martin luther king. [applause] >> dr. martin luther king.you today what will go down in history -- in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. [applause] years ago, a great american in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the emancipation proclamation. ass momentous decree came the light of hope for millions of negro slaves who had been seeared in the flames of withering injustice. to end thea daybreak long night of their captivity. , the negrors later still is not free. 100 years later, the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and chains of discrimination, 100 years later. the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of imperial prosperity. [applause] 100 years later -- the negro is still languished in the corners of american society and finds himself in exile in his own land. tocome to this hallowed spot remind america of the fierce urgency of now. now is the time to rise from the dark valley of segregation t

tomorrow is martin luther king day?either of us have dates. - too bad we're just platonic friends. - ♪ i'm just curious about you ♪ ♪ noticed you for quite a while ♪ - i have a right to love you. - hello. - in the words of martin luther king, i've just got to go for it. - you're a white supremacist? - you guys can just do the fun stuff. - oh, my god. - ♪ uh-uh, oh no - all i want is one extraordinary moment. - ♪ so let's get things started ♪ - sounds like you have a dream. - ♪ some time, you're gonna get what you put out ♪ ♪ announcer: it's martin luther king day. - so, i need you to promote that on tgs. - no, i'm not promoting that garbage on the show. - oh, liz. this isn't a request, this is an order. i've already spoken to jack about it. - wow.

martin luther king was gunned down in memphis, tennessee. he had gone there to organize with sanitation workers. for that crime, he had lost his life. a year to the day before he was killed, april 4, 1967, dr. king spoke at riverside church in new york city. he uttered those words about the united he loved, about states, that it is the the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today. was speaking out against the vietnam war, something even his closest inner circle warned him against. he said you are the most powerful person on earth, you got the civil rights act, you got him to agree with you, why would you alienate him now? dr. king said, this was all a seamless web, this concern about human rights at home and abroad. for the next year, he was increasingly outspoken about war. , fromsponse of the media the "new york times" to "the whatngton post," decrying he said at the riverside church, calling it propaganda that sounded like it was from hanoi. i think we have to look back 45 years ago and assess where we are today 45 years later. wh

martin luther king would be invited to any of the celebrations of his life on the federal holiday that people fought so hard for so many years. >> think about how they reacted to the military whistle blower who brings forward these documents. if you've seen the movie, the documentary, it almost amounted to civil disobedience. when one main stream media was stopped another picked it up. when they were stopped another picked it up. now look how they've reacted to the whistle blower named bradley

tomorrow is martin luther king day?, and neither of us have dates. - too bad we're just platonic friends. - ♪ i'm just curious about you ♪ ♪ noticed you for quite a while ♪ - i have a right to love you. - hello. - in the words of martin luther king, i've just got to go for it. - you're a white supremacist? - you guys can just do the fun stuff. - oh, my god. - ♪ uh-uh, oh no - all i want is one extraordinary moment. - ♪ so let's get things started ♪ - sounds like you have a dream. - ♪ some time, you're gonna get what you put out ♪ ♪ announcer: it's martin luther king day. - so, i need you to promote that on tgs. - no, i'm not promoting that garbage on the show. - oh, liz. this isn't a request, this is an order.

martin luther king, jr., city officials and president kennedy negotiated a truce. one week later, kennedy announced the deal on national television. >> the city of birmingham has committed itself wholeheartedly to continuing progress in this area. >> reporter: progress meant birmingham would desegregate its public facilities. >> we were being abused and no one was paying attention. and nonviolence proved to be, i think, a much more powerful weapon than violence. we felt victorious in a sense. >> reporter: a victory that was felt far beyond birmingham. the children's sacrifice helped pass the civil rights act the following year and forever changed the nation. michelle miller, cbs news, birmingham. >> and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. the world captioning sponsored by cbs

