. >> the million man march was called for by louis farrakhan, who is the head of the nation of islam. atonement and reconciliation. >> he's always been a controversial figure because of his anti-semitic utterances but the march becomes bigger than louis farrakhan. >> why do we march? because we're trapped for second class schools and first class jails. >> we've been locked up, we've been brutalized. this became the first mass expression we could make together that we need to be regarded and respected and heal this racial breach. >> we aren't all drug dealers. you know, around shooting each other and stuff like that. we can come together and have a positive message. >> when you start standing with our mothers, when you stick it out with your families, when you start mentoring our young, then we can build a new nation of strong people. >> i had to get out of that kind of like time bomb mentality that growing up in south central l.a. gives you. so, i think that the march gave me a sense of hope that things could get better. >> long live the spirit of the million man march. ♪ ♪ give a lit

was blocked from becoming dnc chair in part because of writings in his past that seem to praise louis farrakhan, the anti-semitic head of the nation of islam. ellison said "i commend the brave women who have come forward to share their experience of sexual harassment and assault. their courage is immense and has sparked a long-overdue national reckoning," he says. a wild card could be former fox anchor gretchen carlson who hails from minnesota and helped kick off the national connotation on sexual harassment. she told cnn today "who knows" when it comes to whether she major politics. she has already been rumored to be a candidate for a senate seat in new england. carlson tweeted she is not running for senate from connecticut. not saying she will rule out politics in general. >> shannon: this could get interesting. ed henry, thank you. fox news politics editor chris stirewalt joins us. i'm going nancy drew on the senator franken thing. when he said he was going to resign in the next few weeks, i was like, what? i think he's waiting to see them roy moore gets elected, and if he does and they don'

you may remember in the '90s a naum muslim man named louis farrakhan got a million black men to marchcefully in washington, d.c. >> a sea of peace. >> and there's only a couple other people i can think of who can pull that off. well, probably also beyonce. definitely beyonce. >> the fbi investigating a mosque fire near palm springs and they believe it was, i'm quoting here, an intentional act. >> but oh how times have changed. >> a bangladeshi born new york city taxi driver is recovering today from knife wounds to his neck, face, and hands, all with the designation of hate crime. >> a southern california woman will be flown home for burial from iraq. >> hate crimes against muslims were up 67% in 2015. >> both gunned down leaving a mosque on saturday -- >> and in the first ten days of -- after the 2016 election, there were more than 300 bias-related incidents that targeted immigrants or muslims. what does our fearless leader do in response? a big speech to bring us all together? nope. >> the world is reacting to president trump's executive order banning those from seven muslim majority

>> i am the minister louis farrakhan. >> african-americans composed 25% of fox's market. >> i always just saw "boys in the hood," all right? i didn't know, martin, i didn't know. >> they knew that they needed to capture this audience to grow. >> i guess you think you smart and cool. but if you think you get a job here, you're a damn fool. >> so they basically gave the black creators freedom to do whatever you want. just get the audience. >> the wb and upn took that concept from fox. >> your shoulders are harder than cheap breast implants. >> going after this underserved audience of urban minority viewers and really ran with it. >> i'm a new millennium woman who will not be defined by traditional roles. >> a lot of the networks built themselves up partly on african american viewers. >> the african-american shows indexed lower in terms of household income. so over the course of the decade, the network started to move away from those shows. >> i don't know about you people, but i'll be damned if it i'm going to let them destroy my neighborhood. >> black creators felt used and abused. yo