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>> he reminds me of harry belafonte. sid ney portier. he has that dignity in him.e carries it in an environment which is to be humane. and to me, he's the only one that has that quality. >> crushed by intolerable circumstances, he fights for more than freedom. >> he's having a battle with his soul. he's trying to hold it together. it's difficult for someone to hang on to their mind. their battle climaxes with the slave of the young slave patsy, the role for which mcqueen chose hundreds of actors, played by lupita ns a -- >> there were days i thought would never find someone. i wanted a breeze on the back of your hand. i'm asking the world for somebody that doesn't exist. but we found it. oh, we found it. >> i ain't got no comfort in this life. >> she held her own. i remember the first day of rehears rehearsal. she came into rehearsal. you could see these guys. okay, i've got to get my together. >> tmcqueen used a long take captured by one camera, to capture the intensity that marks his film from "hunger" to the sex addiction of "shame." >> let them do what they wan

harry belafonte remembers the aftermath of one such meeting. >> i said to him, what troubles you, martin? camee says, well, i just from that meeting with the young people in new york -- in newark. and they said much to challenge me. greatey made justification for why they saw violence as an important tool to their liberation. was to take the truths they were experiencing, the pain they were experiencing, and say there is another way. and when i left i felt i had not convinced of them come a that i have not gone to them in the way which i would have loved to have gone to them. tavis: riverside church was one of the most famed houses of worship in the nation. the edifice attracted wealthy and influential individuals from all walks of life. dr. king had preached here many times. however, even with his tradition of liberalism, the church in 1967 was not to factor liberalization. african-americans were not welcome at the front of the church. wendelin shepherd, a childhood friend of the man she called ml was in the pews than i. >> they did not want me sitting at the edges. is how would get to

harry belafonte.nd celebrity in partnership with activism. welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> tell me about sankopa. >> last year i had occasion to give a speech at the naacp image awards, and in that speech i spoke to my fellow artists, this was quite a number gathered, and spoke to the issues of art and social responsibility and i challenged my colleagues to man up, to step up to the plate and become more engaged in deeper social issues. in that critique and in that moment several artists on the spot led by jamie fox and others stepped to the plate and said, we accept that we have been lis than vij gent in our responsibilities and we would like to join in a force to begin to push for issues that need to be brought to the publica tension. >> and i want to put a peg in it there for just a moment because this is not about charitable giving, this is about social justice work. and often when we think about artists we think about them as wealthy and giving a portion of their wealth to charitable givi

actor harry belafonte will be the keynote speaker. they will also honor john lewis -- reverend al-shabaab an reverend out sharpton. taped a video message to the fraternity. >> i wish i could give them better weather for their gala. i think it is going to be rather wet on saturday, pretty rainy. >> at least the temperature is going up. >> yes, indeed, saturday, nearly 60 degrees. that will be certainly very welcome. this afternoon, temperatures are still chilly, but it looks so beautiful. i cannot get enough of this camera. this from our weatherbug camera does -- that is on top of our studio. it really just looks so beautiful with all of that ice, but it does take a wild for those water services to freeze. it is up 37 degrees now at reagan national. we do have a few high, thin clouds and a low brees but still at reagan national, it brings our windchill down to 32 degrees. 32, frederick and hagerstown. 36, manassas. 35, lexington park. and temperatures will climb a few degrees, some spots finally getting that 40 degree mark what will ce

king's friend and ally harry belafonte remembers. >> i believe very strongly that dr. king understood with great clarity what it was he was getting into once he cross- pollinated our movement with the efforts of the peace movement and the resistance of the war in vietnam, he was not just speaking philosophically towards the issues of peace, but he was also speaking very strongly to the issues of american political policy. tavis: it was that decision to speak out about war policy that made so many in the civil rights movement angry. why take on the vietnam war when the fight for civil rights was still to be won? and most importantly, why incur the wrath of president lyndon johnson, a man many considered to be the best civil rights president since lincoln and a man who had seemingly forged an important alliance with dr. king? >> one of the great tributes that we can pay in memory of president kennedy is to try to enact some of the great, progressive policies that he sought to initiate. >> well, i'm going to support them all and you can count on that, and i'm going to do

harry belafonte once compared the american government to the terrorists of 9/11., democracy, human rights, you have no a choice but to back fidel castro as long as it takes. and heas the keynote speaker. it was shocking to hear him talk about prisons. the extraordinary thing about the prison population you referred to is the kinsey in which is absolutely absurd. it is iotic. because that city prison system has been under federal monitoring for the last to my know, 25 or 30 years. we're closing prisons, not increasing them. lou: fewer police officers in thisountry, one of the safest cities in the world, but in this country. been killed and then 120 years. the attitude was that ty were talkg as if they had just freed the slaves themselves and then this was a matter of the struggle, you know, the proletariat. >> this is a corn-style politics. >> silly. >> basically a form of socialism >> i had to pinch myself. lou: struggling to use the word socialism. >> it pitts. >> communism. i really felt sorry for the great mayor. >> we are talking about new york city. new york

he reminds me of harry belafonte, sidney poitier. there was a thing where you know this man, and he has a dignity in the environment which is to be humane, and for me he was the only one that had that quality. >> i survive! >> reporter: crushed by intolerable circumstance, he fights for more than freedom. >> he keeps having a battle with himself. he is trying to hold it together. it is very difficult to hold on to their mind. it was a fight for his mind. >> reporter: his antagonist, crazy from the heat plantation owner played by michael fassbender. their battle climaxes with the state of the young slave patsy, a role for which mcqueen looked at hundreds of actresses. now nominated for best supporting actress, lupita nyong'o. >> she held her own with michael. i remember the first day of rehearsal, she came into rehearsal and boom, boom, boom. you could see these guys, okay, i got to get my -- together. >> reporter: as it vies for best picture honor, the stature suggests "12 years a slave" may become part of the film's cannon it was me

