martin luther king jr. and malcolm x following their assassination. at the reporting committee, stokely started as a believer in nonviolence, led him to concentrate his thinking on the notion of black self-defense. carmichael was a complex figure and that complexity was captured wonderfully in this definitive biography, "stokely: a life". you can never be disappointed with a book when you have chapter titles like the chocolate and fred astaire. arestoring, activist, popular -- peniel joseph is historian activist, popular , radio commentator on subjects like race relations and civil rights, politics, democracy, a nice shoe collection. give a warm welcome to peniel joseph. [applause] >> thank you for that warm introduction. i start by thanking the library of congress for this invitation to talk about "stokely: a life". it is an honor and privilege to be here. i spent ten years on the life of stokely carmichael, kwame ture, and a lot of questions i received was why did i spend so so much time, why was stokely c

i heard of martin luther king jr. i met rosa parks in 1957 at the age of 17. ear, at the age of 18. i met martin luther king jr. and i never looked back. i i asked my mother and father, they said that's the way it is, don't get in trouble. but i got in trouble. it was good trouble, it was a necessary trouble. so we all must continue to get in trouble. i visited the holocaust museum ol more than one occasion. d for me it is hard, it is unbelievable and it is unreal what happened to a group of people, a group of human beings and it must never ever happen again, never, never again. [applause] mr. lewis: in the civil rights movement, i met the rabbi. yes, i met and walked with the rabbi. the hundreds and thousands of young jewish students and adults who marched on washington, many rabbis came to selma. many young people worked in the state of mississippi during 1964 and 1965 and others worked all across the south. and i would never ever forget three young men that i got to , went on a sunday night, celebrate the burning of an african-american church to be used for

old, i 1955, 15 years , i heard ofa parks martin luther king jr.. i never rosa parks in 1957 at the age of 17 and the fear at the age of 18 i met martin luther king jr.. and i've never looked back. father,my mother and my they would say boy, that is the way it is. don't get in the way, don't get in trouble. but i got in trouble. it was good trouble. necessary travel. necessary travel. we all must continue to get in trouble. i have visited the holocaust museum on more than one occasion. or me it is hard, it is unbelievable, it is unreal what appened to a group of people, group of human beings. and it must never, ever happen again. never, never again. [applause] movement,il rights rabbi met and walked with herschel. hundreds anda thousands of young jewish students and adults who marched on washington. many rabbis came to selma. many young people work in the state of mississippi. then forget threeever .oung men that i got to know these three young men riding in arrested, taken to jail, and later that evening, they were taken from jail and turned over to

martin luther king jr. ent with those he photographed. i wasn't there as an objective reporter, he once said. i had something to say. and was trying to show off -- show one side of it. we didn't have any problems finding the other side. in the era of civil rights marches, mr. sleet tended to march double time, once estimating that he had walked 100 miles during the 50-mile march from selma to montgomery in 1965, because he kept walking back and forth along the line march to take photographs. based in new york, mr. sleet spent eiga good deal of his car on the road, photographing every black head in the state of africa. chrrisscrossing the south with dr. king and other civil rights leaders. known for his ever present smile and his knack for making others smile when they didn't feel like it, he had a gentle, engaging personal he captivated celebrity his covered. it was not unusual for those he covered to request or insist that mr. sleet be assigned the next time they agreed to be interviewed by "ebony ". >> in

martin luther king jr., who made america stronger by making america more free.e said, occasionally in life, there are moments which cannot be completely explained by words. their meaning can only be articulated by the in audible language of the heart. tonight is such a moment for me. [applause] my heart is filled with pride. my fellow citizens, i proudly accept your nomination for vice president of the united states. [cheers and applause] rep. ferraro: whoo! [applause] [chanting] rep. ferraro: so wonderful. [chanting "gerry"] [rhythmic clapping] rep. ferraro: and i am proud to run with the man who will be one of the greatest presidents of this century, walter mondale. [applause] rep. ferraro: tonight the daughter of a woman whose highest goal was a future for her children talks to our nation's oldest party about a future for us all. tonight, the daughter of working americans tells all-americans about the future is within our reach if we are willing to reach for it. [applause] tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from italy-- [applause] rep. ferraro: i have been

