go to harlem and you plant trees and when we showed up in harlem no one was interested in plantingtrees . everyone showed up except for the boss who was nowhere to be found but no one was planting trees. they were telling investment war stories and the thing we went to harlem to do but then of course the boss shows up an hour late, the guy at the top of the food chain which by the way goldman sachs ward tailored shirts they don't wear rolexes, they wear these cheap black rubber wrist strap digital watches as a show of humility but anyway he shows up not only with that watch but gucci boots and says we're taking pictures get out of here. that's what we did. we went to a bar nearby and started drinking and i asked one of the associates. i said we wanted to call it a social day we should have called it that rather than calling it service day and his response with me. he said have you ever ever heard of the golden rule ? i said you treat others like you want to be treated and he said no . the golden rule is this. he who has the gold makes the rules. and that stuck with me, i called it the g

go to harlem and you plant trees and when we showed up in harlem no one was interested in plantingtrees . everyone showed up except for the boss who was nowhere to be found but no one was planting trees. they were telling investment war stories and the thing we went to harlem to do but then of course the boss shows up an hour late, the guy at the top of the food chain which by the way goldman sachs ward tailored shirts they don't wear rolexes, they wear these cheap black rubber wrist strap digital watches as a show of humility but anyway he shows up not only with that watch but gucci boots and says we're taking pictures get out of here. that's what we did. we went to a bar nearby and started drinking and i asked one of the associates. i said we wanted to call it a social day we should have called it that rather than calling it service day and his response with me. he said have you ever ever heard of the golden rule ? i said you treat others like you want to be treated and he said no . the golden rule is this. he who has the gold makes the rules. and that stuck with me, i called it the g

. >> a lot of harlem renaissance literature that's kind of thinking about this. one of my favorite novels is called black no more by george skyler who was an author and actually really kind of critical about the idea of like he was critical of the idea of there being distinct black culture, but sort of in this novel sort of begins in this mixed-race jazz setting and one of the characters -- she's like, no. and they're like, oh, they are here bowknot going to go all the way. it was a science fiction novel because it's about the procedure where you -- all the black people turn white. but also, there's a novel in heaven which has like this glossary and all of these, but has all of these jazz terms that you're supposed to -- i don't know if you're supposed to reference them as you're reading the novel but it's like, honky is a white person. but it's all in that setting and it's very inflict bid jeff and really thinking about the sort of cross racial of that. but that is just to say that i'm not a jazz expert but there's so much interesting stuff there that i think re

. >> i hung out with you in harlem so i know you always have your mask. beautiful in red. thank you. >>> radio personality joe madison is on day 16 of his hunger strike protesting congressional inaction on voting rights. he will join us to tell us why he thinks republican opposition to voting rights legislation is the absolute worst. we'll be right back. is the absolute worst we'll be right back. look! oh my god... oh wow. ♪ i want my daughter riley to know about her ancestors and how important it is to know who you are and to know where you came from. doesn't that look like your papa? that's your great grandfather. it's like opening a whole 'nother world that we did not know existed. ♪ you finally have a face to a name. when you give the gift of ancestry®, you give the gift of family. ♪ ♪♪ thousands of women with metastatic breast cancer are living in the moment and taking ibrance. ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor is for postmenopausal women or for men with hr+, her2- metastatic breast cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. ibrance plus letrozole signif

the autobahn ballroom at 156 and broadway in harlem, new york city. it's a landmark, big building, beautiful building. had a huge theater that's had thousands of people. and on the second floor there was an actual ballroom, and the capacity of the ballroom was smaller. the capacity of the ballroom for dinners and other seeded events were about 200 people. but that sunday, february 1st 1965, there were double. that number of people crowded into that room. packed audience of 400 people in that room. all there to hear one of the towering and most controversial figures in american civil rights history. malcolm x had been the face and the world famous voice of the nation of islam since long after he joined the nation of islam in the early 1950's. but after more than a decade as a lightning rod in that specific cause, he had make an acrimonious split from the group. he had split from the nation of islam the year before he took the stage in that crowded ballroom in harlem in february 1965. that day, his wife was there to watch his speech. she was pregnant at

and i will always remember the afternoon bob and i spent in harlem a few years ago talking about history in the writing process. there is a greater appreciation for his book. now his archive is at the new york historical society i can't wait to visit. who knows bob maybe you could give me a tour of the exhibit. in all seriousness i want to thank you for all you have done to help us expand our understanding of the past, the present leading to our ability to envision the possibility of the future. i wish you a wonderful celebration in many more years of continued good work. >> thank you bill. >> thank you louise. this is such a thrilling day for me. to have people that i so much admire talk this morning about what is called my archive. bob douglas, bill, lisa, jane, i said what i wanted to about each of you. i could use up the entire time a lot of the syllogistic from the bottom of my heart you given me a day i will never forget and thank you. to have people i so much admire here to talk about me makes the stay that is accurate. today is thrilling because it's an announcement that my paper

