there is no aristocracy with her i 1st heard of hart, i led into a problem, a physician who was at harlem hospital. and she was talking about infants that were born addicted to crack. and that they were buried in shoe boxes a 1000 at a time on hard island. and at that time, hard island was open to journalists and to academics. and so i decided that i was just going to get there. and it just so happened that that day was the very 1st day that these inmates had ever been on hard athletics. and these were a young man convicted of misdemeanors like turnstile jumping graffiti. so you know, they're not felons or anything like that. they're young men that couldn't afford a good lawyer. or i used to live in ringo that was one of the bad neighborhoods about about a return only brooklyn new york city in who's crazy in 89. it was cracked and stuff like that. and we used to, so we'd in drugs and stuff like done in our one of getting caught with possession and i wouldn't have going on right on him for a little bit of time in those days it was, it was a, do you get anything you get a knife robe, anythi

harlem is a majority black and brown community. i live on a very historic street, 137th, between 7th and 8th. my name is danette and i live in woodside, queens. we have multiracial community and it's very friendly. our community, it's a normal day, whether it's raining or dry outside. we're still looking at a pretty potent storm system with a lot of rain, and it's all starting to move into the tri—state area. my name is hakeem. i'm the owner of the yafa cafe in brooklyn, new york. during covid, we saw a revenue loss of about 75%, and so it was always really difficult to operate and let go of a bunch of our staff. now that things were finally back kind of to normal, with vaccinations, we felt that we were ready to kind of start bringing back our old business model. the winds kicking in and also we're going to end up getting bigger rain in our area, because as it moves on a diagonal, it starts tapping into the ocean influence. the possibility that those storms do turn severe is something we've got to consider. we had the flash floo

. >> take the east harlem. >> ordering coffee? >> where, sure enough. it's colombia up front. in the back. >> this is all yemen coffee. >> he keeps half a dozen different varieties in his back room. brought by friends and family visiting from yemen. some more coursely ground. others not as dark. one so mellow it doesn't need milk. another so strong it will knock your socks off. >> double shot starbucks. use one shot of this. >> that smells good. >> no milk no sugar. just black. >> so, if the yemen coffee is to have shelf,. >> that's off the charts. >> why not sell it up front? >> a civil war, drought and spike shipping costs have sent yemen coffee prices soaring. particularly problematic for one of the few to try tak fro counoo to front ening u a chain of yemen ee >> what'n y $400. >> wait, wait, wait. your last shipment of coffee cost $400,000? >> yes. >> if you were to get the same shipment same size of colombia beans what would it cost? >> 60,000. >> for the most part, yemen coffee is not for the pour and go crowd. so for now, just about every yemen selling coffee will keep

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

. >> 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

and i am from district 30 in harlem. harlem is a majority black and brown community. i leave on a very historic street, 137 between seventh and eighth. i historic street, 137 between seventh and eighth.- seventh and eighth. i live in woodside — seventh and eighth. i live in woodside queens. - seventh and eighth. i live in woodside queens. we - seventh and eighth. i live in woodside queens. we have multiracial community and it is very friendly. 0ur multiracial community and it is very friendly. our community, it is our normal day, whether it is our normal day, whether it is our normal day, whether it is raining or dry outside. we're still looking a pretty coated storm system with a lot of rain and it is starting to move into the tri—state area. i am the owner of a cafe in a brooklyn new york. during covid we saw 75% revenue loss and it is always difficult to operate and we had to let go of a bunch of our stuff. now that things are finally back kind of two normal, with vaccinations, we felt we were ready to start bringing back out old business model. , ~ model. the

the harlem hellfighters, those guys they are heroes. there is so much good to talk about here, i hate bringing up my own family. my family will be mad about that but i just want the viewer and you to know we connect with our military. our family connects with that service and love for our country. colonel robert wilkie in honor of veterans day we honor you. we have this story. fox business teamed up with u.s. vets to make camo your cause campaign. go to the u.s. vets shop to purchase camo merchandise and donate, drive awareness of u.s. vets and their mission. you can show that you think too that veterans deserve every opportunity to live with dignity and independence. thanks so much for listening to that. still to come this hour, at least three crises engulfing the white house it either created or worsened, afghanistan, the southern border and now inflation rocketing higher undercutting the president's messages that he has made life better for americans. he blames americans buying more stuff, blames covid stimulus checks his white house

