the people of the south bronx are practical, not ideological.emost about bread—and—butter concerns like health and safety, schools and jobs. you know, when i won my primary injune of 2020, i publicly said that i would not be here were it not for my mother who struggled and sacrificed and suffered so that i could have a better life. she raised you as a single mum in substandard public housing, which, frankly, made you ill because there was so much mould and damp. you had two brothers who were imprisoned. you had friends who lost their lives to drugs. you came out as a teenager as gay in a community which didn't accept the idea that you could be or should be gay. i'm just wondering at what point in that very difficult upbringing you decided, "hey, i want to be a politician." well, the formative experience of my life was growing up in public housing. and in new york city, public housing is the greatest safety net of affordable housing that we have. the new york city housing authority, commonly known as nycha, which manages public housing here in ne

his early years were in harlem, his parents were jamaican immigrants, then he spent time in the south bronx, his dad had a winning lottery ticket and they got to move to queens. he never forgot where he came from. and it wasn't just that he didn't forget it, he tried to make sure as many people like him as possible and he was not necessarily destined for greatness as a kid. when he was in fourth grade, they talked about holding him back a little bit. but he just worked hard and he wanted to reward those who followed in his footsteps. >> jake, you bring up a great point. there is this disease that over comes old generals, it is emotional when you see young people achieving things. it just talks to the future of america. and i think that is why powell at the end of his life, dedicated himself to the next generation. to leadership. to finding the people that would perhaps bring us together after the great divide we've been through. and that is what pleased him. he had accomplished everything possible in his life. but now it was to find ways to build that next generation. and build the bench th

in the south bronx there are about 15,000 truck strips to and from the terminal market every single dayonx. and children living near the cross-bronx or attending school are breathing in pollutants that cause them to have respiratory diseases like asthma. it is no accident that they have the highest rate of asthma in the country. that is a consequence of the cross-bronx expressway and the structural racism that it represents. >> congressman, amy, please stay with us. i want to continue the conversation after the break. ine conversation after the break th? downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters keep your laundry smelling fresh way longer than detergent alone. if you want laundry to smell fresh for weeks, make sure you have downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters. feel stuck with student loan debt? move to sofi and feel what it's like to get your money right. (phone chimes) ♪ ♪ ♪ i jump up on the stage ♪ ♪ and do my money dance ♪ ♪ i throw some money up ♪ ♪ and watch the money land ♪ ♪ i do my, i do my i do my money dance ♪ move your student loan debt to sofi - you could save with low r

i grew up in the south bronx. during the crack epidemic. people were shot in front of my door. my neighbourhood was rougher in any one can ever believe. 5 kids 1214 shot in the hey, i was always, i was always different. you know, you realize how hard you make it for people in the community to realize how far you make for people in the community. i had serious anger issues. i was drinking a lot. i would love i gave my life back to god and it put me on a different path. right. so i came up with black lives matter, create a new york. if i see the police doing something wrong, always because the problem is the average people in the community are too afraid to say anything. activism chose me. you know, my parents met at a civil rights rally. my father was leading a protests. my mother looked out the window, he was like, you know, what are you doing up there were protesting girl come on down. right. so she went down, rest is history like history. we are doing really well with the african american community with hispanic community. we're doing well with women, we're doing very well. s

welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur, and today i'm in the south bronx, the poorest part of new yorkthis thatjoe biden�*s promise to build america back better will bejudged.

today, i'm in the south bronx, the poorest part of new york city, and by many measures, the poorest districte to build america back better will bejudged. my guest today is the young democratic party congressman who represents this place, ritchie torres. now, he's a rising young star of his party, but right now,

the day and there has been an extraordinary amount of redevelopment since reagan, he was in the south bronx it that i don't have any first-hand knowledge. i will say to the previous question i have a degree -- and i also have a law degree. you are talking about how powerful it is but the engineer in me each chapter builds on the other adults onea the other and builds on the other and melts the passionate history with the science of it. >> they are is a question about whether your book is in dialogue with how tanks in the real estate industry and of mine black homeownership. >> i cited in the chapter on opportunity and i commend that book to you. it's shocking whatever black wealth we have has been taken, stolen from black people. through predatory lending and through installment contracts which have resurfaced. people were.ra on in the 60s were it's like you're buying a house on my way and youan don't get any equity until the very last minute. private equity firms after the foreclosure crisis in 2008, 2010 have preyed on the very neighborhoods that suffered the most from the foreclosure. th

you know since reagan, he was the south bronx. i wish i can speak to it but firsthand knowledge and i will say, to the previous question, i have a degree in electrical engineering and also i have a law degree and i definitely will you said that you're talkingt about how powerful it is and laid out, it is the engineer in me the buildings the argument in each chapter builds on the other in the next one builds on the other so it's sort of melds the passion of history with just the sort of scientific system. >> i definitely can see it. there is a question about whether your book is a dialogue with profit and how the real estate industry underlines that black homeownership and do you know that her keys be counted predict. >> absolutely and i'm excited in the chapter on opportunity and recommended that book to you and it's talking how much, whatever black wealth we had in housing has been taken, stolen from black people. through predatory lending, installment contracts which have resurfaced. and there was a case for reparation how black

