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and i was trying to get . get him to think and join martin luther king's movement. and i think he was then thinking about doing that, and he came back to america . and that's when we had this tremendous discussion, all the time. as a matter of fact, the black panthers threatened me many times. they caught me in an elevator at the palmer house in chicago and said, "we know that you are with martin luther king, but we want you to be on our side. and if you're not going to be on our side, when you come to harlem we will get you. " and of course . scared to death with these four beautiful strapping men, you know, pinning me up against the wall for the wrong reason. (laughter) ek: you don't say anything. (laughs) absolutely quiet. and when i came to harlem to do the apollo theater, they were there when i was doing speeches on behalf of martin luther king and trying to . they were ridiculing me, of course, and they threatened that they would get me again. but i stood my ground and walked from the seventh avenue theresa hotel to, all by myself, back to the apollo theater,

i just would simply add to piggyback what professor harris-perry said, martin luther king, jr., had to borrow money from his daddy to pay his taxes because he was giving so much of it -- the reason i think he's the greatest american and malcolm x along in that same -- certainly in that same cohort is because of the level of sacrifice was mind-boggling and like brother -- professor spence said you got kids and you're thinking differently. and his wife is a shrew and a hag, you got to take care of the kids. he left her in the hood when he bought a crib, 1965, two years before he died because he had gone to india and believed people shouldn't own property. the radical king was a true radical and believed not in possessing personal property, but, look, he borrowed money from his daddy for taxes and harry bell phenomenonity had taken out a $100,000 policy on each of his five kids. so if malcolm had had a benefactor, if he had been langston hughes, so to speak, and could get some of that white harlem dough, he would have a different perspective. even as we deconstruct capital, the point of k

that was martin luther king's to church, by the way. i went everywhere that i could find. >> where were you born? north carolina. >> where? >> not too far away from my grandmother -- my grandmother's tobacco farm. and then i spent my summers with my granny. >> what part of the state? >> greensboro, with the huge tobacco farm. grandmother lived in atlanta, and she knew margaret mitchell. who wrote "gone with the wind." i would go to the opera with her, and i would go over to granny's house, and i'll be able to do all the things i wanted to do. >> but you went to school in iowa. >> this is right. at the university?

he said when you look at what martin luther king did i can show you the 1964 civil rights act. i can show you the 1965 voting rights act. i can walk you through the structural changes. i think there are a lot of reasons that is unfair. but what i do want to take from that difficult moment in the way i had to process and think about that is that a lot of what manny manning gets manny gets a senate a lot of what we have done tonight is talk about ideas. and i don't want to move that ultimately our notion that alex haley's version of malcolm x can free the young man on the platform of the mta is an assumption of what keeps that him -- them in a moment of bondage is their belief about who they can be, rather than to set a public policy that make's bare bodies easily victimized by people in uniform. and so, i care about what our young people believe. i am a mother. i am a teacher. i care of my core about what we believe but i do not believe that african-american inequality is primarily a black of imagination on the part of black people. which is to say that for me, but the critical

what we do when we mythologize figures like malcolm x and martin luther king is we scare people from thinking they could be leaders. we make it look like the magical mystical -- you have to be born into it and have to be imprisoned and someone has to anoint you and we make it sound like magic and it is not magic. argument beings and everyone has the potential leader. i like the they to they going to moscow number 7 and having this conversation and meeting. this is what is involved in a real life. as much as the more powerful parts of the book, those to me are very important because they describe and show people the mundane interactions with human beings and so forth that going to creating the story. it is powerful as it suggests to people malcolm x is a human being with great qualities and great potential because he had not reached where he could have reached and that is an important theme of the book also but he is accessible in ways that i think alex haley's work makes and not accessible and to me that is powerful. >> what do you think will happen? when i was on your show a couple

. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it is a cornerstone that we all know. it is a place where i walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide supports tavis smiley. with every question and answer, nation why it works with tavis to move -- remove obstacles to economic empowerment. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from the worst like you. thank you. -- viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- tavis: always pleased to welcome frank rich back to the program. after more than 30 years with the "new york magazine" as a theater critic and opinion columnist, he makes his debut for "new york magazine." his article is called "something run" obama's failures to right the wrongs of this crash. >> great to be with you as always. tavis: i am glad that as many others are. your fans are glad to have you back and see it -- digging into what you have to say. why this particular piece about obama as your debut? >> as i was

