right now we are in harlem. harlem is a city within a city. when i refer to harlemite think of it as a city. some people say it is a neighborhood in new york city. it is really black metropolis. when we think about malcolm x, malcolm x standalone alongside 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 befor

harold freeman. >> i was really going to cut cancer out of harlem. but cancer wouldn't yield to the knife. why? because the people were poor and uninsured and coming in too late for surgery to be the main answer. >> reporter: if you see a breast cancer in a woman early, you can almost always cure it at this point. >> early breast cancer, the earliest stages of breast cancer, are curable, almost to 100%. late breast chanancer, people d from it at nearly 100%. >> reporter: a shocking reality brought home to dee dee at their first meeting when dr. freeman tells her he's struggling to raise $2.5 m a vital pledge of the same amount. >> i will get you your money. >> oh, my god. >> and i'm going to get it for you in the next couple of months. >> oh, my god. oh, god. >> what you have done for this nation -- and the fact that you have to go out there and work to raise $2.5 million is a disgrace. you'll get your $2.5 million, you're going to get a lot more. this is going to be my job. >> thank you. i don't know if i can talk anymore. >> reporter: something els

this to more than two hundred kilometers to the shelves harlem's the captain is charles the cools fall from the coast any closer would risk the old running aground the crew keeps on track with the help of the g.p.s. navigator and america's compass. of a phone it isn't so bad now given to the waves are just one metre high of the time to head for the shan thailand's. we have resolved to move on because of stable atmospheric pressure in the last twenty four hours we are fine full to the shore for the shelter it is given a school now we are in open season she offers you a bit of them with. a curious port of killer whales is attracted to the small boat this part of the sea of a cost is rich with simon in the summer they spawn in the rivers of the shutoff harlem's providing plenty of food for the killer whales. mollusk the size of all boat. it's underneath a look coming up now now the. killer whales the most colorful as belonging to the dolphin family they come to new groups with an intricate social structure when chasing so it will prey they can swim as fast as fifty five kilometers an hour

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 of memory driving them forward to separate themselves from the shadows that follow all immigrants. fleeing went the puerto ricans, escap

>> the painting is a lesser-known jacob lawrence painting from harlem and what most people don't notice there's a prominent couple on the front and there's three little box next to them as the ghost of the dead person people don't notice that but it is the scene of a funeral in harlem and what was striking was the spirit of the dead person is present in the painting and that captured what i see but african-american cosmology about death and the believe in the culture that the spirit of the dead and the ancestors are always with us. >> when you went to so this book to a publisher you said i want to write about african-american funeral homes and their way of death what was the response to that? >> the reef sponsor at first was skeptical but when i made the argument and made the connection to my previous work and some of the things mentioned they were quite intrigued. i can really see myself as a historian of entrepreneurship and i think the story of the industry which was and still is largely segregated is important. >> the morris ford lynching happened in 1946 and monroe georgia. it was

it is the city's skid from harlem. but most people don't know, there is a prominent couple on the front, and as you can see, three little dots next. a ghost of the dead person. people don't actually notice that, but it is a scene of a funeral in harlem. what was striking to me is the spirit of the dead person in the painting. that also kind of captured what i say about african american cosmology about death and a belief in african-american culture that the spirit of the dead and the ancestors are always with them. >> host: dr. smith tomorrow when you went to sell this book to a publisher and use of want to write about african american funeral homes and their way of death what was the response to got. >> guest: the response of verse was skeptical, but when i made the argument and made the connections to my previous work on motown and some of the things you've already mentioned, there were quiet street. i primarily see myself as a historian of african american entrepreneurship, and already been talking about the story of

and they did it in harlem.ean for the future of the occupy movements and for the focus of the occupy wall street? joining us now is tim wise, an educator, anti-racist advocate, and the author of "white like me: reflections on race from a privileged son." tim, it is so good to see you again. >> it is very good to see you. >> i saw you earlier this week, when you were at tulane, where i now teach and where you graduated, and i wanted to ask you a couple of questions about the occupy movement. >> sure. >> the first is really about this language of occupy. now, many indigenous native american communities are pretty concerned about the language of occupation. i mean, after all, we just finished our occupation in iraq. what does it mean to occupy versus decolonizing wall street? >> i think that's important. i mean, the people of color i've been speaking to around the country, particularly indigenous activists, have been very clear, a, for their support of the goals and the wall street movement, but that you have to b

