and if we can just get thurgood marshall. jose anderson: thurgood's coming! thurgood's coming!uld get excited. the tall elegant well-dressed marshall would swoop in to town. justice kagan: he was arguing to the supreme court one day and then he would go down to mississippi or alabama. to do, you know, this top top quality legal work, at the same time as you were in fear for your very life is something i can't imagine. narrator: during the 1930s, many teacher pay cases were won, but southern states had found dozens of ways to circumvent the legal attack on plessy in the schools. and the fight had put many african- americans at risk of losing their homes, jobs, and even their lives. as they became disenchanted and weary, many were asking if it was all wort h it. kim crenshaw: people, who were largely poor, and who have no reason to believe that worshipping the god of law was actually going to benefit them. how are you going to persuade them that this is something that they should believe in and invest? so you have someone who is this bigger than life personality, who's doing thes

my name is curtis kelley i represent thurgood marshall who academy here in the district of columbia. thank you vice president madam secretary for having myself and gregory baldwin who represent thurgood marshall. my tragedy started september the twentieth of last year i have two twin sons that attend thurgood marshall in the elite athletes junior olympics one of my sons was young's council member for the district of columbia in ward five and one day he was this was this is after school you know we need to agri we need to protect our kids in schools but we need to protect them on the safe passage ways home as well and their extracurricular activities and their pox and recreations and everything that they try to go for their piece. so my sons i hear kelly went to college bound right after school to announce that he was declaring for his college to run track and to further his education and become mayor of district of columbia or something like that. or his route home he got a text from my son's our young kelly who was going to make it but when he found out there was a press he decided

i represent thurgood marshall academy here in the district of columbia. thank you, vice president, madam secretary, for having myself and gregory baldwin, who represents thurgood marshall. my tragedy started september 20 of last year. i have two twin sons that attend thurgood marshall and they are elite athletes, junior olympics. one of my sons was a youth councilmember for the district of columbia. in ward five. and one day he was -- this is after school, we need -- i agree we need to protect our kids in schools. but we need to protect them on safe passageways home as well. and their extra curricular activities and their parks and recreations and everything, that they try to go for their peace. my son went to college-bound, right after school, to announce that he was declaring for his college, to run track. and to further his education. and become mayor of district of columbia or something like that. on his route home, he got a text from my other son who was going to make it, but when he found out there was press, he decided not to. because locally we we

my name is curtisely, i represent thurgood martian academy here in the district of columbia. thank you vice president and madam secretary for having myself and gregory baldwin who represent thurgood marshall. my tragedy started september 20th of last year. i have two twin sons that attend thurgood marshall in the elite athletes junior olympics and one of my sons was a youth council member for the district of columbia in ward five and one day he was -- this was -- this is after school. now we need -- agree we need to protect our kids in schools but we need to protect them on the safe passage ways home as well. and the extracurricular activities and the parks and recreation and everything that they try to go for their peace. and so my son ziar kelly went to college right after school. to -- announce that he was declaring for his college to run track and to further his education and become mayor of district -- district of columbia. on his way home he got a text from hi son who was going to make it and found out there was press he decided not to. because locally we were burnt by

. >> that's what i wanted to be before thurgood marshall changed me. >> reporter: he graduated with a law degree and married the woman he's been with for 55 years. >> to honor, serve and obey. but i swear to this day he told her to obey me. two out of three is not bad. >> reporter: life was good but about to get better. in 1966. six years after graduating law school he argued before the united states supreme court. >> it's like winning the nba championship, you know? some people play all their life and never make it. >> reporter: the person arguing the case before his brought things full circle. >> i'm listening to thurgood marshall argue a case and i'm shaking like a leave. he said good luck. and that was like being anointed. julian bond had to go before the high court just to take a seat in the house of representatives. a few years later, another high profile case, activist angela davis. but he had to be with his mother. >> my mother died at the hospital. and coming to california was like a respite from grief, you know? >> reporter: now a family of five, he took the angela davis cas

