when an air traffic controller was needed to guide closed support at the front, richard black volunteered again. for 3 months, i dropped the highest cottage of bombs, dropped by an air controller in the 1st marine division, and so on like most people's experience, where they would periodically go into battle. i would be a gauge with one marine company after the other. whoever was going into battle, i was there, i was in the attack with them. i knew more very well from the ground up. i was eventually wounded my radio member, both killed beside me and then afterwards returned to the states. black served in the us armed forces for 32 years. then he spent 20 years in politics including 8 years as a virginia state senator. he believes russia has been deliberately provoked, year after year and say, engaging in hostilities. people planning to war, understood that it was necessary to draw all the americans to draw the europeans into this. i think from the very beginning, they intended a constant escalation. hopefully that escalation will not include nuclear weapons, but i'm not sure. but yeah, sh

with blonde, the, you'll be doing the retard us marine connell and former virginia state senator richard black as 1st hand experience of all 590. and he noticed it in the marine cool. when the vietnam war broke couch chief volunteer to go to the front as a helicopter pilots in vietnam, i flew 269 combat missions. the fighting was very, very active at the time and my helicopter was hit my ground fire and 4 times and once machine gun fire caught the the flight controls and we crash landed when an air traffic controller was needed to guide closed support at the front, richard black volunteered again. for 3 months, i dropped the highest tonnage of bombs, dropped by any air controller in the 1st marine division, and so on like most people's experience, where they would periodically go into battle. i would be a gauge with one marine company after the other. whoever was going into battle. i was there, i was in the attack with them. i knew more very well from the ground up. i was eventually wounded my radio man were both killed beside me and then afterwards returned to the states. black served in the

so live now to richard black is a former us republican, and he is us used to be a state. so thanks so much for joining us here. to obviously be able to see that we're heading about these re positioning of troops in and the yeah, why would this be happening? do they? and right now there's a great deal of confusion in the us government and the french government over exactly what to do. what happened? here's where you had a military crew can do here. um, but uh, what's important to realize is that it was immensely popular. i think probably 80 percent of the people i knew share supported the new military government. they did not have confidence in the old government. and because of that, there had been huge pro chest staged by the people who knew, share in support of the of the government and demanding the french forces, leave us. now the crew is over. now. i think there is, there is an uprising against france all across the belts of, of, of africa. the african people or very upset about france. they feel like even after colonial france folded it's 10 some. one way. there has

and we can use the reaction or former us senator richard black. according to him, the reason cool was in africa reflect the true will of the people to end what he calls western dominance on the continent. and i think that there's a, there's an uprising against france all across the belts of, of, of africa. the african people are very upset about frames that feel like even after colonial france folded it's 10 some the same one way. there has been this under cover colonialism that is, continues to operate do now for go. now the united states has a major drone facility in new here with about 1100 troops. and we, we do the diction of various forces that have presumably, or, or a terrorist in nature. i'd be very surprised if there were not claims waiting twice to attempt to overthrow the government. that doesn't necessarily mean it was going to happen, but it's sort of the contingency. what do you do in case certain things on for? so a great deal of what actually happens as opposed to just mere planning is, is, again, based on the, the will, the streng

black and white musicians weren't allowed to play together. little richardete upheaval of the existing social system. he was singing about sex, and he was singing about graphic sex at a time you weren't allowed to talk about graphic sex in the way that you are today in popular music. and so you had to code it. ♪ and ball tonight ♪ i mean, "good golly miss molly, you sure like to ball." i mean, i don't know what anybody else thinks it means, but i knew what it meant. he could project sex without being threatening. all my band boys had a makeup kit. everybody was looking beautiful. everybody was glamorous and looked good. the early 20th century word was shake. if you were shake, you had, like, really good hair, good skin, good makeup, you know, eyelashes, whatever. like, the girls went crazy for that, right? [ laughs ] he had panties thrown at him while he was performing. here you came on black... yes. ...and gay... yes. ...and talented... yeah. ...and loud. but the one thing they wrote about you when you came on, you were absolutely 100% sure of yourself. whe

