the other period, of course, would be the harlem renaissance. >> hinojosa: mm-hmm. >> the harlem renaissancehich was a time of... well, it's the... historian david levering lewis puts it, "it was civil rights through art." black people had the idea-- which was a not very efficacious idea, but they had an idea-- that they could change the image of the race vis-à-vis white people who doubted our ancestor's intellectual integrity and intellectual capacities by creating great literature and art. so there was this big revolution of writing and it was called the harlem renaissance, but it led to renaissances throughout the caribbean and even in africa. you know, the négritude movement, which was started by a martinican, aimé césaire, and léopold senghor, who went on to become the first president of senegal, they were students at the sorbonne. they heard about the harlem renaissance and they created the négritude movement starting in 1934. and langston hughes, probably the most googled and sited poet in the american cannon, translated works of these black american writers into spanish and french...

you both are from harlem and charles you work in harlem now.tough and very blighted which has come back to life because investment and business has come up there. >> because people in the community created that. >> that's right by behaving. by behaving within the law and by creating an atmosphere where people would want to come in and do business. the exact opposite, and this is my point in baltimore has occurred. and no government, reverend no bureaucracy no, politician can reverse that. am i wrong? >> you are not wrong based on what you just said but there are other factors that influences what happens in the community. >> are there any factors different from harlem and baltimore? >> harlem used to be referred to as a ghetto and as a slum. but black harlemites created something called harlem day. >> that's exactly what i said black communities. >> black communities have to do it and stop the myth that some giant government close sis colossus can come in. >> i don't think they are under that in baltimore. >> the black leadership has failed, ha

tell me, do you think funding for harlem snug is money well spent? >> the nerve of this guy. the side mirrors right off of our chasers car. >> we need your help. bill: one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. the coast guard rescuers. >> and those guys are pretty cute. >> next "chasing news". ♪ >> hopefully we can say the things that you are thinking i feel an i feel an obligation to be a voice not shared or heard often enough there has been criticism of the cost associated with the report. you sometimes have to say the thing that might not be polite. i cannot believe your willing to say something like that. i have to say that i disagree or be willing to go >> ♪ >> this is a fox 29 news update. >> hi, everyone, i'm fox 29's chief meteorologist, scott williams. no threat of severe weather. in fact, clearing skies overnight. it stays breezy and also those temperatures they continue to tumble. watch future temperatures. you can see by 2:00 a.m. it's going to be freezing in the pocono mountains and then, yeah take a look at temperatures by 7:00 a.m. we're looking at upper 30'

>> the left carmen -- harlem in 2005 after tarik shah's arrest. went in june or july that summer to visit him in south carolina. it wasn't reconnecting. i knew the rest tremendous -- i knew there was tremendous information there. for about 10 years, i really called him once a month, how are you, where are you until david -- amy: explain how you came into the picture. >> lyric and i met about the same time in 2005 working in an afterschool arts program in harlem. one of our students was arrested by the fbi, 16-year-old girl. that shocked everyone. watching what happened to her as a result of her arrest her father was deported, the government decided to -- amy: she was from -- >> west africa. she was 16 years old and had to be the primary caretaker. her mother did not have "or have work. i started to notice the other cap tourism terrorism does the other counterterrorism cases. creating plots and cultivate arrests the fbi could use to sweep in and testify of it treat in the war on terror. while observing these cases, i thought, dramatically, that wou

. >> reporter: as her harlem renaissance dancer in the 1930s and 40s, alice barker says she performed with some of the biggest stars in show business. >> that's you right? >>>> pelley: but she had never seen herself on film until this day. ♪ ♪ ♪ volunteers at the nursing home where barker lives found vintage clips and brought them to her on an ipad. >> oh! >> pelley: watching her younger self some 70 years later, did more than bring back memories. barker says having her videos on the internet makes her feel connected to the world. ( laughter ) today, police in london released photos of a $90 million jewel

every restaurant here in harlem is celebrating "harlem eat up kwchlts. >> there's something about himef on the dish. he has so much energy and excitement that makes you think this feshlg is just the next step. >> it's a great idea and he he's had such a remark story, done so many things. we saw him last night at the james beard awarding. >> can we brag about ourselves? >> we have exciting news. "the dish" won the james beard award. we want to congratulate our producers, there's marsy. gets us the greatest chefs in the world. it's not easy to get them up on a saturday morning. she did it. we're grateful -- >> there's greg right there. >> dwreg and marcy. look at the phenomenon ittics here. >> if you want to know. look at the phenomenon ittic, that's how you're meant to pronounce my name. >> it was elegantly done. >> thank you so much for your foundation. now here's a look at the weather for your weekend. >>> up next our "saturday session." rihanna didden. she's been compared to many and you do not want to miss her. this is "cbs this morning: saturday." >> announcer: this portion sponso

