robinson.he is the author of five nonfiction books. here they are beginning in 1998, mr. robinson wrote in 2000 "the debt" what america owes to blacks and "the reckoning" what blacks owe to each other came out in 2002 and "quitting america" the departure of a black man from his native land in 2004 and finally "an unbroken agony" haiti, from revolution to the kidnapping of a president. 202 is area code if you would like to dial in and participate in our conversation with randall robinson 585-3880 for those of you in eastern and central timezones and 585-3881 in the mountain and pacific timezones. you. you can also contact us via e-mail or go booktv at c-span.org or social media. you can make a comment on our facebook page. facebook.com/booktv or send us a tweet at booktv -- @booktv is our twitter handle. randall robinson what is transafrica? >> guest: transafrica is the organization that i began in 1976 to galvanize african-american opinion on foreign-policy issues, particularly issues that conc

robinson.he is the author of five nonfiction books. here they are beginning in 1998, mr. robinson wrote in 2000 "the debt" what america owes to blacks and "the reckoning" what blacks owe to each other came out in 2002 and "quitting america" the departure of a black man from his native land in 2004 and finally "an unbroken agony" haiti, from revolution to the kidnapping of a president. 202 is area code if you would like to dial in and participate in our conversation with randall robinson 585-3880 for those of you in eastern and central timezones and 585-3881 in the mountain and pacific timezones. you. you can also contact us via e-mail or go booktv at c-span.org or social media. you can make a comment on our facebook page. facebook.com/booktv or send us a tweet at booktv -- @booktv is our twitter handle. randall robinson what is transafrica? >> guest: transafrica is the organization that i began in 1976 to galvanize african-american opinion on foreign-policy issues, particularly issues that conc

and i was surprised. >> robinson proposed almost immediately.the couple waited five years to get married. but they knew they wanted to start a family. >> being a planner, i knew that i needed to spend those first five years with the family at home and then i would get a job. >> in 1945, after playing professionally for the negro league, jackie robinson was the first african-american to be drafted to play for a major league baseball team. the brooklyn dodgers. but racism was inevitable. >> i went to every home game at ebbett field. so i was there when things took place, and we could discuss them on our way home because i'd seen the same things he'd seen. >> with the desire to not only be mrs. jackie robinson, rachel set out to achieve her own career goals. >> i've been involved in clinical work. i've been involved in teaching. been gratified by it. gratified by being able to help other people. and grow myself. >> which she had to do after life threw her several curveballs. >> my husband passed away in 1972. it was an untimely, unexpected death. a

james robinson, junior b. joseph robinson, junior c. william robinson, junior the answer: c.on, junior. singer bob dylan has said smokey robinson is "america's greatest living poet". a terrific song writer. >>i loved smokey robinson. he was smokey robinson to me. >>we have a little snow on the other side of the lake. thursday night and friday, we are a ways off. look at the extent of the reduced temps. 11 in kansas city. have all kinds of advisories for winter weather. we have the windchill advisor is. from northern iowa up into the dakotas. the winter storm watch is right there in the red area. this next arm blossoms. this is the one we have been tracking for over a week. streaming northward with thunderstorms. a broad area of snowfall. it will be spreading into downstate illinois. st. louis will get in on it. we have this note to start in the early morning hours of friday. it tapers to lighters lighter snow. out west is a formidable storm. up to 17 in. of snow. and our area we showed you the model. we could have four-6 in. of snowfall. this is our forecast. 28 degrees tomor

eugene robinson, what's his legacy?> well, as a practical matter, he improved the city's finances tremendously. but really what he did was personify the city, in my view, at a time when it could use that sort of larger than life figure. and he kind of -- his ebullience and determination and drive i think gave a boost in and of themselves to a city that was in pretty bad shape. >> michelle, this was a man who was not afraid to infuriate liberals. >> yeah. i think he seemed to delight in it. in some ways he was kind of the prototypical neo conservative, somebody who started on the left, who started out very liberal, and then made his political career being tough on crime, being kind of insensitive to minorities, and then later on being sometimes crazily islamophobic and really vicious to anybody who disagreed with the likud line on israel. circumstances new york a better place, michael tomasky because ed koch was the mayor and served for so long? >> generally speaking, yes. i'll add this point. i knew ed, and i covered ed