black and white musicians weren't allowed to play together. true. little richard for white girls, i had to look that way. if i didn't wear makeup and look effeminate, i couldn't work the white clubs. they wouldn't let me with the white girls. you weren't a threat. yes. i wore it all. from wah-wah to whoo-whoo, i had it all on. even sometimes boo-boo. "that's old richard. ain't nothing to him. ain't a thing to him." intuitively, it doesn't really quite make sense that the way that you would, like, make yourself more safe in america of that era is by exaggerating your queerness, right? i said, "richard, aren't you afraid of people thinking that you're different?" and he said, "no. i don't give a damn what they think." i know the evil feeling that you feel when you sing it and the beat. man: that two-beat pattern is the music brought to the united states of america by the communist conspiracy to corrupt teenagers. a means by which the white man and his children can be driven to the level with a negro. it is obviously negro music. "that black boy gonna come to town si

soon, all of you in america , retired us air force colonel richard black is closely following the pulse media is making a scandal out of almost everything that can be associated with china sometimes it seems that if someone slips in a grocery store there will definitely be someone who will say for sure. it’s the chinese who spilled the water and it’s just reaching the point of madness. and here is the latest chinese espionage scandal. it's threatening in america. outshine even the downed balloons and harbor cranes spying on the americans and everything going on in the us china is targeting current and former us military personnel as part of a military campaign to fill gaps in its military capabilities. a senior american general says the chinese are hiring americans to teach foreign companies leading business with the chinese government is targeted. they say the americans have been stubborn for a long time to train ukrainian pilots, but thanks to us air force general charles brown jr. and his interview with washington post journalists, it turned out that former american pilots are being

soon you will all be in america, retired us air force colonel richard black is closely following theing a scandal out of almost everything that can be associated with china. sometimes it seems that if someone slips in a grocery store, there will definitely be someone who will say, for sure. it’s the chinese who have spilled water and it’s just reaching the point of madness. and now the latest chinese spy scandal is looming in america. outshine even knocked down balls and ports screens spying on americans and everything going on in the us china is targeting current and former us military personnel as part of a military campaign to fill gaps in its military capabilities. a senior american general says the chinese are hiring americans to teach them how to defeat the americans. foreign companies doing business with the chinese government are targeting the united states and overthrowing them. the americans have long resisted training ukrainian pilots, but thanks to us air force general charles brown jr. and his interview it turned out to journalists from the washington post that former am

richard was touring around the south. >> we call it the chitlin circuit where you have queer, black women, traveling with plated teeth singingstumes and dancing. >> i wanted to sound different, me and the young kids, we was tired of that slow music. >> richard's songs hit the radio and he became a nationwide sensation, a major accomplishment for a black gay performer in the 1950s. little richard's songs and style became so popular, other artists starts imitating him. ♪ >> they covered his songs and tried to duplicate his sexual stage presence. richard also mentored a number of early rock 'n' rollers, including james brown, jimi hendrix, the beatles, and the rolling stones. ♪ >> look, that was the real time we got to know little richard. we would sit there for hours like disciples in the dressing room. >> everyone was beholden to him for, you know, to start playing rock 'n' roll. >> richard felt like he never got proper credit or compensation tore his groundbreaking contribution to say rock 'n' roll. >> and the best new artist is -- me. [ laughter ] >> i have never received nothing. >> it's endearing, it's funny, but as a bla

richard i am everything takes a look to revered the black origins of robin wall -- rock 'n roll. ng of rock 'n roll. little richard. >> his dna is everywhere. it is like, how do you refer to the air? how do you refer to the sky? >> reporter: richard began saying in his father's church choir but the wider world back in and soon a little richard was performing on a touring circuit around the south. >> we call it the chipman circuit. you have very queer of black women travel with goldplated teeth singing dirty blues. riga -- >> reporter: he thrived and felt a gender fluid site persona with coiffed hair, heavy makeup and eye-catching costumes and dancing. >> i wanted to sound different. we were tired of that slow music bird >> reporter: richard's songs and hit the radio and he became a nationwide sensation. a major accomplishment for a black performer in jim crow. his songs and style became so popular other artist from pat boone to elvis started imitating him. >> ♪ baby ♪ >> reporter: they covered his songs -- >> ♪ tutti-frutti ♪ >> reporter: and try to locate his sexual states presen