the day, that there's been an extraordinary amount of redevelopment, you know, since reagan, the south bronx. i wish i could speak to it but i don't have any firsthand knowledge. i will say quoted to the previous question, i have a degree in intellectual engineering and i also have a law degree and i definitely -- you were talking about how powerful it is and in terms of it's laid out, it's the engineer in me that built the argue. which chapter builds on the other and builds on the other and so i melded the passion of history with the scientific ssystem approach. >> i definitely can see it. [laughter] >> there's a question about whether your book is in dialogue with race for profit how the bank and the real estate industry undermine home ownership. >> absolutely. how black people were prayed on with installment contracts in the 60's, you know, where you're buying a house on layway and you don't get until you make the last payments, private equity, after foreclosure prices in 2008, 2010 have preyed in the very neighborhoods that suffered the most with their foreclosure prices because they wer

this was the south bronx reagan went to but i wish i could it but i don't have any firsthand knowledge . i will say in coda to the previous question, i have a degree in election engineering and i definitely, you said you were talking about how powerful it is in terms you laid out. it's the engineer in me that built the argument. each chapter builds on the other and builds on the other . so i've melded the passports of the country with just sort of a scientific system. >> i definitely can see it. there's a question about whether your book is in dialogue with race for profit, how the banks and real estate industry undermine black homeownership . i've cited in the chapter on opportunity and i commend to you. it's shocking how much whatever black wealth we had in housing has been taken, stolen from black people. through predatory lending, through these installment contracts which are have resurfaced. tommy c coates writes about it in the case for reparation how black people were preyed on installment contracts in the 60s where it's like you're buying a house on layaway and you don't get an

. ♪ >> rap music began in harlem and the south bronx on playgrounds like this one where people wouldching, and it's a process of using two turntables and a mixer making new sounds out of already existing albums. >> thing that gave life to music in the '80s for me was hip-hop because it took the sounds of the '60s and '70s and brought it to the forefront. ♪ a child is born with no state of mind ♪ ♪ blind to the ways of mankind ♪ ♪ god is smiling on you but he's frowning, too ♪ ♪ only god knows what you go through ♪ >> "the message" was the first hip-hop song that wasn't just a party song. it was talking about what was going on. it was talking about urban decay. it was talking about drugs, crime, prison. all these things that were hitting these communities really hard. ♪ smugglers ♪ ♪ scramblers, burglars, gamblers ♪ ♪ pick pockets, and even panhandlers ♪ ♪ you say i'm cool ♪ >> when "the message" hit it was put that down, what did he just say? put the record back. play that again. ♪ don't push me because i'm close to the edge ♪ >> everyone knew the game of changed, and it really opene

. ♪ mad thinking about stomping ♪ ♪ i'm from the south bronx ♪ ♪ [ bleep ] compton ♪ >> you going topeople money. it's my turn. ♪ tonight's the night i get in some -- ♪ ♪ deep cover on the incognito tip ♪ >> suge knight, who wasn't a real gangster, got into cahoots with dr. dre and said, dre, we should start our own record label, which became death row records. >> knight, 6'3", 330-pound former bodyguard, has become one of the most feared men in the music business. >> you got dr. dre, who probably makes beats better than anybody. this guy delivers a hit. >> dre put out his first solo album "the chronic." not only do you get dre, but then you also get snoop dogg. ♪ one, two, three and to the four ♪ ♪ snoop doggy dog and dr. dre is at the door ♪ >> ooh, boy. snoop doggy dog and dr. dre at the door. it's crazy. they knocked the door down, baby. ♪ g thing baby ♪ ♪ we're crazy ♪ >> 70% of rap music, including gangsta rap, was purchased by whites. >> growing up in st. paul, minnesota, my friends and i thought that compton and south central must be the coolest places in the world based on t

born to jamaican parents, he grew up in south bronx.

he's from south carolina, i'm from the bronx.s in a party that's going to fight for me, that's going to fight back and punch back and punch back hard. the fact that we're -- that the republicans are so close in these races is really scary. you talked about it in your tease, in the lead up to this segment. we're talking about -- why are we having conversations about critical race theory? why are we engaging in these types of dialogue because the republicans know something that democrats know but don't really take advantage of, the political brain is an emotional brain. when you attach -- all they're doing is attaching their story into the larger narrative that republicans are promoting across the country, whether it's vaccine mandates, education in schools and as youngkin talked about the other day, the banning of certain books. we're talking about that in 2021. so it's discouraging. it's awful. it's disheartening. and the democrats need to develop a stronger spine. if we don't now, we're going to spend a generation trying to get

granddaddy met my grandma lillie mae was race in south carolina and relocated when she was seven in what is done as the banana kelly section of the bronx even though my mother told me that was wrong, that was my mothers come when she read the book she's like i had to tell you that is not banana kelly. you got that wrong. sorry. she had -- he had stepped in to break up a fight between my grandma and her then boyfriend pete who thought he could put his hands on her and get away with it. as the story goes my granddaddy stop my grandma from going upside keeps head after race his hands to hit her. she had grabbed a broom from the storefront they were standing there and started wailing on pete. my granddaddy pulls her off pete and assisted on walking her home to comfort her. summer between granddaddy decided very definitely that she was the one. he told her that he had been drafted to go to war, world war ii, but that he would come back for her. grandma said she paid him no mind and went about our business when he left. while in the armed services my granddaddy was in an airplane accident that nearly killed him and he was sent home after ser