just an incredible shot behind you, we appreciate it. i want to bring back in nbc news correspondent and host of the nbc you had quite the viewpoint from where you were as well. what are some of your takeaways here, and also what were some of the things that people were telling you as well? lindsey, i think one of the big takeaways, and she mentioned this, the idea of this generation coming together in a single moment. so you have elders who were here during the first march, and you have young people who i ve been talking to, saying, you know what? the generation before us fought so hard, and even though some of our rights are eroding and being attacked, we want to stand up and make sure that our generation s voice is heard. but also, one young lady said, young people listen to young people. and so all i can get up and be on the stands and listened to and andrew young talk about his struggle and working side by side with dr. king, they don t necessarily that might not resonate wi
but you hear a young person say we have to be here, and talk about what this generation is getting from the last, it s embodying dr. martin kings granddaughter. 15-year-old yolanda king. she got up on that stage and tapped into what is really a powerful force. tapping into what it needs to be a young person in this. let s take a listen. if i could speak to my grandfather today, i would say, i am sorry. we still have to be here, to rededicate ourselves to finishing your work. and ultimately, realizing your hidden dream. how long, you may ask, will it be before we get our freedom? i don t know, but truth must serve. how long, not long. because the more arc of the universe is long, but being stored justice. having those two, the granddaughter of dr. king and the son, saying that it s time for a generation to stand up and finish the job, and the
little girl. no one betting on people would have bet that she would become the first woman president of harvard university or even that harvard would ever have a woman president. harvard is now a month away from inaugurating its second woman president, professor claudine gay, the daughter of haitian immigrants. in her new book, now professor drew gilpin faust writes, for many white southerners of my generation, a life defining question has been how long it took us to notice the contradictions between the democratic and christian ideals intoned in church and school and the patterns of injustice in which our lives were invaded. when did the contradictions become troubling? when did they become unbearable? what was the moment of epiphany? for drew, the epiphany came when she was nine years old, on february 12th, 1957, she wrote a letter, there mr. eisenhower,
generation, a life defining question has been how long it took us to notice the contradictions between the democratic and christian ideals intoned in church and school and the patterns of injustice in which our lives were invaded. when did the contradictions become troubling? when did they become unbearable? what was the moment of epiphany? for drew, the epiphany came when she was nine years old, on february 12th, 1957, she wrote a letter, there mr. eisenhower, i am nine years old, and i am white. but i have many feelings about segregation. she asked the president of the united states to and segregation. our games in the woods and fields around our house most often involved the refining of civil war battles, when my
stupid. for bands of my generation, you understand about the ups and downs. you can see it, like, where the pitfalls? what is the you are going to take? when might this happen? when might that happen? for those people who are on the first wave of sort of global pop superstardom, if you want to call that, it was news to them, like, why does everyone suddenly hit are banned? we sold eight billion records last year. what s the deal? so, it s confusing. it was not just the bg s, but the idea of the dance,, in that period. it was no longer acceptable for this kind of music to carry the weight, carry the industry. everybody was at that point in their life where they began to look for other things to do. and andy was having problems as well. i saw him in malibu. he had been involved with a lot