he has found success with his one-man production "ghetto klown." the show is now here in los angeles. here is a scene from "ghetto klown." >> i became the school class clown. that is mean. -- me. me and my sad fro. i would not slip with 3. my dad was like, cut that ugly thing off. you are not black. i am like a number 6 over there. tavis: you're putting all of your business on the stage. >> all of the dirty laundry, the underwear. it is all there for everybody to see. i have control of that. tavis: tell me the construct of this show. >> it is a portrait of a young man of an artist like the james joyce story. that whole journey of how i got started, why did i continue, the failures, the people who block to me, who boosted me, i pay tribute lori get revenge. -- or i get revenge. tavis: what is the takeaway other than half laughing? >> total inspiration. i did it because, i saw a statistic that 45% of latin kids drop out of school. that is a tragedy. but then i understood that when i was growing up, i did not feel like i was part of the united states

the wall has created a ghetto. those inside do not have work or while -- or wealth. >> he is a spokesman for the roma community. he visits regularly and ask how they are doing although the answer is all too obvious. he lives with his seven children in one room. >> tell me, what do you think of the wall? >> it is wrong. the mayor locks us in like prisoners and he treats us even worse. >> i was against the wall from the start. instead of spending so much money on that, they could have paid off our debt to the utility companies.

still others perished along the way, succumbing to the ills of all ghettos in spite of their dubious romance provide in abundance. kenny's father was tommy romero, a puerto rican boy born in east harlem, a different kind of ghetto that produced some successes. before he was 10, the romero family took flight to the williams burg section of brooklyn because of the numbered streets such as south 6th and south 7th which carried their direction. in time, the south street became puerto rican, displacing the italians, who moved deeper into brooklyn. the north streets were remained polish extending into green point. his parents purchased a house cheaply and over the years created a home that was a welcome place for their children and grandchildren. this haven was of such serenity that kenny often felt the same respect and awe that he experienced when entering the fragrant solitude of the catholic church, fleeing went the irish seeking refuge from the advancing harlems, the dark skin of the people making unrecognizable the prejudices they had endured when they arrived in america. the defect o

not just of ghettos and barios rios, but suburbs. 1/3rd of the middle class has fallen into poverty.rnell west. what a blessing to be at the heart of the blues. a blues man, the blues ain't nothing but an autobiographical catastrophe expressed lyrically. everybody has some catastrophe. what is your response? love and justice, or hatred and revnege? enge? at blues fest, it is about the love. >> freedom house. we talked about poverty. i had a job and family, what a person is supposed to have. i am down to nothing now. i have reached almost 30 years. i worked at a major store that had to close 140 stores. i worked with people who had been with the company. a year or two left for whatever pension. the things that they had worked hard and have in their retirement and they lost all of that. because of losing the home, i had to make certain that she was cared for. we split up and have been separated for nine months now. >> sometimes, you just feel the love. you never, ever, -- >> millions of americans are finding themselves in poverty. more children of all races and creeds from 2008-2009 jo

i can be ghetto when i want to be.rew up with the black panthers doing peace and freedom benefits for them. so on the one hand i like the softness of spirituel the day, but i also like the energy that you need to be a warrior where you need to be. i love martin luther king, but also malcolm x, sometimes you have to really hold your ground. compassion, kindness, education. rather than more killing. >> when you graduated in 1965, it was the height of the civil- rights movement. you just alluded to the environment that you were growing up in. as a young musician, what was it like for you in san francisco at the time? >> it was heaven on earth. we would go down to the fillmore and see these great band, the doors, and jimi hendrix, cream, and then go down to the grove to see other music. you could go to the mission district to hear mexican. everywhere i went there was this multi dimensional color and i felt like it was on necessary for me to do just one. like baskin-robbins, i want all the flavors. you cannot just be a mexi

