all working together to bury jim crow. today, the city of washington takes notice.eel america --mahalia jackson --a. philip , roy wilkins, reverend king, received the keys to the city. this day has been coming a long time. operations have been going on for months all over the south. in the big cities of north, just about all over the country. you might say this date has been 300 years in coming ever since the first black woman taught her child this is our country to. -- country too. ever since the first black man said to himself, i am going to be free, never stop working for freedom. never stop praying and hoping and fighting. ♪ [singing] ♪ >> the leaders are spreading the word around. they are explaining about the prayer print image. and putting folks -- prayer pilgrimage. inviting folks to come to washington. kilgore, directive of the grand pilgrimage. >> church leaders recognize that through the years, the church has been a citadel of hope. it has given birth to many movements come out to schools, hospitals and civil rights movements. the young knee grow church l

working together to bury jim crow. today, the city of washington takes notice. our leaders, a.ph, right wilkins, reverend king, received the kings -- the keys to the city. yes. this day has been a long time coming. operations have been going on for months all over the south. and all the big cities of north. just about all over the country. day has been this 300 years incoming, ever since the first black woman taught her too. this is our country ever since the first black man said to himself, i am going to be free, never stopped working for freedom, never stop praying and hoping and fighting. ♪ [singing] ♪ >> the leaders are spreading the word around. they're expending about the prayer pilgrimage, and letting folks to come to washington. that is rosa parks from montgomery, alabama. and reverend kilgore, director of the prayer pilgrimage. church leaders recognize that through the years, the church has been a citadel of hope area it is given birth to many movements, to schools, hospitals, and civil rights movements. the young negro church leaders and others today recognize that po

working together to bury jim crow. city of washington takes notice, our leaders received the keys to the city. yes this day has been a long time coming. preparations have been going on for months all over the south in all of the big cities of north, just about all over the country. you might say this day has been 300 years and coming. ever since the first black woman told her child, this is our country too. ever since the first black man said to himself, i am going to be free. never stopped working for freedom, never stopped praying and hoping and fighting. >> ♪ >> harry belafonte. >> all my life i believe that as an artist and human being, i cannot isolate myself from the struggles of my people. their victories are my victories and their defeats are my defeats. >> everywhere people are talking about the pilgrimage, a street rally in harlem. [ music ] >> the reverend martin luther king of montgomery alabama, cochairman of the prayer pilgrimage. [ music ] >> roy wilkins, executive secretary of the naacp, cochairman of t

with these truly a city of refuge, for many of the descendents of jim crow. isaac wondered came as the judge waring. as did many of the plaintiffs in briggs versus elliott so it is fitting that i should retrace their steps to the city, and share their story of an example of courage. as the clock struck 7 pm on august 14 19 45, president harry s truman assembled the white house press for in the oval office. the president sending behind his desk informed the reporters that earlier that afternoon, the japanese government and unconditionally surrendered, bringing an end to world war ii. reporters spontaneously burst into applause and then raced for the door, to share this historic announcement with the rest of the nation. thousands would soon gather in lafayette square across from the white house to celebrate and soon there were calls of we want truman. the president went on to the portico of the white house to make an announcement, this is a great day for the free governments of the world, he announced. this is the day that fascism ceases in the world, the great

foreign policy until we wipe out our bipartisan jim crow policy.ssman from michigan. rep. deeds: the basic lesson to be learned today is as ancient as time itself. it is that there is power in unity. if there are no restrictions on your political participation back home, and you are not exercising your voting privilege, then you do not deserve the benefits of first-class citizenship. >> co-chairman reverend martin luther king. dr. king: three years ago, the supreme court of this nation rendered in tempo eloquent and unequivocal language, a decision which will long be stenciled on the mental sheets of succeeding generations. all men of goodwill, this may 17 decision came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of human captivity. it came as a great beacon, light of hope. to millions of disinherited people throughout the world who had dared only to dream of freedom. unfortunately, this noble land's sublime decision has not gone without opposition. this opposition has often risen to ominous proportions. so our most urgent request to the president o

