people don t have the skills to fill those jobs. in china and all over the world companies are struggling to hire workers. here in the united states, more than half of the companies can t fill positions. we can and must do a better job at training for jobs. tonight in our advancing the dream series we are looking for solutions. 80% of middle skills jobs require just one year of training or less. so it can be done. it can be done fast. now is the time to change our future. joining me now is graeg capelli of apollo group, the owner and operator of the university of phoenix, the nation s largest accredited for-profit college. full disclosure, the apollo group is a sponsor of this
last week as part of reverend al sharpton s advancing the dream special, he sat down with former secretary of state, condoleezza rice, who in 1963 was a child living in the birmingham community that was rocked by the death of four girls in an explosion at the 16th street baptist church. she felt the blast while sitting in her father s church only a couple miles away from the site of the bombing. in her conversation with reverend sharpton, ryce talked about the impact of the attack on her tight-knit african-american community in birmingham and how that community responded to living under the constant and realized threat of domestic terrorism. for kids in birmingham, my age, it was 8:00, it was, how could these people hate us so much? what is this? your dad had a watchman group?
and then i had such an attitude, i said, we ll have this and that and i won t do this or that and then at the end of the conversation, i heard, okay. and so i said, okay, we ll do that then. we ll bring you back that s it? up that quick? no, you re not finished. i ll bring you back. and i have movie ideas for you. tamron hall, melissa, you know, we got a thing. we can do this. tyler perry, we ll be right back. thank you. coming up, stefy wu stefy wonder, back on stage at the apollo. and corey booker, how he is advancing the dream. and condoleezza rice, on the day that may have changed her life. someone called the church to say a bomb went off at 16th street. we felt the explosion. this is an msnbc special. advancing the dream live from the apollo. [ male announcer ] at hebrew national,
discipline yourself and insulate yourself. tell us how you dealt with this childhood. maybe certain people watching think you have to have a certain pedigree and certain background to do something. and you went past all of them. dealing with not only the race but class inside of our race and you still busted through. well, i appreciate that, reverend. i tell you, for me, you talk about where you come from. i was talking to my sister earlier before i came, i told her i was going to do this advancing the dream. we were talking about my grandfather. he was very old at the time, laying in the bed. i would visit my grandmother in rural louisiana. he was either born right at the emancipation proclamation or born a slave. we don t know because of birth records. but knowing the history of where he s come from, understanding that both my parents grew up in rural louisiana, in the center
you are. well, let me say let me say you also give a lot of us bragging rights because you know i have two daughters, dominique and ashley in here somewhere. i took them out one night to magic johnson theater over at starbucks, it said magic on the starbucks out in california. i took them somewhere else you owned. i said, i know him. i grabbed my cell phone. i dialed you. but i got voicemail. magic, we re going to bring you back in a minute. don t go nowhere. thank you, so much. magic johnson. stevie wonder, tyler perry, cory booker, plus condoleezza rice on her own amazing journey. my parents couldn t take me to have a hamburger at the walworts counter, but had me absolutely convinced i could be president of the united states if i want to. that s all coming up when msnbc s special advancing the dream live from the apollo,