ladies and gentleman, i bring you my friend, my hero, i bring you the great harry belafonte. >> newarkor cory booker speaking friday night at an naacp event honoring. belafonte. booker spoke just hours after new jersey senator frank lautenberg announced he would not seek reelection, paving the way for a likely run by mayor booker, who is already set up an exploratory committee. when we come back, we go to the men at the hour, harry belafonte. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> seeking fighting and at the naacp event honoring published singing friday night at the naacp event honoring harry belafonte. he grew up on the streets of harlem and jamaica. he spearheaded the calypso craze, becoming the first artist with 1 million selling albums in the first african-american to win emmy. he became deeply involved in the civil rights movement, one of dr. king's closest confidants, he helped organize the march on washington in 1963. friday night, he was honored by the naacp with the spingarn medal. he began his speech referring to mayor cory booker's introduction. >> mayor booker, that was heavy. [l

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it's not just harry belafonte, it's the ncaa, it's the black churches and -- naacp. they want to talk about pipelines and inequity.... >> bill: it's like that. >> all that gas and all those words, all of the protests and not one against the drug dealers the gangster rappers, pimps the guys that force black neighborhoods to be locked down with gates over the doors and grills over the windows and old people running. no, this is an outrage somehow there is silence among black leaders when it comes to condemning black on black crime. that ties with chicago and guns. i'm not a fan of guns as you know. let me say, how can you not say that the guns that is being used to kill young people in chicago is held by a young black person, usually a dropout and shooting another young black man. the woman that got killed in chicago that was here for the inaugural she was shot by accident. the guy that as arrested was a gang kid. that is what is killing america's black community. >> bill: we're working on the story, 15-year-old arrested in chicago on armed robbery and he had 19 priors

eight days after 9/11, she joins harry belafonte and a number of civil rights activists to call for justice, not vengeance to decry any move to the war and insist that the united states work with an international law and in the international community to bring justice. so where do we go from here who? on the anniversary of the boycott last count, president obama had a picture of himself on the rosa parks thus setting in the rosa parks pos. as we know the post office will issue a stamp. she is as one of my colleagues put it the american version of the national st.. but her legacy asks much more about the statute. and if we are going to claim her legacy as president obama did last month, then we must realize what it asks of us. rosa parks courage was the ability to make an independent stand even though she and others had done that before and nothing had changed. even when she understood the harm to make those stands over and over throughout the course of her life, even when the civil rights movement gained certain victories in the civil and voting rights act, she did not rest but continued on