. >> the autobiography of malcolm x. audiobook so special. >> in a nutshell it is a way of escape and departure and away from ordinary life. >> i grew up in vietnam my mother used to tell me stories about the village. and had to leave home for studies i missed being pampered by her voice so i went listen to cassette tape of recorded stories. >> there are things you may have interpreted completely differently and you say it that way. okay i see what you are coming from. >> during the pandemic i escaped the city and spent a lot of time driving which means i got to spend our time listening to audiobooks which is the absolute single best thing that has happened to me during the pandemic. >> it is one of the heartbeats of humans and how we communicate. audiobooks are just another way of taking that to the next level. [applause] >> it is my great pleasure to hand things over to best-selling author david said areas known for his brilliant observations. david is kind enough to demonstrate the audiobook experience for us by not h

so what we did do is that we invited malcolm x to to come up, and he talked to us at elliott house. and that was a really mind-blowing for all of us in the sense that we were starting to think at that point that maybe integration was not going to work and maybe we should be more separatists and get into the black power thing and that that changed a lot of minds and then we decided that we wanted to set up a black student organization and and again, we didn't have any particular radical ideas. we just wanted a place where we could all club where we could meet together and invite speakers up and talk and maybe publish a magazine or something and it would be called the the african the association of african and afro-american students and membership would be limited to people who are of african or african or african-american heritage. and we assume that it would be find that the university would agree. but when we propose it to them, they said no because they felt it was reverse discrimination and we claimed we were really upset about that because harvard has these things called final c

and all young malcolm x. was doing was you know hanging out with white people and he didn't show you know the true. history but as anthony said earlier this is a fictional character who never said in this in his character description that he was so called black so i think that we should continue thinking about luther as the celebration of an exceptional you know acting career that has been heralded and as mr who is also a fellow serially only in a whole bunch of accolades we have to be extremely careful they were characters like benson back in the early eighty's you know that apparently weren't black enough and again black people are are not monolithic in the united can and can definitely attest to and this idea that we're going to let hollywood or anyone else determine what blackness is and what blackness isn't is very pernicious incredible in the wire as well as nic. what's your thoughts maybe that's why not the conversation here what's your thoughts in having a diversity chief at all in fact there's 2 at t

it didn't come out of nowhere anymore then malcolm x and baldwin came out of nowhere. there were precursors and traditions soul city emerged from. >> thank you for sharing that. in your book, and need for economic empowerment and we are still wear we have a large collection it's difficult for this representation of racial minorities. we just want -- three years ago kern county, not l.a. county because up until then, i just want to tell you now, eight out of ten council members are ethnic or racial minorities and six of ten are women so we are very proud for that learning and understanding our history better so we can make some progress. we begin to, it is interesting and thank you for your time, i'd like to begin opportunity to come and talk about final statements and wrap up this discussion so with that, let's start with you, thomas with some final words. >> sure, i'd be glad. i'm going to take the opportunity to read a little package because i want to make clear what the vision was behind soul city and i talked about these traditions soul city emerged out of, this ut

. >> great box office for a wednesday and that's what opening day crowds paid to see malcolm x. >> it'son called spike lee. spike lee is a black man who has reached the top of white culture and he's done it his way. >> malcolm x is an impressive achievement in terms of not being one of these small independent emergent new voices connected to hip-hop, but instead a big budget, three-hour 20 minute epic about an african-american figure. >> i asked if he was ever worried the movie would not appeal to a broad audience? >> people come but the minute you start thinking about crossover, start diluting the work, watering it down and the work suffers. >> when we look at the john singletons and the spice, all the way across the board, this became the era where we took charge of our own culture, our own cultural icons and telling our own stories, express even music or theater or in cinema. >> in los angeles, one woman is stirring memories and trying to bring about an understanding of the events that tore that city apart a little more than a year ago. her name is anna devere smith and she's taken t

