along with martin luther king. they're the hero of this fairytale. it's always interesting to me, though how many of you learned about rosa parks for the first time in elementary school? >> okay. how many of you learned anything else about her after? >> okay. it's always interesting to me because i think you read maybe in the sense that people think that children need simple characters, right? and to, be the sad thing is, that is what i think minds, attitudes are very flexible. it can take in complex information. i often used the example of when i was in graduate school, this children's book came out about martin luther king and my professor brought it in and he read it to us. and it said, on april 4th of 1968, martin luther king died.. which is not inaccurate. right? but, he was assassinated, right? and that showed, a hesitancy to deal in that material. then i point people to grim's fairytales and everything which are horrifying and scary, but there's this idea that you really sanitize stories for children and i think that would be fine, but that wo

the leaders, martin luther king are talking about nonviolent direct action. and we're going to talk about nonviolence more in terms of a strategy, in relationship to other strategies that come later in the sense. but it's -- i need to be careful when i say this because i do not want to dismiss the idea that the people participating in the boycott were dedicated to a doctrine of nonviolence for moral, civil, principled reasons. but it's also pageantry. it's also pageantry. when you have media cameras and journalists coming down and you see just this crowds and crowds, row after row after row of well-dressed african-americans, stoically walking up to the community building, that's an image of blackness that hasn't been mainstreamed before that point. and subsequent activists take note. we're going to talk about that when we talk about little rock and birmingham. they take note. this nonviolent direct action, certainly this is a strategy that have been used in other moments of their movements become something that people understand as defining the movement. that

there was something important about martin luther king. if we just sort of think about the movement and only remember it in these very narrow terms, we're going to lose more than we actually learn. so i want us all to think a little bit about why we think the civil rights movement has been remembered in this way, right? it's not something that i think is a very narrow depiction. we talked about this, the 50th anniversary of martin luther king's assassination was commemorated in april and we talk about the ways the memory is playing into master narratives. the way that policymaker play into it. why do you think that? what do you think is at stake in the way that we remember the civil rights movement? >> well, you kind of already touched on this before when you said -- i guess payne talks about how they tend to look -- or people tend to look at the civil rights as large-scale dramatic events. it was like, that one police chief did something bad or those people in the south did something bad. but they don't really want to accept the fact that

doctor martin luther king junior characterised our report this way.ian's diagnosis and prediction of death with a prescription for life"~ _ well, through inaction — and opposition, too, of course — it seems america, for about 50 years has chosen death rather than life. all: black lives matter! but i think now with these terrible police killings and the — all of the demonstrations and protests that have occurred as a result, there is a change in public opinion and people are opting for life. the kerner commission's findings that america was fundamentally racist would be controversial even today because systemic racism remains a deeply divisive issue here. i am at the martin luther king junior memorial, but what does a civil rights icon have to do with dance? next, the dance theatre of harlem opened its doors to witness history. the company's artistic director virginia johnson tells us about how the nation's first ballet school to prioritise black dancers began. orchestra warms up. it wasn't until i was graduating from the washington school of ballet th

that would be martin luther. 500 years ago. martin luther was protesting the influence of the pope in rome on his german community and his beliefs. to illustrate his feelings towards rome, he hired local artists and used the fairly new printing press to create wood cuts to illustrate his point. and ... let's see here. ... i would have flunked that test. >> i never would have guessed martin luther. >> here is one of them, with a couple of his supporters taking out their tongues, bearing their bottom's and flaunting in the face of the pope. this is not an image that i would have used in a daily newspaper. in my world. but the consequences of free speech for him or possible death, at the time. so we will just fast forward 300 years. this is a clipped history, to a german immigrant to the united states who became americas greatest cartoonist ever. and that is thomas nass. this is one of his iconic images of rich people in new york at the time but he was also known for criticizing and absolutely skewering a guy named boss tweed. bos

