he is-- is one of new york's treasures and in harlem we treasure him especially, herb boyd. [applause] next is thomas bradshaw. according to the "new york times" by rod thomas bradshaw's work is likely to leave you speechless. a professor of playwriting at medger evers college bradshaw has been named one of the top 10 playwrights to watch by new york and best provocative playwright in 2007 by the village voice. if you call provocative by the village voice, you must be provocative. displays include don, southern provinces, purity and strom thurmond is not a racist. he is currently working on-- thomas bradshaw. [applause] major robert o'dell owens is a politician and prominent member, i hope i have this right, it democratic socialism of america. democratic socialist have all my respect. we all know him though as the representative, the house representative from brooklyn who replaced shirley chisholm. he has been a very, very important voice, representation for us in the united states congress. he has been a member of the congressional progressive caucus in addition to the blac

somewhere -- summer in new york and a revised the american cities are not what they seem to be an harlem had a history that was not african-american in the beginning and there's a small finnish community in harlem so when i joined "the baltimore sun" in 1969 that was a story i was interested is how various cities and neighborhoods change and that is what the book is all about. >> host: it sounds like if you started with that interest in 1969 it was quite a journey for the book to come out. >> it was quite a journey first as a reporter in south africa than the soviet union and the talk comes together in this book. >> host: tell us about some of your findings. >> 18 is my eight uneasiness was one term i do not use of the book because it is accepted by the academic community but there are two versions white people saw blockbusters says destabilization merger of them away. black people generally in baltimore saab blockbusting is something good that opened housing for the blacks. >> host: m&a stop you hear what does blockbusting mean the? >> it has nothing to do with video rentals bus specula

even louis again to back off of his kind of depiction of marcus garvey in his book when harlem was in vogue. david said i didn't mean it like that. if he had to do it all over again he would not depict him in that manner. but he has every right i guess as a writer. you go in there and you try to bring some levity, some balance and analysis to situation. sometimes you can make your point very, very strongly and firmly, but by ridiculing it. and so that's another part of satire in which we look at certain books, and where and where do you enter? how do you come into the situation? where are you as a reader, where do you stand? that's why for me ishmael reed is pretty much the past master. he always talked about mark twain, you know, from a white perspective. to me, ishmael reed. give me ishmael, talking to you, baby. >> i appreciate that. what are some of the targets or what should be the targets? >> can i say something? you know, i agree with everything that you said and i also think that satire can be used -- i mean, it's really all about reality and satire can be used to present an a

dubois, marcus garvey's, and the poets and novelists of the harlem renaissance, the post-renaissance, and black arts movement. with the lights of john oliver killen's. sanchez, tony, and with the panelists here before you. the writers on this panel are sure to examine the ways writers use literature as an instrument for social change. how we actively engage resistance and look to break new ground for transformation. among our panelists in the order that i thought would be interesting to present them. our first is simply a prolific award-winning activist with a career that spans well over 40 years of consistent commitment. in addition to having authored and/or edited no less than seven books of poetry, two children's books, three collections of essays, several major anthologies, numerous plays, including a musical, kalamu ya salaam is a producer of literary festival, poetry and jazz concerts, as well as records, cds, dvds and radio programs, while continuing to moderate the newsletter, that attracts well over 800 black writers and supporters, and as educators codirecting students at th

i knew that adam would be something because his daddy fed the hungry in harlem.if i might say she said -- because his daddy was leading voter registration drives in georgia in 1935. 30 years before 1965. she knew malcom x. she knew a. phillip randolph, and marion anderson, and roy wilson, price, and whitney youn, and walter price. and davis bates and delores tucker. she was our witness. she was the bridge for our century. she communicated with presidents roosevelt and truman and eisenhower and kennedy and lyndon baines johnson and nixon and president ford and carter and bush, sr. and, jr. and reagan and clinton, and then, god, moses -- because people were rebellious, saw the promisedan

easter sunday in harlem in 1947. a madman-like scene in a new york office in 1959. a texas carnival in 1960. and there were numerous portraits of leading cultural figures. henri artis, triump truman capote, and chanel. cartier bresson was not only a man travelling in the world, but a man of it. he lived large and had friends in high places around the globe. including, says galasi, a young president and his glamorous wife in 1960. >> it is inauguration day in january, 1960, and j.f.k. and jackie are in the open limousine. you can see in this picture, she is just at this moment pointing out to the president. person who is taking the picture. there is henri. >> cartier bresson began to turn away from photography in the 1970s, preferring, instead, the drawing and painting of his youth. having seen and captured so much of the life of one century, he lived on into the next one. dying in 2004 in france, at age 95. >> woodruff: finally tonight, a portrait of a platoon of in infantry men and served in iraq, and the trouble lives they've led since coming home. the story comes

