i said morehouse college, like a true morehouse man, visually large man's would be proud. and so so so but when i came to atlanta in in 1987 and i saw a city that was much blacker than anything i'd ever seen in chicago or los angeles, and just the proportion of people there were more black people in los angeles, more black people, chicago than atlanta. the proportion in 1990, the census had atlanta at 67, 67% black. l.a., maybe 18%. and so maybe a third at that time. and so it was an extraordinarily black city. and at that point, i saw across the city at morehouse, there was lee street. they went past morehouse i saw civil war markers. i was too poor to live on campus. i lived in decatur my freshman year, first semester, freshman year in decatur. and on my way on that memorial bus, i saw markers for the civil war, confederate stuff. and then on my way to decatur, i saw all these signs for stone. i like stone mountain, like, yeah, everybody goes to stone mountain. and you have these these confederates and white supremacists and enslavers who are terrorists. who are these up

but i do think, in the spirit of morehouse and the history of morehouse, it will be respectful, it will >> morehouse says it doesn't plan to rescind its accepted invitation from biden following tomorrow's conversation. >> in today's gma first look, as spring temperatures rise, many people are encountering coyotes, which can be a danger to pets. his abc news reporter jane norman in this morning's gma first look coyote confrontation caught on camera. >> it took me a second to realize, like, hey, this is the coyote. >> brett cohen stopping in his tracks, capturing this large canine strolling through new york city's central park. >> i knew right away it wasn't a dog off a leash. come on. brody. >> and in massachusetts, one woman recounting the frightening moment she came face to face with the coyote while walking her dog. >> i've never been more scared because i was like, this is insane. >> watch as the coyote hops a fence chasing after carrie chudnovsky and her dog, brody. no, no. >> as things get warmer, especially, spring is in the air. now, these animals are becoming more active and com

thank you. >> some students at morehouse do not want president biden to speaking. they're commencement in part because of his handling of israel's war in gaza, while the administration of the university so far says, it's going to happen a student who thinks that they should rethink this is going to join us live and we'll talk about it right after the break riyadh says new album is breaking records gets to say what country is call me country beyond, say a nashville's renaissance streaming exclusively on macs i'm always shopping the real real. they drop over 10,000 new arrivals everyday. >> gucci, rolex, prada, lukito, miss cartier, tiffany, up to 90% of retail, endless luxury, the real, real shock now and get 20% off. but the real real.com terms of fly transfer your ira or your old four one k to robert. goodbye. april 30th, and we'll give you a 3% boost with the biggest match of any ira on the market. robin hood gold gets you the most for your time. >> the day you get your clear choice dental implants makes every day let's dig in day a chow down day a take a big bit

i talked to faculty at morehouse, and they pointed me to president thomas's comments.e sent out a letter to faculty and staff prior to the announcement reconfirming that president biden was in fact going to be the commencement speaker and noted that they won't be rescinding their invitation, and two, their invitation was extended prior to october 7th. they noted it was extended in september. secondly, this letter has been organized by someone i also happen to know, steven green, a young morehouse alum, previously the youth and college director of the naacp, and while he was the youth and college director, he really pushed and did a lot of work in terms of civil disobedience. they did a lot more sit-ins while steven was under the leadership prior president cornell. i say all of that to say there is absolutely, yes, a subset of individuals, people, alums at morehouse, folks across the country -- i mean, we're looking at the images right now at what's happening at ut austin, they're going to protest. i also think it relates to this invitation by president biden. i do not

this was morehouse alum now a civil rights attorney. and as someone who works at the council on american-islamic relations talking about biden's impending address to the timing is bad. >> i mean, it would almost be like inviting lyndon johnson to come and speak at morehouse at the height of the vietnam war, i do expect that there will be a vocal outcry about this, but i do think in the spirit of morehouse in the history morass, it will be respectful. >> it'll be intelligent, it will be effected so there you go. >> yeah. look, i mean, in at harvard iop poll of young voters, this wasn't necessarily their top concern, but biden's approval rating on the war among people younger than 30 was 18% yeah. okay. >> so you're talking and among, and among young democrats, it was overwhelmingly negative as well. i mean, this is, this is a reality that they are facing. they need strong showings among young voters. they are underperforming for a lot of reasons. but this is one of them. i think feds. to that point, it says, what is happening in gaza is