i would never have answered martin luther. >> there we go. here is one of them with a couple of his supporters sticking out their tongues, bearing their bottoms and farting in the face of the pope. now, this is not an image that i would have used in the daily newspaper -- in my world, but he -- the consequences of free speech for him were possible death at the time. so we will just fast forward 300 years, this is a clipped history, to a german immigrant to the united states who became america's greatest cartoonist ever and that is thomas nass. this is one of his iconic images of rich people in new york of the time, but he was also known for criticizing, absolutely skewering a guy named boss tweed who was the -- a political democratic political leader or democrat party political leader of his time. tweed said, i don't care what they printed in the newspapers, my constituents can't read, but stop them damn pictures. what people forget about nass was that also he was a huge supporter of abraham lincoln and anti-slavery. he was against slavery, a

and i also -- the first cartoon that i showed from martin luther, i worked for a family newspaper. i didn't do nudity, i didn't do sex. there were sort of -- kind of informal standards, and the reason i didn't do them would be that they would detract from the point of the cartoon. people would just get upset by the fact that there was nudity. and likewise, i wouldn't -- you know, i wouldn't include a religious figure gratuitously if it wasn't about something that had to do. i didn't go around picking on cripples. >> right, right. i would just add, anybody who knows signe wilkerson or her work, she doesn't do any of this gratuitously. she's not trying to o fend anybody. but sometimes she will, right? just by virtue of the fact that she's dealing with important and emotional political and cultural questions. and i think the real question for all of us is, when people are upset, do you concede to that? and also i would add, in the case of the muslim cartoons, do you can seed to their bullying and their violent threats? for me as an american, the best analogy to this dispute, is there'

how should we look at kennedy's complicated relationship with martin luther king?retapping him. following hoover's instructions against king. i figure that is about the fact that robert kennedy authorized wiretaps of martin luther king. ashley think about that? >> you should read my book. [laughter] i was concerned about that. very complicated. hoover's pressure and power, he knew but hoover kept pressing. i don't want to get too deeply into it but the pressure -- hoover's pressure on kennedy and the evidence he had that martin luther king said levinson and all of this so finally in october 20, 63 he agreed to a temporary 30 day wiretap at the into and new york. if you read about this, so he did it. there were a couple of reasons people speculate. hoover had things on the president on his private life and the civil rights bill, they are fighting to get the civil rights bill moved through the house judiciary committee. if he leaked to the press as he would often do, the communist connection and whatever, that would be it so i think it was an attempt -- i'm speculati

the fbi was was monitoring -- i mean, the tapes on martin luther king. from the top to the grassroots leaders. they are fbi files you can look and see on them. i have not been able to find an fbi file on agitation, even though these mutations were involved in much of the same work. in some cases, even more radical work than those being surveilled. when they do appear, sometimes, for example, bernice robinson, who we will talk about, her cousin appears in the record and -- in the fbi records. and she is identified in the article as an unidentified woman. but there is this way that, because the beauty shop is viewed as frivolous -- what is happening in there, a bunch of women gossiping? that's our perception of beauty shops. diminishing that. because of that, they were really able to flourish as political sites because they were perceived does not doing anything important. and they use that disadvantage to their advantage. and so in the way that churches and other institutions were on the radar, beauty shops were able to slip under them. they were underest

how should look at kennedy's conficker relationship with martin luther king? with wiretapping him, with following hoovers instructions against king. i think that question should be asking about the fact that robert kennedy authorized wiretaps of martin luther king. how should we think about that? >> you should read my book because i was concerned about that. again that's one of the -- very complicated. hoovers pressure, hoovers power, they knew, he knew but hoover kept pressing. were they talking? i don't want to get too deeply into the woods, but, but the pressure to -- hoover's pressure on kennedy, the evidence he had that martin luther king said he wouldn't see levinson and was talking to levinson. so finally october 20 of 62 he agreed to a temporary thirty-day wiretap on teams phone -- martin luther king's phone in a land and new york. and as you read about, so we did it. a couple reasons that people speculate hoover had things on the president, on his private life, and the civil rights bill. this is october. they're fighting to get the civil rights bill m