there was a kind of dirt road that the led to the far away village of harlem. at one point, somebody they met on the ship invited him to the country place on the east river. it's a site of today of east 64th street. there was no skyline. when they got to boston, they said that's more like a city. we have hills. in new york, it's all one single story as far as the eye can see. but it was already a commercial beehive in a way that was offputting and it did seem kind of clasp. all anybody talked about what so and so was worth. anybody is scrambling to make a fortune. at the same time, kind of exhilarating. because the french, certainly the aristocrats, pretended they didn't know how much money they had and where it came from. americans had the spirit and energy and entrepreneurship and tocqueville responded to and wrote warmly about. they spent some time at sing sing, it had just been built. the idea was that maybe if the wormers, that is prisoners, came out every day in gangs and broke stones or whatever their job was, they'd be doing something useful for society

the student says he found the spall needles that are used to prick fingers for blood near harlem hospital. the hospital claims it uses needles that look like these, not the ones the child found. parents say someone needs to be held accountable. >> i don't know what's going on. that's dangerous, you know. what if it was my kids, you know. that's pitiful. >> the needles and all the students involved have been tested for hef, hepatitis and other blood born diseases. the student could be suspended for bringing those needles to school. >>> the texas textbook showdown is finally over. the state board of education has decided what it wants in the history books for nearly five million public school stiewngs. so -- students. so what does this mean for the rest of the country? jennifer davis reports from austin. >> reporter: two quick votes by the texas board of education will change the social studies and history curriculum for nearly five million texas students. >> 9-5. the motion carries. >> reporter: the final vote along ideological lines. they voted to pass revised strlds they say will correct

and columbia is right near harlem. and when he gets to columbia, by his own admission and his own description to me in interview, but also some classmates -- although i found it the hardest period to report out fully, and there's a reason for it. he becomes not just serious but self-serious. righteous. he reads a lot. he runs in the park. and phil burner he kept up a correspondence for years after. but he's really -- he's not a monk. he has a social life. and he certainly has an academic life. although not a spectacular one. he lives a fairly quiet -- but he decides to get serious. the partying life starts to recede. when i first interviewed him in front of an audience like this in phoenix on that book tour time, i asked him about the passage about drugs. and i asked him if he inhaled ha-ha-ha. and he said that was the idea. a fair point. [laughter] >> but because of the life he led at columbia, it was -- i felt it important to report on occidental, about chicago, about hawaii border boxes a number of thing. columbia h

she got her start in 1933 dancing in the chorus line at harlem's cotton club at age 16 ♪ what have i others ain't ♪ ♪ batt horne appeared in numerous films in 1940s typically in song and dance numbers. she was the first black performer to be signed to eye long-term contract by a major film studio. she had a breakthrough performance in 1943 in the all-black movie musical "stormee weather" title song would become a signature for horn nie the years to come ♪ stormy weather ♪ ♪ there's no sunup in the sky ♪ ♪ starmee weather ♪ -- . >> brown: a very public figure in a segregated society, horne faced constant racial prejudices and practices. her songs were often edited out of films playing in southern movie theerts and she thought to avoid typical stereo black roles. >> my father said i can get a maid for my daughter. i don't want her in the movies playing mades. >> brown: in 1947 horne married composer leny hateman, a whiteman in paris. their interracial marriage was kept secret for three years. >> brown: in the 196 0s she joined the march on washington and numerous other civil rights pro

and in it he writes a letter home after a riding in harlem heights in 1776, and there was a passage of the letter that just struck me as kind of a neat quote. and essentially he said that we have arrived in virginia, and by the way, this was the first virginia regiment to join the continental army. data within a couple a couple of riflemen before that. so now the virginians are really arriving in force. he writes great julie was expressed at our arrival. and as a result great things are expected from the virginians. and we expect to go through a great fatigue. wow, great things are expected from the virginians, that's a great. and i transported away for a while and actually wrote a book, and a few years later when i decide to expand my research on virginia's role, that was the natural title that came to mind. >> virginia produced some of our country's most notable leaders, mason, jefferson, george washington. is there something about the state itself that brought out great leadership? >> i don't know about great, if there's anything about virginia itself that brought out great leaders.

rangel's lease of multiple rent-controlled apartments in harlem. rangel's use of a house parking spot for long-term storage of his car. failure to report and pay taxes on rental income on his resort villa in the dominican republic. an alleged quid pro quo trading legislative action in exchange for donations to a center named for rangel at the city of new york. a gift-rule violation on trips to the caribbean-sponsor by the carib news foundation. these are items currently under investigation and have been for 18 months by the ethics committee of this house. i have asked over and over and over of the ethics committee, please, please resolve these issues one way or the other. but as i have said, these are allegations. but you know what? that's why the swamp water is rising. and guess what? american public isn't treated the same way mr. rangel is on their tax violations. they don't get to pay the back taxes with no penalties and interest, as mr. rangel did. that's one of those things that the president promised wasn't going to happen, but it did. that's

