james baldwin of his service. you could hear a pin drop in the auditorium as dr. baldwin told about rolling through these towns in the netherlands and fighting the germans. i had a chance to interview dr. baldwin after the event, and again he told me his story of fighting the germans. he told me that he fired and 81 millimeter mortar gun at nazi troops which had a stranglehold on holland. here is a quote that i really loved from my interview with him. he says, "we took 23 cities in three days. we were really moving, we were taking the cities meaning killing germans and running them out. we came in and we liberated them. to know that i had a role in the liberation of holland means a lot." the embassy of the netherlands honored baldwin and hundreds of other black soldiers as part of their commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation. edna: freeing them from german occupation. i hope you will have a chance to look at the lively discussion happening in the comments section of the show. we are getting audience reflections about dr. james baldwin including one

fled new york, fled the racism, as james baldwin would do later, and ended up in paris?cult. because i'm so close to what he did, i don't have that bird's-eye view that i would like to have. but i would say that maybe he would prefer the word "expatriate" to "exile," and he would prefer the word "escape" to "flight" because they are more active words and he thought of himself as more endowed with agency as time went on. everything he did was to gain more freedom in his ability to create. you showed a clip of the film he invested so much of his energy into -- writing, co-writing the script, being part producer of, acting bigger. and in the end, that film was censored because it came out during mccarthyism. that was one of the reasons why he could not stay and create freely in a land where the pages he wrote about police brutality would be dismembered from his book, a bit in the way james byrd would be dismembered. i mean, i use the word a bit violently, but in a way, it is the same thing. he needed freedom in all senses, in all meanings of the term. and so he went where h

>> well, obviously james baldwin is my hero for obvious reasons.mother is my hero because she is the reason i'm here and my family has notes ton this point, and i'm -- i always pay homage to women of color. one of my heroes quite frankly is a former president because i can't imagine what he had to deal with in order to get where he -- to get to the highest office in the land. i don't even want to think about the trials and tribulations of that and the pressures of that and of course the first -- former first lady of the united states. i mean, what is not to love? it's so funny, tim and i -- my fiancee is a white man, so interesting. i write in the book i'm a black man from the south and my fiancee is a white man from the east end of long island and we watched the former first lady on kimmel or fallon and she was with -- was it hugeie or -- and we were like, dude, remember whens was first lady and coming into the major media and people didn't like her? we're like how could you not like her? who doesn't like michelle obama, she is a amazing. >> i do

and with berta baldwin, james baldwin's mother, she was writer.rough the pain they're experiencing in their own life. she gifted her letters to everybody who knew her. and her son becomes the famous james baldwin, the writer who callings hardships a witness to the power of light. in these three cases it can't get any more obvious. before this book, this is tests they should have been told, but it was kept from us and it was hidden. >> for several weeks on my show, we've been discussing the crisis surrounding black maternal health. black women face a higher risk of pregnancy mortality in the u.s. than others. the cs estimates that black mothers are up to more times more likely to die from childbirth than their white counterparts. and we spend mother's day appreciating the ones who nurture us and give us life. what can we do today to protect black mothers' lives? >> this book isn't entirely about history. it's all about seeing how relevant it is to where we are today. i am pregnant right now. i have a son who is 18 months old. i was well aware of th

. ♪♪ ♪♪ explored the impact of the mothers of james baldwin, martin luther king jr.colm x had on their sons. here is a portion of the program. there's a lot of factors that contributed. one of them is at the time and even today we record words or histories and people who we deem to be important as a society and the hegemony so so much of the stories are told from this perspective and they are not the ones that are going to say this woman mattered or let's make sure we tell her story or let's record the date that she was born. two of the women were not even really sure what year they were born it's just kind of estimates because no one recorded it. i couldn't find her on any census data for example but it's also something that we speak to in terms of historians and scholars. each of these three men care deeply about their mothers and credited their mothers with their success. they celebrated their moms. martin luther king walked around and said you have the best brother in the world and he called her constantly. james baldwin wanted to be buried next to her mother and

can you talk about how you went from "i am not your negro," which was the story of james baldwin, toting this masterpiece? >> well, basically after "i am not your negro," i went throughout the world. i was fornate to able to see how the film was received many different places. one of the common threads that was the type of reaion that you just mentioned like senate leader mitch mcconnell, you know, somehow a sign that they feel they are entrenched now, they are attacked. there is great fear about some sort of civilization going overboard. d for me it is a symbol that the type of light, the type of propaganda, the type of abuse that we have been subject during all these years. i am old enough to have heard many of the people like mcconnell and many others through out the years. the only difference now is we have the means to come to them. we have the means to tell the real story. and that is exactly what i decided to do once and for all put everything on the table without any semblance of holding back my punches. everything is on the table. i haveeen on the table for a long time. exce

