i'm maria hinojosa, this is one on one. professor henry louis gates from harvard, professor ilan stavans from amherst, welcome to our program. it's so great to have you here. >> it's a pleasure. >> thank you, maria. >> hinojosa: so you know, when we talk about african americanpe living it on a day to day basis, but both of you kind of approach this from your academic perspectives in terms of literature. so professor gates-- we'll just call you skip... >> mm-hmm. >> hinojosa: ...why look at this current important relationship through the prism of literature? >> well, i've added to the norton anthology of african american literature along with ten of my colleagues... >> hinojosa: this big book-- big, heavy book, yes. >> ( laughing ) it's the big bible. this... the mother ship of black literature. in order to enshrine african american literature in the academy. look, if you are from the whitest place in say, idaho and there are no black people around and you can't get black books in the bookstore, if you can get one anthology,

i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org jennifer 8. lee, you are a former new york times reporter and the author of fortune cookie chronicles: adventures in the world of chinese food. and lets just start with that first statistic of if you look at the number of mcdonald's, burger kings, kentucky fried chickens, and wendy's combined

i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> hinojosa: dolores huerta, you are an icon in the latino community, the cofounder of the united farm workers union. you have your own foundation now, the dolores huerta foundation. it's truly an honor to have you on our show. >> well, thank you, maria. it's an honor to be here. >> hinojosa: so a lot of people probably may not immediately know your name. but if you say united farm workers, if you say cesar chavez, if you say the grape boycott of the 1970s, then people kind of start piecing it together. but you are an extraordinary leader in your own right, dolores. and i kind of wonder, how do you put that into place, where on the one hand you were side by side this amazing leader, cesar chavez, and yet you were a leader onto yourself, but always a little bit behind the scenes. >> i think we did different tasks. i mean, i was pretty visible, actually. maybe not in the media, but-- excuse me-- i was in charge of negotiations, i ra

david brooks, maria hinojosa, stephanie rawlings-blake, hugh hewitt. maria, a vision. that was interesting. mayor de blasio, not ready to technically endorse her because of this -- you talk to the progressive community. is there a real hesitance or just trying to pressure her? >> you see the hesitance there. he was her campaign manager. you would expect him to say i'm in. what i'm hearing at least, from immigration activists, they want to continue the push to a more progressive side of things. that's going to come in interesting ways. it comes down to the questions, humility and authenticity, how do you make that happen? the one time i saw hillary clinton, i covered her a lot, when it really clicked is when there were no cameras, she had barely no makeup on, little gloss and some mascara, had just flown in, and she was speaking from the heart because she knew she wasn't being covered. how do you replicate that? >> how many, david -- you heard story after story. we all had off the records with her where there is this warm person and she struggles in the public light. i'

i'm maria hinojosa, this is one on one. mayor julian castro, welcome to our program. >> thank you very much for having me. >> hinojosa: so your mom was a big time political activist in the 1960s and 1970s-- chicana activist. your brother is in state government in texas. you're the youngest mayor... or one of the youngest mayors in the country, san antonio, and people are saying, "this family has got a political future." so is that kind of the way you had it all planned out? >> oh, it's... well, that's the way that it's working right now, it seems, but not the way that we planned out. >> hinojosa: so you didn't even think, like, when you were a kid you were like, "i'm going to become a politician like my mom." >> no. you know what's interesting was that because my mother was so involved at that time in different mexican american issues and women's issues, she would drag us to political rallies, to meetings, and for somebody that's five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, those things are not the funnest thing to do in the world. a

i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org jennifer 8. lee, you are a former new york times reporter and the author of fortune cookie chronicles: adventures in the world of chinese food. and lets just start with that first statistic of if you look at the number of mcdonald's, burger kings, kentucky fried chickens, and wendy's combined, you still have more chinese food restaurants. >> more chinese restaurants. more than 45,000, and growing every year, about ten percent. >> hinojosa: so how is that possible? because people think, you know what? you have fast food everywhere in the united states. or there's an image. so the truth is that in fact chinese food is... >> more pervasive, yeah. >> hinojosa: more a part of who we are, in a way. >> exactly, exactly. because, you know, as i like to say, you know, if our benchmark for americanness is apple pie, you should ask yourself, when was the last time you ate apple pie versus when was the last time you ate chinese food? i think

i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org jennifer 8. lee, you are a former new york times reporter and the author of fortune cookie chronicles: adventures in the world of chinese food. and lets just start with that first statistic of if you look at the number of mcdonald's, burger kings, kentucky fried chickens, and wendy's combined, you still have more chinese food restaurants. >> more chinese restaurants. more than 45,000, and growing every year, about ten percent. >> hinojosa: so how is that possible? because people think, you know what? you have fast food everywhere in the united states. or there's an image. so the truth is that in fact chinese food is... >> more pervasive, yeah. >> hinojosa: more a part of who we are, in a way. >> exactly, exactly. because, you know, as i like to say, you know, if our benchmark for americanness is apple pie, you should ask yourself, when was the last time you ate apple pie versus when was the last time you ate chinese food? i think

me for insight and analysis this sunday morning are david brooks of the new york city times, maria hinojosa, host of "latino usa," the mayor of baltimore stephanie rawlings-blake and radio talk show host hugh hewitt. >>> good morning. it is unsurprising and predictable, but it is big news just the same. hillary clinton is making official what everyone knew was inevitable, she is running for president of the united states again. this time she hopes to do it with a lighter touch. on twitter and facebook, sometime this afternoon. it will be less 2008 and more 2000, when she ran that successful campaign for u.s. office, new york senate. officially the campaign is called hillary for america. a not so subtle illusion to president obama's two successful campaigns. in a moment, we'll talk to the campaign manager of hillary clinton's successful senate run, the man who is now mayor of new york city, bill de blasio. first, let's take a look at the beginning of a campaign in which hillary clinton's biggest opponent may very well be hillary clinton. >> i am in. i'm in to win. i'm in. i'm in to win. i'm