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

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

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

. >> diana went to harlem and visited a pediatric aids unit. >> the princess had meeting with children suffering from aids and wanted to know more about children's who's aids were complicated by mother's drug abuse. >> i was 8 years old at the time princess diana came to visit harlem hospital and i was excited my mom would be welcoming princess diana to the hospital. >> she came in and she said where are they? we just took her to where the children were. she could not wait to get there. >> during the late '80s crack cocaine ravaged our neighborhood and with the drug addiction came sharing of needles and many modes of transmission of hiv/aids. it was a and back then, these children were born with hiv and also severely addicted to crack. >> as she went to the room there was a little boy she went over and picked him up and he kind of just held on to her arm. and you could just see the love that this woman had. for humanity. she was letting people know that you can be with them and you can love them. >> they were surprised she had come to harlem hospital, a place never visited by any ameri

. >> 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

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

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 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? ♪ ♪

. >> i was eight-year-old at the time when princess diana came to visit harlem hospital. i was excited that my mom would be welcoming princess diana to the hospital. >> she came in and she said "where are they?" >> we just took her to where the children were. she could not wait to get there. >> with the drug addiction came and promiscuous behavior, it was a pandemic back then. when these children were born, they were abandoned, not only hiv but severely addicted to crack. >> as she went into the room, there was a little boy and she went over and picked him up and he kind of just held onto her arm. you can just see the love that this woman had for humanity. she was letting people know that you can be with them and you can love them. >> there was a surprise that she went to the harlem hospital. >> at the time even our own government had to dealt with the age's crisis. they could not get a grip on it. she gave it the attention it merited. >> she chose to come to a small community hospital in ahm middl minority area during a crack pandemic. i can't believe she would come to m

but close as ease and clue islam and abdul aziz were both members of the harlem us and people who are in malcolm's organization. on the day when he was assassinated, they knew these guys. and so had they showed up at the audubon, they would have known that these guys, when they would have allowed them into the room. so for them to have had their fingers on the trigger for the shots at kill malcolm. and they weren't in the room simply what we were able to do is find out, explore the culture of what was going on in the nation of islam at the time. malcolm's assassination. and what we found out was how the a hit came out of out of new york last, when you, when you wanted, of course, is there 247, the website that al jazeera dot called the headlines on now. ah .

. >> diana went up to harlem, where she visited a pediatric aids unit. >> the princess had an emotional meeting with children suffering from aids. she wanted to know more about children whose aids was complicated by their mothers' drug abuse. >> if they have the problem with drugs, how on earth are they going to cope with aids as well? >> i was excited that my mom would be welcoming princess diana to the hospital. >> she came in, and shouldn't, "where are they?" and we just took her to where the children were. she could not wait to get there. >> during the late '80s, crack cocaine ravaged our neighborhood. with the drug condition came promiscuous behaviors, sharing of needles, many of the modes of transition for hiv and aids. it was a pandemic back then. when these children were born, they were abandoned. not only with hiv, but also severely addicted to crack. >> as she went into the room, there was a little boy. and she went over, and she picked him up. and he kind of just held on to her arm. and you could just see the love that this woman had for humanity. she was letting people know

. >> 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

and other ethnic mosque but close as ease and a clue. islam and abdul aziz were both members of the harlem mass and people who are in mountains organization. on the day when he was assassinated, they knew these guys, and so had they had showed up at the audubon, they would have known that i who these guys, when they went, allowed them into the room. so for them to have had, you know their fingers on the trigger on for the shot that killed malcolm and they weren't in the room. yeah, this is a story that happened so long ago. let's just remind ourselves, tamara, malcolm x was one of america's most influential black leaders in the fight against racism and social injustice. what does this tell us about how the f b i and the new york police department handled the evidence in the case of a time, i mean, was race a big factor here as well? well yes, i mean, the nation of islam and malcolm were constant, and lot of black people who are organizing were considered enemies of the state. and so the f b i had already had set up, you know, they're working to try to work to weaken the nation is i'm from

