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luther martin. and william paterson. martin will be the attorney for maryland in the great case of mcculloch. he gives a great speech protecting states rights. madison's basic impression was -- [speaking latin] if you can translate? >> alcohol? [laughter] he may have had to go on a bender in order to talk. harrison, the son of scottish immigrants. the revolution gives him an opportunity. he serves on the first supreme court. then a couple of new englanders up here. gerry, one of the very wealthy merchants who would not sign at the end of the convention. and he figures prominently in the case with the equal state vote. sherman -- you can't quite make it out here, but sherman had an awkwardness to him. do you see how he is sitting in this chair? he can't go back further. he can't quite unwind. but yeah, sherman played a very active role. there are other delegates i could show. let me get a point up here i could talk about later, but not first. so, representation. the great compromise essentially the decision to give states

we have a lot of black people for example who say they love martin luther king jr. and they talk about speaking truth to power but they don't want to speak truth to the present power. they want to be an accommodation and that's not brother martin and there's nothing wrong with being in an accommodationist if you acknowledge what its limitations are but don't lie to yourself. and act as if you are regressive and prophetic when you are just a cheerleader and a bootlicker. you have to be candid about these things. >> host: we are going to get to that for sure but i do want to ask you more about the book itself. first of all you have already defined the radical changes but in terms of the text itself was the sub board hidden in plain sight in terms of the textual record of his words and his wisdom or did you have to pull up or pull out obscure passages and tax from more well-known speeches that he gave? i'm curious as to the compilation itself. >> guest: sister coretta scott king is legendary and the level of dignity and grace that is beyond description. when i first met

it to be a big figure with martin luther king. was there anything like it? >> we don't need powerful and influential religious people of politics to dominate. what's it like and what happened? >> there is a whole mission with that distinctive voice then they require me to make contact with the editor to point to one thing that it is a great moment we should have captured on tape. for those that were involved not as many as in earlier times. there is a change in the political culture but when did that happen? >> it is about a more divisive america where you have people very capable very persuasive speaking to people that believe and though in the same way. what could neuhaus do? he could speak beyond a conservative christian audience with the conservative christian information the perfect example is the economist late in the book to be involved in public life. but they know there should be no involvement. by the end of the day they're all persuaded otherwise. the concern with catholics but to point to the different voices with a different type of institutiona

abraham lincoln and martin luther king jr., done with polarized visionsened a unified america. i want to thank you, again, for joining us tonight. force's theater has a number of events planned between now and may marking 2 anniversary of lincoln's death and the end of the civil war. in grour program, you will find details, i hope you will be able to join us for some or all of those events. i'd like to introduce you to the moderator of this evening. he's had an incredibly successful successful career. chris is also the author of seven best-selling books and policies that have shaped our country and what america means today. ladies and gentlemen please welcome, my friend and moderator for this evening, chris matthews. >> thank you. [ applause ] >>> welcome thewet ere tonight, i checked, was a little different on march 4 of 1865. it was wet. it had been wet for weeks. that sounds familiar. but it wasn't as cold. there's no reference to snow in what i've been able to dig up. it was just wet. and on the east front of the u.s. capital it was thick in mud, deep mud. everyone had to g

i did see one car going by but they have been pushing everybody off to the martin luther king drive or this schuylkill expressway, again, coming in the city, i would not chance it i would use martin luther king or schuylkill to get into downtown. another problem westbound on the schuylkill expressway an accident just past belmont avenue between belmont and gladwynn interchange on the westbound side taking out the right lane. here's a live look at 42 freeway, those pockets of heavy downpours hitting us hard here on 42. sue mentioned the ac expressway, portions of route 55 also getting hit hard. watch for shut down of main street all for good eating, it is manayunk str-eat festival from 11 to 5:00. we will have some out in the front of the studio. looking for something to do this weekend pick one right here, we have phillies tonight tomorrow flyers in the afternoon, there will be a change over in the parking lot for phillies that come in and same deal on sunday, phillies fans in at 1:35 and right around the same time as those phillies fans are leaving the crowd for the soul coming in for

