it began after george zimmerman shot trayvon martin. it gained momentum after michael brown and others. black lives matters are making views clir to candidates. including hillary clinton. she met with several members in a meeting described as tense and raw. here is a reason for that. former president bill clinton signed harsh sentencing laws that had a disproportionate affect on black members convicted of violent drug crimes. sent to 1 million of the population of 2.3 million is black.

. >>> next, reverend al sharpton and trayvon martin's attorney benjamin crump talk about criminal justice, voting rights and the 2016 election. >>> our first speaker absolutely needs no introduction whatsoever. he is known around the world and throughout the nation as an ir repressible force against injustice of any kind, be it social, political or racial. if there's a cause-to-be champion, he is unafraid to bring it to the forefront or fight for what is right. he is a good friend. he is organization in the national action network and national urban league have wo worked collaborating on many, many things together. as i said last night, there are tree shakers and there are jelly makers. and the reverend al sharpton is a tree shaker. ladies and gentlemen, please greet and welcome back to the national urban league the founder and president of the national action network, reverend al sharpton. [ applause ] ♪ >>> thank you. first of all, good afternoon to the national urban league. i'm honored and happy to be here with my friend and colleague, the president of the national urban league who's

but i have not seen george clooney to see ibm trayvon martin button.or the i canterbury the buttons. that this is an awful thing but not the blatant rallying >> i every. we see every configuration of the united states with said geopolitical places and though world. during the cold war, the civil-rights tactics appealed to the international opinion. how far you get is other variables but for example, like the little rock nine. there were all watching and although very circumscribed way they could press the issues in the international forum because it is sheer hypocrisy to talk about international to human-rights when your record at home is so poor but now absent the cold war, is a different story with the connections between our local efforts and palestine for example, are so important because it isn't just here but everywhere but the moving parts in the most productive ways that our strategic. >> don't have an answer but to talk about rights and for historians that is almost taken for granted what was going on in if the union made a big change in terms

on another flier is a photo of trayvon martin, with the words captioned, zimmerman was right, we will stop thugs like that. martin was 17 when he was shot and killed in 2012. southfield is predominantly black and some residents are outraged. >> i was born in the '50s. came up through the civil rights stuff and all that and when i see stuff like that it's kind of sick thing. >> i'm pawl appalled at this, cy this is race-baiting. >> ken siver co-founded the city's dr. martin luther king, jr. task force, the importance of celebrating the national holiday. also a candidate for southfield mayor. his name appears on the flier. he feels he's being targeted. >> what is your response to people that think you're behind these fliers? >> my response that i'm not. this is someone who is trying to insight racial tension in our city which we lack or dirty campaign trick. >> no matter what the motivation is, this is absolutely despicable and we will not tolerate it in our community. >> pat haney is president of the mlb task force. she questions the motivation behind the fliers. >> it may be that this

it began after george zimmerman shot trayvon martin.

it seems we're a society obsessed with trayvon martin, that case, michael brown, that case, freddie dpraat case. nobody wants to talk about the thousands of lives that are being lost in black-on-plaque crime. why do you think there is an unwillingness to deal with this? >> my take on it, sean, is to act knowledge this is happening, they have to face their own reality. they don't want to do it. on my way to the station for this interview, i just found out that a toddler was shot and killed in north st. louis county, the same area we just lost jameill and bolton. >> this is a 9-year-old? >> studying in her house? >> yes. >> doing her homework. you know, peggy, one day on this program, when all of the trayvon martin stuff was going on and the president weighed in on it. i actually scrolled the name on the names of people we never heard of killed in 50, dozens and dozens and dozens. why do these groups focus on the few instances and there are examples of police that do the wrong thing. when that happens, they should go to jail. why not the many? where is the protests for the young girl, like

it began after george zimmerman shot trayvon martin. it gained momentum after michael brown and others. black lives matters are making views clir to candidates. including hillary clinton. she met with several members in a meeting described as tense and raw. here is a reason for that. former president bill clinton signed harsh sentencing laws that had a disproportionate affect on black members convicted of violent drug crimes. sent to 1 million of the population of 2.3 million is black. that's 40%, greater than the 13% blacks represent in the overall u.s. population. for the record, hoirnt acknowledged -- hillary clinton acknowledged that the laws had undesirable consequence, and said america has not recovered from its original sin. now, it's also important to acknowledge that black racial matters raged in america . president obama, was the first black president, and the first u.s. president to visit federal prison as he looked at the federal justice system that everyone agrees is broken. while at the prison he said "there but for the gr

