julian bond's grandfather was born a slave. two years after he was born the emancipation proclamation was issued and james bond, as his name was -- [laughter] >> made it to college. andfather was an academic president of a college in pennsylvania. school up at a quaker which was obviously an integrated quaker school. graduated, the family moved to atlanta which he tells me was for him a terrifying experience because of all that he had heard that happens to african-americans. he started at morehouse college and in 1960 was a cofounder of the student nonviolent coordinating committee, which is one of the majors for those of you are not old enough to older history, one of the major activist organizations of -- to know your history, one of the major activist organizations of the day. the legislature was read on -- ran grown -- redrawn and he and won. the assembly of the state of onrgia declined to seat him the grounds that he had endorsed the position against the war in vietnam and indicated that people who tried to evade the draft,

eleanor holmes norton, when did you first meet julian bond? when i was a law student and i came to atlanta to become a part of sncc , on my way to mississippi. he was one of the leaders and founder of sncc. sncc had just been founded the year before. when ella baker, the great seer and godmother of the civil rights movement, suggested that students get together so they could have a real student organization. and julian was a multitalented member of sncc. he was its spokesman, it's writer. he was one of its major leaders. he was often the one most often heard from, except who happened to be chairman at the time. amy: what were you must struck by with julian in those early years? and then, history jeffrey of issues -- trajectory of issues to the decades as you begin the congress member, the delegate to congress representing the district of columbia. you worked together near the end of his life, is that right? >> to the very end, until just a few months ago when he and i had an intergenerational forum with leaders from ferguson and new york after

tell me about that day for julian bond. >> it was a magic day. i was not in selma on that day. but i was here in atlantaa, and. hearing about them by telephone. my job was to publicize to organize a student committee and let the people in the field know what was going on and to summon them to do something about it. >> in the sense, you were a forerunner to twitter? you were sending out the news that? >> you could say i was an early twitterer. >> the first tweeter of the era. tell me. let's talk about that. now, with ferguson, with timir rice in cleveland, with what we saw of the horror of those fraternity brothers on the bus. how important are images, video telling the story? >> they are enormously important because they do show to a looking public what's going on, what people are doing, what's happening here in ways that you couldn't show them before. you could show photograph pictures of things but it would take a couple of days to get them out. but today, bam, bam, bam. whatever you want to see, you can see. >> so the selma march, the fact that the images went worldwide, how

. >> ali velshi on target weeknights 10:30p et >>> civil rights leader, julian bond. >> here are these ordinary people, innocent people doing nothing at all, walking down the street, bam, bam, bam, please policemen jump upon them, beat them, in this hor inc. way. >> as the 50th anniversary of the voting rights march from selma to montgomery and bloody sunday was, protesters across the country today are calling for an end to what they say is rachel discrimination in the u.s. criminal justice system. >> they would say we are going to knock on doors, being a machine yelling and screaming and making noise. >> another testament that there is more work to be done, video of racist chants sung by university of oklahoma fraternity brothers. >> where does this ugliness come from? it's scary to me that these young men who you expect more from or i expect more from. >> the tea party is not helping the country become post rachel either. bond says they are racist. >> they are wrong headed people doing wrong-headed thing, but i wouldn't compare them to the ku klux klan. >> the oeshl activist expresse

an area known for thick fog, alex. >> kelly, thanks so much. >>> leading civil rights activist julian bond has died. he was 75 years old. bond's death was announced by the poverty law center. he was the co-founder back in 1971. he was a true champion, joy, for the rights of all. >> yeah. absolutely, alex. civil rights leaders are paying their respects to julian bond today. the naacp, the reverend jesse jackson and former attorney general eric holder, among those remembering the civil rights leader's legacy. julian bond first came to national prominence with snicc, emerging to a national movement. it moved towards militancy in the 1960s. here's how bond described the organization's change. >> we appeal to what they thought was a conscience in this country, and found it couldn't be appealed, that the whole movement tried to appeal to that conscience and got no response. and now they're interested through their rhetoric and their public pronouncements, and militantizing, if that's a word, militantizing the population in this country. >> he went on to local politics in georgia. he was elected