." >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where wal-mart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and answer, help tavis improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: trying to find the right word. i am pleased, honored, humbled, delighted, crazy to have jesse norman on this program tonight. the legendary soprano has been an inspirational voice in music for many years to come. she released her first new recording hall. it is a good one. if you are fortunate enough to be at the mall in pasadena, before we get to the conversation, we take you back to a classic performance from paris on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of the french revolution. ♪ tavis: i am tickled

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we will see you then. >> every community has martin luther king blvd.t is the cornerstone we know. it is not just a street but a place where walmart stands with your community to make everyday matter. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer,we're proud to join him in improving financial literacy. and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. tavis: additional funding provided by -- >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> robert frost was a farmer in shaftsbury, vermont when he wrote this poem, maybe the most famous of the 20th century. on a summer morning in 1922, after staying up all night, he saw the sun rise and wrote a poem about a snowy evening as if, he said, he'd had a hallucination. >> stopping by woods on a snowy evening. whose woods these are i think i know. his house is in the village tho

. >> every community has martin luther king boulevard. it is the cornerstone we know. it is not just a street but a place where wal-mart start -- stands with your community to make everyday matter. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. we're proud to join him in improving front -- financial literacy. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: always pleased to welcome don cheadle to the program. the star can be seen in the forthcoming summit "the guard." he can also be seen in the showtime series "house of lies," a comedy about the world of business consulting. here is a scene from that show. >> are you going to help your not? -- me or not? have you ever been shot before it? >> yes. >> did it hurt? >> no, it did not her. yes intered! -- it hurt! >> they say shocked cataracts pain. >> who says that? it hurts like hell. to talk about all the projects you have to go -- you have going on. good to see you. tell me more. >> "the guard" is a movi

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. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard, this is a cornerstone we all know. this is a place where wal-mart comes together with your community to make everyday better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and answer, help tavis improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: john prendergast is a noted human-rights advocate and a co-founder of the end of project which works to combat genocide. his latest text is called "unlikely brothers: our story of adventure, loss, and redemption." good to have you on this program. are you doing all right? >> i am doing very well. thank you. tavis: let me start in an unlikely place. i want to celebrate the work you have done with this young brother. this raises the question of why it is that white folk feel this super hero complex that they can swoop down into black neighborhoods

i just wanted to be part of it. [ waves crashing [ martin luther king jr. i still have a dream the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. i have a dream today! [ male announcer chevrolet is honored to celebrate the unveiling of the washington, d.c., martin luther king jr. memorial. take your seat at the table on august 28th. [ female announcer real fruit... means real fruit smoothies from mccafé. real delicious and made just for you. ♪ ♪ [ female announcer real fruit... means real fruit smoothies from mccafé. real delicious and made just for you. ♪ >>> this is samuel l. jackson. you're watching "our world with black enterprise." >> since the beginning, celebrities have always been front and center. they have entertained us with their exciting projects and shocked us when they pushed the envelope. >> i told you that i'm mathea. you understand that? what i want, i get. >> only reason i started doing this character is to use it to make people laugh and give them a message. there

. >> every community has martin luther king boulevard. it is not just a street or boulevard, but a place for wal- mart to band together with your community to make every day a better. >> nationwide supports tavis smiley. nationwide is proud to join have is in working to remove obstacles to economic empowerment one at a time. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- ♪ villaraigosa may be best known as the guy who convince the entire city to stay out of their cars for the weekend. hazmat you may know, the 405 was shut down this weekend. you pulled it off. >> we pull it off. it worked like magic. >> i was in my hotel room cracking up about all the new stations in canada talking about it. i was cracking out that this became such a huge story around the world. what do you make of it? >> everybody knows about l.a.'s addiction to the automobile. i think people did not think it was possible th

. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it is the cornerstone we all know. it is not just a street, a boulevard, but a place where wal-mart stands together with your community. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from the viewers like you. thank you. ♪ tavis: i am pleased to be joined by a terrific and distinguished panel. first up is john chan, former chair of the c-100. cindy fan is the dean of social sciences dominic king is the ceo of east west bank here in california. and the ambassador who serve as liaison to china for director steven spielberg. let me start with you. we were talking a moment ago about my own feelings -- i talked about this earlier this week on a special, about a sense of hopefulness that one feels moving through china as contrasted by a sense of hopelessness th

which he used after getting martin luther king having affairs to persecute king. >> john: and theole scandal, you don't remember i'm sure. but warren hardings sex life caused it. >> and one of many scandals in the hardy administration, a very corrupt administration in the history of american politics. well, the origins of this go back to when harding is running for president of the united states. the party bosses, the republican party bosses are told by harding, well, i've got all of these mistresses we need to keep quiet so they need some money and we need to pay off these women to keep them quiet among other women. >> so they did. >> the republican party creates a slush fund so they can guy can get elected president. the men want a return on-- >> once the corruption is going. >> they want the cash back. >> they got oil from the teapot dome. >> there it is. >> so today's sex scandals, schwarzenegger, bill clinton nothing new. >> nothing new, kind of pale in comparisons from the early republic all the way through the 20th century. >> john: thank you, larry flynt and david eyesenba

remember martin luther king? he took out what he believed in. and i said to him, i said, well, that's martin luther king. i'm your mother. >> with only a few months until his inauguration, brown wasted no time preparing to clean house in the sheriff's department. he made a long list of everyone he was going to fire. >> he felt that no matter how deep the corruption went, he was man enough to handle it and get it cleaned up. >> when derwin was elected, i immediately sat down with him and said you need to know some things that we have uncovered in getting ready to start your administration. >> but brown also had sources inside the department that had given him information about incumbent sheriff sid sidney dorsey's purported sexual misconduct, cash for conduct, bribery scheme and the personal use of his inmates and deputies. dorsey continued to defend himself. >> the only thing i can say to you and the world is that sidney dorsey is innocent of all of these accusations. there is no corruption in the dekalb county sheriff's office. those accusations

and taylor branch writes his book about his trilogy about martin luther king and clearly talks about ronald king's affairs, what is he faced? so what happens to us as a people when that happens? because leaders around pedestals usually. so what happens when folks like this come out and they talk about things that make people's stomach twist? >> i mean come it seems to me there are many possibilities. one is the most empowering story, which is the more we recognize the humanity of those who did great things, the more we feel capable ourselves and doing great things. it is to go back to the seminary example. it is the other possibility of the story of jesus is that he is simultaneously dividing fuming. if you go home onto the human part, could make the story feel more empowering. so holding onto the human part, the phillies part. the part of what i would suggest also is that some of what we are talking about here when it came to keenness about feelings. but a lot of what we're talking about when it comes to malcolm are not necessarily feelings. they are simply identity practices, ways

we know that we all followed martin luther king. there is a-- there's a lineage here. the most common thread was pete seeger. i think they should give a course in pete seeger in high school. pete seeger is a great american. pete exemplifies what we're talking about here in terms of a human being that lives their life in such a manner that you want to be like them. you know, you see pete seeger, and you say, "gee, i want to do that. "i want to stand next to that man. i want to stand shoulder to shoulder with that guy." he's the guy who never compromised his principles, even when he had his back to the wall, government was saying, "you're not a real american." house of un-american activities committee, you know, he just told them, "sorry, i'm not buying your stuff." (bender) one of the things you'll see in the documentary is a wonderful moment where pete describes that, and he said, they're-- "mr. seeger," you know, "are you--were you a member of the communist party?" and he answered, he said, "well, i was polite, if uncooperative." and he said, "i wished i had done what

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tomaron una protesta para hacer una caravana con rumbo diferente, en vez de ir al monumento de martín luther kinge 'centro de inmigración y seguridad nacional' . >> en el capìtolio se reitero que seguiran con los intentos de reforma migratoria integral . >> lo que sigue ahora es prepararnos para la contra demanda con el gobierno de georgia, tener preparado una apelacion dónde tengamos más espacio. >> en el 2012 se esperan más leyes antiinmigrante en la zona. >> el año próximo es un año de elecciones hay muchos legisladores que quieren seguir con más leyes antiinmigrantes . >> desde el centro de atlanta . >> telemundo. >> gracias . >> la ola de calor que azota al oeste del país, en arizona se rescataron cinco cuerpos de inmigrantes ilegales . >> al regresar... . >> indignacion en los Ángeles por las multas a los policías por mala conducta. >> importante victorias para el tri en méxico . >> le contamos. >> (♪ ♪ ) >>> ¿como creen que debería ser castigado un policía que conduce en estado de embriaguez?. >>> la falta ameritaba un mes sin goce de sueldo y ahora ni siquiera eso. carlos botifoll nos exp

