they were sharecropping. >> reporter: donna's family, her parents and grandparents, were like other poorrom arkansas, picking cotton on other people's land. they were the kind of poor that can take generations to overcome. >> hey, stranger. >> reporter: so when she invited me to her family's reunion, i accepted. >> i bet you didn't think i'd show up here. >> i think you're a brave soul. >> reporter: the reunion was like other's i'd been to... >> this is brother and sister right here. >> reporter: ...at least until donna and her sister... >> there she is. >> reporter: ...began to sing. >> ♪ just a closer walk with thee. ♪ >> reporter: it turns out their parents were run off their cotton fields. >> ♪ granted jesus is my plea. ♪ >> there was just some unrest. civil unrest. ♪ >> reporter: unrest? to learn more, we joined donna and her sister, bonnie, on a trip back to arkansas. >> wow, look how big that church is! >> mercy sakes. >> when you come back some place as an adult, the perspective is so different. >> ♪ what a day that will be. >> reporter: they hadn't been back since they were litt

as a child, he saw sharecropping bind lack people to the plantation economy. and make any attempt to vote a life-threatening act. he said i had no choice but to join the civil rights movement. he said the injustice of segregation was all around me. marion barry, as a boy, knew only segregation. marion barry as a man groomed himself to challenge segregation. he used his fine mind and pension for hard work to write his own ticket into the professional class. but marion gave up his chemistry school graduate fellowship along with his phd, although he had finished all coursework except for the thesis. for marion could not resist the call of the movement. he moved from chemistry classes to james lawson's nonviolence resistance workshops and to leadership along with diane nash in the nashville sit-ins, to raleigh where he became the first chair of the student nonviolent coordinating committee, and to the mississippi movement and the work of the mississippi freedom democratic party. during those years, marion not only steeped himself in nonviolent resistance but in ac

it applies to sharecropping, when we decided that we were going to, in whole swaths of the country, allow people to be effectively re-enslaved. it applies to redlining, when we decided that people that lived in certain places would get, you know, the largess of the government and people who would not. it applies today in terms of mass incarceraon. when we decide that we are goi to harr ris commit by certain people or the s crime committed, you know, by certain people and, you know, not be that hard when it's committed by other people. this is heritage. it's with us, it's with all of us and it doesn't necessarily -- it's not with you because you're white, you know? it's with you because you're an american. just like it's with me, because i'm an american. i have to live with this, too. >> was there something that hit you in the face as you started going back into the past that you didn't expect to find? >> it is the degree to which where we are right now is not a mistake and is not inexplicable. we think of the problem of racism, the quote unquote "negro problem" or the problem with the col

as a child he saw sharecropping buy the black people to the plantation economy and make any attempt too a life threatening act. i had no choice but to join the civil rights movement, he said. the injustice of segregation was all around me. marion barry as a boy knew only segregation. marion barry as a man groomed himself to challenge segregation. he had used his fine line and attention for hard work to right his own ticket into the professional class. but marion gave up his chemistry graduate school fellowship, along with his p.h.d., although he had finished all course work except for the thesis. for marion could not resist the call of the movement. he moved from chemistry classes to james lawson's nonviolent resistance workshops and to leadership along with diane nash in the nashville sit ins. to raleigh where he became the first chair of the student nonviolent coordinating committee. and to the mississippi movement and the work of the mississippi freedom democratic party. during those years marion not only steeped himself in nonviolent resistance but in active strategic organizations

where workers could dance, drink, party, and gamble as a respite from the hard labor of delta sharecroppingy" seaberry runs this place, as he has since 1963, and he makes the rules. how long has this been in business? >> i've been in this place 58 years. i'm 74. >> how did you get into this business? >> i just got into it. something i like to do. everybody come in and enjoy themselves, no problem. >> please explain this policy. no hats backwards and no pants hanging down. what is that? >> that's right. you don't like my rules, don't come. >> what are the rules here? no rap music. >> no. bump-a bump-a bump-a. that gives me a headache in the brain. i love all blues. all of it's good to me, as long as it's blue. >> good r&b? >> that's right, that's right. >> but no rap. >> no, no. >> never. if kanye west wants to rent out the place, you're going to rent it to him? >> i'll rent it to him. >> okay. just in case. >> so i don't have time to work with them. if you ain't come for a good time, stay away from here. >> words to live by. thank you, sir. i love your place. thank you for having us. >> you

. >> sharecropping. >> and agriculture yields have never met their targets. the reason for this is pretty simple. the contracts they have are for about ten years. after ten years the government of cuba can say to the farmers we want the land back. i don't know about anybody here at the table, but i'm not sure i would make an investment in land if i can't own it. it seems like a crazy -- like an amazing risk on the par of cure bans to take with a government that has a history of opening up reform and turning around and saying we've had enough reform. >> just to flip it around and say what about the risk to the cuban people to open up to corporate america again and expose themselveses to capitalism that hurt their country so badly under batisita. trust on the two sides. it's going to come from what we were discussing before. there's a lot these two countries need to learn about each other. a business sector that i think is going to be a strategic win will be technology. >> so telecommunications and a key part of what the president announced was allowing telecom

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