we have a conversation with ghana's king peggy, coming up. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: in 2008, peggy bartels got a telephone call that she could only assume was, -- some kind of joke or prank. working at the embassy of god in washington, her cousin had called to say that her uncle, the king of a small village in gonna, had passed away, and she had been chosen as the new king -- the king of a small village in ghana. she foun a litany of problems and political realities. remarkably, she continues in her role as a secretary and travels to ghana. there is a book called "king peggy: an american secretary, her royal destiny, and the inspiring story of how she changed an african village." peggy bartels, king peggy, a pleasure to have you on the program. >> a pleasure. tavis: i have been to about 50 or 16 african countries, an

king? let's talk about that more. >> thurman, of course, is not an activist as you might say martin was. martin was very much caught up in activity of a direct social -- from the very early stage. not that he was involved in student politics at morehouse. but morehouse was a very small operation when martin was around. it was very comfortable for him. he didn't live on campus. he lived at home. the undergraduate population at that time was something like 400. we think of the norm as 3,000, but there is a big gap between the size of us now and the size then. so there is intimacy but the home location for martin. he went to chapel every tuesday. he heard dr. mays speak on those occasions. one of his most moving experiences was hearing mordechai johnson speak but we'll leave that to one side. he would have been deeply influenced by mays but i thought the closest connection would be with thurman. there is of course the dramatic development when he was stabbed by this deranged woman and he came

i thought malcolmx was the tough guy and king was the softy. king was the easy-going guy, right? that christian love thing, which never seemed to me to be a very tough thing. but here -- >> turn the other cheek. >> turn the other cheek, right, and let someone smack you. that doesn't feel so good. it doesn't feel so good at all. but i think as you'll see in the letter, it has a lot to do with a kind of discipline, just really extraordinary. and it's something that king's followers took to heart. so project crew which gets us to birmingham is known as project c for confrontation. how would you say it went in the first couple of weeks? you're shaking your head, yeah. shea. >> well, in the first couple weeks it backfired because the chief there are took -- he used what happened in albany from the police chief prichet and prichet and he decided to do the same thing. so he didn't -- he just put them in jail just as he had done. and he didn't use any violence or anything like that. >> he didn't use any overt violence at all. and what's most amazing, i mean, you're saying now, some of th

he's the one who pushed martin luther king. everybody had to push king. he thought deeply, but he also had to be pushed. he said to bevel, you've got to be kidding me. we can't do that. we can't do that. bevel wore him down. bevel wore him down and the cameras were starting to leave. now, is that manipulative on the part of the civil rights movement? to do something that the cameras would like? what do you think about that? are they jusbl >> no, i feel like it wasn't exposure. they needed people to be interested. >> why? why do you think they needed that? >> because they needed people to realize what's actually happening in the south and, like, the impact of segregation. >> they needed people where to realize that? >> all over the country. >> all over the country. especially in the north where it was really easy to ignore. yeah? >> the other countries were getting liberated. countries in africa and asia that were become independent. >> so if they were looking into the u.s. -- >> so they were willing to play to the world to use world public -- the public o

that focused on martin luther king himself, right? what was the problem with people and king? what was going on there? he was in kind of a sophomore slump after montgomery. it was going on for some time. the success of montgomery in what year? starts in '55, when does it end? oh. it ends in late 1956. you know that. you know it. you got frozen by tv cameras being in the same room. the sophomore slump would have been '57. nothing much happened in '57. then' 58 could have been the junior slump and '59 could have been the senior slump. he missed the boat at first. what happened at the freedom ride in '61? he didn't go, right? and the young people wanted him to go and he refused. some people thought they was a little full of himself and afraid for his own personal safety. some of that stuff came about also in albany in 1962 where king would fly in and they would accuse him of flying out. the problem with being on the ground is the cameras would leave when king left. people took to calling him -- remember what they called him? the lord, right? it's not just the lord, right? it's me