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 dinners and other seated events was about 200 people. but that sunday, february 21st, 1965, there were double that number of people crowded into that room, a packed audience, 400 people in the 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 not long after he joined the nation of islam in the early 1950s. but after more than a decade as a lightning rod in that specific cause, he had made 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, but that day his wife was there to watch his speech. she was pregn

and evian survived by his wife and two children, tributes for the creator are now pouring in famed harlem designer dapper dan saying his life was a testament to how much black lives matter by showing what black lives are capable of >> who can we empower next >> reporter: capable of and celebrated for. >> life is so short that you can't waste a day subscribing to what someone thinks you can do, versus knowing what you can do >> reporter: morgan radford, nbc news new york >>> that's "nightly news" for this monday. thank you for watching, everyone i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night ♪ ♪ ♪♪ sat on the ground ♪ ♪ yeah ♪ ♪ there is nothing and dear loved ♪ ♪ where is my mind ♪ ♪ where's my mind ♪ ♪ where's my mind ♪ ♪ where is my mind ♪ ♪ way out in the water, seared swimming ♪ ♪ with your feet on the air and your head on the ground ♪ ♪ try this trick and spin it, yeah ♪ ♪ ♪ your head will collapse ♪ ♪ but there's nothing in it ♪ ♪ and you'll ask yourself ♪ ♪ yeah ♪ ♪ where is my mind? ♪ ♪

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,

. >> take the bodega monif ziyad runs in east harlem. sure enough >> she wants black ice coffee. >> it's colombian up front. but in the back, this is all yemeni coffee. >> all yemeni coffee. >> ziyad keeps half a dozen different varieties in his back room, brought by friends and family visiting from yemen, some coursely ground, others no the as today, one doesn't need milk, another strong it will knock your socks off. >> double shot from starbucks or from duncan donuts you get one shot from this. >> that smells good. >> no sugar-month milk. just black. >> so if the yemeni coffee is top shelf, it's different. that's off the charts. why not sell it up front? >> a civil war drought and spiking shipping costs sent yemeni coffee prices soaring, particularly problematic for alhasbani. one of the few that try to do taking it from the back room front counter. opening up qahwa house, a chain of yemeni coffee shops. >> what's it cost you to bring in a shipment of coffee beans. >> around $400,000. >> wait. the last shipment of yemeni coffee cost yo

. >> reporter: her childhood friend irene is prominent in harlem society, a prosperous doctor, a chance reunion upends both of their lives. >> this woman has been in exile essentially, and this is her homecoming, longing for home, for familiarity, for one's people, something that was denied people who enacted the life severns that is passing. >> what leads to her demise is her yearning to be in the company of blackness again, but in that way, it's a complicated celebration of the beauty of blackness. >> it seems as though your irene is constantly worried she will lose something. >> she's a worrywart. >> she's beginning to think that no one is ever happy for her or safe. >> what? >> have you ever thought of passing? >> no. why should i? i have everything i ever wanted. >> it looks like a film that might have been made in a bygone era, and when they were making films like that in hollywood, we weren't making them with two leads that look like us, and that's why for me it feels impactful. >> reporter: for "good morning america," chris connelly, abc news, los angeles. >> "passing" will be a