jason, hard to overstate just how huge little richard was at his peak. but he was a gay blackin the conservative jim crow era that he was becoming a star in? >> it is true, he was a overground mainstream figure. he had nine top 40 pop hits, and he had 17 top 40 r&b hits. but he was a gay, queer, black man. he was feminine. he was gender nonconfirming and he did all of this at a time in which it was extremely difficult to do that. it was a time of incredible homophobia, and racism, legally sanctioned segregation. i think the way he was able to do it because of the amazing songs. tooty fruity, and lucille, long, tall sally. the songs are well written and he performed them with this wild child energy. if you look at the lyrics to the songs, their pretty graphic and they're really ribald. but they are also coated. and he's saying whop bop allow bob. people found that humorous without really understanding the full transgression that he embodied. >> he was so popular but then you have elvis and beatles, the beatles, they're imitating his style. we heard that there in the bit from th

demand and short supply, and with the single monkey costing up to $40000.00, a global black market has been managed. richard, our know for some of that up down in jam. bode you whistle blowers have exposed alleged government involvement in trafficking was monkeys. the more i am the one i understand cambodia is a central point of wildlife trafficking that's been well known for quite a time. quite a while and especially to fall to investigation. 11 east examines the global trade in monkeys for scientific research. the cambodian is home to anonymous. that's in high demand around the monkey. the most populous in the southeast, asian nation, either known to my tax intelligent social not to move, who lives in the foreign downs and, and on walter. with this fishing village, i'm long down was once a battery dies for them the noon. i mean, no one is on the here, then something. no, no, no you more in your mind we will now just to read his spend most of his life on the water. he's a fisherman just like other than his family. but things are different now for when he was a boy in 2022 long days mc gats would declared a

richard: i do everything by touch. johnny: and he's a sixth degree black belt in karate. you're legally blind. well how could you possibly fight? i don't know, find out. johnny: when richard was just nine years old, he contracted a retinal degenerative disease. as his sight diminished, his sense of touch was enhanced. and his drive to do the seemingly impossible quickly followed. to be able to manipulate a deck of cards as seamlessly and as quickly as he's able to do it is impressive. but what's even more impressive is how smooth he is with all of his actions. you're actually better at what you do because you can't see. honestly, i've been very blessed and very fortunate. but a gift alone is not going to get you there. you have to then put in the hours. i have spent 58 years practicing with a deck, 10 to 20 hours a day. i sustained that for seven days a week for 26 years straight. to do something for that long, for that many years, and not completely lose interest in it, i have trouble sitting through a netflix documentary. say a number. 13. 13. lucky number 13. watch, i'm going to try to cut w

putting it fits in and the texas presents richard type id one have discussed the black sea green deal during folks in salty fits in. so the agreements would not be repeated until the west meets russia's demands. they'll said moscow would supply fee grain to $6.00 african nations in a few weeks. the just giving you a step further that way. there is no physical shortage of food. there are problems with its fair distribution, but this has nothing to do with the so called grain d, on the west to put it mildly deceived us about their humanitarian goals of the blacks, the initiative to assess developing countries. this is what's inside of the 32800000 tons of cargo export it from ukraine. more than 70 percent went to wealthy countries, primarily you countries. we will consider the possibility of reviving the grain deal. and we will do this as soon as all the agreements on lifting restrictions on the export of russian agricultural products are fulfilled. us. we are close to concluding agreements with 6 african states where we intend to supply food free of charge, including logistics. we will

black folk invented it, little richard, if these people invented rock and roll, let me read some of hisis a collection of interviews i've done over the years that seem to need to best represents an idea of rock and roll's impact on my world, they're not meant to represent the whole of music and this diverse and important retailers, but you reflect the points of my career, interviews i felt illustrated the bread and express not career. my appreciation -- rotating artist music and ideas. i will celebrate -- okay, that's his response, your thoughts? >> he called it the masters. if he called it my favorite artist, we wouldn't be having the conversation at the same level. we would still be pitched on some level. the masters, come on dude. >> that says irony. the ten white men you called it the masters, and their music is literally lifted, as great as they are, from black people, and he called it the masters. to me, it also tells the story of who is around him. no one in his circle said, we might not want to call this the masters. known in his circle said, that's only ten white guys, there's