we've got a lot of black people for example, who say they love martin luther king, jr. and i talk about "speaking truth to power" but they don't want to speak truth to the present power. see what i mean? they want to be in accommodation but that's not brother martin. there's nothing wrong with being accommodationist if you're honest about and acknowledge what our limitations of but don't lie to yourself and act as if you're so progressive and prophetic when you really are just a cheerleader and a bootlicker. i mean you've got to be honest and candid about these things. >> host: we are going to get to that crucial but if you want to ask you more about the book itself. so first of all you've defined the radical king, but in terms of the text itself, was the radical king hidden in plain sight in terms of the actual textual record of his word and his wisdom? or did you have to pull out after passengers and texts are more well known speeches dedicate? i'm curious as to the compilation itself guesstimate when my dear sister coretta scott king to me legendary, this level of dig

bill, you said martin luther king jr. was a liberal christian. actually, he was a republican. there's no evidence of that, dave. none. dave, new orleans. mr. o, to borrow from george c. scott who portrayed general patton in the movie o'reilly, you magnificent -- i read your book. great job. that was george c. scott as patton talking about ramel who we feature in "killing patton." thanks for reading the book. i appreciate it. finally tonight, "the factor" tip of the day. april national child abuse prevention month. i don't have to give you the stats. we all know child abuse is perhaps the worst domestic problem we have in america. much driven by drugs and alcohol abuse. and the kids involved suffer forever. never goes away. now there's a national child abuse hot line. you should write this number down in case you see anything anywhere at any time.

martin luther king who he absolutely adored and admired him. he knew him slightly. he patterned himself to some extent on him. he wanted to live that kind of life. why was that happening in america in 1960? >> the key here had to do with neuhaus is emerging from the 1950s into his first real call as they say in the lutheran church into a poor black and hispanic parish in williamsburg. >> so the obvious question how does a lutheran pastor and up with a majority african-american congregation? are there that many lutheran african-americans? >> the short answer is called white flight. this is a historic lutheran parish in williamsburg that over the course of the early 20th century midcentury post where the demographic shifted significantly. the neighborhood shifted significantly. the largest housing project the first major housing project in america inspired -- was across the street quite literally from the project across the street from this church. there was a significant black and hispanic population just as the original white demographic of the area to. >> and that

the people used to call martin luther king, mocking him as mr. high and mighty. they were differences both overstretch intact eggs, but also most of us i think in this turned out to be the majority and it's been replayed with algae bt people. there were people initially opposed to marriage as a goal. marriage is a bourgeois institution that oppresses women. why do we want it? basically swept aside but it was a saying people can stick it elsewhere. people said well, we gay lesbian, blacks, want to be treated the same as everyone else. others said the oppressed group could be the spear and the tip of the spear and perform in a corrupt society. they have been excluded and their saying we should rebuild it entirely differently and that there will be new communities. they said now i just want to be like everybody else and there were people who deplored the fact of the black separatists had great support. separatists in my experience felt they were being treated equally. same thing with people in the gay community. i needed to sort that out. but then there was this tac

martinnen luther king -- martin luther king also reverend jesse jackson who was one of his lieutenantson the record, in the book, talking about this. >> host: there are audio recordings -- >> guest: yes. >> host: former secretary joseph carafano used the transcripts held at the miller center down at the university of virginia. so this should be a pretty well documented fact. are you surprised at the kind of reaction that the movie has brought? is it progress to finally have a movie that has turned out to be a commercial success? about the life of dr. martin luther king? >> guest: well, i think the movie was magnificent. and when i say magnificent i mean it brought me to tears. i felt like i was in the black church somewhere. it was an amazing movie to see i mean, when you saw -- i knew when i saw the four little girls, i knew what was going to happen. brought tears to my eyes and just talking about it brings tears to my eyes. secretary of state, did she state, did she also feels she had a race portfolio? >> guest: secretary rice is in this book on the record and i think her for her tru

