very demanding full-time job as he award-winning correspondent and later assistant managing editor at newsday. so he must not have gotten much sleep working on the job. but before we talk about the book if you don't mind, tell us about your dad. you have a sense of early life we know he was born in alabama moved with his family to hartford connecticut at 12 years old. obviously and graduated from the high school at age 16 and went on to the university of connecticut. by the way, what was his career goal when he entered college? what did he want to do after college? >> he was interested frankly he was challenge as an artist he had the opportunity to go on in our scholarship but he wanted a career he could make money at. but that was always a passion of his so he started as an engineer but didn't like it. it wasn't that he wasn't doing well in the study but those that would come on to become engineers in be very focused in their career and what they knew and nothing else. but he had voracious curiosity and interest so he cannot see himself on one track everythin everything, he studied newspaper

then murray went on to work for newsday. >> went on to work for the newsday and they became friends even in very interesting. i think their interest so there was very intellectual conversations and talking about language and make fun of each other in their writing because people made fun of murray camp with his writing style because they thought it was 18th century. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] but he was brilliant and dad and he became friends and boston columnist that he was an editor and would will added his columns while murray was at newsday. they were good friends and dad appreciated that friendship. but also i mean, in college he was or he thought about becoming an engineer and saw he wasn't a good fit for that. he went on to study history and english and he thought he wanted to be a writer to write the great american novel and when they graduate they would look at their options and what he could do careerwise and while other guys could go into journalism right off the bat at that time he did not even need a college degree to be a journalist the chances of him being hired

demanding full-time job as you award-winning full-time correspondent and assistant managing editor at newsday. so he must not have gotten much sleep working on this book and with your family as well. but before we talk about the book, tell us about your dad and give us a sense of his early life born in alabama moving to hartford connecticut at 12 years old. obviously studious and smart and graduated from high school at age 16. and went on to the university of connecticut. what was his career go and what did he want to do after college? >> and as an art scholarship but he was always passionate but also in all art forms but starting as an engineer but he didn't like it. it wasn't that he wasn't doing well in the study, who was at the people who went on to become engineers and were very focused on their career and what they knew nothing else and that had voracious curiosity. he couldn't see being one track like that. he read everything and he studied newspapers. a lot of people he is reading when he was in high school and college but then went on to edit them. >> and now was another pulitzer pri

in other cases newsday records agents who are appear to be steering minorities towards mixed communities. >> every time i get a listing or client i get so excited because. >> but with a white buyer the same agent texting him about recent gang killings there. >> those real estate agents got caught, i would love to hear their feebl excuses no, no, no, when i told one buyer the neighbors were nice people and the other ones mr. gang killers i meant they were nice gang killers. >> by the way, invoking burning crosses trying to stop a black person from moving too a neighborhood is not only racist, it is overkill. you want to stop a black person from halving moo into a home, tell them their next door neighbor adds raise raise reins to peet poat salad, they are out. and even though red lining was outlawed as an official policy t sures looks like the banks are still doing it. >> lenders deny mortgages for black applications at a rate 80% higher than that of white applicants. >> when we do get loans they are much higher interest rates, much worse conditions. >> if you are african-american making m

broadcaster and journalist, robin desnlow appeared on the bbc‘s newsday programme that after lenin died with this assessment of the former beatles professional career. john lennon was surely the most are markable records that 40 years on, does robin desnlow still see lennon's stature in the same way? it's grown in that he's a legendary figure, people still write books about him, people buy books about him in large numbers still, so he's one of those few heroes who have kept going and going and going. in terms of his stature musicly, i think an awful lot of people just member him, apart from the beatles of course, for just a few songs, give peace a chance and imagine. so i think probably musically, people have forgotten how good he was. i revisited lennon's death ever decade since 1980 during special programming, and i've always found it relatively easy to get big names in the industry to reflect on his talents as a musician and to express how much he means to them, perhaps because he so revered. my whole life as an artist was kind of shaped by him. and i... ican't... ..exaggerate enough