i think it has to do with his handle and these high profile incidents, whether it's for trayvon martin. >> what has he done that has radicalized his base supporters against fellow democrats? >> well -- >> these aren't republican candidates. >> i understand, paul, but what he has done is righted up black voters in this country by going around talking about republicans, trying to disenfranchise them with voter id laws. he has joined at the hip with folks like al sharpton. i think this is just really poisoned the environment in terms of race relations. the important point to make here is this is really a product of the left which has for decades now has been conditioning blacks to see themselves as victims and blacks have come to guard their victim status fiercely. when they hear someone say all lives matter instead of black lives matter, they feel like that is an encroachment on their victim status. i think that's a lot of what's going on here. >> bernie sanders must look at this and say, wait a minute, i was at the 1963 march on washington. most of you guys weren't even born yet. i have

it's a movement that began after the fatal shooting of trayvon martin in florida in 2012. nancy cordes shows us who they are and their goals. >> >>. >> reporter: supporters of the black lives movement don't discriminate, disrupting rallies for democrats and republicans alike. >> black lives matter! black lives matter! >> reporter: one activist grilled hillary clinton. >> i just want to know what you think about that violence and how you plan to deal with it. >> reporter: the term "black lives matter" came after a series of killings of unarmed black men by police. now it's a national organization with a list of demands that include a decrease in law enforcement spending and a reinvestment into the black community most defb stated by poverty. >> it's a really beautifully diverse movement. >> reporter: labor organizer arne goggans is the chair. >> they're oh proesing black peel and they're oh proesing black people in a lot of different ways. disruption is one useful tactic to get the word out there. >> you think people need to be woken up. >> yeah. >> reporter: the tactic has

. >> we march because trayvon martin has joined emmett till in the pantheon of young black martyrs. we march because the united states supreme court has eviscerated the voting rights act for which we fought and we march because every economic indicator shows gaping white-like disparities. we march for freedom from white supremacy. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. civil rights pioneer julian bond has died at the age of 75. for more than half a century, bond helped found student nonviolen student nonviolent con data committee, chaired the naacp. he spent 20 years in the georgia state legislature come despite the thames by white colleagues to block them from sitting over his opposition to the vietnam war. he appeared on democracy now! multiple times, including a 2009 when he reflected on the 100th anniversary of the naacp. >> i'm constantly asked, what new thing is the naacp doing? americans what you to do something new every year. in new year's, fight racial it- discrimination. amy: we will spend the

like trayvon martin shot to death, not in some empty desolate street somewhere but in a gated communityasn't a stranger. he had family there. or sandra bland, a college educated young woman who knew her rights who didn't do anything wrong but still ended up dying in a jail cell. together we mourned tamir rice and eric garner walter scott, and freddie gray and most recently sam dubose. these names are emblazened on our hearts. young people have taken to the streets, dignified and determined urging us to affirm the basic fact that black lives matter. >> joining us is the president of the national urban league. it's a pleasure to have you here. >> good to be with you. >> nice to see you. having five presidential candidates including leading candidates from both parties must be important to you at the urban league in terms of what you want this annual convention to accomplish. what does it mean to you to have them there? >> i think what it meant is that these candidates are not going to either take us for granted or ignore us. and that is the constituency of the urban league. the african-am

and i think with trayvon martin it started with trayvon martin, black lives matter, and it's now growingreal pace, and i think african-americans see it as the civil rights issue of the 21st century and i think rightly so. >> your book i was leafing through it earlier. let me ask you the question. is the crisis in policing that you describe, is it a result of management? is it a result of culture? or is it a result of structure? >> well, it's certainly a result of american culture. we are a racist society and ever since the slave laws in the 1850s one of the major functions -- one of the major missions of the police has been to put the fear of god into african-americans, and that has been going on forever. >> so are you saying then here, joe -- because you said we are a racist country. are you saying that police departments are part of that? >> well, of course. absolutely. >> how do you -- >> when i say, again, it was their mission to essentially be racist by particularly focusing on african-american communities. there's a lot of crime in african-american communities. that's another conve

to the become adjusted white house dealing with things from trayvon martin to black unemployment you cannot tell us anymore that on a presidential level you cannot deal, that model has been changed. and we are not going to let it be changed again back to where we lose and where we do not continue a foreword and progressive trend. the same issue in the private sector. because we will have a harder road in the political arena, we are going to have to bear down even more. tell them that you have got to invest in the communities where you make your money, you have got to deal with not only jobs and training but procurement and contracts. civil rightsut organizations shaking you down, it is about you shaking down our communities everyday. if you sell us your products and our cousins cannot get contracts and our lawyers cannot get contracts and our accountants cannot get contracts and our service industries cannot get contracts, you are shooting us down. shakedown.p the we will do business with those that do business with us or we are going to stop doing business. [applause] rev. al sharpt