on the other end of it i mean i'm sure you're aware of even the civil case launched by the martin luther king family. martin luther king jr is family that implicated the u.s. government in part for conspiracy for his assassination i mean why is it that ten years on this notion is so foreign to people still scoffed at as nothing more than a conspiracy theory when at the time subject to years of cointelpro surveillance death threats i mean this is coming this is this are all declassified documents though is true i mean of course if they had brought them on a civilian of the gentle way nine hundred fifty six to the day a day before the one nine hundred sixty eight that was a u.s. government it was j.f.k. it was r f k it was johnson all the way through but i think for example about the assistant market that you know here's someone who called nelson mandela a terrorist called a n c a terrorist group here's somebody who said trade union is in england are the enemy with him they must be crushed and yet what do we hear from the white house margaret that there was a great champion of freedom a state w

martin luther king jr. the president spoke in very personal terms tying dr. king's journey to his own struggles growing up. >> we know that too many young men in our community continue to make bad choices and i have to say, growing up, i made quite a few myself. somebody i wrote of off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down. i had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing. but one of the things that all of you have learned over the last four years is there's no longer any room for excuses. be the best husband to your w e wife, or your boyfriend or your partner. be the best father you can be to your children. because nothing's more important. whatever success i have achieved, whatever positions of leadership i have held, have depended less on ivy league degrees or s.a.t. scores or gpas and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy. the special obligation i felt as a black man, like you, to help those who need it most, people who didn't have the opportunities that i ha

if we remember that when martin luther king jr. denounced the madness of militarism, what his book of was not just about what , but whatng in 1967 is occurring right now. right now, the u.s. government totinues with impunity assert its prerogative with its military might to wage war cross not as people who tune into the news but people who create it for the better. thank you. [applause] >> thank you norman. i want to ask a quick question. a bunch of us have touched on it already and that's journalist putting partisanship over principle. that's if you have a president you prefer over the other guy and that president is in power you mute your voice. any final comment than. >> i remember when michael moore wrote an open let tore president obama about the escalation of the afghan war. it was a surprise. and i'm greatly respect michael's work and everything he does. but i think many on the left were caught off guard by obama's escalation of the afghan war which he campaigned on it. that was the central aspect of his foreign policy platf

vocational nurse and she became a nurse by a program that was instituted by a hospital in languages martin king hospital in los angeles and it was economically transformationle for my family and one of the reasons that i'm here today and so it's good to be here joining the san francisco general hospital foundation and honoring all of these people and at union bank we think these partnership and is are centrally building the blocks that build our community we have sente foundation do that demonstrating excellence, innovation and access and, quality of healthcare since the beginning. the foundation's sole mission is to improve the care and comfort of patients at the general. that mission continues today. and as we expand into the recognition of world renown research and training excellence, that takes place in the hospital's campus each day, the hospital is the hub of cutting edge medical research and is the training, real of meeting for tomorrow's healthcare providers the union bank support of the foundation we are working to secure the future of healthcare in our communities. i'm proud to intro

he talked about the use of the irs by other presidents, the wiretaps of martin luther king by the kennedy administration come on by the power of the fbi. hemay have done more, but did it in a situation where there were paranoia about leaks. he was also doing it in an era where the expectations of the presidency were changing. expectations changed over the years. also, using these agencies, going outside a law, having your own plumbers and all of that, it was no longer acceptable, at least as overly as he did this. that is what brought him down. i will leave to others to do the internal psychology. >> ronald reagan had the marine barracks blowup in beirut, the iran-contra, yet he survives, you saw him talking about -- tear down that wall -- which happens under george h.w. bush's presidency, he reforms the tax , and he is not snake bit. he survives. how does he do that? is it the power of his personality? was never any sense that he was as possible for the marine barracks. and he made the decision which was right at the time to pull them out and acknowledged that he had to. iran-contra, it