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

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

it also included general powell, it was the harlem globetrotters. the boombox was plain sweet georgia brown. they were passing the ball around. i am not unfamiliar with the passed ball court, back when i could really walk. i would say run, but really walk. so they asked me to join the circle, i did. every time one of the globetrotters would pass the ball to secretary powell, he would fumble it. he drop it. it would fall to the floor. so finally, one of the globetrotters switched off the boombox. he said, what's up with you? use to we throwing the ball and you drop. and without a grin, without a grievous. he looked straight at that globetrotters said, while you were out shooting hoops i was out stealing hubcaps. the globetrotters said that was all right. he put the boombox back on and it was sweet georgia brown time again. i said he had an insatiable curiosity. nothing made secretary powell happier than to sneak away from his security duty and detail. does that sound familiar to anyone here? when he would do it in the state department, it would gener

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to, like when we look at when malcolm x was playing in the streets, starting in boston and later in harlem. and talked about how he treated women and people like to focus on that but at the end of his life, it was very different pretty can totally come around on that in fact he was even very critical of islam and the islamic world and saying that you need to educate the women in your country. and so there are these different things that people can look at that you know, i thank you so important to look at the connections even that malcolm x was trying to make not trying but making with africa. when he talked about african like you i would go to africa, while he was meeting with heads of states. he met with piÑata and so many. and it is so to explore what that means and what were those relationships well what could've come of those relationships. it is just endless and i think and i agree with you, one of the things that i will say the people would say to me over the years of their like another book is coming out about malcolm x and how do you feel and i would not be worried because i knew

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,

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

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

. ♪ >> rap music began in harlem and the south bronx on playgrounds like this one where people would gather to spin records and then recite their own lyrics, their raps, over the instrumental sections. ♪ come on now ♪ >> "the breaks" was curtis blow's biggest hit, selling 680,000 copies last year and hitting the top of the rhythm and blues sales charts. >> as a young kid running around with a local deejay crew i watched the transition from all the disco music we used to play at the block parties to slowly and surely hip-hop taking over. ♪ >> the music underneath rapping is called scratching, and it's a process of using two turntables and a mixer making new sounds out of already existing albums. >> thing that gave life to music in the '80s for me was hip-hop because it took the sounds of the '60s and '70s and brought it to the forefront. ♪ a child is born with no state of mind ♪ ♪ blind to the ways of mankind ♪ ♪ god is smiling on you but he's frowning, too ♪ ♪ only god knows what you go through ♪ >> "the message" was the first hip-hop song that wasn't just a par

. >> 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

he was killed in a barrage of bullets while speaking at the audubon ballroom in harlem. the d.a.'s office reopened the case to look at the men's convictions after the series was released. >> two of them weren't even in the audubon ballroom that day. >> reporter: we sat down with phil bertelsen and nailah sims, who produced the documentary. >> the fbi had eyewitness testimony from presumably the nine informants that were in the room that day about who did the crime. >> reporter: a third man, talmadge haier, confessed to the killing. but islam and aziz never did. islam died in 2009. aziz is now 83. he spent 20 years in prison. >> if i wanted to do it i couldn't have done it. so that means they knew what they were doing when they put me in jail. >> reporter: and late today muhammad aziz put out a statement saying in part, "i hope the same system that was responsible for this travesty of justice also takes responsibility for the immeasurable harm it caused me." and the decision to exonerate both men is expected to be officially announced tomorrow. norah. norah. >> maurice dubois, than

happen, but setting things on fire on the street, making sure that black folk in the communities in harlem, the bronx, brooklyn get shot up, i don't think that's the recipe that our people want or america wants. >> not at all. here's the thing. i get the whole police reform thing. i am for police reform, not defunding the police, but for reforming. there's changes that need to be made. however, bringing up the threat of violence is not the way to address the situation. my question i would put directly to hawk newsom, when you talk about things like bloodshed and use the word bloodshed, whose blood do you think is going to be shared? we know the answer that the question and its people that look like u.n. dye dykema hogg newsom, black men. i am sick of dead black bodies in the street, whether it's from the police were .when you use words like bloodshed to come but there has to be a better way to deal with the issue. no more black bodies dying needlessly because people want a riot. i know that when you talk with "the new york post" he tried to clarify what he said, but it's out there. the dam

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

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