martin luther king walked the campus at morehouse. of social media and also because we understand more about the plight of black and brown people across the globe, don't want you to come down here and not address those issues. we want you to lean into them in ways that are relevant to us, to those students, and look, they understand the mission. it's important for them to get an agenda passed and promoted for anyone that's running as president of the united states. don't come down here and use the university as a platform without addressing the core issues. if he can do that, he'll be welcome, but until then, they want to make sure that he has that in mind should he decide to go. >> basil smikle, thank you, it's always good to see you my friend. >>> coming up, the new study that may have some would be homeowners putting their dreams on hold. we'll explain that. >>> but first, when you return something to amazon, make sure you double check what you send. a utah couple learned the hard way when their indoor cat, galena, stuck into an am

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that speech particularly annoyed me because i'm a morehouse alum. and, you know, before he got to that particular point that you made, he also talked about absent fathers. and in that moment, you like, he's not talking to those young men. he's actually talking to a broader audience that have that has a host of assumptions about who black men are. but i think you're absolutely right. in that moment, there's a reason why occupy wall street emerged during the obama years. there's a reason why black lives matter emerged in the obama years. remember, obama in some ways became the object of a lot of the grassroots organizing izing that happened before he became the president of the united states. there was organizing on the ground around police brutality in los angeles and new york and chicago. and there was also this mass of anti-iraq movement and obama emerged. and then people green screened it. they made him this progressive of candidate. and when he got into office, you know, he did what he had to do symbolically, we can never take away the significan

and this morning at morehouse college, some faculty members raising concerns over the announcement of president biden as commencement speaker. administrators are worried professors may join students in protest of biden's speech. an e-mail from kendrick brown says he will convene a virtual meeting thursday to hear different perspectives on their selection. neither morehouse nor brown responded to requests for comment. >>> the supreme court appears ready to keep in place local laws that crack down on homelessness. justices are reviewing a lower court ruling that says the city of grant's pass, oregon was in violation of the eighth amendment when it banned sleeping on public property. the eighth amendment bars cruel and unusual punishment. conservative justices seemed amenable to let local laws stand. and the high court on monday also agreed to take up the ghost gun issue to consider whether the biden administration is within its right to regulate home-assembly firearm kits. the atf issued the regulation in 2022. >>> the city of baltimore is demanding that the owners of the dali cargo shi

we understand that. . >> is there concern about violence at morehouse? sec. jean-pierre: i'm not going to speculate or go into hypotheticals. the president is looking forward to these upcoming commencement, morehouse and the united states military academy next month, and he has done these many times before, understanding the important moment and how special that moment is for the graduates and their families, and he is going to do his best to me that moment as it relates to what is going on, the pain that communities are feeling, we will continue to have a conversation and beat sensitive to that, understanding what people are going through. >> is it the goal that federal law trumps state law over the abortion ban there? i wonder how was it a major part of the administration's effort to protect women, give additional health care to women. if that is on the chopping block, what else? sec. jean-pierre: i'm going to be careful, because it is ongoing. parts of this, especially because it is ongoing legislation, i would have to direct to to the department of justic

this is morehouse. i don't care what the media tells you, mr. petroleump. we support you. president trump: we love you. let me give you a hug. mr. trump, we support you. president trump: we love you. let me give you a hug. >> i'll tell my massachusetts. momma. president trump: that's really nice. we took care of the -- black kohl colleges, university, they are taken care of. biden did nothing for them. i did everything. it's really nice. >> no housing. president trump: do you two know each other? you should. >> that's my mentee. >> picked me up in 2017. he's been a great mentor ever since then. president trump: he's a great mentor to me, too. had a great talk yesterday. that talk covered all over the place. all over the world that talk did. >> they said i went over my time. president trump: my team, don't worry about t we'll do it again. >> i left my pen you gave me. president trump: you did? take a picture. take a picture. [indiscernible] president trump: thank you, everybody. you are a special woman. >> i look forward to helping you. president trump: thank you, darling.