on another flier is the word trayvon martin, with the words zimmermann was right. we will stop thugged like this. he was shot and killed in 2012. south field is predominately black, and some are outraged. >> i was born in the 50's, came up through the civil rights stuff, and all that, when i see stuff like that, it is sickening. i am ale pad eight, because clearly this is race baiting. ken cyber co founded a grass roots organization that communications the importance of celebrating the national holiday, he is also a candidate for south field mayor. his photo and name appear on the flier. he el foos that he is being tarted. >> what is your response to people that ask if you are behind this. >> my response is first to tell them i am not, and that i believe this is someone that is either trying to incite a racial tension, in our city, which we lack and or it's dirty campaign trick. >> no matter where the motivation is, this is absolutely despicable and we will not tolerate it in our community. >> pat hainey is president of the m.l.k. jr. task force, she questions the

. >> reporter: oakland's center for human rights started this tradition after trayvon martin was killed. a nod to the realty that in tom communities of color, police are not seen as people of safety. >> we believe this has made communities less stay. >> reporter: the parties spread online as well with the twitter hash tag safety is. one tweet, safety is bringing an end to violence and abuse by cops and prison guards. they say they are not antipolice and don't object to national night out, but this party is meant to foster tough conversations about police brutality. and to talk about solutions. >> we know that employed people commit less crimes. people that graduate. people that fill a stake in their neighborhoods commit less crimes. >> reporter: in oakland, christin ayers, kpix5. >>> wanted in china. living in northern california. what the man knows and why the chinese government wants him back. >> a rare perk for parents. what one bay area tech company is offering to keep its workers and kids happy. >> and her tweet to break down barriers also broke the internet. the message she sent ♪

we have to become adjusted now to the white house dealing with things from trayvon martin -- trayvon rtin two black unemployment rate he can't tell us anymore on the presidential level you can't deal with certain things. that model has been changed and we are not going to let it be changed again back to where we lose and where we did not continue a forward and progressive trend. the same must picture in the private sector. because we all have a heart of gold in the clinical arena we are going to have to bear down even more and the naacp and all of us as partners in the private sector and tell them you have got to invest in the communities you have got to deal with not only jobs and training brett -- but procurement and contracts. it's not about civil rights organizations shaking it down. it's about you shaking down our communities every day. if you sell us your product and our cousins can't get contracts and their lawyers can't get contracts and our contents can't get contracts and other service industries can't get contracts you are shaking us down. we are going to stop the shakedown

interrupted by activists for black lives matter, a movement that began after the fatal shooting of trayvon martin in florida in 2012. nancy cordes now on who they are and their goals. goals. >> reporter: supporters of the plaque lives matter movement don't discriminate, disrupting rallies for democrats and republicans alike. >> black lives matter! black lives matter! >> reporter: one activist grilled hillary clinton about her past support for anticrime laws that led to mass incarcerations of black men. >> so i justice want to know how you feel about your role in that violence and how you plan to reverse it. >> reporter: the term "black lives matter" became a touchstone after a series of killings of unarmed black men by police. >> hands up, don't shoot. >> reporter: now black lives matter is a national organization with a list of demands that include a decrease in law enforcement spending and a reininvestment into the black communities most devastated by poverty. >> it's a really, beautifully diverse movement. >> reporter: labor organizer aaron goggans is a founding member of the d.c. chapter. why

go back to trayvon martin. come forward to ferguson and to what's happened more recently with eric garner. those communities would not share, i'm assuming, your point of view that we're just misremembering where we were and that, in fact, there's a lot to be grateful for. they feel like whatever progress has been there in front of their eyes is not there, right? >> well -- >> how do you tell somebody in ferguson things are good? >> you don't tell them that they're good. you tell them that they're better than they were when it was segregated. >> and is that enough? >> no. it's definitely not enough. it's definitely not enough. the problem is that the people who value that racial progress are themselves skittish to talk about it for fear that they won't understand it or for fear that they will use it just as a bludgeon. nobody has a sense of balance. while the people on the other side, who are denying and using race as a wedge issue in politics, basically say that we make a mistake even to mention race. they'll j

i think he made a comment my son will be trayvon martin. white people have said, see that? if you could talk about that, i would appreciate it. thanks again, c-span. guest: is striking the caller suggests are of those that feel barack obama is responsible for the deteriorating racial relations situation in the united states of america. others feel he has not been sufficiently aggressive in addressing this question. in any case, i think it would be one-sided to suggest the president inaugurated in january of 2009 somehow is responsible for the ravages of slavery and jim crow that stretches back centuries. it seems that is scapegoating in the purest sense of the term. host: professor horne, this is on -- this is from one of our viewers. did the watts riots help or harm the cause? guest: i think it was a mixed report. there were some attempts at affirmative action that came after august of 1965. the major newspaper of that region decided it would be worthwhile to have black, minority reporters covering sensitive racial matters. they began a program of hiring. you saw a certain