but clearly, king -- ella baker said this about king and all black preachers. they were used to being in control. they were the spokesman for the community. but, you know, you ask that black preacher who really runs the church, don't make the deacons mad. you can make deacons mad, but you better not make the deaconess mad or you won't have a church. yes, king was part of sexism, and i'm sure you're not too much better. but we have the possibility of growth. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> this probably will be our last question. yes, sir. >> fortunate for me. thank you. good evening. i'd like to, again, thank morehouse college for holding this important forum. i actually visited the campus. i'm larry rivers. i teach history at augusta state university and as soon as i heard about this panel and the dynamics on it, i made plans to drive down i-20 and be a part of it, so thank you for hosting this. my question is especially for dr. jelks. dr. jelks, a number of former martin luther king, jr.s said he made a decision to one day proceed the president of morehouse co

he is a tool, represents the king, so he wants to do the king's bidding. those, not by any means all puritans, but those who feared the direction of the church of england and feared the power of the king was exercising, took control of passing a resolution after resolution against peoples. pounding of the door, and they declared those it will fully complied with the king wanted in giving taxes and other things were mes, traders to england. they adjourned the house, doors open to many of the leaders of parliament are arrested and watching it was roger williams. at this time he was a trusted messenger that members of parliament were using. the last note he carried for one of these members of parliament said, this day in parliament no man almost knowing what to do, the destruction was so sudden and great, he whose heart bleeds not at the threats of these times is so stupid. i pray god send us comfort and with all to be armed for the worst to befall us. the particular is were to have an eyewitness to report. with that witness roger williams . now, cook had

>> i'm a very good king. i'm very good king. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: so choosing your leader by pouring schnapps on the ground seems like a fairly effective electoral system. do you think we can use that in the united states? would you team will? because... >> well, we're talking about two different cultures. >> stephen: though we drink a fair amount of schnapps over here, too. >> this isn't pepper meant schnappss. this is real. >> stephen: what is that like? >> it tastes wonderful. >> stephen: does it taste wonderful right away or after? (laughter) >>p (cheers and applause) >> stephen: t

clearly king -- ella baker said this about king and all black preachers. they were used to being in control. they were the spokesman for the community. you know, you ask every black preacher who really runs a church and they will tell you, don't make the deaconess mad. you can make the deacon mad but you better not make the deaconess mad or you won't have a church. there is a give and take going on there. king was part of his generation sexist. if i watch rap music, it ain't too much better. we have the possibility of growth. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> this is probably our last question. yes, sir. >> fortunate for me. thank you. good evening. i would like to thank morehouse college for holding this important forum. i'm a visitor to campus. i'm larry rivers. i teach at augusta state university. as soon as i heard about the panel and the dynamic scholars on it, i made plans to drive down i-20 to be a part of it. my question is for dr. jelks. a number of the former members of martin luther king jr.'s inner circle, particularly reverend jesse jackson and j

>> i'm a very good king. i'm very good king. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: so choosing your leader by pouring schnapps on the ground seems like a fairly effective electoral system. do you think we can use that in the united states? would you team will? because... >> well, we're talking about two different cultures. >> stephen: though we drink a fair amount of schnapps over here, too. >> this isn't pepper meant schnappss. this is real. >> stephen: what is that like? >> it tastes wonderful. >> stephen: does it taste wonderful right away or after? (laughter) >> stepp (cheers and applause) >> stephen: that's it for the captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org (male announcer) coming up on the season finale of milf island, holy hot mamas! but who will be the final mommy that you'd like to--

i didn't know that king thought like this. my citing tension as the part of the non-violent resister may sound rather shocking, but i must confess that i am not afraid of the word tension. this is a theory of social change that i hope you get to talk about in your philosophy class because people have lots of ideas about what makes change, and most of us would rather think that change happens kind of easily, and that people kind of wake up, and they have new ideas and they change. and they decide that it's time for women to have the vote, or it's time for african-americans to get the vote or be able to buy houses in white habds, or for gays and lesbians to marry, and then they change the laws. no. this is not the way social change happens. in the united states or any other place. it happens because people are willing to do what king is talking about in this letter. create tension. force negotiation. move people out of their comfort zone. insist that they negotiate things that previously they ignored. and you know when you creat

