i am a graduate of morehouse college.the most famous graduate of morehouse college is martin luther king. he was class of 1948. i am class of 1979. i went to college with his son, martin the third. i used eat sunday dinners at the king family home on sunset avenue in atlanta, georgia. dr. king said this in a 1965 address before a largely white audience in atlanta, georgia "i tend to believe that history can rhyme, and that those that do not learn the lessons of history are bound to repeat them." this is what he said 59 years ago. "people are often silent today because of fear. fear of social, political, and economic reprisals. in the name of god, in the interest of human dignity, for the cause of democracy, these millions are called upon to gird their courage, to speak out, to offer leadership that is needed. history will record that the greatest strategy -- tragedy of this period of social transition was not the vitriolic words and violent actions of the bad people but the appalling silence and indifference of the good p

>> it was very meaningful that the morehouse college glee club was the one that spoke. and i want to make a bold statement. i don't think there is any modern white person in the 20th or 21st century who's so embodied the understanding of black aspirations and black struggles as he. he grew up in a county, sumter county, that was 60% black. his playmates, but not his schoolmates because of segregation, were black. he was virtually raised by a second family who was black. and when i went with him on the campaign trail in 1976, and we would go into black churches in newark and in cleveland, and it came time for the chorus and those churches to sing. he was right up there singing with them. i used to actually have tears in my eyes to think that these people had such a deep belief in god, even though they were subject to such discrimination. he understood that. and it's very interesting, wolf, in the 1980, with all the losses he had, and it was overwhelming, the one constituency that stayed with him was the black community, because they understood that he understood and inco

>> you have just heard the morehouse college glee club singing eternal father. that was the navy him. it was preceded by america the beautiful and be thou my vision by the 282nd army band out of ft. jackson, south carolina. mark remarks will be offered by jason carter, grandson and chair of the carter center board of trustees. >> it afternoon. we will have many chances this week to pay tribute to my grandfather. it was important for all of us that we stop here. these buildings, as you all know, are filled with his life, not just because this is a museum to his life, and not just because there is a collection here of his beloved paintings, but his spirit fills this place. the real reason that this spirit fills this place is because of the people who are standing here. the people in this room, from the library, then use them and the carter center itself, you all are the real keepers of my grandparents legacy. the jimmy carter library museum holds the historical legacy, tells my grandparents story, which is an unbelievable american story, you hold it and you presen

so choosing morehouse college as the glee club to sing here today certainly important. but when you look through the administration of his time here as governor as well as the presidency, he diversified the west wing, the entire cabinet and the federal courts. this is something that has a he has a long legacy. he didn't choose a supreme court candidate, but he diversified the federal courts more than any president up until him diversified not only the federal courts and his cabinet and his administration, but also his administration here as governor, appointing more women, more blacks, more latinos than any other governor before him. >> i can show you or i can see. rather, we don't have a shot here to show you here that there are scores of people who are waiting alongside the road here, hoping that the motorcade will pass by them to get to this honor guard at the circle of flags. i'm not able to determine whether that will be the path based on where they're standing, but they've come here anyway. again, to say thank you and to say goodbye to the former governor and 39th

so i'm so grateful to morehouse for their collaboration and helping me with this journey.'m kind of the first student to ever do this. >> whit: wow. >> janai: why did you want to do that because you're already working? you didn't have to then go to school. >> i know but it's always been a dream of mine. going to the house has always been a dream, being around, you know, like-minded young black men, it's a space that i feel is really important. >> janai: yeah. >> and a space that's building me into a man. >> gio: you are so grounded. you really are. >> whit: making many people proud and congratulations on all the projects you have coming up. >> thank you very much. >> whit: thanks for coming on too. we appreciate it. all the way from the west coast, but that's not your hometown. >> georgia. >> whit: that's right. elijah, once again and remember, "goosebumps: the vanishing" premieres on disney+ and hulu on january 10th. >> janai: coming up after the break, from the tony award winning musical "the outsiders," gio sat down with the director and star of the show. stick around.

this was the morehouse college singing as well.ocession to the carter center all day long. jonathan, you been watching with us. your thoughts on this somber but beautiful ceremony? >> it was a beautiful ceremony. and the first speaker, jason carter, grandson jimmy carter really explained nicely why the ceremony was taking place here. why the former president so intentional when he is planning his own funeral that the carter center would prominently featured. it is because he really was extremely proud of the work that he did here at the carter center which works to promote democracy around the world by monitoring elections, and fights disease it is nearly eradicated guinea worm which used to be a purchase huge scorch across the continent of africa. reproducing cases from that millions now down to the low teens very close to eradicating it. so the president was very proud of the work done here the carter center. until after his death, his grandson thinking all the people at the carter center. the staff, many of whom have worked with