craig robinson is dropping by!se ] >> steve: wonderful. >> jimmy: and we are excited to have her here. she is the chef, owner and founder of momofuku milk bar. christina tosi is stopping in to the show tonight. [ cheers and applause ] that's the best cookies, best desserts i've ever had in my whole life. it is unbelievable. so we'll be talking to her. she's a brilliant, brilliant chef. guys, valentine's day is just a few days away. and as i said earlier, i know you're all really busy. and a lot of you don't have time to go pick a card for that special someone in your life. well, don't worry. i've got your back. i'm going to show you guys some valentines e-cards that you can send from the comfort of your own computer. you guys all know what an e-card is, right? >> audience: yeah. >> jimmy: electronic versions of greeting cards, super easy to use. you pick a card. type in the e-mail address you want to send it to. click send, and it's off. i love this. so let's take a look at some of my favorite new valentine e-cards

you'll hear from holly robinson peat, next.ating our new collaboration with go daddy! with an online package including: domain name, website builder with five pages and basic email just $49.99! that's up to 76 percent below online providers and only at officemax stores! for those nights when it's more than a bad dream, be ready. for the times you need to double-check the temperature on the thermometer, be ready. for high fever, nothing works faster or lasts longer. be ready with children's motrin. >>> oh, yeah, it's game day. more than 100 million people are expected to tune in for the super bowl today. as many as half of those could be women. earlier i talked with holly robinson pete, actress, tv host and wife of rodney peete and asked her why more and more women are tuning in. >> women are watching and not all of them are watching for the super bowl spots. i grew up a fan of the philadelphia eagles. i'm from philly. my dad bled eagle green. i learned the game at his knees. it wasn't until i met my and then married my husband

he raised a little dust last week when he said what we need is a gay jackie robinson in professional football so everybody can get over it. >> he's a super bowl champion. >> bill: absolutely. looking forward to that. he will be in with us in the studio as well. president obama says it is time to raise the minimum wage. guess what john boehner says. but first... >> this is the "full court press." >> other stuff you need to know as you head out the door this morning, a big protest against the keystone xl pipeline in front of the white house yesterday resulted in 48 people getting arrested. politico reports that robert f. kennedy jr. actress daryl hannah bill mcgibbon and leaders of the sierra club were among those locked up for attaching themselves to the

we need a jacki robinson type figure to come on and to be an openly gay professional sports player. >> bill: but he's not naming someone. >> he's not naming someone. he is not -- >> he's not outing. >> he's not a gay man himself. he says we need, as a culture professional sports, as a collectively, need to welcome that person, whoever it is, when that person shows up because we're -- >> bill: that's a lot better attitude than that jerk from the 49ers last week. >> that's pretty big stuff. brave. >> as he says in his op-ed in "usa today," this is our time and our cause. it is a gesture, it is a pledge. it is solidarity at its most

anthony robinson created a facebook page. >> in one picture, robinson was still buried in the snow.eeking out from feets of snow. he has a big, ole smile on his face. robinson said the avalanche put his priorities in order. >> heard the ground moan, basically. and you know, all the snow under you started to move. i just thought of my wife, my 18-month-old son and god. >> believe it or not, he was able to walk away with just a few bumps and bruises. >>> they don't usually show you the highlights from a table tennis tournament on this show. but we thought this one was worth it. watch the french player, in blue. and check out his shot. an out-of-this-world behind-the-back shot was enough to stop his opponent right in his tracks. got to give it to the guy. pretty good. has secrets. in fact ... you are looking at one of my secrets right now. new revlon nearly naked™ makeup covers flaws melting into skin to even out your complexion. so the only one who knows you have makeup on ... is you. dare to be revlon. but what's even more surprising is that brushing alone isn't enough to keep it cle