ellis: i read a book in graduate school titled gender and jim crow by elizabeth gillmore, a great work on race relations in the state of north carolina and in the south, and there was a chapter on the ivory tower, and there was one passage about james shepard, and that's what led me down this trail. trail. steve: so based on your research, how do you think he would view the state of race relations, generally speaking in this country in 2019? prof. ellis: i think he would look at the state of black colleges, and he would say that they are more needed today than they were even back in his heyday. the reason i say that is that by 1930, the naacp shifts its focus from human rights to civil and part of that shift was, in some ways, an attack on black education, and looking at the dual system saying these black institutions are not properly funded which means they are not properly prepared to train african-americans, which means they are getting second class education, which means that, it violates ferguson. on one hand everything they are saying is true but on the other hand it's attacking

his impact on north carolina, navr gaitigated the jim crow era. minutes.about 20 >> reginald ellis, professor at florida a&m university, let's talk about this gentleman, the politics of james edward shepard, who was he? was an individual who was born and raised of a was a prominent african-american minister in the state of north carolina, his were individuals who actually came out of the endedution of slavery and up driving, as prominent frican-americans, in the state of north carolina. r. shepard goes on to receive an advanced education at what's now charlotte university and on to also become one of the first african-american of macists in the state north carolina. shortly thereafter, he goes on his father's ootsteps, and tries out the ministry, and travels the world with the international sunday association, which leads him to his higher calling chult becomes creating the institution, that is present day north carolina central university. >> what about his role in terms historically n of black colleges and universities? >> i think that the role

the great compromise of 177 ushered in jim crow. 92 years of jim crow.out -- >> which ended in 1964. >> actually it did not end. allow me, this book, dr. king, where do we go from here, chaos or community. talked about the community. practical cost of change for the nation up to this point has been cheap. he talked in this book where he talked about how even in 1967, 90% of the laws that were passed had not even been implemented. here is the issue dealing with charles, pick ford decision, usda discriminating against african-americans, the federal government east own housing policies it, was law discriminating against african-americans. the fair housing act wasn't passed until 1968 only because king got killed. you can talk about slavery, african-americans today impacted by federal housing laws. we know most wealth in america is result of inheritance and also through housing. and so, deroy, do you deny that reality. >> been 51 years since the 68 fair housing act. half a century. you want incredible acrimony and racial strife and tension lake we've never s

it did not come out of jim crow. was born in canada, his father was cuban. >> you're changing the subject. it has nothing to do with ted cruz. >> i think there's two versions of this question. one is sort of based in racial stereotypes. does this person act like a black person is supposed to act like? >> that's not what i'm saying. >> i know. but there's another version of this question, does kamala harris care about black people, and if black people give her their votes, is she going to still care and make sure to use her authority to make sure that black people get a fair shake in a country that has historically not given them one? there are cultural distinctions, but the fact is that in america, those distinctions start to matter less because of white racism. latinos come from many different countries, but the experience of being latino in the united states is a kind of cons consolidator. going to howard, and in other ways, i think, yes, it is not unfair to make the distinction between jamaican and african-america

thomas dartmouth rice, white entertainer, created a character called jim crow in new york. >> right.in new york and also around the country, sellout audiences, performed in blackface. but the message of his character, jim crow, and the virginia minstrels created additional characters. the message was negativity. the message was black inferiority. so you had characters that were immoral, were unproductive, were lazy, were foolish. and the message that was being sent out to white audiences was, this is how black people are. and most whites at that time, because of the rigidity of jim crow segregation, had very little interaction with blacks, so this is how they found out what they were like. >> what they thought they were like. can you claim ignorance, i don't mean it in that way? what about people that are dressing as, you know, michael jackson, as they say, or someone dressing up as diana ross or whatever. can you say, hey, i didn't know, or this is a different degree, or what? >> well, certainly as part of an apology, you can say, hey, i didn't know. because it's important to have f

just tolerated by a large portion of american society, mostly white american among the earliest, jim crow, a regular character and creation of an actor named thomas dartmouth rice in the 1830s. >> you know that comes from the knock jim crow. >> reporter: it wasn't a flattering b image it resonated, so said the director of african studies the american university. >> it was the consistent andri en stereotype of african-american people, particularly as it relates to cultural and artistic behavior. >> reporter: ironically the elementsinvolved, the mask, the movements have origins in to african telling. there were even african-americans that sd 82 the elemts that were used against them. >> i told my class it's not black and white, oh, mygo it was derogatory, it was bad. yes. >> reporter: but they made those who sought to mock their culture agents to pserve their culture. >> when africans came to the stage, they brought with them sand dancing, they brought forms that would have been lost. >> reporter: still the negative connotations are so prevalent that witho context, they generate controversy