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. >> john: moving ahead in time, ed car hoover secretly taped martin luther king.e did this because john f. kennedy saw prostitutes? >> he got permission from kennedy because he caught j.f.k. hoover caught j.f.k. having a fling with a prostitute from east germany. the f.b.i. alleged indicated she was east german spy. hoover could destroy kennedy. they leaked it to whispering willie williams who is determined to tear down kennedy by exposing this affair. the kennedys had to turn to hoover. hoover had sex files on every senator, every congressman, anybody who is anybody in america. >> john: and washington was cess pool of sex and sexual blackmail? >> that's right because hoover used these sex files to create a government within a government. he brings in the head of the senate and shows the sex files. no more investigation into this east german spy miss stress but hoover wanted in return for that one, his reappointment as f.b.i. director. >> john: which he got. >> and to bug and wiretap martin luther king which he used having affairs to persecute king. >> john: one m

lincoln was assassinated and jfk was assassinated and martin luther king jr. was assassinated. drug dealers are not assassinated . neither is a sniveling coward who orders people to kill innocent civilians. they are shot. they are shot like rabid dogs are shot. and i think the media has been fair. and barack obama and i do believe that the president did a gustsy good job on this. this puts barack obama in a very good light going forward to reelection. all right . so the left wing media is going to celebrate it. and cover it as a positive . fascinating if bush in the last days in office had done the same thing. >> they would have said it took them 7 years to get around for doing it. >> and what you are going to see here. barack obama had a competency issue that people said he is a good guy but not terribly competent certainly in the economy and health care. but he was very competent. very competent in terms of getting osama bin laden and he deserves a lot of credit for the gutsy move he did. it sounds like what you are saying and correct me if i am wrong and i don't want to be w

the other guy, who knew more philosophy, i think, than martin luther king did3 because this was his businessh. >> this is what he did for a living. he knew it like nobody's business and he would read from the textbook. king would recite from the textbook. and i had a textbook, so i'm watching and he's saying, plato says, and he, ssssssssssss -- >> yeah. >> exactly the same thing. >> yeah. >> i mean, he had this tremendous command of wordss3 and treeendous command of ideas that the ordinary person did noo have, and he was able to take you with him as he trans. as he spoke, as hh transformed just something ordinary into something magical. >> yeah. >> he had an ability that i wish i had. >> right. >> i'd pay a million dollars for it if i could, but he was just a marvel of a person. >> do we appreciate the, the fullness of his accomplishments today? you know, i, i look at martin luther king's birthday.. >> mm-hmm. >> .as a day when we should be remembering him and we should be thinking about civil rights.. >> yeah. >> .and instead for most people, it's half off mattresses. >> right. exactly. >>

one thing's for example, martin luther king or others like them to fly directly to political change that can be called positive comment on the positive side few cultural phenomenon have swayed public opinion as powerfully as tunnell full-time scout and central to make america a more egalitarian nation. harriet beecher stowe coliseum unlikely for mentor of political change, a diminutive she was a housewife, she had the illnesses worsened by her hypochondria and married to a brilliant but in practical husband, but driven by her passionate hatred of slavery she wrote an old tom's cabin which it appeared in 1852 broken sales records for fiction and became an international sensation. it was much less a book and a state official of consciousness in which they didn't set or read or appraised boustany walked and talked and laughed and cried. my new book, "mightier than the sword" uncle tom's cabinet battle of america which will be published on the birthday, advanced copies for sale, came from an idea i had to write on the biography of the book. i previously written biographies of the cultural ou

martin luther king and malcolm x, a lot of places you can stand. if economic recovery has come it has not come there. we have seen gdp growth in the past two years pick up. much of it is a function of the investment the federal government has made in banks and in other places. we have not seen people going back to work. last month only 18,000 jobs were created. the unemployment rate went from 9.1% to 9.2%. for african-americans the unemployment rate is 15%. if you look a real rate it is 28%. these are trying times. what do we do about that? i believe we have abrogated our responsibility as citizens. we should all be angry, focused about what has to happen. i also believe we can create wealth on our own. so many others did. we can talk about a entrepreneurship in a different way. the oasis where we educate and celebrate women and develop 20 first century leaders and global thinkers -- [talking over each other] >> we require students to take a class in entrepreneurship because you will be an entrepreneur at some point in your life. with your a scienc