january, 34 percent improved and next month schedule president to give commencement at west point and morehouselege with a contingent of alumni and students at the historic buck college demanded they resend at morehouse. >> trace: live for us in dc and thank you. the commonsense department just saw the new cnn poll showing most americans say the trump presidency successful and as you might imagine that inside cnn there were some house of commons paste off anchors. none more so than cnn's resident trump haider who was stunned at the poll because a million people died in covid and, of course, in context have never been best friends so this might be a best way to point out that the million who died we're during biden's term of the covid policies of the left did lead to a million stupid mistakes but the real reason americans say the former president more successful than the current is because they approve of trump's policies on the economy of law and order and immigration which means they disapprove with runaway inflation and criminals on the run and 11 million immigrants running free in the reason

sometimes i think we will see this as we look forward to joe biden coming to morehouse college campusly the message, but it is the messenger. i feel like she is being well received on these campuses. these campuses have a history of protest and i am someone who decries law enforcement involvement on college campuses because as i talked about, my father was shot by law enforcement on a college campus. so rci understand the balance o the rise of anti-semitism. i understand the fact that we don't need to see another baby being killed in gaza. i understand the outcry of these protesters. what i don't want is someone like eric adams using this as another opportunity to have a light or another badge or another opportunity to smile in front of a camera and integrate law enforcement on college campuses. we have seen from south carolina state in 1968 to li jackson state to kent state, that does not mix. i do appreciate this administration sending kamala harris to at least have these conversations. >> do you think the morehouse visit will be as well received? >> i am interested in what happens

. >> reporter: already making stops at clark atlanta university, spellman, morehouse, and howard universityss, enrollments, and scholarship funds. it comes at a critical time for hbcus with funding gaps and graduates hit hard by student loan debt. what was that moment where you said, we've got to get the band back together? >> it's really simple. "a different world's" never been off the air since it premiered in 1987. we've been fortunate that we've all been ambassadors for hbcus. and the idea that if we would come and go back and talk about the show and why not only people who watched it in primetime, but why their children and their grandchildren watch it. why all these future generations are still finding the evergreen subjects that we talk about relevant today. >> reporter: that tour also taking them to the white house for a meeting with vice president kamala harris. >> welcome to the vice president's house. i am proudly the first graduate of the hbcu to ever occupy this space. >> reporter: with a briefing on the artworks in her office. >> thurgood marshall and the artist is a howard gr

gaza and there was growing controversy as president biden is set to be the commencement speaker at morehouse college's graduation, spotlighting how the war in gaza is a difficult campaign issue for president biden with young voters in washington. alice barr nbc news the biden administration is worried about the president's response to the war and what it could mean at the polls this november. earlier today, we spoke with meet the press moderator kristen welker, who says the president is trying to walk a fine line. i think this is a big x factor in this election. can president biden turn up the pressure on the israelis to do more to protect civilian lives? what does this crisis look like as we get closer to november? i think that'll say a lot about the support he gets from younger voters. they were critical to him winning the white house back in 2020, and he needs them to turn out in force. if he wants to hold on to it. you can watch meet the press every sunday right here on nbc bay area after today in the bay, the white house has tapped some big name silicon valley tech ceos. it's asking the

it's a big house boat, morehouse and boat floating on the bay. >> it's a 2 story house on a barge hits currently anchored just off of sausalito, according to the coast guard. the owner of the house is having it towed there. we're not sure from where but the house was seen floating earlier on the bay just south of san francisco. that was sunday afternoon. our fans get ready. new anime stickers are now available. these 4 mascots were made as an idea to try to attract younger writers. fun facts are based on real bart employees. even the see signs on the trains with the characters promoting bay area events such as the teen. poetry contest. coming up next in sports, some shocking news from the farm women's basketball tonight. tara vanderveer calling it a career stepping down as the stanford head coach. >> and the winning as head coach in college basketball will be right back. ss. it's not a nine-to-five proposition. it's all day and into the night. it's all the things that keep this world turning. the go-tos that keep us going. the places we cheer. and check in. they all choose the advanced

