so why does jackie robinson have a different color?>> that was the colors of the brooklyn dodger uniform. >> jackie robinson, the only number retired in all of baseball. >> ladies and gentlemen, yankees stadium! >> we're on the field right now. how's it feel. >> unbelievable. >> that's what i want to hear. as many times as i've stepped on the field, i never lose that feeling just take it in, just enjoy that moment. >> it's the best view of the field. >> one very special item is in this refrigerator. it's the whipped cream that a.j burnett had popularized last year with about 16 walk-offs that we had here. this is it, right here. this is the inner sanctum, tyler. >> wow. >> when you look around, you an see some of the players. >> what do kids want to know when they come here for the first time? >> where's derek's locker? he's a very popular guy, and that would be his locker at the end. >> so are those tvs in the lockers? >> no, those are computers. all of the regulars have that. >> and what do they use them for? >> they could go online,

for every jackie robinson, there are many more dinks. and patrick hawkins knows this.ad worked quietly into his 80s after a long career in the negro leagues. he died in '02 and he got a gave -- grave marker last summer. >> it was beautiful. everybody had stories. >> on the ballfield they were good enough to be called "monarchs." ♪ take me out to the ball game ♪ >> reporter: on these fields, finally they're good enough to be remembered for it! ron mott, nbc news, kansas city. >> what a great story to end on this tuesday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams and we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good evening, everyone. thanks for joining us. >> we begin with some developing news tonight from yosemite national park. we are getting new information from our sister sfags inan d s fresn and sacramento about the search and rescue efforts that are happening as we ntspeak. here's a look now at the map. witnesses say a man and a woman climbed over the safety rail at the top of vernal

. >> stephen: you turned that man into the jackie robinson of vampires thank is offensive on a lot ofevels. >> stephen: it is and i do not forgive you. >> you should get out of here. >> stephen:ly but before i go, i want to say this, i truly enjoyed your book transparent, a candid memoir that had the "new york times" called.24.95. fox news missed the story, too. >> good luck to you and thanks for telling your story. >> thanks for having me on. >> stephen: cable news has completely lost its way. they brought into the sexy vampire cover model image when vampires are undead monsters that journalists have a sworn duty to protect us from. a job they used to know how to do. >> these boys missed an opportunity to nail that vampire. >> stephen: legendary anchorman dan rather, who is old school srk ready to handle the undead at a moment's notice. >> if i was interviewing henry kissinger about the secret bombings in came cambodia and discovered he was a zombie, i would have asked him whether he enjoyed eating human brains. that didn't happen but that's what i would have done. >> stephen: that's

dubois, and how jackie robinson had broken the baseball barrier. and we remembered the opera singer who was not allowed to sing in the hall and had to sing in lincoln center. all the discrimination and the local in justices. like, everything was separate and unequal. the school was inadequate. we could not go to the hospitals. they built a house adjacent to the main hospital. the white people were not supposed to be in the same room with an n-person. you know the n-word? i said to myself at the end of the day that i love my country and i'm glad that that day, i took a stand. i saw through the supreme court that the flaws that america had tried to correct them by removing those horrible signs -- "white" and "colored." i said when i testified at the trial, i went through how we were treated, and the lady dramatize it, so i do not have to go through that, but it is the whole system of separate but unequal. it is understates rights -- is under states' rights. after lincoln had freed us from slavery, they instituted this law, separate but equal, and the

>> you have turned that man into the jackie robinson of vampires. >> that's all i hear. >> that is offensiven a whole lot of levels. >> i do not forgive you. >> you should get out of here. >> i will get out of here. before i go, i want to say this. i truly enjoyed your book "transparent." a candid memoir that the "new york times" calls $24.95. >> comedy central, it was fun. thank you for allowing me into your studio to do that. okay, we're watching capitol hill and the white house tonight as negotiations continue to try to resolve the debt crisis. the senate facing a late night of debate just as has just changed its plans. the latest on efforts to get a deal done and get it soon. it's what you're tweeting about. coming up, my conversation with republican senator rand paul in our no talking points segment. you want to watch it next. for me to do anythingly te as my mercedes collision system automatically kicked in. the next thing i know, the mercedes stopped itself. ♪ watching what mercedes has done in bringing together these sensors in a car with software that has the ability to save your li

you know, it was before jackie robinson. it was before martin luther king. it was before the armed forces were integrated. it was before rosa parks. it was really the dark ages in the history of civil rights in this country, and all of a sudden, a 23-year-old woman, billie holiday, is singing about lynching. and i think that the song had enormous shock value. it just sort of jolted people in a way they'd never been jolted before, and i think it kind of emboldened other people who cared about these things to try to do something about it. so the song had an enormous impact. let's take a moment and give our viewers a chance to hear this extraordinary song. (holiday) ♪ southern trees ♪ bear a strange fruit: ♪ blood on the leaves ♪ and blood at the root, ♪ black bodies swingin' ♪ in the southern breeze. ♪ strange fruit hangin' ♪ from the poplar trees. ♪ the voice of billie holiday. in your book, you quote the late jazz writer leonard feather as saying that "strange fruit is the first significant protest "in words and music, the first unmuted cry against racism."

