you are a woman of the south bronx. >> yes. >> hinojosa: and when people think of the south bronx, they think of blown out buildings, fire, garbage, pollution. when you look at the south bronx,ou see what? >> possibility, promise, some of the world's most beautiful people... >> hinojosa: hmm! >> ...all sorts of assets that are just waiting to be developed and recognized as such. >> hinojosa: but when you were growing up in the south bronx... >> uh! >> hinojosa: ...one of ten kids, okay? >> ( laughing ) yeah. >> hinojosa: what were you seeing around you? >> i was seeing, you know, the burned-out shells of buildings. i did see, you know, crack heads who lived across the street from me in a burned out shell. i did see my neighborhood played out larger than life on television about being, like, the worst place in the world and nothing good could come of it, because that's where crime and prostitution and all these awful things were, and so that's what i saw, you know, as a kid. >> hinojosa: what does that do to a kid? >> ( sighs deeply ) >> hinojosa: i mean, profoundly, what does it do to y

as margaret said, in 1949 we came to the south bronx, which was an irish neighborhood, mostly. i was sort of a spaced-out kid, destined obviously to be a poet. i was this big at 13 and i was a good rollerskater and the kids were amazed and they befriended me. after a while, they recognized that i had some sort of athletic ability and because i was so spaced out, they mistook it for great courage and if they pushed me, i pushed them back. it was just like a game. so they took to me and asked me to join the shamrocks. i even changed my name from ed vega to ed mcveigh. and this is how they passed me off because most of the teams they played were other irish kids. this was a regular football team so, consequently, they listed me as eddie mcveigh. it was great fun and my friends were jimmy flynn, paddy o'connor. my siblings married the shenny's and i almost married a catherine finerin but it didn't work out. i have a

his efforts are concentrated in harlem and the south bronx. please join with me in welcoming these folks. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] >> absolutely. i have been going around the country doing a book tour and usually getting freedom riders to occurrent me where. usually the first when we start off, and we will do here tonight is to ask bob, helen and lou to talk about the motivation enjoying the ride and how they came to be part of the freedom writes in 1961. bob, can you start us off? >> as eric said, i was head of the naacp had a critical time at ucla. i went to ucla because i have heard the difference between university of california and the university of pennsylvania was the that the university of california was three. we found that was true. i got a ph.d. for nothing before reagan. but, what i found also was that the campus around the university of california in los angeles, there was a lot of covert discrimination and i took on the naacp coast they weren't doing anything about it and organized them to go down and start pic

the russian so it is providing inspiration for songs and poems and is the country's main north south bronx and decades ago human ingenuity connected to the dawn river to the west as if in the middle of straits the first centuries people dreamt of connecting the two rivers now this canal essentially joins distance east to get. the vote the john canal is an engineering marvel within a day a vessel can pass the canals thirty blocks ten million tons of shipping does so every year. another concrete giant is this finished fifty years ago it's the biggest hydroelectric plant in europe it powers the local city of volgograd and sends lots more electricity to moscow hydroelectric plant behind me is a potent example of how much the volga can provide but harnessing the river like this isn't without its cost. fishermen have been watching fish stocks for years they see the slow damage the downing of the river has done especially to russia's prized sturgeon the source of caviar who are going to visit the hydroelectric plant has done significant damage because it stocks fish swimming up river to the spawn

my time performing in the show was when we would have school groups, and we'd have kids from the south bronx the dominican republic. and i would say, "dominican republic," and you couldn't hear the next five bars... >> hinojosa: oh, they'd be... >> ...because kids would scream so loud. i think if i had seen in the heights when i was a kid, i'd be president of the united states right now. it's just sort of... it's just... you know, it was... it's... i watch it impacting these kids and seeing themselves, and that's so enormously validating. it's... it's really the best part of the thing. >> hinojosa: how did you know that you could trust your voice? how did you know... i mean, i know that your dad was the president of the debbie reynolds club... >> ( laughing ) yes, that's true. >> hinojosa: ...okay, so i know you grew up also watching musicals, but how did you know that you could do this? where did you learn how to trust that, "yeah, i'm going to put pen in hand and i'm going to start writing a musical"? >> i... i was lucky enough to be encouraged by people who were not family. i had an eight

greenwood thank god i'm free proud to be an american version, a version of those who live in the south bronxd folks who don't feel free and what they write about it either in a rhyme or poem, that's what scares these conservative white folks. they don't accept the fact that there are millions of people for whom the experience of america is different than theirs and they certainly don't want to have to confront it. >> don't most whites buy the bulk of hip hop and rap? >> absolutely. this is all strategy, you know, in my book i actually tell the cop side of the 1992 cop killer controversy and ron lord, knew this was something the cops had to do, after the cops beat down rodney king and the police had egg on their face and this is something that republicans and police needed to do to sort of turn cops into victims and when actually it's people like rodney king and folks brutalized by police that are much more than the victims of this this kind of thing. >> the uproar isn't over. jon stewart has accepted an invitation from bill o'reilly and you would have thought elvis was in the house in atlant