anna malaika tubs and she wrote but the civil rights leaders with martin luther king jr., and james baldwin and a bill and melinda gates cambridge scholar. after graduating phi beta kappa from stanford university and a master degree as well from the university of cambridge in multidisciplinary gender studies. and also we have with us, thomas healy with hit latest book "soul city: race, equality and the last dream of an american utopia" in which he narrate this forgotten story of the unsuccessful attempt to build a city dedicated to racial equality in the heart of -- current lay professor at seton haul law school and has received fellowships from the guying the guggenheim university and to all our outend -- i have an agency sents. that what's little is what happened when we grew 'with a different language but i did not have an accent when i think and hopefully when i moderate because i'm so excited to be here. sew encourage you to, please, please, please, ask a question. there's q & a box on the screen and we'll select many of them during this conversation, and particularly during the last f

she showed me by example has frederick douglass, as james baldwin has said. children are never good at listening to their elders but they never fail to imitate them . i want you all to know that in kristin clarke wehave an extraordinary american, and extraordinary person . she's been a great mom. and i know what she has done with her life. she has lived perhaps with the greatest principle of all which is for us in this generation to make a better way for the next. for us to make a more perfect union. for us to understand the art of the moral universe is indeed long but we must bend it moretowards justice . i tell my colleagues and urge you to confirm her to this sacrosanct and urgent position ndtoday because i am confident to the core of my being because she will not just make us proud. she will not just defend those for having their rights trampled or dignity marginalized. but that she will make a better way. for america that fulfills the promise has still not yet, for us to be a nation . with liberty and justice for all. and you mister president mister pres

demand to be treated with dignity and the respect that you deserve. >>> and finally, emma baldwin, james baldwin'sness, through their own pain, through her writing. so everybody who knew her, she would give them these letters to help them see the world differently, find more healing, find more progress. and it's not a coincidence that her son becomes the famous writer, james baldwin, who calls himself a witness to the power of light. >> we want to bring in erin hanes who has a question for you. >> thank you for this book because i enjoyed reading and learning more about these women. i'm from atlanta and alberta king is someone i learned a lot about growing up, also her tragic death. i know martin luther king's mother, malcolm x's mother, they had tragic endlings. i'm wondering if you can talk about that a little bit and really why you felt like it was important to talk about these women whose gifts ended up being imparted in such a way. >> i appreciate that question. it's trou we need to provide more context on what happened in these women's lives. it reminds us where we are as a nation today and

he published james baldwin and norman whaler and was according to the editor-in-chief, quote, the perfecther for the 1960s. he was fearless and backed us in every crazy thing we would do. booktv will continue to bring new programs in the publishing news. you can also watch the past programs any time at booktv.org. >> during a virtual event hosted by the manhattan institute, philosophy professor offered his thoughts on the importance of free speech. >> the debate on free speech is whether we should have kind of legal protections for free speech so we have the first amendment that guarantees the protection for free speech and then there's much more interesting the kind of pressure people feel to not disclose their opinions, and that's what we focus on in the book. so it is increasingly relevant because the polls show most people want to share their opinions when it comes to contested issues and disturbing patterns the more they talk about their ideas. one shows this is three times its height compared to mccarthy and so on. so a number of people said they are hesitant to speak their minds an

. >> sitting with me now is james baldwin. >> and billy preston. >> we are seeing african-american artistsise do you want to offer the young guys coming up that are interested in sports? >> use their brains and not their fists. >> "soul" was gorgeous. >> historically a show like "soul" is very important. without "soul," you may not have an arsennial hall. >> carson starts in 1962 and he's a huge success by 1972. in 1972, peter la salle felt it was time to move the show to the west coast. >> you could get better guests out here and it was easier than new york. >> johnny of course loved the lifestyle of california. that helped convince johnny it was the right move to move the show to burbank. >> his royalty at this point and carson's hair got a silver corona. >> carson was the most important star in nbc, he wanted to work fewer days a week. >> in a weird way johnny carson was responsible for "snl." they should show the best of "the tonight show" on nbc and carson was like what if we take the best of carson and citinste of having on monday night -- i can play tennis and relax. >> the ceo of n

he published james baldwin and norman mailer and was according to the late novelist and former editor-in-chiefquote, the perfect publisher. he was fearless and backed us in every crazy thing we would do. we will continue to bring new publishing news. you can watch past programs any time at booktv.org. ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> i want to read a couple of paragraphs from the executive editor about this book. he says for years they've been taking forgotten pieces of history and turning them into comparative narratives that illuminate the subject's, making the historical figures leap off the page, and i concur. for daniel boone,