you talk about catastrophes that martin luther king anticipated it recognized. so how did he help him do they help him deal with catastrophe? >> guest: i think that we had to begin with ralph waldo emerson who said that it is a personal chronicle of an individual catastrophe lyrically express. >> every force that you can depend on. smile smile but betsy smith and the whole tradition is there meaning that we've talked to the world something about love even though we've been hated and despised like cotton roaches into something like justice even though she's been he's been treated so unjustly and unfairly he looks catastrophe in the face, we are a clear express is. he speaks about it courageously and is willing to die for that love. from the face of american terrorism and being hated by so many people, he responds like bb king with a smile and style landmarks in the past that constitute grand and truth telling and witness bearing for the poor and the working people even though he's not against and recognizes that it's difficult not to fall into how did the johnson

what i'm most upset about them is trying to paraphrase the words of martin luther king jr. the voice of the violent. -- violence is the voice of the aopressed. martin luther king was not condoning violence. he was saying listen to the needs of the people. these issues are going to have to be addressed. we're going to have to look at poverty, educational disparity. >> you and are i were talking about that. there are plenty of areas and regions of the country that have higher unemployment rates among youth and you don't see this thing igniting maybe it's a matter of time. i don't know. is it fair -- i got a lot of e-mails from people who say i live in a poor town. we doebt do this. >> i don't want to make this about politics a lot of these urban areas where african-americans are a little more liberal in their politics are running these communities, if you really care about your people the communities, you're going to bring something into your area that are going to strengthen and deal with these disparities. and see, that's not happening. we are electing people to office but t

how did she fit into the story of using shame, and martin luther king of course. >> it is a great line of martin luther king in the book about how, which i concluded in the book about how it's the purpose of the bus boycott was to shame and open up a feeling of moral shame and so the boycott was so strategic which is fascinating and it was designed to attract attention and to the reputation that it was attacking was more about the system as a whole than anything to do with montgomery specifically. and this is so what i think is the essence of the strategic shaming that goes after a deeper system and that's why i contrast to some of these examples who has this public shaming site where i'm not comparing him to martin luther king necessarily that rather than going out after individuals, he goes after the groups that's a sort of similar things and it's not searchable trying to sort of get america in general to sort of self reflect. but often along the same lines. so i think this is a more interesting form of shaming. it was listed as the most popular news anchor. they they had to be getti

sam: rico a maintenance man on martin luther king avenue is furious. they saw his special needs son wander out of the elementary school. >> he could have ran across street and got hit by a car. sam: he saw his son and came running to grab him. >> how did he get out of this building when i dropped him off with staff members? sam: the other kids were having recess, he says when his son was taking a special ed test. when he finished -- >> he was supposed to have been then taken to the office or to find his class. yet, they let him wander around looking for his class at 7 years old. sam: d.c. public schools issued a statement today acknowledging it happened saying dcps is thoroughly investigating the incident as well as reviewing the school's safety and security protocols and will make any changes necessary to ensure that this will not happen again. the father says he's particularly upset because this is the second time this has happened. the first was last october. that time, the boy wandered out a different door. >> right here is where they held him righ

doctor martin luther king. thank you very much for joining me. your uncle would be heartbroken. >> my uncle would not have been unfamiliar with what is happening. however, he would be heartbroken because he is not seeing the kind of response from the young people. they should have been trained in young violent things to use their words. that is the challenge. >> i heard someone say last night that it is times like these that you really do appreciate what doctor martin luther king did. harnessing this into a peaceful protest or a march that would truly make a difference. rather than focusing on destruction that has happened. do you agree with that? >> basically -- he was not condoning bad or giving permission. he was saying you need to hear the voices. you need to respond. when we do 100 characters or less is the twitter world that we do live in now we will miss concepts. six steps to nonviolence. six principles of nonviolence. they are all survival based. melissa: why do you think that we are not seeing that now? are we missing a leader? is it ab

martin luther king jr. is in the white house early president lyndon johnson to move. the film that has come out has been criticized by some for putting lyndon johnson in a very bad light. you write about your conversation with the other person who was in the. >> guest: in the book i have an exclusive interview with an ambassador who talks to lbj. he he was not only a prominent figure in the civil rights community but a former congressman from georgia a former un ambassador and someone who worked for at that time a relatively low level white house staffer. a credible person them in the room and this is what i don't understand. all of this back and forth. he said in his book that lbj did say that he would not have the power to push it forward. and we were talking about the voting rights act after they successfully get the civil rights act. rev. joe gerald -- reverend jesse jackson said something very interesting people like doctor king as a marker but not a merger. strategically these civil rights leaders had to figure out how to give him the power. so there were tactic