multimedia video exposing stop and frisk abuses in harlem.s cited by the judge in her court decision ruling stop and frisk discriminatory and unconstitutional. amy: read james baldwin. katrina: i will read the words. this is a report from occupied territory, july, 1966. "the citizens of harlem who, as we have seen, can come to grief at any hour in the streets, and who are not safe at their windows, are forbidden the very air. they are safe only in their housesor were, until the city passed the no knock, stop and frisk laws, which permit a policeman to enter one's home without knocking and to stop anyone on the streets, at will at any hour, and search him. harlem believes, and i certainly agree, that these laws are directed against negroes. they are certainly not directed against anybody else." ... baldwin goes on to write, "i have witnessed and endured the brutality of the police many more times than oncebut, of course, i cannot prove it. i cannot prove it because the police department investigates itself, quite as though it were answerable o

. >>> back now on a sunday morning with the teen choir of harlem.ays here at new york. marcus is also the co-founder of the harlem festival taking place next month. and this morning, i smell it already he's making an unbelievable brunch for us. brunch is big. good morning to you. >> it's great. you you like that? >> who doesn't like biscuits and gravy. >> i know you're coming to our harlem festival because it's local to you. >> absolutely. so where shall we start this morning. >> you look at the good stuff. we have some biscuits and gravy which i love. a little chicken sausage, some corn some peas some good biscuits. and then we're going to find of pour some of the sauce on top. >> okay. >> and then we're going to -- do you cook? >> here's the thing. i love to cook. >> whoa whoa whoa. >> i have two 2-year-olds and a 5-year-old. so i don't have a lot of time. i would love to do this chicken and sausage -- chicken sausage major yummy thing. >> you have to try this. this is so delicious. and brunch should be like a blend between savory and sweet. >> yo

there is benjamin davis in harlem. he's leaving city council and so forth. >> host: a. philip randolph area and. >> guest: a. philip randolph that's right but the mainstream black education when it comes to leadership being explicitly social like that is not the best way to win the popularity of the black masses. she's going to be pushing him on the pacifism pushing him on critiques of empire. >> host: this comes back to the bigger argument you make in your attempt to make an intervention of shall we say a radical intervention. annually in the run-up to the king holiday we get a lot of the riverside speech. we get a lot of antiwar speechmaking on dr. king but it denies the truth of his own story which is not that he began swept up in the forces of history that took him like a tidal wave into montgomery bus boycott and bailed out on the other end and giving him counsel on how to fight the good fight. it was really just about civil rights and just about the seat of the table and being able to be first-class citizens. in fact he already came with the kind of economic luper

this is benjamin davis in harlem. it was not -- >> host: a. philip randolph. >> guest: that's right. but at the same time when it comes to mainstream black education public and to mainstream black leadership being explicitly social like that is not the best way to win the black masses. martin is letting her know. she's right there with them. she's going to be pushing him on pacifism, pushing him on critiques of empire. >> host: this also comes back to the bigger art in which you make and what i see as your chance to make an intervention, shall we say a radical invention. annually in the run up to the king holiday we get a lot of the riverside speech, a lot of antiwar speechmaking upon dr. king, a dr. king made but it denies the truth of his own story which is not that he began swept up in history that took him like a tidal wave into montgomery bus boycott. he fell on the other end with rustin by side and give him counsel on how to fight the good fight and that it was just about civil rights and was just about a seat at the table and just by be

three bases is toe wap, bad one and harlem shake. they are three original moves.op goes like this. ♪ second basic, harlem shake. ♪ third one, bad one. ♪ >> on a good day, how much money do you make? >> on a real bad day, 30. on a high day, 70 50. on a good day, 100. on a good, good day, 150. that's a lot. it's more than minimum wage. >> they arrest us for dancing because they consider it soliciting or reckless endangerment. when i was younger, they didn't stop us to tell us to get on the train. we were too young to get locked up. after 15 they started putting the cuffs on us and taking us to the precinct. it happened to me 10 or 12 times. >> she's my pride and joy, for me to keep on dancing, i'm not going to stop. seven days a week i'll be dancing on the home. at home i could slip up and do something negative. the girls, the money and the way it makes me feel i feel like i'm expressing myself. i feel like i'm on stage, on broadway or something. i like showing people that black people are not as mean as they think we are. you know? people think we mean. we're not,