we can talk about julian bond. does the day's movement need a joys that is that strong powerful and charismatic. >> the interesting thing about it is we don't know. >> i totally agree with you on that. >> yes. it's true. no one knows, the reality is no one knew that julian bond was going to be july yand bond in 1965ing and no one knows who the leaders today will look like 25 years in the future. an exciting and anxious parts about this era of activism is what it will look like in retrospect. we don't know what kind of leaders will be needed or if the perception will have to change. >> is it okay to who is the next julian bond. we have the conversation all the time. is it okay that the next person be that person as an individual, not the next julian bond be who you are, that leader, in that skin? >> yes. it's been 12 years, weigh say who is the next jordan. >> there doesn't need to be another julian bond. there needs to be someone else that recognises the different ways you can be active. it would be great if the ne

jowlian bond -- julian bond was at the center of the nonviolent student protests back in the 1960's. he also was a chairman of the naacp for 11 years. social media right now exploding with people remembering bond and what he has done for their lives. in fact, a sweet that we just saw posted by cornell brooks, the. of the naacp says that he, his life and legacy of julian bond is an example yet speak to the present and future of the naacp and the nation. bond died last night in florida. he leaves behind his wife and five children. we're live in midtown this morning, i'm kristin thorne, channel 7 eyewitness news. thank you, kristin. >>> we're also following breaking news in indonesia where officials have suspended until tomorrow morning. this is a picture now of the date. the twin turbo prop plane was carrying 54 people when it lost contact with ground control. it happened a little more than a half-hour after taking off in province. officials say there was heavy rain and strong wind and also fog in the area at the time. >>> six people remain in the hospital this morning after a deadly cr

tributes pour in for julian bond that died this weekend. president obama said julian bond was a hero and i'm privilegeed to say a friend. he helped change the country for the better and what better way to be remembered than that? a founder of snic, he was' elected at the age of 25 and three years later, the democratic national convention when his name was put in nomination for vice president. >> we wish to offer a nomination the wave of the future, it may be a symbolic nomination tonight, but it may not be symbolic four years hence. we offer a nomination with the greatest pleasure, the name of julian bond. [ applause ] >> boy, did he look good then snow was only 28. i don't think he was legal enough to be vice presidential nominee knee. julian bond went on to become chairman and remained a strong champion and in recent years spoke up in favor of same-sex marriage. here he is. >> when someone asks me are gay rights civil rights, my answer is always of course they are. gay and lesbian rights are not special rights in any way. it isn't special

i'm glad we have that model in julian bond. may he rest in peace because he gave us a lot of peace in life. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton, "hardball" starts now. >>> trump wants immigrants out of the country z that include the man you're calling an illegal immigrant, does that include the president of the united states? let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. the man has a plan for 11 million immigrants, send them all home. question, mr. trump, does that mean mr. obama, too? does he have to go back to that country you said he was from? or should we forget that? should we take seriously that you have to say, mr. trump? katy tur joins us where donald trump reported for jury duty today. you have gone to jury duty to follow donald trump. he's been released. how do you explain the crowd at the courthouse today? >> everywhere he goes he draw as big crowd. the vast majority today were reporters and whenever we see him in new hampshire or iowa or south carolina or arizona or michigan, he's alwa

julian bond passed away this weekend. he's a look back at the life and legacy of this towering figure. >>reporter: he says his moment of awakening came when he was a college student in atlanta. it was the early 60s, the civil rights moving was builting and activist sit ins were taking place at lunch counters across the street. >> a student came up to me and said have you seen this? held up a newspaper. he said don't you think we should make it happen here? >> i said what do you mean? >> he said you take this side of the drugstore and i'll take the other. we did and we started the movement. >> these young people have much ahead of them. they remind me i have to say very much of myself when i was their age thinking that i could change the world. >>reporter: he was a university professor, columnist, poet, and social commentator. through it all, known for being as down to earth as he was larger than life. julian bond helped change this country forever said president barack obama in a statement on sunday. what better way to be

