their a lot of territory into a thriving cultural hub the central avenue developing into a sort of harlem west. west coast best jazz clubs dozens of black businesses lining the street people dressed in their sunday best on the weekends a period during which the most affluent and the poorest blacks live essentially side by side. and then with will more to spend. more time economy adapted itself to lead automotive industry major corporations like g.m. chrysler ford good you and firestone all establishing factory in south los angeles . and we're going to factory you got benefits you could buy a house you could buy a car you could raise a family you could live a working class a lower middle class life. it was a moment of unprecedented black prosperity in which the trajectory of black america was on the rise people were getting jobs were buying homes were buying cars sending their kids to colleges it was a moment of real optimism. in the late one nine hundred fifty s. you begin to get the first. wave of what came to be called the industrialization. the american economy is changing we're moving from

there's this wonderful book called fillmore harlem west and also there's several other books that are about that particular era. but that's all happening too, people like billie holiday, count basie, duke ellington, they were all playing in the fillmore district, bop city, plantation club, jack's tavern. that's another world that i was intrigued by and the fact that there were neisei jazz musicians. also the no no boys, which i'm not sure if you are aware of, but one of the story lines in the play is about the character called chet monkawa and he was what was known as a no no boy. at some point everyone in the internment camp was asked to do this questionnaire and there were two questions, question 27 and 28, which basically said you were foreswear allegiance to japan and the emperor and will swear allegiance to america and that you will serve in the armed forces. and for young neisei men in their late teens and 20's, if you signed that, by and large the sense was you could be drafted. and what came about was a certain amount of controversy over those two questions because a lot of th

. ♪ >> this city was once the harlem of the west.ich history of jazz and blues in the '40s and '50s. do you see this venue continuing that tradition or really building upon it and making it something else in the future? >> this city has had a great jazz history from the barbery coast to today. jelly roll morton, the man who claimed to invent jazz lived on market street for a little while. there was a great revival here. the earthquake magunes. the great clubs. the blackhawk. the keystone corner more recently. there is a history here. without that deep heritage, that deep culture heritage, we never could have been here. >> paying homage to those roots is a key part of klein's vision. images of jazz greats command a view from every lobby window, while inside newly commissioned artwork celebrates storied jazz venues. >> there are three murals altogether done by a los angeles artist. they're meant to be almost the great wpa murals of diego rivera's time. the one directly behind me is history of jazz in san francisco. a lot of san francis

mike, the executive director of the schoolkill center and peggy executive director of west harlem environmental education. so nice to have all of you at the table. folks who follow the story know the second part of the story is that the president is deposed by a military coup last year in 2012. the thing i love and hate about that story is yep, that's exactly the problem. we can't make big, sustainable international green policy because we are fighting, literally fighting over islands sinking into the ocean. here, too, we are continuing to fight over all these policy questions and politics questions and missing the big story, the big story that is affecting all of us. is there any way to get us refocused on international inner generational, sustainable and international? >> climate change. we all have skin and neck in it. polls show 49% of americans believe that climate change is occurring and that people have caused it. 24% say it's climate change, but not from people. i'm not sure what science people are waiting for at this point. there's so much more science in and more coming in all the tim

tragedy of coors once thriving black neighborhoods in sand and cisco which was once called the harlem of the west, it had been leveled and the haight could've gone in that direction as well. by the late 60's hard drugs were taking over the neighborhood and it took the good earth commune in part to stand their ground and help clean up the neighborhood. that is the part of the book i want to share with you right now and then we are going to go to questions but i would love to have back-and-forth with you all and hear from dr. smith in maryland. this is chapter 17 in my book. loves last stand. the haight was a war zone by the time robin mccarthy came in 1969 but he had seen worse. mccarthy had served in vietnam as a counter on a patrol boat on the upper mekong river near cambodia. it was the whole apocalypse now experience he said many years later. i was terrified the whole time. mccarthy lost a number of friends there. when mccarthy returned to the united states he was based at treasure island and sanford cisco bait. he tried baking mental him is to get a medical discharge but it wasn't that far fr

tragedy of coors once thriving black neighborhoods in sand and cisco which was once called the harlem of the west, it had been leveled and the haight could've gone in that direction as well. by the late 60's hard drugs were taking over the neighborhood and it took the good earth commune in part to stand their ground and help clean up the neighborhood. that is the part of the book i want to share with you right now and then we are going to go to questions but i would love to have back-and-forth with you all and hear from dr. smith in maryland. this is chapter 17 in my book. loves last stand. the haight was a war zone by the time robin mccarthy came in 1969 but he had seen worse. mccarthy had served in vietnam as a counter on a patrol boat on the upper mekong river near cambodia. it was the whole apocalypse now experience he said many years later. i was terrified the whole time. mccarthy lost a number of friends there. when mccarthy returned to the united states he was based at treasure island and sanford cisco bait. he tried baking mental him is to get a medical discharge but it wasn't that far fr

tragedy of coors once thriving black neighborhoods in sand and cisco which was once called the harlem of the west, it had been leveled and the haight could've gone in that direction as well. by the late 60's hard drugs were taking over the neighborhood and it took the good earth commune in part to stand their ground and help clean up the neighborhood. that is the part of the book i want to share with you right now and then we are going to go to questions but i would love to have back-and-forth with you all and hear from dr. smith in maryland. this is chapter 17 in my book. loves last stand. the haight was a war zone by the time robin mccarthy came in 1969 but he had seen worse. mccarthy had served in vietnam as a counter on a patrol boat on the upper mekong river near cambodia. it was the whole apocalypse now experience he said many years later. i was terrified the whole time. mccarthy lost a number of friends there. when mccarthy returned to the united states he was based at treasure island and sanford cisco bait. he tried baking mental him is to get a medical discharge but it wasn't that far fr