watching, and before we go tonight, a preview of the new cnn film "little richard: i am everything" taking a look to look at the blackrd. >> you don't have to stand there. use the whole stage. richard would work the audience to get them up, out of their seats, waving their arms. call and responding stuff. 30 dates, i saw little richard 30 times. later on, i realized he was doing church in a theater in northern england, basically. loving this pay bump on our allowance. wonder where mom and dad got the extra money? maybe they won the lottery? maybe they inherited a fortune? maybe buried treasure? maybe it fell off a truck? or maybe they switched to xfinity mobile - the fastest mobile service. save hundreds a year over t-mobile, at&t and verizon. now i can buy that electric scooter. i'm starting a private equity fund that specializes in midcap. you do you. switch to xfinity mobile today. here's why you should switch fo to duckduckgo on all your devie duckduckgo comes with a built-n engine like google, but it's pi and doesn't spy on your searchs and duckduckgo lets you browse like chrome, but it blocks cooi and creepy ad

russian president vladimir food and has told his dosage count upon richard plenty, a bad one that he's open to talks on restoring the black sea grain deal. the leaders have made in the russian city of searching the meeting, designed to persuade, most go to provide a deal that allowed ukraine to explore grain from ports along the black sea to the world at once. as he has an important announcement to make, after the tone was russia refused to extend the agreement in july. it had been broken by the united nations in tokyo. 0 dw correspond to judy hahn is following the story for us and joins us from east temple. usually a boot and saying he's open to discussions about reviving the grain deal anyway as to what most goes, conditions will be as well, even before fulton broke off of the agreement about 7 weeks ago, she was complaining about russia's own grain and socialize is still facing too many obstacles due to weston sanctions. so of course, 14 isn't happy with any sanctions. but under the deal, russia was able to explore huge williams of the grain in fact and the agricultural product. so from russia on not officially subject

but little richard i am everything are revealing the black queer origination of rock 'n' origin of the or three a day. >> remember in the 1950s there is legal segregation. black kids are not ability to listen to music in the samee spaces at white kids. >> black and white musicians were note allowed to flay together. >> one night for white and the next flight nor african american. >> but the white kids would come to the black kids concert too. >> around joining me now is david fear, he is the senior editor and film critic at rolling stone. david, it is hard to imagine just how huge little richard was at the peak much his career. how did that happen that he could become such a major star in the south in the 1950s? >> i think this is a question that any fan of little richard and any amateur historian looks at and go, how did this happen? i don't understand. i think in a lot of ways because his persona challenged all these ideas of gender nonconformity and race and masculinity, in a way because he was so flamboyant, he could get away with this stuff. he seemed harmless in a way. rock 'n' r

yes, the president richard bode one says, a steady flow of black sea gray next bolts is impossible. without russia, as miles came as a press conference during the g 20 summit, which followed edwin's pulse with 1st imprison insult you on monday, moscow has reiterated its demand for key conditions on russian exports to be met. if the black sea green deals to be repeated as the west maintains is sanctions against moscow over its worn ukraine, u. n. has proposed connecting these with the payment system to a russian bias, disagree, and looks. the sandals agricultural affects both formations dependence culture, the sanctions to be moved from the bank itself and not the subsidiary for developing countries in dire need of grain off season dental coats. it reports on how it baltic c faults is this part to help those in rushes 1st to ever baltic c grain export terminal is now open for business. here in the north western city of the thoughts, russia's new grain terminal is set to allow the ports of with thoughts to export $4000000.00 tons of grain a year to friendly countries in africa and lat

think that is what -- that is what so many americans love about him. >> richard was incredibly forthright and brave to be a blackte women. you know, it took someone of great vision and fortitude, and we oftentimes forget of how dangerous it was. but, you know, when he comes out with "tootie fruity" in 1955, that's the same year that emmett till is killed. so you see that he is navigating it through popular spaces that are fraught with danger, but there's something about the armor that he puts on of performance, of forthright, and just this, you know, i think incredible otherworldliness about who he was and what he wanted to bring. >> well, i mean, this is just beautifully told. we were just showing clips of mick jagger there. the tributes that came pouring in as you put this story together, it is just so remarkable. it's going to be just amazing to watch later on tonight. lisa cortes, thank you very much for your time. i really appreciate it. >> thank you, jim. >> all right. don't miss lisa's cnn film "little richard: i am everything." he truly was, truly is. it premieres tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern and pacif