this year it was in harlem, new york, where one of every three african-american residents is infected. >> in that period of time i've seen much happen. and i still feel and have felt that for a very long time still not enough has happened. >> we need more people to come and support us to get the word out that what's going on. because it's not going nowhere. our people are still getting infected. so i'm glad she's out here tonight saying something about it's still going on. >> it's an unfortunate disease that has a stigma attached to it. and that stigma has and still is lasting. and we're trying to get to the point where people understand that it's a disease. it's a disease no different than cancer. no different than heart disease. no different than any other devastating disease. and that we have got to be cognizant of the fact these are human beings carrying this disease. we have to be more compassionate. >> not everybody comes to harlem united, celebrities, to just give their support in the flesh a lot of people do cash, but to come in the flesh, she walked amongst us, and i felt re

yeah, i started my business in a one-bedroom apartment in harlem.: did you grow up with money? >> absolutely not. i was an army brat, and then my parents divorced, and my two brothers and me and my mother moved to harlem. we lived in a bedroom in the middle of harlem in the 1970s. the elevator was broke, crime, murders. you know what? i used to take for granted heat and hot water. as a kid when we lived on army bases, i never once thought about money. i can't remember ever once asking my participants for money. as soon as i was 12, 13, i had to work. i would clean windows, i would take a shovel and clean businesses. i always had a job. megyn: do you feel resentful, the amount of your salary this' being taken ask ohs want more? >> i feel the amount that's being taken and squandered, you know, on all the things in the world. i feel resentful that someone would try to piggyback my lessons and say i owe. i have my priorities in order, and i think most americans do. this whole argument does nothing for our country at a time when we should be telling othe

for a while, the harlem store dropped the "o" and the "a" and just called itself bam fried chicken..nowis back.talk about chickening out. look what appened when a rap group making a music videe used obama fried chicken as a backdrop.every shot of thh sign at the brooklyy obama fried chicken ended up being edited out.i understand i'mm back by popular demand.and when a germaa ffozen ood company tried marketing obama fingers, test marketing was cut short after publii record, customers say that obama ffied chhckknnin harlem serves -delicious chicken.i'm just gonna use this as placemat.but does good tasting chicken -it's finggr lickin all right.make up forrbeing in questionable taste?jjenne moos, cnn,ummm change is good. new york. is thh material girl" in february?sports website... "s- b nation"... reports that madonna will headline the half-time show at super boww 46 in indianapolis.a female the super bowl's half-timee show since janettjackson's infamous wardrode mallunction in 2004. ccmiig up... who says losing weight has to be tough? pough?hhw you can control... what restaurants are servi

this is what to look like in harlem today outside of the harlem police precinct people protesting the n.y.p.d. stop and frisk tactics of protesters led by karl dicks a spokesperson for the revolutionary communist party you see there also author and activist cornel west they say new york police practices are both racist and unfair r t was in the middle of the action when police decided to arrest the activist during these peaceful protests the video you see here police taking cornel west and karl dicks into custody along with about thirty other protesters now these protests come just two days before the annual national day of against police brutality a lot of light of course being shed on this issue of police brutality in the last few weeks because what we've seen at occupy wall street it's all the movement gain support because people say what they're seeing is clearly unfair some even using that phrase screw us and we multiply but recently we saw one protester yell of police for several minutes angry about their treatment toward protesters and this wasn't just any protester this is ser

and you think of thelonious monk whose parents left north carolina for harlem and had -- what would have happened had they not made that decision when he was 5 years old where he would get a chance to flourish in the way that he did. and then you think of john coltrane who also kim from north carolina, ended up in philadelphia where, believe it or not,s that is where he got his first alto sax, his first alto sax. can you think about so many people in sports from jesse owens to jackie robinson to even current-today people such as magic johnson and on and on and on and bill rustle. none of them, very few of them would have even have had the opportunity to become the legends that we know them to be had their parents not made the sacrifice to leave the only place they'd ever known for some place far away so that their children could actually benefit from that. so one of the things i want to leave you with before, before taking your questions are two things. one is the short passage that is the end graph to this -- epi graph to this book. it's the epigraph, the words of richard wright who was

>> the lesser-known painting a cityscape from harlem and most people don't notice a prominent couplen the front and you could see the three little dots next to them the ghost of the dead person but it is a scene of of funeral in harlem and what strikes me is the spirit of the dead person in the painting that also captures what i say about african-american in cosmology that the belief in the culture that the spirit of the dead and the ancestors are always with us. >> host: dr. smith when you sold this book to a publisher to say african-american funeral homes what was the response? >> guest: the response of first was skeptical but when i made the argument and the connection to reprieve is work and motown and some of the things we have mentioned, they were intrigued. i see myself as a expert on african american entreprenuership and to talk about the industry that is largely segregated. >> host: was the moors for the lynching? >> happening in 1946 in monroe to urge an end as historians talk about the last mass lynching and four people were shot. post war situation. they were shot by a fi