he was only served as president of the thurgood marshall college front. i know he will advance the cause of hbcus. with that i would like to introduce and think chairman taylor and about him to the podium to say a few words. [applause] >> thank you president trump i appreciate the trust you have placed in me to chair the president's board of advisors on hbcus. it has been my life's work to unleash talent and its forms from wherever it originates. the ceo call it short-term, we work with employers across the world today's organizations all share the same challenge. close in the skills gap well building diverse, inclusive, engaged workforces. for each of them the war for talent will never end. thanks to this strong economy it is our way of life. today it's the organization's only competitive advantage. they depend on our education institution is a reliable source of a multifaceted talent they need. hbcus are critical conduit for this talent. every year over 300,000 students turn to these other education and prepare them for their careers. this president's a

i have another son that attend thurgood marshall. we have been taking him to all types of family counseling and therapy and the school has been effective. the community has been effective. local politicians there. what we want to do is stand up for our students in the community. give us some solutions as to what we can do. myself along with helping hands in d.c. came together and got with our attorney. we said okay, we are going to do some research and find out what legislation can be found they can better serve to protect our students in their safety zones, their school zones. it's been a fight because everybody will show up for photo ops, all the politicians show up to say we are going to get it done. we are going to protect our kids. but a couple weeks later, school shooting, just like we are all hearing about, all experiencing, at a senior high school. a kid got shot at school. in our school, on their safe passageway home, parks and recreation, extracurricular. our students have to be protected. our students have to be protected.

he's also a former clerk of supreme court justice thurgood marshall. professor kennedy is the author of several books including race and crime and the law for which he received the robert f. kennedy book award and the forthcoming from protest to law, triumphs and defeats of the black revolts, 1948 through 1968. he has been with us quite a number of times. i know you'll find he is a dynamic, wonderful speaker and before we begin, i want to ask that if you have a cell phone, a beeper, please turn it off and also tonight we ask that no one takes photographs. so now for this wonderful gentleman, please welcome randall kennedy. thank you. [ applause ] >> thanks so much for the gracious introduction and even more for all of those who have made it possible for me to be here. i love coming to this auditorium and i love speaking to audiences here. because i find that the audiences here are usually invariably knowledgeable and curious and ask really challenging questions. i always learn a lot from coming here. my remarks this evening are drawn from the book i'm

with acp has been there the great litigater, thurgood marshall. thurgood marshall, who was the first african-american justice on the supreme court, was the chief litigater for the naacp for many years. he won 29 of 32 cases before the supreme court. he was there to fight on behalf of the naacp. the naacp is the organization that won borrows vs. jackson, shelly vs. cramer, board vs. the board of education. these are lawsuits that allow us to live in the neighborhoods that we live in. to go to the schools that we attend. the truth be told, we eat where we eat and sleep where we sleep because of the naacp. it is an organization that has brought not only desegregation to american life, but also integration to american life. many of our institutions were desegregated. that meant that a lot of institutions were lost in the process. when we desegregated. but we also have integrated and we have brought together persons in new institutions. the naacp can claim a good deal of responsibility for the integration that we see in the house of representatives and

i have two twin sons that attend thurgood marshall and they are elite at completes. one of my sons was youth counselor men fmber for sdrukt f district of columbia ward five. i agree we need to protect our kids in schools, but we need to protect them on their safe passage way home as well. and their extracurricular activities and parks and recreation and everything. and that they try to go for their peace and -- so my son went to college bound right after school, to announce that he was declaring for his dlaenlg college to run track and further his education. on his route home, he got a text from my other son was going to make it but when he found out there was press, he decided not to because locally we were burnt by the text. he was texting watch out, there is someone in our passage way coming home. and in a split second, he was walking home maybe from this distance to where that curtains are, he was that close to home. when a thug came out to try to rob him. came back because he was upset, he didn't get them students. those fast track kids, i'll come back and get t

he also recently served as president of the thurgood marshall college fund. i know he will advance the cause of hbcus a major priority of our administration and with that i would like to introduce and thank chairman taylor and invite him to the podium to say a few words. thank you. thank you, very much. >> thank you president trump and secretary devasse. thank y it has been my life's work to unleash talent in all of its forms from wherever it originates. as ceo of the society for human resource management, we call it sherm, i work with employment across the country and indeed across the world. no matter their industry, size or longevity today's organizations all share the same challenge. closing the skills gap while building diverse, inclusive, engaged work forces. for each of them the war for talent as we've come to call it will never end and thanks to this incredibly strong economy it is now a way of life. today people are an organization's only competitive advantage. depending on our country's source of multitalented source they need, this is an incredible