crowd count if you will when he had his speech to rolling thunder and his comparison to martin luther king jr take a look. >> tell you what really amazes me. i thought this would be like martin luther king where the people would be lined up from here all the way to the washington monument, right? unfortunately, they don't allow him to come in, and you have all these people on the roads and they are waiving and going craz. we got to do this next year where rolling thunder allows everybody to be here. >> today he says he was joking, chris. >> very defensive about suggests fewer people there than he anticipated. >> i feel that now i have a phd in trump. i have listen and watched and read and written about and thought about so many speeches. he's not joking there. he's annoyed at what he views as an unnecessary constraint on the number of rolling thunder folks who could come to the -- the argument is trump does a lot of p pre-buttal of things. the reason the crowd is too small because so many people were cheering along the road and they could not come and be here. he's not joking there. i just th

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i heard of martin luther king jr. met rosa parks in 1957 at the age of 17. ear, at the age of 18, i met martin luther king, jr. and i never looked back. i asked my mother, asked my father, and they said, boy, that is the way. don't get in the way. don't get in trouble. but i got in trouble. it was good trouble. it was a necessary trouble. so we all must continue to get in trouble. i visited a holocaust museum on more than one occasion. and for me it is hard -- it is almost unbelievable, it is unbelievable, it is unreal what happened to a group of people. a group of human beings. and it must never, ever happen again. never! never again! [ applause ] in the civil rights movement, yes, i met and walked with rabbi heschel. yes, i met and walked with rabbi prince. but there was 100,000 young jewish students and those who marched on washington. many rabbis came to selma. many young people worked in the state of mississippi during 1964 and 1965 and the others worked all across the south. and i will never, ever forget, three young men i got to know and goodman, shear

martin luther king jr., gandhi, jesus christ and i think i'm in good company when it can comes to that. >> come on, man. you're way better than those guys. all those clothes preached love and tolerance. preaching hate is where the challenge is at. get him a statue or put his face on a cake. >> trevor: i don't see this working as a negotiation tactic. >> i'm glad you brought that up because you have to know you may lose which brings us to tip three, prepare for the worse. if you're realistic you'll have nothing fear. in this situation the worse case is transgender people feel welcome in your state and you kept billions of federal dollars. nightmare, i know. so north carolina go in negotiations prepared to lose the game and money that's wha i call winning. >> trevor: how is that called winning. seems you know nothing about winning. >> it's not me. ever rule comes from a book called "the art of the deal." maybe you've heard of it. and i only have one rule, always consult donald trump on fighting on where to take a dump. >> trevor: i can't believe you went out and bought that book. >> didn

the questions detailing fbi abuses, including attempted intimidation of martin luther king jr. >> there is only one thing left to do for you. you know what it is. you have 34 days in which to do it. this number has been selected for a specific reason. it has practical significance. it was 34 days before the award. you are done. ask associate director james adams admits to some of the excesses while defending a number of other fbi practices. then at 8:00, on lectures in history, >> the rest of us may see a death or two. they see hundreds. they are the first to sort of see patterns, or shifts, in how people are going out oe

detailing fbi abuses including attempted intimidation of martin luther king jr. king, there is only one thing left for you to do and you know what it is. there is only 30 days left for you to do it. this number is used for a significant reason. it has definite, practical reasons. you are done. announcer: then associate fbi director james adams admits to excessive overreach. then at 8:00, on "lectures on history." >> they see hundreds and so they are the first to sort of see in hows, or shifts people are going out of the world. so they are the ones who sound the alarm's. stephen barry on corners and how they spot threats to public health. and secretary of state john kerry, who once served in the vietnam war and who is an opponent of the war, shares his views. secretary kerry: our veterans did not receive the welcome home or the treatment that they not only deserved what was needed, and the contract between the soldier and the government simply was not honored. announcer: then at 8:00 on "the presidency." >> what other person sitting at watching on tv watched reaga