. >> you can go to birmingham, alabama today to the civil rights meum and you can hear martin luther king read the letter from the birmingham jail. it gives you goose bumps. >> not so far from that, the president using the words of an old negro spiritual, we shall overcome. that was a great moment for a president to use those words. they are familiar to us now, but back then they were associated with crazy radicals. >> no, that was the song of the civil-rights movement. >> to a lot of americans -- .> here is lyndon johnson he says i am not going to be the first president to lose a war, and he is trapped in vietnam. >> in many ways, he is left with a great dilemma. people often wash the kennedy -- whitewash the kennedy legacy because he was a martyr, all the good things he did. eisenhower was very tepid, he stayed out of the indochina war when the french wanted him in, he was very cagey about it, he sent advisers, but kennedy was a combat veteran. that did not prevent him from deciding that they needed to go in there. always fighting the last war. the last war was correa. they had to redee

final notecard is part from the clip we just saw, again, president clinton spoke a quote from martin luther kingn he talked if martin luther king were alive today what he would be proud of and what he would not be proud of. and it's hard to decipher president clinton's handwriting and it's difficult for us to make out here but we can make out the word proud. martin luther king would be proud of the progress african american his made and the black middle class, and opened opportunities but what he would not be proud of is the disintegration of the family, and teen pregnancy and abandonment by fathers and the rise in drug use and the lack ta wonderful and joyous occasion. >> richard norton smith, what do you think anwar sadat or monopoly begum would think if they were still alive today with what has happened since 1979? --g began. >> the tigger lake, begin. he found in the more difficult to negotiate with, -- particularly, begin. what began so promisingly seems to have gone a different way. >> the director of the library in atlanta, the carter library, he has been joining us all evening long. you

martin luther king. took him years to come to that position, and i think that one of the things that is happening in our society is that there is so much racism and bigotry towards the president coming from the right. i think a lot of liberals feel they are in a triage mode. do we say something about this or hold them accountable? eric holder it is speech about killing american citizens without due process, and that they will ultimately benefit the political opponents of the president, because they are going to you that and say you're a guy was the man expanding all of this. your nobel peace prize-winning president is the one normalized all of these policies. tavis: what are the implications of this policy if we do not we'll it back in? politically, militarily, and i have to imagine that we're creating a lot of enemies around the world, starting with the families of these victims that we kill with these drones, which, as you said earlier, you cannot surrender to a drone. >> there is going to be blowback.

in nagin tillis of burke, give your television ministry off the ground, but there are not any martin kings. there has been no growth of that kind of prophetic, progressive weakness, because everybody wants to do as i said a moment ago. i see parents much more engaged on these questions today than i see pastors in gauge. >> you will recall that dr. king said the church should be not a thermometer but a thermostat. and we have a lot of thermometer churches, which reflect the culture. the younger generation, they want to be thermostat. the pastors, clergy, we had them on the mall with us. they are tired of talking about the second amendment. you think about the straw sale and the trafficking in the background checks would have helped that. i am finding a new generation of young believers, some of them are the none of the above. they still believe in god, just not religion, for the reasons you are suggesting. when people do and say the things that our faith says we should say and do, two things happen. it surprises them and then it attracts them. jesus this book will -- said in the second amen

king preached. 13 students from martin luther king middle school will make the trip. they are part of a program called students of pride helping to close the achievement gap of some minority students. bob ivory is the program director one of eight chaperones traveling with students. >> i think it can only enhance our students to know your zip code does not necessarily dictate where you're going. >> he says they are on track for college. >> i'm thinking of go tok stanford. >> the cost is $24,000. many organizations and people helped to fund this trip they're still short f you want to help, visit our web site. and click it on see it on tv. >> that is nice. >> coming up next an important tip by michael finney. >> if you're planning to get a car we can he >>> if you're thinking about getting a car we have important information for to you consider before you decide whether to buy or lease. >> yes. there are many changes and michael finney is here to explain what is up. >> yes this, is good news. car leasing can help you keep payments down but i've got ways to never leave m