i went to thurgood marshal high school. and we never made it to the championship.sed to losing. at the time galileo wasn't -- i see you, junior. i got you. [laughter] one of the assistant coaches at galileo, his father was a huge inspiration on my life and former principal. to see that still associated with the school and with football, how i met his father was through football. he was my high school football coach. i didn't play much. [laughter] and i remember i used to see young marcus at the field. he was maybe 8 or 10 -- i won't make it a personal story because it's about the entire unit, but i think it's connected, the stories of all you coming up in the city, going beyond your expectations, achieving something that inspires the entire city. every young football player in san francisco wants to do what gal did. they all heard your story and want to replicate your success. that's something to be proud of and we stand behind you as students, athletes, members of our community. i really want to see y'all go on and expect excellence in watch you do. if i can be a

my name is curtisely, i represent thurgood martian academy here in the district of columbia. thank you vice president and madam secretary for having myself and gregory baldwin who represent thurgood marshall. my tragedy started september 20th of last year. i have two twi

his third real-life hero, the early career of the supreme court's first african-american justice, thurgoodi only represent innocent people, people accused because of their race. >> i probably have turned down more biopics than, you know, i wouldn't even try to name how many. >> anybody you wouldn't do? >> i wouldn't do harriet tubman. >> and now with black panther chadwick is achieving stardom on a whole other level. >> it's like when you were a kid and everyone pretended to be some kind of professional athlete and you hit the last shot and the crowd -- it's like -- that's the -- that's pretty much what it feels like. how can you get used to that? how can you get enough of it? >> that's a picture up on number one. chad. [ applause ] >> all three of his yeses are available on dvd and blu-ray now. >>> coming up, jennifer lawrence, was she rude to this baf >>> wynton duke making his big screen debut in black panther. it took four auditions over four months to win the lead of mbaku. all the details on access live. >> i go into the waiting room and i see all these, like, big stars, and i'm like

february we see and hear and read wistful tales about dr king and rosa parks and jackie robinson and thurgood marshall back to the future years from now how will historians describe race relations today. i would say that historians would describe race relations today as being somewhat some ochoa with especially given all of the protests and demonstrations that have been happening since two thousand and fourteen what the birth of the black lives matter movement as well as all of the concerns that have been raised about donald trump's handling of race relations in the united states you mentioned two thousand and fourteen which i think might have been an inflection point i am a baby boomer and as a child in the one nine hundred fifty s. i witnessed the struggle on black and white t.v. in the one nine hundred sixty s. people my age join protests but now armed with smartphones and powered by social media millennialists are broadcasting painful episodes like ferguson has this media evolution produced accountability noise both. why i would say that social media has been a very important part of the

thurgood marshall. i think it was in this case he used the inkwell. here was what he says and it is amazing. dissent, and she says i predict that this case dred to be seen as another scott. we do think today that his dissent is really the right approach. with him, should be as mike and i are, in the civil rights cases of 1883. today's civil court with him, as mike and i -- today's supreme court cites those cases was strong approval and i think shame on them. >> i want our audience to understand what justice brown's majority opinion means. anyone brown said if objects to separate but equal that is the fault of african americans. it is nothing inherent in the segregation itself. wasice harlan's response everyone knows what the real purpose of segregation was, to degrade and humiliate african-americans. was harlan truly right? >> harlan was clearly right, and plessy was one of the most clearly wrong cases ever decided by the supreme court. it is possible for a supreme court decision to have enormous public support, and enormous majority support, and stil

continues to fight for the vision not only of martin luther lewis,hitney young, john roy wilkins, thurgood marshall, malcolm x, and many of the great leaders who championed civil rights, human rights, and economic justice in the 1960's. we are the inheritors and legatees of that. we work every day to see how we can push it. today, there has to be a renewed peopleto help poor white , poor black people, poor latinos, working whites, working black, and working latinos, that they have more in common when it comes to economic issues then in the vision with each other. in today's america, coulter and race, -- culture and race, culture -- they have divided the body politics. think so simple -- something so simple leg raising minimum wage can't find the light of day. state have said forget the congress, forget the president, we will do it on our own. things cannotnt get done because politics of race, politics of culture gets in the way. we have always had a distinct .ocus on economic issues we put tremendous effort into trying to derail this recently passed tax bill. tremendous effort into trying