i live in harlem to 125th street is a very magical station. if you've ever been to the hundred and 20 for three to has most beautiful mosaics on the wall. i encourage you to see it. 125th street and it was considered dangerous to go when i was growing up. but i've been to 124 throughout my life. for me it's a place of james baldwin and duke ellington, all of the really great new yorkers and great americans. i feel really lucky to live there. can ask for one anecdote? [laughter] whatever you want. [laughter] >> you don't make your family and parents a very special relationship to the subway that did not make it into the book her to have the audio file were making a tiny between the lines of podcast you can listen to on the podcast that subway book review. please tell everyone what your families relationship to the subway is? i'm crazy about it. >> of course there like 14 things i can talk about. yes my parents had a really little jewelry store on broadway when i was growing up. it's smaller than this table. [laughter] my primary memory of my cu

one of his heroes was mark antonio, a member of congress from east harlem who was a member of the american labor party. i consider myself lucky to come from that kind of family not only loving but gives you a good sense of mission and purpose. >> that rebellion is that one of the reasons why you were so anti-establishment or anti-entrenched interests? >> how i got into politics, i never thought i'd run for public office. i was a student at public college. i had a wonderful professor david truman, i took a government course. and the assignment was you have to write a paper an your congressional leader. i want to know everything. i want to know its boundaries, who lives in that district, the socioeconomics of that district. i want to know everything about the congress person in that district and i want you to interview the congressman that represents you. and so i began to work on the paper. and my congressman was charles buckley. i figured i'd go to his district office and ask for the opportunity to interview him. lo and behold there's no district office. so i call his office in washington

because thehe 250 pages she knocked out, i can use for the next book which would be the history of harlem. so she did me a service in one sense. i think she's gone on to bigger and better things, and, i mean i don't know about bigger, but she's gone on, i think she's with "bon appetit" now, oh, my goodness, conde nast, she's in highgh cotton, ridin' high. deservingly so. a very fine woman. i started off with the idea of having four black women here with me, and four black women responsible for me. and i'm'm looking out in the crd and i see so, so many african american presence here, and that's important, because we need you as we push hard into a whole arena of publishing in this country. it's a struggle that we have waged going w all the way back zora neale hurston. zora, i mean, she was just indefatigable in her struggle. we can talk about all of her books and it would exhaust theb time we have together here. but certainly with looking at how they jammed and stopped that book for all those many years, and now to have it available. in one way it connects with amistad, it connects with am

. >> i live in harlem, so 125th is a magical station. if you have ever been to 125th street, it has the most beautiful mosaics on the wall, so i encourage you to see it. 125th street, it has quite a lot, so i remember when i was growing up, it was considered dangerous to go, but i have been to 125th throughout my life, and for me, it's really a place of james baldwin and all of the really great new yorkers and great americans. so i feel really lucky to live there. >> yeah. >> can i ask min for one more anecdote? >> whatever you want. >> well, you told me your family and your parents have a very special relationship to the subway, and it didn't make it into the book, but i have the audio file, and we're making a tiny between the lines podcast which you can listen to on instagram at subway book review, but please tell everyone what your family's relationship with the subway is because i'm crazy about it. >> of course, i'm thinking of 14 things i can talk about. but one -- oh, yes. my parents had a really shitty little jewelry store on 30th

the autobahn ballroom at 156 and broadway in harlem, new york city. it's a landmark, big building, beautiful building. had a huge theater that's had thousands of people. and on the second floor there was an actual ballroom, and the capacity of the ballroom was smaller. the capacity of the ballroom for dinners and other seeded events were about 200 people. but that sunday, february 1st 1965, there were double. that number of people crowded into that room. packed

it was the harlem globetrotter and playing "sweet georgia brown" and passing the ball around. i'm not unfamiliar with the basketball court when i could really walk. i won't run but walk and asked me to join the circle. i did. every time a globetrotter to pass the boll to secretary powell he'd fumble it. he'd drop it. it would fall to the floor. so finally one of the globetrotter switched off the boom box and said, bro p, what's up with you? we throw you the ball and you drop it. without a grin, without a grimace, he looked straight at that globetrotter and said while you were shooting hoops i was stealing hub caps. globetrotter said that's all right and "sweet georgia brown" time again. i said he had an insatiable curiosity. nothing made him happier than to sneak away from the secret detail. does that sound familiar? in the state department, it would generally be followed with a call to me on the cell saying, i'm free. i broke out. and then he would tell me where he was because it wouldn't be long before security is going crazy. this day found him down in the parking lot of th

i went to law school in large part because growing up in harlem i had a gun pointed at me six times. three by people who were not police officers but three by members of the new york police department that caused me to focus on police accountability. i prosecuted a federal agent for lying. we have a stand alone unit to report to me and prioritize the issues and not just a fairness police accountability issue but i know from my experience when people don't have trust in the police they don't come forward as victims and witnesses. we can't make the cases we need for public safety so i see it through the dual lens of public safety and fairness. >> alvin bragg, thank you for being honest with me as you could be and i hope you come back when you have more information and good luck to you. thank you. >>> want to turn to another big investigation with former president trump. committee chair bennie thompson said he is not ruling out the possibility of contempt charges. clark played a key role in then president trump's attempts to substantiate the big lie, something that liz cheney said the p