how should we look at kennedy's complicated relationship with martin luther king? wiretapping him. following hoover's instructions against king. i think that's a question to be asking about the fact that robert kennedy authorized the wiretaps of martin luther king. should we think about that? >> you to read my bookbecause i was concerned about that . that's one of the nutshell's. very complicated, hoover's pressure and hoover's power, you know he knew that came was that hoover kept pressing and the whole levinson thing where they were talking. so when he finally, i don't want to get too deeply into it but but the pressure to hoover's pressure and the evidence he had, that martin that he wouldn't seek levinson and all that so finally in october 2013, 63 the agreed to a temporary 30 day wiretap on kings phone in atlanta and new york. and as you read about courtney evans, he did it. and there are a couple of reasons people speculate. hoover had things on the president, on his private life and the civil rights bill. this is october. they're fighting to get the civil rights bill moved t

the fact is it moves to the 60s, everything she describes happened kennedy and martin luther king allgrams that can deal with helping people in these communities and create jobs in all that. i think it's different. the analysis of the situation. interest this law and order issue but they don't do anything. i think he had a different analysis which is important and he's not the only one. there are many people but he is unique as a white public political figure. he wanted to incorporate becoming president, a theater project to support the cultural developments he's just one person but he is a force for pushing things in that direction in april and the other direction which this book documents in great detail. it's with similar questions. >> i'm interested in the differences, if any between bobby kennedy in his brother, john. of course president kennedy tragically assassinated in 1963, there's always the great what if we don't really have the evidence because we don't get exposed to kennedy in the post- 1963 development. part of what you are saying is kennedy's seen things, maybe a lot o

then you have the kind of non-violent martin luther king side of it, which was more embraced in a certain sense by the white establishment. do you think that's because someone like a malcolm x, walking down the street with armed guards with much more of an intimidating presence than martin luther king jr. and how this played into the larger narrative on who gets to be powerful and who gets to have guns and things like that? >> i think one of the things we have to remember is that the strategy of nonviolence was a way to deal with that narrative of black people as being inherently violent, inherently criminal, and it was a way to bring the cameras in so that america could see how violent jim crow really was, how black people just trying to sit at a lunch counter would bring down heaps of condiments all over them, brutality over black folks being non-violent. that short circuits the narrative, well, you know, they had it ccoming. what did they do to get that? you saw they didn't know their place. you saw they were being violent, being threatening, they were just being black. the non-violent

the question is like this how should we look at kennedy's complicated relationship with martin lutherking like wiretapping him and the instructions against king. i think that will be asking about the fact that robert kennedy authorized the wiretap of martin luther king. >> i was concerned about that. very complicated. hoover kept pressing, so when they finally -- i don't want to get too deeply into it, but the pressure, too much pressure on kennedy and the evidence that he had so finally october, 63, he agreed to a wiretap in atlanta and new york. if you read about, so he did it and there are reasons people speculate. king and the communist connection i'm speculating here to also keep that at bay but again he was killed a month later. president johnson came in and had no problem with different feelings towards king. so it came late and i read everything i could. it certainly does not diminish. in fact, robert kennedy and martin luther king become much more closely aligned as time moves forward. the concerns about the war in vietnam and the hearings on the cities which kennedy was a pa

martin luther king junior has been banned? my wife was so angry. i was heartbroken. me realize that there are kids out there especially right there in the county who are not going to be able to have these heroes. and of course it's absurd on its face. if you are bending books on the wrong side of the history. >> as an author yourself, what's your reaction to this. are the concepts as we heard there from the author, the concepts of compassion, kindness, just too divisive for certain people to accept? >> [inaudible] it's an academic argument. they're trying to make it taboo to discuss in public school settings. america's history of racism. that's why they have banned books from rosa parks, because she was standing up to segregationists and to jim crow. right wing activists and right-wing politicians want to prevent americans from educating their children or have them educated about that history of racism. it's not keeping the security out of school. 's you're taking books about rosa parks and martin luther king junior off the list, what you want out of schools, any ack

martin luther king about his father's legacy telling martin luther king, iii get this, you don't knoware him the lectures about her father's legacy which she specifically works to preserve. he went on to tell the ceo of the king center that he'd take his civil rights guidance from his cousin, thank you, which is unsurprising since she's a big fan of the disgraced former president. josh mandel undoubtedly knows nothing that dr. king actually preached beyond i have a dream. he probably memorized that one line. nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and stupidity. meanwhile, hedge fund hill billy j.d. vance in an interview this week he defended the texas abortion ban was asked if anti abortion laws should make exceptions for rape or insist. >> it's not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term, it is whether a child should be allowed to live even though the circumstances of that child's birth are inconvenient or a society or a problem. the question is about the baby. >> no one thought to ask of j.d. when she thought of commander vance's thoughts

