why would you why would normally ji normal children ever want to watch a tv show with nina simone and she's saying it like just innocently and i'm sitting listening to these, you know, enlightened educators and thinking to myself, maybe they're ready for sesame street. maybe this is just a really bad idea and, you know, this is kind of disheartening because i'd already been through you previous discussions how they didn't want our muppets and you know, there were all kinds of other challenges related to this besides the classical music and and, you know, one woman says, you americans don't understand that our children will never have wheelchairs that our country, you know, is is falling apart, that health care system has collapsed. so we children who are trapped in their and if you have children who, have wheelchairs in the tv show, how will these children in their beds feel? they'll be sad. wow, that's intense. so intense. but then, you know, i mean it goes on from there because as debate continues about how to this because these these educators feel a sense of responsible bility, th

. ♪♪ [music break] ellen amy: nina simone would have been 90 years old today. this is democracy now!e war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. 58 years ago today on february 21, 1965, malcolm x was shot dead as he spoke at the audubon ballroom in harlem. he had just taken the stage when shots rang out, riddling his body with bullets. malcolm x was 39 years old. just like martin luther king three years later when he was assassinated, 39 years old. we spendhe rest of the are today looking at a life and legacy of malcolm x with renowned activist and scholar angela davis who is giving a keynote address tonight at the shabbat center, the side of the audubon ballroom in harlem where malcolm x was assassinated as a center launches a new malcolm x education curriculum. angela davis, welcome back to [captioning made possible by democracy now!] democracy now! talk about the significance of this day 58 years ago malcolm x gunned down. >> first of all, thank you, amy, for inviting me to spend some time reflecting on the legacy of malcolm x on this day, his birthday. unfortunatel

whether it was nina simone, james brown or charles brown or eta james, we know it came out of something ask a quick question rev well do you love black people? and usually the answer is what does that have to do with it? and i said that's a lot to do with it. what this four-part documentary series does and i am not in the film and tv or per se, the skill set of laura ghoulie, that co-partner and executive producer of this was a call to arms, a situation that would be equipped to handle the narrative of where this music came from. the social economic and political conditions that created it to be a rule spreading out of concrete. and to be able to be informative rev to say that once you strip geography and history away from people, elite them like a caucus that can get filled with anybody's narrative. we learn from the great musicians and orators like or self an artist that there is always a struggle to speak for yourself and that's one thing this for par documentary did do that we have for the first time. artist speaking for themselves about the surrounding conditions where they never w

when i first heard this, it made me reflect on a song i heard when i was in high school by nina simone't say the word out, but go back and listen to that song. how could we stoop so low in the 21st century to come in and take the sovereignty of a city, take over the water system, not only that, the mayor and the delegation, they want to take it over now. they also want to put in some stipulation that if you don't have a water meter you don't have to pay your bill. and there will be no estimating of water bills. all that will degradated out of money this coming to jackson to have a sustainable water system joy. the federal government has invested the congress has invested, the epa and the doj is there to help get the water system and how line. but all of a sudden, jim crow two point oh want to take it over now. and there was a time when who get the contracts. the city won't have any say. and then they went one step further. they wanted to charge the city of jackson, if there's any leaks in the rents water system, with cities how stream could charge up to $400 million a year. that would

this is the bob dylan protest do the right thing or or nina simone and driving the american highway and feel and make sure american black child feels the same way. that is my great message and that's what i feel. the connection between my culture, childhood culture and american culture. that's a connection that i that i. raise your hand if you have a question. i see a young somali obama whose very active and i'm of him i'm sure he has a question not going to say his name. i'm sorry to put you the spot, but i think he's someone that that is the right thing. and i'm hoping. yes, he'll ask the question. hello everyone, thank you it's an honor to be here. this. to listen to a boyer and abdi i don't think i know boyer for maybe over 15 years i have read of these book and i have seen them online. pleasure to see you and meet you in person. my question for both of you guys, there are a lot of young people, similar backgrounds that don't have the courage to, you know, write a book or just talk about their story. what advice would you give them? you know, to talk about their story and also to ta

why would you why would normally ji normal children ever want to watch a tv show with nina simone and she's saying it like just innocently and i'm sitting listening to these, you know, enlightened educators and thinking to myself, maybe they're ready for sesame street. maybe this is just a really bad idea and, you know, this is kind of disheartening because i'd already been through you previous discussions how they didn't want our muppets and you know, there were all kinds of other challenges related to this besides the classical music and and, you know, one woman says, you americans don't understand that our children will never have wheelchairs that our country, you know, is is falling apart, that health care system has collapsed. so we children who are trapped in their and if you have children who, have wheelchairs in the tv show, how will these children in their beds feel? they'll be sad. wow, that's intense. so intense. but then, you know, i mean it goes on from there because as debate continues about how to this because these these educators feel a sense of responsible bility, th

it made me think of nina simone because.be a she i don't mean to be a classical and she wasn't able to because race. very because of her race. and very clearly it then despite clearly it wasn't then despite all she was still so all of that, she was still so mighty. talent wins out . mighty. yeah, talent wins out. yes. does that ultimately staying with the telegraph and leo seems like a bishop is being christianity. so yeah . and this christianity. so yeah. and this bishop says that the way. christina right is it works . christina right is it works. okay fine. so online misogynists should meet victims instead of being jailed. according to the senior bishop, she says that misogynist if somebody has been misogynist if somebody has been misogynist online, they should. they should be confronted . they should be confronted. impact of that abuse by having to meet their victims instead of being sent to jail. i mean, it might work in some cases, but i can see it backfiring in some cases , you know, i mean, if some cases, you know, i

it made me think of nina simone because.be a she i don't mean to be a classical and she wasn't able to because race. very because of her race. and very clearly it then despite clearly it wasn't then despite all she was still so all of that, she was still so mighty. talent wins out . mighty. yeah, talent wins out. yes. does that ultimately staying with the telegraph and leo seems like a bishop is being christianity. so yeah . and this christianity. so yeah. and this bishop says that the way. christina right is it works . christina right is it works. okay fine. so online misogynists should meet victims instead of being jailed. according to the senior bishop, she says that misogynist if somebody has been misogynist if somebody has been misogynist online, they should. they should be confronted . they should be confronted. impact of that abuse by having to meet their victims instead of being sent to jail. i mean, it might work in some cases, but i can see it backfiring in some cases , you know, i mean, if some cases, you know, i