board of education where thurgood marshall read john marshall's dissenting opinion in plessy for best for inspiration before arguing plessy versus ferguson. john marshall harlan's dissenting opinion has come to be celebrated as one of the prophetic statements of liberty and inequality in constitutional history. i will read from it because it is jarring at the beginning. harlan begins by making what would strike s as nativist comments about chinese americans , suggesting he shared some anti-immigrant bias. then he says something about white people. he's of the white race leans itself to be the dominant race in the country so it is in terms of prestige and achievement and education and wealth and power. i doubt not it will continue to be if it remains true to its heritage and hold pass -- holds fast to the constitution. in view of the constitution in the eye of the law, there is in this country, no superior dominant ruling class of citizen . there is no caste here. here are the famous words. our constitution is colorblind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens in respect

thurgood marshall, who reads plessy versus ferguson, and his in effect becomes the law in brown v. board of education. and it is maybe even this case where he does use the anchor well.- the ink here's what he said, and it is the equivalent of babe ruth's called shot. he is alone in dissent. thisys, i predict that case will become to seen as another dread scott. to say it and be proved right by history, because we do think today, dissent is the right approach. if you are with him in plessy, and i hope you are all are. in the civil rights cases of 1883, and today's supreme court cites the civil rights cases with 1883 with strong approval, and i think, shame on them. jeffrey: mike, i want our audience to understand what justice brown's majority opinion was. justice brown said, if anyone objects to separate but equal, -- the the thought of power of justice harlan's response, everyone knows what the purpose of segregation was, mainly to degrade and humiliate african-americans. was harlan right, or are there some servitudes or originalists who think on original us grounds, the majority w

the case is so important because it was overturned and brown versus board of education where thurgood marshall read the opinion, and inspiration before he argued ferguson and john marshall opinion has come to be celebrated as one of the prophetic statements of liberty and equality consistent -- i will read from it. it is jarring at the beginning. then he goes on to say something about white people. he says the white race deems itself to be the dominant race in this country, so it is in terms of prestige and achievements, and education, and wealth, and power. i doubt it will continue to be for all time, and remains rue. he goes on to say in view of he constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country, knows the. dominant ruling class of citizens. there is no caste here. here are the three famous words. our constitution is colorblind. neither know or tolerates -- all citizens are equal before the law. akhil, help us unpack this ativism and white pride with the declaration of equally quality when it comes to civil rights, but not apparently political and social rights. akhil:

and the case is so important because it was overturned in brown versus board of education where thurgood marshall read justice john marshall dissenting opinion before he argued plessy versus ferguson and john marshall dissenting opinion has come to be celebrated as one of the greatest prophetic statements of liberty and equality and constitutional history. i will read from it because it is jarring at the beginning. he begins by making what would strike us as nativists comments about chinese-americans and he shares some of the anti- immigrant bias and he goes on to say something about white people sing the white race deems itself to be the dominant race in this country so it is in terms of prestige and achievements and education and wealth and power so i doubt if it will not continue to be if it remains true to its great heritage. a rather jarring beginning and then he goes on to say but in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior dominant ruling class of citizens. there is no cast here and here are the famous words, our constitution is colorbl

he also recently served as president of the thurgood marshall college fund. i know he will advance the cause of hbcus, a major priority of our administration. with that i would like to introduce and thank chairman taylor and invite him to the podium to say a few words. thank you. thank you very much. [applause] david: okay. there is going to be a lot of announcements made now by the group that was standing behind the president, historically black colleges is the occasion of this meeting. if the president says anything after these comments, which from time to time he does, he may take some questions from the audience we will go back but otherwise we're going to move on. melissa. melissa: jerome powell is the new chairman of the federal reserve and he was put to the test in front of the house financial services committee today for the first time since taking over from janet yellen. adam shapiro son capitol hill with the latest. adam, give us some of the biggest nuggets. reporter: biggest nuggets. the economy was growing. it was growing at 3% at the end of 2017.