martin luther king jr., who said, "the ark of the whole universe is long, but it bends toward justice." it bends toward justice. i believe that. but i also believe that the arc of our nation does not been toward justice or freedom or equality or prosperity on its own. it depends on us. on the choices we make, particularly at certain inflection points in history. particularly when big changes are happening and everything seems up for grabs. the class of 2016, your graduating at such an inflection point -- you are graduating at such an inflection point. since the start of the new millennia, we have already witnessed horrific terrorist attacks and war and the great recession. you have seen economic and technological and cultural shifts that are profoundly altering how we work and how we communicate, how we live, how we form families. the pace of change is not subsiding. it is accelerating. these changes offer not only great opportunities but also great peril. fortunately, your generation has everything it takes to lead this country towards a brighter future. i am confident that you can m

frederick schwartz and kirk smothers, detailing fbi abuses including attempted intimidation of martin luther king, jr. >> king there's one thing left for you to do, you know what it is. you have you have 34 days in which to do this this exact number has been selected for a specific reason. it's practical significance. >> then associate fbi director james adams admits to some of the successes while defending a number of. then at 8:00 on "lectures in history" the rest of us may in a bad life see a death or two. they see hundreds. and so they're the first to sort of see patterns or shifts in how people are going out of the world. so so they are the one who sound the alarm. >> university of georgia profession sorry on the role of coroner and how they shed life on the emerging patterns of death within a society. sunday evening at 6:30 "secretary of state john kerry" who served in the vietnam war and later became a vocal opponent and later shares his view at the linden b. johnson at the texas library. >> they did not receive the benefits nor the treatment that they not only deserve, but needed and the fund

luther king? >> people were deeply disappointed. you can see the lawmakers here, the revelations that the fbi had not only infiltrated martin luther king jr.'s top circle and collecting intelligence about his top lieutenants, if you will, but the allegations that the fbi had been what they called wiretapping martin luther king jr.'s hotel room in order to gather information that they could blackmail him with was deeply troubling to the general public and especially to members of this committee. the committee tried to handle the information that they had in a very responsible way. we now know what the content of those wiretaps was. we know what was recorded in those hotel rooms. we now know that. but at the time during the course of this hearing, the members themselves and the staff never revealed the content of that wiretap. and they did that very consciously. they said we don't want to further violate the family's privacy. o-it was reported by members of the press what the content of that material was. but it does suggest that dealing with some of this information was very challenging for members of the committee and their staff. because

he has drawn comparison to martin luther king jr.his speech last year, commemorating the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday. president obama: we are well served to renumber that at the time of the marches, many in power condemned, rather than praised them. back then they were called communist, or half breeds or outside agitators.

martin luther king jr.o make his point. >> reporter: some tough words from pope francis to european leaders who have come here today to give him an award for his efforts among peace and solidarity among countries. at the time when the european union is questioning its values, for example, on immigration, pope francis challenged its leaders saying what has happened to you the champion of human rights, democracy and freedom. and he took to task those countries which he said were considering putting up fences here and there. let's take a list en to what th pope had to say. >> translator: the present situation does not permit anyone to stand by and watch other people's struggles. on the contrary, it's a forceable summons to personal responsibility. in this sense, our young people have a critical role. they are not the future of our peoples. they are the present. >> reporter: and taking a page from martin luther king jr. i have a dream speech, pope francis says he dreams of a europe, a europe in which young peop

he has drawn comparison to martin luther king jr..t his each last year, commemorating the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday. obama: we are well served to renumber that at the time of the marches, many in power condemned, rather than praised them. back then they were called communist, or half breeds or

