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he was the head of the washington bureau of the naacp but he was also served as head lobbyist for the civil rights. he was the guy who all through really the 40s but picked up steam in the 50s and 60's with was someone who had the power and influence to move in and talk to obviously liberal senators and representatives but he held a certain amount of charismatic sway with people he opposed. he could go into -- he was fearless. he could talk to richard russell ahead of the southern democrats and he couldn't win richard russell over but he could maybe work out some agreements. he could at least talk to him in a way that may be whittled down rustles oppositional little bit. he was that kind of the guy and he was instrumental in making the build stronger as it moved through the house. so the bill did not really include any protections or employment discrimination. of course now if you look at the equal and employment and the revolutionary changes is made in the workplace for minorities and women it's a single piece of legislation in and of itself is just one part of the bill. it was not t

the president of the los angeles naacp is resigning in wake of landing to honor donald sterling as a humanitarian the second time he and the los angeles chapter honored donald sterling. they did so five year ago while high was fighting discrimination charges. he admits this brought the organization "negative exposure ." >>> this morning, maui police are investigating the death of a zip line worker who fell 150' and the victim has been identified is originally from santa rosa. the fire department says crews were called yesterday morning before 10:00 a.m. but efforts were hampered because of difficult terrain and tree cover. she was already dead by the time the crews reached her. the company she be worked for is expressing condolences on its facebook page. >>> bay area tesla mores is fined $89,000 for seven providelations by osha tied to the november accident in fremont that sent three workers to the hospital. we were on the scene at the tesla plant after a failure at a casting press. workers were not wear protective gear when the express -- when the press sprayed hot >> and now it wil

she was president of the san francisco branch of the naacp and president of the african american historical and cultural society. she was appointed to the san francisco board of education by mayor george masconi on [inaudible]. she is elected in november 1978 and was running for when she resigned in august because of differences with the superintendent and board over desegregation issues. after she was divorced she moved back to georgia where she and her sister cared for her mother who lived to be 101. she lived in atlanta and was torque coordinator. an [inaudible] and led tours to many african countries. she lived her final years in thomasville and fought three battles with cancer until finally succumbing this month. her sister brenda jones and a host of dear friends the world over, which i count myself among, her portrait can be seen along with many others on the wall of the el hill hutch community center in the western addition right down the street from here and we express our sincere condolences to the johnson family and honors her as an educational leader. thank you. >> mr. steel. >>

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jenkins says that history and reputation of the naacp is more important than his presidency. >> in the mean time sterling team the clip remembers playing the warriors at oracle arena tonight. must win for the home team tonight. los angeles times is report that go still girlfriend gave recorded copies of his racist comments to friends for safe keeping. now she believes one of them sold the tape to tmz to make money obviously. the attorney says she had been recording sterling on her phone for months without his knowledge. abc 7 news reporter carolyn tyler has more from the oracle arena. >> do or die for the warriors tonight. so they are trying to focus and distance themselves from the donald sterling controversy. this as committee of fba honors unanimously agreed this afternoon to move things along as quickly as possible. on boat to oust the clipper owner. somewhat around in san francisco this morning his team was still dealing with questions. doc rivers says the distran has hurt but his guys are moving on. what do you say to your players with this swirling around. >> not a thing. i thin

the anti defamation league is not a leftest organization and it's unfair to characterize them. >> the naacp, care -- >> the idea of building awareness. helping young people confront bigotry so they can confront, helping them become more sensitive to other people's needs. >> let me ask you this, robert, one of the questions we're all bias, bipartisan, do you think there will be a little detector to see if there is an anti conservative bias in here for the young people and try to cleanse them of that to be more bipartisan. >> it's not partisanship -- >> they inject it into the psa. >> no, the entire program rises above the rhetoric we're witnessing and i think what's really important is if we don't speak to the voices of the 14 to 24-year-olds and listen to them, we're tragically doomed to repeat the history that is -- >> what about that? is there any value in saying that there is some inherent bias, a fear of difference of something that seems other and that it's valuable to sort of look at that ask try to call attention to it to stop it? >> how about combatting acts of racism and doing some