it starts with king james. james was baptized, catholic mass to catholic parents, his father was assassinated and his mother married the queen of scots but was forced to abdicate the crown to him when he was 13 months old. he became king of scotland at age 13 months. all his life he had this sense just like an infant you to grab something he could take it. it was his. nobody ever told him know in his life. scottish lords took him from his mother and raised him protestant. at age 37 he became the king of england as well as scotland and he took to england the political views. the best thing you can say about him was his personal motto. blessed be the peacemakers. despite the repeated assassination attempts by catholics, often with links to spain, state-sponsored religious terrorism, on queen elizabeth, and there was an attempt on his life to blow up parliament when he was in it by catholics he nonetheless tried to build bridges between catholics and protestants. for one thing he made peace with spain and married

king on the morehouse campus? >> i think mays absolutely saw king as a spiritual son. i think he hoped that someone of king's statue would be able to succeed him. he had a trustee board and we don't know what they thought. he certainly hoped that martin -- say had the montgomery movement stopped right there. martin would have been the perfect candidate to become president of morehouse college.

preston king. i will introduce each one of them before they give their brief introductory remarks, so i want to introduce dr. randall first, and then we will hear from him and at the end of his introductory remarks, we'll go on to dr. luther smith and preston king. randall is an associate pre foes sore of american studies with a joint appointment in african and african american studies at university of kansas. professor holds courtesy appointments in history, religious studies and the co-editor of the journal of american studies. he is a graduate of the university of michigan, with undergraduate degree in history. mccormick theological seminary masters divine tee and ph d in history. ordained clergy in the presbyterian church of the usa. he has published scholarly and journalistic articles in the areas of african american religious history, civil rights history, and urban and african as far as the history as well there. he is also published an award-winning book entitled "african americans in the f

as a king, is he also involved in shady business dealings? when the queen visited the united states she was accompanied by a tabloid. that was nooincidence >> the press never writes about the king's business dealings. the dangerous thing is that they report on his amarous adventures but object short comings that are far more serious to me. risky business dealings. the spanish press is completely silent when it comes to these things. >> we met with a member of the spanish parliament. he has nothing good to say about the royal family. the case was clear-cut. >> i think this has led many people to help people realize how rotten the system is and how scruppings rampant throughout spain's monarchy. >> spain say its cannot function without the monarchy. >> take the example of a priest who is a pedophile. it is a terrible thing but it does not mn the church is bad as a whole. and it is similar with the monarchy. one person who belongs to the royal family makes a mistake. it must first be proven in court. but assuming that is the case then it means t

but typically it means you have to buy the next king cake. >> the king cake comes from a tradition in and french cole niflt -- colonists brought it in the 18th century. >> it has to do with the three kings and the arrival of the newborn baby jesus. there is some thinking that the baby doll represents the baby jesus. this is a weird mixture of relongous celebration and pagan ritual. the whole mardi gras thing is about celebrating before lent before you give up things for religious reasons. mardi gras is all about going out and indulging like crazy. >> i wanted to mention real quick the colors on the king take. these are the colors of mardi gras in new orleans, purple, green and gold. not sure of the significance behinds colors. >> some of my first colors. >> also in recent years, people have objected to having a little baby jesus inside of a king cake. some because they say it is a choking hazard. >> : you are supposed to eat the cake. you are not really supposed to dig through it to find the baby. >> at many parties, people just dig in, they kind of rip the cake apart trying to find t