as martin luther king jr. put it, "it is the denial of the jews to the same right, the right to self-determination, that we accord african nations and all peoples of the jet -- low. is anti-semitism." which brings me to a fourth metric, the phenomenon of anti-jewish terror, underpinned by anti-jewish state incitement, and the glorification of that terrorism and even the rewarding of that terrorism by both hamas and other authorities. let me say, the 21st century ino began on rosh hashanah october 2000 with the worst -- thewish terrorism worst terrorism, we have in fact ever witnessed over a period of time. in the first two years, from the onslaught of what was called the second -- a sanitizing term, because the notion is, some kind of resistance to an occupation. with a validating expression. what it really was was the worst kind of terrorism that we have witnessed in contemporary history. some 600 jews were murdered in the first two years of that. that is equivalent to a half a dozen 9/11's. time, there was a

this all reminds me of something the great martin luther king jr. that you cannot letting slate -- when you change the habits of men, pretty soon hearts of men will begin to change and attitudes will begin to change. >>> up next on gps, billionaire reid hoffman, he's been visionary enough to get in on the ground floor of companies like facebook, and linkedin. over the world. cesl or that we searched billions of flights to get you here. a few weeks ago, you didn't even know where here was. now the only thing you don't know, is how you're gonna leave. expedia. technology that connects you to the people and places that matter. "daddy doing work",d it's funny that i've been in the news for being a dad. windows 10 is great because i need to keep organized. school, grocery shopping. my face can unlock this computer. that's crazy. macbooks are not able to do that. "hey cortana, remind me we have a play date tomorrow at noon" i need that in my world. anything that makes my life easier, i'm using. and windows is doing that. this clean was like - pow. everyth

several renowned authors, one of them alice phlegm, whose latest book is a biography of martin luther king jr., "a dream of hope." the naval historian paul silverstone is here tonight. and thomas fleming, his new book is called the intimate lives of the founding fathers. i wonder what that is about. [laughter] mr. unger: i am honored by having you all here because i know that some of you sacrificed the $15,000 a plate fundraiser for president obama tonight. i can only offer you food for thought, but the price is right. i am sure you have all seen the famous painting of george washington crossing the delaware. you probably remember there is a soldier standing behind him with the american flag in his arms. that soldier, the officer, is ames monroe. and there were two symbolic reasons that the artist, john trumbull placed monroe and washington as one of the only two important figures in the painting. one of the only two figures standing in the boat. monroe did not actually cross the delaware in the same boat as washington, but trumbull put him there to show him as a great hero of the battle of t

this all reminds me of something the great martin luther king jr.id -- it may be true that you cannot legislate integration, but you can legislate desegregation. while the law may not change the hearts of mention, but it changes the habits of men. when you change the habits of men, begin to change and attitudes will begin to change. >>> up next on gps, billionaire reid hoffman, he's been visionary enough to get in on the ground floor of companies like facebook, paypal and linked in. i'm in vests and as a vested investor in vests, i invest with e*trade, where investors can investigate and invest in vests... or not in vests. sign up at etrade.com and get up to six hundred dollars. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis isn't it time to let the real you shine through? introducing otezla, apremilast. otezla is not an injection, or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. some people who took otezla saw 75% clearer skin after 4 months. and otezla's prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't

martin luther king jr., who said, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." it bends toward justice. i believe that. but i also believe that the arc of our nation does not been -- bend toward justice or freedom or equality or prosperity on its own. it depends on us. on the choices we make, particularly at certain inflection points in history. particularly when big changes are happening and everything seems up for grabs. the class of 2016, you are graduating at such an inflection point. since the start of the new millennia, we have already witnessed horrific terrorist attacks and war and the great recession. you have seen economic and technological and cultural shifts that are profoundly altering how we work and how we communicate, how we live, how we form families. the pace of change is not subsiding. it is accelerating. these changes offer not only great opportunities but also great peril. fortunately, your generation has everything it takes to lead this country towards a brighter future. i am confident that you can make the right choices the way -- a way

that is martin luther king jr. highway. completely closed.ou can see here on the beltway that northwest corner. the slowest stretch, that is the inner loo. the outer loop is not bad. getting to virginia continuing south to tysons. right now your average speed in this stretch is 22 miles per hour. if you are traveling in d.c., slowing, heading out of the city, 395. 295 volume as well. gas main break. this is in great falls. walker road closed at squire's be in place for up to six hours. you want to plan to work around it. back to you. leon: thank you. alison: is it another lunchbox weather day? doug: it is. you couldn't pick a better day forto be visiting school and the kids to get outside. this morning the meteorologist eileen took a trip to barnard elementary school in northwest washington. while there she showed the kids a special video we did behind the scenes. how we put the weather together. how we get on tv. how to make the weather graphics. conducted a few interesting science experiments for them. use the kids as problems. the kids lov

