and where i come from, i was born and raised in harlem and then, you know, the village of harlem there, a single black owned bookstore. so you have to go up to morningside heights was just as uptown to find the kind of books that we're talking about, you know, books that are published, africa, world press or books that are published by third world press, books that are not only by major publishers the big five, but also some of our important smaller and and a successful self-published. so, you know, bookstores like that are really important and we need more. so, again, you know, i think that i want to say listeners 165 now you're right. so over one 5165 it's not a lot we use more, but we also got no, no, go ahead and finish. troy. yeah, i was going to say we're also an environment where, you know, reading is, is being challenged from wide variety of alternative things to do and those alternative things don't necessarily serve us serve is not, you know, a community as a country, but and, you know, i'm talking about, you know in a lot of respect social media and the revenue driven algori

and smells sounds of harlem and trying to kind of map or layer old harlem on top of day harlem in the same way i tried to map my own experience in this apartment building on top molly moon's experience in the same building. yeah. thank so i have a very similar story to yours because that apartment building that i mentioned that both sides of my family members lived in, we are still in that building. we've been living in it for over 100 years. i was able to work out of a room. one of the my family members who live there so under pandemic i thebo pandemic, i was writing te book inside so i'm in spaces where my grandparents, who i've never met because of the estrangement of my family, i'm working on a new book in the same room where my grandmother gave birth to my father so there's this way that, things i wanted -- when i finally met dad in my 20s, there was a way i yearned to connect with the family i've been estranged from so many years. in that time, here is an oral history grandfather wrote in his book he was working out with a friend ofar his and a larger sty at work and there were

and smells sounds of harlem and trying to kind of map or layer old harlem on top of day harlem in the same way i tried to map my own experience in this apartment building on top molly moon's experience in the same building. yeah. thank so i have a very similar story to yours because that apartment building that i mentioned that both sides of my family members lived in, we are still in that building. we've been living in it for over 100 years. i was able to work out of a room. one of the my family members who live there so under pandemic i was writing the book inside one of the family apartment and so i've also you know i'm in spaces where my grandparents who i never met because of the estrangement in my family i have access to their apartment and so i'm working on the new book in the same room where my grandmother gave birth my father and so there's this way that things that i really wanted when i so i was a for my dad and i finally met him right when i was in my twenties. and there was a way that i just yearned to connect this family, that i had been estranged for so many years. and,

am originally from louisiana but i really value is the fact that i live in harlem and i studied harlem and i used to walk those blocks everyev day. i get to walk past the neighbors in the clubs and there's this amazing moment where i realize it's now an apartment building and it used to be the renaissance casino and its studied in my books by mapping the city as i write. that energy is living in the state that i write about and allows the book to read as a novel or at least that's what i'm hoping to accomplish. but it's the history lives through me and that's my goal and i know that doesn't sound like a professional historian is you're supposed to be objective but i don't think objectivity in this book and i really wanted to the lifeblood of harlem to come to the page and how i wrote about the sights and smells and soundsem of harlem and trying to map old harlem on top of present-day harlem in the world same way try to map my own experience in this apartment building on top of the molly moon experience. >> i have a very similar story because that apartment building that i mentioned tha

also to give a thank you to all members of their harlem delegation for welcoming us all to harlem todayyou to me city hall partner, speaker adrian adams i know she is here. who would have thought two bayside ires ers would be running the city of new york, thank you for the work you have done. we can move forward and stronger together. running the city. also thank our district attorneys who are keeping city safe. in partnership with new police commissioner. to all who serve the city. i saw vanessa gibson. jonathan richards. antonio reynoso. i say that was one -- best in government. thank you to our brothers and sisters. and labor in the house. [applause] thank you labor so much for what you do every day. including htc. and 1199. and the carpenters. we are in a union administration, blue collar mayor. probably one of first mayors in history of new york that was a union member, we were clear on our northstar up lifting union members and up lifting working class people in the city of new york we will continue to do that. to all elected officials. a debt to leaders who came before us tod tod