is within single digits in new york state and we are proud as new yorkers that no state flipped morehousesional seats than new york state from democrat to republican. we will continue to go on offense to build this majority. and send democrats packing. [applause] on top of the biden border crisis, the inflation crisis, the energy crisis, the crime crisis, we have also seen joe biden's weakness as commander-in-chief on the global stage. we saw the catastrophic withdrawal from afghanistan. an absolute absolute black mark on america. the way the rest of the world views america. we then saw israel our most precious ally under attack from the vicious iranian backed hamas terrorist. leading to the deadliest day for the jewish people since the holocaust. what have we seen from joe biden what have we seen from this white house? we have seen anti-israel policies, they have turned their back on our most precious ally and i am very proud that president trump, if you look at our greatest defender of israel from the white house, it was president trump, the abraham accords, the embassy to jerusalem, su

she said you don't have to be to morehouse college, you don't have to be a minister or a civil rights end up going to morehouse and i did end up becoming a civil rights leader, but i did not go into the minh istry. not because it's something that i considered, but just because it's a calling. >> this year marks 60ers yoo y bloody sunday, 60 years of the act. there have been enormous advances and progress made and also setbacks? >> my father used to say that whenever there is a perception and a reality of progress, there are always inevitable setbacks. 1963 when he was delivering the "i have "i have a dream" speech the nation was very excited and everything felt really great, but less than three weeks after the march the 16th street baptist church was bombed. when george floyd tragically was killed, for a year, we were doing all kind of incredible things to create opportunities for people who have been excluded historically. after about a year the pushback came and we started banning books and we started to dismount -- dismantle, dei. >> this year the day that we remember and mark, you

you see, this faith inspired my morehouse brother, the late dr. martin luther king, to stand before the crowd in washington, d.c., some 62 years ago and declare the words i have a dream, which would change the fabric of this nation and bring us today as we celebrate him. as i think about the honorable task that has been given to me by my good friend and sister baxter, and reverent hope, to introduce the president of the united states, my mind reflects on the greek words, alpha and omega. the beginning and the end. when i think of this occasion and the work that president biden has done, i find myself reflecting on revelation 22, verses 13 through 15. it is written that god says i am the alpha and omega. as a member of the omega sci-fi fraternity, i've used this phrase many times to talk about the greatness of our members. but that's not the context, here. today, i'm talking about the journey of this great man, president joseph biden. i think of how president biden's trajectory to the presidency began right here in charleston, south carolina. when

as a morehouse man, this was something of a homecoming for king, he told the audience, quote, morehouseen always consider it a privilege to speak to spelman ladies, end quote. they were sister colleges in atlanta. doctor king's profile was a civil rights activist. as a civil rights activist was growing. it was the dawn of a nationwide student sit in movement, a nonviolent civil rights protest tactic. and that particular movement started in greensboro, north carolina, when a group of black college students sat at a woolworth's lunch counter and were denied service. they refused to leave, and the next day, more students joined the sit in a wave of sit ins spread across the across college towns in the this line e if you can't fly, run. if you can't run, walk if you can't walk, crawl. but by all means, keep moving. end quote. keep moving. doctor king was telling those college protesters. he was telling black people all over the jim crow south. he was telling any and all americans, black or white, who were seeking a free and just nation to hold the line. when times get tough, do whatever it

heath: i found hannah interesting and also his quaker grandmother palmyra milk house -- morehouse. in the quaker faith, women are equal to men. they teach a lot of the sunday school classes, they are leaders in the community so he grows up with these role models. i think hannah and pat, i do not think there was ever a clash. pat nixon was never the type to clash with people, she is very conciliatory but as she told her daughter julie later, hannah was not really a modern person. i thought that was an interesting quote. pat is a modern person with a very modern viewpoint, a working woman's viewpoint and hannah is about the home and her children. she does work, two of richard nixon's brothers die, hannah works at the grocery store that the nixon's own so she is working but she is from a different time and i just think pat also i never saw is greatly religious and hannah is very religious so i think they tolerate each other and become fond of each other but i think at first there is a little bit of a culture clash. peter: 46, 48, richard nixon elected to congress. what was pat's role

junior's father and doctor king were classmates at morehouse college river nance, who was just 9 years old at the time, knew doctor king would change the world. >> and the impact that he did make that lead to the be right. say acts that pave the way for black people go to facilities of like your body feels that the martin luther king junior came to st. louis, missouri to speak at washington tabernacle baptist church where nance's uncle was the minister. >> my dad did a wonderful introduction of him. >> and a king, he mesmerized the crowd. that king spoke to me. they and me a question, did not know why. they would pay. and that. i think any state where he it too, create a future for you live into july. you. >> 6 years later in 1968, dr. king was assassinated. dr king was a recipient of the nobel peace prize. king's birthday was approved as a federal holiday in 1983, and all 50 states made it a state government holiday by 2000 reporting in st. louis. kelley hoskins. >> coming up after the break, we have chilly temperatures and some gusty winds to start the week. i'll have the forecast af

