practiced the art of persuasive speech on his high school debate team, and so did the reverend jesse jackson and many others. well, now we meet some young people in chicago, following in their footsteps, proving there is power in our words. here's cbs chicago's audrina sinclair. - [bradley] hey, black child, be what you can be. - you need to speak with perfect diction. - [student] what did i see to be except myself? - entertain. - [christianna] it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. - persuade. - i am the dream and the hope of the slave. - [student] you will stand straight, anchored to a spot, to give the audience all that you've got. - [audrina] but these pews are empty. - [olivia] read it again a lot louder. - [audrina] because this. - [olivia] okay, great. - [audrina] this is just practice. - [olivia] now let's start with the vocal warmups. guys, spread out. (student humming) take a deep breath. - ooh. - e! - all right. - i, o, u! - now that he's warmed up. - i'm bradley holt, and i'm seven years old. - [audrina] so young, but boy is his calling big. - everybody knows that i pr

have been going on the suddenly 5 years proceeding as you go from that historic run to reverend jesse jackson. 19841988. and then the transitions directly into the rodney king beating the la riots there. you have the pur, uh this prevents. so yeah, we showed the taking place in america that was playing out in cities across the country and the purple that the backdrop of a corrupt police department in the lapd but many people in los angeles had experienced their corruption. and many people around the country has experience similar corrupt and where police departments, i think we can't forget about the mark firm and take which i think when the turning point in that case, because by being able to paint the police department is being capable of plodding and being capable of framing a black man as often happens. that is what creepy i use. move down item that can't be separate from the verdict. i get it and let me stop you because i thought i was way ahead of you on this one. robert. let's play robert, let's play a detective firm and admitting that he was a bit of a racist. this guy was here. it is

you talk about civil rights and chicago and al rabey, as you know, i was mentored by reverend jesse jackson of chicago, but let me ask you this, i remember going to a nonpartisan get out the vote rally in chicago on the west side where you live, reverend marshall hatch and ira ackri and the leadership network had the rally, and you were the only candidate that showed up and rocked the crowd. so as i look at the calendar, next wednesday, the 15th of may, is your first anniversary in office. as you reflect on your first year serving as chicago's mayor, what are you most proud of and what do you have left to accomplish in your judgement? >> well, that's a good question. as i mentioned earlier, our work to make sure that we provide funding to deal with this housing crisis. we're seeing dividends, returns on our investments already. homicides are down. shootings are down. the largest bond deal in the history of chicago to build housing, to create economic development. we have this most diverse administration, reverend al sharpton, in the history of chicago. 60% of my administration are made up o

i became youth director to jesse jackson's group here when i was 13.he first generation of leaders that lived past 40. i don't think people understood until your book, i really, when people's families lived every day expecting to bury their loved ones. and, the human side of it, you told. it was a family thing. i think that this was a beautiful book for history. it also told the story of a woman that everyday looked at her kids saving your dad may not come home. >> joy, question for you, what made you decide to do this book and did you travel to mississippi as part of your research? >> thank you for the question. what made me decide to do the book was myrlie. i interviewed myrlie for my weekend show at the time. and, i had interviewed her remotely. but, rev will tell you it is different meeting her in person. this was 2018, she and maxine waters were together as a panel, representative waters. afterwards, we got to talking, us girls, and she started talking about medgar and it was in such a profound personal and present way and i said to her, you sound

i became youth director to jesse jackson's group here when i was 13.e one night, you don't understand. we're the first generation of leaders that lived past 40. and i don't think people understood until your book, i really almost -- where people's families lived every day expecting to bury their loved ones. and the human side of it you told, because it was a family thing. i think that this was a beautiful book for history, but it also told a story of a woman that ever day looked at her kids saying your dad may not come home. >> joy, question for you. what made you decide to do this book? and did you travel to mississippi as part of your research? >> well, thank you for the question. what made me decide to do the book was myrlie, ms. myrlie. i had interviewed ms. myrlie for my weekend show at the time, a.m. joy, if anyone remembers that one. and i had interviewed her remotely. and rev will tell you, it's very different meeting her in person. we flew out, i think this was 2018, and she and maxine waters were together as a panel. representative waters. th

