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he plays legendary sam cooke in "one night in miami." watch it now on amazon prime video.dered, i'm doing all right, how you doing? >> jimmy: i'm doing all right. an interesting thing happened today. regularly we'll ask our celebrity guests to read manner tweets. this is a thing we do on the show, read a mean tweet about yourself, we wanted you to be a part of that. we did a lot of research and found there are no mean tweets about you. [ laughter ] none. and you killed hamilton [ cheers and applause ] of course, now thamean tweets a. [ laughter ] >> yes, people are going to work hard to prove you wrong, yes. >> jimmy: i primed for next time you're on the show. i heard you're expecting a baby very soon? >> yeah, we got a little boy coming in march. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: congratulations, very nice. so you have a daughter, right? how old is your daughter? >> we have a 3 1/2-year-old, who's tired of looking at our stupid faces. >> jimmy: gotcha. >> she's ready to be back with her friends. we have a 3 1/2-year-old, then this new one comes soon. >> jimmy: have you th

sam cooke was shot in a los angeles motel, under suspicious circumstances. he was 33.refusing to serve in the vietnam war, won it back, and achieved a level of global adoration rare in sports history. he died in 2016 at age 74. only jim brown, who went on to a film career, remains alive. ( protests and chants ) regina king finished her film even as the culture was again convulsed by protests over racial injustice. >> as much as we love being americans and love america, you know, just, even what's going on now and, i think i've heard president-elect biden say, "america, this isn't us." it is us. it is a part of who we are. the question is, how are we, are we going to change what we write in history to come? >> brown: king says she enjoys the different rhythms of acting and directing, and will continue to alternate between them. the film, “one night in miami,” is now streaming on amazon. for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: last night, regina king sent out a tweet, saying, "'queen' somehow just doesn't capture ms. tyson. she paved a way that created a sp

record, got to have the great sam cooke represented in the final.u know what? this has been such a different year, usually you think of the heisman trophy is usually going to a quarterback, and always announced on a saturday afternoon. near the end of the season, in new york. not these days, of course. >> 2020 winner of the heisman trophy is devante smith-pelly the university of alabama. >> why not come on a tuesday afternoon. alabama senior wide receiver, devante smith, is the heisman winner, first heisman winner as a wide receiver in almost 3 decades. desmond howard back in 1991, the last one. third crimson tide winner and college football's most prestigious award, most deservedly to smith, 20 touchdowns for number one, 105 catches trevor lawrence was the early favorite, the clemson quarterback, but he has had major covid-19 issues the last couple of games. >>> as per the nfl, the hottest coaching prospect in the off- season, it is not good news for the 49ers. it is their defensive coordinator robert and yesterday, it was the los angeles chargers

thanks for the sam cooke record. great sam cooke on the wall to make it official. let's talk some college football stuff, shall we? very unusual year. usually when you're talking high school trophy, it's a quarterback, and it's always given out on a saturday afternoon, but this is, after all, a very different time. instead it's a tuesday afternoon thing, and it comes on a zoom call. >> the 2020 winner of the heisman trophy is devonta smith, of the university of alabama. >> yes it is. devonta smith , senior out of alabama, the heisman trophy winner. in fact, the first wide receiver in three decades, nearly, to win the heisman trophy. desmond howard, back in 1991, the last one. third crimson tide winner of college football's most prestigious award. smith deserves it, too. how about 20 touchdowns for number one ranked bama, 105 total catches. trevor lawrence was the early favorite to win this. he winds up finishing second. he missed a couple weeks because he tested positive for covid. he still will probably be the numbe

malcolm x, sam cook, and jim brown, the great football player.en ali beat sunny liston to win the heavyweight title. >> yes. >> jimmy: and what an incredible group of people. how did you find out about this? >> well, tim powers, the writer, it was actually a play that he had written. and he adapted his play into a screenplay. and i had told my agent that i was interested in telling a story or directing a story that was a romance. and he brought me this. maybe this is more of a bromance. but it was exactly the type of story that i wanted to tell, that i wanted to be a part of. >> jimmy: we have a photograph from i believe that night, that weekend. there you can see ali and malcolm x taking a photo of muhammad ali. i love that so much. i grew up in las vegas and muhammad ali was -- he's one of my favorites. and to see him portrayed as a 22-year-old, just a kid, was great to see. and also, you know, this kind of crossroads in all of their lives at this time in their lives. jim brown is the only living member of that foursome. have you met him? have

