>> big-name. >> remember that, that can be a test you can put on the list as well. >> sanjay, thanks and encore. cnn special event juneteenth, celebrating freedom and legacy is next welcome to a cnn special event, juneteenth, celebrating freedom and legacy. i'm victor blackwell. behind me is the beautiful national museum of african-american history and culture during washington dc, this is the perfect setting for our celebration of juneteenth because like the museum, juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery here in the united states it's also a celebration of black culture and history. it tells our story of struggle, genius, and beauty. tonight, we will bring you an exceptional lineup of iconic black musical artists. you will see their dynamic performances and you'll hear their views on this holiday. and it's important. are night of uplifting music aspiring moments, and entertainment from some of the best to ever do it tonight special, cnn, juneteenth celebration i think it's progress. >> i think it's for everybody. >> so alluding freedom and honoring and important legacy. >> this is part of my calling as an artist john legend, smokey robinson, and the godmother of solar patty lewbel, juneteenth, celebrating freedom in legacy starts now. >> this is the musical crossroads exhibit at the national museum of african-american history and culture this is little richard sequent jacket that's chuck berry's gibson guitar over here. >> this is jimi hendrix, purple embroidered vest. and how about fish? do you recognize this this is parliaments while the mothership, the p funk this exhibit showcases black music's role in popularizing calls for social change. the early jazz musicians breaking free of the racist tropes of von phil surrounding black music. and the freedom singers or the 1960s, john legend is a music superstar continuing that long tradition. he's a celebrated singer song ryder saw. >> he's earned emmys, grammys, and oscar and atony. he's also an activist and a philanthropist focusing on criminal justice reform for did i read this right? uh, you have a juneteenth baby? >> yes ran yeah. he was born on juneteenth last year, so he is won today. >> all right. happy birthday to run aside from planning birthday parties, how do you make space for this holiday in your family and celebrate that too? >> well, this is a festive day, i think for all black americans and for anybody who believes that america is supposed to be the land of the free we have that promise. >> are founders wrote that as the ideal early on but we weren't living up to that ideal for such a long time. >> and i think part of the story of america is hopefully the continued progress toward meeting that ideal, where we truly are the land of the free and the home of the brave. and i don't think we've accomplished that yet. it's something we have to continue to work on and be vigilant about. >> how has becoming a father shaped your view of the world and the work that we have to do? well, i think a lot about all of the love and the resources and investment that we put into our kids and we know how fortunate we are to be able to afford all the things that we want to be able to do to make sure our kids have a great childhood and are very well-prepared. >> for the future. then i realized that a lot of parents don't have those resources. and i think about politics and about government and about philanthropy as a way of filling in those gaps where parents don't have the resources themselves to do all the things that they need to do but hopefully, we as a society can come together to make sure that all children have opportunity, have the investment in the resources that they need to flourish in this life? >> john, you could sing release music and then go home and not do the work. what compels you to engage and do the social justice work? >> hello, part of it is i've always been inspired by the tradition of particularly black artists over the years, realizing that when we have this opportunity, when we have this platform, we want to use it to stand up for what's right. fight for justice support activists and organizers who out there doing really important work to secure freedom for all citizens i come from a tradition of that. i believe when i think about my mentors and my heroes like harry belafonte and others they invested in the civil rights movement. they spent their money, they spent their social capital, and they use their platform to try to make the world better and always thought that was what an artist was supposed to do. so i feel like this is part of my calling as an artist. >> yeah, some of you work focuses on ending mass incarceration, reducing recidivism through the free america campaign are you seeing progress? there yeah, we want it to shine a light on this issue of mass incarceration in america, we started about ten years ago. >> and one of the seminal moments for organization and for me speaking out about this issue was standing on the stage at the oscars saying, we are the most incarcerated country in the world. and we need to do something about it. and if we want to think about the legacy of dr. king and imagine what he might be working on now, i think this is one of the issues he would care about. and so we said about actually doing the work to try to make a difference and ending mass incarceration and through our efforts and the efforts of a bunch of other activists and organizers, we've actually reduced incarceration pretty significantly in the country all around the country, local, state, federal, incarceration has gone down. >> you talk about how this issue has impacted your own life and your own family. talk about it on stage. yeah, we talk about it. i talk about it on stage because i want people to know that i don't just come to these issues as an observer, as somebody from a 10,000 foot level in my own family, we've had plenty of people who've been caught up in the system, people who have been incarcerated. we've dealt with my mom being incarcerated for a time when she was going through addiction issues. and so knowing that knowing that it's personal to us and to our family it makes it more real when i get involved in these policy discussions and and i'm not just coming at it from a distance, i'm coming out. it was real first-hand knowledge in order to talk about the mass incarceration in the us, we also need to talk about the school to prison pipeline yeah. >> and under-resourced, under-funded, under supported schools. you started this