i'd know the reverend jesse jackson anywhere.years. - oh, here's your clean shirt, mr. harry. - thank you, beulah. - when so much of it was seen through a white lens. - we'll talk about this in the morning. - now go to your room. - yes, sir. goodnight, boss. - hey, did you get my email about the two of us hanging together after school or? - no, it must have gone to spam. - i think maya angelou said that "if you don't like something, change it, and if you can't change it, change your perspective." (girl screams) (fire extinguisher hisses) (audience laughs) - we are the ones who are saying, "this is who we are. this is why we matter. this is what we want you to understand. we're writing stories for us." - what's this neighborhood technically called, issa? - oh, someone told me it's the black beverly hills. is that true? (upbeat music) - guys, i really don't know, but i do know we have a lot of work to do, and this bench needs to go over there. could you- - oh, but we just moved it here. - oh, don't question my authority. thanks.

we don't know the biographies of jesse jackson or only glimpses of sharpton.ed to do is deal with my own wounds, you know, to understand how brokeness shakes me and my voice and my father is at the -- brokenness shapes me and my voice and my father's part of that. we have a wonderful relationship but he scared the living daylights out of me as a kid. by virtue of my fear, the fear he deposited in my gut, i thought i was a coward. so i reached my hero, reached for malcolm x. i needed a form of masculinity in the face of what felt like being emasculated daily in some ways. you understand the beauty and brokenness. we are not reaching for wholeness. we have to understand the goal that fills the cracks and that's what i'm trying to do in that chapter. >> there's a message of hope. you say that yours is an abiding faith in the capacity of everyday, ordinary people to be otherwise and in our ability no matter the evils that threaten to overwhelm to fight for a more just world. in the minute or so i have left, where do you derive that faith? >> in human beings, in us

he's going to your jesse jackson,, the al sharpton crowd, and it's fun to watch the moment when you'rehe same chord on the piano over and over again. that doesn't work anymore. every day black americans look at the conditions around them and say you haven't delivered for me. i'm going to somebody else. and they just keep hitting the same chord, and it's in the working. rachel: i think the president of morehouse actually issued a statement like that he's not going to tolerate any disruptions and to from protests. the students at morehouse not immune to the whole gaza, palestine stuff as well, so we'll see what happens. but they're trying to control i- pete: if i think it's at 9 a.m. eastern time, so we'll be monitoring those remarks on this program. will: well, a story of national security is also one that has been just draped in race as well by the mayor of new york city, is can that's the illegal immigration crisis. first, he is going after governor greg abbott of texas who has been busing migrants to places like new york city if. and here is what greg abbott is promising will continu

msnbc, i do not know if people are aware, but president trump was one of the major funders of jesse jackson's campaign when he ran for president. and who forced a vaccine on you, trump or biden? did many of my fellow americans lose their jobs because of president trump? no, they lost their jobs because a dictator west demanding you have a vaccine -- because you had a dictator that was demanding a vaccine. i and 2017, he funded historically black colleges forever, not that they had to come back every year and ask for funding. he did this in 20, not a campaign year. biden suddenly is tanking in the polls a little bit with the black community, because, guess what, the money we told them they did not have for the community centers, suddenly they all have this money for the immigrants, because you guys are being replaced. your vote is being replaced. please wake up, america. host: all right. bruce in colorado springs, independent. who are you voting for in november? caller: i am going to be voting for president biden. personally, myself, some of these things i have been hearing about blacks, becau