. >> james baldwin. >> billy preston. >> you're seeing african-american artists and icons being themselvesld you like to offer the young guys coming up that are interested in sports? >> use their brains and not their fists. if they have anything to do with boxing, be the manager because usually they get all the money. >> after almost 130 episodes "soul" was gorgeous. ♪ but in the end when pbs announced its fall line-up for 1973 "soul" was not renewed for the funding. >> historically, a show like "soul" is very important. without "soul" you maybe don't have an arsenio hall. at the same time it's never going to have the same impact as "the tonight show" because the money behind it and the circumstances behind it just are not equal. >> carson starts in 1962. he's a huge success by 1972. >> in 1972 peter lasalli, who was then the producer of "the tonight show," felt it was time to move the show to the west coast. ♪ >> you could get better guests out here, and it was just easier than in new york. >> and johnny of course loved the lifestyle of california. so that helped convince johnny that it w

beard published james baldwin was according to the late novelist and former editor-in-chief of el doctorowthe perfect publisher for the 1960s. he was totally fearless invectives every crazy thing we would do. book tv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news. you could also show her past programs @booktv.org. >> yale university professor emeritus looks at how infectious outbreaks of shape society from the black death to the covid-19 pandemic. here's a portion of the program. >> medical history really does show what people's values really are and how societies are put together, and what the fracture lines are within. that was kind of the fascination history of medicine that drew me into that. and specifically the epidemics book was not against that background. the idea was not as a book but a series of lectures again students i was teaching who pointed out during the sars epidemic in fact they were really nervous they could of course get information from their doctors about what to do personally if they got sick they would not have obviously asked me that is not on me. the

think the character for me was the biggest challenge was james baldwin because he is a very complicated personality. i felt i really had to get, figure out what made him tick what he was up to to understand why he was so important in 1963. based on the cover of "time" magazine how did that happen? so that was a challenge for me it was very rewarding. i never really got what it was all about but. >> what did you learn about james and the research then? a spermatic boy i put i think in the book was that he wanted to be respected for a person who did not need the respective other people. that's a complicated idea but it's a real idea. a lot of people have that idea. always put them in a perilous position he was in weirdly wanting respect but also he does not need. it's a brilliant speaker as everyone knows going youtube in here service features as father was a preacher of the pentecostal church. he was just really good extemporaneous speaking. think it was also great journalists. i think journalism was more important than his novels. it was incredible essay about what is going on. but he,

>> well, you know, james baldwin in his last book published in 1985 entitled "the evidence of thingsestion what happens when white supremacy still obtains and black folks hold the reins of power. it is centered around the atlanta child murder, craig. all of these black babies dying with the black folks running the city, maynard jackson and the black police commissioner and the like. part of what we've come to understand is the way in which racism functions and organizes our lives isn't necessarily mitigated by the fact that black people hold the reins of power. so we have a lot of work to do, it seems to me, in order to understand what we need to do to move forward. >> we do appreciate your time. thank you, sir. that will do it for me this hour. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. "andrea mitchell reports" is next tide pods child-guard pack helps keep your laundry pacs in a safe place and your child safer. to close, twist until it clicks. tide pods child-guard packaging. mm. [ clicks tongue ] i don't know. i think they look good, man. mm, smooth. uh, they are a little tight. like, too

but if we can turn words into action and action into meaningful reform, we will, in the words of james baldwinm reality and begin to change it. again, former president barack obama just moments ago. any minute now members of george floyd's family set to meet with house speaker nancy pelosi. we are watching to see if we hear from them. a live look of where the meeting is expected to take place any moment now on capitol hill. we expect the family to meet with lawmakers from both parties and the family will meet with vice president harris and president biden at the white house. joining me now is george floyd's cousin, tera brown, director of the george floyd foundation. tera, first of all, apologies in advance if we have to interrupt you once the family starts to meet with speaker pelosi. and before we jump in at all, how is everyone doing today? i would imagine it's quite the emotional day for the family. >> i guess we're doing the best we can possibly do at this point. our hearts are still broken, and today is just a reminder of the loss we've suffered and all we've had to endure this entire ye