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. >>> remembering julian bond with his friend harry belafonte. "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. the latest polling from the gop presidential race has a very clear message for the republican establishment and the candidates most beloved by its donor class -- go to hell. that news coming today as the embodiment of that spirit, donald trump and his retinue, descended on manhattan with the gop front-runner reporting for jury duty. trump took a limo to the courthouse, created a chaotic scene with the celebrity candidate beset by throngs of media and selfie seeking bystanders. after going through a metal detector, listing his occupation as "real estate" trump was released without getting for a trial and is free to return to the campaign trail. it was the latest surreal moment for trump who over the weekend braved the heat and masses at the iowa state fair where he worked the crowd, ate a pork chop on a stick and took kids for free rides in his $7 million held continue emblazoned with his last name. >> we have

julian bond was 75. kristen dahlgren, nbc news, new york. >>> when "nightly news" continues on this sunday, fighting isis online. how the u.s. is working to counter a powerful propaganda machine. >>> and later, why a young doctor just can't stop dancing. >>> as we've seen in recent days, the u.s. is stepping up its fight against isis in syria and iraq. but the government is also waging a more pointed battle online to counter the powerful isis propaganda machine aimed at recruiting americans and others. it's a fight the u.s. has found it can't win alone as we hear from nbc's ayman mohyeldin. >> reporter: all it took to connect with what they thought were isis militants abroad was a social media account. but as the mississippi couple prepared to joint a flight to join isis, the fbi was waiting. they are just two of the dozens of americans and thousands around the world allegedly lured to isis through its slick online realtime propaganda. >> it's no longer the case that someone who's troubled needs to find

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julian bond was 75 years old. jericka duncan, cbs news, new york. >> great man. >>> this morning donald trump ha turned talk into a plan. the billionaire presidential candidate outlined his immigration policy. he still tops republican challengers in the most recent polls but there's a big shakeup on the democratic side. mark albert shows us the shifting momentum in campaign 2016. >> reporter: donald trump is making the deportation of illegal immigrants central to his plan. he unveiled sunday the first policy spisks of his campaign. the plan also would rescind president obama's executive actions deferring some removals and automatic citizen ship for children of illegalings, build a wall on the border and get mexico to pay for it and triple the number of immigration agents. he said he would be okay to sending troops to fight isis and would not scrap the nuclear deal with iran, but he told nbc -- >> i would police that contract so tough that they don't have a chance r chance. >> reporter: trump attacked bush. it may

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julian bond was 75 years old. jericka duncan, cbs news, new york. >> glor: a surfer a attacked by a great white shark last month is back in competition. and economic waves from china to wall street, when the cbs evening news continues. >> >> glor: investors are bracing for a bumpy ride this week after china devalued its currency several times last week. here to talk about china a's big moves and what it means moving forward is jordan goodman, editor of money matters.com. >> you just got back are from two weeks in china why are they doing this right now. >> the economy is slowing down, the official growth rate is seven percent but they say it is not really that low so they try to stimulate the economy by devaluating the currency and making it cheaper to buy chinese goods, and hurt americans who are trying to sell into china. >> glor: not the first time they have been accused of manipulating the currency, they are out with this stock market plunge as welsh. >> i was at the shanghai stock exchange it went down 30 per

julian bond was 75. kristin cal grown, nbc news, new york. >> bond was a professor at american university and challenged his students to go beyond and fight for causes they believed in. >>> the woman shot guy a gacy police officer when she refused to drop a is out of the hospital and in jail. she was shot in the shoulder last weekend. they suspect she was under the influence of drugs. she was charged yesterday after being released from the hospital. the judge would not grant bond in the case. she will appear in court later this week. >>> a steward on a carnival cruise ship is charged with raping a teen enjoy in a sauna. the sheriff's office said the boy who is 16 years old. the incident happened at the valor ship out of port canave l canaveral. the teen told his father who called security. they are cooperating with the fbi and authorities and providing care to the teen. >> bad night for fairfax county's water department. first a water main broke, but then two of the trucks sent to fix it fell through the