martin luther king jr.'s letter from birmingham jail. jonathan rieder report on the effect the letter and the civil-rights movement and dr. king's believe in the urgency of the movement. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> good evening. welcome. we are pleased you have joined us this evening. also want to welcome our good friends from c-span who are kidding tonight's program. it will be broadcast on booktv at a future time. also please note we have books for sale in the back and i am sure our authors will be happy to sign those for you. the doors are locked. you cannot leave until all the books have been sold. martin luther king often quoted the nineteenth century abolitionist thomas parker who said the arc of the universe is long but bends toward justice. i was thinking about that today as we set up and prepared for this program because today is april 9th. on april 9th, 1963, 50 years ago this very day, four young black college students walked in the front door of this building down stairs, went over to a table and sat down and started t

alabama in the 1960s at the segregated lunch counters and i sat in the audience listening to martin luther king speak. we put our bodies on the line without making speeches. martin was our spokesperson. but when we faced the billy club of the police officers and the police dogs, we did not say a word, and yet aroused the conscience of a nation without words. o, i think there is a time for louder witness. ut someone said, what you do speaks so loudly i can't hear what you say. >> we will come right there first. sorry. working my way around. > thank you so much. am an intern at heritage. i am curious what you think -- here seems to be -- to go back to aristotle, for a second. politics is supposed to be about justice. and society's understanding of justice seems to have been shifting over the last couple of years, maybe longer i'm away from the idea of justice that is understood by people of faith come up particularly the christian faith. now we see conflicts arising come up people say my conscience be clued from paying for this kind of procedure and nsurance and the hhs mandate says justice as de

king preached. 13 students from martin luther king middle school will make the trip.hey are part of a program called students of pride helping to close the achievement gap of some minority students. bob ivory is the program director one of eight chaperones traveling with students. >> i think it can only enhance our students to know your zip code does not necessarily dictate where you're going. >> he says they are on track for college. >> i'm thinking of go tok stanford. >> the cost is $24,000. many organizations and people helped to fund this trip they're still short f you want to help, visit our web site. and click it on see it on tv. >> that is nice. >> coming up next an important tip by michael finney. >> if you're planning to get a >> if you're planning to get a car we can help put cash i@÷ ♪ ♪ >> if you're planning to get a cso you can make easy, no-fee reloads with cash and checks... and know you're not on your own. so you can get the reloadable card that keeps up with you. chase liquid. so you can. >>> if you're thinking about getting a car we have important in

if we remember that when martin luther king jr.ed the madness of militarism, what his book of was not just about what , but whatng in 1967 is occurring right now. right now, the u.s. government totinues with impunity assert its prerogative with its military might to wage war cross not as people who tune into the news but people who create it for the better. thank you. [applause] >> thank you norman. i want to ask a quick question. a bunch of us have touched on it already and that's journalist putting partisanship over principle. that's if you have a president you prefer over the other guy and that president is in power you mute your voice. any final comment than. >> i remember when michael moore wrote an open let tore president obama about the escalation of the afghan war. it was a surprise. and i'm greatly respect michael's work and everything he does. but i think many on the left were caught off guard by obama's escalation of the afghan war which he campaigned on it. that was the central aspect of his foreign policy platform when

i may not get there with you, the true martin luther king, jr. in the year 2000, debating race in 2007 and april 4, 1968 martin luther king's death and how it changed america in 2008. dyson's pioneering scholarship has had a profound effect on american ideas. dr. dyson is professor of sociology at georgetown university and cited as one of the 150 most powerful african-americans by "ebony" magazine. dr. dyson has been called the ideal public intellectual of our time by writer naomi wolf and a streetfighter in suit and tie by author nathan mccaul. pretty good names i should say. you may know him by sight from his many guest appearances on "msnbc," as i do. it has been my pleasure to work with both bridgitte and paul farber over the last several years to bring leonard's photographs into the library's collection. paul m. farber was professor dyson student at the university of pennsylvania and later his research -- currently farber is a lecturer in urban studies at the university of pennsylvania and a ph.d. candidate having just completed his dissertat