and as i left brunswick on late thanksgiving eve to rush back to harlem for the annual national action networks -- not this year turkey but we gave plates out, the mayor of new york and mayor-elect eric adams and reverend daughtry and others helping us give out 3,000 plates to people, seniors and the homeless. i thought about despite those two victories let's not forget it was a week earlier that kyle rittenhouse was acquitted and then welcomed by former president trump. let's not forget we don't have a voting rights bill and we don't have a george floyd bill. so even in our thanks, as thank god for the strength to keep fighting. we'll be right back. up to 80% off. living room seating up to 70% off. and ge appliances up to 40% off. plus tons more limited-time deals. and free shipping on thousands of products. our cyber monday is happening now through december 3rd. shop the event of the season. only at wayfair.com ♪ wayfair you've got just what i need ♪ with voltaren arthritis pain gel. my husband's got his moves back. an alternative to pills, voltaren is a non-steroidal anti-inflam

i would never forget asap ferg or rocky or the mob who represented -- rocky represents harlem with the best of them. i'll tell you this, noah. >> on that note, if you don't -- now you do. >> wait, i cut out. repeat for me. even if the viewers heard you. >> i said on that note, now if you don't know, now you know. >> oh, okay. brooklyn's finest. for the win. good to see you both and thank you for your patience with me, as always. next up, giuliani trying to hide evidence from the feds. legally, we'll explain what he's asking for, but first, a new push. historic spending. republicans exposed. one of our favorite guests. paul krugman is here live, next. paul krugman is here live, next. the journey is why they ride. when the road is all you need, there is no destination. uh, i-i'm actually just going to get an iced coffee. well, she may have a destination this one time, but usually -- no, i-i usually have a destination. yeah, but most of the time, her destination is freedom. nope, just the coffee shop. announcer: no matter why you ride, progressive has you covered with protection starting

the autobahn ballroom had 156 and broadway in harlem in new york city, it's a landmark, bill building, beautiful building, had a huge theater that's had thousands of people. and on the second floor there was an actual ballroom. and the capacity of the ballroom was smaller. the capacity of the ballroom for dinners and other seeded a events were about 200 people. but that, sunday february 21st, 1965, there were double. that number of people crowded into the room. a packed audience, 400 people. in the, room all their, to hear one of the towering a most controversial figures in american civil rights history. malcolm ex had been theex had bh

when the legendary, house democratic, charlie, a guy grew up with in new york we represented his harlem district, and, for dick gates, was censured by the house. it was for a number of, misdeeds including improper financial disclosures, and the failure to pay taxes on a vacation home. now, those ethical breaches, they were real, they were worthy of connotation, to my mind. but i was going back and looking at the stories, and they feel almost kind of quaint, frankly. in the post trump era. another thing to, note about, that you heard there in the, clip a moment ago, congressman wrangle, a democrat was censured by speaker nancy pelosi and the democratic congress. and he was, condemned by both parties, 333 members of congress, supported that censure resolution. including 170 democrats. only 77 voted against. and the democrats, we're clearly sending a message. there we are not going to tolerate ethical shortcuts among our, own even in this painful, even if the person who did, this was a legend, so that is what the last century looked like. congress setting aside, congressman, going to call

and always maintained their innocence in the shooting death of malcolm x at the audubon ballroom in harlem on february 21, 1965. the third man convicted said the other two had nothing to do with it and there was never any physical evidence that linked them to the scene. joining me now is the president and ceo of the national urban league marc morial and back with me is jamila hodge, executive director of equal justice usa. marc, thank you for joining us. this is such an interesting case, even though it's happening so much later than the crime was committed. we're now learning that there was evidence withheld at the time. what do you make of this happening today, these two sentences being exonerated? >> this is a case of prosecutorial and law enforcement misconduct, of being, if you will, revealed and affirmed over 50 years later. this is a case of two men who were convicted without any physical evidence, two men who were convicted notwithstanding the fact that there was evidence indicating that they were not responsible for this crime, including the testimony of talmadge or thomas hayden,

it was a sunday in late february, 1965, the audubon ballroom at 165th and broadway in harlem in new york city. it was a landmark big building, beautiful building. had a huge theater that sat thousands of people. on the second floor there was an actual ballroom, and the capacity of the ballroom was smaller. the capacity of the ballroom for

2010, when the legendary house democrat, charlie wrangle, a guy i brew up with, who represented his harlem district was censured by the house for a number of misdeeds, including improper financial disclosures and the failure to pay taxes on a vacation home. now, those ethical breaches, they were real, they were worthy of condemnation, to my mind. but i have to say, going back and looking at this story, and they feel almost kind of quaint, frankly, in the post-trump era. another thing to note about that, you heard it in the clip. congressman rangle, a democrat, was censured by speaker nancy pelosi and a democratic congress. he was condemned overwhelmingly by both parties. 333 members of congress supported that resolution, including 170 democrats. only 79 voted against it. the dmentds were clearly sending a message, we're not going to tolerate ethical shortcuts of our own, even if the person who did it is a legend. that's what the last censure looked like. congress setting aside partisan point scoring to call out bad behav behavier in its ranks. that's not the process anymore. fast forward 1