jackie robinson changed baseball and he changed america. he kept his focus in the face of adversity because he had a higher goal. in studying him, i learned that branch ricky, who decided to courageously break the color barrier, look for a black that had the temperament and the focus to take all of the jeers, to take all of the hostility and take all of the hate and still perform and rise above what he was facing. jackie robinson showed a change agent but first changed himself. must have the temperament, the determination and focus that they can take whatever it is necessary to take in order to make change happen. those that opened door have to be stronger than those that walk through doors that have already been opened. happy birthday, jackie robinson. thank you for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> hawks or buzzards? let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews down in washington. let me start tonight with this. the boiling hatred of the american right poured over today in hearings on chuck hagel

lisa robinson is live with that story. >> for the most part, they give up their holiday working your very hard from 11:00 until about three this afternoon. >> this is where i have chosen to invest. this is my home. my neighborhood. i do not have kids here yet. >> they put their heart and sweat into cleaning up the recreational center. those who live here in charles village are doing a lot of the work. they want to have it up and running for students to go to the school and others who live in the community. the rec center next to the elementary school here on east 29th became a victim of budget cuts. >> this is one of the sixth sites they closed. >> floors are being redone and some retuning needs to be done. >> there will be some hardware needing replaced. >> the rec center should use some donations. if you have 50-60 chairs, they'll take them. lisa robinson, wbal-tv 11 news. >> the latest numbers on flu cases. >> a good thing for a change. >> darren o'day has a lot of money he needs to put away. >> rain heading this way. in baltimore, 37. 42 at the inner harbor. >> live, local, late

lisa robinson joins us. that's not a lot of time. >> they have essentially given up their holiday today. they worked until 3:00 this afternoon. volunteers put their heart and sweat into cleaning up the recreation center in charles village. >> i have the day off. might as well spend it inside. >> last august, the rec center and on east 29th street became a victim of budget cuts in the department of recreation and parks. >> this is one of the six that parks and wrecked negotiated with city schools-- parks and rec negotiated. >> they are preparing to paint and they want to see this building viable again. >> it is really a great opportunity for this community to have more programs for the young and the old. >> and those from the home would corp. and the people who lived in the nearing neighborhoods helped the lot of work. they want to have it up running by may for those in the community. >> there is definitely some hardware that needs to be fixed the and there will be painting probably within a few weeks. >> the

"access hollywood's" sean robinson did the last one on one interview with her. >> when i looked whitneyr eyes, i thought that this woman is coming back. >> but looks can be deceiving, especially when you are talking about whitney houston. her final days when we return. ♪ all stations come over to mission a for a final go. this is for real this time. step seven point two one two. verify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three, two, one. standing by for capture. the most innovative software on the planet... dragon is captured. is connecting today's leading companies to places beyond it. siemens. answers. email marketing from constant contact reaches people in a place they're checking every day -- their inbox. and it gives you the tools to create custom emails that drive business. it's just one of the ways constant contact can help you grow your small business. sign up for your free trial today at constantcontact.com/try. every signature is unique, and every fingerprint unrepeatable. at sleep number, we recognize the incredible diversity of human beings, and know that up there wit

robinson calls nixon. robinson doesn't call parks interestingly. she calls nixon and at 5:00 in the morning nixon starts making calls to ministers in town because she sees the need for the ministers to be on court so he calls reverend abernathy and a young minister in town by the name of rev. martin luther king who is new in town and whose church is centrally located and nixon sees this as an ideal place to have this meeting. it is not until the next day at lunch that rosa parks finds out about these plans when she goes like she usually does, she often would take off from her job in montgomery fair to have lunch at the office and she gets there that day, sort of find out about the plan. meanwhile, that saturday, she scheduled a news workshop and only a couple kids come and she is really disappointed and increasingly nervous. she planned this whole thing and nobody comes and they're planning to boycott her and she is -- the first day of the boycott is amazing and she very much describes her best memory from that whole year being waking up that morni