he hear of tony morrison of course, we hear pot james baldwin, langston hughes, maybe a couple others, richard wright but we often don't hear but ann pet true or chester hinds or charles johnson or john a. williams, charles wright. john a. williams when i read "the angry ones" which was published either -- like between the 50s and the 70s, i believe. i said, woe, i'm writing something that feels original but it's part of a large and long temporary digs so with those types of books just inspired me to go further to go deeper to create fearlessly or if i did have any fear or trip digs, to push through it -- trepidation and to push through it. at the time he wrote black buck i didn't have hesitancy because i had written two plan uscripts that didn't go anywhere, didn't get an agent and didn't get a book deal and i thought f this and i will write the bike want and black buck was what i wanted and it resonates. >> in terms of black buck, you hat written two manuscripts and went on agent submission and so on and didn't get picked up and then this book is picked up. did you find there was a

with "beale street," you know, james baldwin's no longer with us i'm wondering which, as a director,lly, i thought at the time that it was less challenging doing "beale street" because i couldn't talk to mr. baldwin, so i just stuck to the text i think that experience gave me the courage to veer from the text wherever i felt like the show demanded it, and yet i always checked in with colson. so it was kind of a mixture of the two. it was really nice to ask him, "hey, i think i want to go left where you went right," and he would always say "cool, it's yours, go ahead," but with one exception. it was really nice to know i could trust myself, but i could also reach out to him if necessary. >> seth: so you did say with one exception you basically have admitted you had an idea that was so bad that colson said you couldn't do it >> i did, i did. >> seth: but you're not willing to admit to it yet >> i'm not willing to admit to it yet maybe after the show is out for a couple weeks but basically, i wanted to make two characters brother and sister >> seth: got it. >> but it's one of those thin

because she felt like there were a number of black american patriots in paris at the time like james baldwinndnk she fet the reception there was much better for her so i think that is as long ways for telling us why we don't know her name and certainly don't know her contribution to television because we can't find recordings and that's a travesty. >> i'm rolling back a bit, did her husband, was he any help or was that a bit of a hindrance? >> i suspect it was hindrance. you can't prove anything with this, including the firing, they tried to do itar later, it was o hard to prove definitively what caused what. her husband, her son tells anyway, she said i'm going to go talk to them and he was like please don't. ,[laughter] because he knew what would happen but she couldn't stand by which i think is so honorable. he had a number of enemies in congress, i think for racial reasons and i have a story in the book they found out when they were going abroad, for his trip, their own fbi was fired having them which was uncommon practice so i think it probably contributed and made her a target in addit

a professor, even canceled, lecturing on the writings of james baldwin, known for his participation in the gay liberation movements because his students said it made them, quote, we live in intergenerational are trauma, unquote. fox news has been canceled. simply because he didn't want to defund the police. again, my colleagues, tell me how cancel culture doesn't exist and tell me that conservatives are not being attacked. who are the conservatives being canceled. the left tried unsuccessfully to cancel goya foods because he supported donald trump. president trump lincoln who ended the institution of slavery is being canceled. linchingon's general, grant, canceled. coveted catholic children were slandered simply because they were wearing maga hats. senate justice amy comby barrett. cam laharries tried to cancel a member of the knights of columbus and hold the view that we shouldn't terminate the live. enough is enough. if we want to continue to prosper, we need to stop see each other as enemies and remember the motto, above my head as i speak, out of many, one. we are a nation of many

she felt like like there were a number of black american expatriates in paris at the time like james baldwinand she felt like the reception there was much better for her. and so i think that a long way toward telling us why we maybe don't know her name and certainly don't know her contribution to television because those tapes are lost. there's no we can't find the recordings and that is a just a travesty. did i'm rolling back just a little bit to ask did her husband congressman powell was he any help or was that a bit of a hindrance in that situation? in fact, yeah, i suspect it was a hindrance. i suspected all goes together. you can't prove any of these things with the stuff including the firing, right? they tried to like sue later and it was so hard to prove definitively what caused what his her husband, you know, it's as her son tells it anyway her, you know, she came home and said i'm gonna go talk to them and he was like, please don't because you do what was going to happen, but she really couldn't she couldn't stand by which i think is so admirable. um, he had a number of enemies in c

my first three are james baldwin, "go tell it on the mountain." seminal book for my formation.tories and poems that is called "the fire this time." an answer to baldwin's "the fire next time." yeah. >> so do we come over to your house, and then you lead us in a book reading session? or -- >> what happens? >> you serve hors d'oeuvres -- >> you can go to fable.co/levar, and they'll tell you how to sign up. maybe we'll come to your house. >> we can rotate it around. >> if you're vaccinated, yes, you are welcome. >> thank you, ma'am. >> i not tha-- i think that's great. congratulations. mine is -- you know i love a good love story. i love a good baby story, especially for babies -- especially for people who are having their babies for the first time. so talking to you, supermodel naomi campbell. she announced wonderful news. naomi campbell has a baby girl. we don't know any of the details, but she released it -- i love the picture of her and the little baby's foot. she says this beautiful little blessing has chosen me to be her mother, so honored to have this gentle soul in my life