i remember 15 years ago i was reviewing a 700 page biography of the soul singer sam cook and it gave me a chance to reflect on the power of boomers and their fascination with themselves. i remember i remarked these aren't devices to get more money out of her parents but it commemorative -- they shoved this pleasant cusick in her hands and said this is what my generation is about. listen to this in memory of me. sometimes i wonder if we indulge them a little beowulf. talking about themselves. that didn't happen and luckily for us we can start talking about them and here to do that today is someone who i just toyed with but helen enters is born into. helen, welcome. why do you tell us a little bit about your book and we will do a back-and-forth between us and then open it to questions from everyone else. >> hi area thank you so much. i am happy to be doing this event with michael because this is a book about generational warfare. as everybody knows millenials and boomers are natural enemies so it's good to have somebody more gen-x as a neutral adjudicator between the two sides because

the book is called "long time coming," it's a verse from sam cook's song "a change going to come," "longe coming, reckoning with racial america" by dr. eric dyson. thank you for being with me. >>> as the biden administration faces generational challenges in public, domestic terror and race relations, its messengers will be just as important as its message. joe biden will preside over an administration singular in diversity, an asset hopefully in this urgent first 100 days, which this week one of the top advisers called, quote, a down payment. he joins me now to explain those terms. i'm talking about cedric richmond, senior adviser to the president of the united statess are immediately i don't know and director of the white house office of public engagement. let me say this, mr. richmond. i have certainly had good dialogue over the years with president biden and certainly a good relationship with vice president harris but it is you that many of us trust that is in the west wing, which puts a heavy load on your shoulders. this was how you broke down the first 100 days of the biden administ

we would go downtown to hear jackie wilson and mary wells and sam cook, and there$)ru;y ws somethingbout the magic and the motion of crossover black music in that era. that deepened the mystery of where is this racing coming from? why is my friends court their girlfriends only to black music? and johnny mattis was as white as we got. in that period. and we resented the fact that ricky nelson with cover little richard songs. and pat balloon. we are wise enough to know that in that era, and at the same time than the freedom rides come up. where is this coming from? my city of atlanta, by the time i was beginning to question things, how the deep does this go? in a panic, the city of atlanta adopted its model. atlanta, the city too busy to hate. i went to school the next day and ask the only professor that i had that could comment on that because he was telling me what a joke it was that our school was saying we weren't segregated, we just didn't have any qualified black applicants yet. i asked him what does this mean? we are bragging about the fact that we are too busy to hate. doesn't

plays sam cooke and aldis hodge plays jim brown. >> and why were they the right men for this role?t understood that but also weren't scared to walk in the shoes of greats, of the greatest, you know. and they did and their performances are just breathtaking. i know that i'm the director and i'm supposed to say that but i'm saying it as an audience member, as a fan, they just truly gave it everything they had and just left it on the floor and i just got to be a fifth wheel to witness that up close and personal. >> they had equally eye praise about you, you should know that. equally high praise. >> we know this movie is as timely as ever, regina so what do you hope -- what do you want the viewer to walk away with? >> you know, it's interesting. there are a few hopes, you know, just as far as just for us, i hope that our men can see this and see themselves in this film and see themselves debating healt healthily, loving on each other and celebrating each other. also as far as just everyone, it would be nice that it would -- people can walk away and it be like a call to action, these me

the legendary sam cooke in the film "one night in >> lynn manuel gave a roomful of black people the evidence we suspected of maybe we're capable of more than what we're being asked to do. and once again, if we're given the resources, the time and space, we can do something great. >> you can see much more of that interview and hear in the rest of the cast of "one night in miami" coming up in gma at 7:00. the writer and director is also the writer and co-director of soul. >> yes. >> so he's doing a lot. >> listen, when i saw this trailer and then saw february, i was like ooh. why must i wait? have you seen this one too? >> i have not seen this one yet. people are already saying oscar, oscar, oscar. >> looks so good. yes. >> yeah. can't wait. >>> new at 6:00. who needs a dog whisperer when officer a high-tech collar. a new device that can help you better communicate with your pet. >> first this big thyme party for bama. not really what we want to see right now. more on the championship ♪ oh, oh, (announcer)®! ♪ once-weekly ozempic® is helping many people with type 2 diabetes like emily lower th

