during the era of martin luther king or rosa parks, let us not underestimate our capacity for change in the present moment. the point being we have to raise money, resources, the will to bring about change in policing culture in this country, but it can be done. the country is not nearly where it should be, but it is certainly not where it was. while we may be resource-constrained, the fact of the matter is our people have done a whole lot more with a whole lot less, so we refuse to be discouraged and disheartened, even with the present circumstances. jesse: you brought up the presidential campaign earlier, but first, did you get a response from any of the presidential candidates to the pledges you asked them? second, where does the naacp stand as far as this year's presidential election goes because it has been a lot of conversation around the country about voting rights? there has been a long conversation recently about how the political candidates relate to the african-american community. where as far as voting rights goes? have you heard anything from the political candidates bac

. kingin with martin luther day. it is often very similar to january 16, around the same time. ,artin luther king as a pastor his ability to express his faith in word and in deed had a tremendous impact on his civil rights actions. celebrating religious freedom day is very important. encourage prayer in your school. in 34 states there are moments of silence laws. half of those are mandatory. the other half are optional. even in some of those they leave it up to the teacher. you can go to our website, find your state, download the long that deals with that. --help you then as a church a schoolteacher cannot distribute these but we encourage churches to distribute this prayer card. it looks like this. it has a beautiful prayer on it. you can download a sheet of these. this prayer comes from a rhode island high school. they had a banner hanging on the wall that had a beautiful prayer on it. an atheist student sued the school and said that is a prayer . the court agreed that it served no academic purpose. i was fine with that. i think we christians often go for symbolism over substance. we had that pray

the agents of that transformational change. [cheers] dr. stein: as martin luther king said, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. arc is bending through us right now. we are the actors in something that is much bigger than us as we struggle toward peace, justice and healing together. [cheers] dr. stein: that arc of justice is moving through us as we mobilize, to ensure that every black life matters and we end violence policing and broken windows policing as the first go five -- sco 5 and the millions march new york city just achieved by moving out the leadership of their police department that had overseen broken windows policing. they are turning the tide in this crisis of racist policing. that arc of justice is moving through us as we sit in and as wheelock down -- as we locked down and stop fracking pipelines and fossil fuel trains and coal and export terminals and all manner of poisonous fossil fuels and nuclear infrastructure. [cheers] dr. stein: that arc of justice is moving through us in philadelphia, like i have never seen, in the city of broth

young and martin luther king jr. and rosa parks and lyndon johnson and harry truman. i had barcodes operated against my business but i never had a threat to my life like others have had. to teach the history of what has been done in the past and we could all, within our own families so heroic. go about saying, to point out their achievements have not been perpetuated because of a natural tendency of anyone of us to feel superior to someone else. we all have an element of pride and great within us. at least better than an alcoholic, a black person or a woman, we have those misconceptions that we are better than someone else. but we, i think that could be done, yeah. we will have people collect the -- could be done. and some degree jump from the schools. >> we will have people collect the yellow cards so we can grab these questions and get them on the air. we have people who are tweeting and writing questions, a volunteer is coming around to collect fees. jim -- mr. carter: but i have to go to willie nelson concert tonight. [laughter] >> i hope i can come. [laughter] one of the bigges

martin luther king junior. decadesn dormant for and god bless you all, we are going to go out fighting tonight. all for being here. let's see what the election results bring. no matter what it rings, fight on. -- what it brings, fight on. [applause] ♪ >> one more note on the florida house primary race -- longtime congresswoman corrine brown, ranking member on the veterans affairs committee lost yesterday to state senator al lawson. a 22 counting federal indictment and a redrawn district. she becomes the fifth house incumbent to lose their primary this year. losing to state senator al lawson. coming up on c-span, we have more road to the white house coverage coming up. about half an hour from now, we will take you to cincinnati to hear hillary clinton speaking to the national convention of the american legion. donald trump will address the group tomorrow. later, discussion on the boundaries of free speech on college campuses. that is at 4:00 eastern. donald trump today will be speaking about his immigration policy, laying out making more clear, his immigration proposals tonig