one day i brought a copy of the autobiography of malcolm x to class. he said i don't want that book in my class he said he is a racist. i said have you ever read it? he said now i said how do you know he is a racist? i said you should read the book before you make a judgment. don't you teach us that? he said okay so he challenge me to write a book report which i did and present that about malcolm x. what i admired about him that i did think he was a very good teacher was his w willingness to admit he had taken an action that he taught us don't judge a book by its cover and don't just react but he was doing that. so to me that model the kind of teaching and thinking i think we should encourage don't judge ad book by its cover don't be so quick to react. try to understand another person's perspective it just means you understand where they are coming from. our society would be a lot better off if there were more of that. >> that's great. i didn't realize you are both social studies teachers. had some questions from the audience and we covered a lot in th

of course people know him from malcolm x, do the right thing. >> oh, yes. >> he has a wonderful one man show about huey newton. it was a film that was just surreal and incredible. i feel blessed to have the opportunity to work with him. we are doing that through santo and san jose. people should look for that. it's going to be an amazing show. >> what's impressed me is you are committed to the art and the talent and not just the income, which you do appreciate. but whether you are getting paid or not, you will be there because that's your gift. >> at this stage if i am not getting paid, i ain't going to be there. can i say that. >> that's all right. it's true. >> i mentor young people. i used to act coach people like laura hayes. the young people i work with now, i don't charge because i tell them all i want is for you to be successful. there is stuff i do to give back. for love life, a lot of of that is volunteer work if you will. but when it comes to the business itself, one of my first mentors told me the word business is bigger than the word show. so you better have your business to

and they happened-- they just happened to be malcolm x, jim brown and sam cooke.d. so they spend the evening palling around in malcolm's hotel room, one of the all-black motels down in miami. and this movie-- nobody knows what the gentlemen talked about in the hotel room where it happened as it were. but kemp powers, oscar-nominatad kemp powers, received a nomination for this beautiful script. he supposes what these men might have talked about all night long. >> stephen: it-- the-- your performance, everyone's performance is incredible on this. but, also, powers' writing is amazing, the sort of writing i associate with patty chaifsky. every character saying what that moment is about. and when they do, you think i agree with them. it's very balanced. and there's a great tension between the character of sam cooke and the character of malcolm x about what the position is. what a black man of notoriety in the 1960s should do to better his own people. and, tragically, both of those men-- i don't believe-- survive another year, or maybe barely more than a year for one o

to talk before about minnesota i think of one of my i think most important quotes that ring true malcolm x.'s you know the chickens are coming home to roost the bite in the administration yes did inherit a problem from the trumpet ministration in that you know they're inhumane treatment of you know immigrants including children in families or especially children and families. was a situation that wasn't necessarily created by biden and his administration however they hear about obama. you know yes. again that is true and no matter what rhetoric by news we plan to hold this administration's feet to the fire is the best thank you that's it for the show will be back on wednesday had it with us today for a special environment edition of going on the ground with the un ruppert to on the environment and. captain paul watson about capitalism and the threat of imminent human extinction until then don't forget to subscribe so you never see. psychiatric drugs are essential for millions of patients rather they want that pill that they hope will take care of their problem thoroughly and rapidly in the

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the republican party, like malcolm x said, the republican party is nothing but a bunch of white people who have nothing invested in the institution of democracy. they only participate in democracy as an oppressive measure against blacks. the natural thing is to go to an autocratic government because they look at the numbers and they see that democracy does not fit their agenda. what we have here now is an armed militia group, armed insurrection, we have the military wing, the armed wing of the republican party which has become the boogaloo boys, the proud boys, it has always been there. they have always had the ku klux klan, they have always had the police to do their two -- to do their footwork for the movement. host: are these groups closely aligned with republicans? guest: they fall in two categories. there are groups that are very heavily trump is and i would say trumpist then they more broadly republican because trump is the person they more broadly identified with. and then there are groups that are more agnostic and less focused on trump and less devoted to trump. but i think he

the republican party, like malcolm x said, the republican party is nothing but a bunch of white people after the civil war that have nothing invested in the institution of democracy and they only participate in the democracy against an oppressive measure against blacks, and you look at the numbers now and you see that democracy doesn't fit their agenda, and what we have here now is in our militia group, we have the military wing, the armed wing of the republican party which has become the proud boys, and they have always been there and always had the ku klux klan and had the police to do there and be their foot soldiers. >> are these groups closely aligned with republicans? >> i would say they fall into two categories, there are groups that are very heavily trumpists, and i would say trumpists more than broadly republican, because trump is who they identify with, and then there are groups that i would say are more agnostic and less focused on trump and less devoted to trump, i would say, but i think he's a big part of what things had changed. if mitt romney had been president or george