if you're taking books about rosa parks and martin luther king jr. you don't want any acknowledgement of our country's really unhappy and embarrassing history with race, our racist history. and that's the end game here, not to keep crt out of schools but to keep what america is, what america has done, out of schools. and that's a problem, because then you keep out of schools how america has addressed its problems, how it's changed, how it's evolved. if you don't know where it started, you can't appreciate where we are. >> you certainly wouldn't be able to appreciate how we overcome some of these and with still a journey ahead of us, if you think everything is perfect and has been perfect from the get-go. slate published a lengthy piece on you. there was an excerpt that stood out to me. here is a part of it. the one-time rebel has become an establishment figure of sorts, unwittingly ushering in a popular sexual revolution of his own, three decades later, as the sexual landscape he confronts in his column has changed dramatically, savage is still grapp

and that is at the 2100 block of martin luther king weigh the good news, though. is that the officer here is expected to survive and the suspect has non life threatening injuries. this is a sober reminder of how dangerous it is in the city of oakland how armed suspects. will quickly utilize these firearms stores are officers like we've seen in so many other cases. oakland police chief laurent armstrong knows today could have been much worse. 100 homicides in our city. three shootings last night alone. the level of violence in this city continues to be intolerable, he says immediately after officers arrived at telegraph avenue for call about a man with a gun, the 50 year old man started shooting at them. one officer shot back hitting him. that's when he barricaded himself in an apartment in the 2100 block of martin luther king way, armed with a knife and cutting himself, the tactical team and mental health in crisis intervention were brought in. we began to negotiate. with the suspect. we were able to create a report with the suspect. and the suspect agreed to surr

they were very early supporter of the martin luther king jr. holiday. i think that rights them out of that. while there's a lot of criticism of mcdonald's practices through labor practices, today there's a lot of stuff about the environment in the 80s and 90s, i find that so strange. [inaudible] >> any other questions i know i mentioned a lot of these creature comforts, universal healthcare necessary for society kind of like you said the indictment. why don't we see a lot of small business owners really pushing for things like healthcare those issues. one of your see some is franchise owners as someone who has a business and whatnot the hardest thing to try to purchase to understand and work with. i never understood why there's no idea of what the big push in terms of that. that is such an excellent point to issues that come up there very much beholden to the corporate structure with the nation's board if you work for mcdonald's who work for mcdonald's corporate rework for the franchise owner. the back-and-forth on the forth on the issue about challenge

let's just say that, it evolved but it became a model and martin luther king pointed to it as a model of a project that was run by the community. and to a large extent it was an increasingly, that was not even a question. but again, you needed to raise the money and get the support so there's a terrific book on the bedside project. which eyesight a number of times but that is certainly worth people looking at. but it demonstrates that purpose but it was initiative that and it was very well received. in new york and others. and it came and pointed to it as a model of children doing something in philadelphia. there's plenty of other ways that the war on poverty was buying up in these cities and local people needed to be involved in determining what they needed . >> great. so we're going to start questions in about three minutes but i have to ask obviously you thought about this. the lobby came over and it's a great what if of the 1960s. as you say in your book when he's running for president, his advisers advising against giving the civil rights speeches and making places like indiana y

martin luther king, jr. >> thank you, mr. randall. i would simply like to say i think this has been one of the great days of america, and i think this march will go down as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, demonstrations for freedom and human dignity ever held in the united states. >> follow us on social media at c-span history for more this date in history. >>> next on "real america," from 1938, stop silicosis, a short labor department film about lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust. first, we talk to mark catlin, who has a youtube channel devoted to films covering the workplace history and safety. >> the film was produced by the department of labor. this is before osha was ever in existence. 1938, during the height of the depression, there was silica dust. there was sort of a national public attention to this issue of silicosis and silica dust. the department of labor held a national conference, inviting employers, public health folks, and unions. this film came out of that. the film is highlighting the hazards of si