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cases in front of the supreme court than any other minority attorney in history, recently breaking thurgood marshall's record. wow! also traveling the president's travel ban before the supreme court. thank you for coming? >> thanks for having me. >> what does mueller do if team trump says no? >> i sure hope that the president doesn't say no. that would be unlike any other president in recent memory. he would have to be acting much more like president nixon. reagan testified, george w. bush, president clinton. all these people have testified. if he does, i expect mueller to go and subpoena the president to testify. >> what does it tell you that these lawyers are literally worried the president will just lie, lie, lie, lie, lie? >> it's not like a normal client. donald trump's relationship to the truth is kind of very much like roy moore's to shopping malls. >> ouch. >> or something like that. it's iffy all the way down. i understand why the lawyers are advising the president not to testify. but, boy, to say that, they really have to distrust their client. >> there is one lawyer, who has been

." >> jimmy: they love thurgood marshall in china. it's unbelievable. >> it has to be panther. you know what was weird about that experience? >> jimmy: it looks like everything, based on this photo. [ laughter ] >> yeah. i didn't understand anything that was going on. >> jimmy: it was all in chinese? >> it was all in chinese. all of a sudden it's all chinese and you hear your name. you're like oh, my god, it's my turn. and then i was like i'm not supposed to speak. the language barrier was crazy for me. >> jimmy: yeah, well, sure. >> but it was a fun experience, and i still don't know how i got it. >> jimmy: were you confused when they called you and told you about this? >> yeah. i said i'm going to accept it, you know. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: did you go to china for this to -- >> no. it was right down the street. [ laughter ] they came here. >> jimmy: china came here to give you this trophy. >> it was right on vine street. >> jimmy: are you sure this wasn't a prank? [ laughter ] >> hey. if it was, it was a really good one. >> jimmy: it was really well do

for the vision, not only of martin luther king, but of whitney young john lewis, roy wilkins, , thurgood marshall, malcolm x, and others, many of the great leaders, who championed civil rights, human rights, and economic justice in the 1960's. we are the inheritors and legatees of that. and the work every day to see how we can push it. be a renewedhas to effort to help poor white people, poor black people, poor latinos, working whites, working blacks, and working latinos, that they have more in common when it comes to economic issues than in division with each other. in today's america, culture and race, culture, sometimes as a code word for race, has divided the body politic, which means that something so simple, like raising the minimum wage, or pushing the country toward a living wage, cannot find the light of day here in a congress of the united states. said, plus states have forget the congress, forget the president we will do it on our , own. so, simple, important things cannot get done because politics of race, the politics of culture gets in the way. i will say that at the nation

i mean, in the baki case, thurgood marshall, the great case about affirmative action, speculates and wonders what would have happened if things had been different? the reason we're in this position now is because steps were not taken in the past nofrd to bring people forward. now, one of the things we got, one of the -- we got from andrew johnson's recalls trance was the 14th amendment. we might thank him for that. but that is about political rights, and that's something that everybody has benefitted from, not just black people. but what would have happened if he had gone along with the program of the freedmen's bureau, and given the power of the presidency to move that forward, the support of the presidency, land reform, if african-american people had been able to have land? not to work as sharecroppers, but ownership. we know what land ownership means to people. and their families. and wealth building. the gap between african-americans and whites in terms of income in some ways is shrinking. but the wealth gap of actual ownership of property and wealth is getting wider. and it take

the contrast between john marshall is the other great supreme court justice named marshall, thurgood marshall. he not only does not destroy his gives but on his death his papers to the library of congress and says they are to be open to researchers immediately. theirreat justices give papers and say i want a 50-year hold, i don't want embarrassment. there,l says, it's all take a look at it. >> thank you for the insight that you provided. in the last 50 years, scholars like you have done something tremendous. you have explored the depths of our history to establish the truth. that is very important. what istional fact is, your opinion in regards to these kinds of developments that are predicated on deceit, dishonesty, and delusions. when we look in american history, we never get to the kind of insight that you shared this afternoon, but instead we go into intellectual gymnastics to justify what was wrong and it could not be justified. can you explain how this wepened that, unfortunately, ended up not knowing the truth and not knowing the whole story of history? dr. finkelman: how many