the line comes from harlem renaissance poet langston hughes.wrote it as part of his famous poem "let america be america again" challenging this great nation to live up to its ideas, use rights, let my land by a land where liberty is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, but opportunity is real and life is free. equality is in the air we breathe. some of us will be marching to really make america america again this wean. week. >>> coming up, former new york city mayor ed koch on obama and israel. that's next. we're america's natural gas and here's what we did today: supported nearly 3 million steady jobs across our country... ... scientists, technicians, engineers, machinists... ... adding nearly 400 billion dollars to our economy... we're at work providing power to almost a quarter of our homes and businesses... ... and giving us cleaner rides to work and school... and tomorrow, we could do even more. cleaner, domestic, abundant and creating jobs now. we're america's natural gas. the smarter power, today. learn more at anga.us. but they also

ocean -- >>guest: i started ploy business in a one-bedroom apartment in harlem and i had nothing.nd that was a big break. i had nothing to lose. unfortunately, what is promoted to the kids, you have nothing and you and not be nothing unless you are assisted. the notion that you can do it on your own because we live in a great country, that is not sold and it is really, really, really despicable. we should promote the idea that you can be anything and get anything you want in this country. >>neil: we are going the opposite, the rich should pay more to level the playing field and that is one way to correct it. your fear is, even if you say that is the case, and be careful what you wish for because whatever tax hike you grant it is something that never goes away, whatever spending you get, is something --. ing listen, you might have a pitch fork and a torch in your hand and you go from house-to-house to house, you will see it is your house from a billionaire to a millionaire to households making $250,000, and why stop there? $100,000. it is a slippery slope. what is probably the wors

. >> and on the otherside, i was comfortable in the center of harlem or the poorest sections of new yorkthe question is, how did that go together. it starts with family, that you're brutum that people d, that you're brought up that people are people. my mother came by, we had a japanese gardner friend. he had no place to stay, my mother said, stay with us. i grew up of people of all different types living in the home, and respecting them as people and what they did and what they could do. >> that's a good lesson for us to remember there. people as people. >> you went to denver and pastored there for seven years? >> well, a shorter time than i wish it had been. about seven years. >> >> and then, you came to calvary, san francisco. still, a wonderful congregation. how do you decide to move from church to church? what are the factors in that? >> well, there's a question of, what i think are the factors and the questions as to what are the factors. when calvary expressed an interesting to me, i was a californian. you went where you thought god wanted you to be. i said that i thought god want

. >> in harlem, 43% of eighth graders get passing grades in state math tests. 100% of her skids pass. so if such charters work, why aren't there more of them. because unions and supporters of traditional schools hate charters. this protest occurred outside a charter. >> i hope it's not personal, it may be. >> john: this union boss doesn't want charters in his school. >> over my dead body. does he get to stop them? when we return i'll confront the unions about that and other strange things union bosses said like we shouldn't judge teachers by how well students do on tests. >> how do you know if they are learning anything? >> i know my kids are learning when i look in their eye. >> more stupid in america when we return. so i was the guy who was never going to have the heart attack. i thought i was invincible. i'm on an aspirin regimen now because i never want to feel that helplessness again. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. talk to your doctor, and take care of what you have to take care of. carol. fiber makes me sad. oh common. and

for the 40 years i've been in harlem, i've faced many, many poor women with breast cancer in particular in getting into and through the health care system in a timely way. therefore, these women tend to come in very late and many of them will die because of that. >> and in fact, didi, one of the most powerful aspects of the documentary you met a woman, cynthia doddson, also struggling with cancer and it documents your parallel tracks. tell us about her and what happened to her. >> cynthia was amazing. she was me. she was me, and the only difference is that i was white and she was african-american, but she was full of life, and full of energy, and she was really an inspiration to me. >> and she passed away? >> yes, we lost cynthia, which happens way too often when women come in stage four, and are uninsured. >> you have the patient navigation institute and we just heard didi talk a little bit about it, but you know, in the few seconds we have, why is it important to have a navigator? >> a navigator can eliminate the barriers that people face when they try to get through the system. barri

there's no white bitches in harlem. he goes, what about that her right there?she's proud of me. i go, red maman, i can't put hen the video. that's how my mom got to be in the redman video, buying weed from redman in the video. >> jimmy: what a credit. wow. that's redman for you. and now michael jackson, i know you were a friend of his. did you meet him from a music video? >> no, i met him, god, when i was -- did the first "rush hour" and that's a long, crazy story. people, you know, don't really know michael as well as i did. >> jimmy: most people don't. >> they think they know him but he was probably one of the funniest human becomes ever. >> jimmy: for real? >> really. he just wanted to do practical jokes on people. i would sleep in the elizabeth taylor suite when she wasn't there at neverland. you always feel like you were being watched constantly, like there was hidden cameras everywhere. i was sleeping and his voice -- there's an intercom system. brett? i go, yes? i woke up. he goes, are you sleeping? i go, yes. he goes, wake up, i'm sending kato to come g