. >> but sam went to morehouse. i went to spellman.mmediate bond? >> oh, yeah. >> jimmy: was it intimidating acting with him? >> no, man, he's a sweet pea. he knew everybody's lines. >> jimmy: he did? >> no, he knew everybody's lines. >> jimmy: why? >> that's what you do. that's the era who that man is, yeah. >> jimmy: wow, if you forgot a line, he's remembered it? >> i'd be like, man, blah, blah, blah. i'd blab it off. "you're right, thank you." and you keep going. >> jimmy: that's impressive. >> you don't want to mess up the flow with sam jackson. you better keep [ bleep ]. >> jimmy: it's great to have you here. congratulations on all the success of the movie. the movie is called "the piano lesson." you can watch on it netflix right now. danielle deadwyler, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] thank you, danielle. we'll be back with larkin poe! >> jimmy: thanks to jesse eisenberg and danielle deadwyler. "nightline" is next. but first, their album "bloom" comes out on friday. here with the song "easy love pt. 1," larkin poe! [ cheers an

. >> morehouse college professor...st performed at his inauguration back in 1977 and at his carter center memorial ceremony this saturday. >> i felt a tremendous sense of pride to be a part of this but also even after 100 years such a loss because a dear friend who has contributed so much to this world, not just to the united states, not just to people of color, is passed on. and you don't replicate those kinds of people every day. >> the public visitation runs until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow. and then the former president's will be taken to washington, d.c., to lie in state in the u.s. capitol rotunda. sandra? >> sandra: jonathan live there in atlanta for us. now this. >> while we mourn my grandfather's passing i know in my heart, you all do, that his legacy will live on. >> sandra: justin carter eulogizing his late grandfather at the carter center on saturday. he joins us now. welcomed jason thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> sandra: obviously emotional time and moment there for you. what do you believe

junior's father and doctor king were classmates at morehouse college river nance, who was just 9 years old at the time, knew doctor king would change the world. >> and the impact that he did make that lead to the only right say acts that pave the way for black people go to facilities of like your body feels that the martin luther king junior came to st. louis, missouri to speak at washington tabernacle baptist church nance's uncle was the minister. >> my dad did a wonderful introduction of him. >> and a king, he mesmerized the crowd. that king spoke to me. they and asked me a question, did not know why. they would pay. and that. i think any state where he it too, create a future for you love into july. you. >> 6 years later in 1968, dr. king was assassinated. dr king was a recipient of the nobel peace prize. king's birthday was approved as a federal holiday in 1983, and all 50 states made it a state government holiday by 2000. >> still ahead kron, 4 news at noon, an international effort now underway to save the species. latest efforts out of london to rest of air after careful review o

charles person was a student at morehouse college in his hometown of atlanta where he had been arrestedined on that trip aboard a trailways bus by six other black freedom riders, including future congressman and civil rights icon john lewis and six white riders. their mission was to test the supreme court's order to deseg grate the inner state bus system. along the route a group of men that included members of the ku klux klan boarded the bus, beating person and others unconscious when they refused to move to the back. when the bus arrived in birmingham on mother's day 1961, another mob of men was waiting and the riders including person were beaten again. the images from alabama helped to galvanize the civil rights movement as hundreds of new freedom riders joined the cause. two weeks later, president john f. kennedy ordered the immediate desegregation of all interstate bus terminals. person an engineering whiz accepted to m.i.t. but could not afford the tuition, later joined the marines corps serving two years in vietnam. he retired from the military in 1981, starting an electronics bu

morehouse college, the glee club there, of course, the historically black university here in atlanta, sent him off with a stirring battle hymn of the republic. that was, by design as a nod to the civil rights legacy. so jimmy carter clearly was a modern governor in the south. there's no question his. grandson here at the service perhaps put it best when he said, you can cram a lot of life in 100 years. >> yeah, no question about it. and, jeff, this is inside politics, of course. and jimmy carter's 1976 electoral map is just stunning to look at. our viewers can see it there on your screen. texas was blue in the west like california was red. that is quite remarkable when you look at today's politics. >> manu chao. it certainly is. of course, jimmy carter was elected because of anger in the country over the vietnam war and in the watergate era. of course, he was sent out of office on a different kind of anger over inflation and the economy. when you look at the red and blue divide in this country, so different. he was the last democratic presidential candidate to sweep the south. of cour

here, morehouse chosen, of course, the historically black college here in atlanta as a nod to how important civil rights were to the carters. of course, through the course of his governorship and indeed the presidency. now the late president is lying in repose here in atlanta through tuesday morning at 6 a.m., when he's taken to washington, ammar and danny. >> turning to dc. now, we have a live look over capitol hill this morning. it will be a busy week there starting tomorrow. house speaker mike johnson getting ready for his first full week with the 119th congress. and he's got that razor thin majority. and across the city, heavy security is in place as vice president kamala harris gets ready to certify the election she lost to donald trump. joining me now is cnn political analyst and anchor with spectrum news sarah lewis. good morning, errol. uh, listen, vice president harris has known this moment was coming ever since election night. it's part of the job, but it's still likely going to be hard. and yet, that peaceful transfer of power will happen. can you just reflect on how different th