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first let me -- look i know a gang of malcolm x lawyers who would agree. doctors can be sued if they make tiss takes. police officers can't because they have qualified immunity. literally the police officers have a legal different standard of when you can sue them for mistake than you do a doctor which is one thing that we should reform. at a general level i think you want me to say that the duty of an office ser to protect and serve the community and i don't have a problem with that as the kind of avenger duty of captain protect and serve. ok, fine that's what they're supposed to do. what those duties are bound by is the u.s. constitution. so the police officer is not like a private actor they are an agent of the state and as such they must be bound within constitutional limits. so the fourth amendment of the constitution says that we are protected from unreasonable search and seizure. now we've determined seizure to mean shooting people and searches are somewhat self-evident but we haven't defined unreasonable. right now the legal standard is that reason

or maybe lebron will take a book and freda malcolm x the billionaire lebron.about the impressions of the world. it's driven by an elite group of blacks and an elite group of bicoastal white elites who really, to tell you the truth, they know the existential problem. why 7,000 african-americans are killing themselves in inner cities and they are poorly run in the schools are bad. if they do not want to put their kids into public schools and they do not want to get on the ground in a concrete fashion and say to people, let's preserve the african nuclear family. let's stop the abortion at stop the fatherless households. what can i do concretely? it's virtual the abstract, and i feel so wonderful about myself. but that's not going to solve the problem. we know what the problem is, we got to all talk bluntly about the black family which is the key to restoring black success. most of the elites know that in the black community. >> tucker: i think all of us know that the families are the key to success. i think all of us feel that way. victor davis hanson, i apprecia

the year before for the pan-african rally in malcolm x park. i had driven my little corvette across the united states to new york and was at the rally. the next year it was the african liberation day rally, that's what was called. the next year we had the african liberation day rally in st. paul. she was in graduate school, i was in graduate school. she was carrying a sign behind me. i turned around and said who is the sister with the angela davis fro? i asked my friend to check her out because i didn't want to be obvious. he said, that is worth checking out. later that week we were in a meeting and i sat next to her and began to talk and a couple of days later went to another meeting and that was it. we talked and talked and talked. >> and now how many years have you been talking? >> 42 years. [laughter] >> wonderful, wonderful. seeing some of your afflictions, i would love to know -- reflections, how does your wartime experience affect your life. >> first of all, it solidifies my belief that education was the way out. i saw poor whites and po

one day i brought a copy of the autobiography of malcolm x to class. he reacted right away and said i don't want that book in my class. he's a racist. i said have you ever read it and he said no. how do you know he is a racist? i said you should read the book before you make a judgment. what i admired about him i thought he was a very good teacher, it was his willingness to at least admit that he had taken and action and taught us don't judge a book by its cover and here he was doing that very thing. so that kind of teaching i think we should encourage. don't judge a book by its cover. don't be so quick to react. try to understand another person's perspective. i didn't realize you are both social studies teachers the role of education and democracy, because what we have all sort of known in this line of work particularly we are starting to see an interest in civic education and civic engagement particularly since the events of january 6th. what do you all make of that and do you see any particular effort or organization that you're most excited about t

the revolutionary lives of malcolm x and martin luther king jr.nd i were talking about it, i think it was at breakfast the other day. we were talking about the derek chauvin trial. whether it should be the george floyd trial. some people think it should be the george floyd trial because he is a household name and it brings attention to it. but it is the derek chauvin trial. the defense kept trying to focus on it floyd's drug use, trying to get a witness to say he ate too many will drugs. practically naming the man who died. what does that say to you? >> we have a long history in manager of turning victims into criminals. and we think about whether it is walter scott recently, whether we think about the death of denzel dowell i am a 1st, 1967, who really inspired the black panthers party to put out the first black panther newspaper in rich mohammad, california. we think about the death, there is a consistent pattern of police criminalizing certainly black bodies, black women and men, this idea of black men being violent. always being aggressive. ro