martin luther king was more than a hero. >> they marched together during the montgomery bus protests. >> he inspired him to become a preacher. more than 50 years after dr. king led the nation towards the equality towards all they were invited to the national memorial to reverend king. >> all of those messages. >> 14 inscription's all picked from kings around the memorial. >> i heard him in montgomery. >> the mountain of despair represents the civil-rights struggle. only they can describe to what it feels to walk out and witness the hope. >> it is phenomenal. >> there will be unveiling on august 28. >> for me, it is like standing on sacred ground. he is surrounded by his philosophy, his words. it is simply more than the man. it is what makes the man who he is. >> and memorial brought to light. >> uniquely blessed are the people of color. but the god blesses everyone. >> these ministers say it will face the test of time. >>> the unique way to treat posttraumatic stress disorder for soldiers. it involves ancient techniques. >>> and we take a look at cuisine served in the white house thro

the first thing that strikes me is he lived as long as martin luther king. when i'm on campuses and very often senior generation, i often ask them name four people in, say, the spiritual field that made living in the 20th century worthwhile. well, you hear mother teresa, you'll hear martin luther king, dorothy day and bonhoeffer, they tend to be the top four on the list my part of the world will say. and he lived to be 39, and the last three years were in prison. so, basically, he lived to be 36 plus the little book i wrote about. this is the newest edition of the book i wrote about. this is the one you might want to buy because it's affordable and carry bl, and this one costs $80. but it's a 16-volume series of somebody whose writing, basically, stops at age 36. and meanwhile, he was active in underground activities, he was in, a double agent in the cia of germany, if you want to call it that. he spent a year in america, he went to barcelona, he had a church in london. all these things are crammed in there, and my search for his soul is what held him togeth

about the contribution of this work is that the obama administration is a direct legacy of martin luther king and would you explain that to us? >> sure. before i sort of address that question directly i want to sort of provide a brief context for the conversation. i think that the biggest challenge is that when obama's him the presidency, it was tremendously symbolic in many ways, just to sort of echo dr. reid's comments about some questions about sort of how successful his administration would be within the context of the historic importance of his presidency. one should not in the minds the importance of him assuming the role as president of the united states, becoming the 44th president of the country. the last 43 were not only white male and within a certain white supremacist vision of the world. we shouldn't minimize the ways in which his presidency disrupts a white supremacist narrative of what it means to be american and in some ways, when he stepped into office, it shattered in some ways the vision, the narrative what america in terms of what the country should be about and its future

martin luther king. the principles that the practice, the compassion, the vision, the perseverance, are all those same kind of values and principles that i know are being practiced within the iranian american community today as well. whether you want to see a green iran or whether you want to help participate in the civic process in california or in your own city, this is what is very heartwarming, by us coming together on a night like this. i very much appreciate all the dedication that has been applied in making these nowruz events as special as they are. i also would like to say that we would like to have -- we like to have fun. it is really the best part of introducing what nowruz means. that is why over the last six years, we have had art shows in my office. we would have exhibits down here, supported by the mayor, and introduce it to people exactly how we like to celebrate, through the arts, with great food, civic engagement, and it is wonderful to see, and it really helps us appreciate just what a

. >> reporter: two down on martin luther king boulevard. these teen girls hit by a car as they crossed the street. the initial call to 911 on june 13th said it was a hit-and-run. four minutes in, confusion on dispatch as to whether or not they were hurt another way. >> i got a ticket that says they were shot. can anyone say differently? >> reporter: the police said they were working a hit-and- run, not a shotting. as the cops respond, they learned they were killed on impact, dying at the scene where a memorial is now. >> we're told that they're deceased by medics. >> reporter: as the investigation becomes a double fatal, the police turn to the car that hits the girls. the conflicting details came in. the officers had to look out for a burgundy honda and jeep. 19 minutes after the first call, dispatch says that a potential match was pulled over. >> it has heavy front end damage and it comes back to a 2001 lincoln. the resident is from maryland. >>> the car is traced back to a 27-year-old woman. the police won't confirm if she was in the car.