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. >> president biden will deliver the commencement speech at morehouse college, an all-black collegey's event at the georgia international convention center, kamala harris said this. >> the access capital push that we have made has been about getting more federal dollars into community banks and getting the private sector to and the big banks to invest because they will admit and we know they are not necessarily in the place where we need them situated. access to capital is or encompasses a commitment to also making sure we are doing the teaching to then create access to market. it is about financial literacy. is around helping people start a business and keep the business going. the work we have been doing has been focused on all of these areas. also understanding the context in which we exist which is the law of disparities and understanding that in spite of those in certain parts of the country want to attack the eia, we understand that you can't truly invest in the strength of the nation if you don't pay attention to diversity, equity and inclusion. >> she also spoke with -- >> w

tade: princeton, ucla, morehouse, you have your on-campus job that is in office, you love it, you getmeet with students, but often times you are an adjunct professor pete i used to think, adjunct is like michelle obama teaching for fun. that is really rare. the most adjunct of recent grad school graduates who earned $40,000, 40 $5,000 a year. so what we do is you can teach in addition to your on-campus job at campus.edu, and we pay about double of the national average wage, about $8,000 a class. four academic quarters a year, if you teach three classes a quarter with us, you are making $96,000 in annual income, doing what you are great at and what you love doing, teaching these students who are super ambitious and super talented. caroline: we will have to dig and more. founders fund partner trae stephens is keeping with us, and campus.edu founder and chancellor, tade oyerinde, thank you. meanwhile, we've got the talks that there was a sweet new deal from sky dance offered to paramount shareholders. we understand it is $3 million and a cash inclusion, reported by the "new york times,"

playing has background for the president who is now set to deliver two commencement addresses, one at morehousery academy in west point, new york. trying to salvage the youth v vote. jason chaffetz, fox news contributor. jason. >> the promise of joe biden was to bring the country together. he was supposed to be the adult in the room who had decades of experience. that was a lie because here's an opportunity to go out and actually condemn violence and the hateful rhetoric, and he's not doing it, and he's trying to play both sides. he is not principled in his approach, and people can see right through that. >> harris: why does one side get a pass? it is hate, hate, hate, but we stopped just short of giving consequences for speech that's not protected. >> good on the congressmen for actually calling it out for what it is. he did a great job of going out and saying there's a problem on our side, and you have joe biden, kamala harris -- >> harris: what about chuck schumer? >> chuck schumer. how about president obama. he is a graduate of columbia university. violence. and it's deafening. >> harris: t

>> i think the president will be speaking to the graduates of morehouse, is economic policies, his social it's an important message, i don't think process should be able to keep him away. i think protests does protesters have a right to speak out, but some of the protests are anti-semitic and have no place in our country. i'm glad the white house has spoken out about that. people are chanting node justice come in no peace, the release of the hostages, bringing those innocent people home safely, hopefully, the president has his team, trying to produce a just cease-fire, and that's important. antony blinken, secretary burns, they've been in the region. it's important to make clear he understands the suffering of the palestinian people, he's doing everything he can to bring humanitarian relief to the people in gaza, and continues to push for a peaceful outcome. >> we have about 30 seconds left. this is a bigger question, do you think people are concerned enough about rfk junior, and the threat he poses in a handful of states, michigan and maybe some others? >> people are concerned, i'm conce

in february 1868 he won election to the kingdom morehouse. 14-year-old girl, reportedly a princess fromily, was pregnant with his child during the time of the election. they went on to have several more children. he married his fifth and final wife just four months later. he filed for divorce in 1883 charging her with numerous flagrant acts of adultery. he died within six months. he spent his life wielding his power over women and girls and their bodies. he face no consequences except he once lost a job for the 12- year-old he abducted and raped. that is the kind of history and tradition that samuel alito have brought back to the united states. it is the very logic of this court. it is the point of the decision in dobbs. it is the point of the arizona supreme court ruling this week. in 2024 william claude jones gets to control the body of women and girls in the state of arizona. are you tired of your hair breaking after waiting years for it to grow? new pantene with more pro-vitamins, plus biotin & collagen. repairs as well as the leading luxury bonding brand. stronger, healthier hair,