because the two intersections between martin luther king and lincoln way are only 60 feet apart. to draw an analogy to a nearby location, it would be similar to the operation over at 19th avenue and martin luther king. there is another always stop intersection to the west, but that one is 150 feet west. this is 90 feet closer. and the operation of one intersection versus another would not work very well, and it is dependent on what we do with m.l.k., in terms of making the two intersections work well together. that's why we put that asterisk in there because martin luther king is kind of an unknown right now. so we didn't want to promise you that the intersection would work well unless we could actually deliver on that promise. >> thank you. okay. i see the point about the close proximity between the intersection on m.l.k. and lincoln. i guess i don't understand because it is a four-way stop at that intersection at m.l.k. and chain of lakes. and that -- would that change whether it is a flow street versus open to vehicles? >> yes, very much so. the reason is: with 60 feet apart b

this bifurcated narrative that had martin luther king and as nonviolence but remember the violence that the state, remember because what they were doing was disrupting a power structure. that was seen as violent. but it was a way to try and pick these two against each other. king was doing it the right way and the panthers were doing it the wrong way . but when you think about the violence that the civil rights movement faced here in the south, it was seen as doing it the wrong way because they weren't being violent and accepting jim crow. >> i've had a few conversations with the film judas and the black messiah came out about fred hampton and some of the things around there and it's been so interesting that so many young people don't have any real awareness of the black panther party. and how much of that conversation, how unique it was in that moment to have something like that happen. i think it's what dated in people's minds that that potency of that moment for them to essentially have some pop-culture things bring that to the forefront . why do you think the black panther party of

these parallel tracks where you have more militant wing so the malcolm x and then the nonviolent martin luther king site which is much more brave by the white establishment. do think someas of that was because someone might malcolm x especially in the early part of his career walking down the street with armed guards and more of an intimidating presence than say someone like martin luther king jr. how that played into this larger narrative about its to be powerful and who gets to have guns and things like that? >> one of the things we have to remember is that the strategy of nonviolence was a way to deal with that narrative black people being inherently criminal and it was away to bring them in so that america could see how violent jim crow was, how black people are at a lunch, would bring down condiments all over them, brutality all over black folks being nonviolent because what that does is short-circuits the narrative that you know, they had it coming.we well, what did they do to get that? you saw they didn't know their place. you saw they were being private and threatening. they were just

because the two intersections between martin luther king and lincoln way are only 60 feet apart. to draw an analogy to a nearby location, it would be similar to the operation over at 19th avenue and martin luther king. there is another always stop intersection to the west, but that one is 150 feet west. this is 90 feet closer. and the operation of one intersection versus another would not work very well, and it is dependent on what we do with m.l.k., in terms of making the two intersections work well together. that's why we put that asterisk in there because martin luther king is kind of an unknown right now. so we didn't want to promise you that the intersection would work well unless we could actually deliver on that promise. >> thank you. okay. i see the point about the close proximity between the intersection on m.l.k. and lincoln. i guess i don't understand because it is a four-way stop at that intersection at m.l.k. and chain of lakes. and that -- would that change whether it is a flow street versus open to vehicles? >> yes, very much so. the reason is: with 60 feet apart b

this bifurcated narrative that had martin luther king and as nonviolence but remember the violence that the state, remember because what they were doing was disrupting a power structure. that was seen as violent. but it was a way to try and pick these two against each other. king was doing it the right way and the panthers were doing it the wrong way . but when you think about the violence that the civil rights movement faced here in the south, it was seen as doing it the wrong way because they weren't being violent and accepting jim crow. >> i've had a few conversations with the film judas and the black messiah came out about fred hampton and some of the things around there and it's been so interesting that so many young people don't have any real awareness of the black panther party. and how much of that conversation, how unique it was in that moment to have something like that happen. i think it's what dated in people's minds that that potency of that moment for them to essentially have some pop-culture things bring that to the forefront . why do you think the black panther party of