his wife, john lewis, jesse jackson, andrew young, the list goes on. those folks were my mentors.al years ago when i started to see the nation divided around policing issues and those issues being used as points of division, particularly in the presidential election, i knew we needed to do something different . we started engaging with the law enforcement organizations from a civil rights perspective to cure the problems, if you will, between law enforcement and community. that's how we got involved. host: what would be on top of the list of divisions? guest: the notion that somehow communities of colors wan -- communities of color want less policing not more, that police are not interested in justice in communities of color. those have been used in the last two to three presidential elections. i think we are a great source of inspiration for us and the police organizations that we partner with to figure out a pathway forward that focuses not on the thing that divides us but the thing that unites us. host: we talk about what fosters those divisions, do you think that his perceptio

scoop just weeks after rocking the establishment press by breaking the story of what it called, "jesse jackson'sor whatever. and that's something that we reacted to, 'cause that's something people wanted to read. we didn't say, "oh, he's a democrat. he's a republican. we're not gonna get this one. we'll leave him alone." believe me, if we had had george bush doing blow, we would've done it. that changed when management changed. that changed when david pecker took over. reporter #14: two of the nation's liveliest tabloids, the "national enquirer" and the "star," are being taken over by new owners who want to extend the well-known titles beyond the supermarket. the first time i encountered david pecker was when he arose to the head of a french media company called hachette filipacchi. at that time, they had "car and driver" and "woman's day." his most famous magazine was when he backed jfk jr. in "george" magazine. "george" is a magazine that understands that culture is more powerful than politics. the traditional lines between democrats and republicans are disappearing. the magazine they'll turn

jesse jackson comes and basically says i want the nixon to declare this area a disaster area. we need to form our n private security forces. and you see the slow marching where they're looking for. if daley and the machine and nixon administratiits cuts will not come in and help us, then we need to be taking munity control. and it leads to these various private relathi in throughout the decade. and i would say administration in the 1980s. and so in these different sort of politicians are being pulledppening in different communities and they're saying like a langford of the third district of the third ward excuse me, civil rights lawyer and famously anti anti daley, huge reform. she's saying, oh, look at what's happeningn. legislate fashion and policy that i propose on the cityd we see this continue throughout the 1970s, into the 1980s with the washington administration and where he basically, once again not like development to happen give the their own say and let them be able to function in terms how they think this money should but at this time it's all kind of private publi

jesse jackson was a student leader that emerged in this era."we are the leaders that we've been looking for" is that's how the leaders we look up to became the leaders. >> oftentimes, what happens with prophets and heros, they become larger than life, doc. >> yeah. >> we think that they have qualities that are beyond us. so then what we do is we follow them. when we follow them, we give up the hard work of working on ourselves. we don't see, joe, that king exhibited a courage that's in me. that this person revealed character that i'm capable of demonstrating in my own life. instead, we have this nostalgic longer. if only we had fdr today. if only we had dr. king today. no, we need you. part of the challenge is to rid ourselves from engaging in sup supplecation, from being fans in the pews to pastors. this is a radical call for everyday, ordinary people to take control of this democracy and to disrupt a style of leadership in which we give over our power to folk. to understand that we, in fact, have the power. >> and we expect too much from them

you have got jesse jackson. you have got weiner. there's all kinds of -- president kennedy with marilyn monroe. all of these politicians, he says he's not qualified and yet you have all of these other politicians doing the same thing. i want to know what you think about that. i will take your answer online. host: sure. guest: i will do this quickly, because i think we should move on, but there is a difference between consensual sex that happened and what happened with donald trump and e. jean carroll, where it was determined that he raped her. host: sexual abuse. guest: right, it was described as rape under the law in new york. we know what is happening in new york right now. from she did on his wife, who had a young you are a child at home, paid off, you know, had an adulterous affair with stormy daniels and then now is trying to cover it up in the election of 2016. my basic points, though, any leader who have been indicted 88 times for felonies, who had been found guilty of sexual or rate, who had already been found to have commit