julian bond died this weekend at the age of 75. remembered as someone who won some and lost some, handsome and funny, a hero, yes, but more importantly, a real person. the a man loved by his family and beloved by his community. and i am grateful for his life. and that does it for us tonight. rachel will be back here tomorrow. you can catch me on my own show, melissa harris perry, and can you follow us on twitter at mhp catch me on my own show weekend mornings 10:00 a.m. "first look" is up next. >>> it's tuesday, august 18th. right now on "first look," the military is mobilizing to battle wildfires that transformed landscapes into war zones at a cost of of $1 million a week. >>> the death toll rises in what's being called worst incident in thailand history. >>> zrudonald trump sets the aga with all others following his lead. >>> hillary clinton faces more e-mails. >> joe bide opinion would promise to serve only one

julian bond died in florida this weekend. tributes have been pouring in. ama called bond a hero who changed the country for the better. others called him an icon and trail blazer. >> julian bond first game to prominence as founding member of the student non violent coordinating committee. it became a national movement and moved towards militantsy in the late 60s. >> appeal to a what they thought was a conscience in the country and found it couldn't be appealed to. it wasn't responsive. that the whole movement in fact i think tried to appeal to the conscience and got no response. and now they are interested and think their rhetoric and public pronouncements and militantizing the black population in the country if that is a word. >> bond left the group and went to politics in georgia and was elected in 1965 to the georgia house of representatives. the body refused to seat him because of the opposition to the vietnam war and his support to those who resisted the draft. a u.s. supreme court decision a year later finally helped. he took on the carter administrat

honors the life of an influential leader and force of change during the civil rights movement, julian bond has died. >>> breaking news right into the newsroom right now. a single propeller plane crashed in a backyard in bristow. >> what we do know right now, virginia state police are responding to the scene. we'll bring you any updates as we get them into the newsroom. he's turn our attention to the weather, because we'll have another hot day today. but the humidity not so bad. >> not so bad. that is the silver lining, right, amelia? >> exactly, kristin. highs in the low to mid 90s. plenty of sunshine and a little bit humid. now the humidity continues to increase each day tomorrow on into tuesday. tuesday, wednesday, thursday, it's muggy. here's the latest on the satellite and radar. you can see only a few clouds inner on in neck and southern maryland. mainly sunny skies right now, and that's the case today. some high, thin clouds out there. 77 currently. dew point is 67. if we're above 65 it is feeling humid, but only two degrees above that so definitely manageable. still forecasting most

julian bond and i'm running out of names. the fact is not everybody survived those sncc days, it took a lot of people out of people. it almost destroyed some people. so julian was not only a survivor of sncc. he went on to grow the civil rights movement. sreenivasan: what are you going to miss most about him? >> i'm going to miss having a national spokesman, when something happened on our rights, to speak out for the country. there are really very few leaders like that who are nationally known, who are nationally prominent and who are nationally appreciated, across the generation. and somehow he managed not to stop serving until the end of his life. that is quite a life to have lived. >> congresswoman eleanor holmes norton. thanks for joining us. >> always a pleasure. >> sreenivasan: after two decades in business, amazon.com is the world's largest internet retailer, with a stock value that has increased ten-fold since 2008. that success is driven by a workforce motivated by data- driven managers who enforce principles laid dow