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. >> part of the legacy of slavery and jim crow in the u.s.gacy of income inequality in the u.s. what is your position on reparations to the descendants of slaves? >> well, as i just indicated, there are massive disparities that must be addressed. there is legislation that i like, introduced by congressman jim clyburn. it's called the 10-20-30 legislation. which focuses federal resources in a very significant way on distressed communities, communities that have high levels of poverty. >> so what is your position specifically on reparations? i ask the question because elizabeth warren, julianne castro, they've indicated they want -- >> what do they mean? i'm not sure that anyone's very clear. what i've just said is that i think we must do everything that we can to address the massive level of disparity that exists in this country. >> four other candidates have opened up about their case for reparations, supporting at the very least a discussion. here's what some of them have said. >> what i do find challenging is the best way to do that. how to

we fought jim crow with the civil rights act and the voting rights act. yet, we continue to confront racism from our past and in our present, which is why we must hold everyone from the highest offices to our own families accountable for racist words and deeds and call racism what it is -- wrong. america achieves a measure of reproductive justice in roe v. wade, but we must never forget, it is immoral to allow politicians to harm women and families to advance a political agenda. we affirmed mainly equality, and yet the lgbtq community remains under attack. so even as i am very disappointed by the president's approach to our problems, i his duty and nt him to fail. respect the extraordinary america.y that defines our progress has always been found in the refuge, in the instinct of the american experiment. to do right by our people. renewed commitment to social and economic justice we create a stronger america together. because america wins by fighting values against all enemies. domestic.d that is who we are, and when we state never wavering, the of our un

i go back to the days where i wanted an end to jim crow. wanted people to have the equal access, equal rights. green book was a wonderful movie that celebrated a bronx hitter hey, come on. who has no experience with the black man going down and doing his best to, you know, as the employee of that artist defying the jim crow culture, the racist culture. sticking up for the good guy. a wonderful, wonderful story of black and white working together. but the white man was kind of the hero. the black man was the hero, also and won the academy award i should point out. the white man was the activist. he was the one that challenged and knocked the racists in the mouth. it was kind of i would assume those who don't like it, including spike lee, don't like the fact that it wasn't the guy in the backseat that was popping the bad guy in the mouth. >> martha: quick last thought, richard on the big picture on when all of this started and i don't want to relitigate trayvon martin we have done that a lot. but, you know, just in terms of when it started. i

as well as jim crow america, and all of these things are precursors to the rise to power in 1933, so what you see is all the preconditions that are foundational to america in the interwar period that will shape our early responses to -ism. one of the myths that we wanted to bust in this exhibition was the idea that americans didn't have information about the threat of -ism in the 1930s and 1940s. later on in the exhibition you will even see the americans had a good deal of information about the murder of as it was happening. early on, americans are very interested in the rise of this new world leader adolf hitler, so what we show here is a number of magazines from 1932, 1933, 1934 at the beginning of the regime where you see hitler on the cover of vanity fair and time and newsweek. this one is particularly fascinating, this is joseph goebbels on the cover of time magazine july 10, 1933 and there is a 3000 word article in this magazine coveringgermany and what you see even on the cover under the words minister of propaganda goebbels is say it in your dreams, the are to blame. american

his impact on north carolina, and how he navr gaitedigated the jim crow era. this is about 20 minutes. >> reginald ellis, professor at florida a&m university, let's talk about this gentleman, the racial politics of james edward shepard, who was he? >> dr. shepard was an individual who was born and raised of a near who was a prominent african-american minister in the state of north carolina his parents were individuals who actually came out of the institution of slavery and ended up driving, as prominent african-americans, in the state of north carolina. dr. shepard goes on to receive an advanc