the wall has created a ghetto. those inside do not have work or while -- or wealth. >> he is a spokesman for the roma community. he visits regularly and ask how they are doing although the answer is all too obvious. he lives with his seven children in one room. >> tell me, what do you think of the wall? >> it is wrong. the mayor locks us in like prisoners and he treats us even worse. >> i was against the wall from the start. instead of spending so much money on that, they could have paid off our debt to the utility companies. then we would at least have running water again. >> but nobody seems to care that that roma are upset and angry. the mayor has told them they are to blame for the situation they are in. many people across europe think like the mayor. other towns are events following his example. this town has not build a barrier to contain its roma that is 3 meters tall. the mayor has no qualms about what he has done. he thinks it is entirely justified. >> there used to be an old mill here. they trashed it and

we cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger oneed as long as a negro in mississippi cannot vote and the negro in new york believes he has nothing for which to vote. no. no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. i am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. you have been the veterans of creative suffering. continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redem tif. go back to mississippi. go back to alabama, go back to south carolina, go back to georgia, go back to louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. let us not wallo in the valley of despair. i say to you today, my friends, so even though we face

i am not trying to be ghetto or bring stuff that you don't want to hear. if you don't like a girl, girls are going to fight. you are going to get stabbed. with boys, you can't just go anymore. you might really, really, want to do that. but i know some boys who would love the music program, but they are not going to come to fillmore all the way and risk their lives for something they really really, want to do. it's the areas. put it in suburbs where everybody can go to it. >> or, i notice they are building a police station. you will build a police station but not a community center. >> we are getting concrete examples here. >> did you want to respond anything before i go to questions? >> this is an issue where all hands need to be on deck. we are in a crisis. we all have to be held accountable at every level to have all hands on deck. we have the obliteration of our young people. homicide is the leading cause of death. for the period we have been in iraq. there are have been 4 thousand casualties. this is a program in our own back yard. we need the city coo

. >> we can do elvis presley in the ghetto. ♪ >> stephen: am i in?> you're on the team. >> stephen: now, you guys collaborate. a lot of hip-hop people collaborate together. okay. but in any collaboration, like in any partnership, there's one guy that's doing the work and, you know, one guy is there for the ride. you know what i mean? so you're doing the work? >> that's me. >> stephen: and he's the one who looks pretty and hits the tambourine? >> more cow bell. [cheering and applause] >> stephen: you have a great act coming up called "black star." would you guys stick around and with -- be them. >> before the show, this is our classy warrior package for you. >> stephen: classy warrior? >> just in the event that you get, you know, summoned to that cheney hunting invitational. >> stephen: i might get invite todrick perry's hunting invitational. you guys should head down there, too. >> or golf summit. here's a classy warrior tie for you. >> stephen: classy warrior. >> because if it's a class war, you should be a classy warrior. >> stephen: oh. [cheering

. >>> es como que estuviéramos en el ghetto, y están contando a la gente, están re tri janed sus movimientosa decirme, que la señora del baño les decía, mexicanos que hacen aquí, ya llegó la ley, váyanse de aquí no tienen nada que estar haciendo acá. >>> su otra pena, que tiene que abandonar su vida en este parque de casas móviles y salir noche cuando nadie los vea. >>> nos vamos a ir ¿donde? donde dios nos lleve. >>> en montgomery alabama maría antonieta collins univisión. >>> las autoridades norteamericanas el secretario de justicia erick holder. evitó real pondero a la pregunta de un periodista sobre una posible citación a declarar ante el congreso sobre el operativo "rápido y furioso" no lo distrae del asunto que los trae ahora como la nueva conspiración. >>> "ocupemos wall street" cambiaron de escenario marcharon por el centro de mano manhattan, que llamaron la marcha de los millonarios. caminaron de 2 en 2 por la acera. donde viven los empresarios más ricos de estados unidos. >>> las protestas del sector financiero en boston se arrestaron a un centenar de manifestantes se ad vir fío qu