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a look at fill rights legend julian bond. washington set to pull missile batteries after a key n.a.t.o. ally >>> tens of thousands take to the streets calling for the president of brazil to resign >>> we are going to begin with tough talk from trump, outlining policies on immigration, he says illegal immigrants must go even if born in the u.s., and he will reverse president obama's executive actions on immigration. >> we have to make a new set of standards when... >> you'll split up families, deport children. >> no, we have to keep the families together. but they have to go. they have to go. >> what if they have no place to go? >> we will work with them, they have to go. we have a country or we don't. >> donald trump saying he'd put troops on the ground in iraq to fight i.s.i.l., saying he'd begin by taking the oil fields and cutsing off their commich. -- economy. >> i said this will happen, iran will take over iraq, and i.s.i.s. taking over a lot of oil in certain areas of iraq. you take away their wealth, you knock the hell

that's how we honor julian bond. be committed to change the system. >> and i also just want to remind people, you know -- and i think a lot of people would not say it is an overstatement to say he was one of those men, giants masquerading as men walking around during the civil right's movement. i mean, he walked beside john lewis. >> absolutely. with dr. king. >> with dr. king. >> yes. >> and those are relationships -- >> and roy wilkins. >> and roy wilkins. >> all of these people that he worked with, you know, not just walked with them. he worked with them to change things. and it think that we owe a great debt of gratitude to his family for giving us such a person. >> did he ever reflect on having worked with these great men and talk about -- >> oh, absolutely. you know, he was a history buff. >> mm-hmm. >> julian was a history buff. absolutely. in his speeches, if you hear -- in many of his speeches he's given, he's talked about these men and why he was so committed and dedicated to further the work. >> i want to

civil rights icon julian bond has died. a lifelong champion of equality, bond was one of the original leaders of the young activist's group the student non-violent coordinating committee where he organized protests among s segregating communities. he founded the senator poverty law center and served more than ten years in the georgia legislature. in 2014 he spoke with melissa harris-perry about the recent setbacks and voting rights in this country. >> 50 years ago we fought against these kinds of restrictions and we overcame them with the voting rights act. now the supreme court, under the leadership of the chief justice who has been opposed to voting rights since he worked for ronald reagan years and years ago, managed to eviscerate the voting rights act and the states have jumped into the battle and increased the kind of awful, awful restrictions on voters. these voter i.d. and other things and made it more difficult for americans to vote. so we're really seeing a repetition of what happened 15 years ago. >> the co-founde

everyone weighing in on julian bond's passing.nd equality was the mission that spanned his life. >> julian bond was the quintessential civil rights leader. he was an activist and an intellectual and an organizer. all at the same time. i grew up in the immediate generation behind he and john lewis and jesse jackson. so i would study them. and jesse jackson ended up mentoring me. and these were like our heroes. julian bond literally was the first african-american that was put up for a nomination of vice president of the united states in the late '60s, before i went to high school. and he was denied his seat in the georgia legislature because he opposed the war in vietnam and he ended up fighting it all the way to the supreme court. so you've got to remember, in this era where mohammad ali refused to go to war, lost his title, julian bond being unseated, it was all one thing that really impacted not only their generation, but mine and those generations to come. he was the one that became part of that symbol. he and john lewis and jac

. >>> civil rights icon julian bond is being mourned today. he died saturday in florida at 75 after a brief illness. bond played a major role in the 1960 civil rights amovement and he was the longtime leader of the naacp. >> reporter: julian bond, the grandson of a slave, did more that make a name for himself. he made history. as one of the leaders of the student nonviolent coordinating committee he worked side by side with dr. martin luther king jr. he and others spoke with "cbs evening news" anchor scott pelley on the 50th anniversary of the march on washington. >> on that day, what did you think would be achieved by the march on washington? what could be accomplished? >> in dr. king's speech and in the speeches of the other people, we had explained here are the problems we're nation. here are the reasons we're marching and protesting and sitting in. now, do something about it. >> reporter: he was elected to the georgia house of representatives in 1965 but he had to wage a supreme court bat toll be seated because of serious opposition from w