king to lead their movement. the first time he came was in march 1968, and he was going to do a peaceful rally and it turned violent. some local young people got involved and they took the opportunity to break windows and loot. police responded to violence. a lot of people were shot and killed that night. king felt totally responsible and totally depressed because of that. so he went back to atlanta, regrouped -- what happened between the month of march and when he came back? a lot of people don't know. i was lucky enough to speak with jesse jackson a couple of years ago, and he says that before dr. king came back to memphis on april that he had called his closest associates to his home in atlanta. that would be jesse jackson, abernathy young and some others, and that dr. king had told them that he was considering stopping his work, that perhaps america just was not ready for the change that he wanted to see. he was just depressed. he just felt -- you had the black panther party coming into its own, you had a new

preston king. dr. king was born in albany georgia and earned his bachelor of arts from fisk university, his master of science and a doctorate of philosophy from the london school of economics. he lived abroad for nearly 40 years and was also educated at the university of vienna straussburg and paris. i want to mention he was in exile for 40 years. he's one of the heroes. his family was very much involved in the civil rights movement in albany. he went to the draft board, and they disrespected him. refused to call him by his last name, refused to call him mister and led to other things, rather than accept that abuse he left the country. he was exiled and then pardoned by president bill clinton. he's a distinguished professor of political science and philosophy. dr. king concurrently holds visiting appointments at morehouse and the university of east anglia. he's a professor emeritus at lancaster university, he is a distinguished scholar and a prolific writer. he's authored many books including fear of p

oh, king, honorable king, how delighted i am to have you. and this is a fabulous, fabulous book about your life. i didn't know a woman could be king. >> well, now you're seeing one. a woman can be a king. a monkey can become anything she wants to be. >> i love that. young girls, are you listening? a young girl can be anything she wants to be. tell me how you became a king in a village in ghana. >> in august of 2008, i run in the morning and i receive a call, and i pick up the phone because normally over here, it's 9:00 in the morning in ghana because we are five hours ahead. so my phone rang and i was very, very reluctant to pick it up. but i said let me pick it up because most of the time my brother in australia tends to call me. but this one wasn't from him, it was from a cousin from ghana. when i picked up the phone, you know, he called me nana. nana is women in africa that has grandparents and also for queens and kings, but i was none of them. at first i thought it was a front and i was getting ready to hang up, and he said don't hang up

when that king, king henry died, his son, king edward game the king.ilar situation, his grandfather needed some money to fight wars in france. he sought from noblemen some more money. they asked him to agree to a new magna carta. he actually did so in 1297. this comes from 1297. this advantage of this one over the 1215 one, though more famous, this became the law of the land of england and is still the law of the land of england. this actually became something that really set the trend for common law in england whereas the 1215 version was abrogated. while the 1215 has many things in it as this version, this 1297 is still the law of the land and that's why it's so important. is that --? >> very good. what of the magna carta is in our founding documents? >> in our bill of rights we have in effect -- well, the whole government is based on no taxation without representation. representative government. we have the right to habeas corpus. we have punishment proportionate to the crime. trial by jury. things like that are the inspiration for our bill of right

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when king edward died, his son, king john, became the king. they asked him to agree on a new mag na tart a, and they might they said it may become the king of england. the 2015 version was ab ro garo and while this version has so many issues, that's why it's so important. >> is that -- >> well, theets very goot. >> what the magna carta, he have a about -- government is based on no taxation without representation, representation of government. we have the right to habeus corp corpus, we have a punishment proportion for the crime, trial by jury. things like that are the inspiration for our bill of rights. but if you read the early writings of hamilton and jefferson and adams and madison, many times they say it's because of the magna carta that we're doing this. and remember, these people who were breaking away from england, they viewed themselves as englishman. they said, we're not breaking away from england, we're englishman. we're entitled to them. and king edward said, no, you're really not entitled to the magna rights. they were not rights t

here this secretary is revered as nana or king. that's right. king peggy.ssibilities. she was the only woman. and after an elaborate selection process that involved making offerings to the gods, it's believed the spirits of her ancestors selected her. as king, she has real power in her village. she can collect taxes and even throw someone in jail. it's a title that's not exclusively male. but she's one of just a few female kings ever in ghana. why are you king peggy? why not queen peggy? >> i would be so lousys a queen because.... >> reporter: you had to be the king. >> yes, i had to be the king. >> reporter: in her kingdom of 7,000 she's pampered. and welcomed with parades. she never dreamed of all this. see, peggy always lived a quiet, humble life, owning a one-bedroom condo in silver spring maryland and making her morning commute in an old honda. but early one morning back in 2008 she got a life-changing phone call that at first she thought was a prank. >> i said, listen, if you don't hang up, i'm going to hang up on you. he said, oh, no, no, no, don't h