harlem continÚa con su famoso en los houston rockets marcando un puntaje ante los kings de sacramentoarlos lara por el tÍtulo a la ganadora del duelo entre serena una silla romana sÉmola. en la preferente los yanquis de noche se anotaron otra victoria al vencer a los piratas. el dominicano pineda lanzÓ seis entradas. hasta aquÍ el tiempo de deportes, gracias y feliz noche. conductora: a continuaciÓn stephanie habla con el cantante de marcha atrÁs, romeo santos sobre su debut en la pantalla grande. stephanie: por lo tanto es uno de los representantes mÁs importantes de la bachata engalana la pantalla grande en rÁpido . furioso ya veÍamos venir que pasan su carrera sobre todo por estas frases que lanzarles en cuando en su concierto esta no puede ser una mejor oportunidad para irrumpir en el cine. romeo: he sido fanÁtico de todas las pelÍculas desde que iniciaron la primera y para mÍ es un gran honor ser parte de este proyecto. stephanie: ron estarÁ alegre de grandes estrellas del cine. romeo: un personaje que les tiende la mano a un hermano, a un amigo. stephanie: el cantante dice que s

core will not be turned back by poor parents and harlem and brooklyn.ll be parents in long island who their schools are also struggling and having trouble. part of the debate has been focused on a tiny slice of the population. stephanie: don't people want their children to have the best education possible to go on and lead successful lives? why lie to themselves? jeffrey: the unions have the ability to communicate with parents every single day and they are telling them this stuff is bad. your kid is stressed out p or the tests do not matter and do not mean anything. parents are saying, you are telling me if i do not take the test my kid will do better? they're saying yes. outside of governor cuomo, we have not seen people push back against something lately false. stephanie: our unions stronger today than ever question mark jeffrey: i think they have got some wind. this is a real challenge because the other thing going on is they masterfully crafted a new dialogue which is, rich hedge fund folks are out to privatize education and they are yelling for edu

we live inside harlem in the '70s, it was tough.ou one quick story, we got beat up a lot because we spoke proper english and wore the wrong clothes. one day i fought the ringleader. if it was a disney movie, it would have been over. they circled me later on that night, about 12, 13 of 'em. one guy was choking the hell out of me, and as i was blacking out, who do i see running out the building in her nightgown and a knife in her hand? >> a knife? mama meant business. charles: it wasn't like a movie beat-up, i was being stomped, jamie. but these single mothers in these commitments, i mean, people -- these communities, i mean, people don't understand what they do. i tip my hat to them. >> i love this mother even knew where her son was. i mean, at a minimum talk about taking responsibility like we were talking about these people should take personal responsibility. parents have got to take responsibility in this country, and even if you don't live there, tack to your -- talk to your child about what's going on there and if they have a p

he told us about harlem rbi.y got involved as we were launching a capital campaign for our charter school business, so we started by taking an abandoned lot and turning it into a ball field. that has grown into charter school, family programs, and it is culminating now in its $53 million building, which gary helped anchor, along with mark teixeira of the yankees and other guests you have had on here. the end product is enormous, great stuff for kids, and this guy has been a pretty solid supporter. stephanie: 300 $60,000 you stand to get here. what are you going to get -- to do with the? rich: it is already spent, trust me. we spend ahead of raising, writes? this will allow us to expand programs, pre-k programs, the opening of our eighth grade next year, and most importantly a new harlem rbi in south bronx the poorest congressional district in the united states where 400 kids are now in a program and we will build a ball field just like we did on east 1 hundred st -- east 100th street. stephanie: how did you pick

did they do for that city what i did for harlem or brooklyn. take a look at brooklyn today, and look at it after the things that i did. take a look at harlem today. >> we're running up on the clock here. i want to ask you this. saturday night they saw this was coming. they did nothing on sunday. yesterday, afternoon, early -- early they saw the rocks thrown at the officers. the officers retreat. they didn't even put a curfew in effect last night. they didn't even call in the national guard last night. >> cooling off period let them vent that's totally insane. >> do you see what's going on tonight? >> i'll tell you another thing. when it got to be 10:00, that's when they should have cleared off the streets. we shouldn't be at 10:30. working on this. when i said a demonstration was going to end at 4:00 and i'm thinking of one in particular the million man march, which ended up being the 20,000 man march, and they had the court gave them until 4:00 in the afternoon, about ten minutes before the head of the demonstration came over to one of my poli