. >> when you heard that the naacp -- i mean, i think your case was in 2008 and 2009. >> 2009. >> 2008, the naacp actually honored donald sterling that very year and they were going to do it again. >> yes. >> what did you think about that? >> you know, i am not a vindict vindictive person or anything like that, but i just thought it was in very poor taste. and you know, i guess the money meant more than loyalty. >> i think thurgood marshal is spinning in his grave. it is shameful. >> shameful? >> shameful. >> joining me now, new york times op-ed, and sunny hostin. it is clearly -- we can't officially confirm it is sterling, but that sounds like sterling, i met with him on friday. it is interesting he said i'm not a racist. he said i wasn't hiring white players, i want the best player i i -- players. it is interesting when you hear elgin baylor saying he wanted to hire black players and a white coach. when you hear that what do you think about that? >> it is not at all odds for a person's own view of themselves not to line up with the broader culture's view, particularly when it comes t

the president of the naacp los angeles chapter resigned over this. he held a very contentious news conference. they were set to award or honor donald sterling and then resend that award and now he says he's out because this matter brought too much negative exposure to the naacp nationwide, megyn? >> thank you. donald sterling is the latest who finds themselves in deep trouble for sharing thoughts that others find very offensive. ben shapiro is editor and chief of truthrevolt.org. good to see you here in person. >> you, too. >> you're not trying to encourse anything that donald sterling said but you see another problem here. >> of course, nobody endorses what donald sterling said. we're seeing thoughts, views, matter more than action. in 2005 when he was actively discriminating apparently against black people and saying all the right things, the nba has nothing to say. he's paying his bash coach and de'andre jordan and jamal crawford 5 million, all of whom is black and he said the wrong thing and the nba wants to oust him. we live in an era where a ta

organized, you look at the papers, a real coordinated effort to save roy wilkins was the head of the naacp sent out a letter the very next day to every constituent organization and said, in respectful terms, we have to take advantage of this. we have to do something, use the momentum this creates in order to get x, y and z. at a specific agenda he wanted to get to improve the bill. so it's not so much these kinds of, the sort of passive organization in the south doing its own thing, a crisis happens and there's an environment for legislators to then take a bill and pass it, but really more of an interaction that i think they kind of agency on the part of the movement and that infrastructure to be ready for a crisis. >> the bill is often thought of as sort of one of lbj's great the college was -- acknowledgments. and he ran the thing, talk more of what you saw his role in the passage of the bill. >> it's interesting to on the one hand he had honestly too much credit for wheeling and dealing. i think in the history a lot of people know they think he created the bill. the bill was inherited f

. >> when you heard that the naacp -- i mean, i think your case was in 2008 and 2009. >> 2009. >> 2009, the naacp actually honored donald sterling that very year and they were going to do it again. >> yes. >> what did you think about that? >> you know, i am not a vindictive person or anything like that, but i just thought it was in poor taste. and you know, i guess the money meant more than loyalty. >> i think thurgood marshal is spinning in his grave. it is shameful. >> shameful? >> shameful. >> joining me now, new york times op-ed, charles. and sunny hostin. it is clearly -- we can't officially confirm it is sterling, but that sounds like sterling, i met with him on friday. it is interesting he said i'm not a racist. when you hear elgin baylor say, he said he wanted to hire black players and a white coach. when you hear that what do you think about that? >> it is not at all odds for a person's own view of themselves not to line up with the broader culture's view, particularly when it comes to issues of race. so a person can say of course, i may have said this, but he said on the firs

chapter of the naacp is resigning. following his previous plan to honor sterling as a humanitarian. this would have been the second time that leon jenkins and the l.a. chapter honored sterling. they did so when he was fighting housing discrimination charges. >>> the team itself is within a game of advancing to the nba playoffs. the golden state warriors edged the clippers last night 100-99 to force a seventh game in their series. sterling wasn't there, and neither was his wife. ryan smith reports she is about to become a key figure. >> shelly sterling hasn't missed a clippers game since the scandal broke. and with a galaxy of stars to take over the team she could be the one to watch. if she wants become the new clippers owner, she would have to overcome racial charged controversy in her own past involving buildings she and her husband owned. >> i lived here 20 years. >> reporter: darryl williams is one of their tenants. >> shelly had a system of getting rid of people they didn't like. >> reporter: in 2003, williams videotaped shelly sterling posing as a government official, allegedl