immigration, is the son of immigrants who rose up through a public university in new york, living in harlem to the heights of american power. and the first black almost everything, the first to be -- >> right. he broke so many barriers. >> he broke so many barriers. he was the first so many things, the first black chairman of the joint chiefs, the first black national security adviser, the first black secretary of state. he was -- and he was also of a breed that you used to see a lot of in washington and you can hardly find it any more. he's a moderate republican who had good relationships on both sides of the aisle. he led a consequential life. in those posts, he was not just the first black. he did consequential things. >> we always hear about kennedy sent the first military advisers to vietnam, you know who one of those advisers were? >> colin powell. >> go back there, go to the joint chiefs during the first gulf war, became world famous, really, for his briefings he and norman schwarzkopf. look at him as secretary of state and that fateful speech at the united nations which he later reg

she was leader of harlem health fighters in new york. lauren: you come from a family of veterans. what else are you doing for the veterans community. >> i'm the sixth of my family to serve. all of us were sent to war. all of us are native new yorkers. my great-uncle charlie was in world war i. my grandfather and uncle in world war ii. my dad did two tours in nam. i fought in panama during the invasion as desert storm as marine. anniversary of desert storm. it is our last large-scale war. 600,000 troops. coalition of 38 different countries. one of the most decisive victories in history. focus is on as it should be, people remember in new york, tickertape parade, canyon of heroes of desert storm was probably the biggest ever. i think five million viewers for that parade. so i'm glad to see my fellow veterans from desert storm coming out. lauren: and i, you look familiar to me, mark. i'm not sure exactly how i know but you ended up on the trading floor, is at the new york stock exchange floor? if that is the case that is how i know you. >> i've been on fox on the floor. you talked ab

about 20 units in brooklyn and queens, they tend to be smaller buildings, four, six, eight buildings in harlem and the bronx. they could be larger buildings, but on average, they're 20 units. so u-hab was founded to first help home setters take over these vacant buildings, but as things went along, they were hired by the city to provide training for residents who were taking over buildings and to run them and to provide ongoing technical assistance to the co-op boards and members of the them when they became this project. we've had as you heard from ms. brown and we actually do training almost every night of the week. i think tonight, there's a straining on wealth in the state so when there's a death of the shareholder, there can be an easy transfer. on wednesday, it's shareholder 101. what are your rights and responsibilities of the shareholders. and it just goes on a couple hundred nights a year of training. so training is an important part of what we do. ongoing technical assistance is an important part of what we do. being available to be able to call up and say, we have this issue, can yo

about 20 units in brooklyn and queens, they tend to be smaller buildings, four, six, eight buildings in harlem and the bronx. they could be larger buildings, but on average, they're 20 units. so u-hab was founded to first help home setters take over these vacant buildings, but as things went along, they were hired by the city to provide training for residents who were taking over buildings and to run them and to provide ongoing technical assistance to the co-op boards and members of the them when they became this project. we've had as you heard from ms. brown and we actually do training almost every night of the week. i think tonight, there's a straining on wealth in the state so when there's a death of the shareholder, there can be an easy transfer. on wednesday, it's shareholder 101. what are your rights and responsibilities of the shareholders. and it just goes on a couple hundred nights a year of training. so training is an important part of what we do. ongoing technical assistance is an important part of what we do. being available to be able to call up and say, we have this issue, can yo

my god mother lives in harlem. she's quite up in years. she's on the left side of everything, but she was dismayed by this idea that we're going to become antipolice. left side of literally every issue, but on that issue the democrats lost her. so i just think that we -- the only people talking about defund the police now are republicans weapon nici weaponizing the slogan. >> certainly for the democratic primary in new york, there were a lot of far more liberal, far more progressive democratic candidates running in this city. >> he not only presented himself as pro-police, no defund the police, but, you know, a law and order candidate, but pro business in new york. so he managed to win by saying, look, you can't put me in a box, and here's a guy from queens who was arrested when he was 15, beaten by cops, and became a cop, and now is saying and i spent some time with him last week for a piece of we're running. he said the key to new york is safety. this is what we have to provide. >> and the key is you have communities that are crushed bet

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