i may not get there with you, the true martin luther king, jr. in the year 2000, debating race in 2007 and april 4, 1968 martin luther king's death and how it changed america in 2008. dyson's pioneering scholarship has had a profound effect on american ideas. dr. dyson is professor of sociology at georgetown university and cited as one of the 150 most powerful african-americans by "ebony" magazine. dr. dyson has been called the ideal public intellectual of our time by writer naomi wolf and a streetfighter in suit and tie by author nathan mccaul. pretty good names i should say. you may know him by sight from his many guest appearances on "msnbc," as i do. it has been my pleasure to work with both bridgitte and paul farber over the last several years to bring leonard's photographs into the library's collection. paul m. farber was professor dyson student at the university of pennsylvania and later his research -- currently farber is a lecturer in urban studies at the university of pennsylvania and a ph.d. candidate having just completed his dissertat

martin luther kings juniors letter from birmingham jail. he reports on the effect the letterhead on the civil rights movement. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> good evening. welcome. very pleased you all joined us this evening. also want to welcome our good friends from c-span who are taping tonight's program. it will be broadcast on booktv at a future time. also please know we have books for sale in the back, and i'm sure our office will be happy to sign those for you. the doors are locked. you cannot leave until all the books have been sold off lack country -- [laughter] thomas parker said the arc of the universe is long but it bends towards justice. i was thinking about that today as we set up and prepared for this program because today is april 9. on april 9, 1963, 50 years ago this very day, for young black college students walked in the front door of the building downstairs. they went over to a table. they sat down and started to read. or as one of them described to me later, fake raid because he was scared he is about to rest

i may not get there with you, the true martin luther king, jr. the year 2000, debating race in 2007 and april 4, 1968 martin luther king's death and how it changed america in 2008. dyson's pioneering scholarship has had a profound effect on american ideas. dr. dyson is professor of sociology at georgetown university and cited as one of the 150 most powerful african-americans by "ebony" magazine. dr. dyson has been called the ideal public intellectual of our time by writer naomi wolf and a streetfighter in suit and tie by author nathan mccaul. pretty good names i should say. you may know him by sight from his many guest appearances on "msnbc," as i do. it has been my pleasure to work with both bridgitte and paul farber over the last several years to bring leonard's photographs into the library's collection. paul m. farber was professor dyson student at the university of pennsylvania and later his research -- currently farber is a lecturer in urban studies at the university of pennsylvania and a ph.d. candidate having just completed his dissertatio

the fact of the matter is we had a press conference and the da is going to be investigating martin luther king school and obstructing justice after a child was bullied. i think there's a criminal cover up going on in this district apparently los angeles is not laying off teachers and pure professionals. will who do you represent. the example is your million dollars is going to the common core and you're about those pushing commercialization and you're not about protecting the teachers and the students. and the rubber board your representing. it's the poor black and latino community that's being attacked here. so it's time for really action by the community by labor it's union burst why are not you standing up for the poor the black students you have a corporate agenda that's what's driving you >> all right. i have a lot of cards from u s f go members. what i'd like to do i'm going to read off all the cards i have. this is on the topic of layoff. i'd like to ask the members if we can group you into 25 minutes total we will not time i have the discretion of timing but i'll give you 25 minutes to

first of all, let me state about the martin luther king , we were 10 feet away from him.were sitting at the monument. yes, there we were, the sweltering heat. i have never felt such heat. i think my scalp burned. i sell every drop of perspiration on that man's face and i was mesmerized. and then when he went off the , i thought i dream would have a heart attack. every once in a while and the picture would go up, i would look around me to the back. we were facing dr. king and the many of them wearing the uniform of that particular time. what an experience. , what ae involved lovely man he was. tavis: i will take them one at a time. and you became romantically involved. prior to that, you had been involved with marlon brando, who at that moment, you were not speaking to. >> we had a very long tempestuous kind of relationship. almost eight years. ,e was a big-time philanderer but it takes two to tango. i became very, subservient. that was the kind of man i always chose. his celebrity was thrilling. be powerful by association. the time i am with him at dinner or in the theate