to abide by the laws. dr. martin luther king jr. said it so well. rejoining violence with violence only leads to more violence and , nights toker nights paraphrase without stars. there is never, ever an acceptable reason to harm a member of our law enforcement community. ever. i don't want anyone to misinterpret the words i am saying. even in the times of great darkness, there is a light. there are hundreds, thousands of -- who that officers who go beyond the call of duty. ms. taylor at the dallas incident was covered completely by at least three officers who were willing to lose their life to save hers. opportunity to be grateful and thankful for our men and women in uniform. i shared another story on monday night as well. while the one i want to tell you today does not involve a tragic loss of life, it does show support that meant a lot to me at the time it occurred. i believe it is my responsibility to hang out, be with my constituents as much as possible and hear their concerns. when we arrived at the event, the organizers seemed to have a particular issue with me coming into t

its height nearly 6 million members in 40 countries. in the words of dr. martin luther king jr., he was the tost man on a mass scale give millions of negroes a sense of dignity and destiny and make the negro feel that he was somebody. because of these achievements he was viewed as a threat to the u.s. government. before martin luther king would be targeted. hoover taught methods on how to disrupt and destroy garvey's civil rights movement. 23, aided by judicial proceedings that have largely been condemned as unfounded and politically and racially motivated, garvey was convicted of mail fraud and sentenced to five years in federal prison. in recognition of the unsettling president calvin coolidge commuted the sentence in november, 1927 but deported him from the country. the posthumous pardon petition now filed on his behalf seeks to exonerate him from the stigma of his conviction following the commutation of his sentence efforts to fully clear his name have been ongoing on the part of the u.s. congress, civil andnizations, city, state international groups. more than 90 years after th

thousands on the mall. at the same time, martin luther king delivered the "i have a dream" speech. you can go and stand in the very footsteps of dr. king. their sentiments of dr. king's speech that speak to people in different ways. i find a connection to his closing he spoke of freedom to ring from every mountainside. these lands, believe or not, are national lands. these are parks and public lands where the wells on freedom are anding us to come experience the transformative of our history. they are also calling on us to live up to the values of our nation. you know, the national park othere is unlike any public service. we recognize the american narrative is not just one narrative that many. it means telling the story in its entirety. ,hen i became director in 2009 with the encouragement of many individuals in this administration, we recognize there were gaps in the american narrative. we must recommend to the president's new designations to fill those gaps, to realize inclusiveness and the quality that have been part of the american vision. we needed to start from the beginning. sh

much. you are definitely a visionary, and with martin luther king i can relate to you, i can relate to both of you together. there are a lot of states and countries we are coming from that have diversity. are visas that have to be filled out, a lottery system that has to be gone through. and so while everybody is coming to the u.s., there is a medical , there are people who are seeking to get their phd's, their doctorates, a lot of educational advances. there are a lot of educational advances people are having. while people are coming here, they are seeing that they are -- sorry, trans letting multiple linkages. translating multiple languages. >> for example, becoming a physician or engineer. the individuals from africa can achieve their dreams, come to the u.s. and have limitless objects of educational tracts they can take and get good work, but not depend on the profession to do it for them. and the government can be an aid in that process to help them excel in a profession. and also, the second part of my question. there are many objectives and goals. but right now, as you are co

assassination of two very prominent public figures, martin luther king and robert kennedy. robert kennedy in the midst of a .rimary in the midst o in the case of king, you had riots on a level that you just could not see today. i'm not saying that there is not some turmoil in the country at this time, but i don't think you have a sense of the kind of national turmoil that you had in the year of 68. host: independent line in california, mark, you are on. caller: speaking with the first racistabout it was a part of his speaking, it was and the college students, make --that if he could that he could really quiet the college students down, so it was a racist thing, and it was a way -- from the college students from getting out there and expressing their rights as far as protesting. guest: that is a good point. college students were definitely a part of those people that did not hit the silent majority. they were the ones who were loud, they were the ones who were in nixon's mine, tearing down campuses and protesting the vietnam war. that was a crucial element of what richard nixon did