untouched presidents that you to meet, to discuss the revival of the black, cx, 4 deal, ukrainian grain fundamentals as invited richard type of the one to the result of salt cheap 2 months after most ended. that's a grievance caused by the dosage power. is that half of you craze green exports across the black sea to nations around the world. but after july's attack on the curse bridge. thank you. russia and crime. yeah, they stopped. that's what moscow quit a deal with the u. n. enter kia to ensure safe passage. encore is now seeking to persuade russia to return to the agreement, under which that's a c parts ship tens of millions of tons of green. the 2 men last met and so she just over a year ago, after the green deal was reached. now the russian president is refusing to allow safe passage for more than 20 percent of the world's grain supply. and so when you do, even though your president, putin says the agreements and rich western businesses and promises made to exempt to russia, exports from sanctions have been broken. a sentiment echoed by the russian foreign minister during a meeting with his turkish counterpart

this is richard a give you a huge crowd of black smoke was seen below going across the city. now, according to move to officials that were at least 3 separate attacks using 155 military to show these are the western supplied. next, who supplied munitions? you can see the cells a cost which is still applies. this has been completely blown out. so if you look around, you can see that this is a residential area behind a, a number of a c spoken to a number of the residents. despite this all afternoon, mostly solution is really we has thrown the explosion, sent a few minutes later. we arrive to the scene to see a boon and car that was trapped. now everywhere is cat to it. from any meat to surround the school. this is a place but drinking was a sold, but everything has been shot says something, and then once it pulls from all the holes, now you can see emergency room they way to tackle blaze and then the calls all the stay sweet. now it's important to note that we are now in a couldn't time. this is the 1st time the voted ticket has taken place in don't the city since it was incorp

richard, i am everything. taking a closer look to reveal the black queer origins of rock and roll and the man who brought it toittle richard. ♪ ♪. >> just like a shot out of a cannon. his voice, he created the rock and roll icon. >> sorry it wasn't elvis. >> i am the king of rock and roll. >> first things that you loved that your parents hate is the beginning of a sound track to your life >> little richard's lyrics were too lewd to get air play on the radio. ♪. ♪. >> have you very good at liberating other people. he was not good at liberating himself >> ♪ ♪ >> he was inspired by >> james brown i discovered him. jimmy hendricks was my guitar player >> everyone was beholdent to him. ♪. ♪. little richard, i am everything. labor day on cnn .om hearing los? but can't find affordable hearing aids? due to changes in restrictive federal laws, now hearing aids can be sold direct to the consumer without a prescription for thousands less! call or go online now to get your pair of rca hearing aids in your choice of 2 ultra-discreet styles, for only $249 a pair. delivered, free. right to your door... they're affordable. th

born in macon, georgia, richard pennyman began singing in his father's church choir, but the wider world beckoned. >> we call it very often the chit lynn circuit, where you have blackard thrived in the nonconformist environment and developed a gender fluid stage persona with heavy makeup and eye catching costumes and dancing. ♪ >> i wanted to sound different, men, young kids, we were tired of all that slow music. >> reporter: richard's songs soon hit the radio and he became a nationwide sensation, a major accomplishment for a black gay performer in the conservative 1960s. his songs and style became so popular other artists from pat boone to elvis imitated him. they covered his songs. ♪ and tried to duplicate his sexual stage presence. richard also mentored a number of early rock and rollers including james brown. jimi hendrix, the beatles ♪ and the rolling stones. >> hamburg, that was the realtime we got to know little richard. we'd sit there for hours like disciples in the dressing room. all my screaming numbers were to do with him. >> everyone was beholden to him, you know, for you know, to start playing rock and roll. >> richard felt like he never got proper cre