jim crow was a namesake for krim joe laws apt the measures that enforced segregation in the south.r black face in part to make white audiences feel superior. civil rights organizations have pointed out for decades that blackface dehumanizes black people and reinforces very harmful racial stereotypes. dwandalyn reece is curator of music and performing arts at the national museum of a can american history and culture in washington and joins us at the table to discuss. we had such a spirited conversation in the makeup room this morning so i'm so glad you're here. >> thank you. >> why don't you start us off by letting people know why this is so offensive because i have so many white friends who say i don't understand it. i meant no harm. i admire diana ross, as attorney general said curtis blow and i was really trying to pay a compliment. >> well, part of it is understanding the history of blackface and the inception which started in the mid-1800s, and what it was -- it was white performers blacking up their face and caricatures african-americans, looking hat them as lazy, unintelligen

billy clubs and dogs and fire hoses and they took down jim crow.hey are folks like the great new jersey and alice paul. she loves this country so much that she demanded it live up to its promise. she was a first person ever arrested in front of the white house because she refused to let people in power undermine the of the people, the rights of women. i believe in these values and i put them before the american people. and it, i know my country. i know the goodness and decency across the land. my family, i'm in new jersey because of that decency of white families who would not let my parents be denied housing because of the color of their skin. that's the kind of patriotism in the kind of love my family is experiencing. i put my faith in that message. >> dana: you are listening to senator cory booker, announcing that he is going to run for president in 2,020 on a democratic ticket. chris steigerwald is a politics editor, and you are watching that with me. i wondered what you thought about the scene. everyone that has jumped into the race so far has

washington's idea is, he's fighting jim crow, fighting disfranchisement, bringing multiple court suits secretly, but at the same time, very publicly pushing for self-help, property rights, entrepreneurship and in great part because washington we are able to build up a lack middle- class, black business class, and they are able to provide a foundation for civil rights. also coming out of that middle class, we have mutual aid organizations, they provide leadership skills, to later activists. without washington building that economic structure, that ultimately really, you know manifests itself in a civil rights movement in the 50s and 60s, and even earlier, i don't know that we would have had a modern civil rights movement. a key figure in that movement, a key example of this is somebody that was an enabler of civil rights, successful entrepreneur, ag gaston of alabama, born in poverty, he was a very resourceful man, he worked in a coal mine, at the bottom of the ladder economically. he is able to come up with ways to sell lunches to people there, who need lunches, they need good lunches.

tiffany gill talks about the green book, a travel guide for african americans produced during the jim crow era. first published in the 1930s, the books listed businesses around the country that accepted african american customers, when so many hotels, restaurants and other travel destinations would refuse to serve them. this 15-minute interview was recorded at the american historical association annual meeting in chicago. tiffany gill is a professor of history and african-american studies at the university of delaware. let's go back to post-world war ii america. what was it like for african americans to travel in the u.s. and around the world? prof. gill: it was a really challenging time. african americans knew what they they would -- what face when they traveled domestically. whether there was a law that would prevent them from going to certain places of business, whether it was trying to find something to eat while they were on the road and being denied service. if you were driving and your car rent out of gas and you were in a community hostile to african-americans, what would you do th

probably the capstone of that story is jim crow and the discrimination of jim crow, it finally leads to brown versus board of education. it is perceived as this supreme court decision that happily brings to the end this unfortunate chapter. there's nothing wrng with this story. it turns out to be true. the problem with the story and by focusing on that story exclusively is we missed out on the point that there have been times in american history where it has been the state court judges and state constitutions that have saved the day. there have been several time ns american history where the goat and villain has been the u.s. supreme court. it is one point here to tell all of the relevant stories when it comes to constitutional law in this country. it is quite misleading and dangerous to think exclusively of one constitution, the u.s. supreme court as our rights protector. if you rely to reprotect your rights you will be dus appointed. it will happen in the future. so my whole point is we want to take care of both sides of the story, state courts and federal courts. as a federal judg

and saying that wilson brought jim crow practices to the federal government.discuss te change at the school at 7:00. everyone is invited. reporting live in northwest, drew wilder, news 4. >> drew, thank ppyou. >>> g news your health, a look at theh mental hea of american's children. a study from the university of michig16 suggests of all kids in this country have at least one mental disorder. it suggests that only half of those children are getting the right treatment. >>> for the first time in 25 years, the food and drug administration is planning to et crack down on y supplements. the fda says the companies that make the supplements that many of us take mislead us. s 17 companies that claim products prevent or treat alzheimer's disease, cancer and diabetes, have already been sued. the fda says there's no scientific evidence to back up any of ty claims. rougree-quarters of americans take a supplement on a daily basis. >>> chuck is backith us. for us, it's been rain in the city. >> we need weather supplement. >> even just a couple of days. >> or hours, even. >

