternoon, miami. yes, we love having april ryan here. she is, first of all, just phenomenal. can we just get a good get a hand clap for april ryan. first of a

the first black leader in either party. what are we looking for from this new junctioner generation of leaders? >> there's no doubt about that. and it should not go under played that this is an historic day on capitol hill that you have your first african-american leader of either party in the house and the senate who is going to guide the party through the next congress. it will be a big job. there's likely only to be a 4 to 5-seat maujty for the republicans. so it will be incumbent upon jeffreys to keep all the democrats together in the fold as they work to either stop any type of attempts by kevin mccarthy to enact a republican agenda, and also to support the president joe biden in his agenda from the democratic side. obviously, there's the history behind the identity of him as the first black leader, but this is also a generational shift in both jeffreys, who will serve and pete aguilar, who will be the conference chair. all three of them are about 30 years younger than the people they are replacing. so this is a new yo

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democrats appear likely to choose new york representative hakeem jeffries, possibly making him the first black person to lead any party in congress. a lot of history this week. we do begin with the dangerous snowstorm bearing down on new york state. cnn's polo sandoval is in buffalo already seeing the impact of this storm. cnn meteorologist chad myers at the cnn weather center. first, polo, tell us what it looks like there. >> reporter: just to really summarize the concern on the ground from authorities here, jim, it's not necessarily the snow that we saw last night that worries authorities, it's what's predicted to fall in the coming hours here in buffalo. you see the roads because of the small reprieve are fairly clear, i should mention crews have been working nonstop with snow plows and snow blowers to make sure that the streets are clear, fearing what is to come in the next few hours potentially into this evening. there was a travel ban in place, basically calling on residents to not go out and drive, however, that in the last hour, that was basically downgraded to a travel advisory, but s

but also as i read through what she said, understanding the first black family, the first black presidentn in the white house, and the first lady takes on a lot of whatever our cultural baggage is about women. i remember the first time she wore pants it was -- you know, freaked people out. >> or a sleeveless photo for the portrait. you remember that? >> yes. michelle rightfully understood i don't want to create a distraction, and we can all think it was ridiculous it would have created a distraction -- >> no, it was imposed on her. where it was like obama the quote-unquote terrorist and for her the mere styling of her hair in that image was supposed to signal militancy and comes from a mind of an artist who at the time i think given his age would have those associations of sort of the black panther activist violence type things. so it was out there. >> we often talk about the crown act obviously that passed in the house. it's still waiting for a chance in the senate, whether it will get it or not. the idea you could actually be punished in the workplace not just not respected but punished

great university here in nashville but barack obama came out of columbia, w be the voice was the first blackerson to get that from the university and the forgot -- but yes. both have been educating black people for years but i mentioned this because for close to 100 years, is the only place where i went to this. we can't under emphasize it enough. from going to be there a couple hours word i visited. what was your second question? >> the role in the civil rights movement. what did he do that martin luther king jr. couldn't do? >> he carried on martin luther kings legacy, in a different way. is able to run for mayor and the same with jesse jackson and julian bond, all of these people protÉgÉs of martin luther king jr. continue to carry his legacy in politics or philanthropy or civil duty, john news for example, another student, john lewis went on to become congressman for 33 years and john who was talked specifically about the fact that martin luther king jr. brought him from nashville to atlanta on a bus trip because john lewis was having trouble in school and he was invited to atlanta so 19

. >> you were the first black eval of the - - valedictorian in the first black mba and at berkeley soooking at what you've been able to accomplish what stands out quick. >> first of all you don't know you are the first because you try out either know i was one ofs the first people told me i was the firstan but there was probably another one or two before me but you don't know there are few people or know people that have done this set look like you before the only time i ever set out to be the first was senior class president i g was at the graduation as a freshman i saw the two white guys i asked if a black girl could be on the stage so i got one of my buddies to run for student body president that's the only time bad after that when i became the first black female ceo in the nba i think mark cuban was trying to make a difference for his team not making history i didn't know i was first and it was actually sad because in these days you should not be first. maybe growing up but not now. i tried to use it as encouragement to make sure i'm not the last the pipeline of the first or the s

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mandela barnes is african-american and is trying to become the first black u.s.enator from wisconsin. he is currently lieutenant governor from a walkie, he has tried to also talk about abortion but also talk about senator johnson's record, his role in downplaying the january 6 riots at the capitol, he had wanted a slate of fake republican electors for the vice president on that day. these are things mandela barnes is talking about on the state -- around the state. he is trained to bring in democratic voters in milwaukee which is the largest democratic voting hub in the state, that is where mandela barnes is from, focusing on that, and cutting into the republican advantage in rule areas and doing work out there. a tight race, polls show not as tight as the governor race, they show jobs with a slight advantage so we will see how that shakes out. earlier in the program we showed viewers the latest from the campaign trail. yesterday the big names are brought out. president biden in florida, former president obama in nevada, vice president mike pence georgia, what big

but also, as i read through what she said, i understood the first black family, the first black presidentinton in the white house. and the first lady takes on a lot of whatever our cultural baggage is about women. i remember the first time she wore chance it was, you know, reach people out. >> sleeveless photo. but in the portrait, remember that? >> yes, yes, for michelle, she rightfully understood what is -- listen, i don't wanna create a distraction. we can all think it is ridiculous that it would've created a distraction. >> no, it was imposed on. here the politics of fear -- made that pretty clear. it was, like obama as the political terrorist. and her just the mere styling of her hair in that image was supposed to signify militancy and violence -- it comes from the mind of an artist who at the time, given his age, would have those associations of sort of the black panther activists violent type things. and it was out there. >> i also want to bring in wil l into this conversation, because i think we also talk about the crown, act obviously passed in the house and still waiting for a c

the star of film and stage was the first black woman to be nominated for a tony award for leading actress57 musical "jamaica." the brookline born horne, who died in 2010 at the age of 2, won a tony award and two grammys during her illustrious career. >>> and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for cbs mornings. and remember you can follow us online at any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. >>> this is cbs news flash. i'm dan lieberman in new york. a kansas woman who trained over 100 fighters in all-female isis battalion in syria was sentenced to 20 years in prison and 25 years of supervised release. -year-lison fluke akron discussed plans to attack an american college she pled guilty and said she regrets her choices. >>> the federal reserve is expected to announce another interest rate increase, its fourth straight hike. fed chair jerome powell could signal a shift to smaller rate increases, giving officials more time to assess the impact of the hikes. >>> and in