fred gray calls joanne robinson, a professor at alabama state. the women's political council had been active around these issues. joanne robinson mobilizes that night and called for a one-day boycott on monday when parks will be arraigned in court. robinson sneaks into alabama state college in the middle of the night and runs out 35,000 leaflets in the middle of the night. she calls the scene in the morning and said this is what we are planning. at 5:00 in the morning, nixon calls ministers in town to get them on board with this plan. it is not until midday, when rosa parks takes her lunch, that she finds out what is happening. they are planning for a one-day boycott on this monday. people are worried. will people do it, will they stick together? monday comes and it is amazing. she describes it as the best moment of the whole thing. that night, at a mass meeting, people decide to carry on the boycott. >> they choose a young minister who has just come into town to be their leader, dr. martin luther king. >> they choose him for many reasons, he is

"access hollywood's" sean robinson did the last one-on-one interview with her. >> when i looked whitneyher eyes, i thought that this woman is coming back. >> but looks can be deceiving, especially when you are talking about whitney houston. her final days when we return. [ woman ] my boyfriend and i were going on vacation, so i used my citi thankyou card to pick up some accessories. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? and with all the points i've been earning, i was able to get us a flight to our favorite climbing spot even on a holiday weekend. ♪ things are definitely looking up. [ male announcer ] with no blackout dates, you can use your citi thankyou points to travel whenever you want. visit citi.com/thankyoucards to apply. i have to know the weather patterns. i upgraded to the new sprint direct connect. so i can get three times the coverage. [ manager 2 ] it's like working in a giant sandbox. with all these huge toys. and with the fastest push-to-talk... i can keep track of them all. [ male announcer ] upgrade to the new "done" with access to the fastest

robinson is pretty rare.go to a secret court like the intelligence court that's already been set up and get what amounts to a warrant. this is why we're targeting this person. this is the evidence that they're a member of al qaeda. this is the evidence that they're planning some kind of imminent attack. then i think we could feel more comfortable about -- >> about the concept. >> -- about the protections of the fifth amendment. but the bottom line is i don't think we should also fully say -- whatever the executive decides is okay. >> right. >> i think that's a problem. >> richard haass. >> david ignatius has written so much about the intelligence community, so i wanted to ask him a question, mika. which is so much of the questioning of brennan was about drones. to some extent the issue of syria coming up, but a big part of his job has got to be analysis. is the committee essentially missing this whole question of the balance between what the head of the central intelligence agency does, how much is he operati

"access hollywood's" shaun robinson did the last one-on-one interview with her. >> when i looked whitneyher eyes, i thought that this woman is coming back. >> but looks can be deceiving, especially when you are talking about whitney houston. her final days when we return. ♪ i've been coloring liz's hair for years. but lately she's been coming in with less gray than usual. what's she up to? the new root touch-up by nice'n easy has the most shade choices, designed to match even salon color in just 10 minutes. with the new root touch-up, all they see is you. i have to know the weather patterns. i upgraded to the new sprint direct connect. so i can get three times the coverage. [ manager 2 ] it's like working in a giant sandbox. with all these huge toys. and with the fastest push-to-talk... i can keep track of them all. [ male announcer ] upgrade to the new "done" with access to the fastest push-to-talk and three times the coverage. now when you buy one kyocera duraxt rugged phone for $69.99, you'll get four free. other offers available. visit a sprint store, or call 855-878-4biz. ♪ >>> with