martin luther king jr., joint fbi and cia mail opening programs, warrantless electronic surveillance, and black bag jobs by the fbi. cia domestic spying program called chaos. covert operations abroad and other topics. >> there's a lot to get into, and i'm going to cover two of the reports and the investigations behind them here. the first is they're uncovering and documenting of foreign sass nations by the cia and the second is a limited review they conducted of some aspects of the kennedy assassination. i first want to say i think it's valuable work for castro and others because no doubt that the church committee did the whole idea of the cia would be one of these conspiracy theories we hear about all the reminiscent of some other matter that's before us. it's also striking how much i think things have changed in america since 1975. nowadays the u.s. openly conducts drone strikes against foreign adversaries. senior officialed call "bad guys." along with the classral damage farjs member, associates may or may not call themselves bad guys in the occasional wedding party. in 1975 by con

community ambassador donald foil spent some quality time reading with students at the bay side martin luther king jrrnoon. the kid ageseÑ 3 to 8 hung on to his every word. >> now too tall for love to play sports but couldn't find one that fit. >> afterwards everyone got ice chrome and autograph cope of 2 tall foil donated by marin housing authority. sheriff's department and the friends of marin city library. >>s÷ that's neat. >> all right. time to get our full accu-weather foyvrjt it is hot. >> the drew is here with the forecast. >> yes. just in time for the weekend guys. very hot by saturday sunday and especially memorial day on monday. inland back to the 9. what we have right now is clear picture. not a included to be seen nor any rain on the map. go outside live look from the roof top camera. noise and quiet look at that. light breeze out there. really comfortable conditions. san francisco 55 right now. oakland at 58. mountain view at 61. san jose morgan hill 55. right now 54 the current temperature at half moon bay. pier 15 not a included to be seen. star filled sky and nice view of the bay brid

when he passed the civil rights act and stars bryan cranston as lbj, anthony mackie as martin luther king jrright. now, i got all kinds of federal programs in mind on health, education, literacy, job, you name it. we're going to change this country top to bottom. >> that sounds extraordinary. >> there you go. >> and we are joined now by bryan cranston and anthony mackie. welcome to both of you. it is such a great movie. congratulations. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> bryan, you got to play lbj on broadway as well and he is such a rich character. you get the portrait of a man who sort of took everything he learned in a lifetime of politics for this moment. >> it seemed to be the right man for the right time for the right purpose. and yet he ascended to that office by the most tragic circumstances. and in order to accomplish what he was able to accomplish, the civil rights act of 1964 being the jewel in the crown. he had to go against the people who helped get him there, the dixiecrats of the south and change the dynamic of the south forever. he had a lot at risk and he lost a lot. but he did

famous escape was made by james earl ray nine years after he killed civil rights leader martin luther king jr. ray had been an escapee from missouri state penitentiary when he assassinated king. >> the main thing he was interested in was escaping. now, when i first met him, i was interested in escaping too. we got into a couple of plots together that never worked out. one we were going to go through the roof of the old auditorium where they showed movies. we did get the hole cut but it was discovered before we had a chance to use it. we didn't get caught, we didn't get locked up over it. they found it and tightened security in that area. >> in 1977 ray plotted another escape with james slagle and two other inmates. the plan was to climb the outer wall using a makeshift ladder crafted from chains. the inmates knew the tower guard closest to the wall took an afternoon nap. but slagle feared ray's high profile would lead them to the escapees. >> i said, james, you've got no pickup, no car. as soon as your foot touches down, they know it's you, there will be a million cops in this valley and ther