you grew up in harlem on the wrong side of the tracks.ou ever tell him because your skin color you might be targeted. it doesn't mean you're going to be shot at. what did you do? >> i never told him that. i will admit that where he lives, he has never seen a fight in school. whereas i've -- when i went to school in harlem there were like, seven fiethsghts a day. >> you started them. >> or i was running from him. seven a day. he grew up in a non-violent environment. when someone like mark cuban says any black kid walking up the street makes him afraid. my son walking up the street is the most non-threatening kid in the world. >> mark cuban would know a lot more about blacks than you would. >> i honestly think, we have to separate the two. listen 99% plus police are just doing an amazing job. they have the hardest job in america. i don't think they respect enough. there will be a bad apple here and there. that does not preclude us from saying if you want to change your lot in life every single person no matter what race color or situation y

it's a weekday morning in new york city and a line forms well before doors open at this east harlem foodry. the people waiting for food range from young mothers to older people on fixed incomes. inside the pantry the number of people needing food is only growing. congress cut $5 billion from s.n.a.p. or the supplemental nutrition assistance program in late 2013. because of that the new york common pantry one of the largest in new york serving 3 million meals annually reports a 26% increase in recipients in the last year. new york ranked four in a recent survey of cities around the globe with the highest percentage of millionaires. joel berg who heads the new york coalition against hunger says as the city get wealthier demand as the food kitchens he represents is increasing. >> whether neighborhoods gent fie the demand goes up. if they can't afford rent they can't afford to buy food. >> with less government aid for food, the strain is on charities to fill the void and depend on donations to field new york's hungry. >>> hello, and this is the news hour live from london. coming up desperate

jacob lawrence was an artist who emerged out of harlem of the 1930's.hen lawrence made these panels he was a young man. 23 years old. he set for himself the task of telling the story of his people in an epic way. 60 panels in a row with the captions. ♪ >> he told the story of the great migration. between 1915 and 1970. 6 million lack citizens moved upwards out of the south. that movement was one of the greatest demographic events in the history of the united states . it thoroughly transformed american culture. some of the scenes in the migration series have great tenderness and intimacy. images of a woman reading a letter in bed to a young child. that is mixed with incredibly stark forthright images about the fact of racial injustices. images of injustice done in court, images of the capricious arrest of black men. images of lynchings. ♪ >> there were over 4000 lynchings between the beginning of the century and 1950. billie holiday in 1930 nine, sang the song "strange fruit." you have cultural figures using the stage to make broad appeals. to pay attent

and, you know, i will say this look when i was up in harlem and in spanish harlem or washington heightsnd buying drugs as a cop, and i had hair period but it was down the middle of my back, and i had a big goatee and seven diamond rings and i walked into the spots, and the cops would stop me, because i looked out of place. that is what happens sometimes. >> and so you would write about your experiences in your new book, and it is called from the jailer to jailed. and my journey from the police inmate to jailer. and so you talk about it, and when you talk about washington heights, and being in prison changed the way you felt about the way that things happen on the streets, and the sentencing of people of color. >> i put a lot of people in prison and bad guys, and real bad guys, people who tried to kill me and my partner and i seize seized millions of proceeds from them and then when i went to priz prison one of the first black men i talked to told me he was doing 10 years for conspiracy of possession of five grams of cocaine cocaine, and you know what that is? two sugar packs ark and and

of economic workforce development and i really you know the western edition had a history of the harlem of the west historically the music and is jazz and just the life that coyote of that area if there is something we can do to incentivize or help think outside the box on how to bring businesses to that area 13 hundred you you know she's trying her best to make that work i think when she come on board when i was a redevelopment commissioner we were very, very existed she was bring the taste to is western edition and i think we owe it to her as well as the community around to really go out of our way to think of what we can do to again help this is a city that everyone wants to come to not any area if something is for rent or sale everyone wants it that's my guns but how can we think outside the box engage other whether their city partners or other partners to find businesses that can fill those spaces we're not running at the deficit in the garage people will want to go and those businesses are thriving and maybe because i'm a recent may be graduating grad let's look at the business op

