martin luther king and what he went through and the people whose names we don't know went through, you just keep coming back and legislatively in the statehouse of virginia, we did that with some bills where i knew what was going to happen but we moved the ball further each time around and that's a good character straight. >> what will you be dogged about here in washington? >> we ran on a student security sort of proposal that would allow young people with student loan debt to choose to defer to receive social security benefits to exchange forgiveness of student loan debt and would make our social security promise to our seniors solvent for perpetuity and allow young people if they chose to and only if they chose to, to help erase some of that student loan debt. it's a winner all around because you've taken an entire generation out of the producing class, you don't start a small business if you've got student loan debt and you don't buy a car or get married to paraphrase mrs. clinton, you don't move out of mom's basement and don't mean it in a pejorative sense and that innovative thin

plus, not even alive in their from dr. martin luther king, jr. they are sharing the lesson they have. first a live look outside on this saturday morning after a chilly start to the day. timing out when the snow arrives tomorrow and how much you need to shovel. with that, good morning. thank you for joining us on wisn 12 news this morning. 8:00 a.m. on this saturday, december 3rd, i'm andy choi. we begin with the look at your forecast. here is meteorologist jeremy nelson. good morning. jeremy. jeremy: good morning. you saw the camera outside from downtown milwaukee. just draped in a blanket of cloud cover. that is statewide. this is showing clearing up north. but looking at the visible satellite and clouds here, too. and a mainly cloudy sad ahead. but dry out there. so you can head outside, dress accordingly. 32 degrees. pretty chilly with the west to northwest breeze close to 10 miles per hour. this is a look from our msoe camera down at cathedral square ready for the holiday here is your forecast, make it a warm cup of coffee this morning. keep

martin luther king came out against the vietnam war a year before his death. now, iffew weeks from there is a platform on which i will be privileged to stand and speak, by opening remarks probably be something like, welcome to the fourth reich. [laughter] i was talking with a comrade recently. of the thirdim reich. he was a victim of the great holocaust and what happened to the jewish people during the reign of hitler. and all my life i've committed myself to making sure that here in this country, not for the wont of effort, but i and so many others would be forever committed to the idea that america will remain an open and free and democratic society. [applause] with each cycle, those thoughts become a bit dimmed. , wei think more than ever are, indeed, democracy now. i am at the threshold of my 90th year -- [applause] who said that? thought i would live this long, but to be able to share an evening with danny glover and certainly with noam chomsky, whom i have great respect, thatdeep i can kind of dance out of here feeling like, well, i did it all. [laughter

[applause] >> that was dr. martin luther king. that audio in that auditorium, 7000 seats hit the floor, applauding, etc. i was very inspired by martin luther king. i went out in the community and quit my engineering job just to work in the community. go ahead. [laughter] >> you sound just like dr. king, i will say that. seale: i'm a standup comedian. i am a jazz drummer. imho sherman and a hunter. my father, when i was 12, he bought me my first high-powered rifle hunted bear, deer, , everything. i was an expert shot when i was 12 years old. that crap that huey newton supposedly taught me about a gun, i am 12, i am seven years older than hewitt. he had to be poor or five years -- he had to be four or five years old. i did not even know he existed. when you read that stuff and lies that people propagate, especially the lies that the counterintelligence program propagated -- i don't know these people who wrote this crap. but my point is here -- i have a lot of skills. i was raised a competent builder from age seven. my father built o

like what dr. martin luther king said, we should look at the content of one's character. i hope the youth can view america as being this great exceptional land that we are, that fights for freedom and democracy, that we're able to state our opinions. i think being able to teach our children that, i think it's such a critical part of what parents have to do. unfortunately our schools are failing us on that. we're getting to a point, eric, that moving aside from gender, moving aside from color, it's about a great america. that's what we should all be striving for. >> i've got to say, my whole problem with this whole segment is, i think these three women are so young, that's why they're talking like this. because they're saying as if somehow they're talking to millennials. i think you guys are very young and quite wonderful. mer ri christmas. >> we'll take it. >> what is it, rachel? you started mtv and you grow up and -- >> grow up? she's still a kid. >> i'm a conservative -- i was always the conservative on mtv. they were ridiculed for it, and they took it down. i think peo