martin luther king, jr. who gave his famous i have a dream speech here during the march on washington for jobs and freedom in 1963. two years late ere, dr. king took his struggle to selma, ael al. king and 600 civil rights supporters attempted to march to montgomery, alabama, by way of the edmond-pettis bridge. they were met with tear gas and billy clubs. the clash was televised around the world and would become to be known as bloody sunday. a few weeks later, on march march 21st 1965 dr. king successfully led the march from selma to montgomery. where he delivered speech to the al alabama state capitol where he quoted battle hymn of the republic in a song that became the anthem of the civil rights movement. here with us today is the washington performing arts children of the gospel choir who will perform a medley of spirituals. get on board, little children, oh, freedom. and america the beautiful. they will conclude with the battle hymn of the republic echoing the conclusion of dr. king's montgomery speech.

martin luther king is consistent with evidence of his autopsy protocol. i am curious to know if that is not a cover-up too. >> guest: what happened? >> host: martin luther king, is that a cover. >> guest: it is not a cover. and was the fbi that got the suspect from england. in so many cases the fbi has been on the side of civil rights, white doubt the ku klux klan, it took a lot of courage, a lot of understanding and wisdom so the fbi gets a lot of bad knocks understandably because they did arrest martin luther king in the old days but today the fbi is something that i think we should admire. if your kid is kidnapped you better be sure you will be appreciative the fbi is on the case. >> host: ronald kessler has been our guest for the last three hours on booktv, thanks for your time. >> this sunday on q&a senior editor for the weekly standard andrew ferguson on his writing career, the gop presidential candidate for 2016 and what voters are looking for in a candidate. >> they want somebody who looks like he stood up for them. i am amazed the degree to which

king the niece of martin luther king, taking all of this in. you had written a letter to the mayor, trying to urge caution here and to dial that language back. >> i was trying to explain to the mayor and i hope she got it it's an open letter on social media. maybe the viewer can help us get that to her. of you look at those children throwing the rocks and the anger and then being stirred on by outside agitators. in the 1960s the children's march, we were calm, we were orderly, we were prayerful and so we knew how to demonstrate peacefully. no one has instructes these young children. then the mayor gives an invitation to destroy and economically and morally that's disaster and i don't know if she -- if she is the head of the city she should be thinking. >> she did use the line a couple of times enough space for those who want to destroy. what do you think she meant by that? >> i'm trying to wrap my head around it. i it just doesn't make sense. if she is saying there will be people who want to destroy, we need to be prepared and be ready, that's

when you get rid of martin luther king day, we went to the voters and put it on the ballot. he came back and put on an item that was exactly the same. he was successful at doing it. we went back and did it again. here is how we did it. i organized business leaders. i spoke to people on the other side. i listened to people who did not think exactly how i thought. and because of that, we could build a coalition. arizona is still the only state in the nation that has passed martin luther king day by a majority of its citizens. we are very proud of that. [applause] the same electorate that voted in evan meek him. they have to deal with issues where they have a papers only please bill. it was struck down by the u.s. supreme court. we had another issue that said you could legally discriminate against gays. the list goes on and on in terms of what comes out of the legislature that is far right wing. they do not represent the arizona voters. they represent the 4% of the people that show up in a republican primary. the key is for arizona, for us to be able to break out of that and gi

i would advise you to avoid it completely, and use martin luther king drive or the schuylkill expressway, as an alternate. we also have fire location, it was earlier dumpster fire. ukee was talking about this not too long ago on walnut between 39th and 40th. so your best alternates in this area would be market or spruce. no major delays for mass transit. ukee? >> student in university city evacuated earlier this morning because of the dumpster fire. fire sent smoke into the highrise. no reported injuries. that fire once again is under control. >> also, this morning, a house fire in philadelphia's frankford neighborhood to tell you b "eyewitness news" at the scene on the 1700 block of bridge street, one firefighter suffered minor injuries, five people inside did make it out safely. now, officials tell us smoke detectors alerted the resident to the fire in their kitchen. there is no word right now on a cause. >>> developing right now, a security guard shot at the census bureau headquarters in maryland has died. authorities say that guard id as 59 year old laurence buchner was shot after he

