>> we know that into each life some rain must fall, whereas langston hughes said life ain't no crystalthis face of the earth is not easy. it's a challenge each and every day but i think it goes back to what we stated earlier, that if we learn how to live not for self but for the sake of others, if we come to appreciate and to understand that nothing is unique to any of us. what has been will be. we keep moving forward, unid we can conquer any storm. we can overcome any difficulty. it's not that we haven't been here before. we've been here before and we'll be here again so let us stay focused and be united with each other, knowing that each man's struggle, each woman's struggle is the other and if we join together, we will make it happen. >> the toughest work we all do is working on ourselves 24 hours a day and when we do that work, the world around us automatically improves. thank you, bruce, thank you bishop, thank you, peter, good day, wjla and newschannel 8, i'm armstrong williams. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> good morning. i'm diane macedo. >> i'm kendis gibson. here are some of the top stories

and i was reading a lot of my aunts in langston hughes and then i. realized that a lot of this stuff was some of the things that i was listening to. hip hop and rap so i started reading a lot of lyrics from j. cole jay z. makani eight you know and i would say you know this is the same as the things that are marine and. you know bin bare molded by a rat because that's where i grew up or enough fell in love with it in a deeper sense so i read their stuff and i would say to myself you know what like i can do this you know so i started writing i will share my poetry or my ras what i want column our cousin avon he was going to be doing you know in a couple more friends from back home and they. you know they found love with it but i didn't really believe them because i know that i'm their friend and i needed if i was bad i don't think it would be like you know conny just some straight trash right so i would type up stuff on a computer and i will make up a name you know a say it's from like some guy named james with a spoon or something like that and i was

he would flip the book open to a random page and read out loud about queen nefertiti were langston hughes for the tuskegee airmen and a host of black gods and goddesses i had never heard of. also his formerly enslaved grandparents the sharecropping childhood and his time in world war ii europe to be segregated lunch counters and the lynchings the crime of being born black in america and that all men were created equal sometimes he would cut his head to proclaim i never once heard freedom ring but once well be set watching elizabeth taylor in the role of cleopatra on the zenith television granddaddy blocked the screen and said don't think for one moment that cleopatra was a white woman cleopatra was african and black african black like all of you. he emphasized by jabbing his finger of us that were black and brown. my grandfather had a counter narrative the review every white lie in derogatory stereotype he would say this is the university of timbuktu but do you know, where molly is? again i had no clue. africa adding but they don't teach you this truth in school and he was right. so our b