to the become adjusted white house dealing with things from trayvon martin to black unemployment youcannot tell us anymore that on a presidential level you cannot deal, that model has been changed. and we are not going to let it be changed again back to where we lose and where we do not continue a foreword and progressive trend. the same issue in the private sector. because we will have a harder road in the political arena, we are going to have to bear down even more. tell them that you have got to invest in the communities where you make your money, you have got to deal with not only jobs and training but procurement and contracts. civil rightsut organizations shaking you down, it is about you shaking down our communities everyday. if you sell us your products and our cousins cannot get contracts and our lawyers cannot get contracts and our accountants cannot get contracts and our service industries cannot get contracts, you are shooting us down. shakedown.p the we will do business with those that do business with us or we are going to stop doing business. [applause] rev. al sharpto

. >> trayvon martin, with the words zimmerman was right, we will stop thugs like this.s shot and killed by neighborhood watch vownl voluntr george zimmerman in 2012. >> i was born in the '50s. when i see touch like that it's -- stuff likes that it's kind of sick thing. >> a person in a police uniform pointing a gun at a person in the background wearing a white hoodie. >> this is clearly race-baiting. >> ken siver co-found the dr. martin luther king, jr. task force. a grass roots organization that commemorates the importance of celebrating the national holiday. he is also a candidate for the southfield mayor. >> what is your response to people who ask you if you are behind these fliers? >> my response is to tell them i'm not. i believe this is someone who is trying to incite racial tension in our city which we lack, and/or it's dirty campaign trick. >> no matter what the motivation is, this is absolutely despicable. and we will not tolerate it in our community. >> pat haney is president of the mlk junior task. she questions the motivation behind the fliers. >> it may ver

unintentional shooting incident, be like george zimmerman who was law-abiding before shooting trayvon martin. our society is awash in guns, that's one of the problems. is there guns almost for every person in this country, 300 million. the united states has 30% of the countries. >> and to add to that point, michael bloomberg said we are the only industrialized country that has this problem. in the whole world, the only one. there's approximately 350 million firearms owned by over 100 million americans in this cunountry, why is this happening here, why are kids shot up unintentionally. >> is it the price of freedom. >> because the price of behaviour. we are talking about someone who would take a firearm. someone that would take a firearm, and use it against a human being, in an intentional act, is a behavioural problem, it's not a firearms problem. i'll go back to the fact that the overwhelming majority. i've heard up to 150 gun owners in the united states would never dash take the firearm and use it against another human being. >> comparing the united states to other countries, do americans

oftalked about the outrage trayvon martin. i think that speaks to the immaturity of our country's capacity to talk honestly about race. say racial justice they start looking for the exit. what are we afraid of? i think if we actually understood the history more clearly and understood there is liberation on the other side of this issue we can actually get to a place where we all feel liberation. we are all burdened by this history. we keep making mistakes, white people say things and create contention with black people, black people are put in positions when we don't feel comfortable. we can run, but we can't hide. charlie: who is deserving of any of the responsibility? bryan: we'll have responsibility. it gets assigned to young black boy's notches by white people but by young black men too. all been affected by the way this narrative has evolved. i think it is time for us to move forward by continuing to see these manifestations come up lease officer shooting unarmed black kids in the street, declining opportunities -- and the

. >> the movement, the new movement black lives matter after trayvon died, trayvon martin died. are organizing on the ground, creating their own counter institutions, they're beginning to organize politically, socially, culturally, that's where the change is going to come from. you're not going to see it necessarily in terms of municipality but in terms of what's happening the community out, that's where the changes will come. >> i want to get into the institutional piece though because what we just heard from the alderman was the immediate changes, the changes that can come in a year are those of changing the characters who are playing these roles, but the roles themselves, and it is meaningfully difficult to say let's shift this, but the power of that doj report was this thing is rotten. it is a mess in terms of its structure. how close are we to making change there? >> in terms of the structure of policing in america, we have only just begun to sniff at what a beginning would look like. so i appreciate that we're honoring the one-year anniversary and the 50-year anniversary.