also making appearances this weekend at the iowa state fair. >>> long-time civil rights activist julian bond has died. bond died saturday night in florida after a brief illness. the tennessee native was considered an icon of the 1960s civil rights movement. he served as board chairman for the naacp for ten years. he went on to teach at american university and at the university of virginia. bond was 75 years old. >>> only if all of us could have a voice like donny simpson. the d. c. radio icon returns to the air waves tomorrow. he'll be doing afternoon drive on magic 102.3. the show will air weekdays from 3 to 7 p.m. he hosted the donny simpson morning show for 16 years before taking a break. rumor has it he's a darn good golfer too. >>> today is the last day of training camp for the redskins. roughly 7,000 fans turned out for yesterday's fan appreciation day in richmond. the team will hold another fan paresthesias day in ashburn. >>> check out a free movie on the potomac. back to the future 2 is going to be on the big screen, starts at 6 p.m. >> heat is becoming a bigger concern out west as

julian bond helped to change the country for the better, said president obama in a statement on sunday. what better way to be remembered, than that >>> loretta lynch calling bond an icon and trail blazer. julian bond was 75 >>> donald trump laying out parts of his domestic and foreign policies, his vision for immigration reform, and a look at how the other candidates spend their weekend, plus millions of americans going to bed hungry, looking at america's food deserts - it's just ahead. you're looking at fires borning in california, north of los angeles, in the san fernando valley, a massive wildfire burning through the hillside, several structures gutted. one of several across the west. kevin corriveau will be with us in a minute. first, politics. donald trump outlining immigration policy, wanting to get rid of automatic citizenship for those born in the u.s., and reverse president obama's action on immigration, making the comments on nbc's "meet the press." we have to make a new set of standards. when... >> you'll split up families, deport children. >> no, we have to keep the familie

. >>> the family of julian bond held a private funeral service at 2:00 today for the late civil rights leader and former naacp chairman. in the meantime, across the nation, hundreds of people gathered at bodies of water at exist -- at exactly the same time to spread flowers in his honor. in charlottesville, dozens of people gathered at a riverbank at a local park to place the flowers in the water for his honor and memory. >> julian bond, former chairman of the naacp dedicated his life fighting for civil rights. his impact on the university of virginia and the charlottesville community is truly and measurable. >> julian bond died last wednesday from complications of vascular disease at the age of 75. his family says that his body was cremated and ashes spread in the gulf of mexico today. >>> some 20,000 spectators watched in horror as the crash at an air show in great britain left seven people dead. we report that the military plane had several cars -- hit several cars on a busy highway and burst into flames. >> the daring stunt you are about to see is hard to watch knowing how it is en

75. >>> tributes are pouring in as we remember civil rights giant, julian bond. the southern poverty law center says he died in florida at the age of 75 on saturday night. he is considered a symbol and icon of the 1960s civil rights movement. he was on the frontlines of protests that led to landmark civil rights laws. bond shared the naacp for a decade and served in the georgia state legislature. bond was a professored a american university. he challenged students to go beyond social media activism and fight for causes of their time. >> he said, well, i don't know, the social media piece, i don't know if that's really organizing. you should be out in the streets. you should be -- what are you-all really doing? in a very gracious way, he challenged them and they said, you know, you're right. >> in april 2014, news4's chris lawrence interviewed bond in austin, texas. he was there for the anniversary of the lbj civil rights summit and questioned bond on civil rights challenges facing the country. >> one of them, for me, is segregated house. i don't think the civil r

julian bond was a hero, and i'm privileged to say a friend.tice and equality was the mission that spanned his life from his leadership of the student non-violent coordinating committee to his founding roll with the southern poverty law center to his pioneering service in the georgia legislature and the steady hand at this naacp. michelle and i have benefitted from his example, counsel and friendship, and we offer our sympathies to his wife and children. what better way to be remembered than that. here's julian bond on "meet the press", in 1966, when he was 26 years old. >> let me ask you, how else do you equate civil rights with vietnam. a lot of other civil rights groups, perhaps, for example the head ever the naacp in atlanta said you shouldn't equate the two. >> i think the vietnam war opposition is moral opposition. it's not political opposition, but people who feel that war is wrong, opposition of people who feel that that particular war is wrong on a moral ground. and i think that's the same sort of opposition that the civil rights movem