martin luther king. and they had come from a demonstration or rally, and king had been told that there were men looking to kill him that night. and they drove up to a house, and bill and king were staying in the house together with a group of other people. bill told the story that people were petrified that night. i mean, they thought that the house was going to be bombed, and they darkened the house so there were no lights at all. and he was afraid for his life. and king must have sensed this fear in the room. and he walked over to a piano and started to play "this little light of mine," and the whole group just started to sing this song, and they sang songs all through the night. and bill said at the end of this time, it was like there was nothing to be afraid of. i mean, he himself, a non-religious person, was moved by this music and himself strengthened by it. [light piano music] [explosion] [folk guitar strumming] ♪ it was back in 1942, ♪ i was a member of a good platoon. ♪ (seeger) plato was

like what dr. martin luther king said, we should look at the content of one's character. i hope the youth can view america as being this great exceptional land that we are, that fights for freedom and democracy, that we're able to state our opinions. i think being able to teach our children that, i think it's such a critical part of what parents have to do. unfortunately our schools are failing us on that. we're getting to a point, eric, that moving aside from gender, moving aside from color, it's about a great america. that's what we should all be striving for. >> i've got to say, my whole problem with this whole segment is, i think these three women are so young, that's why they're talking like this. because they're saying as if somehow they're talking to millennials. i think you guys are very young and quite wonderful. mer ri christmas. >> we'll take >> what is it, rachel? you started mtv and you grow up and -- >> grow up? she's still a kid. >> i'm a conservative -- i was always the conservative on mtv. they were ridiculed for it, and they took it down. i think people

martin luther king, jr., said, the most segregated hour in america is worship hour. is that still the case? >> the reality is, yes, it still is. >> i think, so but i think we wouldn't worry so much about that one hour a week of being divided if we weren't so divided the other hours of the week. >> reporter: after the tragic murders at a charleston church last year, the two pastors got their two churches together for a series of meetings to talk their community. >> we were the only non-african american church. >> reporter: on this night just before thanksgiving, church members met to break bread, and walls that have separated them for years. >> one door that said colored and one door that said white. i think that was my first consciousness. >> reporter: for three hours they shared funny stories and sad one, too, and by the end of the night, the two congregations grew closer. churches the next day. 19-year-old ethan thompson may have summed it up best. >> this series has taught me that despite what the world is telling us right now, that this kind of conversation is po

martin luther king, jr., said, the most segregated hour in america is worship hour. is that still the case? >> the reality is, yes, it still is. >> i think, so but i think we wouldn't worry so much about that one hour a week of being divided if we weren't so divided the other hours of the week. >> reporter: after the tragic murders at a charleston church last year, the two pastors got their two churches together for a series of meetings to talk about race and its impact on their community. >> we were the only non-african american church. >> reporter: on this night just before thanksgiving, church members met to break bread, and walls that have separated them for years. >> one door that said colored and one door that said white. i think that was my first consciousness. >> reporter: for three hours they shared funny stories and sad one, too, and by the end of the night, the two congregations grew closer. >> we talked to members of both churches the next day. 19-year-old ethan thompson may have summed it up best. >> this series has taught me that despite what the world

in the early 1960s, dr. martin luther king jr. invited the staples singers to travel with him. >> we are the people that will not stop until they have full freedom anhuman dignity. ♪ freedom's highway >> reporter: their music would become the sound track to his civil rights crusade. ♪ >> i walked beside dr. king and i sang songs for him. you know? that makes me proud. ♪ oh lord ♪ oh lord >> reporter: in 1964, the staples were invited to the new port folk festival which introduced them to a broader audience. >> one more time for the staples singers. ♪ oh >> reporter: things changed in late 60s. when their new label, stacks records put a little section behind them. ♪ ain't nobody crying >> reporter: in 1972 "i'll take you there took them to number one. how did it feel when you suddenly broke mainstream? >> you know, it felt good. it, it, we were finally being heard. ♪ ♪ let me take you there ♪ >> reporter: mavis' distinctive voice attracts all star collaborators. wilko's jeff tweedy produced a grammy winning album