the lincoln tunnel is located between george washington bridge and harlem tunnel and. to keep the river clear for shipping, it was decided to build tunnel rather than a bridge. nearly 100 feet below the surface of the river. similar in design to the harlem. its outer wall is a huge cast iron pipe 31 feet in diameter and. through it, a roadway is constructed. and, so the lincoln tunnel is started. derricks and steam shovels get underway, so they chalk the core core. build off for. they must be sharp at all times, but it is necessary to drill solid rock. powerful compressors are installed to counteract the of water and silt. all tunneling is done in compressed air chamber. men, most important of all are, now selected to work under compressed air. a hard and dangerous job every precaution is taken to safeguard them under pressure. work is strain on heart and lung. there is danger also of contracting a known let's called the ben applicant are tested a hospital. but this sensation is similar to that of deep sea diving. he is holding his nose, blowing through his mouth to op

first, to harlem, queens, back to harlem. she died in july of 1959, on the 17th.my book, a drama, because she said, i think they planted heroin in her room and she was arrested for narcotics possession and fingerprinted, mug shot, the whole thing. so, the last two to three weeks of her life was taken up -- they wanted her to appeared before a grand jury but she was bedridden but they wanted her to appear before a grand jury florence kennedy was a lawyer who did a great job in blocking a lot of the attempts of the city government. new york's behavior was shameful at that time, the police department and mayor's office. she died of cirrhosis of the liver. that was the cause of death which triggered a heart attack. i would say that the way she was harassed at the end of her life is significant and had a significant effect on her. if she gave up the will to live because of what was going on? this will be the last question. >> what was the take by the naacp of the song, did they accept it or reject it? >> i don't remember any reaction from the naacp. instinctively, they

and then she moved to new york to, well, first to harlem, then to queens, then back to harlem.. oh, death. she died and july of 1959, on the 17th, she had become ill about six weeks beforehand, they had hospitalized, hospitalized her at metropolitan hospital up in harlem and there ensued a hall, which i cover in great detail in my book a whole drama because, as she said, when got in there, she's going to arrest me on my deathbed, you know. and sure enough, they did. they plant in my they planted heroin in room and she was arrested for narcotics possession. she was fingerprinted mug shot the whole thing. and so last 2 to 3 weeks of her life was really taken up with having do i mean, they were trying to they wanted to appear before a grand jury. she was bedridden. she literally couldn't get out bed. and they wanted to appear before a grand jury and and florence flo kennedy was her lawyer that time and did a great job and a lot of the attempts that the city government was trying to do new york's behavior was shameful at that time. the police department, the mayor's office and she

the apollo theater was the center for everything in harlem. musically. we got to see it all happen and there was music on 125th street blasting all the time. i like to know. >> that your love. i can't turn you loose now is one of the hottest groups in the country. >> the temptations, the world and saboteurs. >> i refuse to explain. >> i just wish it would rain. oh, let it rain. >> we were in a group called missing my brother, which was owned and managed by the people who owned the apollo theater, and we used to get to see all the shows from going to the apollo anytime we wanted to see any show. that was one of the real big perks. of the band. >> my brother to what we've got to say. this and my brother, cause this is our day. >> listen, my brother was five guys, five girls and a five piece band, and we were singing these original songs about being young and black and about, i'm going to make it. and they were all topical as it related to the time. sometimes we get burdened. >> so many times we have to cry, but if you make me look, i'll make it to the top.

the harlem globetrotters, we love you. >> i love your dunks. the cool tricks. >> you make me laugh. come back soon. >> we're coming to the bay area january 17th through 19. >> go to harlem globetrotters .com/ bay area for tickets to the 2025 world tour. presented by jersey mike's subs. now from abc. seven mornings. >> good morning. it's 859. >> i'm reggie aqui from abc seven mornings. and here's how traffic looks. hi, gloria. >> good morning. so we're getting a live look at our golden gate bridge camera. you can see traffic is flowing nicely here. there was a little bit of a stall earlier. this was on marmont drive in salsa lido. it caused some delays earlier, but roads are now open. driving from, uh, into san francisco pretty much. so you won't have any issues there. and then looking live at our bay bridge camera, it is a little busy on the upper deck there. however, uh, traffic is moving at the limit, so you will not have major delays going from the tolls to the city. drew we're looking live from our east bay hills. >> camera. nice and sunny