i for one can't wait to see how president trump celebrates martin luther king jr. day. what will he eat then? i kid the donald. ryan says he's not ready and. ryan says he's not ready and some true conservatives are mad that ryan won't back a liberal republican. it's nice to see the same people cheering disruption just weeks ago, now demanding unity. for me, trump's killing of ideology is great. if only he replaces it with principles. as for ryan, you don't have to worry, he's meeting donald next week and 10-1 they'll end up eating taco salads in trump tower. and then all of our noted principled conservatives can relax as another one falls into line. what does the current president have to say about this? >> i want to emphasize the degree to which we are in serious times and this is a really serious job. this is not entertainment. this is not a reality show. >> says the guy who ate raw salmon with bear grylls. >> that looks like a good little sample. that's tasty. >> so what's this about a reality show? >> kimberly, at least, trump did the reality show before he became p

and it builds on what martin luther king jr.1968 when he stated, and i quote, "this country has socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor." >> joining us now from the fox business network, charles gasparino, co-host of "the five." eric bolling. kimberly guilfoyle. let's take one industry right now, the energy specter. the energy industry. so hillary wants to put coal miners and coal mining out of business. she doesn't support fracking. she doesn't support drilling. just if the difference on that one big issue, how many jobs would be created and how good would it be for our national security if we move toward energy independence, which donald trump has told me repeatedly he wants to do? >> yeah, i mean, we're way behind already thanks to this eight years of barack obama. the job-killing machine. followed up, what, by hillary clinton? i mean, who even has that within their heart, their soul to be somebody who literally takes food off of people's plates, okay, money out of their wallets by saying i'm going to bas

he has drawn comparison to martin luther king jr.ere's a look at his speech last year, commemorating the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday. president obama: we are well served to renumber that at the time of the marches, many in power condemned, rather than praised them. back then they were called communist, or half breeds or outside agitators. sexual and moral degenerates, and worse, they were called everything but the name their parents gave them. their faith was questioned. their lives were threatened. their patriotism, challenged. and yet what could be more american than what happened in this place? charlie: the president has also shown a talent for comedy. he delivered his final white house correspondents dinner speech. here's a look at some of his jokes. president obama: if this material works well, i will use it at goldman sachs next year. earn me some serious tubman's. as you know, "spotlight" is a film about investigative journalist, the resources and autonomy to chase down a truth and hold the powerful accountable, best fan

committee staffers, frederick schwartz and kurt smothers, fbi abuses and intimidation of martin luther king jr. >> king, there is one thing left for you to do, you know what it is. you have 34 days to do it. this exact number has been selected for a specific reason. it was 34 days before the award. you are done. >> then, associate fbi director, james adams admitted to some of the accesses while defending a number of other fbi practices. then at 8:00, lectures in history -- >> the rest of us may, in a bad life, see a death or two. they see hundreds. so, they are the first to sort of see patterns or shifts in how people are going out of the world. so, they are the ones who sound the alarm. >> university of georgia professor steven barry on the role of a coroner and how they shed light on death in a society and threats to public health. sunday evening at 6:30, secretary of state, john kerry who served in the vietnam war and became an opponent of the war spoke. >> our veterans did not receive either the welcome home nor the benefits or the treatment that they not only deserved, but needed. and the

and it builds on what martin luther king, jr., said in 1968 when he stated, and i quote, this country and rugged individualism for the poor. >> joining us now, charles gasparito, eric bowling, kimberly guilfoyle. take one industry now -- the energy industry. hillary wants to put coal miners and coal mining out of business. she doesn't support fracking. doesn't support drilling. just the difference on that one big issue, how many jobs would be created and how good would it be for national security if we move toward energy independence which donald trump told me repeatedly he wants to do. >> we are way behind already. thanks to the eight years of barack obama, the job killing machine followed up by hillary clinton? who even has it within their heart or soul to literally take food off people's plates and money out of the wallets saying we'll basically ruin your life, put this industry out of business. that's not responsible. that's not someone who will create jobs, someone who embraces the free market or the energy industry. fracking, et cetera. >> this poor guy, bo cappley. i interviewe