language that cropped up after the recent fatal shootings in the united states of people like trayvon martinand michael brown, and that is the black lives matter language. so i have incorporated that .anguage into the installation so i was really given the opportunity to think through that broad idea through my own work in very specific ways. that sort of involved me looking , which is aa foundation for all the things that i do, the merging of like as a signifier and is a kind of as a kind- and dada of movement. black lives matter is seen to be the kind of perfect way to encapsulate a response to that. amy: that was adam pendleton describing the exhibit at the belgian pavilion. i have to say that the description of venice right now, if you can do is give us the landscape of the biennale, where it takes place in the city. >> the biennale is divided into two major parts. , thes the exhibition director and curator, which i'm the one, and the other of an national pavilions in which curators and organizations, museums from different countries organize exhibitions located in the individual pavilio

black lives matter which goes back to 2013 when george zimmerman was acquitted in the death of trayvon martine then we've seen racial tension soar with ferguson, staten island and wal lard county with sandra plan. protests using the slogan black lives matter. >> they turned into more of a hate group no different than the kkk, black panthers or skin heads and they're bullying people and trying to should have their agenda bourdon people's throats and we don't necessarily agree with them. >> we've seen a mistrust of police officers in this country watch do you think it will take to change people's perceptions. >> it starts in the home. as simple as that. it starts in the home. if you teach hate in your home you teach hate out in the community. you teach your children the right way, mine included, you teach them to love one another and go out and talk to one another instead of reacting, i think we'll ab better community, city and nation. >> both officers say they hope other departments across the country find that are own way to regain their community's trust. >> lottery related to the pope's sep

there were marches following trayvon martin. i was on the mall for the me and man march, 20 years ago 1995. 20 years later we are talking about massive rallies for justice. will this make a difference. >> absolutely. here is why. in the '60s we had americans across the length and breadth of the country. see on bloody sunday black people beaten to the pavement bloodied bruised. in a horrible horrific scene. and yet martin luther king issued a macedonian call for people to march. they marched and we passed the voting rights act. we are endeavouring from selma to washington d.c. over the course of 40 plus days and night. 860 miles, it's not really march, it's not put boots on the ground but rather laws on the books. we are doing so to address our lives, jobs and that it matters. we are looking to pass legislation to fix the voting rights act. we are looking to pass laws to address racial profiling and police misconducts. and laws to address educational inequity and income and equality. we identified specific reforms, and we believe

matter, which goes back to 2013, when george zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of trayvon martinions soar with ferguson, staten island, water country with walter bland, protests using the slogan black lives matter. >> they turned more of hate group no different than the kkk, the black panthers, or the skinheads. and they're just bullying people, and trying to shove their agenda down people's throats. >> what do you think it will take to change people's perceptions? >> it starts in the home. simple as that. it starts in the home. if you teach hate in the home, you will teach hate in the community. teach your children the right way, you teach them to love one another, and go out and talk to one another, instead of reacting, i think we will be better community, city and nation. >> that was ashley johnson reporting both officers say they hope other departments across the country finds their own way to regain their community trust. >> billy joel has some news, the piano man singer and his wife welcome their first child together a daughter yesterday. del a rose joel born in new york, n

there were marchs following trayvon martin, marchs all over ferguson. was on the mall for the million man march that was 20 years ago 1995. 20 years later we're talking about massive rallies for justice. is this going to make a difference? >> absolutely. here's why. in the era of 1960s, we had across the length of this country seen on bloody sunday seeing black people being bloodied bruised in a horrible, horrific scene. yet, martin luther king issued a call for people to march. we marched and passed the voting rights act. what we're endeavoring to do in this march for justice 860 miles is not really march not really putting boots on the ground but rather laws on the books. we're doing so to address our lives, our jobs, and our schools matter. we're looking to pass legislation to fix the voting rights act in the wake of shelby versus holden. we're looking to address racial profiling and police mexico conduct and laws to address addressational inequity. we've identified specific pieces of legislation, specific reform, and we believe it can be done. consi

breathed new life into what was a simmering movement that had begun previously going back to trayvon martinnt. we saw a massive expansion from city to city, here in ferguson, in new york, in cleveland in madison, with i wisconsin. we had the names of the 24 unarmed black people who have been shot and killed by the police this year. there's now a different understanding of an urgency to issues of policing and how it interacts with race. that's in a way how black lives matter has both changed and expanded itself this year and how it's changed the country. >> let's bring the pam in to this. katelyn huey burns with real clear politics. go pac chairman. and nbc contributor with solange is also here. black lives matter movement has breathed new life into a movement that was already under way. wesley made the point which i made as well that, you know, i think in terms of the national consciousness about these issues of african-americans and violence to african-americans, you could argue, it goes back to trayvon martin. >> sure, or it does go back to austin grant. i lived in the bay area at that ti

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