. >> los residentes en el boulevard martín luther king jr.istola y de acuerdo a las autoridades una vez la policía intentó estableer comunicación la policía respondió al ataque con otro disparo y al sitio también llegaron especialistas que trabaaaron rodgers hasta lograr en una conferencia de prensa hace tan solo minutos el jefe de la policía hizo que tanto el sospechoso como e oficial ya fueron trasladadosal hospital para ser atentidos con las heridas de balas. >>eel departamento de la policía de la ciudad de oakland perdió 46 informados y la criminalidad va en aumento y una decisión podría cambiarlo todo, el compañero nos hablar de esto. >> muy sería y no tenemos y el consejo de laciudad votó pero pero el que estaba aquí afuera pero el golazo y para pero que entre los palacios que se pero es que más seguridad caminado las calles pero es que para reforzar la en operación para problema para el corte presupuesto pero en las planillas pero, pero es que la muerte y la persona en este comunidad . >> es el reporte de mi compañera y hablando del mi

martin luther king jr. was assassinated i lost faith in the teachings of my childhood when it comes to an array of angry ideologies and that is why left seminary may 1968. i became disoriented disenchanted and to be deeply and better than that my family dead on —- thisat is exacerbated when grandfather asked me to leave the house after the abandonment of my vocation and i was 19 years old. i was consumed by negativity and cynicism and animus have any other negative emotion and then to be celebrated today. i love savanna for holy cross the following fall with black power and there was the era of disenchantment and deconstruction with a jaundiced eye of critical theories or more accurately with that sense of belonging that this country was my home and jettisoned as old-fashioned and integrated having rejected my faith and my family and my country it is easy and convenient to fill that void of black man with and asked to grind. so many of us focus intently on the racial differences and grievances much like tod

he was probably similar to who he was to doctor martin luther king junior so i met him when i was veryng and we continued to state in touch to this day. there is another household very influential, the jackson household. the jackson family, a family that gave -- none of our coordinating committee was on their property. whenever people would come to town from the actavis or whoever, they would make it to the jackson house and the jackson's would invite my parents to come and they would take me so i have the opportunity to meet all of these people, having no idea at the time the impact they were having on my life but it was very significant. >> it seems like the first instance on the path to where you are now where you started started to show the actavis group had taken hold, he wrote an article for a newsletter about the training school where you attended high school. you credit that piece changing your life, can you tell us a little bit about the article and what you set out to document? [laughter] >> i had that invited to be part of a local weekly television show called focus. it's no

and this is where you get this narrative, this bifurcated narrative has martin luther king as nonviolence but remember the violence that he faced. remember the, because what they weredoing was disrupting the power structure . and that was seen as violent. and so but it was a way to try to get these two against each other. that you know, king was doing it the right way. and the panthers were doing it the wrong way. but when you think about the violence that the civil rights movements faced in the south, there's seen as doing way because they weren't being silent and accepting jim crow as the way of life. >> i've had a few conversations and the film judas and the black messiah came out and fred hampton and some of the things around there and it's been so interesting to me that so many young people don't have any real awareness about the black panther party and especially its heyday at that point and how pamuch it was in that conversation nationally, how unique it was in a moment to have something like that happen. i think that it's somewhat stated and on people's mind that kind of potency o

i happen to live in atlanta a mile and a half away from the martin luther king birthplace and museum and these people are legends here. so to walk amongst them when you are relatively a young adult how did that influence you and your work now? >> to be able to pass on what i knew to young people. james called everybody a leader and he was the big leader but everybody was a leader so i think for them and for dr. larry and his staff and osborne and all those folks who took me under their wing when i was very very young was outstanding because i met james orange and soma. i had no idea who he was. i was with the gentleman named leon liam holland i was sitting with leon at the time and james is sitting at a table nearby because they were there for the gene wilder voting rights march in james and i became friends and stayed in contact through the years that i had met doctorow lori prior to that time because the work i was doing at alabama state university. we established a chapter at the alabama state university. so to be around these folks i had no idea they were bigger than life. it was