he is the author of "the sword and the shield, the revolutionary lives the malcolm x and martin luther clearly this country is still grappling with slavery. do teachers need to take a more active role in teaching anti-racism? >> absolutely. anti-racism but also the history of racial slavery. i'm heartbroken over two aspects of this story, one, the denial of the school initially that this was racism and this kind of hurt considered, but two, the fact that petagogically we're just not teaching history to all of our children, don, irrespective of race. the national controversy we've had over 1619 project versus 1776 commission, all of this is connected to racial slavery. weaver we've got to teach that history to our children, and for black children, they've got to understand it is not a history they should be ashamed of, it is a history where our work and labor actually built up the united states of america, and in the process we saved democracy. the only reason we aren't driving democracy in america is because of black people and black people's role in challenging and transforming this n

it reminds me of the malcolm x quote, if there's a knife in my back and it's in six inches and you pull is healing. pulling a guy with a knife in his back, talking about that knife, and congratulating ourselves for at least noticing the knife. >> it feels a little weird, just like how it started. it just feels weird, how the conversation's occurring. >> welcome to the cognitive dissonance of being black in america, kate bolduan, congratulations, people are having conversations about you while you're in the midst of experiencing trauma instead of saying what are the big ways we can heal the trauma. >> let's get to what you're focused on in "united shades" this season, the first episode is focusingen of policing and racism in america. let me play a review for everybody. >> is this moment different? as far as like where we are in america, and specifically around law enforcement? >> for me it's just this moment of being a black man in a police uniform, right, and there are some problems. so systemic problems. that's been in policing for a very long time that you know need to be rooted out.

king made it very clear as did malcolm x and so many others that the struggle is not just this moment. it is what future generations will have to be prepared to engage in as well. this generation has figured out a way to turn that lock, open that door, get inside the room and mess things up a bit. and that's a good thing. that's a good thing. >> paul? >> i agree with michael. it's good trouble. in the eyes of the law, derek chauvin is a murderer. it's official. that's what our eyes told us, and now that's what the jury has found. and it should have been obvious based on the overwhelming evidence. but in other cases, what's obvious is different than what the jury finds. so trials aren't about social change. they're about accountability and bringing people who cause harm to justice. one police officer has been held accountable. and the law has recognized that one black man's life mattered. now the challenge is to move from the rare occasional victories to equal justice under the law being imbedded in policing and in the criminal legal system. >> yeah. i really appreciate what both of yo

or violence by the state or murders that ended the lives of a generation of leaders from king to malcolm xes. what is called the civil rights movement was really insurrection. so one can say that the latest slave rebellion was brutally put down. we all know what happened to malcolm. we know what happened to martin. we know what happened to fred hampton and mark clark. and so many more. >> that's a little bit of the history as we watch more history unfold tonight. and this admittedly incomplete report has thus far briefly touched on the economy and the pandemic. now as for the police conduct that set off these wider protests, that history has been with us a long time. the repeated use of excessive force and killing, which begins as incidents but then, worse, becomes formally legitimized in a u.s. criminal justice system that allows and defends it. now we can report that to you tonight as a fact because the facts show a vast majority of the allegations against police in these instances result in no firings let alone criminal charges. in the few cases that do lead to a charge, take roughly 15