by martin luther king, nelson mandela, and as we will learn about later, malcolm x. but sadly, his legacy has been tarnished, degraded, and banished from the american narrative. in large part, due to the legal opinion that you just heard and the criminal justice system that affected his unjust conviction. so, the conviction was not just painful for his family, but for his followers. it has made all of our lives less rich. it has robbed us of an important part of our history. so, i, myself, never heard the name marcus garvey until i was 15 years old and reading my favorite book, the autobiography of malcolm x, a book that changed my life. and i found that marcus hervey was someone that malcolm x 's father had worked with. so, i went to research, who is this guy? marcus garvey? i went to a local public library to find information, because of the public school where i was there was no book on marcus garvey. i read a book called black moses, by david cronin. it was seen as a balance d treatment of marcus garvey and his movement and presented garvey as a well-meaning dreamer buffoon, wh

ahead. .r. martin luther king if you have not read it lately, dr.r. king's "-- read king's a letter from a birmingham jail. in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. of thoset the friends being persecuted of all denominations, all face around the world -- all faiths around the world? evil isin the face of evil itself. he said not to speak is to speak. not to act is to ask. i think we should speak, i think we should act. verygoing to show you two short films. one, nigeria, the other, a broader basis. [applause] [indiscernible] >> religious minorities rose. this trust breeds. violence goes unpunished. since 2010, boko haram has targeted schools. they make their prisoners -- murdered. the same number of people in los angeles which are simply displaced. 276 girls kidnapped from school and almost all are still missing. it has caused 1500 schools to close and 950,000 children are without an education, which perpetuates the cycle of violence and threatens the future. [indiscernible] >> all of this has created one of the all of this has creat

was before rosa parks sat in the front of the bus and martin luther king junior became famous. as i mentioned earlier, when now basically passn a civil rights act and people all over the country could vote. i and most other leaders in our country , only provided for equality of treatment for all of our people. eriodprovided a brief pr relaxation. what we've seen lately, mostly what police against african americans and so forth, we still have a long way to go. understand we have had a relapse. and nowadays, there seems to be another stirring of a deeper commitment by country that can no longer limit ourselves but see what can be done about the rights for everyone. the gays and lesbians and so forth as well as people with different races. we are in a constant struggle in the united states of america to light and begin life rather nations to follow and for ourselves to benefit as well. it has been a long, continuous struggle that still goes on. >> at the center for civil them in right, we're looking [indiscernible] i'm an interesting story. when i worked for you as an election monitor

anyone to any conclusion other than to abide by the laws. i think reverend dr. martin luther king junior said it so well. returning violence with violence only leads to more violence and to even darker nights, nights to paraphrase without stars. there is never, ever an acceptable reason to harm a member of our law enforcement community. ever. i don't want anyone to misinterpret the words that i am saying. because even in the times of great darkness, there is a light. as i shared monday, there are hundreds, thousands of stories of officers who go beyond the call of duty. ms. taylor, as i spoke about monday night, at the dallas incident was covered completely by at least three officers who were willing to lose their life to save hers. we have a real opportunity to be grateful and thankful for our men and women in uniform. i shared another story on monday night as well. while the one i want to tell you today does not involve a tragic loss of life, it does show support that meant a lot to me at the time it occurred. prior to serving in the united states senate, i was an elected official on t

malcolm x and martin luther king, and kennedy, and for me the only theme was death and assassination, so i was programmed at an early age to be quiet and if you're going to talk shit talk it at home. and that he gave me permission to say whatever i wanted to say directly to him. nobody else. it did liberate me in a sense. there was a man giving me permission to be strong, but not in the world where i needed it most. and so poetry was my only outlet that kept me sane, as a sensitive, empathic, overly emotional black, dark-skinned black girl impacted by trauma to this day, who had mad daddy issues, because daddy had his issues, and my mom did not know how to emote. but i was loved. i was loved, like that deep country love, so it was very confusing for me. so poetry became my freedom. and so people always -- you know, i see people from college, i went to howard, and they laugh, like, you still rapping? like they just think it's cute, like it's funny or it's silly as hell. and they don't understand that this rhyme, this microphone, this one mike is my liberation. it's my freedom. and sti

