i don't think that marc morial was making an excuse. i think he is saying that there is a continuing angst, anger in that black community and that people are looking for change. that's part of the building trust that i'm talking about. >> but to mention these two things that that shot may not have come from -- >> where it came from. >> to mention that and say that the community needs change or the country needs change, just in the -- mentioning the same breath of a shooting two cops shot, certainly certainly ties that -- ties those two together. in many people's worlds, including mine. >> okay. greg? >> well, the joke is on everybody. on anybody who has a sincere feeling about this whether you believe that the police -- the police acted wrongly or you believe in defending the police. ber all being preyed on by infill traitors. pace clirks a roving band of minstrels, these radicals that move from protest to protest. they -- they were there at occupy wall street. they show up at every -- # >> the same thing, morial those cops being shot w

but morial says awareness of that disparity can lead to a solution. >> our hope is that it strengthen revolve of many to try to confront those challenges and try to find ways to reform these problems. >> reporter: that resolve can be seen on the faces in the crowds-- black and white-- demanding change. dean reynolds, cbs news, madison. >> pelley: today, secretary of state john kerry said the u.s. is investigating whether chlorine gas was unleashed on civilians this week in the syrian civil war. six died. the u.s. is also accuse the dictatorship of dropping barrels of explosives from aircraft on to rebel neighborhoods. our clarissa ward met a doctor fighting to save the victims. >> i have a lot of patients coming in with multiple injuries due to these barrel bombs. >> reporter: dr. abdul is one of the few surgeons still tbhork aleppo. he asked that we not show his face. on a bad day he said as many as 30 barrel bombs are dropped on the city. >> the ambulance just bringing patients and dropping them on the door of the hospital. someone is dead here and another one is dead here. someone

let's turn right now to marc morial. report on the 2015 state of black america. your letter at the beginning, you you write this. so, what is the state of black america in 2015? in short, on many fronts black america remains in crisis. and we see justice challenged at every turn. this has been a cataclysmic year for race relations in america. no doubt about it. i think you would have to go back to the late '60s, early '70s to see a year as rough as this one on the national level. how though in the areas that you rate, social justice, education, income equality how did things pan out there? >> so, joe, i think importantly, i'd like to highlight some good news areas. one good news area is that health disparities measured by index narrowed over the last several years. i think that's a significant finding. and when you step back and say, why? you've got to say that the affordable care act had a significant impact on narrowing the gap in health disparities. >> i find it fascinating, social justice, pretty big jump in narrowin

looking at the report and talking to urban league ceo marc morial who told me today when it comes to african-american income and employment and especially he says the net worth of black families now in america, we're in a state of emergency. the urban league report says the biggest problem facing african-americans is not their treatment by police or what students at university of virginia charged last night was mistreatment after student martese johnson was bloodied by cops. the report finds social justice for blacks improving, less crime and violence but finds a stunning and worsening economic gap between white americans and african-americans. who now have a median net worth of just $6,300 versus $111,000 for whites. black income is $35,000 vest $58,000 for whites. and the black unemployment rate is more than double that of whites. a tale of two nations, says marc morial, the head of the urban league. >> this is not a sustainable thing for the united states of america and we're a nation that believes that upward economic mobility is tied to education, perseverance and hard work. >>

however, urban league president marc morial cautioned the country. >> but there's another story. there is the rest of the story. >> reporter: morial called on congress to create a national summer jobs program to quickly put people to work among other measures because the economic recovery has been uneven. >> too many people are being left behind, and many many african-americans have not found gainful employment again since the great recession began. >> reporter: the national report showed that household median incomes were the highest in the nation for the metropolitan washington area, although blacks and hispanic families here badly trailed whites. d.c. mayor muriel bowser cited the dramatic rebirth of washington as an example. >> while we're moving in the right directions in a lot of way, we're not moving in the right directions for everybody. so that's why it's so important that we continue to focus on the health of our cities but for everybody. >> reporter: in the district tom sherwood news4. >>> new backlash now from an effort by starbucks to get people to talk about race. u

mark morial joins me now.america report, you found that the equality index rating is up it's at 72%. it's inched up a little bit. give us a better -- give us a better understanding of what the index is and what this increase actually means nationally? >> the index is very very small. but i think it's more helpful if we look inside the numbers. so inside the numbers and inside the state of affairs today, on one hand you've got 295,000 jobs being created. last month, over 200,000 jobs being created in every month for the last 12 months. and that's a first time since 1977. you've also got the highest high school graduation rates in history and downward trend when it comes to high school dropout rates. but then if you look at the unemployment rate what you say 33 of the top cities in america, the black unemployment rate exceeds 15% and in seven cities it is in excess of 20%. this means that the recovery has not reached all of the people in this nation and many are being left behind and it points to the work we nee

