i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. mona eltahawy, it's great to have you on our program. >> thanks for having me, maria, it's a pleasure. >> hinojosa: so you know, i actually, when i was writing my description of you, i said, "hmm, i would actually call you an in-your-face moderate muslim feminist." and it's like, wait a second, how can you be an in-your-face moderate muslim? but that's what you are, really. >> if i had to identify with a label, i would use liberal or progressive, because i find moderate doesn't really mean anything and it ends up being used against the muslim community. so how about in-your-face liberal muslim feminist? >> hinojosa: in-your-face muslim liberal feminist, which is... the feminist part is, you get a lot of followers and you get a lot of attention around that. so for our audience, just, you know, describe what a muslim feminist is, because some people might say, "i don't understand that." >> well, you know, as a muslim and a feminist and an egyptian woman, i have a long history to draw on

can we get another hand for maria hinojosa? >> mutual. [applause] >> it's terrific of a joint convention. that's a great idea to bring the black, we took a the black latina revolution to write? we are bringing our minions into one. >> it's great we're here to talk about something so important. the issue of race change, power, demographic change is kind of central at least in this moment in our country. although as i sang last night, the conventions, there was a lot of not people of color media there. this is a conversation that impacts all of us very personally. so we really happy that we get a chance to have a conversation. >> i think this discussion is important because obviously with black lives matter having brought the issue to the floor, it was a new. 400, more than 100 years there have been these complaints about the way the police treated communities of color and black and brown folks feel the brunt of that, that sends a disconnect between needing law enforcement and fearing law enforcement more than anyone else in this society. t

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 american and latino relations, people are 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

i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. sheena iyengar, you are the author of the book the art of choosing. and thank you for choosing to be with us. >> thank you for having me here today. >> hinojosa: so your book starts out basically where you lay out two narratives of your own personal history. you were born in canada, parents are from india, the sikh religion, and you basically say, "here's one story of how my life could be seen, more like a victim, and here's another story of how my life could be seen, which is a life of extraordinary possibilities and choice." and you basically say you want us all to think about how we choose the narrative of our own life. because how we choose to see ourselves says everything about kind of how we do end up seeing ourselves. am i right? >> yes. if i were to ask you, you know, "why are you here-- what is it that ended up making you do what you to today?" you along with anyone else, if you were to answer that question, you could give me any one of three versions of that story. you could

i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. ta-nehisi coates, you're one of the senior editors for the atlantic monthly, you're a blogger, you live on twitter, you wrote this wonderful memoir called the beautiful struggle, about your relationship with your dad. it's great to have you on one on one. >> thank you. i'm honored to be here. >> hinojosa: so, put those two things together. i mean, did you say, "i'm going to be a writer," and then all of a sudden you realized that your life was on the internet or...? >> no, i wrote off-line, in print, for about 12 years almost exclusively, and it's so funny. colson whitehead has this recent piece about writers who complain that twitter and blogging is going to destroy their writing. and it's actually a split that i never really understood much. i love print, and i like blogging and i like tweeting. you know, i like a lot of things. and so it never really struck me as being in contrast or even being a problem or, you know, it being two different worlds or anything like that. it's just w

i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. marian wright edelman, you're an american hero. it's such an honor to have you here. >> it's wonderful to be here with you. >> hinojosa: so we know that you are an expert on policy around children. i've known that for years. you've been doing this for four decades. >> forever. >> hinojosa: forever! but what i really want to start us out talking about is your life, because you have an extraordinary life. it's as if marian wright edelman has this forrest gump life. she was in these places, in extraordinary places, and every page you turn of your life story is like, "she was there, too?" i guess i'm not even sure where to start. south carolina, your parents are very hard-working, your mom is an organizer, but even when you were a kid in school in south carolina, you end up crossing paths with langston hughes. >> well, i've always felt so lucky to have been born who i was, where i was, with the parents i had. and at the time, i was born in the convergence of great people and great historical events. and so i wouldn't have been anybody e

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

can we get another and for maria hinojosa?plause] >> and we want to thank nabj/nahj for having us. it's terrific of a joint convention. that's a great idea to bring the block, we difficult for black latino revolution. we are bringing our two menus into one and it's important. >> it's greater to talk about something so important, the issue of race, change, power, demographic change is kind of central a lease in this moment in our country. although as i was saying last night, the conventions, there was a lot of not people of color media there. setting the narrative. this is a conversation that impacts all of us personally. we are really happy we get a chance to a conversation. >> this discussion is so important because obviously with black lives matter having brought the issue, it wasn't new. we know 400 more than 100 years there have been these complaints about the way please treat communities of color and black and brown folks feel the brunt of that, that sense of disconnect between the law enforcement in fear and law enforcem

i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. wes studi, you are an amazing actor, the star of... well, let's just say avatar, dances with wolves, last of the mohicans, geronimo. what an honor to have you on our program. i have to tell you, i want to go to a movie that came out several years ago-- geronimo, an american legend. because you were... you carried that movie. i'm sure many of our viewers saw that. the moment that i want to talk about for a second is the moment when you first appear onscreen in that movie. and when you are looking at the american soldiers, and you have this look. the camera just kind of zeroes in on your face, and you have this look of distrust, disdain, and interest, and you captured that so well. and i just said it has to be because in your own life as a native american, growing up in oklahoma, these emotions are not... they're not far from your own life, right? >> and they're not foreign, either. yes, it's true. yeah. that's one of the advantages that we as native americans, if you will, american ind

maria hinojosa is taking over again so i will exit stage left. ,maria, i throw it back to you. >> givem a great round of applause. [applause] >> how does education play a role? joining the conversation on race is education secretary john king. ♪ [applause] >> how are you doing? hello. there is no need to have a wall between us. i say tear down that wall. [laughter] [applause] >> how are you? >> i am doing well. don't know if you have ever been in a room with this many journalists of color in one place. i have.'t know if it is a beautiful thing to see. we all suffered through an education to get here. >> i wish we could have students. >> they are here. >> i like that. >> this is all about the students. in this segment of the conversation, we are going to speak with you, i guess get a chance to speak with you directly but we also have a , group of seasoned journalists who are joining us from the front three rows were going to be asking questions and i'm alerting my journalists in the front three rows that i will be coming to you sooner rather than later, roland so be prepared. you ready?