. >> when you heard that the naacp -- i mean, i think your case was in 2008 and 2009. >> 2009. >> 2009, the naacp actually honored donald sterling that very year and they were going to do it again. >> yes. >> what did you think about that? >> you know, i am not a vindictive person or anything like that, but i just thought it was in poor taste. and you know, i guess the money meant more than loyalty. >> i think thurgood marshal is spinning in his grave. it is shameful. >> shameful? >> shameful. >> joining me now, new york times op-ed, charles. and sunny hostin. it is clearly -- we can't officially confirm it is sterling, but that sounds like sterling, i met with him on friday. it is interesting he said i'm not a racist. when you hear elgin bay bail baylor say, he said he wanted to hire black players and a white coach.lor say, he said he wanted to hire black players and a white coach. when you hear that what do you think about that? >> it is not at all odds for a person's own view of themselves not to line up with the broader culture's view, particularly when it comes to issues of race.

and so i went to naacp youth council meeting and i think i went to the bathroom or something and got back, i was president of the council. >> did you meet your wife emily while you were in jail for a protest? >> that's quite true. >> tell me about that, people who grew up in the movement? >> i'm sitting in jail waiting to get bailed out and my wife was in the group that had not been arrested that day. and they all kinds of got into the cafeteria, some kind of way and brought food to us. and she came into where i was, waiting to be bailed out with a hamburger in her hand. and i was hungry. and i thought she was handing to me and reached for it. she pulled it back, broke the hamburger in half and gave me half, she ate the other half. i was so appreciative. 18 months later i married her. >> that's quite a bond. how many years ago was that? >> 53 come june 24th. >> congratulations, that is fantastic. >> thank you. >> when you look at politics today, the poisonous atmosphere on the hill between the two parties and you went through life and death struggles as did john lewis and other survi

the naacp is in the business of promoting justice and equality for all people. they're not in the business of promoting bigotry. and i don't understand the policy behind the donation or what was being awarded to mr. sterling, but the point is, candy, is that in the 21st century, we haven't figured out the language yet. we haven't figured out the policies, and therefore, we have to constantly go back to the past to see if we could reach some conclusion. >> i could say one thing to what ana said it's not okay to be a racist if nobody knows about it, it's not okay for racism to be practiced as long as you don't say it out loud. we are in this interesting position of punishing people for speech in a society that prizes free speech and yet not punishing them for actions. and i do think what we have underlying the outrageousness is a plot of problems which are unaddressed and speak to the things that candy was talking about. when you talk about education, you talk about who is getting good education and who is not and how much that falls along racial lines,. who is in

. >>> the president of the los angeles chapter of naacp has resigned in the way of lchlt a. clippers and the scandal resolving around the team. this follows outrage over the decision to give donald sterling an award for promoting civil rights. that idea was scrapped after last weekend. meanwhile, the new york post is reporting that he is battling cancer. yesterday in the nba owners met to discuss the process of ending sterling's owner ship saying they will move forward as expeditiously as possible. the lawyer for his alleged girlfriend says one of her friends is the person who leaked the video to tmz. >>> an investigation is under way to the cause of a massive street collapse in baltimore. the department of transportation is working to destale the road and stop further erosion. there's remarkable new video showing the moments leading up to the street collapse. you see a row of cars just disappears after a black long portion of the road gives way. officials say residents who live along the block may have to stay out of their homes for up to 40 days as a precaution. >>> time t

clippers and three-quarters of the other owners have to go along with that plan and the head of naacp has resign after being criticized for planning to give donald sterling a civil rights award which was rescinded last weekend after a recorded racist rant surfaced by donald sterling. >> tomorrow the warriors take on the clippers in game seven the first in 37 years. the warriors needed a win to not be eliminated in game six and the warriors everyone led by steph curry who scored 24 points with nine assists and the golden state against held the clippers to 36 percent shooting. they clawed that wear to 100-99 we victory. >> we have a lot more ahead including good news if you are taking a road trip the major drop in gas prices that some experts are predicting. >> significant progress by california firefighters against a wildfire that has threatened over a through homes. >> and a look outside right now, meteorologist mike nicco is next with the >>> san jose police have arrested a man suspected of stabbing a mother of three to death. this man knew the victim. they are not revealing what evi

