and you were inside your home, being forced to read ishmael reed. >> yes. >> hinojosa: i love that image. so are you doing that to your son? are you, like, "no, no, no, no, no, you have to stay home and read the autobiography of malcolm x? >> yeah, but you know what? he's a lot more adept than i was and he's quicker. he's actually... he's a much quicker reader and, you know, he comprehends things a lot faster, i think, than i did and is mature in ways that i was not. i think that, in and of itself, is a problem. because i experienced a lot of failure early on, and i think it chastened me for life, and this kid is such a whiz that it doesn't register in the same way. so i worry about that-- i worry about him not experiencing failure till he's, like, 25 or something and how he'll react. >> hinojosa: and you write about the experience of being a black father that your own dad said, "you know what? those of us black fathers who are present in our children's lives are really heroes." we miss the opportunity to be seen as heroes. you wrote about-- i love this-- a movement of making all black m

arrested and charged in connection with a murder in upper marlborough. 21-year-old marcus reed shot and killed ishmaela fight on woodland boulevard early tuesday morning. the two did know each other. reed is being held without bond on first-degree murder. the tragic developments and related to wednesday's fire in capitol heights that killed a 5- year-old girl. her 15-year-old uncle ricky died yesterday after suffering severe burns. his niece was rescued from the burning home but then died hours later. the girl's father remains in critical condition. it was an overload of power strips which sparked a fire. arlington police concerned about a spike in violent crime. >> a man stabbed several times outside a restaurant on wilson boulevard in the clarendon area. he is expected to survive. police still looking for his attacker. arlington had no murders for two years. now they have had four in the last two weeks. crimes are not related. >> totally unrelated. in terms of the message to the public there is no series. >> a man killed his wife and himself on july 24. three days later, a columbia pike doula store