. >> you were thinking back today to what your father robert kennedy did the martin luther king, jr. killed. he was campaigning in indianapolis. he went in the streets, calmed people down. he gave two significant speeches there. >> he gave a speech in indianapolis the night martin luther king -- when most 30 city0 cities across the country went up in flames much like baltimore last night. what he said is you may be bitter because a white person killed martin luther king, but my own brother was killed by a white plan. what -- white man. we can't live with bitterness. we have love and compassion whether they be black or white. let us tame the savageness of man. i think what you've seen -- and i find it encouraging from the child, the mothers, political leaders, is they're not playing the blame game. they're saying what can we do to bring our city together and make it gentle and make us a community again? >> and as a former lieutenant governor of maryland the relationship between the republicans in the state house and the mayor there could be difficult. >> it could be difficult. and you

. >> 7:00 o'clock it takes over the parkway, martin luther king drive and art museum circle. we will see some delays and closures with this race and run tomorrow morning and all of the septa bus routes in that area will be detoured as well. like the first event of the season, that takes over the kelly and martin luther king drives on the saturday, and sunday. philly international will be a busy spot today with folks leaving town for the holiday weekend, folks arriving for the holiday weekend and then, of course the weather will most likely slow us down. do check with the airline before you head down to the airport today. route 36 trolley using shuttle buses throughout the the weekend all due to track work but otherwise mass transit is looking good. >>> two people recovering in the hospital and another is arrested after a house party turns violent in north philadelphia fox 29's jenny joyce live, with more on this story, hi jennifer. >> reporter: good morning. we don't know of any temple university students at that house party or involved in anyway but we do know it happened ju

how does she fit into this story of using shame well and martin luther king of course. >> it was just a great line of martin luther king's, in the book about how -- which i included in the book -- about how the purpose of the monterrey bus boycott was to shame and open up a feeling of shame moral shame, in the the oppressors and so part -- the boycott was so strategic, which is so fascinating and it was designed to attract attention and to -- the reputation it was attacking was more about the system as a whole than anything to do with montgomery specifically and this is so what i think is the essence of really smart and strategic shaming, something that goes after a deeper system some that is why i contrast some of these examples with individual, like you were mentioned justin sachow with somebody like matt binder which has a public shaming site -- eye. no comparing him to martin luther king but rather than going after individuals he goes after groups, swaths of people that say sort of similar things, trying to -- it's not searchable. trying to sort of shame america or get america in

cornell west is on afterwards and looks at the radical politics of martin luther king jr.. phnom chomsky weighs in on domestic and international affairs and we visit tulsa, okla. to look at the city's literary sites and talked with doctors. this weekend books on standardized testing in public schools and how presidents handle crisis situations. for complete schedule visit booktv.org. >> if you ask what do the british fear the most, they fought the sterling gained 4 fanatics and they were fanatics engage mostly in political assassination. there were never more than 5,000 persons including support. what they always worried about was what numbered 60,000 members at least, then they realized both of those paramilitary forces decided to actively participate, holding on to palestine would be untenable. of course as you know there was a brief period after world war ii when they allied and engage in attacks against british targets. as you pointed out the radar stations along the coast the intercepted ships bringing illegal immigrants. in june of 1946, the night of the bridges, a ph