the harlem globetrotters played their first game to believe that.s, elon musk became the world's richest person. we have news nation's markie martin with a look back. >> today is january 7th in the year, 16, 10 italian astronomer galileo made kurtz shaking discoveries for moves the ball around jupiter and that the telescope reveals many more stars that visible to the naked eye. the harlem globetrotters played their first game and hinckley, illinois. we celebrate journalist katie currents. 68th birthday was the first solo female anchor of a major network evening news program and actor producer and director nicolas cage was born on this day. 2 in 1998, former white house intern monica lewinsky signed an affidavit tonight she had affair with then president bill clinton. you are most became the world's richest person. net worth 186 billion dollars. and in 2023 republican kevin mccarthy was finally selected. speaker u.s. house of representatives after 15 rounds of voting. >> all right, 10 26 is the time. up next on the kron. 4 morning news. violent start

and we study the harlem renaissance.e study this as a separate event from what is happening elsewhere in the country in the 1920's. we do not simultaneously study the second coming of the kkk, we don't simultaneously study the wild west. we don't simultaneously study the groundwork for the great depression. these are treated as separate things in the minds of students. even adults today when i am teaching don't realize how many of these things were happening at the exact same time. one example is very popular book killers of the flower moon which was made into a big martin scorsese movie recently. s haening at the same time as the harlem renaissance and the jazz age. and yet in most students of history's minds, these are completely unrelated, totally separate events. they don't have anything to do with each other. in order to really understand the arc of history, you have to understand how these types of things connect with each other. that means one of the most interesting things that i can bring to the table for my stu

in new york city thousands of people marched in the annual parade in east harlem dressed in colorfulns while singing and dancing to live music. three kings day marks an end to the holiday season and recounts the biblical story of the three wise men and in some cultures children wake up to gifts. a circular-shaped bread is often eaten with a tiny baby jesus doll hidden inside. >>> cbs evening news with norah o'donnell is up next. our local news continues on our streaming service, cbs news bay area. we're back right here in 30 minutes with more news just for you at 7:00. we'll see you then. ♪ >> norah: tonight, a massive deadly winter storm sweeps across the country, bringing more than a foot of snow, ice, and frigid temperatures. >> one of the most important pillars of our democracy is that there will be a peaceful transfer of power. >> norah: vice president harris certifies the results of the 2024 election. a vastly different scene than four years ago. >> here we are, two years later, a lot of uncertainty. how has it been? >> it's

had this in the, the, the, the general harlem retaining the shots in the z as you know, fall level. oh, how it is similar to the world? well, it's good idea. what the car, let me look at anybody as request, is it? well, i think what it does, it, even though that's what i need you to do what you can, what so says preview sort of got some what, specifically the at the end. yeah. well, if you don't feel if you understand the all the most fit to be so i'm not at all. so i'm assuming that he is, was the, the admin if he's one of those lives in the shop, a key of the total. ready tensor kennedy, for imbecile, seem to sit there on less shopping. well, let me go through the g b up. this will be cheating and the how to continue on? are they used to fit my name is i'm gonna ask a cold me. how was it? adults is it a club. ready the car, the bush was a mean could be some of you have the checking that's good. i'm sick to show us getting your co media, but how much time the final medina. but in one key part of the middle east palestine change was far harder if not impossible to bring about well,

got our homeowners grant and it works. >> celebrating five years in harlem this morning. >> reporter:anches make money for the bank. but what about the other end of the spectrum? a lot of americans have gotten very rich. they have gotten filthy rich. we have had unbelievable numbers of billionaires cup. billionaires. why? what's out of whack here? >> you have to be careful to say what's out of whack. you want a healthy economy. that's all citizens. you want to help all americans, grow the economy. you can wail at the moon. that's not going to grow the economy. if there are unfair things, they should be fixed. >> reporter: i am not hearing you say there is something wrong here, that there are these billionaires growing like poppy. i mean, what is it? tas laws? >> if i was king for a day, i would probably change a bunch of the tax laws, too, which i am not going to give you specifics on. it won't reduce it as much as you think it see should be reduced. >> reporter: no. but i am interested that you are not saying this is wrong. this is not working. >> i think the wrong part is that the b