the doj along with the north carolina naacp filed a motion asking a federal court to urgently step in and block north carolina's voter information verification act. that is the law that cracks down on some of the voting methods used mostly by black voters such as early voting. same day registration and certain voting out of precinct options. the law introduces a strict voter i.d. rule that doesn't go into effect until 2016. the doj brief is assertive in confronting the north carolina law, arguing it was crafted to discriminate and that it singles out voting mechanisms like early voting in 2012. it says, 70% of all african-american voters used early voting compared to 52% of white voters. the brief argues north carolina has been so unfair, federal observers should be deployeden the coming months to ensure that midterm elections there are legitimate. and asked that the law be thrown out. the state attorney general admits the changes to the electoral system are not good. >> new election law changes signed by the governor and this general assembly are bad public policy for north carolina.

. >>> the president of the los angeles chapter of the naacp leon jenkins has resigned, this following outrage over a decision to give l.a. clippers owner donald sterling an award for promoting civil rights. that idea was scrapped once the now infamous recordings of sterling surfaced last weekend. meanwhile, the new york post reports sterling is battling cancer. nbc news has not independently confirmed that. yesterday, nba owners met to discuss the process of ending sterling's ownership of the l.a. clippers saying they will, quote, move forward as expeditiously as possible. a lawyer for sterling's alleged girlfriend v. stiviano says one of her friends leaked the recording to tmz. >>> an investigation is under way into the cause of a massive street collapse in baltimore. that department of transportation there is working to restabilize a road and stop further erosion. look at the new video. in the moments leading up to the collapse, a row of cars just sinking away. real time here as a block long portion of the road gives way, officials say residents who live along this block may have to

the naacp is in the business of promoting justice and equality for all people. they're not in the business of promoting bigotry, and i don't understand the policy behind the donation or what was being awarded to mr. sterling, but the point is, candy, is that in the 21st century, we haven't figured out the language yet. we haven't figured out the policies, and therefore, we have to constantly go back to the past to see if we could reach some conclusion. >> i could say one thing to what ana said it's not okay to be a racist if nobody knows about it, it's not okay for racism to be practiced as long as you don't say it out loud. we are punishing people for spoo etch in a society that prizes free speech and yet not punishing them for actions and i do think what we have underlying the outrangiousness is a plot of problems which are unaddressed and speak to the things that cappedy was talking about. when you talk about education, you talk about who is getting good education and who is not and how much that falls along racial lines, who is incarcerated, who is not and h

we saw the naacp have all kinds of problems around the whole sterling case. so it's not just blacks over here and whites over here. we have to engage repetitiously and continuously because we've been separated repetitiously and continuously for generations. so we're not going to -- this isn't going to happen in one newscast. we have to keep having the courage. we have to have revolutionary-type conversations and that just means we can't be afraid. >> go ahead, bomani. >> we have to acknowledge the game theory aspects of what we're talking about and it's a prevailing sentiment that as black people, as brown people get more white people by definition wind up getting less, that's why when paul ryan and guys like that use the code it works every time because it appeals to people's fears of losing everything that they have and sometimes the power they have in their regular lives, that's what they are afraid of losing. the step of stopping being polite is, a, not just paul ryan using code. it's crushing paul ryan and guys like that for using the code and then the p

she was president of the san francisco branch of the naacp and president of the african american historical and cultural society. she was appointed to the san francisco board of education by mayor george masconi on [inaudible]. she is elected in november 1978 and was running for when she resigned in august because of

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the president of the naacp has resigned after they were criticized for plans to give donald sterling a civil rights award which was rescinded after tape of a racist rant by donald sterling surfaced last weekend. >>> there is outrage from graduates of notre dame high school in belmont. the women are upset because an annual guest speaker was canceled. here is ama daetz with the story. >> lgb support has been a guest speaker in bell hospital for 20 years teaching the girls about compassion and acceptance and the night before the scheduled presentation he got a call. >> they said, the principal doesn't want you to come. >> he believes he was uninvited because of what was written on a website. >> they started writing stories and talking about all the gay people in the different departments in the catholic schools and saying they should not be far. >> the head of the school would not provide a reason but says they planned to have captain back next semester. the superintendent of catholic schools says not enough students signed up for the talk and the supporters say that isn't true because