function.and the first question comes from michael at newsday. >> hello, governor. will you be extending the eviction moratorium? hello, how are you? happy holidays to you and to your family. i need to consult with my counsel here on the eviction. is it still in place? >> it is still in place. i believe it is in place until sunday. we are not going to let anybody who is evicted during these circumstances be evicted. we will continue to extend this. throughill in place sunday. gov. cuomo: it is in place through sunday, but i will extended after sunday. next question? frome next question comes when from wnyc. operator, howdy unmute the phone? *1. please unmute your microphone. governor, your next question comes from jackie. and thank you for taking a couple of questions. i wanted to clarify. the plan for bills fans in the stadium. is that still under review or is it happening or certain? gov. cuomo: it is in development. we are working with the bills. zucker speak about the department of health program he is interested in. they are still trying to work through this. i

broadcaster and journalist, robin desnlow appeared on the bbc‘s newsday programme that after lennon died with this assessment of the former beatles‘ professional career. john lennon was surely the most remarkable records that... 40 years on, does robin desnlow still see lennon's stature in the same way? it's grown in that he's a legendary figure, people still write books about him, people buy books about him in large numbers still, so he's one of those few heroes who have kept going and going and going. in terms of his stature musicly, i think an awful lot of people just remember him, apart from the beatles of course, for just a few songs, give peace a chance and imagine. so i think probably musically, people have forgotten how good he was. i revisited lennon's death every decade since 1980 during special programming, and i've always found it relatively easy to get big names in the industry to reflect on his talents as a musician and to express how much he means to them, perhaps because he so revered. my whole life as an artist was kind of shaped by him. and i... ican't... ..exaggerate

governor the first question , comes from michael at newsday. please unmute your microphone. >> hello, governor. will you be extending the rent and eviction moratorium? gov. cuomo: hello, how are you? happy holidays to you and to your family. i need to consult with my counsel here on the eviction. is it still in place? >> it is still in place. i believe it is in place through sunday. obviously, we update these things as we go. we are not going to let anybody who is evicted during these circumstances be evicted. we continue to extend this as well as the commercial moratorium. it is still in place through sunday. gov. cuomo: it is in place through sunday, but i will extend it after sunday. next question, operator? >> the next question comes from gwen from wnyc. unmute aor, how do you phone? *1. >> please unmute your microphone. governor cuomo: do you want to go to the next one? >> governor, your next question comes from jackie roberts. your line is now open. please unmute your microphone. >> hello. thank you for taking a couple questions. i just w

governor, the first question comes from michael at newsday. your line is now open. please unmute your microphone. >> hello, governor. will you be extending the rent eviction moratorium? gov. cuomo: hi, how are you? happy holidays to you and to your family. i need to consult with my counsel here on the eviction. is it still in place? >> it is still in place. i believe it is in place through sunday. obviously, we update these things as we go. we are not going to let anybody who is evicted during these -- due to these circumstances be evicted. we continue to extend this as well as the commercial rent eviction moratorium. it is still in place through sunday. gov. cuomo: it is in place through sunday, but i will extend it after sunday. next question, operator? >> the next question comes from gwen from wnyc. your line is now open, please unmute your microphone. gov. cuomo: operator, how do you unmute a phone? *1. >> please unmute your microphone. governor cuomo: do you want to go to the next one? >> governor, your next question comes from jackie roberts. your line is now

an exceptionally busy newsday, no question about that. we will look at the equity markets. same stove all here with us any moment -- sam stovall here with us any moment. i want to go to the thing you least want to talk about which is dinner with brexit in brussels. let's dive into it right now. why is this important for england's prime minister, dinner on the 13th floor? jonathan: let's question the premise of your question. i don't know how important it actually is. i think it is only as important as they think about where the deadline is for this. i have no idea where the deadline is. you are not going to catch me live on tv and radio talking about the 11th hour, last-minute last attempt, because how the times have we done that over the last four years? tom: let's review history. the first day after brexit, jon ferro doing a three or four hour stretch and on the -- three or four hour stretch and london, having the exact same conversation. the same cannot be said about the ecb, where it has become an emergent meeting that we will see this week with madame lagarde. what do