tony robinson joins me now. tony, first of all, i'm so glad you're okay.lk us through what happened. >> i was there alone, actually. found a buddy of mine was at the mounden to with his son. he said, come on down and meet me at the base. we did a little hike up, 20 minutes or so. got our breath because obviously at that point, especially at the basin, you're way up there, and we are all ready to go. he said, take it easy. if you twist an ankle or something, down here, it's hard to get you up. i went back to my military days and i went back it safety office he and said, what if there's an avalanche, and he said, ski left or ski right. like matter of fact. somebody in the back said, make sure you cover your mouth because i hear it's hard to breathe. with that we were off. we jumped in. i bet it wasn't a minute later, i'm talking a hundred feet in, heard a sound like -- >> what was it, like a rumble. >> more like the earth moaning a little bit, giving you a warning if you will. and then the snow started to move underneath you. wherever you could look at your

holly robinson pete joins me live from new orleans, next.eed to double-check the temperature on the thermometer, be ready. for high fever, nothing works faster or lasts longer. be ready with children's motrin. you name it...i've hooked it. but there's one... one that's always eluded me. thought i had it in the blizzard of '93. ha! never even came close. sometimes, i actually think it's mocking me. [ engine revs ] what?! quattro!!!!! ♪ progress-oh! -oh! -oh! oh! oh! ♪ what do you know? oh! ♪ bacon? -oh! -oh! oh! [ female announcer ] with 40 delicious progresso soups at 100 calories or less, there are plenty of reasons people are saying "progress-oh!" share your story for a chance to win a progress-oh! makeover in hollywood. go to facebook.com/progresso to enter. >>> it is a cultural icon now 47 years ago. of course, i'm talking about the super bowl. seems like it's less about football than commercials and those half time shows. holly robinson peete joins me from new orleans, the site of this year's super bowl. good morning. so nice to have yo

. >> congressman chris van hollen and gene robinson weigh in tonight. >>> a new lawsuit blows the lid on jpmorgan's toxic cover-up. eliot spitzer has the forecast for the implosion. >>> the gop tries to resurrect jim crowe laws in an attack on the voting rights act. >>> chris christie gets left out of cpac in favor of the republican gag reel. our panel takes on the party's backwards reinvention. >>> bachmann breaks her post election silence. >> i didn't get anything wrong. >> and it was worth the wait. >>> thousands have gathered tonight in remembering the killing of trayvon martin. we'll take you inside the unanswered questions behind his shocking murder case. >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. well, republicans have shifted into the final phase of their sequestration strategy -- talk tough and empty threats. >> we have moved the bill in the house twice. we should not have to move a third bill before the senate gets off their ass and begins to do something. >> ooh, strong language from a guy who is on the heels of a ten-day vacation, don't you think? i m

tony robinson joins me now. tony, first of all, i'm so glad you're okay.ually, and found a buddy of mine, at the mountain with his son, and he said come on down and meet me down at the base. we did a little hike up, 20 minutes or so, got our breath, obviously, especially on the way up there. getting ready to go. take it easy if you go down here, you twist an ankle, lose something, it's really hard to get you out. and i thought -- i went back to my military days and safety, safety officer, and i said, well, what if there is an avalanche? just threw that question out and he looked up and said ski left or ski right, matter of fact and make sure you cover your mouth. i hear it's hard to breathe and with that, we were off. and we jumped in, and i bet it wasn't, you know, a minute later, and i'm talking 100 feet, i heard a sound like -- >> what was it? a rumble? >> no, more like the earth moaning a little bit. giving you a warning, if it will, and then it just -- the snow started to move underneath you. i mean, all -- wherever you could look at your feet, the sn