for instance the fine folks of the naacp who would rather not kiss lepage's butt. paul lepage being direct over the years like the time he defended the reverse ban on the chemical bpa in baby bottles by say i saying with a smirk, the worst that could happen was some women may have little beards. or that time he was sitting in a fighter jet simulator and joked he wanted to blow up a local newspaper building. or the two times he compared the irs to the nazis. chris christie is right, paul lepage doesn't sound like everybody else. joining me now is michael michaud of maine who is running against paul lepage. i think what the heck are they doing up there in maine? what is going on in your state? you have to have such a reputation for being sensible. how did this happen? >> well, good evening, chris. maine is an incredible state and mainers have a lot to offer. unfortunately, because of our governor, we're on the late-night tv shows with some of the comments that he's made. that's not what maine is all about. maine cares about one another. mai mainers are there. we're a

that says sterling is battling prostate cancer and the president of the los angeles chapter of the naacp has designed this after a previously scheduleded lifetime achievement award. so with sterling status as owner up in the air, you probably heard the speculation on heavy hitters. we want to know who you think the best future owner may be. we'll put your best tweets coming up later in the show. >>> we move now to business moves. the nasdaq was up for a third consecutive session. jeff is live for us in london this morning. jeff, the outlook for jobs is what? >> well, i think it's better. that's the message from the economists who are trying to guess what this payroll number will look like today. and there's a big range on the forecast somewhere between 150,000 and 292,000 jobs added for the month of april. keep an eye on sectors where there's been challenges. housing is one that stands out. construction is not quite as strong as we may have expected through the last four weeks or is so. so that may be an area you need to watch. trk epid trade in the stocks. no trade on the wrong side of

the naacp chapter has resigned due to sterling's actions. his chapter retired in 2009 and planned to give him a lifetime achievement award and donated $35,000 to the group in the past seven years. the donation will be returned. >>> well, we have been looking live at oracle arena because it has been exciting. the the warriors will play the clippers were an exciting game 7 after this great game last night. that is it! the sea of yellow! i love that. warrior staff steph curry intentionally missed the foul shot with a second to play to let the clock run out. the warriors beat the clippers 100-99. it was a sloppy game for the most part. both teams committing plenty of fouls and missing plenty of shots. >> at this point in the season you will take any win necessary, so it was a hard fought game. both teams played well and we can't wait for saturday. i never played a game 7 before. >> steph curry, the offensive star with 24 points and 9 assists. deciding game 7 tomorrow night, unfortunately back in los angeles. that is okay. tipoff time 7:30. >>> a

as a matter of fact, one of the fastest-growing and aa cp chapters is in asheville -- naacp chapters is in asheville, north carolina. a predominately white community. they said, i don't know why not. they are growing and making demands. they know they need unemployment, they need medicaid, they need to go to the doctor, they need a better life. in north carolina, this thing is spreading to south carolina, to georgia, and even missouri. i'm telling you, whether it is fast food workers, folks in north carolina attacked by a right wing swing, or even the maids. the national alliance for domestic workers. organizers all over the place. demanding that this sub-minimum wage be raised to a livable wage for people. people.there is something going on, and i going to tell you as a politician, we have not gotten the memo quite yet. but politicians see the light -- we may feel the heat. i am telling you, i want to add that the postal workers know that darrell issa and the folks who want to privatize them have them in their sights. they are not staying in the sights. they are doing something abou

one other big development in the sterling scandal tonight, the head of the los angeles chapter of the naacp has resigned giving him a lifetime achievement award. >>> in vallejo, a man had to fry open the jaws of a pit bull that bit his three-year-old daughter on the head. she should be okay. the dog belonged to a neighbor who is cooperating with police. animal control officers took the pit bull away. and andria borba tells us about who dogs in brentwood that went around biting people. >> reporter: tonight, those two dogs are in the custody of the contra costa animal services, but not before injuring two people in this brentwood neighborhood and tearing the neighborhood apart. brentwood police officers say these dogs caused these injuries leading to this confrontation. >> you want to know what he did to my wife? >> it's not a pit bull. it's a mastiff. you don't need to get to my face. you don't know what it is doing to my daughter. >> reporter: it began this morning when two dogs got out of their yard and went on a rampage. >> i was walking my dog when these two giant dinosaur sized dogs dec