. >> reverend amos brown, you studied under doctor king when he taught at morehouse.se i interviewed you about your work with medgar evers when you were just a teenager. i ask you the same question. your feelings on the juxtaposition between these two men, the great doctor, reverend doctor martin luther king jr, and the current occupant of the white house. >> ever since, our president as being the lower angels and doctor king being the higher angel. >> that is the truth. there's no way that you can reconcile the rhetoric, the roaring, and the kind of reactionary politicking that this president has embraced. doctor king was about pulling people together. he was about respecting the worth and the dignity of all humankind. he believed in doctor brightman's theory of personalism. what does that mean? regardless to how different we may be as human beings, they are persons, and we should never do things that will cause harm, hardship and horror for others. and all we have to do is just touch the record and realize that this president has shown himself not to be of civility,

he planned every moment of his funeral some decades ago, including music from the morehouse college gleelub. the family watched and listened as they sang battle hymn of the republic. and flanking armslist. >> is true. is marching along. >> those strains were chosen themselves by the carters, a nod to the deep importance that civil rights played in his governor and indeed his presidency. now the late president will be lying in repose here in atlanta through tuesday morning before going to washington. jeff zeleny, cnn, atlanta. >> and we move on to washington now where we are learning that donald trump plans to concentrate his ambitious policy agenda into one large, sweeping package. it now appears trump expects some of his biggest campaign promises on tax policy and the border to pass through congress in a single massive bill. sources say the u.s. house speaker told republican lawmakers of the plan in a closed door meeting on saturday after the spending bill debacle and a narrow speaker's race. trump seems to believe there will be very little room to maneuver separate bills, but legislati

within single digits in new york state and we are proud as new yorkers that no state flipped to morehouseonal seats than new york state from democrat to republican. we will continue to go on offense to build this majority and send democrats packing. [applause] on top of the biden border crisis, the inflation crisis, the energy crisis, the crime crisis, we have also seen joe biden's weakness as commander-in-chief on the global stage. we saw the catastrophic withdrawal from afghanistan. an absolute, absolute black mark on america, the way the rest of the world views america. we then saw israel, our most precious ally, under attack from the vicious iranian-backed hamas terrorists, leading to the deadliest day for the jewish people since the holocaust. and what have we seen since joe biden what have we seen from this white house? we have seen anti-israel policies. they have turned their back on our most precious ally, and i'm very proud that president trump, if you look at our greatest defender of israel from the white house, it was president trump, the abraham accords, the embassy to jerusal

in truth, to look at some of the hbc hbcus, i'm thinking of morehouse and other places like that, theynd say that that's an affirmative action program, or do you think that that could be done in good faith? >> i look at this and say, this is an affirmative action program. this is a jp morgan program called black pathways fellowship, and they have one for latinos as well. and the actual result of that is that 67% of their interns are minorities. okay? we live in a country that's vast majority white. still, that obviously tells you that these programs are having a, you know, preferential treatment basis for these other groups of people. and i'm not saying that people of all races shouldn't be represented. they should. but i think proportional to society, you would expect it to be if it was occurring naturally. it's not occurring naturally. this is something very clearly where they're putting their finger on the scales. and if you look at sort of the laws on the books, that's something that should be, i think, by any reasonable person seen as illegal. >> well, let me ask you this. so ken

after graduating from morehouse college and a theological seminary, dr. king enrolled in imraj graduate studies at boston university. informs boston where dr. king would meet coretta scott, who was also a student at the nearby new england conservatory. and as we all know, as history has taught us, the two would ultimately marry and coretta would become coretta scott king. together they would be a formidable force in their own right in their own time, and in joint pursuit of equality and justice for all. so this remarkable partnership between dr. king and coretta scott king also brought forth four children who grew up to embrace, uphold and protect the values that their parents had devoted their lives for. now, i would be remiss if i did not lift the names of martin luther king iii, bernice alberts canine -- albertine king, and dexter scott king who we unfortunately lost last january. in 1954, as i indicated, their father became think pastor of the dexter avenue baptist church in montgomery, alabama. dr. king, by this time, was a member of the executive co

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