black kids' concert, too. >> lisa cortes, director of "little richard: i am everything." congratulations on the film.nary. but for me -- there's a lot of things that stuck out, but everyone knows who he is, everybody knows his music. the connective tissue he has throughout history, life to some degree, i just didn't put it all together until i watched. >> thank you. that's the goal to take little richard from being this character who says shutup to really bring the viewer on a journey, where did the pain come from and how was his role as an architect influential to classic artists but to artists now. >> people think of jerry lee lewis or chuck berry, but a lot of us have the images from the '80s and '90s talk show circuit, and he was also openly gay, right? talk about how significant he was, the image he presented when he first came on the scene with. >> well, richard was from another planet, i'd like to believe, with the hair and the bouffant, more makeup than me this morning, and also just the unabashed sexuality in his performance. it's a part of a continuum. liberace was out there with a lot of g

and with a single monkey costing up to $40000.00, a global black market has emerged. richard, our know for some of that up, down in jam bode you whistle blowers have exposed a ledge. government involvement in trafficking was monkeys. the more i am looking for joe smith, i understand cambodia is a center point of wildlife trafficking that's been well known for quite a to quite a while. the stream especially to fall to investigation $1.00 oh, $1.00 east examines the global trade in monkeys for scientific research. the cambodian is home to anonymous, that's in high demand around the monkey the most populous in the southeast, asian nation, either known to use my tax intelligence, social not to move who lives in the forest downs. and i don't want to read this fishing village. i'm long down was once a battery dies to them the noon. i mean, no one is going to give them something. no, no, no, no more in your mind we will now just to read his spend most of his life on the water. he's a fisherman just like other than his family. but things are different now for when he was a boy. in 20

little richard, i am everything, which explores the black kwooer origins of rock and roll and the manshot out of the cannon. >> his voice. >> he created the rock and roll icon. >> sorry, it wasn't elvis. >> i am the king of rock and roll! >> the first that you loved that your parents hate is the beginning of the soundtrack of your life. >> little richard's lyrics were too lewd to get play on the radio. >> he was very good at liberating other people. he was not good at liberating himself. ♪ >> michael was inspirds by me, prince. james brown, i discovered him. jimi hendrix was my guitar player. >> everyone was beholden to him. ♪ >> and joining us now to discuss is jason king. he is the dean of the thornton school of music at the university of southern california and appears in the film. i talked to jason about the film yesterday. nice to do this again. jason, i want to pick up on something you told me yesterday that got my attention. you said he, little richard, is someone who in my opinion is one of the greatest and most dynamic figures of the entire 20th century, not just in music, bu

but now the new cnn film "little richard: i am everything" takes a closer look to reveal the black queerll to life, little richard. here's a preview. >> just like a shot out of a cannon. >> his voice, he created the rock and roll icon. >> sorry, y'all. it wasn't elvis. >> i am the king of rock and roll! >> for first songs that you love that your parents hate is the beginning of the soundtrack of your life. >> little richard's lyrics were too lewd to get air play on the radio. >> they were just as clean as you were. ♪ >> he was very good at liberating other people. he was not good at liberating himself. ♪ >> michael was inspired by me, prince. james brown, i discovered him. jimi hendrix was my guitar player. >> everyone was beholden to him. ♪ >> joining us now is jason king. he is the dean of the thornton school of music at the university of southern california, and he also appears in the film. jason, thanks for coming on. you know, i think little richard, the story is fascinating. why do you think it's important to tell the story now, though? >> i think it's always important to tell litt

richard: i am everything." taking a closer look to reveal the black, queer origins of rock and roll and the man who brought it all to life. his name, little richard. >> don't have to stand there. use the whole stage. richard would work that audience, get them up, out of their seats, swaying, shouting, waving their arms. >> all right! >> all right! >> i saw little richard 30 times. you know what i mean? later on i realized he was like doing church in a theater in northern england basically. attention are you suffering from hearing loss? but can't find affordable hearing aids? due to changes in restrictive federal laws, now hearing aids can be sold direct to the consumer without a prescription for thousands less! call or go online now to get your pair of rca hearing aids in your choice of 2 ultra-discreet styles, for only $249 a pair. delivered, free. right to your door... they're affordable. they're not the cost people associate with hearing aids. my old fashioned ones cost me $5,000 and these actually work better. act now to finally hear better at a truly affordable price. with rca hearing aids from as low as $24