there are three african-americans playing major-league baseball, jackie robinson, larry dobie and roy campanella. i would argue -- i am a baseball fan but i argue the air force is a little more important national institution than major league baseball. coming out of the war african-americans' forced themselves into this through lobbying campaigns and threatening to march on washington. they forced themselves in and got the opportunity and proved they can do it and they forced the government -- important branches of the government to the side of desegregation. when you think of the civil-rights movement as really beginning before the direct face of the civil-rights movement, direct action against the montgomery bus boycott seven or eight years later. having taken the side of desegregation, that takes years to play itself out but that is important coming out of this experience. if you indulge me i would like to read a short excerpt from our oral histories with a pilot who was an atlanta at native who i got to know pretty well when working for the tuskegee airmen oral history project. i

sensitive and accepting of vampires -- >> what have you -- >> you have turned that man into the jackie robinsonyourself? stephen -- >> that's all i hear. >> that is offensive on a whole lot of levels. >> yes, it is, and i don't forgive you. >> get out of here. >> i will get out of here, don lemon. before i go, i want to say this -- i truly enjoy your book, "transparent." a candid memoir that "the new york times" calls 2495. >> it is okay to be a newsman and have a sense of humor. i want to thank everyone at comedy central. thanks for watching, as well. hopefully it won't turn up too often. >>> let's move to serious news. could the answer to the debt crisis in washington be found in how tech companies handle their businesses? after all, many are getting their hands on more cash than the u.s. government. best buy award, t then they gave us an iihs top safety pick, and you -- well, you gave us your approval. so we thought, why not give a little back? the chevy model year wrap up. get in on our greatest model year yet. and now very well qualified lessees can get a low mileage lease on a chevy malib

>> you have turned that man into the jackie robinson of vampires. >> that's all i hear. >> that is offensiven a whole lot of levels. >> i do not forgive you. >> you should get out of here. >> i will get out of here. before i go, i want to say this. i truly enjoyed your book "transparent." a candid memoir that the "new york times" calls $24.95. >> comedy central, it was fun. thank you for allowing me into your studio to do that. okay, we're watching capitol hill and the white house tonight as negotiations continue to try to resolve the debt crisis. the senate facing a late night of debate just as has just changed its plans. the latest on efforts to get a deal done and get it soon. it's what you're tweeting about. coming up, my conversation with republican senator rand paul in our no talking points segment. you want to watch it next. >>> on this debt debate, for weeks now, we have been hearing politicians come on television and give talking points from their perspective parties. and you as americans have spoken. all polling indicates that you don't want to hear talking points. you want to hear

he shook hands with jackie robinson. he went down to city hall. went to columbia university.the policemen who were assigned to protect him, they're all these assassination plots surrounding castro. these were reported in the press every day, and none of these turned out to be real but the police didn't know that. caster was impossible to protect. one afternoon on a whim he decided to go to the bronx zoo. the press followed. federal agents fall. the new york city police follow. and castro did whatever he did at the zoo. he ate a hot dog and fed to the elephants. before anybody could stop him he climbed over a protective railing in front of the tiger change and stuck his fingers right to the cage and patted a tiger on it. this is the sort of thing castro did to make people think he was crazy. besides trying to save castro from assassins and tigers, americans spent much of his isn't trying to decide this policy which meant answering the following question, was fidel castro a communist? you have to recall that in the late 1950s and early 1960s the battle against the so-called int

i am yohura williams from fairfield university and chief historian at the jackie robinson museum. i want to welcome you to this forum. we are here to discuss manning parable's recent book malcolm x a life of reinvention and its impact on our appreciation of the life and legacy of this african-american icon. manning parable began his study as a corrective to the influential autobiography of malcolm x which for five decades stood as one of the most important works of african-american literature ever produced. despite its widespread influence and a claim there have always been questions concerning its authenticity. publish nine months after his death the autobiography presents a unique portrait of malcolm's life as a quintessentially american morality tale but also has been at odds with the complex individual many new him to be. in addition the liberal controlled press enjoyed the final draft bags the question what malcolm himself might have excised or included in the book had he lived. when confronted with many of these obvious errors and distortions in the book one scholar, manning

williams, i'm associate professor at fairfield university and chief his touron at the jackie robinson museum. i want to welcome you to this forum. we are here to discuss manny marable's recent book "malcolm x" and the recent impact on the life and legacy of the african-american icon. manny marable first began the study as a corrective to the autobiography of malcolm x which stood as one the most important works of african-american literature produced. dispute the widespread influence and claim, there has been questions concerning it's authenticity. published nine months after his death, for instance, it portrays a neat portrait of his life in a realty tale. but it's always been at odds with the complex individual that many knew malcolm to be. the liberal control that the press enjoyed over the final draft begs the question of what malcolm himself may have excised or concluded if he lived. one scholar, the late manny marable, like many, ask the question, how much isn't true? how much hasn't been told? end quote. for more than two decades, marable made answering those questions the life