tape recordings of martin luther king jr. while he examines pictures of civil rights demonstrators. those he can identify are circled and filed. shelton explains why. >> we have a division called the kbi, klan bureau of investigation, and i might add to this that it is effective. we uncover a lot of evidence that other departments might miss. [end video clip] brian: klan bureau of investigation? what was it about? does it still exist? laurence: not anymore. thanks to the success of the lawsuit, it does not exist anymore. they have used the lawsuit against other large white supremacist organizations. there are not too many of them now. the book points out that robert shelton was close to george wallace, the governor of alabama. brian: what got you interested in the story? laurence: in 1967, i was a graduate student at the university of oregon. in international affairs and i was bored to death. i took a course in magazine writing. i talked my way, with a grant from the wallace foundation, i talked my way into george wallace's plane. brian: which wallace? laurence: the readers digest

race , sang "my country 'tis of thee," and dr. martin luther king delivered his "i have a dream" speech. inspiring the civil rights movement to carry on to the promise land. you can go to that spot and stand in the footsteps of dr. king. there are sections and sentiments of his speech that affect people in different ways, and i find a connection at this closing when he called for freedom to "ring from every mountainside," repeated the line "the land where my fathers , died, land of the pilgrim's pride." these lands are national parks and public lands, like gettysburg, freedom trail, smokies, yosemite. they call for us to experience that the bills of freedom are calling us to experience -- the bells of freedom are calling us to experience that healing and transformative power of nature and history. they are also ringing the bells of freedom and justice, respect for truth, and calling us to live us to the values our nation. the national park service is unlike any agency. these are not only as stewards of the nation's landscapes, but also the keepers of its cultural memory, and rec

because my kids thing, there were problems between black people and white people and then martin luther king came and it was all better. and that's their view. and she said what do i do? so we talked about social studies and understanding history. we also talked about literature in the power of seeing the world through a different perspective , through literature but i , appreciated that she acknowledged that her kids don't have a good sense of the history of how we got here and it was clear in talking with folks at the school that even though minnesota is thought of as very aggressive in some ways there's , really a lack of understanding across lines of race and class and with police but with experienced people in the community in general. >> i'm going to come to roland next so we can get the camera ready, but i want to ask a question and i don't mean to put you on the spot but i think it's , on all of our minds which is , how do we our children, how do we as journalists even write about the issues when you have such divisive and yes, hateful language that is being seen from a presidential candi

, we had a feeling of relief to finally resolve the race issue because of martin luther king junior and people like that, but now that we have got to do see it again -- we have begun to see it again that are african-american neighbors and others as well are treated unfairly, do not get as good of an education, jobs, job s, and they are put into jail and they are discriminated against. and they are beginning to realize that as well. i think if we listen to what is going on and try to take steps to correct the problems that we face, then we will be much better off as a nation. it takes a lot of political courage to admit that we have made some mistakes and now let's correct them. america has always had the right and ability, maybe it would take too long to say, ok we have made a mistake, let's correct it. mr. clinton: let's give him a hand, jimmy carter. thank you. [applause] [applause] mr. clinton: i had no idea he was going to say that at the end, but i read several months ago somebody was making fun of me in one of these internet articles because they acknowledge all of the things

. president be no black if it was not from civil rights movement. and dr.ot from malcolm martin luther king. names.e without the civil rights movement started with marcus garvey. a man met my father in england and who proclaimed himself --. he talked about the negro -- rising in kenya. people stood around and listen -- they memorize the articles and then ran off into the villages. to repeat the stories. had rise to -- they rise the kenyan nation. but there was no kenyan nation created by the father, the burning spear. there could have been no kenyan national who camp to the united states to study. do you hear where i'm coming from? we stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before. this is a teaching moment. there is a lot on his plate. it's a moment when decisions have to be made. directions have to be change. reevaluated.to be not just words. it demands action. that is why we are here today. that's why we think it is the right time to join the dots between 1916 and 2016. the system has not changed in order to give the black boy and the black girl their place in american society. we think tha