martin luther king jr. invited the staples singers to travel with him. >> we are the people that will not stop until they have full freedom and human dignity. ♪ freedom's highway >> reporter: their music would become the sound track to his civil rights crusade. ♪ >> i walked beside dr. king and i sang songs for him. you know? that makes me proud. ♪ oh lord ♪ oh lord >> reporter: in 1964, the staples were invited to the new port folk festival which introduced them to a broader audience. >> one more time for the staples singers. ♪ oh >> reporter: things changed in late 60s. when their new label, stacks records put a little section behind them. ♪ ain't nobody crying >> reporter: in 1972 "i'll take you there took them to number one. how did it feel when you suddenly broke mainstream? >> you know, it felt good. it, it, we were finally being heard. ♪ ♪ let me take you there ♪ >> reporter: mavis' distinctive voice attracts all star collaborators. wilko's jeff tweedy produced a grammy winning albu

most people are familiar with what dr. martin luther king jr. said the most segregated hour in america is worship hour. is that still the case? >> reality is it still is. i also think we wouldn't worry about so much of the one hour a week being divided if we weren't so divided the other hours of the week. >> reporter: after the tragic murders at a charlseton church last year, the two pastors got their two churches together for a series of meetings to talk about race and its impact on the community. nonafrican-american people in the room. >> reporter: on this night just before thanksgiving, church members met to break bread. and walls that have separated them for years. one door that said color. one door that said white. i think that was my my first consciousness. >> for three hours they shared funny stories and sad ones too. and by the end of the night, the two congregations grew closer. we talked to members of both churches the next day. 19-year-old ethan thompson may have summed it up best. >> it has taught me that despite what -- what the wor

local students draw inspiration from dr. martin luther king jr.. how they are sharing the lessons they have learned from this leader. a chilly start to the day. we are timing out when the snow arrives tomorrow and how much you will need to shovel. good morning. thank you for joining us on wisn 12 news "this morning." 5:00 a.m. on saturday, december am let's get your day started with a look at your forecast. here's weatherwatch 12 meteorologist jeremy nelson. good morning, jeremy. jeremy: we have snow in the weekend forecast. mortuary with -- more dreary weather. in the city, it is currently just above freezing. at the moment, with the mp lot of wind this morning. it is seven miles per hour. let's break down the forecast for the first half of the weekend. maybe a peak of sunshine, but it is mainly cloudy with a high of 37. snow on sunday. stay with us, i will go over the timing and how much snow you can expect, coming up. warning for other drivers after she says she was the victim of a bump and run. the incident happened near 74th and locust around

martin luther king came up as saying, they were reading from another side. that's what we have to understand about the bible. it is open to interpretation. uses foro open to the those who have various pernicious, very pernicious intent. we really have to think about what is ab bible is saying in terms of basic humanity and basic decency. that is where we need to be really reading and not about issues of subjugation and oppression. host: al. caller: good morning. one, i think in every race and every religion, two or 3% of people are evil. we do not fight a war does the evil people. also, black lives matter's started under president obama. if you look, it seems like the left is always on the side of evil. you have young african-americans who are arrested and charged with transporting drugs across state lines. what he told the judge is you did not know who was transporting drugs is a he ballroom the car from -- he borrowed the car from a friend and and i know. the judge told him he was the one driving the car across state lines with the drugs and ignorance of t