get the story, the victims last multiple times inside a harlem daily in the afternoon.died in the hospital. the police at the attack happened after the suspect and victim got into a fight over whether the postman cut her in line. so she killed him over a sandwich. insane! just in moments ago president biden blocking the nippon steel $14 billion bid for u.s. steel. we need u.s. major companies representing major share of u.s. steelmaking capacity to keep leading the fight on behalf of america's national interest. the new canadian foreign investment spent months with the bid for security risk to refer the decision to biden. right now shares have u.s. steel down 8% in premarket trading and supposed to keep it here and make it bigger and hire more americans. until the faa will make enhanced oversight of boeing nearly one year after door panel flew off alaska airlines 737 next flight. the faa chief saying what is needed is a fundamental shift and bowing oriented around safety and quality about pro profits. the faa ordered billing to capture 737 max 2:30 8% and 38% per month

that 17,500 is the same as the tip of the island up to harlem into the bronx there, that is about twelve miles, so it's enough to cover pretty much the entire island of manhattan or we take a look at our european neighbors to the east, that's enough to cover the city of london literally from hammersmith to canary wharf in the east. that will give you some perspective. this would nearly cover the entire cities of new york, manhattan, and london, england. and the fire still zero percent contained and continues to grow. so this is going to get even bigger. >> sandra: thank you very much. that is the fear at this hour. our next guest left behind his home north of los angeles. the eaton fire was closing in on it. that inferno has burned more than 10,000 acres, remains zero percent contained right now and is responsible for all five confirmed deaths in the region. christian forest joins us right now. thank you for joining us. just heartbreaking what all of you have been through. please do tell us about what your experience has been. >> my family and i were forced to evacuate from the area on t

they've been serving classic italian favorites at their ten-table restaurant in east harlem, new yorkmi. frank pellegrino jr. is the co-owner. can we tell people that you're a regular? >> we just did. >> yes, you can. and thank you so much for having me here this afternoon. it's a real honor and privilege. and all that work is done by our family, not just me. my cousin ron, who is my partner, we've got joe, dino in the kitchen, and tommy and everybody out there dedicating to delivering the best of what it is that we do. >> and you sold off the name. i want to be clear. so the sauce that got sold -- >> which i'm obsessed with. >> everybody is, and so is campbell's soup. you're still running the restaurants. i have a good friend who is a huge restauranteur. what's it been like running a restaurant post-covid, what has changed? >> one thing has changed remarkably. the new 8:00 reservation is 6:00 or 7:30. that's a trend we've seen in every region that we're in, whether it be in los angeles, miami, and especially here in new york. now, in new york that helps us out a little bit, because t

the harlem globetrotters. >> we love you. >> i love your dunks. >> alejo's the long shot.e bay area. january 17th through 19th. go to harlem globetrotters.com/bay area for tickets to the 2025 world tour presented by jersey mike's subs. >> hey! bay area live with kelly and marcus. >> coming up, we'll chat with brooke shields about her new book. plus, andrew rannells is here. >> that's at nine on abc7. >> looking at wind speeds in the accuweather forecast, we have some breezy and gusty conditions as you head into the hills, especially in the north bay. you can see some areas gusting over 40mph. so we do have a wind advisory through today into early tomorrow morning for areas in tan. we're already seeing this verify. we've seen gusts close to 55mph at times. a little less wind headed our way this afternoon in our hills. another dry day. sunshine continues. temperatures close to average for this time of the year. reggie. >> thanks. we'll have another abc7 news update in about 30 minutes. you can always find us on our news p and abc7 news.com. next. more n. >> announcer: welcom

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this is jahkeen washington, the founder of the harlem kettlebell club, and he will show us a few simpleifference and be done from the comfort of your own home. that's what he says. we have our kettlebells there. you call them the swiss army knife of fitness. what do you mean by that? >> swiss army knife is effective, efficient, multipurpose, very useful, and the kettlebell in the same way, you can train a ton of different qualities. if i'm someone who wants to train for power, build strength and work mobility, work my cardiovascular. you can do all of those with one to three kettlebells. the other part, if you're someone -- >> look at these routines. >> maybe you don't want to go to a gym. you can train from home. you can go outside. it allows to you do your own thing. >> janai: that's intense. you guys do some serious -- okay. >> gio: that's what i call myself, the swiss army -- >> janai: oh. >> gio: let's start with the first one. this is the kettlebell row. >> this is a back exercise so the way we do this, you get the bell right in between the feet and we just let it die on the floor