msnbc, i do not know if people are aware, but president trump was one of the major funders of jesse jackson'sampaign when he ran for president. and who forced a vaccine on you, trump or biden? did many of my fellow americans lose their jobs because of president trump? no, they lost their jobs because a dictator west demanding you have a vaccine -- because you had a dictator that was demanding a vaccine. i and 2017, he funded historically black colleges forever, not that they had to come back every year and ask for funding. he did this in 20, not a campaign year. biden suddenly is tanking in the polls a little bit with the black community, because, guess what, the money we told them they did not have for the community centers, suddenly they all have this money for the immigrants, because you guys are being replaced. your vote is being replaced. please wake up, america. host: all right. bruce in colorado springs, independent. who are you voting for in november? caller: i am going to be voting for president biden. personally, myself, some of these things i have been hearing about blacks, because

he was killed before he could get to washington with it. 20 years later, jesse jackson tried to do itlacks have your jobs or immigrants or latinos or women, rather than seeing a common need to come together against those that exploit and exclude all of us. >> 100%. i thought about dr. king so much while writing this book. dr. king appealed to the common humanity in all americans. and by doing so, he was able to bring the nation along to a place that maybe we weren't at the time. right now you have a situation where the elites foment that division exactly like you say, because they get a lot of power out of doing that when the truth is that 70% of americans who are working class and middle class agree on the issues. they agree on affordable, dignified health care. the first party to get to that place of strong immigration control and expanded health care access is going to have a ruling majority, i believe. >> i think the issue that immigration really highlights is, like protests regarding what's going on in israel, like inflation, it is also a proxy for things seeming out of control a

so jq jackson c, smith university and noted act was journalist trevor w anderson reuid jesse as u undergraduate student leader hawkins to lead a group in picketing agaie charlotte post office for discriminatory hiring practices in 1943. right. so he atnd primary and high school education c smith in a very city in the 1920s. trevor anderson he then becomes a journalist and activist and he works for the post office. a means discrimination. he also when he was a student and after he was a student he would use newspaper black newspapers to criticize the administration of the issue. and sometimes we do it anonymously right. so it also speaks to the fact that even if you graduate right if even if you're no longer a part of the university, you still feel duty to it. right? and a duty to having the best environment, the best people in charge. right. and part of the response of the administration to them, criticizing them was to try to repress, repress that kind of criticism. right. so, again, part of at campus hbcu is activism on campus against administrators, against teac right. at the same sometimes

jess smith delivered the news with robin roberts. the news squad getting support from the warriors steve kerr, kevon looney, tracy jackson davis all wearings from the norse mythology, so you can see the synergy between the nba and wnba teams. so smith explained the process of coming up with the team name earlier this week on abc seven's getting answers. >> we needed to get it right. it needed to be something that was authentic and that really represented the bay area well. and from day one, we wanted to make sure we were listening to fan input. to me, this brand and this organization really represents leaning into who the bay area is. and this is a place where, you know, we lead the world. and being both progressive and innovative, we make the impossible possible. and i know that this brand is going to be a connector of our community and a fun one at that. >> can't wait for the valkyries to arrive on the wnba scene in a game. abc seven sports sponsored by river rock casino dion i am looking forward to that. >> chris. thank you. and a reminder that you can watch all of our newscasts live and on demand through the abc seven bay area connect

jess smith delivering the news with robin roberts of gma. now the new squad getting some support from the golden state warriors. as you see steve kerr, kevon looney, trace jacksont familiar, are female warriors from norse mythology. so the name makes even more sense given the men's team name is the warriors. smith explained the thought behind the name valkyries on our 3 p.m. show, getting answers. >> we needed to get it right. it needed to be something that was authentic and that really represented the bay area well. and from day one, we wanted to make sure we were listening to fan input. i think the beautiful part about it is valkyries work together. you know, and we're very, very aware of the fact that our fans, our community, you know, and everything we get a chance to represent will have to move as one to find our success. to me, this brand and this organization really represents leaning into who the bay area is. and this is a place where, you know, we lead the world in being both progressive and innovative. we make the impossible possible. and i know that this brand is going to be a connector of our community, and a fun one at that. >> meanwhile, ncaa star