c-span two, tonight at 10:00 activist and author cornell west on the radical, political thinking of martin luther king jr. and sunday at noon, a live, three-hour conversation with the times best-selling author ronald kessler. he has written 20 books. and on american history tv on c-span3 tonight at 8:00, east carolina university professor charles calhoun on the obstacles they tend to call bush's made by -- and a coupled of publishers -- accomplishes made by you was is as grand. all weekend, american history tv is featuring the city of pulsar, a local business -- of tulsa. his proposal to build a highway from chicago to los angeles was approved in 1926. posted -- posted by our caulks cable -- learn more about tulsa all weekend on american history tv. >> tulsa, late 1800s, was a much more sleepy town then it was during the oil boom of the 1920's. with the discovery of oil around the early 1900s just north of here and later to our west tulsa, overnight was transformed from a sleepy, indian outpost with a sprinkling of settlers into overnight, what are your first two as little arabia. many of them ca

martin luther king, jr. so for us to sit on this kind of pain all these years, the only thing that's more surprising is it happened long before now. but we cannot commiserate over spilled milk. we have to figure out how we're going to move forward. there's still a focus that has to be addressed how it is we bring redress to some of the flawed characteristics that are taking place within the baltimore police department. i pray that starts tomorrow. this has been a horrible day, but we believe we're starting a fresh day tomorrow and we're not going to stop the fight. >> pastor jamal bryant, thank you. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> the pastor mentioned something i would like to add a footnote to as you think about the neighborhood where this is happening. it turns out that freddie gray's family filed a lawsuit against the man who owned the apartment they rented for negligence because they had been exposed to lead poisoning. they had levels of lead in their blood nearly double the minimum. that case was eve

a head up for tonight's evening rush hour, they are closing the martin luther king drive tonight at 7:00 o'clock for a ucp walk. so that is going to tie us up. anyone getting a late start leaving the the city at 7:00 o'clock, you have to use either the kelly drive or schuylkill expressway and that is something we will keep reminding you throughout the morning. put a little sticky tab on the dashboard for later on. forty-two, 295 looking good, mass transit running with no delays chris and lauren back to you. >>> top baltimore officials and the police department promising a thorough investigation of the man died of severe spinal injury while in police custody. >> yesterday protesters called for the officers involved to be charged with murder. twenty-five year-old freddie gray was shot by police on april 12th after they say he was running away from them. he was rush to the hospital with spinal injuries but died yesterday. >>> mayor of the baltimore is calling for accountability. >> we will provide the community with all of the answers, that the community that the community deserves, we w

martin luther king jr. she is the ceo of the king center in atlanta and joins us from the cnn center. dr. king thanks so much for joining us. let's talk about your reaction to this fatal shooting in north charleston. you wrote this and i'll put it up on the screen. "if we don't respond to the death of walter scott and similar incidents with the fierce urgency of now, the moral fabric of this nation will continue to be torn to pieces." tell us what you mean by that, bernice. >> well wolf, i don't think it's a secret that we still have a very serious racial issues in our nation. and it permeates probably every arena of american life. and we've got to rapidly begin the process of facing this consistently and in an urgent manner and talking about how race factors into incidences like law enforcement with unarmed black citizens. we can't ignore that. it's certainly not the only thing. but it has become so pervasive, at least recently that it's something if we don't -- if we ignore it i think we're going to pay a

kelly drive martin luther king drive i saw that yesterday, that debris all over the roadway.ve look, southbound lanes of i-95 their route 320 heading down in delaware county only two right lanes are opened as they roll to the next camera roosevelt boulevard slow here from the kelly drive down to the a approach of the schuykill expressway. live look the at conshohocken curve here you can see that spray kicking up off the cars and trucks there. it the will be a rough morning rush hour in the rain and wet road are naturally going to slow us down. because of the heavy rain, thunder boomers we had last night a lot of power outages and traffic lights out like here in brideberg. torresdale and harbison lights are out lights out on the roosevelt boulevard at manner street with cross traffic. flooding at the brooklawn circle right where 130 ape 47 come together. that always happens. heavy rain couple with that high tides. may take a couple that hours. head up for tonight they are having a benefit walk that is closing the martin luther king drive. typically they have these walks over w