and the president and ceo of the national urban league marc morial. both on this morning. there is more fallout this morning on the campus of oklahoma university. two fraternity members caught chanting racial slurs in a youtube video have been expelled from the university. >> and now those two students have been identified as 19-year-old parker rice and 25-year-old levi pettitte both from dallas texas. let's bring in gabe gutierrez, he's on the campus in norman oklahoma. gabe, good morning. >> reporter: joe good morning. there is a lot of outrage here on the campus of the university of oklahoma. the university's president says he hopes the expulsion of two students shows that the campus has a zero tolerance policy for what happened. it is the chant that shocked the country. one of the students involved has been identified. the student pumping his fist is parker rice a university of oklahoma freshman who graduated from a jesuit prep school in dallas last year. >> i'm not only appalled, but saddened and hurt that here we are, 2015 and we're still dealin

. >> we talked about being mow morialized with the civil rights movement. >> with the possibility of the reefs building coming down he pictured his statue which would be a flash point. >> it's right on the corner when the riots took place in 1968. >> it's part of a committee to come up with different ways to honor his legacy. >> they learned the value of the a hard day's worth because of the youth programs he founded in 1979. >> besides the possibility of a statue. the other things are naming streets or government buildings in his name. barry's widow said he wanted his legacy to be remembered by the city he loved so much. >> i promise you to the day he died that's all he was thinking about is how to help people and what to do with the city. >> news 4. >> it is a big day for teens in loudoun county. the seventh annual fair happening this afternoon at the cloud moore recreation center in sterling. the least 34 companies specifically looking to hire teens are going applicants encouraged to bring that resume. >> we have high tech and low tech firms and grass cutting firms and snow remova

it's a tale of two nations, says marc morial the head of the urban league. >> this is not a sustainable thing for the united states of america and we're a nation that believes that upward economic mobility is tied to education, perseverance and hard work. >> reporter: not race. >> not race. >> two steps forward and one step back. >> reporter: frustrated african-american leaders today demanded better schools and job training. >> our young boys especially are falling further and further behind. >> reporter: fix that says the urban league and we'd lessen the friction that led to the racism found by the justice department in ferguson and suspected in other communities across america. the urban league says economically latinos in america are doing a bit better than blacks but when it comes to income and net worth, are also falling far behind whites. i'm steve handelsman news4. >>> israeli prime minister general benn. >>> minetten ya hue appears to be backtracking on his preelection vow that no palestinian state would be established on his watch. in his first american television interview sin

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marc morial. i believe the ferguson police department should be disbanded.ing a police department is not rocket science, but it requires fresh leadership and commitment to reform. that's pretty dramatic. let me go to eugene o'donnell. what do we do? i'm not an expert i'm a journalist, but l.a. was better at the time of the o.j. situation, we had all that suspicion which johnnie cochran was able to use because people already believed what he was saying about the behavior of the police. is it fixable for ferguson in the same way in. >> it may be a question of the legislature should be disbanded also. too many police departments in the country, too many are walled off not only from the community but even from themselves. ferguson is a case of perhaps sunseting that agency. two things in the justice report that are totallien conscionable. jaywalking enforcement, 9 5% of people were african-americans. they were documenting illegal stops. it does remind me of a radio shack management mentality where you walk in and talk to the chiefs, some of the chiefses are sayi

operated roosevelt's -- celebrated roosevelt's new deal as having been important to keeping people's morial -- morale up in the depression and put food on the table for people who were really needy and getting us oust the depression. i have come, as many historians and economists have come to doubt that story about the new deal. it's partially true but also partially not true. the new deal didn't actually get us out of the depression, for example. but that was a belief in which i was brought up. in my high school years i was active in the young democrats and i was twice elected governor of the west virginia democratic youth conference in 1976 i was an alternate delegate from west virginia at the democratic national convention that nominated jimmy carter. i was myself a supporter of jimmy carter. ... processes that are typical for cities of the nation. it tells an american story. it is not just a freak accident of nature. it is not just baltimoreans living in poverty. it is about how our government and society interact with impoverished people a disproportionate number of homes happened to b

