More on here and now. One righteous man samuel battle and the shattering of the color line in new york is a new book that tells the courageous story of the first black new York City Police officer. Now, samuel battle broke the color barrier on the police force, enduring hostility on the job and on city streets. Joining us today pulitzer prizewinning journalist and the author of one righteous man, arthur browne. Thank you so much for being with us this afternoon. Thank you for having me, sandra. I appreciate it. This book really is a walkthrough history, through new york city history, in a lot of ways and even the countrys to a smaller extent. What drew you to sam battles story . Okay. In 2009, an amateur historian had known about sam battle and known that hed been the first cop on the new York City Police force, that hed broken in in 1911. He persuaded new york city to place a sign up on the intersection of lenox avenue and 135th street. The daily news did a little story. They called h
In the u. S. They were expecting 300,000. So 370 was 20 more. But last year in the same quarter they added 900,000 or 800,000. So wall street journal is making certain points. And then to almost double the bottom line when youre at hundred times earnings thats good but is it still pennies. What was the actual number . Pennies per share. Still pennies per share. Im sort of surprised the international, do they have the content around the world that people will pay for. They havent spent a huge amount of money yet on True International programming in the new languages and what it means is actually that american programming or u. S. Programming with ghienglish is working. They have a benny hill type show ready to go or monti python. Do they know the cultural . What youre finding is narco is working in a lot of places. Its working here and in south america and parts of europe. Its working. What does a billion dollars more spent on content mean in the number of shows and how many, how much n
Larry i forgot. There is an explosion. laughter yup boner times back, you guys for those of you not hip to our competition, heres how it goes. I have a dare for every sweet sixteen team in the ncaa tournament. Thats right, 16 teams, 16 dares. Every time a team wins, that dare advances, all the way to the championship. Whichever team wins is the dare ill have to do. Last year the duke blue devils won and i had to do the show in spandex. cheers and applause ahh the memories. And the chafing. So this year, if gonzaga wins, then ill have to do a choreographed dance to formation. cheers and applause that one comes from hannah kerman. You really hate me, dont you hannah . Its great you guys have been sending these in. Theres a lot of other dares, from me having to dress up as a klingon, to me having to host the show drunk. That is my favorite one. I think that might be si syracu. Not for sure. Check out all of the sweet sixteen dares on the nightly show website. And follow along on twitter w
Welcome to the nightly show. So good to see you guys. Im larry wilmore. Before we get to our top story, i have to mention march madness. Here we go, boys march madness basketball 2016 its boner time larry i forgot. There is an explosion. laughter yup boner times back, you guys for those of you not hip to our competition, heres how it goes. I have a dare for every sweet sixteen team in the ncaa tournament. Thats right, 16 teams, 16 dares. Every time a team wins, that dare advances, all the way to the championship. Whichever team wins is the dare ill have to do. Last year the duke blue devils won and i had to do the show in spandex. cheers and applause ahh the memories. And the chafing. So this year, if gonzaga wins, then ill have to do a choreographed dance to formation. cheers and applause that one comes from hannah kerman. You really hate me, dont you hannah . Its great you guys have been sending these in. Theres a lot of other dares, from me having to dress up as a klingon, to me hav
First gentleman. For the first time in nearly nine decades, a sitting american president is waking up in cuba. President obamas historic arrival in havana yesterday ends decades of isolation between the u. S. And cuba. Larry you know, according to fox news, obamas sitdown with castro marks the first time an evil communist dictator has met with the leader of cuba. laughter fox news, man. Fox news, telling the truth applause yeah, i know same thing bleep is true. Up in the stands, you know what im talking about, right. There was a bit of an awkward moment when castro was finishing ducking a question on Human Rights Violations. Cheek thi check this out. laughter larry what was that, obama . Like this makes your arm invisible, by going limp . Oh, i dont want you to do that. Let me give you some advice, mr. President if you dont want fox news to call you cubas puppet, dont act like a marionette. Human rights, they went laughter of course, many are criticizing obama for going to cuba when th