with saturday marking the 47th anniversary of doctor martin luther king jr.'sassination, marchers say it day was a way to carry on king's legacy. >> right to unionize, full employment here in the city of philadelphia. >> organizers say saturday's march was a precursor to a possible nationwide strike by fast-food workers set for april 15th. >> looking pretty good so far. >> so many out on the boardwalk just look closely they're there. >> very tiny though, i can't believe how small the people are, walking on the boardwalk. but,. >> maybe great -- maybe i am the giant. look at them all. come to the shorement probably enjoyed the sunrise maybe gone to sunrise service they're out, there the weather great, dry little windy. now, i know you just have not seen enough snow. so i had to show you jack frost big boulder why we're so glad it is spring. un here probably going to be very soon finding little green shoot coming up, which is going to feel so nice, look so nice, then we can start mowing again. >> 35 degrees in the poconos 39 in allentown, 46 philadelphia, 43 mil

we have the martin luther king drive close in the both directions between the parkway and eakin's oval for recreation activity, kelly drive closed between sedgley and hunting park avenue. regatta going on until 5:00 p.m. inbound between logan circle, and 19th, race street, going on and things are moving very smoothly on 95 through philadelphia. and let's go to the last shot, we have 95 at penn's landing. and the flyers are playing at noon today. so watch out for that. and we have septa reporting route 36 trolley using shuttle buses between 73rd and elmwood avenue and 80 he street and eastwick avenue between the track work through today. that's the latest from cb3 traffic center. nicole, back to you. >> melanie, thanks for the update appreciate t7:21 carol answers your pet questions in this week's ask the vet. >> practically everything you need to know about rabbit. and why you should adopt them. we'll have that, coming up. >> lynn is the founder of this great animal rescue, love and buns. this is holly and there is lola. easter, a lot of people think that rabbits are great pets, they s

martin luther king. katrina: dr. luther king's last essay was about moving to a civil rights crisis, and he came out against the vietnam war. there was a history and a relationship there. james baldwin, as you said, wrote his first he's for the nation. what is stunning is to read from his report, "occupied territory -- harlem, not the middle east" is used of stop and frisk. the correspondence between past and present and the different motive storytelling. multimedia video exposing stop and frisk abuses in harlem. it was cited by the judge in her court decision ruling stop and frisk discriminatory and unconstitutional. amy: read james baldwin. katrina: i will read the words. this is a report from occupied territory, july, 1966. "the citizens of harlem who, as we have seen, can come to grief at any hour in the streets, and who are not safe at their windows, are forbidden the very air. they are safe only in their housesor were, until the city passed the no knock, stop and frisk laws, which permit a policeman to enter on

martin luther king jr.'s final year". >> host: we usually don't start with a question but what is the proudest moment of your career so far to . >> guest: wow. well, i don't need to sound snarky or snippy, but i hope it's yet to come. i feel fortunate that i am now 15 years on public radio and i feel very blessed to be able to have done all that we have done so far. and i hope that the best is yet to come. if i had to pick something it would be that i'm i am still here and there are so many people who bet against me in so many moments of my life. i remember the complaints that came in, my favorite was he last two boisterously my lap was too much my cadence was wrong, i spoke too fast everything was too big for public radio because npr says this is national public radio. and my status is so different from that. so the betting wasn't that i was going to make it. so the betting wasn't as high charlie rose had done well for years. but nobody expected me to make it. long story short it would be that i am still he

the deadly crash happened in oakland early saturday morning on martin luther king way near 59th street. the crash victim.wesley burton. was a local radio host. he worked at k-p-f-a radio station in berkeley. it's been 20 years since the oklahoma city bombing.the country's worst act of domestic terrorism. several hundred people gathered at the former site of the oklahoma city federal building today to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the bombing there that killed 168 people. >> vicki: former president bill clinton, who was in office when the bomb went off in 1995, spoke to the victims and their families. timothy mcveigh was executed for carrying out the deadly attack. his accomplice, terry nichols is serving life in prison. today is the final day of san francisco's cherry blossom festival. the big cultural event wrapped up this afternoon in japantown. some 50 thousand people coming from all over the bay to enjoy the day. this is the 48th year of the event that celebrates japanese traditions. there was a parade, plenty of food, and of course the ever popular taiko drummers. organizers

