go home! it s like a bomb. we re sitting on a bomb. you can have a black person killed with a video, then this is what you ll get. this is a revolution. should people be frightened? i think people should wake up. it s 1991. wake up. we have talked at each other and about each other for a long time. it s high time we all began talking with each other. no justice, no peace! can we all get along? in about 20 minutes from now david dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from city hall and take a public oath of office and become new york city s 106th mayor and the city s first african-american mayor. i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. david dinkins being inaugurated on new year s day in 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. people are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. a grandson of slaves was sworn in today a
- it s a beautiful thing. like, number one in the whole country, that s a major accomplishment. - there was a lot of people experiencing success visibly. - the most prestigious award for literature has gone today to the american novelist toni morrison, the nobel prize. - i think i m the first african- american to win the nobel prize. - you are. - and that is astonishing. - suddenly, people who we looked to as heroes and as markers of dignity and grace and talent and success, suddenly, america was looking at them too. this represents a new understanding of diversity, a new understanding of american possibility. - everybody wanted to be like us. everybody wanted to talk like us. everybody wanted to see our movies. they wanted to listen to our music. they wanted to wear our clothes. and some people felt like we lost that war, that revolution in the early 60s and the 70s, but we won the war in pop culture in the 90s. - every city has cases of police brutality, but few are as brutal as t
country, that s a major accomplishment. there was a lot of people experiencing success, visibly. the most prestigious award for literature has gone today to the american novelist toni morrison, the nobel prize. i think i am the first african-american to win the nobel prize. you are. and that is astonishing. suddenly, people who we looked to as heroes and as markers of dignity and grace and talent and success, suddenly, america was looking at them, too. this represents a new understanding of diversity, a new understanding of american possibility. everybody wanted to be like us. everybody wanted to talk like us. everybody wanted to see our movies. they wanted to listen to our music. they wanted to wear our clothes. and some people felt like we lost that war, that revolution in the early 60s and the 70s, but we won the war in pop culture in the 90s. every city has cases of police brutality, but few are as brutal as the alleged attack against haitian immigrant abner loui
possibility. everybody wanted to be like us. everybody wanted to talk like us. everybody wanted to see our movies. they wanted to listen to our music. they wanted to wear our clothes. and some people felt like we lost that war, that revolution, in the early 60s and the 70s but we won the war in the pop culture in the 90s. few are as brutal as the alleged attack against haitian immigrant. nearly-2,000 demonstrators marched on the 70th precinct yesterday where he says police beat him and sodomized him. the attack comes, at a time when new york has gained new respect for its plummeting-crime rate. but complaints about police misconduct are soaring. reporter: the plastic cups covered the shell casings from 41 bullets fired by police, after they confronted dialo, 22-year-old west african immigrant who may have been reaching for his keys. in many ways, the 90s ends
as heroes sxharkers of grace and talent and success, suddenly america is looking at them too. this is a new understanding of diversity, a new understanding of american possibility. everybody wanted to be like us. everybody wanted to talk like us. everybody wanted to see our movies and listen to our music and wear our clothes. and some people felt like we lost that war, that revolution in the early 60s and 70s, but we won the war in pop culture in the 90s. every city has cases of police brutality. but few are as brutal as the alleged attack against haitian immigrant abner louima. 2,000 demonstrators marched on the headquarters. where abner louima says police beat him and sodomized him. the attack comes as new york is getting new respect for its plummeting crime rate but complaints about police misconduct are soaring. the plastic cups covered the shell casings from 41 bullets fired by police after they