>> he did announce he will speak at morehouse university in a couple of weeks, and that is a significantision. there will be undoubtedly be protesters there. that in itself is a statement. i want to be in the belly of where people are feeling this passion. i do think, just to eco what geoff said, it's important when you're in the white house and sitting on a campaign, you're very mindful what you are seeing of young people on college campuses and also the harvard iop poll with housing costs, and that is the number one issue for young people in these polls, and you have to be mindful as well in people experiencing an about tie semitism across the country, and i do find it ironic, trump, echoing hitler and talking about anti-semitism, and you have to factor in all those things and factor in how you will when the world and the war. >> leaders of the higher institutions are collectively cowards. the university of florida is unique in that they're allowed free speech and protection of the students and how many lgbt people are aligning with the palestinian protests where most muslim countries

he is only scheduled to speak at morehouse college and u.s.ity of southern california prompted administrators to cancel their commencement over safety concerns. and now students at columbia university one of the schools at the center of the protests, are worried their graduation could be disrupted. joining us nbc news presidential historian michael beschloss. bogood morning. >>> good morning how are you. >> we are very glad to see you. i was looking at all of this, and there's a lot of focus what he ap mont campus of columbia, but it is happening all over the country on college campuses. and you hear the students talking a lot now about divestment. and it made me go back and read about the movement for divestment when on college campuses during south africa apartheid. can you talk about if there's similarity in the moment we are experiencing living through now, and moments that have come before. >> well, you know, i don't need to tell anyone on this panel or probably any viewer watching that protests is one of the sacred rights and sacred resp

he did not see me graduate from high school or from his beloved morehouse college. he didn't get to meet my wife and our daughter. and so many other things. but a great sacrifice occurred for many years. i used to wonder what is wrong with this society that chooses to remove someone who was only promoting love and? i remember my father saying, you know, this was back in the middle sixties. every day we'd see something on the news that was unimaginable. and he'd say, this is the second nation. and when you are sick first happening now that you're sick before medication can be administered to help, correct the ills. now, you know what we see today is sickness reflected over and over 56 years later. and i reflect because my dad was killed this day. this is the first 56 years ago on this day at 6:01 p.m., just. 30 or so minutes from now now. but we lost our father and my wife, her husband. but i believe our nation grief and understanding of our mission and a movement. however, we hadn't learned yet. because. they had told us we must nonviolence or we may face no nonexis

. >> president biden will deliver this spring's commencement speech address at morehouse college, andlege in atlanta on may 19th, during today's event at the georgia international convention center, vice president harris said this. >> the access to capitol push that we have made has been about adding more federal dollars into community banks. it has been about getting the private sector and the big banks to invest because they will admit, and we know, they are not necessarily in the place where we need them to be situated to know the community. access to capitol is, it encompasses a commitment to also making sure that we are doing the teaching to then create the access to markets. so, it is about financial literacy. a lot of what we talked about before, around helping people know how to start a business and keep a business going. the work we have been doing over the last three years has been focused on all of these areas. and, also understanding the context in which we exist, which is the long-standing disparities and understanding that in spite of those who in certain parts of our co