she gave the commencement address to the martin luther king magnet school in nashville. in adoigs her speem each student got a big hug from the first lady. >> as a mom myself i am not looking forward to this day. i want to hold on to my baby sis as long as possible so i know this is bittersweet but thank you for loving these young people and encouraging them and keeping them in line. so you deserve another round of applause for the families. >> one of the students said it was an honor and privilege to host the first lady in that. it made the hard work pay off. >> what's in our ♪ [ enginrevs ] ♪ [ male announcer ] just when you thought you had experienced performance, a new ride comes along and changes everything. ♪ the 2013 lexus gs, with a dynamimically tuned suspension d adjustable drive modes. because theltimate expression of power is control. this is the pursuit of perfection. >> it is one of the most vibe brant performing art sites in the renalen and hundreds turned out to benefit the partnership for arts and culture. the event featured some unique glass rart work a

if we remember that when martin luther king jr. denounced the madness of militarism, what hie spoke of was not just about what is occurring in 1967, but what is occurring right now. right now, the u.s. government continues with impunity to assert its prerogative with its military might to wage war across boundaries as it wishes. what is ups for grabs is whether we insist on living in a democracy, not as people who tune into the news but people who create it for the better. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, norman. i want to ask a quick question. a bunch of us have touched on it already and that's journalist putting partisanship over principle. that's if you have a president you prefer over the other guy and that president is in power you mute your voice. any final comment on that? >> i remember when michael moore wrote an open letter to president obama about the escalation of the afghan war. it was a surprise. and i'm greatly respect michael's work and everything he does. but i think many on the left were caught off guard by obam

who is the martin luther king of the latino community? gutierrezeek, it luis if he can legalize a path to citizenship in 2013, it will be him. he should run for president. the tongue in cheek remarked, the strike is that it tends to be organized differently. hugo chavez asked me this. to organize the million marchers in los angeles in 2006? there was not an answer. $10 leaders organized 100 people each? horizontal organization makes us resilience. and allows us to resist 1070 and win. it allows us to resist e-verify. it allows us to resist these programs that you take to heart, but you cannot, because we're very horizontal. we are not vertical. maybe someone will emerge. the year as is my first choice a pecan: off. >> no pressure. >> -- if he can pull it off. maybe it's rubio. different from martin luther king's time was it was 15 million people and now it is 50 million. brevity is not our forte. and going towards what you're saying, i think another distinction between the two communities is the culture connection. we can look back at wha

where martin luther king delivered the "i have a dream" speech and peter, paul and mary sang "blowin' in the wind" and "if i had a hammer." i sometimes say that it was so thick in the air, the love, and the sense of determination with pain, somehow transforming the pain into love that you could literally pick it up and eat it for lunch. >> yeah. >> i was there for the march on washington, and i heard you all sing, heard martin luther king's speech. you and david and peter sang many of the songs from that era, including this one that gives a sense of power and mass action. ♪ how many times must the cannon balls fly before they're forever banned ♪ >> sing it to us now, my friends. ♪ the answer my friend is blowin' in the wind the answer is blowin' in the wind ♪ >> was the concert the first time you had sung publically since ben died? >> yes. yes. and that concert was very difficult to do, but, and i, by the way, i was in bed for a couple days after that. it was tough. it was hard. yeah, no, it was hard. but the music helps me, prayer, community, my church, my family, my friends, and pla

kennedy high school, and here we got some students from martin luther king junior high school out there like to give a special shout out to assistant principal braxton. we'd like to present something for you to think about and then come to your groups and talk about it and hopefully we end something and hopefully we don't end our lives in tragedy. this isn't tragedy like the ancient greeks used to do like sophocles and euripides. we have our principal characters and a greek chorus (music). >> i'm an ares, i'll be playing the role of the prince. that's it for costumes, guys, we're on a tight budget. what makes a tragedy a tragedy? the ancient greeks would say it's from a king falls from grace. he was once a great king but a few scenes later he was blind and starving. it's the choices you make that determine your outcomes. now, before we begin i want you to guys to remember this story is based on true events. this is fictionalized. >> we didn't paint that on that wall. >> look at my store. every time someone paints on my wall, you show up. >> i'm sorry, but according to the city's ordinan