when you come into air b&b and harlem, and everywhere else and new york, we see a big demand for that, for experiencing new york like new yorkers do. >> what would you say to the people that have multiple listings. should they get off b&b. . >> hard for me to tell them what to do. >> >> would you be happy for them to start. >> we are focused on the people that do it in their own homes. that's what is great. that's what we focused on. >> reporter: he's talking about film-maker husband. they rent a room in their brooklyn apartment on and off. >> how much has it helped your family. >> an enormous amount. i don't think we'd be in new york if we couldn't host. >> it would be the extra cushion >> i'm an actor and dresser on if one of our jobs ends and the next beginning. >> john worries it's an tournamenty to be pressured from his home, his manhattan apartment. because short-term rentals bring more money than his monthly rent check. this is a phenomenon that is happening. it's not going away. it's drawing more and more nationwide. >> probably they are happy if everyone is happy. protecting

it's a music video called harlem hopscotch inspired by a poem she wrote back in 1969. >> she literallyre i even met her. >> reporter: music producer sean rivera discovered her work several years ago. >> i was onequestioning whether i should be living on this planet. i come across this book and started reading it and it just clicked for me. >> reporter: he thought it would click for a new generation too, taking angelou's theme of isolation and inequality he began writing music before he was able to meet angelou and get her blessing. >> what did she say? >> the first thing she said was thank you, which blew my miejd, and she said i think i can do even better. i want to be involved in the project. was blown away. >> touchdown. >> yeah. >> reporter: in this home video she was asked about the notion of setting her poetry to rap. >> a little more sophisticated, edgy. we need something a little more edgy. >> she was tickled and she really loved it. >> reporter: carlos johnson is angelou's grandson. he said music defined her early career. >> she started there as a singer and a dancer. >> this

i've been through more riots than anyone else coming from harlem and being older than most members, and yet throughout the world i'm so proud that people respects our country because of the opportunities we have here. and so therefore to all americans it has to be painful embarrassing to see on international news or to have our international friends to think that we're a country that alaos young black men to be shot down and murdered and killed and allows young black men to be shot down and murdered and killed but this does not in my mind represent our country. it represents poverty. but it's so hard for people to believe that the richest country in the world could have this cancer of poverty that eats away from so many things that we could be doing. there was so many dreams and hopes that when president obama came in and recognized how much you can accomplish if you have access to education. and i was among those who recognized that above from lennox avenue in harlem, being given an opportunity with the g.i. bill can go to new york university, go to law school and come here become a fe

if you look at new york in the late '80s there was this outbreak, harlem actually had the same levels as india. we have known how to treat the disease since 1987. you actually have to identify the people around them that have been exposed you have to put the right health system infrastructure in place to deliver care to these people the people exposed and the people sick. so there's you know maybe three or four things that you have to do but they actually have to be done together. and what new york did is it put together these three or four things, gave people the right medicines, built the right laboratories and identified the right people, but it still didn't give up until the epidemic was stopped and it was stopped. that is not the case in many parts of the world. many poor countries, outside the western world countries have been advised to really do the minimum and that is to only treat active cases when they show up at a doctor. like to borrow a car analogy like you want to have a full functioning car but you're only spending fluff time to fix one tire. >> ebola, which methods as

i grow up in harlem in '70s.was dangerous, new york city was under siege, the city was under siege police were afraid to go outside, who police are afraid, there is nothing worse than living in a neighborhood when police are afraid to come in. >> i think like donald said a run away fire out of control. but other thing the psychological point, whatever happened it is way past that. you wonder how you get there. >> that is the case, there is a trigger -- event the high of axing on your anger. charles: the family freddie grey's family is urging calm, they have for last 24 hours, their initial statement, they were upset, angry with police, but since then they have tried to influence of people of baltimore. does that ever work? we've seen it before. and if it does not work, buzz this mean this horrific scene, is this about fredy gray or is this an opportunity to do to go loot, take out your anger? just be destric detruckive. >> this is a trigger not an excuse, this is a trigger, said, okay that gives me permission to

juan: toni smith-thompson, your school isn't eased harlem. -- is in east harlem. as i said in my column on wednesday and again today is, this is an extraordinary act by so many parents. because every individual parent has to send a letter into the school saying, i want my child exempted. everyone has to take affirmative action. talk about what happened in your school. >> we had a number of students opt out for the past few years small numbers, so parents were already concerned about the test. the links of the test, the quality, they were not age-appropriate. this year with the addition the high stakes attached to the teacher evaluations really took it over the top. kids started talking about, if i fail, my teacher will get fired. kids should not be put in that position. really some of the conversations were started by the kids having conversations in class about what it means to have knowledge and education of power. they started conversations about whether or not these tests would be valuable for them. the parents and teachers echo those conversations. and to rea