thank god i'm free, proud to be an american version, it's a version of the folks who live in the south bronxo live on pine ridge reservation, brown skin folks in arizona right now who don't feel free, and when they write about it either in a rhyme or in a poem, i think that's what scares these conservative white folks. they don't accept the fact there are millions of people for whom the experience of america is different than theirs and they certainly don't want to have to confront that. >> are these pundits trying to get traction because the president is black and hip hop is primarily a black art form but who buys the most rap? >> white americans. >> are they trying to gain traction on this? >> yeah. are you asking me? >> yeah, tim. >> yeah. yeah, yeah. absolutely. look, this is one of those ways you can push a button with people. the same way you can by questioning the president's academic credentials. that's a very clear button of racial anxiety and resentment. and when it comes to rap, back in 1992, i remember during the republican convention, that was right after ice t.'s song cop kille

my dad was a factory worker and my mom went to work in a private school in the south bronx which wouldext 35 months. the hospital encouraged her to get a practical nursing degree. regrettably, my dad died when i was 9 and my brother was 6. my mom was alone with very young children and no savings. during most of my tongue could, my mother worked six days a week. she struggled to put my brother and i through college and catholic schools because she believed that was the best education she could afford for us. education was always paramount for my mom. through for sacrifice, we learned the value of education as well. when we were in high school, my mom decided to pursue her own dream, and she went to college so she could earn more money to support us. so my mother at age 45 when back-to-school period -- back to school. who is the 72-year-old graduate in this audience? please have the courage to stand up, because i know what it took for you to do what you did. i lived it with my own mom. i hope that classmate is an inspiration to all of you. it takes a dream coming true, and really hard wo

he grew up in the south bronx, removed to the part of brooklyn which isn't the greatest part of town, you know, for a better life. his father was a postman. he told me and i thought this was fascinating that his father was then after he retired was replaced by a machine. so the job that his father was doing was outmoded and a machine could do it better and his mother worked at an alarm security company which he described to me as a growth industry in that part of brooklyn and he went public high school and where harvard happened to recruit, found him, he was one of the smartest in the class and gave a full scholarship to go to harvard where he found himself surrounded by like pratt school students and he didn't feel like he fit in, but eventually he did well at harvard, went to harvard law school and as he said i went from being underprivileged to a child of privilege because he had access to harvard and harvard law school. this is very much the kind of person that makes it to the top of goldman sachs. henry paulson grew up on a farm , 40 miles outside of chicago, and his grandfather

you know, he grew up in the south bronx, he moved to the east part of brooklyn for a better life, hisather was a postman. lloyd told me, i thought this was fascinating, that his father was then, you know, after he retired was replaced by a machine. so, you know, the job that his father was doing was outmoded, and a machine could do it better, and his mother worked at an alarm security company which he described to me as a growth industry in that part of brooklyn. and he went to public high school where, you know, harvard happened to recruit. found him, he was clearly one of the smartest kids in the class, and gave him a full scholarship to go to harvard where he didn't feel like he fit in. but he eventually did well at harvard, then went to harvard law school and, as he said, e went from being -- i went from being an underprivileged child to a child of privilege because he had access to harvard and harvard law school. and, you know, this is very much the kind of person that mawtion z ud to the -- that makes it to the top at goldman sachs. henry paulson grew up on a farm 40 miles outsi

that is true whether you grew up in a housing project in the south bronx or in a one traffic light foundrolina, like my friend, burn it. i know that for a fact because of the second story i want to share with you today, the story of viera and her son, of vernon. he is now accomplished author here in the state of south carolina. but i met him, i was a college student and he was a graduate student working on his dissertation. it seemed to be at the time that we came from different worlds. he told me about the activities that he had performed to help his family get by when he was a kid. like selling rabbit boxes, boiling peanuts for sale. i told him about the kinds of things i had done to help my family, like selling clothes in a dress shop, working in a bakery. he talked to me about his hobbies. hunting, fishing. i talked to him about my hobbies. playing handball against the side of the building and watching the yankees. this university and i share a deep bond -- we both have a mutual love of the greatest american pastime, baseball. and we both have a deep admiration and love for bobby ric

. >> we could go a little bit south of where we are and we could go all the way to the top of manhattan and even to the bronx with our facilities. >> reporter: it may only be a few miles, but every small business has its dream of conquering new frontiers. erika miller, "nightly business report," new york. >> tom: we saw some selling pressure move back into the stock market to end this week, and while the financial sector led the selling, it was really stocks on the front lines with the consumers retails that saw some big moves. let's get you updated with tonight's market focus. the week came to a weak ending with the major indices finishing lower. retail stocks saw lots of selling, even with the buyout bid for bookstore barnes and noble. let's start with the market reaction in barnes and noble to that purchase offer from liberty media. the offer is $17 per share. the market thinking it could go higher with today's 30% jump, taking it well over $17. this is the highest price for the stock since the firm suspended its dividend back in february. other retailers took a big hit. j.c. penney fell almost 5% as volu