harry belafonte said the crime is brought down only by increasing the prison population, which is notberg brought it down by 27%, one spokesperson said it is not about individual success, but shared prosperity. if you can't even run that how are you going to run the city? >> all right, steve come back to some of the specific issues. he wants to raise taxes, but whatever, he wants to raise taxes, doesn't seem to like rich or successful people. he is going against stop-and-frisk, which is a great crime-fighting tactic, specifically unions, okay, there are all of these government union contracts coming due. it sounds to me like de blasio is going to give the store away, what is your take? >> well, he doesn't have a lot of money to give the store away. but i think even if he gives a little the store away, with the pressure the city has, pension costs going up by $7 billion in bloomberg years, there is not much room. i see this as an a -- analogy to the dinkin years, he gave them -- almost immediately the city had a fiscal crisis on its hands. because the cost of workers in new york city i

harry belafonte tee and the new public advocate la tear a james described the city as very divided. department actually referred to new york city as a plantation. so there were very harsh words and through all of them mayor bloomberg sat there rather stone-faced, as you can imagine. >> chris, what does it foretell for the clintons and their connection to deblasio and this sort of split in the party between the progressive wing and the party and centrist democrats? >> right. i mean -- i think kate is exactly right in her analysis of the speech. i would say it is the speech that many democrats hope barack obama would give some version of after he was elected in wait. i think deblasio is in some way it is liberal that liberals thought they were getting with barack obama and have been somewhat disappointed. i think that's somewhat -- the base of whichever party the president comes from inevitably disappointed by what that person does or does not do while in office. but you are right. there is this -- pop list many on the left and the right, i would say. but certainly on the left that de

. >> singer, actor, and activist harry belafonte travels to the most violent places in the world.eople who are the creators of and the resisters to the violence. >> with his inspirational words belafonte gives each inmate a personal challenge. >> your failure is my failure. your success is my success. somewhere where you go, you carry a responsibility and the destiny of my children and my children's children and their friends and their community. and they can either look at you as someone as a group to be shunned or they can look at you as an example of how to take the worst cards dealt in life and turn the deck around and make it your game and play a winning hand every time out. [ applause ] >> get the community's focus on something it can have faith in, and for that institution to then move to the outside world and says you must look in a very different way at how the prison population is being treated. i think it's a great opportunity. >>> next on "lockup" -- inmates in the l.a. county jail get back their freedom. well another great thing about all this walking i've been doing

we are going to have the legendary single, actor, and social activist harry belafonte here in studio.ayor made about sandy relief funds. >>> new reports on who exactly may have helped snowden leak information to newspapers. it may surprise you. >>> humanizing martin luther king jr. a close look at a side of him that often gets lost in our remembrances. >>> and we heard about the golden globe winners. as we await the oscars, who clues on who might take home those trophies. we'll be right back. nees. [ daughter ] i've mastered the art of foot cleaning. oh, boy. oh, boy. oh, boy. [ carmel ] that drives me nuts. it gives me anxiety just thinking about how crazy they get. [ doorbell rings ] [ daughter ] oh, wow. [ carmel ] swiffer wetjet. you guys should try this. it's so easy. oh, my. [ gasps ] i just washed this floor. if i didn't see it i wouldn't believe it. [ carmel ] it did my heart good to see you cleaning. [ regina ] yeah, your generation has all the good stuff. [ daughter ] oh, yeah. this is the creamy chicken corn chowder. i mean, look at it. so indulgent. did i tell you i am on

harry belafonte joins nerd land. >>> and a marriage proposal american women would be better off without if we were in early 20th century america and i called you a bully, you'd thank me for the compliment because in the vernacular of d

you will have speakers blaming barack obama for the massive increases in income inequality, but harry belafontenow what you are going to get. the things he said about colin powell and others, he's just -- we had him on the show and he's a sweet man. i loved interviewing him and loved his book. he's got some really hard edged political views. >> i don't think it's well for the holidays. >> anyway. listen. you want to celebrate. you want to celebrate somebody being sworn in, mayor deblasio. it ends up reflecting more poorly on him. i hope he comes back and says nice things about bloomberg the next couple of things. still ahead, the host of mad money and restauranteur jim cramer. he's going to be talking about markets, legalized pot and why he is missed off at the government and what they are doing to his mexican restaurant. that's called the deep tease. welcome to professional tv. we'll be right back. [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso. i just served my mother-in-law your chicken noodle soup but she loved it so much... i told her it was homemade. everyone tells a little white lie now and then. but n

>> eight days after 9/11 rose a parks, harry baden belafonte and another of other civil rights leaders put out a statement basically calling to the united states not to retaliate to sort of work with the international community to find justice after 9/11. one of the great things about sending someone like rosa parks is we know what she would be doing because she was in fact doing it but the point was how many of us knew that? where was that covered? b can again have rosa parks get a state funeral, first civilian ever to get a state funeral, she lies in the capital. king didn't get that. many presidents didn't get that. that person had four years earlier said this is what the united states should do and not do, that part of it somehow falls out. last comment? >> history is not an object in process. it works with great prejudice in order to craft a certain kinds of memory. those memories are never settled which is why we are here. and so if they can't forget you, and god knows they try. it is not like it was a foregone conclusion that we would still be talking about king. if they can't f