i have seen them in the ghettos of the north, i have seen them in the rural areas of the south. i've seen them in abolition. i must confess in some situations i have found myself crying. 40 years later, we follow in king's footsteps and across the country we saw people suffering and struggling to survive. like king, we cried. >> the plight of the homeless, the plight of the poor, we have seen this story. we're not talking about the plight, we're talking about the fight. that is the basis on which we are on a journey to eliminate poverty. >> that history is still happening today. we're still fighting against militarism. we're still fighting against racism, we're still fighting against poverty. these things are very intertwined. >> we in this will have to come together. we have to come together and began to enforce our human- rights. bin human rights community, we the people of the united states must take it upon ourselves to enforce our human-rights. -- the human rights community, we the people of the united states. >> we can have a toast to the air, we can say that is great work

gold out of the occupied together anti-corporate protest movement that began in new york ghettos and cotton and all with demonstrations being planned in cities across the globe. and spain's credits takes a hit from international rating agencies while neighbor portugal prepares for top of the stairs the measure of people accusing the government of a borking for the rich.

and also went to areas where poor area, kind of ghettos of the city much more conservative, the linesne line for men and one for women and divided themselves to divide up and these lines went about four hours back and everyone-- >> four hours back. >> no one complained, it was sort of a national party. >> the turnout. >> 90% and nonregistered voters, and you probably saw three quarters of tunisiaens voted and they were joking kind of like the dictators could make up the numbers. >> paul: he was deposed in january. >> where the arab spring started in tunisia. >> paul: a lot of scary headlines about islamists coming to power, oh, no, this is going to happen in the wake of these dictators falling. how concerned should we be about the fact that the slmi islamists carry the day here. i think this is was a free vote and during this campaign, the iz islamist party moderated, very much moderated its image to fight in with what tunisia is. i mean, they were trying to win votes and they kept, actually i heard this more than once, saying we have to adjust to the tunisia society. and it's not-- >

years the serbs who remain in kosovo they're living in horrible conditions basically living in a ghetto and they have been there and their presence there is a form of silent protest against what is happening there as they do not want to leave their homeland they want to stay where they were they are in stay in the country in which they were born in which they believe is there is the serbs there are saying no to the west and if this was happening in a country where nato in the west supports the regime of that country they will be hailing the serbs as freedom fighters in fighters for human rights of course because the west does support the government in pristina after all they install them there criminalizing away the serbs and demonizing them once again and presenting them as criminals and people who want to make a profit out of all this wild west who is in fact those who want to make a profit out of them posing you know customs over there. has been hailed as a historic middle east prisoner exchange where there were a thousand palestinians being swapped for just one israeli soldier gilad

this is a campaign of defamation against holocaust survivors who are alive because they escaped the ghetto to join the soviet art isn't the only people fighting and this part of the world it is part of a campaign to leave violence history in the direction of double genocide the very far right model that posits that communism or not is an equal let me officially recognizes the crimes committed by the soviet union and nazi regimes are equal and it's other european states to do the same for nazi crimes should not be used because if you want there were some crimes for all four of them we have a story there are worse they were killers like. they were trying to wipe out all hope and so instead of focusing on an eighty six year old holocaust survivor many say lithuanian authorities should rather at least be opening an investigation and does it matter made says he's willing to participate in an investigation for the reasons he believes the left radians are trying to run from one if they really are going to. we go out it will bring out everything will be. and in the long run that seems the last thi

this is a campaign of defamation against holocaust survivors who are alive because they escaped the ghetto to join the soviet partisans the only people fighting in this part of the world it is part of their campaign to lead by history and the direction of double genocide and the very far right model that posits that communism or not isn't are equal lithuania officially recognizes the crimes committed by the soviet union and nazi regimes are equal and other european states to do the same for nazi crimes should not be excused because if you're wrong there were some crimes from the other story there are only worse they were genocide here they were trying to wipe out a whole people and so instead of focusing on an eighty six year old holocaust survivor many say lithuanian authorities should rather at least be opening an investigation and does it matter made his willing to participate in a base to base it on the recently released belief radians are trying to run someone if they really are going. out it will bring out everything will be done perhaps and in the long run that seems the last thing