el sospechoso se atrincherÓ en una propiedad de boulevard martÍn luther king segÚn la policÍa. listas de salud mental trabajaron en el operativo hasta lograr que el hombre se entregara. el jefe de policÍa. dijo que el sospechoso como el oficial fueron trasera dados al hospital para ser atengo deudos por heridas de bala. se desconoce su estado de salud el consejo de la ciudad de oakland empleo a mÁs policÍas conversamos con un concejal y nos dice lo que significa. este sistema que ven en el golfo de alaska promete lluvia al norte de california. ¿cÓmo nos va a f ec tar a nosotros?. tenemos los detalles al regresar. >>> el volante mexicano de los sobre su convocatoria. >>> el martes por la noche en la reuniÓn del consejo de la ciudad de oakland. votaron... luego que ellos mismos decidieron recortar millones de dÓlares al presupuesto del departamento por aumento de crÍmenes violentos. hablaremos con el concejal de oakland con este revÉs de una decisiÓn previa. bienvenido concejal ¿quÉ necesita esta decisiÓn? considera que un avance en la lucha contra el crimen. >>> lo que ofreciÓ e

that was the first time i have heard of martin luther king and the montgomery story. it hit me, if comics have been like my refuge, my father was a turkish muslim immigrant who left when i was very. i was raised by single mothers and comics was a place i'd go to read about people doing the right thing because it was right thing to do. it was my salvation in some way. so when he told me that i went home and read immediately on the internet and i remember sitting there looking at this beautiful 16 16 page cover to cover comic book, studio house style introduction of rosa parks and martin luther king and gandhi and nonviolent civil disobedience. i member looking after we had all the about how to teach john lewis' story and say wiser not a john lewis comic book? if this is been done during the movement why can we do it again now? there so much more story to tell. i went back to the office the next day and had another one of those meetings and i raise my hand because that's how we still did it and said i think john lewis should write a comic book ever we looked at me like

>> i don't believe this man really understand what martin luther king jr.der, where do you start in you have done it all. >> spike lee, thank you. >> always. >> in the house, the queen of soul, miss arethat franklin. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> policing is the critical civil rights issue aside from voting protection. those two issues of the issues of 21st century. >> absolutely, reverend al. this will be george floyd's legacy. >> they can say what they want but i am always going to be seeking the truth. >> one of the things dad did, if somebody was 90% bad, he didn't focus on the 90% bad but he focused on the 10% good and extracted that from the people. >> it is the tenth annual revy awards from rockefeller center. herself your host, al sharpton. >> i'm handing out blueberry pie slices. i decided to hand out a few extra slice awards this year. this week'smembero to trump, what would you know about strength? you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth and then spent every day of your pathetic life whining it wasn't go

>> i don't believe this man really understands what martin luther king jr.er, i mean, where do you start? >> spike lee, thank you as always. >> in the house t queen of soul, aretha franklin. >> thank you. thank you for having me. >> policing is a critical civil rights issue aside from voting protection. those two issues are the issues of the 21st century. >> absolutely, reverend al. and, you know, this will be george floyd's legacy. >> they can do what they want, but i'm always going to be seeking the truth. >> it's one of the things dad did was if somebody was 90% bad, he didn't focus on the 90% bad but focused the 10% good and extracted that from the people. >> it's the tenth annual revy awarding from rockefeller center. here's your host, al sharpton. >> blueberry slices. i decided to hand out a few extra slices. >> what would you, donald j. trump know about strength? you were born with a silver spoon in your montgomery county and wined every day that it wasn't gold. >> even though you and i were born in the same city, here's one way we're different. you c

i sat down with senate majority leader chuck schumer this week along with martin luther king and his wife, mrs. andrea waters king. as president of the national action network, i was there and i pressed to keep police reforms prioritized in congress, specifically those contained in the george floyd justice in policing act. we also talked about voting rights, but we focused on this policing act, which was stalled in the senate since passing the house in june. now, according to grio.com, senator manchin and tim scot will meet next week to discuss, while president biden is leaning on manchin and senator kyrsten sinema to abandon the filibuster so this bill, along with voting rights protections, can pass without any republican support. can you explain to our audience the political strategy and the urgency behind all of this sudden activity? >> reverend sharpton, the reality is we can't afford to wait. we can't wait for the gamesman ship deny justice any further. so using whatever resources we can, manipulating the process to make things work to advance issues that are important such as t