they include best picture winner "moonlight" and the critically acclaimed adaptation of james baldwin's," premieres tomorrow on amazon prime. we met up with barry jenkins in l.a. to discuss the series which has been four years in the making. he said it was the hardest undertaking he's ever attempted in his creative life. >> quiet, please. >> reporter: >> barry jenkins had long wanted to direct a story about slavery in america. >> i knew at some point i was going to have to use my art, my voice to speak to my ancestors. >> as much as you wanted to film this story, you were in some ways afraid of it. >> i was. it's very tricky, delicate, difficult subject matter. >> "the underground railroad" based on colson whitehead's pulitzer prize-winning novel tells the story of cora randall, o flees a georgia plantation. >> there is nothing here but suffering. pain and suffering. it is time to go. >> in the novel's reimagining of history -- >> next -- free or runaway? >> i'm not sure. >> "the underground railroad" isn't symbolic, it's real. a network of tracks beneath the southern soil that leads h

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james baldwin said, if the american negro is not american, there are no americans.lveston, soldiers sort of fanned out and sent the news there, the hope that one day the declaration, the ideals of the declaration would be realized. we're still working on that. it's a work in progress. no one should think this is all over now because the law changed. law reflects society at one level but not what's going on everywhere. we still have to struggle. >> a work in progress. finally, i want to end where we began and that is with your beloved state of texas. i love in fact when other people started celebrating juneteenth, you felt this twinge of possessiveness and were almost ireighted by the fact -- wait, that's texas' holiday! what are you people doing? but it shows the great -- >> we like to think of ourselves as special! we like to think we're special, but i've gotten over that now. i'm ready for everybody to celebrate. >> there you go. >> fantastic. >> today was the first day of annette's week-long "morning joe" residency. she will be with us every morning this week as

james baldwin. this meeting is adjourned. >> clerk: thank you. >> good afternoon this is the meeting of the san francisco port commission. tuesday april 27, 2021. item number one is roll call. [roll call] commissioner woo ho having audio problems. item number two is approval of minutes for the april 13, 2021 port commission meeting. >> i so move. >> second. >> we have a motion and a second. >> president brandon: roll call vote please. [roll call vote] can you hear me commissioner woo ho? we might have to come back to her for that. >> president brandon: motion passes. minutes of the april 13, 2021 meeting are adopted. >> item number 3 is pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] item number 4 is announcements. please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make comments on each agenda item. please note that during the public comment period the moderator will instruct the dial-in participant to use the touch tone phone. audio prompts will signal to dial-in participants whe

james baldwin. this meeting is adjourned. >> clerk: thank you. [♪♪♪] >> i just don't know that you can find a neighborhood in the city where you can hear music stands and take a ride on the low rider down the street. it is an experience that you can't have anywhere else in san francisco. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> district nine is a in the southeast portion of the city. we have four neighborhoods that i represent. st. mary's park has a completely unique architecture. very distinct feel, and it is a very close to holly park which is another beautiful park in san francisco. the bernal heights district is unique in that we have the hell which has one of the best views in all of san francisco. there is a swinging hanging from a tree at the top. it is as if you are swinging over the entire city. there are two unique aspects. it is considered the fourth chinatown in san francisco. sixty% of the residents are of chinese ancestry. the second unique, and fun aspect about this area is it is the garden district. there is

dedid segregate a restaurant to helping organize a march on washington, she showed me example, as james baldwin has said, children are never good at listening to their elders, but they never fail to imitate them. i want you all to know that in kristen clarke, we have an extraordinary american, an extraordinary person, and a great mom. and i know what she has done with her life. she has lived perhaps with the greatest principle of all, which is for us in this generation to make a better way for the next. for us to make a more perfect union. for us to understand that the arc of the moral universe is indeed long, but we must bend it more towards justice. i tell my colleagues and urge you to confirm her to this sacrosanct and urgent position today because i am confident to the core of my being that she will not just make us proud, she will not just defend those who are having their rights trampled or their dignity marginalized, but that she will make a better way for an america that fullfills its promise still not yet achieved for us to be a nation with liberty and justice for all. thank you, mr. p