not to intervene, to the supreme court of the united who seemse only one to want to intervene is thurgood marshall. everybody else says no thank you, at every level. everyone just turned away. this raise does questions about our democracy itself? you literally have this at the presidential level on down. you can stop me if you want to, but you literally have a conspiracy to cover up a lynching. i don't think that's going too far. you have evidence to demonstrate that actually what happened. we don't live under a military junta. that so manyt say, of our democratic institutions, you could throw the press in o, were so quick to allow this happened and very quickly turn the page. how much truth can folks actually handle? ms. thompson: what you are really getting at is the question of, who is a legitimate victim, and who can have that mantle of victimhood and attention put on them. one of our friends khalil mohammed writes about blackness in his brilliant book. he makes a lot of profound points. during prohibition, as prisons begin to fill with more white folks, and as we begin to see white,

i represent thurgood marshall academy here in the district of columbia. vice president, madam secretary, thank you for having myself. my tragedy started september 20 of last year. i have two

capehart: now, was it thurgood marshall who said that the dc superior court was one of the most powerfulces you could be? because it's washington, dc, you have, uh, jurisdiction over local things but also federal matters. holder: yeah. he was talking about the position of the u.s. attorney, and u.s. attorney in, um, washington, dc, is both the local prosecutor as well as the federal prosecutor. it's why it's the largest u.s. attorney's office in the country, and-- given, you know, where you sit in washington, dc--uh, you can do things as--as complicated as, you know, complex political corruption cases, like the case of dan rostenkowski, in addition to doing, um, you know, street crime where you're dealing with, um--with misdemeanors, and, as the u.s. attorney, you have the ability, uh, to set policy, and that's one of the reasons why i was, uh, so grateful that eleanor holmes norton gave me the opportunity to be, um, u.s. attorney and was supportive of the ideas that i had about shifting, um, responsibilities and resources to the superior court side and taking people away from even more

william and mary law school where she received the national association of women lawyers award and the thurgood marshall award. she served as senior articles maryr on the "william and bill of rights journal." she graduated from george washington university with aba and political science -- in political science. distinguishedhe scholar award, the highest academic award given to students in the arts and sciences college. if you are doubting that these people are experts, doubt no more. i wanted to start with them. and now i am going to join the panel. i want to be with you. by asking them briefly to answer that question every one of us who has ever taught history at asked eventually by our students. why study history? what difference does it make? why should we look at these documents? what value does it have? and i want you to answer it while standing on one foot and not cursing. denver? denver: obviously, i'm biased. but i cannot even imagine taking about our present problems without having historical context. history might not offer the exact answers to all of our problems, but i don't think w

at this statehouse in maryland, we have dueling monuments, if you will, because in 1996, we get thurgood marshall. and so now, the two of marilyn's great supreme court justices are side-by-side, but clearly somebody over the weekend in frederick had a different idea about how to publicly enact their critique. host: what should his legacy be? christopher: he doesn't have a choice in the matter. after dred scott, he has tied himself to this pro-slavery nationalist movement so tightly, that movement dies with the confederacy and so these are forever linked. roger taney engaged in fairly dishonest representations of history at the highest levels of government, at the highest level of the court. that cannot be undone. he has ruined to the reputation thate supreme court during period by signaling the audacity that he and the rest of the justice's could decide the most volatile political question in a way and end up in the wrong side of history. i have a portrait similar to the one that you showed earlier in my office. it is one that i show my students every time that i teach the dred scott dec

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thurgood marshall, malcolm x, they did say things like this quite regularly. but today it does not sound right. >> i read your piece when you first and that but what you just said is not an answer to the question about what government does or anybody else does. you can talk about crime in the community and we all talk about it we are concerned about clan but that doesn't mean structural discrimination. >> there was a time when keying thought there was a role for the government to play. equal treatment under the law and that was fine but there was also the role for the community connect the community has a responsibility. >> where is the onus? to have this discussion here. the highest negatives of every category so who takes responsibility for it? >> so with this conversation as a journalist and reporter focusing on accountability. it is relatively futile and relatively impossible for me to show up in the community to conclude exactly i need to hold accountable and how i do that. i can go to a neighborhood in baltimore but the function of the tools i am equippe