most people are familiar with what dr. martin luther king jr. said the most segregated hour in america is worship hour. is that still the case? >> reality is it still is. i also think we wouldn't worry about so much of the one hour a week being divided if we weren't so divided the other hours of the week. >> reporter: after the tragic murders at a charlton church last year, the two pastors got their two churches together for about race and its impact on the community. >> we were the only nonafrican-american people in the room. >> reporter: on this night just before thanksgiving, church members met to break bred. and walls that have separated them for years. and one daughter said, that was my first consciousness. >> for three hours they shared funny stories and sad ones too. and by the end of the night, the two we talked to members of both city. i'm elaine quijano. >>> welcome to the "overnight news." more questions about russia's possible interference in the election surfaced this weekend. along with concerns about the man said to be president e

martin luther king, jr. and first a live look outside on this saturday morning. a chilly start to the day. we're timing out when the snow arrives tomorrow and how much you need to shovel. with that, good morning. and thank you for joining us on wisn 12 news this morning. 7:00 a.m. on this saturday, december 3rd. i'm andy choi.

most people are familiar with what dr. martin luther king jr. said the most segregated hour in america is worship hour. is that still the case? >> reality is it still is. i also think we wouldn't worry about so much of the one hour a week being divided if we weren't so divided the other hours of the week. >> reporter: after the tragic murders at a charlton church last year, the two pastors got their two churches together for a series of meetings to talk about race and its impact on the community. >> we were the only nonafrican-american people in the room. >> reporter: on this night just before thanksgiving, church members met to break bred. and walls that have separated them for years. and one daughter said, that was my first consciousness. >> for three hours they shared funny stories and sad ones too. and by the end of the night, the two congregations grew closer. we talked to members of both chur. s the next day. 19-year-old ethan thompson may have summed it up best. >> it has taught me that despite what -- what the world is telling us right n

martin luther king and others to draw the nation's attention to the struggle for equal voting rights by marching from selma to montgomery, alabama, in march of 1965. with "selma," duvernay became the first african-american female director to have a film nominated for best picture at the academy awards. well, ava duvernay join us in new york. welcome back to democracy now! >> pleased to be here. amy: now "13th" is playing in the age of trump. talk about how you conceived of it, what "13th" is about. we got a good sense in this trailer. and where we're going now. >> thank you for having me. explanationy is an through our history of americans as a relates to oppression and racism and criminalization, and how we have come to the point where we have 2.3 million people behind bars, not to mention the millions who are affected by incarceration, on parole, and probation. trying to deconstruct the issue. when i first started working on it, i was focused primarily on the prison industrial complex. profit around punishment. you really can't talk about that issue without context as historical le

martin luther king and ralph david abernathy and where andrew young worked and jose williams and so many others. james orange, and those of us young people who believed that we could overcome. she was a recipient of the ella baker award from the fclc, and martin luther king iii. where i got to see jackie really making it and doing it was in her leadership with c. dolores tucker and her work with the national congress of black women. as a board member, i remember coming as a young member of congress and we would go to that very famous breakfast, congressman green, the sunday after the congressional black caucus, and there was jackie. she was the orchestrater, the guider, she respected c. dolores tucker, she honored the women who came, she was at their beck and call, we need this, and she was the person that the likes of malcolm x's wife, rosa parks, and coretta scott king, because they used to come during their lifetime every year, and those of us who were young members of congress, she welcomed us with open arms and allowed us to sit in the royal place, at the feet of these great women,

martin luther king who always believed, as i d, that we can do this through peace and nonviolence. this is a tool of nonviolence. we must insist that they do their task and that we solve these unsolved murderous civil rights cases and do so to heal the nation and to continue to promote our democracy. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. goodlatte: i yield the alance of my time -- i reserve if -- i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves this egentleman from michigan. mr. conyers: madam speaker, i am finished with our presentation, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. goodlatte: i yield time to myself to say to the gentleman from michigan, mr. conyers, the gentleman from georgia, mr. lewis, the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee, that this is a quest for justice that needs to be ongoing and i'm pleased to support this legislation. i urge my colleagues to do so and yiel