king, coretta king said, this should be a day on, not a day off.ould be a day when we do the things we think he would do were he alive today, and it's a good idea to spend this day doing things he would want us to do. >> yeah. you, yoo served served, as i mentioned in the introduction, for 12 years as the chair of the board of the naacp. you continue to serve as chair. chair emeritus. you serve on the board. talk about the role of that organization in american life today. what, what should it be doing, what is it doing, and what should it beedoing that it's not doing? >> if it had not been for the naacp. and i think you can say this more about the naacp than you can say it about any other organization in our history. had it not been for the naacp, we woold not have had the civil rights advances that we've had. >> the president of the texas naacp is sitting right here in the front row, gary bledsoe, a distinguished lawyer..3 it is a people's organization. all of its leadership is elected. nobody in the naacp is appointed. >> yep. >> people are elect

latin kings. this is predominantly a latin king area, goes all the way to 21st street, california and once you hit ridgeway, it's 2-6. the violence is unreal over here. you live in a certain area, right away, these individuals assume you're a gang member, an affiliated. it's just guilty by association or guilty by where you live. you got to know who to look for, who drives what. if you don't know who's fighting who and who's shooting at who, you die. if you don't know who you can't talk to, you die and it's done. >> little village represents more than just battle lines within the hispanic community. for decades it's been a beacon of opportunity. generations of immigrants both legal and illegal have come to work in family-owned businesses here, many of them along 26th street. >> 26th street is the second most revenue street in the city of chicago. right behind michigan avenue, believe it or not. it's all small businesses but they definitely bring a lot of revenue into the city. living in this area

and king hit him with a pillow. he hit king back with a pillow. and everybody started having a pillow fight. they all laughed and king said, it's time to get ready for dinner. so they leave, he shares a room with abernathy. abernathy was shaving. king steps out onto the balcony where the wreath is positioned. he's talking down the courtyard below to jesse who was introducing him to the musician who is going to play that night. ben branch was a musician from chicago, and dr. king says to ben branch, i want you to play my favorite song tonight, ben. i want you to play "precious lord" which is what you're hearing right now from amelia jackson. he said, all right, mr. king, i'll play it and i'll play it real pretty. then the silence was cracked by a gunshot. that was at 6:01 p.m. one shot. he fell backwards where that square is cut in the concrete. his feet were kind of hanging off the edge. people started screaming and rushed up the steps to where he was. the famous photograph of everybody pointing was in response to the police who were on this fire

seem any better now i've had my issues with king as a moderator for a while now when who can forget his really annoying attempts at interruptions during a debate last summer just in case you have forgotten actually politico was nice enough to compile some of the best from that debate. just to say that president obama and the ideas that the united states proposed. by should forget. for gas. i recall our guys right it's a debate you have to have some off already as the person that's moderating it but no matter where the debate is what the topic is who the candidate is king seems to really struggle with that i mean i don't think anybody can forget king's inability to stand up for himself when he was attacked by newt last time she says you asked her sure to enter into an open marriage would you like to take some time to respond to that no but i will. as you noted mr speaker this story did not come from our network as you also know it is the subject of conversation in the campaign i'm not to get your point i take your point john it was repeated going you're not going to you chose to star