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. >> rap music began in harlem, in the south bronx, on playgrounds like this one, where people would gather to spin records and then recite their own lyrics, their raps over the instrumental sections. come on now, brakes on the bus, brakes on the car, the brakes was kurtis blow's biggest hit, selling 680,000 copies last year and hitting the top of the rhythm and blues sales charts. >> as a young kid, running around with a local dj crew, i watched the transition from all the disco music that we used to play at all the block parties to slowly but surely hip hop taking over. >> the music underneath. >> rapping is called scratching, and it's a process of using two turntables and a mixer, making new sounds out of already existing albums. >> the thing that gave life to music in the 80s for me was hip hop, because it took the sounds of the 60s and 70s and brought it to the forefront. >> a child is born with no state of mind, blind to the ways of mankind. god is smiling on you, but he's frowning too, because only god knows what you go through. >> the message was the first hip hop song that w

she lives in harlem with her husband james and their three legged dog, nadine. next is nikki hargrove. she's a graduate of bard and currently serves as a member of the school's board of governors and chair of the alumni diversity, a lambda literary nonfiction fellow. she's written about adoption, marriage, motherhood and the prison system for the washington post, the guardian, the new times, scary mommy and shonda land. this is her first time joining us, the boston book festival. and then we have tom seeman. he's a business person who has owned led several businesses. he grew up in a family of 14 on welfare and food stamps in the projects of toledo, ohio so he earned his b.a. in economics from yale, where he wrote on the protein and graduated summa cum laude and phi beta kappa before going to earn his jd at harvard. so i think now you can see why this panel is called rising above all these authors shared traumatic challenges, difficult childhoods and very different circumstances. yet they're here us today as accomplished authors, sharing really inspiring stories

even though the move is unpopular. harlem was also reports from the one the color. the santos is a high school teacher in angola. his salary isn't enough to ensure he can pay all his monthly bills, but he says government to fuel subsidies, help cushion consumers from rising prices. and that's why he is worried about politicians plans to scrap them makes you laugh at the men's and boss and see that the utah pockets. once the fuel subsidies are removed, prices of everything will go up. you to hit betty's right now. and goal is pay by $0.35 for lead to a pedro. and about $0.21 for diesel removing subsidies means that will pay more at the pump, so they caught them to save the subsidy program is unsustainable. and goal stands about $3000000000.00 every year on the fuel subsidies. just to have an idea, we spend more subsidizing the pool. then we spend in education and the nail so together. so we needs to, to present out the subsidies. but i don't believe that we will do it soon, because politically is very bad to facing golf. the subsidies, the fuel prices needed double l

the legendary singer luther vandross through his life and his career, from his formative years in harlemo becoming one of the most influential artists of all time. >> here's a preview during that time, we had this whole thing where the way that we used to get gigs is we would attend each other's session, and if, incidentally, they happened to need somebody to fill in, oh, my friends, a singer, he could definitely do it. >> and we always brought luther in. >> yeah, that looks great. >> taking it all the right way, keeping it in the back. taking it all the right way. >> lucy started doing what he does, which is start singing. when david put music on, he starts, you know, whatever. and david was like, wow, this guy is great. and just as we. >> never been known to fail, never been. >> known, david knew talent. and he whispered to me, he said, i love this guy. and i'm like, what's not to love? and again, the new cnn film luther never too much replays tonight at 9 p.m. eastern, right here on cnn. >> thanks so much for joining me this evening. i'm jessica dean. i'm going to see you again tomorr

going to be joined in a minute by newark mayor ras baraka, alabam ama state representative rolonda, harlem hud deputy secretary sarah and many of our collaborators, including the national fair housing alliance, who's been a partner in work. so let me say thank you in advance, all of them and to all the other people are joining our conversation and have participated this work. and with that, i thrilled to introduce kimberly cornett. thank. good afternoon and to everyone in the room and joining online thanks for time for this important conversation. i'm kimberly cornett. i lead the impact investing efforts at the robert wood johnson r.w. j.f. is a $14 billion foundation based in princeton, jersey, exclusively focused on ensuring that every american has a fair opportunity to live their healthiest lives possible. and we also acknowledge that that pathway to full health is unequal. and it's unequal because communities with low income communities of color have been denied access to capital to make the investments which many of us take for granted that really are pathway to health and to wealth.