we are looking at almost 100 years of jim crow, legalized segregation, and de facto segregation on so many levels that exists today. there has not been any kind of intervention done. >> martha: julian castro and elizabeth warren support the idea of some form of reparations for slavery if they are elected. >> we compensate people if we take their property. shouldn't we compensate people if they were property, sanctioned by the state? >> we need to confront it head on and we need to talk about the right way to address it. >> martha: this is a far cry from the way president obama talked about this issue, and 2016 he said this. if it's hard to think of any society in which a majority population has said as a consequence of historical wrongs, we are now going to take back a big chunk of the nation's resources or for a long period of time to make that right. good to have you here tonight. why is this conversation coming back into the discussion? why are all of these candidates being asked if they are in favor of reparations for slavery? >> it's part of a longer conversation about race in am

it went into the jim crow area. same thing. the reason that barnett becomes famous is because she sees these brothers who own a store in tennessee and then the store is doing well in the black community. the white store owner who is treated horribly gets upset and trumps up the charges, go after the black store owners say there is a rape involved and there is not. and the next thing you know, we defend our selfs and there is a slaughter and when these men who own the grocery store is put in jail, the jail attacked them and they are lynched. so this is an ongoing -- we are fighting for economic development. and the last point that i will make is this. the boycott is a tool that we used. economic boycott that we used to say if you're not going to serve us or treat us fairly, if you're not going to hire us, we're not going to buy your merchandise. and unfortunately this case went to the -- these cases went to the u.s. supreme court and the supreme court ruled against the naacp use of a boycott. when we talk about the broader case

"the negro motorist green book" -- a travel guide that helped african americans safely navigate jim crow america. we will look at a remarkable new documentary that tells the true story. >> very bad d things happen to african-americans going down a dark, country road. there was a sense of apprehenension. you u could actually be lynched. >> the real story behind the book. >> it was a way to understand how you could get there safely. amy: "the green book: guide to freedom" details the violence, the screw nation black travelers faced on the road as well as the pride and sense of community they felt in the safe spaces they created around the country in the form of restaurants, hotels, and vacation retreats. we will speak with the director, yoruba richen. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war andd peace report. i'm amy goodman. the north carolina state board of elections has thrown out the results of november's congressional race in the 9th district and ordered a new primary election after more evidence came to light of a republican effort to tamper

did, major earch i row, major jim crow, henry p. jungle jim crow, was down on the sea wall and he was concerned an ammo dump.be what it turned out to be was a generator room so this housed generator and there were up t 150 japanese holed inside. many injured. there were two openings, you can facing ing east and south. and there were machine gun positions set up there before final assault. 1,100 american forces and approximately 5,000 japanese 76 hours. none of them were able to be buried for the most part. few who died, while under medical care, were buried at sea. afterwards, they had to get them in the ground pretty quickly. ou see these construction battalions dug these trenches, and they did get the marines best n and they did their actually to record who was buried where. the chaos, the second marine division was gone, the days later those were people who knew where the body were buried, so to speak, and constructionof the of the airfield a lot of those markers were lost, 1949 and -- 1946, they went back and had recoveredthey a

she talks about the green book, a travel guide for african-americans produced during the jim crow era. >> tiffany gill is a professor of history and african-american studies at the university of delaware. let's go back to post-world war ii america. what was it like for african americans to travel in the u.s. and around the world? prof. gill: it was a really experience for african americans. african americans knew what they would face when they traveled domestically. whether there was a law that would prevent them from going to certain places of business, whether it was trying to find something to eat while they were on the road and being denied service. for example if you were driving , and your car rent out of gas and you were in a community hostile to african-americans, what would you do then. there was a great deal of uncertainty even as air travel becomes more popular. african-americans begin traveling globally how would you , be treated in an airport? what would be seating pattern be on an airplane? african-americans were seeing large groups wanting to hit the road. the post-worl