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i think that was the context that i can not just me but marc morial and everyone on the show is making this broader point. >> host: let me bring it back to iran. is a quote from michael gershon he wrote last week. i'm sure you've seen it. major policy director for george w. bush. he says in the post -- first it's obvious, the republican senators want to make the point that and i ran deal requires a tree. congress of the has no business conducting foreign policy with a foreign government econom, especially in adversary one. i think he went guess but i think mike is totally wrong. there's a long tradition of senators and senators to follow government leaders left letters to gorbachev requesting the release of soviet jewish dissident the letters to the chinese government about some of their air defense practices in the pacific as i recall. obviously nancy pelosi met with machar all of a sudden 2007. the idea that congress is supposed to -- bashar al-assad. but out is ridiculous. what's unusual about this letter is the republican senators are trying to toughen the american administration p

morial.of conversations about these types of issues in 2015 even when we have an african-american president, and to be discussing these types of issues it just, it's -- i have no point of reference. >> mind boggling. >> that's right, don. and it's very disappointing, because we talk so much that we live in a post-racial society, but these are reminders that we have such a great ways to go. >> stand by because we're going to be following this story. we're standing by for that news conference from mississippi as well. don, by the way, will be back with much more on all of this at 10:00 p.m. eastern for his special program, "cnn tonight," a special hour coming up looking at all of these racially charged stories as well as the phrase "hands up don't shoot," whether it was really a false narrative. stick around 10:00 eastern time, don lemon, "cnn tonight." much more news right after this. there's nothing more romantic than a spontaneous moment. so why pause to take a pill? and why stop what you're

so unlike a park, which has been held since time immillion morial for the public to speak -- >> you want us to say the public are not involved over time -- people don't go to parks anymore. they drive. >> absolutely. the public traditional public forum can't evolve over time. but the indicia of a traditional public forum has to be one that is open, and texas is not open license plates. if other states -- >> in a world in which you have approved 400 license plates and they're pretty common in the state of texas, and you have only disapproved a very select few, it does seem as though you have basically given -- relinquished your control over this and made it's people's license plate for whatever private speech people want to say. >> justice kagan, it would be odd to say it's private speech when the board is taking a public vote and receiving notice in common governmental function of when the government wants to act, and it's placing its name on the license plate. when the government is placing its name on the license plate, it is accepting and signifying this is the government's message --

so unlike a park, which has been held since time immillion morial for the public to speak -- >> you want us to say the public are not involved over time -- people don't go to parks anymore. they drive. >> absolutely. the public traditional public forum can't evolve over time. but the indicia of a traditional public forum has to be one that is open, and texas is not open license plates. if other states -- >> in a world in which you have approved 400 license plates and they're pretty common in the state of texas, and you have only disapproved a very select few, it does seem as though you have basically given -- relinquished your control over this and made it's people's license plate for whatever private speech people want to say. >> justice kagan, it would be odd to say it's private speech when the board is taking a public vote and receiving notice in common governmental function of when the government wants to act, and it's placing its name on the license plate. when the government is placing its name on the license plate, it is accepting and signifying this is the government's message --

national action network, reverend al sharpton with us the president of national urban league mark morialnt to get to -- >> a lot to cover. >> freelance producer on the scene all night long. describe what you saw. >> reporter: well the protest had started a little after 8:00 and was fairly routine as these protests go chanting and blocking traffic and back and forth with police across the street facing off, but pretty uneventful. there were lots of people that were not involved in the protest. it was a very warm evening. there were people out socializing behind them watching semiparticipating, but it was just about to break up. people were starting to filter out. some of the policemen were leaving. it was a couple minutes after midnight, and all of a sudden pop, pop, pop. three or four shots, very loud. at first i thought it was fireworks, and then when everyone hit the ground and the police yelled get down get down, get down, and guns were drawn, it was very real and very scary, and me and my crew randy and ken, we durked edducked down behind this about three-foot wall behind the police

time there are the comparisons that we have heard from naacp's cornell brooks talk about -- and marc morialjackson who died not long before this bloody sunday march happened. and that really helped instigate. >> that was the trigger. right. >> and that was the trigger for the march that king said we're going to march for equal rights as well as voting rights right here on this bridge. >> look i think that for the younger generation african-americans in particular they look at their incarceration rates being so high, and they know that all kids unfortunately, use drugs at the same level. and yet african-americans four or five times greater. they feel like that's not liberty and justice for all and they want to have a new civil rights movement to give them a sense of equality. but what i think is so important is for these young people now who have -- most have marched peacefully. most have used those same tools and tactics. some did not and got too much attention. where we are, i think, with this next generation, is they have seen the movie "selma." they're now watching right now, seeing selm