kelly's lawyer comparing him to martin luther king jr.nd the civil rights icon face similar backlash prosecutors argued r. kelly was a predator, not a genius and he said his victims are not groupies or gold diggers but human beings and victims >>> the cnn anchor chris cuomo's former boss accusing hum of experiment chris cuomo greeted her with a bear hug at a colleague's going away party in 2005 and grabbed her butt in a "new york times" op-ed, ross writes that at the time cuomo joked i can do this now that you're no longer my boss. with a kind of cocky arrogance, as she put it. to which she replied, no, you can't and stepping back and pushing him a wachlt shelly ross says chris quote yoe sent her an e-mail one hour later apologizing and saying he was ashamed. ross says, she does not want cuomo to be fired. she wants him to use his platform to help educate people on sexism and workplace harassment n a statement to the new york times, chris cuomo writers, our interaction was not sexual in nature it happened 16 years ago in a public setting

martin luther king jr. was alive today and was a businessman, this is what he would be focusing on. even if he was not a businessman, given the shift from civil-rights issues of black and white to the rights of you has the green and how do you keep it and how do you build generational wealth and protect people from scam stirs endosperm to separate them from their wallet. -- from scamsters trying to separate them from their wallet. we have so much focus on trying to keep bad things from happening and how to make good things happen for good people in a responsible way. the investor's bill of rights seeks to strike a balance by components of more disclosure. don't encourage, do not entice bad things to happen to seemingly good people by that people. then, financial literacy. that is embedded into the business plan. that is what the financial literacy for all movement is about. that is cochaired by me and the ceo of walmart. it is to try to get ceos and leaders to embed financial literacy into business plans to resource the effort appropriately. 14 years, make -- for 10 years, make it p

a student asked if ruby like martin luther king jr. had a name after her. the answer was no. >> yes. >> reporter: maddie who asked the question is now a sophomore in high school. >> it is amazing to think of how one question could have started that. >> reporter: maddie made a movement picked up by the fifth grade class, public speaking got their school and their district and finally their county to officially recognize november 14th as ruby bridges' walk to school day. debra's most recent fifth grade class brought the idea to the senate's senator, josh beck. >> they pushed us. >> reporter: he introduced to the senate the resolution of ruby bridges' day a statewide event. >> it spired me these kids heard the story and inspired by it and motivated by it. not only that, they take things into action and they took the next step, you know what, more people need to know about this. >> reporter: it is a real life civic lesson. talk to us. >> as excited they are, one of the biggest event is they got to beet ruby bridges. she's aware of what they are doing and trying

because the two intersections between martin luther king and lincoln way are only 60 feet apart. to draw an analogy to a nearby location, it would be similar to the operation over at 19th avenue and martin luther king. there is another always stop intersection to the west, but that one is 150 feet west. this is 90 feet closer. and the operation of one intersection versus another would not work very well, and it is dependent on what we do with m.l.k., in terms of making the two intersections work well together. that's why we put that asterisk in there because martin luther king is kind of an unknown right now. so we didn't want to promise you that the intersection would work well unless we could actually deliver on that promise. >> thank you. okay. i see the point about the close proximity between the intersection on m.l.k. and lincoln. i guess i don't understand because it is a four-way stop at that intersection at m.l.k. and chain of lakes. and that -- would that change whether it is a flow street versus open to vehicles? >> yes, very much so. the reason is: with 60 feet apart b

i mean, i'm on the side of us and i'm on the side of martin luther king. now i have sorted this out so that our very last question goes comes from our distinguished board member ron elvin. and i think he gives us a question that really frames. where do we go from here? most of us have presumed for all of our lives are most of our lives that the union as we know it will continue in this present form. but that seems less certain now than at any time in living memory. can you imagine a future where the current arrangement would break apart? and what would that mean? the union if you capitalize union, you know, the only time we've faced a set of challenges which are as threatening as a peer to be now is the civil war. i and i'm historians are great at prophecying the past but they're no better than anybody else at the future. we're really almost on this and prophecies. i can tell you what's going to happen in the civil war. i can tell you he's gonna win the debate in the constitutional convention. i can tell you who's going to win the american revolution. i ca