tiffany gill talks about the green book, a travel guide for african-americans produced during the jim crow era pert first published in the 1930s. the book listed businesses across the country that accepted african-american customers when so many hotels and restaurants and other destinations refused to serve them . this 15 minute interview was recorded at the american historical association meeting in chicago. >>> tiffany gill is a professor of history and african studies at the university of delaware. let's go back to post-world war ii america, 1945, 1946, what was it like for african- americans to travel in the u.s. and around the world? >> it was a really challenging experience for african- americans built with a lot of uncertainty. they never knew what they would face when they were traveling domestically. whether it was through segregation patterns in the south with laws that prohibited them from going to certain places of business, whether he was trying to find something to eat while they were on the road and being denied service. also we have for example if you were driving in your c

the legacy of slavery, racism and jim crow has been an a painful history and piercing reminder of this nation's sins. those who would excuse the pictures are just as culpable. the democratic leader in the virginia state senate expressed support for governor northam saying in part while the photo is in quote very poor taste, i would think no one in the general assembly who liked their college conduct examined. i would hate to have to go back and examine my two years in the army. trust me, i was 18 years old and i was a hand full, okay? he said the governor northa m's life since the picture is the opposite from what you seen in the yearbook. it's been a life of helping people and many times for free. a different take from the virginia "richmond times" is calling for governor northam to step down. it's a revelation of his photo from medical school with a man in black face dressed next to a person dressed in ku klux klan clothes. we all act foolishly in our youth but a college graduate studying to be a physician in a state with a troubled racial history should know better to reduce that hi

but help our viewers to understand the history, this goes back to minstrel shows, back to the jim crow south, things that many people hoped were in the past, but, no, are not. >> so when it comes to blackface, it is about making a mockery of black people, making us like a character, a cartoon if you will. it is not funny. it is very racist. since the time we were brought here, we have always been viewed as second class, never having first class status. in the eyes of many, particularly racist america. and when they dress us up in blackface or dress up -- they dress themselves up in blackface, mimickingo us who wat to be taken seriously who want to have first class citizenship, it demeans us, degrades us. this nation was built on the backs of slaves, free labor, and then to make a mockery of us. it is a very, very ugly, very ignorant, racist gesture. it is, like, all we're doing is just laughing and hee hee'ing. some of those things you see with people eating watermelon. it is just not -- it is not a good depiction of who we are as people, who we have been for this nation, the united st

jim crow was commonplace, that doesn't make it right. and so too if blackface was commonplace in 1984, that doesn't make it right. northam should have known better. >> the fact he won't leave, as i said there's only two people technically that haven't caed for his regn t current lieutenant ic it's unde would be directly benefit, so he's been hesitant to fully for the resignation. what other ways are there to get him out of l, that's up to the legislators, but i believe that they can impeach him. and i think that that is a perfect example of extending the pain. if he was sincere at all, he would recognize the pain that he has caused. but the way he described 1984, i mean that is just so not true. 1984 was a time of great hope. we were hopeful that we would have the first black president. that was in the middle of jessie jackson's campaign in the middle of the anti-aparthide movement. so he's basically shown he's not honest. he needs to resign. and if he has any way he could regain his integrity, he should resignnd begin the conversation.

generation knew that if we came together, blacks and whites, christmas and jews we could up end jim crow. there's no republican or democratic way to get there. you definitely don't get there by fighting each other. beating each other day and dividing people against themselves. we did those things because we found our common ground. now, this is not easy. it's the tough work of building a great community or what king called the beloved community. it's hard to do that. it's about time we get to the hard work of building this nation, to be who we want us to be, our best values, our best ideals, the best of who we are. we need leadership in this country that understands what patriotism means and patriotism is love of country and you can't love your country unless you love your fellow countrymen and women. doesn't mean will always agree or some days we'll always like each other but we got to extend each other grace, less judgment and more hard work to find common ground to do the things that other people on the planet earth don't think we can do. we're a nation that leads and we've got to get

humiliate enslaved blacks the war ended slavery but not blackface but john was most popular character jim crow became the symbol of racial segregation that continued into the one nine hundred fifty s. and now these photos tied to virginia's current political leaders connect that racism to the present there's always necessarily been a belief that black people were inferior to justify slavery and segregation and sue and sue i don't want to say excuse but explain why they are lower in society in terms of income and education and so when you put on black face you're essentially making a caricature of someone that you think is lesser than you governor ralph northam continues to resist calls to resign he's wavered on whether it's him in the photo from his college yearbook but says he did wear black face on another occasion i look back now and regret that i did not understand the harmful legacy of an action like that virginia's attorney general admitted this week he also wore black face in the eighty's in the. senate majority leader edited a college yearbook with these photos of fellow virginia milit