my wife was born in harlem and worked her way to a successful life. key word worked.ficers do have a responsibility to use restraint even on the worst offend offenders. cathie long valley new jersey i was planning to visit baltimore's beautiful inner harbor with my children this summer. no more. cecile las vegas, bill i've been watching you for many years. bit snooty but a eptwealth of knowledge. snooty, eh cecil? i have a better word coming up. keith, i am loving "legends and lies" on the fox news channel. i bought the book as a gift for my brother. what a good guy you are, keith. this coming sunday night 8:00 p.m. eastern time "david crockett." don't call him davie. here's the "factor" letter of the week from anaheim, colorado. mr. o. thanks for your tip about god and anger. i feel many of my prayers have gone unanswered as i have cerebral palsy, my wife is disabled as well. i will continue to pray for mercy as we need help. don't surrender, mike. fight the good fight. god will reward you in the end, but none of us can know how that will happen. enjoy your signed co

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. >> the two have a lot of friends on the streets of harlem. they spend their days hanging around, trying to get food. the ended up here for many reasons. it's a lot for a young person to have to deal with -- orphanage, foster family, drugs, problems at school. >> just because i'm trans. there are certain lgbt shelters, but sometimes they're full, there's not always a lot of beds, there are waiting lists. and the regular shelters, i'd rather not deal with all of that, having to explain myself." >> it's estimated that forty percent of the homeless teenagers in new york are homosexual or transsexual. their parents have kicked them out. lexi's been toughened by her years on the street. >> i've heard stories of people getting sexually assaulted, physically attacked, stuff like that. that doesn't really scare me. you can encounater that being on the stroll or being anywhere. >> they get federal food stamps worth 150 euros a month. but that doesn't go far in a city as expensive as new york. so the two have learned where to find free samples. but it's

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it's a music video called harlem hopscotch, inspired by a poem she wrote back in 1969. >> she literallyfore i even met her. >> reporter: music producer shawn rivera discovered her writing at the time he was suffering from devere depression. >> i was questioning whether i should be on this planet. i was living in a storage unit on top of a warehouse. i came across there book and i read it and it clicked for me. >> reporter: he thought it would click for a new generation too taking angelou's themes of isolation and inequality. he began writing music before he was able to meet angelou and get her blessing. what did she say? >> the first thing she said was thank you which blew my mind. she said, i think i can do better. i want to be involved in the project. i was blown away. >> reporter: touchdown. >> yeah. >> reporter: in the home video, she was asked about the motion of setting her poetry to rap. >> young people are more sophisticate, a little more sarcastic, a little more edgy. >> she was tickled. and she really loved it. >> reporter: colin johnson is angelou's grandson. he says music de

. >> so, we start a school in harlem. in new york city. we start a school in boston. we start a school in other part of world. and so far, so good. we get a lot of students who never heard classical music. who never play piano before. they start playing songs or start to compose songs. and they start playing mozart. so we're starting that. >> so much of your life is now connected to america. you're still a citizen of hong kong. are you american today? are you chinese? who are you? >> i feel that i'm a citizen of the world, today. but i am chinese. i feel quite proud of - what china has done the last ten years. the evolvement, not only - economy, but also art and culture. and america is like my second home. i felt very close to - particularly in the east coast because i grew up in philadelphia. >> when we return, lang lang on the cat and mouse game that inspired his music. tom & jerry, after the break. >> i'm joie chen you're watching "talk to al jazeera" where our guest is lang lang. >> is it still fun to - to play? >> absolutely. i mean, not every minute, but when we

he does harlem globetrotter-style tricks up there.r distracting if you are trying to drive down the street. >> he tries to inspire those stuck in traffic with his hand made signs, honk for life and honk for peace among them. he says he is doing his thing because he loves houston and its people and he is trying to make their drive less stressful. >> he is also trying to make a buck. apparently he's trying to help to raise funds for a surgery he actually needs. he has a go fund me page. i'm not sure what the surgery is and what he has made so far but he is drawing attention. people enjoy it. you are stuck in traffic. not like you are going 75 miles an hour down the road and seeing him. you are bumper to bumper and the guy is entertaining you. >> any distraction when you are stuck in bumper-to-bumper is a good thing. >> ain't lying. >>> coming up, the outburst gone viral.t yelling at a driver. what the commissioner had to say about it. >>> the one meal all of you should be able to make right now, peanut butter and jelly time. peanut butt