the first call comes on line for a democrat from harlem, new york. caller: hello, how are you? just wanted to say that this afghanistan thing, i think it is a hoax. especially for the times square bombing thing that just happened, it all leads back to we need to get out of afghanistan. there's no need to be there. it is too dangerous. it reminds me of 9/11, and also of how mayor bloomberg is trying to control the city through fear and terrorism, and now he wants to fly to london and look at his security cameras and all that. host: tom, on the line for democrats, out of detroit. caller: you know, i'm kind of confused right now about how i feel about afghanistan and as being present there right now. i don't know what karzai has in mind, what he will talk about, but we have a lot of troops there. it is what? 120,000, or even more? the british had the same amount of troops in the 1920's, and they could not control any of the border regions. host: let me read you more of this morning's of bed. president karzai says "our common interest in fighting terrorism and improving security re

in 1933, a 16-year-old young lady named lena horne joined the chorus at a famous club in harlem known as the cotton club. this young lady was passionate about performing so she jumped in with both feet and she never looked back. the following year, lena horne made her debut on broadway. not long after, she became the first african-american performer to sign a long-term contract with the big hollywood studio m.g.m. she blazed a trail, mr. president, she knew that her talent could outshine the ugliness of racial prejudice, so in the 1940's, she became a major movie star. but despite her success lena horne never forget her roots or the plight of those who are subjected to hatred and bigry on a daily basis. she knew that she was a role model and had a -- and had an authority figure and she used her fame as a platform to raise these issues and to fight against intolerance. she partnered with the first lady, eleanor roosevelt, to pass antilynching legislation after the second world war, and she worked with the japanese-americans who had suffered internment and discrimination and all the whi

she began her career at age 16 making a name for herself as a dancer at harlem's renowned cotton club in the 1930's. she became the first black performer with a major hollywood studio contract. in 1942, lena moved to los angeles where she appeared in such movies as "cabin in the sky." , "meet me in las vegas" and "the whiz" her role in the film "stormy weather" included her rendition of the title song which became her trademark. a remarkable charismatic entertainer, horn became one of the top earning performers of black hollywood by 1945. lena is now credited with paving the way for many black actresses in hollywood who aspire towards larger roles in film production. though primarily known as an entertainer, horn also was noted for her work with civil rights and political organizations. as an actress she refused to play roles that stereotyped african-american women, and by the 1960's she became a prominent celebrity voice in the civil rights movement. she joined in the march on washington when martin luther king gave her, "i have a dream speech" and spoke at a rally with medgar evers.

after returning to new york, she joined the chorus at the famed cotton club in harlem in 1933. in the late 1930's and early 1940's, she was primarily a nightclub performer but she also was in a few movies. during the nightclub performance in hollywood in 1943 she gained the attention of some local talent scouts for the movies. she became the first black performer to sign a long-term contract with a major hollywood studio. she performed in a number of movie-musicals throughout the 1940's, including the m.g.m. musical, "cabin in the sky." from the late 1950's to the 1960's, ms. horne appeared on many television variety shows, including the ed sullivan show and the dean martin show. in the 1970's and 1980's, she continued to perform in television shows, including "the muppet show," "sesame street" and "the cosby show." lena horne, the lady and her music ran through more than 300 performances on broadway. she also received two grammy awards for the cast recording of her show. ms. horne again one grammy awards in 1989 honoring her lifentime achievement in 1995 when she was almost 80

it was 1929 and harlem was hot.thy height was mentored by w.e.b. du bois and inspired by poets like langston hughes. he was roused and awakened by paul robeson the school her and schools remained her passion. she graduated from n.y.u. and went on to earn a master's degree from the university, master's degree in social work. it was in harlem and at and why you her passion to serve the community come her passions for activism and service that is where it all came together. she had begun that effort in high school but they're in harlem and at nyu and was amplified. it was new york city that she actualized her crusade for racial justice and equality for black women color all women protesting, marching and forging alliances for the building of a better world for. in the state of new york, a little new york new york, in the state of new york please welcome harlem congressman charles rangel and the reverend al sharpton. [applause] let me thank you and the secretary of state for all that you are doing for haiti. [applause]

dubois, and the poets and a novelist of the harlem renaissance, the post renaissance and the black arts movement with the lights of john oliver killens. and others and with the panelists year before you. the writers on this panel are here to examine the social, political, cultural ways they use for social change to actively in gauge and actively break ground for the transformation. among our panelists i thought it would be nice to present them. our first is the award-winning activist with a career that spans well over 40 years of consistent commitment and in addition to authored or edited no less than seven books of poetry common to children's books, three collections of essays, several major anthologies, numerous plays including a musical, kalamu ya salaam is a producer of literary festivals, poetry and jazz concert tesoro was records, cds, dvd's and video programs while continuing to moderate the newsletter that tracks well over 800 black writers and supporters and as educators educators, code directing students act the center and a great team program. >> among his books you may want