and activist. and when you mention that academy award he won, just a year before that he participated in the march on washington. if you can imagine in that era as someone who perhaps had success that was very hard to come by, it would be much easier perhaps to protect that career and just sit at home, but that s not what he did. he talked about making choices, smart choices about the roles he played on-screen. but the choice to be politically active in the public sphere was not necessarily a safe one. we talked to the naacp hollywood bureau about poitier s legacy. we asked about the senior vice president s favorite moment in his films. you ll hear from him on that. but first hear from poitier himself receiving an image award in 2001 talking about how much the naacp offered such needed encouragement through the years. that same encouragement resounded through the years and
i would imagine that many of them probably asked this president help us with bill reformde, help us withni a mental health initiative, help us to ensure that those of us who haveti public transit systems that we re able to prosecute, arrest and make safe havens there on a subway platforms all across across the country. i didn t mean to jump start this conversation, but i m glad that the district attorney in new york met with business leaders todayay yorh and i m gly expressed very clearly to him that without a public transit system, without a safe one and we ve all commented on this new york won t be new york . our economy can t thrive. so i hope democrats and republicans who have been wrong get right and those who ve been right all along and continue to amplify a your voice. just sayr the transportation security administrationri, the tsa confirmed to fox news now that they areconfiy allowing undocumented immigrants, people who are in the united states illegally to usearted their homel
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