Metro boomin, and featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 787, puerto rico steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy oh, my goodness fantastic. Hot crowd here tonight. Hot crowd here at the tonight show. Welcome, everybody, welcome to the tonight show [ cheers and applause ] heres what people are talking about. Did you guys see this . The New York Times says that each day President Trump watches eight hours of tv and drinks 12 diet cokes. [ laughter ] sounds less like the president , more like a college kid who just got home for winter break. [ cheers and applause ] can i have another one, ma . [ laughter ] can i watch riverdale, mom . No. [ laughter ] 12 diet cokes a day, and depending on how many hes had, it really changes trumps behavior. Here, ill show you what i mean. Watch this. Thank you very much. Thank you. Sit down, please. Beautiful hats. Hey look, im president. [ laughter ] i dont care. Being president gives you great power, right . Dont as
People had their social networks, their continuities. And one of the interest things that has come out of that, those connection connections and they found a black congregation, particularly the clergy. In this discussion im going to talk too much about men, but males have dominated in some ways the kind of conversation about american politics for a number of reasons. So there are a host of characters, im not going to talk about all of them, but there are some things that i really want you to Pay Attention to. One it says Indigenous Community organization. Black churches are Indigenous Community organizations and its an indigenous because it is controlled by the people at the very lowest level, at the ground level. And i dont mean that in terms of status, but at the ground level. And therefore it can you see this other word it creates its own organic leadership. It belongs to its own community. And well talk about that a little bit more some of these terms. Electoral politics, public p
So, i mean, on monday. And that is that africanamericans had a Civil Society, and that is Civil Society by that i mean society outside the state. That where people had their social networks, their continuities, and one of the interesting things that has come out of that, those connections, is a kind of leadership out of a black congregation, particularly the clergy. And now, in this discussion, im going to talk too much about men, but males have dominated, in some ways, the kind of conversation about american politics for a number of reasons as we can see. And see my little thing works. Lets try this again. So, there are a host of characters. Im not going to talk about all of them, but there are some things that i really want you to Pay Attention to. One, it says, Indigenous Community organization. Black churches are Indigenous Community organizations. And its indigenous because it is controlled by the people at the very lowest level. At the ground level. And i dont mean that in low in
Will see tuesday, wednesday, thursday of next week we have signings for the following week we have signings and even more coming. If youre not on our email list and youd like to get on the email list, we would be more than happy to put you on there. Today, we are very happy to have doctor gerald horne back with us today. Cspan is also that when you come up to ask questions, come up to the microphone. This is all being filmed to be broadcast. They are here to talk about two new books, stormy, the heavens. The book is so new that gerald just saw today. [laughter] its published by our friends at black classic press and were happy to see them do yet another good book and the story of the associated lega negro press is the other book you will be discussing and hopefully we will have him back in a couple months. He usually comes out to the pan african film festival. He has a couple more books coming out in january and hes been passing out flyers. As you all know hes a professor of history do
In terms of generationally did not prepare us for the work that needs to happen today. Thats the critique i was making about trading on individual success without a sense of social responsibility. Who are your parents . My parents are both retired professionals. One was a School Teacher and administrator of the Chicago Public schools for 35 years and my father recently retired was photojournalist. He worked for Johnson Johnson publishing in the early days, charlotte observer, news day, for past 20 years, New York Times staff photographer. Are they retired from new york. My mother always lived in chicago. My parent were divorced when i was young. My father lived in new york for over 30 years. What is your lineage . The famous part of my lineage, the part i know as opposed to distantly, im greatgrandson of the founder of Elijah Mohammed founder of nation of islam. My mother never converted but very much formative to my early years my First Cousins aunts and uncles all very much part of t