amy: that was the late journalist phyllis are prize-winning reporter from editor at newsday in new york, les payne, author of "the dead are arising: the life of malcolm x." the book is based on decades of research. including a secret meeting had with the ku klux klan the mysterious death of his father in 1931. for more, we're joined by les payne's daughter tamara payne, co-author of "the dead are arising." she is joining us from new york city. it is going to have you with us. congratulations on the national book award. it must have been so poignant for you. you finishing and also researching with your father this book and then posthumously winning the national book award. talk about first the title "the dead are arising: the life of malcolm x," and this joint project you did with your father, why malcolm x? onthank you for inviting me to talk about this. dad was a big fan of your show democracy now! and would listen to it every day and definitely see the video of it. dead the book itself, "the are arising" comes from the language the members of the nations of amlo -- islam would use to

. >> the next is matt from newsday. matt: happy new year early. mayor de blasio: happy new year. how are you feeling? matt: i am ok. how about yourself? mayor de blasio: i am ecstatic. i've been dreaming of this day. matt: under your nyc vaccine for all campaign, will units be available to someone in those 37 on aborhoods that is faster timeline or in any different way whatsoever, yes or no? mayor de blasio: first, let me frame it. we are going to follow of course the guidelines that originate with the federal government, then are codified by the state. we are going to work with the state to keep expanding those guidelines constantly. so to get the point where we are talking about everyday people, senior citizens, folks with pre-existing conditions -- that has to happen within the state guidelines. we will work to speed that along because we want to be able to always jump ahead to the next group of people when we find there is more vaccine available. when we have gone through one group, we want to immediately move on. we need state guidance to do that. are going line is, we to ma

. >> the next is matt from newsday. matt: happy new year early. mayor de blasio: happy new year. how are you feeling? matt: i am ok. how about yourself? mayor de blasio: i am ecstatic. i've been dreaming of this day. matt: excellent. we love to hear it. matt: under your nyc vaccine for all campaign, will the vaccination itself be available to someone in those 37 neighborhoods that is on a faster timeline or in any different way whatsoever than a person not in those 27 neighborhoods, yes or no? mayor de blasio: first, let me frame it. we are going to follow of course the guidelines that originate with the federal government, and then are codified by the state. we are going to work with the state to keep expanding those guidelines constantly. so to get the point where we are talking about everyday people, senior citizens, folks with pre-existing conditions -- that has to happen within the state guidelines. we will work to speed that along because we want to be able to always jump ahead to the next group of people when we find there is more vaccine available. when we have gone throu

. >> governor, you now have michael from newsday. michael, your line is open. please unmute your microphone. reporter: hello, governor. getting businesses toing to jockey or influence become among the first to get the vaccine? if you are, how are you going to deal with that? a decision onade sports yet? gov. cuomo: we are not talking about a distribution that would do businesses that i am aware of. we have nursing home residents, nursing home staff, health care urgent, in the most capacity, than essential workers, then general public. i don't know that there is a category for businesses, per se. by population and high-risk population but it is unrelated to that unless there's a high risk situation like you talked about. gov. cuomo: anything going on with sports? >> nothing on the sports guidance. as the numbers continue to increase across the state, those high-risk sports activities remain on hold until we see a change, until we see a decline, so that is not happening. gov. cuomo: michael, if you look at that chart, you see sports on areasward the top of spread

. >> governor, you now have michael gormley from newsday. michael, your line is open. please unmute your microphone. reporter: hello, governor. gov. cuomo: hey, michael. >> are you getting businesses or whole fields of businesses trying to jockey or influence to become among the first to get the vaccine? if you are, how are you going to deal with that? and a secondary question, have you made a decision on winter sports yet? gov. cuomo: we are not talking about a distribution that would actually do businesses that i am aware of. we have nursing home residents, nursing home staff, health care workers in the most urgent capacity, then other healthcare workers, then essential workers, then general public. i don't know that there is a category for businesses, per se. larry or robert would know better. >> it is by population and high-risk population, but it is unrelated to that unless there's a high-risk activity, where the workers happen to be in a high-risk activity like you talked about. gov. cuomo: okay. robert, anything new on winter sports? >> nothing new on the sports