i got into it into the book how close they were done in harlem. redd foxx -- they were dishwasher's together. they ran together. they have a lot of schemes, they sold the suits off rooftops. they were very close. that was one of the things. also that he started out to be a singer, not a comedian and cut six r&d sites -- sides. tavis: when i discovered that in the ?, it did not surprise me because he was always singing. that did not surprise me. it is wanting to wants to be a singer and end up in comedy, happen -- when did he know he was gifted enough to be a comedian? >> he was always a funny guy. he was always the class cut up in school. when his music career was going nowhere, and he got an invitation from a friend to come to a club in baltimore that was by the docks. it was there that he discovered this a gift for interacting with the audience and making them laugh. he was the don rickles of his day. in a way that was funny and not and mean-spirited. he discovered he had this gift. that stent lead to another at another clap and on and on. befor

should be reminded, if they have forgotten, that west of mississippi, san francisco was the jazz harlem in the united states. that is something i do not think we should undermine, and should capitalize as much as we can. this addition to this neighborhood helps do that, as long as it is well done. i put on pause the community benefits agreement, which i thought was insufficient for this particular building. i have asked both redevelopment and the architect to this proposal to come back with a better community benefits agreement. if i could through the president bring up redevelopment to speak on this? >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am the deputy executive director of the san francisco redevelopment agency. i am also chief operating officer of the san francisco community investment fund. supervisor mirkarimi: i want to say thank you, because it was just last wednesday we asked for a quick turnaround in helping us revise and upgrade the agreement presented to us. i think some improvement has been made. i appreciate that. and i want to thank my office for helping take part in that negot

should be reminded, if they have forgotten, that west of mississippi, san francisco was the jazz harlem in the united states. that is something i do not think we should undermine, and should capitalize as much as we can. this addition to this neighborhood helps do that, as long as it is well done. i put on pause the community benefits agreement, which i thought was insufficient for this particular building. i have asked both redevelopment and the architect to this proposal to come back with a better community benefits agreement. if i could through the president bring up redevelopment to speak on this? >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am the deputy executive director of the san francisco redevelopment agency. i am also chief operating officer of the san

he was very young building a yacht was his hobby that he uses it to take tourists to the shutoff harlem's. deal makes a stopover of chicago our limbs names an owner of the famed soviet toilet on the island is russia's only center that specializes in capturing white whales the travelers decide to wait here until the storm has passed. everybody here if they do go it's great that you arrived safe if you're most. welcome to show love and if you love a good if the next a captain is an incredibly brave man killer. nicholai much the head of the facility first came to this island with his parents when he was a young boy after completing his military service he returned here and spent many years working as a fisherman now he's in charge of a team catching watch whales so for scientific purposes of there's a sense of dolphinariums in russia and the brute. it's about they spend most of the time underwater where they can hold their breath for twenty minutes they just go in the water and stay there until you lose track of them before caprice a number of males and females we catch depends on the custom

john carlos wrote a book about his journey from harlem to the deep south and olympics and we are moreyou are joining us in studio. >> the honor and pleasure is mine. >> how are you doing. >> fine yourself. >> good. you have a couple appearances in washington. why write the book now. >> i am getting up in age my grand kids are of high school age ready to graduate, i felt there has been so many stories written, so many books written about john carlos involved in various books, many of the books had been written now the people called me, interviewed me, sat down with me, but they felt they knew enough about me to write a book. in my situation, 99% of it is hearsay i felt it was imperative i put my own very words down as to who i am, why i am and where i i tend ongoing in life. >> it starts with your up bringing in harlem, documents that through what you are going through now, and it is emotional when you were writing it, did you start the thing about some of those old feelings and you know was it hard to write the book? >> no, it wasn't hard at all as a matter of fact the emotions that y

the word "harlem" con conjures up many imgarages in our mind.d go on and on with this i'm courteous, how did you come up with the name, "harlem is nowhere"? and how did the whole idea develop? i now you -- when we talked earlier, you mentioned you hadn't really set out to do a work. it sort of evolveses. >> sure. >> thank you. well, the title harlem is nowhere is actually a borrowed title. it's the title. of a ralph emerson's cay that was not published until 1964, and he's the author of "insid bl man. and he was commissioned to write an's cay about a free psych yacht withic clip that existed in hard vem and as par of the this essay it starts out as this panoramic survey of life in harlem streets, and in one instance he'll say if you ask someone how they are, i'll say, oh, man, i'm nowhere with. and that became the source for his identity l. for some of my own reasons. first, it's so evocative and it's just a riddle. but i was also thinking about a place that carries on so much peating and to live in a place like that where the physical landscape