martin luther king said the worship hour is the worship hour. is that still the case? >> i think so. i also think that we wouldn't worry so much about that one hour a week of being divided if we weren't so divided the other hours of the week. >> reporter: pastor scott time for their congregations to know each other because they not only share name but a past church. what is the name of your church? >> first baptist church of christ. >> reporter: started when? >> 1826. >> reporter: what is the name of your church? >> first baptist church, 1826. >> reporter: 1826? >> yes. >> reporter: there can only be one >> we came out of that church. >> reporter: in 1826 there was only one bapive chur iive ti iv. 1845 the church records show the slaves outnumbered their owners 2-1. so a separate church for the blacks was formed. >> that's first baptist church. >> the one i pastor. >> reporter: and yours? >> first baptist church of christ is where i pastor. >> you have been around the long? >> since 1887. >> reporter: and how often have you guys, prior to these meetings, interacted one

he is the buddhist monk nominated for nobel peace prize by dr. martin luther king, jr. that's what happens when you lower the rent, and i gave this book and this one -- [inaudible] in english has a different title in spanish rather than calming fearful mind and wonderful things, wonderful ideas about what we can do in the global times to calm our fears and to make a better planet because i believe it is up to us. one of the things that suggest is that we have a con sewel of stages of all a of the people who have -- stories have not been heard. all of the communities that feel like they have not it been heard and there are so many communities every town, every color, all across this country is why we're so fearful of each other because we fear. we we don't feel our story is being heard and i think telling our own story is essential. i plod the people who put together this book peflt and created new african-american museum. holocaust museum and museums that tell or stories but especially -- stories that need to be heard in this time. i want to close with just an a excerpt

martin luther king, the e posle of nonviolence in the civil rights movement has been shot to death in memphis, tennessee. >> forty years later you'll stand on the platform of east wilmington overlooking the east side. wilmington, a nation, will no longer be in flames, but awaiting a new ripple of hope. >> it's been a long time coming. but, tonight, chan >> you'll be waiting for a young black man inspired by the dream of a king, coming from philadelphia to pick you up, take you on 124-mile trip to washington to be sworn in as president and vice president of the united states of america. i, joseph robinette biden deserve to serve. progress is never easy, but always possible. >> i believe in change because i believe in you. >> and things do get better on our march toward a more perfect union. that is the history of the journey of america and, believe it or not, because you listened to mom and dad, you'll help write it. keep the faith, joey. >> he's a great man, t >> yes. >> amazing life. amazing life. >> extraordinary life. >> i heard someone once say you can judge the quality of your li

martin luther king jr. that we judge people not by the color of their skin, but by their character as human beings.thgg that has been the struggle. [applause] and when we remember, when we remember that 50 or 60 years ago african-americans in the south didn't even have the right to vote. we have to remember 100 years n ago women were not running for president. they didn't have the right to vote. they couldn't get the education or the jobs they wanted. 30 years ago in no time at all people in the community hid their sexuality because of thee retribution that would occur to them if they stood up and said that they were. we have a right as a nation to be proud and how far we have come. got a l we have got a long way to go. racism, sexism, no question about it that we do have a right to be proud that we have gone a long, long way in writing all forms of discrimination and that's what i can tell you without the greatest hesitancy that the amber generation of today is the least racist, the least sexist in the lea

most people are familiar with what dr. martin luther king jr. said, that the most segregated hour in america is worship hour. is that still the case? >> the reality is yes, it still is. >> i think so, but i also think that we wouldn't worry so much about that one hour a week of being divided if we weren't so divided the other hours of the week. >> pastor scott bigson and james goalsbee met two years ago and decided it was time for their congregations to get to know each other. because not only do their churches share a name, but they share a history. what is the name of your church? >> first baptist church of christ. >> and started when? >> 1826. >> and what's the name of your church? >> christ baptist church, 1826. >> 1826. >> yes. >> there can only be one church. >> we came out of that church. >> in 1826, there was only one first baptist church in macon. white slave owners worshipped in the front, with their slaves in the back. but by 1845, church records show that the slaves outnumbered their owners 2 to 1. so a separate church for the blacks