the naacp did an incredible screening. that was interactive. tavis: i can imagine. >> it was wonderful to hear that kind of reaction from the audience. i think it has been working. the word is spreading. people are taking their moms and sisters. guys are being dragged to the cinema, thinking, i didn't think that was the movie for me and yet it was. i have a hash tag on twitter which is change the game. we can change the game with this movie. if we don't support movies like this, we won't see more of them. tavis: when you say change the game, what do you mean? >> i wanted to prove that with a period drama, i could put a female of color and the lead and it would be a box office success. people would go out and see a movie. constantly, we are told as filmmakers, writers and directors, it is difficult to sell a black female lead around the world. there are some territories that aren't so keen on it. i wanted to show that a female director and also, even more so, a female at front and center of the piece could appeal to audiences across the board. t

this is something that means great deal to the lawyers and board of the naacp legal defense fund. she is known throughout the country and has been mrs. director counsel, she has been mrs. solicitor general, she has been mrs. judge, she has been mrs. justice. but today we want to honor cecilia m. marshall for her own work and dedication to civil rights. [applause] married to the late thurgood marshall for 38 years, she saw a lot of the world through the unparalleled prism through her husband. mrs. marshall was born in maui, hawaii. her parents were among the first immigrants to hawaii from the philippine islands in 1910. she came to new york to live with her maternal aunt and uncle and started to take classes in stenography at columbia university. during that same year she got a position as secretary to the national director of the naacp branches in new york where she said she admitted receiving her first baptism to the racial challenges of america. and she's been motivated ever since to make a difference in the lives of others. yesterday at our board meeting when we were taking no

s chapter naacp has stepped down because of the controversy. this month sterling was expected to receive a lifetime achievement award from that organization. even though the group's president leon jenkins rescinded after sterling's comments became public. how he was even in line for that award. sterling donated $5,000 to the chapter in 2010, but had been accused of refusing to rent apartments to latinos and blacks and families with children. >>> a live look outside right now at oracle arena. all is quiet right now, but that wasn't the case, what, five hours ago. thousands of warrior fans maybe heading into work a little late this morning after a long night at the roaracle the warriors held on by a thread, a thread to beat the clippers. 100-99 and force a winner take all game seven on saturday down in los angeles. now, with their backs against the wall, head coach marc jackson said his players lived up to their warrior name. >> i'm proud of my guys. it's been an incredible, incredible ride and now against a three seed with two of the top ten pla

sale requires approval by 3 fourth of the league 30 owners and president of the los angeles naacp has resigned after the group was criticized for plans to give sterling a civil rights award. that award was resundayed after racist rant by sterling the tape surfaced over the weekend. >> you don't have to miss out on first class comfort. >> no still quite cozy. we have more. >> there are deals to be had. you just to know where to lack for them. show you how to score deep discounts on some 5 star destination. >> plus. collapse caught on camera. incredible video of the moment a road swallowed dozens of cars. >> and sinking situation in one beach front town but not just the smell that has some people worried. growing problem this whale carcass poses. >> first here's jimmy kimmel. >> thanks. quick preview of what we are up to tonight richlt we ready yes i'm ready. here we good. and 3, 2, 1. if whoa whoa. >> pinching penny on a trip can take away from what is supposed to be a relaxing vacation. >> but what if you could get first class perk without the cost? >> like the sound of that. it can b

the decision was, according to the current president of the naacp legal defense and education fund, quote, the beginning of the end of legal apartheid in the united states. laws of the jim crow that were intentionally designed to ensure that blacks and whites were not treated equally were finally questioned by our nation's highest courts. the dream of a country where all men are created equal and treated equally under the law became a potential reality. but it would still take decades of tireless activism by multiple generations of civil rights leaders and organizers to get us where we are today. brown vs. board, this decision was the first step toward a reality of equality and was a drastic change for a court that had previously been detrimental to past civil rights actions and cases. so we're here today as the congressional black caucus to reflect on america's 60 -- on america 60 years after the brown vs. board of education decision. what impacts have we seen and what challenges still remain with achieving a society that truly lives up to the 14th amendment's equal protection under the

