van peebles son and longtime collaborator mario van peebles joins me now.u, sir. >> what's happening, man? >> i appreciate you joining us this evening. i know it's a tough time for you, but we want to celebrate the legacy of your father and your father's life. so my condolences, but let's talk about him, okay? >> thank you. >> he had a huge influence on so many directors. what does his legacy mean to you? >> well, first of all, understand something, that the modern-day colonizer doesn't use whips and chains. they use imagery. they use schools. they use churches, and they use television and film. and so when you grow up as a kid of color and you see the easter bunny is white, all the presidents and vice presidents are white, the people in the movies are white, the beautiful people in vogue are white, you start to believe you can't do it. and the first step to freeing your mind is the first step to getting the chains off is freeing your mind and seeing the possibility that you can win. so when melvin van peebles said, we're tired of being the serving class, w

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only from nature's bounty. >>> the world mourns the loss of actor van peebles.nown as modern black cinema his work influenced future blackhawk directors. away from the silver screen, he was a play write, author and stockmarket trader ♪ [ inaudible >> he is best known for his 1971 film sweetback bad a -- song he store scored and directed and starred in it grossed over 10 million, he says dad knew that black images markets if a pick is worth a thousand words, what is a movie worth? mel vip van peebles was 80-years-old. >>> a wing tick was sold at a fork pizza shop. winners have the option to take a lump sum or 30-year annuity. the 24% federal tax withholds a little over 75 million state and local taxes take 46.5 million. so after all of those numbers are said and done, the winner walks away with a cool 100.92 million payout the last one was in early june. >> wait to hear what this is this is across the plaza it can be a shot of you guys. >> coming back to work. >> coming back to work. >> still to g my floors clean. inc incident innocent, britney spears new documen

he was also the father of actor mario van peebles.an peebles was 89 years old. >>> actor johnny depp says he's a victim of cancel culture. depp made the comments to reporters yesterday before receiving a career award at a spanish film festival. he said his career has been impacted since his ex-wife amber herd publicly accused him of domestic violence. he also said cancel culture has spread across the film industry. >> no one is safe. not one of you. not one of you, not anyone out that door, no one is safe as long as someone is willing to say one sentence. >> last year depp lost a libel case against a tabloid that called him a wife beater when a court ruled he did assault herd. >>> and britney spears says she agrees with her father that the conservatorship that's controlled her life and finances for 13 years should be terminated. the singer's attorney filed court parents yesterday in los angeles. the attorney said it's more important that her father be removed from the conservatorship first so that her dignity can be restored. the docu

peebles was also an actor, novelist, a playwright, and composer.and prominent native american filmmaker, journalist and teacher myron dewey died sunday in a car crash in nevada. he was 49 years old. dewey was the founder of the media production company digital smoke signals, which shared live footage from the frontlines of the resistance to the dakota access pipeline in standing rock. democracy now! met dewey in north dakota in 2016 as he faced a misdemeanor stalking charge for using a drone to take video of unlicensed private pipeline security workers. those charges would ultimately be dropped. >> there is an arrest warrant for me stalking the dakota access pipeline. these are guys who had no names, no badges come no license plate. it is intimidating we see these guys, near documenting -- you know, i came as a filmmaker and digital storyteller and i'm leaving now as an environmental justice willmaker, journalist. amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman in new yor

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rossellini, de sica, melvin van peebles.e—making, hollywood, us movie—making and international movie—making throughout our galleries. we think of this as a global museum. i think this is another void in film history that we're going to be filling, which is to think not just about hollywood's centrality in world cinema, but really to take the concept of world cinema seriously. so our major exhibition on hayao miyazaki is the most extensive of its kind in north america _ and we're really going to think about the ways that he has developed work that is grounded injapanese culture, but global in its reach and its appeal. our collaboration with pedro almodovar is another example of looking at and working with an artist who speaks in cinematic language. so there are so many ways that people who are not familiar with the work of these filmmakers, not familiar with the work of other international filmmakers that are featured across our galleries, will make connections across these traditions. given that this is the academy museum, i

>> reporter: melvin van peebles, wrote, directed, financed and starred in one of the most influentialms of an era, 1971 "sweet sweetback" credited with ushering in a new genre. blaxploitation films. the movie pioneer came to fame after "watermelon man" which he directed. >> winner and still undefeated, folks. pay respectful homage. >> fare, please. >> reporter: it featured a racist white insurance executive who wakes up to realize he's become black. >> aaagh! >> reporter: his son actor and director mario van tribute to him playing him in his 2003 film which told of the struggles and successes his dad experienced. >> i just finished directing "watermelon" man from columbia pictures. i had to come up with my next film idea before the money guys got cold. >> reporter: this morning the younger van peebles paying tribute saying dad knew black images matter. if a picture is worth a thousand word, what was a movie worth? now, "sweet sweetback" credited with bringing in blaxploitation films often criticized but his showed only that black films with a black hero can be successful at the box of