. >> reporter: king admired the group's music. in the early96 10s, dr. martin luther king jr. invited the staple singers to travel with him. >> we are the people that will not stop until they have full freedom and human dignity. ♪ >> reporter: their music would become the sound track to his civil rights crusade. >> i walked beside dr. king and i sang songs for him. you know? that makes me proud! ♪ >> reporter: in 1964, the staplsta stayshista staples were invited to a folk festival and introduced them to a broader audience. >> one more time for the staple singers. >> repr: their new label, stax record, put a rhythm section behind them. and in 1972, "i'll take you there" took them to number one! how did it feel when you suddenly broke mainstream? >> you know, it felt good. we were finally being heard. ♪ ♪ let me take you there >> reporter: mavis' distinctive voice continues to attract all-star collaborators. jeff tweety produced a grammy winning album for her. before that, prince wrote two albums for her. and before that, another songwriter had an even stronger attracti

martin luther king came up as saying, they were reading from another side. that's what we have to understand about the bible. it is open to interpretation. uses foro open to the those who have various pernicious, very pernicious intent. we really have to think about what is ab bible is saying in terms of basic humanity and basic decency. that is where we need to be really reading and not about issues of subjugation and oppression. host: al. caller: good morning. one, i think in every race and every religion, two or 3% of people are evil. we do not fight a war does the evil people. also, black lives matter's started under president obama. if you look, it seems like the left is always on the side of evil. you have young african-americans who are arrested and charged with transporting drugs across state lines. what he told the judge is you did not know who was transporting drugs is a he ballroom the car from -- he borrowed the car from a friend and and i know. the judge told him he was the one driving the car across state lines with the drugs and ignorance of t

martin luther king and what he went through and the people whose names we don't know went through, you just keep coming back. and legislatively in the statehouse of virginia, we did that with some bills where i knew what was going to happen but we moved the ball further each time around and that's a good character trait. reporter: what will you be dogged about here in washington? rep. garrett jr.: we ran on a student security sort of proposal that would allow young people with student loan debt to choose to defer to receive social security benefits to exchange forgiveness of student loan debt and would make our social security promise to our seniors solvent for perpetuity and allow young people if they chose to and only if they chose to, to help erase some of that student loan debt. look it's a winner all around , because you've taken an entire generation out of the producing class, you don't start a small business if you've got student loan debt and you don't buy a car or get married to paraphrase mrs. clinton, you don't move out of mom's basement and don't mean it in a pejorative sen

luther king jr.. s in no more a appropriate time than civil right leaders and faith leaders and others to raise cannot have the extreme and principals of dr. king violated as we now go into a new administration. >> other groups expected to take part include the national urban league and naacp. >> callly anne i just retweeted the best tweet wow what a great, smart sweet. >> i know but this could not twait was from a young man named seth he is 16 and in high school and i really did retweet him seriously this is real. >> another witness twitter war erupting over saturday night live exit donald trump weighed in once again on snl this weekend and again he was not happen we with alec baldwin portrayal. just tried watches saturday night live unwatchable diced an impersonation cannot get worse, sad, this time baldwin tweeted back saying release tax returns and i'll stop. >> and you lover how he's biased. it's not news program. it's snl. they can be as bias as they want to be. >> done done hosted a year ago an

it is acknowledged by brother malcolm and martin luther king and history. the president stands on that foundation. so we rank that the time is now to exonerate marcus garvey by a presidential posthumous pardon, and that is why we are here. amy: we will be joined by julius garvey and a second. president calvin coolidge commuted marcus garvey's sentence in 1927, however, the commutation still left garvey's conviction in place. we're going to ask dr. julius garvey about the case. he is a cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon who is leading the justice4garvey effort. great to have you with us, dr. garvey. welcome to democracy now! tell us what you're doing. >> basically, we have placed before the president a petition for the posthumous pardon of my father. it is well documented in terms of the legal aspect of it, because that is the foundation. political aspects. the legal aspect was prepared by a well-known law firm. they spent almost two years working on it and going to the case. there are thousands of pages, etc., as well as the appeal, which was also denied.