we know that president biden is set to speak in may at two college commencements, two, morehouse in atlanta and west point at the u.s. army college at west point. and the president is speaking at one at the air force academy next month at least that is what has been announced to this point. it is speaking to the reality that the protests that are happening at the colleges are something that the administration is aware of, and the president and vice president will likely have to face at least some level of demonstration in some of the commencement ceremoies coming up, ana. >> thank you, antonia and aaron, for your reporting. >>> and the courthouse in lower manhattan is dark this morning as the prosecution is gearing up for a third witness to take the stand. gary farro who is michael cohen's former banker who was directly involved in the transaction of cohen and stormy daniels. so we bring in our legal correspondents. and so you have been inside of the courthouse every day since this began, lisa. and so this third witness to take the stand, gary farro,and why is he important? >> he is the mic

the word has gotten out that president biden will speak at morehouse.illustrations at hbcus as well. >> do you think that, why do you think there seems to be more fear of this movement? during the trump administration, there were actual massacres at jewish institutions. a couple of major massacres. there seems to be more alarmed about the students than about that atmosphere donald trump has created, pulling knotty things back into the discourse. >> i honestly agree with richard haas in the council of foreign relations, who has been been on morning joe. benjamin netanyahu is running against biden. there are politics, it is not just about what is going on over there. they want to impact the election here and have the next system, benjamin netanyahu, trump, and vladimir putin empowered. >> thank you very much maryam alwan, mark thompson, my friend, thank you very much, we will be back. plateau de fromage! oh la la! don't panic. gift easy with gift mode, new on etsy. we're still going for that nice catch. we're still going for that perfect pizza. and with h

property, taxes would stay with the revitalization district and then we could use that to convert morehouse. so it's sort of a very virtuous cycle. so clouds the value increase. we would keep that increase in value and then use that to really help increase the amount of housing. the whole point. this is really less about housing of the house critical. it's really about economic revitalization and making sure we have more people in downtown san francisco. we currently have about 30 million square feet of office. space vacant. and with that, we know small businesses hurt the coffee shops, the restaurants people who do dry cleaning any kind of small business, many of them have closed because there's no traffic. there's no foot traffic out you're really trying with this is you're saying to activate these downtown districts. but >> why are these companies need tax incentives? it's so expensive. social one, it's actually more advantageous an office building. own an apartment building. >> so they're already losing a ton of money by doing the conversion from office, 2 residential. but because they

he's going to morehouse to give a commencement address on next month that coalition of voters important to a state like georgia it's sort of upper educated black voters who could be critical in a state like georgia. i'm certain that they're going to be protests there. there's already a protest even before he gets there are with people wanting them to rescind the invitation. more is that they don't plan to do that, but i'm sure it will be a scene and he's trying to walk that line. he put out a strong statement over the weekend about anti-semitism that is growing. and then the next day put out a statement supporting the idea of pro-palestinian protests and that's a line that is not going to please pretty much anybody, which is very, very difficult to do thank you so much. appreciate. should also add that the house speaker is going to go to columbia today, which is going open up another point of political attack coming up next, you just can't help himself. did donald trump violated his gag order at the same time, a judge is considering whether to punish him for it we'll talk about that nex

we'll get into that also, speaking of protest concern about demonstrations is why some students at morehouse say the college should rethink its invitation to president biden to speaker their graduation. i'll speak to a senior who feels that way along with then official from historically black college and you probably heard of the term white privilege thrown around a lot. well, an author and journalist says, she's figured out how to calculate just how much she's

we have the morehouse caucus, 40% of all current morning joe guests are more houseman. >> he is a biti was the greatest class, class of mine 279 -- 1979. >> given your description would you see this politicization of the process a threat to national security, given the level of talent we are concerned about? >> yes. first of all, it distracts the cabinet secretary with the responsibility for the protection of all of these different missions. secondly, it makes it much harder to find someone in the future willing to step up and do the job. the job has become such a political lightning rod. it wasn't a walk in the park when i was there. it has become such a political lightning rod that i worry you are never going to find anyone credible after this who is willing to step up and to do the job. some retired four-star going to say i don't need this. >> defendants made the move to dismiss the charges. >> right. >> they may say we are not going to entertain this. speaker johnson says we have these have to go through the process. putting the impeachment to the side and the root of what we are