meanwhile following scrutiny of honoring a it naacp president of l.a. leon jenkins has resigned. the naacp los angeles chapter honored through with it to those in my award and a plan to honor him again this month but that had been canceled. fajafollowing scrutiny for honoring l-a clippers owner donald sterling.the president of n- double-a-c-p's los angeles chapter has leon jenkins' resignation letter stated he's resigning quote "in order to separate the los angeles n- double-a-c-p from the negative exposure i have caused." the n-b-a's commissionerb-a for life on tuesday -- after racist comments caughtthe n- double-a-c-p los angeles chapter honored achievement award in 2009. and it planned to do it again this month. kron 4 sports will cover all give you insight on the donald sterling scandal on sports night live - sunday night. assigned san fran posture discuss was found is--former acs with or--female executive with anheuser busch whistling for gender discrimination. the trial for francine katz started this week. the 56 year-old lawyer says she was paid less than half or the base

we saw the naacp have all kinds of problems around the whole sterling case. so it's not just blacks over here and whites over here. we have to engage repetitiously and continuously because we've been separated repetitiously and continuously for generations. so we're not going to -- this isn't going to happen in one newscast. we have to keep having the courage. we have to have revolutionary-type conversations and that just means we can't be afraid. >> go ahead, bomani. >> we have to acknowledge the game theory aspects of what we're talking about and it's a prevailing sentiment that as black people, as brown people get more white people by definition wind up getting less, that's why when paul ryan and guys like that use the code it works every time because it appeals to people's fears of losing whatever they have. some people, just the power they have in their regular lives, that's what they're afraid of losing. the step of stopping being polite is, a, not just paul ryan using code. it's crushing paul ryan and guys like that for using the code and then the peop

he is a president of the naacp and a member of the board of the national naacp. welcome. >> thank you. >> let's begin with just your personal story. you have been dealing with the delays and issues with that va facili facility. tell me what happened. how many times you went to this va facility. what did you not get? >> i quit going to the va facility because the treatment and the way you're dealt with there. i started going. i was very, very fort nate. i refuse to go to the va although i am a disabled veteran. they have to deal with and shake it to the side. it's frustrating. >> what were the complaints. >> less than a person when. it was dealing. hours on end. i remembered numerous times that their appointments scheduled. he will call you or you get there and say you're sorry, we have to change this. it's going to have to be rescheduled and the rescheduling was something out of nowhere. >> let's talk about way back when. i know this is incredibly serious business. you, yourself, and i have copies of your letter here to eric shinseke and to senator john mccain. t

>> mine is cornell brooks, the newly elected ceo of the naacp. my worst is the assistant veteran affairs, sloane gibson. >> how about you, joe? best and worst? >> my best, of course is eric holder gave a great speech, commencement speech, and used it to talk about sentencing of african-american men. and worst is the story about the pregnant sudanese woman who would not recant her christianity and is being put to death for it. >> best is hillary clinton thanks to dr. carl rove who made her look better this week than before. worst was a close call between the "new york times" for house republicans voting down another immigration provision. >> okay, good to see you guys. thank you so much. and that's a wrap of the show. i'll be right back here tomorrow at noon eastern. 's correct. cause i'm really nervous about getting trapped. why's that? uh, mark? go get help! i have my reasons. look, you don't have to feel trapped with our raise your rate cd. if our rate on this cd goes up, yours can too. oh that sounds nice. don't feel trapped with the ally rais

donald sterling reportedly had donated $45,000 to the naacp over the past seven years. the naacp says those donations will be returned. >>> in the meantime the lawyer for donald sterling's girlfriend says a friend of hers released the now infamous recording of the clippers' owners and his racist rants to tmz. you see her there with that sun visor hiding her face from reporters, her lawyer says she gave small portions of their conversation to a friend for safe keeping, and that friend leak it had to tmz -- leaked it to tmz. >>> the warriors will face the clippers for a winner take all game 7 of their playoff series. that will will be tomorrow night after golden state's last second victory at oakland's oracle arena. >> it hit the rim. >> now warriors star seth curry intentionally missed that foul shot with less than a second to play to let the clock run out. if he'd made it the clock would have stopped. the clippers could have called a time out and tried to come back to win. the warriors beat the clippers 100 to 99. couldn't have been any closer. the wizard's sloppy game