directed by emmy and oscar winner regina king and it's about the night that malcolm x, muhammad ali, sam cookey liston and what happened that night has been fictionalized into a film and it's just great to watch. and let me tell you, regina did an amazing job at casting because she was very involved in the casting and as a director, i mean we're going to see a lot coming from regina. i truly, truly recommend this one in particular. >>> next is a movie called "locked down," yeah, covid. yes, it's a team day project starring chiwetel ejiofor and anne hathaway as a couple who are going through some trouble. they're about to separate, but because of the lockdown they have to stay stuck with each other and, you know, it's really funny. there's a lot of cameos from famous celebrities that you would love and it's very relatable. it's very much like what a lot of couples are going through now in life in times of corona. so i think a lot of people will relate to this one. maybe it will freak them out a little, i don't know. worth watching. >> regina king's directorial debut in "one night in miami" is i

. >> jimmy: sam cook and -- who am i missing?e lot of fun. but it is so interesting to watch. and you know, i didn't know anything about it when i saw the movie. i just knew regina king had directed it. >> yeah. >> jimmy: and i was really shocked when i went back and looked it up and saw that this really happened, these guys really were friends. >> yeah, man, yeah. i think -- i think malcolm kind of like catfished everybody. like, come on, we're going to have a fight, let's celebrate after. they get there and have this real conversation about morals and ethics and purpose and what they're supposed to do for their community. no, it's fantastic. because it wasn't that they really had -- diving into the idea of how it kind of came out, what may have occurred, was -- talk about an education. and doing the research on jim, learning what he did, you know. we know about the football, we know about the film work. the activism, the business acumen, understanding where he was during this transition from career to career, to take control of

won a tony for his portrayal of adam burr in hamilton and now he's playing sam cook in the film "one night in miami." this morning he's talking about how working with director regina king and writer kemp powers gave his career more than just one shot at greatness. >> lin-manuel gave a room full of black and brown people the evidence of what we suspected, we suspected maybe we're capable of more than we're being asked to do. and lin gave us the evidence and kemp and regina have given the four of us at least the evidence of once again. if we're given the resources, the time and space, we can do something great. >> you can see much more of that interview and hear from the rest of the cast of "one night in miami" on "gma" at 7:00. >>> we don't have to wait long, this movie came out christmas day, it was released in some movie theaters. it comes out on amazon prime friday. >> is it? i thought it said february. thank you for informing me. i watched the trailer yesterday and it was, like, february and i'm like, what? >> i was confused too. but i looked it up and that's wh what i saw. >> tha

. >> reporter: the cast transforming into real-life giants, leslie odom as king of soul sam cooke.ben-adir becoming malcolm x capturing the essence of each man. >> i think this is like the first time i've seen a project where i wasn't thinking about the work. i was so engrossed in everything. >> reporter: the story by playwright ken powers imagined how that historic meeting of the minds at miami's hampton house would have played out with the themes and issues of the black struggle and how to overcome still as relevant today as they were over half a century ago. being a fly on the wall for kitchen table talk. >> what are you doing. are you doing enough? you know, that's the question we all ask ourselves. >> the fact that it was set in the time that it was and it's still -- we could have these conversations like right now, you know, tells us how little has changed but also the fact we get to do a film like this tells us how far we have come. >> america is a different experience for many people and attention has to be paid to the truth in them. >> let me hear you. ♪ you got it you got

it's directed by regina king the film follows four legends, muhammed ali, malcolm x, jim brown and sam cookone memorable night. >> don't you think it's a good time to party? >> tonight is a chance for us to reflect. >> i mean no one else is coming? >> whoa, this is off to a hopping start. >> without having to answer to anybody forward. we have to be there for each other. >> who's the greatest? >> you are >> brothers can move mountains without lifting a finger >> oh! >> we'll have to see that. >> "one night in miami" hits amazon prime on january 15th >> mark your calendars. >>> finally alicia keys, we all know what she can do with the piano, amazing things. as she's proven before, she actually played two pianos once at the gram he's back in 2019. ♪ i mean come on >> come on. >> now alicia is kicking off 2021 by literally making art with her piano check out her latest instagram video. >> yo, i think i just did something crazy. watch this ♪ >> oh, my gosh >> i want that for my living room >> i'm not 100% sure that's real i think it is. it must be, right? paint is on top of the key and the key