. >> malcolm x went through that evolution. he wept through the period of being a black nationalist. and after traveling, not jurst around the world but in parts of america. he began to realize that the struggle was not just about black people. that the struggle was for the rights all oppressed people. >> that was an enduring kind of solidarity that i felt with members of the panther party and the era and it is a sense of duty for me, and a sense of honor. we are going to look out for each other. >> and the fact that black-americans are such a small population. how could we talk about changing the system, in america? revolution, in america, when we're such a small part of the pie? >> reporter: in the late '60s, the panthers banded together with chuck's patriot party who organized people. other organizations doing similar work out of new york and chicago and the young patriots organization, also, out of chicago. talk about the role that, you know, that guns played back then, especially, with the panther party. >> we carried our

so even malcolm x. who had some problematic scenes with the way he has women but he credits his mom that she was the first to teach this discipline he found in the nation of islam and before he even met mohammed. so why is it if we have this evidence that we just erased it over time? it's an understanding of sexism in society and racism and the intersectional oppression that black women are facing we don't think our lives are worthy of documentation and not worthy of celebrating >> welcome everyone. >> welcome everybody i am the owner of the bookshop here in usas people are joining from all over the country or even beyond i am thrilled tonight to be here to introducest an icon of our staff we are so thrilled he will be joining us tonight so i'd like to introduce our guest author and his conversational partner.

even malcolm x who had some problematic scenes about how he feels about women.so credits his mom was saying she was the first to teach him the discipline that he found in the nation of islam. return to her teachings before he even met muhammad. if we have this evidence and we included in the book we just erased it over time so part of it is a misunderstanding of sexism in our society. of racism in our society and the inter- sectional black women are facing our people don't think that our lives are worthy of documentation. and they are not worthy of celebrating. >> to watch the rest is part of his or website booktv.org. search the title of her book the three mothers searching the search box at the top of the page. >> here's a look at publishing industry newsprint former vice president mike pence assigned a two book deal with simon & schuster which will include the former vice president's memoir. scheduled to release in 2023 and is currently untitled. the american library association has released their annual list of the ten most challenged books from last year. t

community who would unite the peaceful, non-violent side of martin luther king and the activist side of malcolm xose qualities in hand, and even though he was 21 years old when he was murdered, he was their greatest fear. i mean, as hoover said in the opening sequence, it was true. he was a greater threat to the united states than china or the soviet union. >> was it weird? just describe for us what it was like to play him. >> well, he was -- he was such a -- you know, i had a friend who was his boss, a dear friend, ramsey clark, who incidentally passed away just past friday, april 9th. not many people are aware of that yet. but i did a documentary called "a life of principal" about ramsey clark, which is available on www. lifeofprincipal.com. he was hoover's boss. when nixon was elected, mitchell took over the justice department, and ramsey went about defending the people that he had prosecuted when he was attorney general. and one of the most famous trials with the trial of the harrisburg 7 in 1972 where they were charged with conspiracy to the federal government and hoover had compromised one

first let me -- look i know a gang of malcolm x lawyers who would agree. be sued if they make tiss takes. police officers can't because they have qualified immunity. literally the police officers have a legal different standard of when you can sue them for mistake than you do a doctor which is one thing that we should reform. at a general level i think you want me to say that the duty of an office ser to protect and serve the community and i don't have a problem with that as the kind of avenger duty of captain protect and serve. ok, fine that's what they're supposed to do. what those duties are bound by is the u.s. constitution. so the police officer is not like a private actor they are an agent of the state and as such they must be bound within constitutional limits. so the fourth amendment of the constitution says that we are protected from unreasonable search and seizure. now we've determined seizure to mean shooting people and searches are somewhat self-evident but we haven't defined unreasonable. right now the legal standard is that reasonable is in t

the republican party, like malcolm x said, the republican party is nothing but a bunch of white peoplee nothing invested in the institution of democracy. they only participate in democracy as an oppressive measure against blacks. the natural thing is to go to an autocratic government because they look at the numbers and they see that democracy does not fit their agenda. what we have here now is an armed militia group, armed insurrection, we have the military wing, the armed wing of the republican party which has become the boogaloo boys, the proud boys, it has always been there. they have always had the ku klux klan, they have always had the police to do their two -- to do their footwork for the movement. host: are these groups closely aligned with republicans? guest: they fall in two categories. there are groups that are very heavily trump is and i would say trumpist then they more broadly republican because trump is the person they more broadly identified with. and then there are groups that are more agnostic and less focused on trump and less devoted to trump. but i think he is a bi