my parent generation knew if we came together, black and american and jew, we can up jim crow. there is no republican or democratic way to get there. you definitely don't get there by fighting each other and beating each other down, dividing people against themselves. we do those things because we found our common ground. now this is not easy. it is a tough work of building a great community or what king called the beloved community. it is hard to do that. it is about time we get to the hard work of building this nation, be who we want us to be. our best values, our best ideas and the best of who we are. we need leadership in this country that understands what patriotism means. it is love for your country, you can't love your country unless you love your men and women. we got to extend each other's grace and less judgment and more hard work to find common ground and do things that other people on the planet earth don't think we can do. we are a nation that leads, we got to get back to doing that together. i am happy to answer any questions you all want. i am grateful, seriously

among the earliest, jim crow, a regular character and creation of an actor named thomas s.rtmouth rice in the 1830 >> you know that comes from the knock jim. cr >> reporter: it wasn't a flattering image but it resonate so sai the director of african studies the american university. >> it was the consistent and during stereotype of african-american people, particularly as it relates to cultural and artistic behavior. >> reporter: ironically the elents involved, the mask, the movements have origins in african story telling. therriwere even n-americans that sd 82 the >>ements that were used against them. told my class it's not black and white, oh, my god, it was derogatory, it was bad. yes. >> reporter: but they made those who sought toock their culture agents to preserve their culture. >> when africans came to the stage, they brought with them sandantsng, they brought forms that would have been lost. >> reporter: still the negative connotations are so prevalent that without context, they genete controvers one place where you can find images like that these days are places like this, the

the legacy of slavery, racism and jim crow has been an albatross around the necks of african-americans for over 400 years. these pictures rip off the scabs of an excruciately painful history and are a reminder of this nation's sins. the democratic leader in the virginia state senate expressed support for governor northam tonight, saying in part that while the photo is, quote, very poor taste, i would think no one in the general assembly who would like their college conduct examined. i would hate to have to go back and examine my two years in the army. trust me, i was 18 years old and i was a handful, okay? he said that governor northam's life since that picture has been the opposite of what you see in that yearbook. quote, it's been a life of helping people and many times for free. a very different take tonight from the newspaper in virginia's capital city. the richmond times dispatch has just published an editorial call for governor northam to step down. it is the revolution of a photo from his medical school yearbook page showing a man in blackface standing next to someone dressed in

humiliate enslaved blacks the war ended slavery but not blackface but john was most popular character jim crow became the symbol of racial segregation that continued into the one nine hundred fifty s. and now these photos tied to virginia's current political leaders connect that racism to the present there's always necessarily been a belief that black people were inferior to justify slavery and segregation and to and to i don't want to say excuse but explain why they are lower in society in terms of income and education and so when you put on black face you're essentially making a caricature of someone that you think is lesser then you governor ralph northam continues to resist calls to resign he's wavered on whether it's him in the photo from his college yearbook but says he did wear black face on another occasion i look back now and regret that i did not understand the harmful legacy of an action like that virginia's attorney general admitted this week he also wore black face in the eighty's in the states. senate majority leader edited a college yearbook with these photos of fellow virginia

i gave him a book, which michelle alexander -- >> new jim crow. >> and asked him to please at least read most fact-based books evidence about our bias systems. so i felt it was honorable that he would come and sit with me and listen with me one on one. i'm a prisoner of hope always but ready and poised to keep fighting the trump justice department as they continue to do attacks on voting rights or failure to defend rights and you name it. >> i have something else i want to ask you about which i never heard you talk about and i have no idea what you think. will you stay for one more segment. >> absolutely. >> senator cory booker will be back with us. stay with us. cory booker will e back with us stay with us there's brushing...and there's oral-b power brushing. oral-b just cleans better. even my hygienist said going electric could lead to way cleaner teeth. and unlike sonicare, oral-b is the first electric toothbrush brand accepted by the ada. oral-b. brush like a pro. if your moderate to severeor crohn's symptoms are holding you back, and your current treatment hasn't worked well enough