my mind turned to our most famous alumnus from the class of 1948, martin luther king jr. vorite quotes from martin luther king is the following. the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. today, of course, we'd have to modify that to say man or woman. today i'd like to say to you, the national league of cities, the ultimate measure of an organization is not where it stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where it stands at times of challenge and controversy. so i want to thank the national league of cities. first, for your stand with the men and women of the department of homeland security as we fought for a four-year appropriation last week. [ applause ] i want to thank you for standing with the 225,000 people in our organization who are members of the coast guard, the secret service, fema, immigration enforcement, citizenship, and immigration services, and i could go on and on, for your courageous and unyielding stand in support of the homeland security

martin luther king jr.' >> host: we usually don't start with a question but what is the proudest moment of your career so far to . >> guest: wow. well, i don't need to sound snarky or snippy, but i hope it's yet to come. i feel fortunate that i am now 15 years on

fbi's emanity and infiltration of martin luther king and j. edgar hoover referred to him as bizarro, my question, i will start what about your coretta king's successful civil case against the fbi and the federal government? what are your thoughts about dick gregory and mark lane's wonderfully researched book, code name sorrow -- "zorro". and after coretta successful case against the fbi why did not thousands and thousands of blacks take to the streets and protest for the way they did of the sad case of mr. garland? probably the most successful entertainer, political activist, who was black in this country was paul robeson. why is it that very successful blacks like spike lee and -- >> host: let's bring this to conclusion? >> caller: not fund ad movie about paul robeson. >> guest: a lot of good stuff there. two quick answers. with regard to your question about mrs. king and my friend dick gregory and others who have done a lot of work on the assassination of dr. king, this book, death of a king. not about the assassination. from april 4th six s

but who you love and who you marry is not my judgment. >> me and martin luther king have two things inrom georgia and he went to school in chesterton pa. he spoke at a church. i'm one of martin luther king's protÉgÉs. i want to put together the biggest rally in march this is ever seen for jobs, education healthcare schoolteachers colleges unions for the middle class the pick, the poor. where is this going to be held? >> in washington d.c. on fourth of july. >> that's an ambitious plan. it raises a question. whether or not march are as effective as they used to be. i think they can be, but i think you have to be careful. i get invited to a lot of these things and i do believe that you have to be up front. you have to catch the attention of people and i wonder whether or not marches are a default position. the real work king led marches, but the real work is change and that happens out of sight. there could be armchair revolutionaries at the keyboard but there's a lot of work that it takes to make stuff happen. you catch hell for what you say and you get called names. it doesn't feel goo

>> next, jim, we are hearing that there is a group of protesters who are moving down mlk or martin luther king jr. and that is an even bigger thoroughfare. i think a really good comparison to that is new york avenue. if they're moving down south that way, we are hearing they could be going as far as 25 blocks south and may be moving in the direction -- oh. let me see what this is. okay. they may be moving in the direction of city hall closer to the inner harbor area so we're hearing a conversation of closing the gates at camden yards with a game tonight. we're hearing they're moving to lexington market. >> look at this live video right here. >> this is a cash checking store. much more massive than the cvs. >> yeah. is this north avenue? do we know? okay. i'm being told we don't know if this is north avenue or not. okay. we are being told this is north avenue so this is a business. this is a typical business that you would see on north avenue. as i said it is really the center of working baltimore. and it looks like they are looting a checks cashed location. the question is are they findin

when we read plato and augustine and john henry newman, when mary reid martin luther king jr. or anybody else. we have a whole lot in common and in fact we are deeply concerned about the state of this very fragile experiment called the usa. so how should we begin my friend? >> well am i going to have to use this again? the first thing i would like to do is correct the title of our program. now the title i have here is a workable armistice in the culture wars. now i have no particular love for armistice is. what professor west and i are about is conversations, getting at the truth not just finding a way to agree or a way to avoid difficult issues on which people disagree but to have a conversation conversation is aimed at getting both of the interlocutors so everybody concerned can mirror the truth. i think it's important to remember that the goal is the goal of truth seeking and the bond that should bind together interlocutor is whether they agree or disagree is the bond truth seeking understanding seeking and wisdom seeking. but for that to happen there needs to be as anyone