. >>> filmmaker melvin van peebles has died behind some of the films such as "greased lightning".oding from d.c. to new york and storms in the southwest. >>> finally we catch up with the oldest park ranger in the united states. she is 100 years old. >> and she is "america strong." will ganss with her story. >> reporter: this morning, betty reid soskin has a lot to celebrate. the richmond, california, resident already the oldest park ranger in america and now on her 100th birthday, a school renamed in her honor. betty worked at the rosie the riveter museum sharing her experiences of working in a segregated union hall. >> people need heroes and i man one of those. i think it's important we all follow our paths. we all need passion. >> reporter: born in 1921 in detroit, michigan, raised in new orleans, later moving to the west coast with her family. betty has been a published author, a songwriter, an activist during the civil rights movement and a businesswoman. she received a presidential commemorative coin from then president barack obama back in 2015. >> standing with obama on the

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here in the us. went on with the noise, but it's not doing this, but i'm sure process your russian peebles, mr. yet, i think in boots with just trapped the lady on the stone. you got the, we did it the minute look at you there was supposed to provide a plane and then they were charged with legal trafficking of drugs and weapons and they were charged with more mean you could go to jail sentence of more than 20 years. that they didn't have anyone, they didn't harbor any plan, said to violate any international trade rules that we just need to be consistent. so the us that needs to be consistent to their offended if it is that someone is arrested here. but i mean, it's human. well, they have to use the same standard for the project in the policy. i mean, just the person that would accuse to face the pool sold to the police man, look at it or do you just need to watch the to follow that process on the january? the 6th there was a selection of follow that course. we're proceeding with no class need for the you were commission. we are ready to a loaner to consider everything, but they didn't prov

but there is sunshine coming through for some, beautiful scene in peebles in the scottish borders.d shows where it is well above—average, but we swap them for blues as we go into the middle part of the week, temperatures dropping below where would we met we would normally expect for this time of year. 0rton is on its way. not the moment, though, because we have plenty of cloud around but some sunshine breaking through and more sunshine breaking through and more sunshine coming through, the shetland islands will be wet in the next few hours, but the cloud in western areas could be thick enough for light rain or drizzle at times. most will stay dry today, and in the sunshine temperatures widely into the 20s. 20 to around 24 degrees in parts of england and wales, particularly in north wales and the midlands towards east anglia. tonight we have southerly winds, meaning a slightly more humid field strengthens and helps break up cloud more, but gives temperatures in the high side through tomorrow morning,

mason peebles is wearing his navy blue mask in his class picture.t to take off my mask." when the photographer said it would only take a few seconds he said, "no, i always listen to my mommy." the end result, a picture of a little and obedient little boy. >> his mom told him he can take it off when he eats and sit away from people. >> thank you. >> bestselling author t-nehisi coates is in our progressive green room standing by. stay with us. sneeze' ♪ it's time for ♪ 'plop plop fizz fizz' ♪ alka seltzer plus cold relief, dissolves quickly... instantly ready to start working. so you can bounce back fast with alka-seltzer plus. hi. so you're the scientist here. does my aveeno® daily moisturizer really make my dry skin healthier in one day? it's true jen. this prebiotic oat formula moisturizes to help prevent dry skin. impressive! aveeno® healthy. it's our nature.™ try the body wash, too. i've seen how cancer can affect the people i care about. that's why i'm helping protect myself against some cancers like certain cancers caused by hpv. for most peopl

. >>> some sad news from the entertainment world this morning, melvin van peebles has died he was knownk cinema. he was a musician and a novelist he wrote and produced broadway musicals he died tuesday surrounded by his family in his manhattan home he was 89 years old. manhattan >>> a minor league baseball game was interrupted in buffalo last night when a special guest made an untimely visited to the mound. >> rookie the bat dog here at the field tonight, a little overanxious. >> just a little that's rookie, the official bat dog of the trenton thunder that golden retriever appeared to be looking for a ball to fetch. you can see the rookie back in the dugout, play resumed. >> his job is to get the bats. but i guess he went for the balls. >>> one of the greatest art heists of all time. >> it happened in boston more than three decades ago $500 million worth of paintings stolen from a museum there and now a man authorities believed may have had the answers has died. >> gabe gutierrez joins us with more this is quite the head-scratcher. >> authorities have long suspected that bobby gentile k