. >> governor, you now have michael from newsday. michael, your line is open. please unmute your microphone. reporter: hello, governor. are you getting businesses trying to jockey or influence to become among the first to get the vaccine? if you are, how are you going to deal with that? might secondary question and , have you made a decision on winter sports yet? gov. cuomo: we are not talking about a distribution that would do businesses that i am aware of. we have nursing home residents, nursing home staff, health care workers, in the most urgent capacity, than essential workers, then general public. i don't know that there is a category for businesses, per se. larry or robert would know better. >> it is by population and high-risk population but it is unrelated to that unless there's a high risk activity where the likers are at high risk you talked about. gov. cuomo: anything going on with sports? >> nothing on the sports guidance. as the numbers continue to increase across the state, those high-risk sports activities remain on hold until we see a change, un

from north—east england to the midlands and the south—west, rain and a few sleet showers as we go into newsday and it stays cold for the start of 2021 -- and it stays cold for the start of 2021 —— as we and it stays cold for the start of 2021—— as we go into new and it stays cold for the start of 2021 —— as we go into new year's day. 2021 —— as we go into new year's day- happy 2021 —— as we go into new year's day. happy hogmanay from me and i will see you tomorrow. yes, happy hogmanay. thank you. have you gone? he is composing himself. are you all right? let's look at schools, one of the big issues at the moment. the decision to delay the reopening of secondary schools in england, has been called a "last minute mess" by one teaching union. yesterday, the education secretary announced the temporary closure would slow the spread of coronavirus and allow schools to establish a mass testing programme. this is how the timetable now looks... 0n the 11th of january, only secondary school pupils in years 11 and 13 — who are taking exams in 2021 — can return to face—to—face

fort newsday itself but looks like scotland and northern ireland will be bright, rather grey near the coast and for england and wales. welcome to this bbc news special with me, george alagiah. we'll have coverage of the latest downing street briefing shortly. our headlines... millions more people in england have been placed under tougher tier three and tier four coronavirus restrictions as case numbers continue to rise. i know that tier 3 and tier 4 measures place a significant burden on people, especially on businesses, but i am afraid it is absolutely necessary because of the number of cases that we have seen. the move comes as a sharp rise in the number of covid—related deaths is reported in the uk, rising to 981, with more than 50,000 cases recorded. the start of school term is to be delayed in parts of england,

there will be more wintry showers running down towards wales and the midlands fading as we go into newsday. lots of cloud, bit of brightness towards the east, 18 breeze, brighter towards the west of scotla nd breeze, brighter towards the west of scotland and northern ireland but we stopped only 21 with temperatures at around 4—6, stone cold, too, into the weekend denoted by the blue colours. a shift in windy direction going through to the end of the weekend bringing some more showers along eastern coast but keeping it cold. temperatures by day of around 3-5 at cold. temperatures by day of around 3—5 at their highest. some parts of scotla nd 3—5 at their highest. some parts of scotland struggling to get above freezing as we head through this weekend and even though we see some sunshine i had particularly in western areas it means by night there will be widespread frost still around. temperatures well below freezing in western areas during the weekend. next week stays cold, strongest of the windy will be across england and wales with a greater chance of rain, sleet or snow. get your wa

then murray went on to work for newsday. >> the became very good friends. they would have these very intellectual conversations to talk about language, they would make fun of each other. people is made from the van with his writing style and that because he became friends in boston and dad words is editor she edited robbery was at newsday. and was good friends and dad appreciated the friendship. but also in college he thought about becoming an engineer and saw he wasn't a good fit for that he thought he wanted to be a writer but the new look at your options of what you can do careerwise and while others could go into journalism right off the bat, at that time he didn't even need a degree, the chances of him being hired was not likely. and then to see what would be there. and went to army ranger schoo school, he might have a fire or very athletic but also and to acquire information and then took a class to be an information officer and was at the top of his class on that and did that on a whim and then said he wanted a speechwriter who was at the top of the