necessity by its occupants and dismissed by the half king as that little thing upon the meadow. reinforcements swelled washington's army to perhaps 400 men. no match for an estimated 900 french soldiers and their indian allies. surrounded by hostile forces, burning to avenge the murdered comrades, his men being picked off by enemy sharpshooters, targeting three sides of his little fort, washington waited only a few hours before entering into surrender talks. he signed the surrender on the 4th of july, 1754. afterward he would blame a dutch translator for failing to catch a french characterization of jumenville's death as quote an assassination. a word with grave connotations for his honor and britain's legal position. to complete the route, washington left behind his journal which the victorious french hurried to publish as proof of english aggression. in the ensuing reorganization, washington's command was abolished. fresh disputes over rank prevented the emotionally bruised warrior from accepting an overtour from north carolina governor horatio sharp who wanted washington as p

they had found their king. the shrine turned out to be not one shrine, but a whole series of shrines, one inside the other. it took carter two years' more work to reach the pharaoh at last. the strange object belonging to the ritual of mummification was found over in this corner here. nearly six feet tall, it represents a headless animal skin hanging from a pole. as abstract and modern as the emblem may appear, it was in reality probably as old to tutankhamun as he is to us. tutankhamun's dy was found covered with jewelry. aesthetically, many of the pieces are rare treasures in and of themselves. t jewelry had a greater purpose in ancient egypt. bracelets, rings, and necklaces served as amulets to protect and aid both the living and the dead in their journey through this and the next life. next to the burial chamber here was an open doorway to a room that howard carter came to call "the treasury." and an apt name it w because it contained some of the most extraordinary objects imaginable. the foremost object to

seems to really struggle with that i mean i don't think they we can forget king's inability to stand up for himself when he was attacked by newt last time she says you asked her sure to enter into an open marriage would you like to take some time to respond to that no but i will. as you noted mr speaker this story did not come from our network as you also know it is the subject of conversation in the campaign i'm not sure what i take your point john but it was repeated oh you're not sure if you chose to start the day with a don't try to blame somebody else. yeah or there was a time when king lost control so much the audience actually decided to choose who they wanted to answer what. let's take a question from social media question. for we move on you want on this issue they want you in on this issue if you like you know this issue. the thing is it's not just john king anderson cooper seems to have control issues the debates as well for example when perry clear it up for cooper who exactly asks and who answers the questions a child of illegal immigrants who's born here is automaticall

. >>> i'm gayle king. in his first ever interview from a mexican jail, a former survivor producer tells us he did not kill his wife. >>> when i see you at 8:00, paul rudd talks about his new movie with an old friend, jennifer aniston. >>> i'm erica hill, hollywood takes on the real life story of navy seals, but not without serious controversy. >>> you'll meet a real life african king. her name is peggy. >>> as we do every morning, we begin with today's eye-opener. your world in 90 seconds. >>> we must never lose sight of what this is about. a regime making war on its own people. >> the u.n. has accused the syrian regime of shooting unarmed women and children. >> international community demands a cease-fire in syria as journalists caught in the crossfire plead for help. >> i was wounded in a rocket attack yesterday. >> i'm ready to stay home all day. this is nuts. >> chicago gets slammed as a late season storm plows through the midwest. >> a winter weather advisory is in effect for much of our area. >> enou

king or taken any steps to help repair his life. >> the d.c. assistant chief said we don't believe it's unreasonable to interview someone whose id was found at the scene of a homicide. mr. king believes he was treat unfairly, he can contact us and we'd be happy to look into it. king and his attorney say they may legally pursue the matter further. >> sounds like they'll hear from him soon. >>> new tonight another local university dealing with a potential norovirus outbreak. howard university says 40 students have been treat ford nor row in the last 24 hours. last week george washington university reported 85 similar cases of the highly contagious stomach illness. >>> another big story tonight, gay marriage is one step closer to becoming legal in maryland. this evening the state senate narrowly approved the legislation. fox 5's bob barnard in annapolis with reaction. >> reporter: brian, there were cheers and hugs and declarations of this being a historic day here in maryland from those supporting gay rights and gay marriage. there were promises t

in january of 2011, a single king-sized 700-pound specimen of the king of sushi sold for $400,000.2 for every slice of sashimi. that's this edition of 60 minutes on cnbc.