but if i could take a leaf from gene robinson's book and say this is a kind of step that makes sense if you want to elect republicans. but the problem is with the dominance of the tea party types, the religious right, and a lot of these states you're going to see more republican nominees who are going to lose winnable races. rove wants to change that, although he is the one who contributed to creating it at almost every level over a long period of years. >> eugene robinson, bob shrum, great to have you on the program tonight. thank you so much for joining us. >>> remember to answer tonight's question there at the bottom of the screen. share your thoughts on twitter at edshow and on facebook. we always want to know what you think and appreciate that. >>> massachusetts republicans, let me tell you, folks, they are so desperate to win john kerry's senate seat, they might even give glenn beck's tv psychiatrist a shot. that's next. stay with us. you can prevent gas with beano meltaways, or treat gas with these after you get it. now that's like sunblock before or sun burn cream later. oh,

i'm joined tonight by eugene robinson, msnbc political analyst and associate editor and pulitzer prize winning columnist for the "washington post," and bob shrum, professor of public policy at nyu and contributor to the daily beast. gentlemen, you're the two perfect guests for this subject. we've got to -- we don't have to unpack the republican party. we have to pack 'em into a box and see if they can sell this stuff again. eugene, is there any chance, or should i say is there really any change that there is going to be a change in substance of what the gop is trying to repackage to the american people? it sounds like a lot of the same stuff. >> well, ed, let me start by being as charitable as i can possibly be. the old proverb a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. this is one very small step. it was a speech that had a lot of nice words. but you're absolutely right in that it said nothing about the policies that the republican party espouses and continues to espouse that are ejected by large majorities of the american people. you know, people get what the party stands fo

in the middle of the night robinson speaks into the state she's a professor and runs of 35,000 at 3 a.m. she calls xm. robinson doesn't call parks interestingly but she calls nixon and at five in the morning fix and starts making calls to the ministers in town because he learns and sees the need for the ministers to be on board so he calls reverend abernathy and then he calls the young minister in town by the name of reverend martin luther king who is new in town and whose churches very centrally located and nixon sees this as an ideal place to have the meeting. it's not until the next day for lunch that rosa parks finds out about these plans when she goes. she often looks from her job to have lunch at the office and she finds out about the plan. meanwhile she had to schedule this workshop and only a couple kids coming and she is really disappointed and increasingly nervous so nobody comes and now they are planning to cover one day and she is worried. so the first day of the boycott is amazing. and she very much describes her best memory from that whole year of waking up that morning an

>> bob robinson. he's produced some stuff for boyz ii men. >> if tupac was alive, what would he be doing? >> the same thing he's doing when he's dead, making music. >> i think he would be making hip-hop but he probably would have brought out several new artists underneath him. >> was tupac this big in life? >> he was the biggest rapper when he died. >> i think if he would have lived, he would have gotten killed again. >> interesting. >> i appreciate that. >> what's up? >> there he is right there. >> what's up is the latest beef between hip-hop and the nba. if you love lil wayne versus the miami heat, then you'll settle for wale versus the toronto raptors announcers. this time it's less personal. >> yesterday at the game in washington, wale was sitting courtside. >> the rapper who did chilling with lady gaga. >> apparently him and rudy gay started exchanging words. and after witnessing it,toronto announcer had this to say. supposedly this fan is a local rapper. he's not drake, that's for sure. >> canad

later the bulls on the break..nate robinson steaming in...he had 20....and it became a blowout...nd it will go....luol had 25...and the bulls pull off an impressive victory...93- 76...they are now 29 and 18. jamall mayers playing in game number 900 in his career...the hawks at calgary trying to shake off two straight shootout losses...ray emery in the cage tonight and he was under fire but he stops the long range shot and then the rebound..it was scorelss but not punchless.. brandon bolig gets hooked up with barrett jackman....and the fight is on....the game now at the end of one...in calgary... tied at zero. there are reports that northwestern will play another football game..or series of games in the future at wrigley field...the wildcats trying to build on the success of the 2010 game against illinois.... now onto college hoops and it has been a trying year for bill carmody....he lost jershon cobb to suspension and then his best player drew crawford got hurt...carmody has been looking for someone to step up and today that man was reggie hearn. olympic hero matt grievers in the