show me campaign that's been more than 15 years now. >> yeah. >> and we've talked a lot thought about, especially now when we're thinking about mass incarceration, when we think about all the money, all the resources that go into locking people up and inflicting punishment on them. >> it costs us because not only does it cost is that money, it means we're not spending that money on something else. and so i always tried to illustrate how important it is for us to invest in our communities, invest the resources in education in health care, and making sure our kids are fed all those things that will help them grow up and to be contributing citizens flourishing citizens in this country. and make sure they don't go down the wrong path. let's invest in them early on so they don't go down the wrong path and we don't have to cleanup. our mess later on with incarceration and all those other punishment methods were a few months out from the national election and i've spoken with far too many people. and because of the work i do, most of them people of color. and they're just not enthused by either the major candidates and they don't believe they're doing spoken to in their issues are being taken up what do you say. to those people who just my sit it out well, first of all, i want people to realize that elections are not just for president, they're not just national elections. >> there's so much that is decided in elections and their local when you are voting for your school board, when you're voting for your mayor, when you're voting for your representative, both state and national. when you're voting for your governor, when you're voting for your district attorney, all these people have a role in your life and you may not be enthused about the top of the ticket, but all of these folks that are on the ticket up and down the ticket are going to affect the way your life is lived. there going to affect your community. they're going to affect so many things. and so realize that you have the power to affect some outcomes that are going to be really felt by you and your neck keepers and so don't set it out. it's important that you get involved. >> let's talk music and glory. you wrote that with common. it's been almost ten years since it was released. when have golden globe and academy award? yes. take me back to that moment and writing it what you were feeling thinking when you did well i was called up by my friend common and he was in the edit room with ava dover neigh wow so to have this no man, no weapon formed against yes, glory is destined every day, women and men become blanche is to go with gives saas game? >> become blessing. >> she was finishing the film, selma selma, of course, was celebrating dr. king's life and the work that all of his his organizers and folks who marched with him did to secure voting rights for everybody in this country. so it was focused on that is focused on the story of justice and equality. and equal voting rights. and they wanted a song to end the film and comments that i was the first person he thought of and was like, let's do something together. we had worked together many times over the years and he suggested a few song titles for me. and one of them was glory. and i was like i like glory. and so i just started fooling around with the idea of glory. i was on the road in europe and i wrote the course for glory, recorded it and send it back to common and he bro the vs for the song called big tall. the common, not the law eva, loved but at the end of the film, and it really became such a powerful song during that moment. >> because not only was it connecting with dr. king's work, but it was connecting with the black lives matter protesters who were marching in the streets at that moment and have continued to use our song over the years as a rallying cry to help inspire their protests. house that make you feel it makes me feel. >> well grateful, and it makes me feel like it's kind of like a full circle moment because we were inspired by them, were inspired by the activist. and in turn, we wrote something that inspires them to you sing in glory. and this is the reason i brought these notes you saying, now the war is not over, victory is not one. and will fight to the finish. then when it's all done, will cry glory. what does the finish look like? >> well we'll probably never get there. that's the thing, you know. and i think part of what the song is, it's aspirational, it's looking toward a goal, but knowing that you may never actually reach it. but realizing that the struggle is worth the struggle and you know, the finished looks like freedom for everybody, equality for everybody belonging for everybody, flourishing for everybody well-being for everybody. and that's what we're working toward. and we'll probably never get there. but i think it's worth the struggle here's john legend performing his number one hit all of me well, i would i do without you your smart job and you kick me out you've, gotten my spoon no kid. i then you down. >> what's gone and on and not viewed of hamas hamann, yar magical mystery bri breathing crazy out of mind bob lobby are normally are all y'all good my no my by began when i lose, i win gulag how are you give me how, many times do abs a zhao he cry you to who wow, is down now, you mom, you words this fracture maoris kate's saying you breather out of my thing oh you no you back my end again iv when i gave you hi, you give m e wow, you more music from john legend bus, or performance from smokey robinson give me and why one of the most famous tracks ever recorded on motown was not a song at all. that to my luther king came to mortality, said, hey man i want to do my, i have a dream speech here the cnn presidential debates, june 27th at nine live on cnn and streaming backs. nothing dems my light, like a migraine with nortech odi team. i found relief. >> the only migraine medication that helps treat and prevent all-in-one to with migraine. >> i see you for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura and the preventive treatment of episodic migraine in adults don't take if allergic to nurture echo odi team allergic reactions can occur even days after using most common side effects are nausea, indigestion, and stomach pain. it's time. we are talk to a health care provider about nuctech odunze from pfizer when your cat's hungry, you definitely know when you want your attention, you makes a clear when he wants to be left alone, he makes it obvious. but if your cat has ole pain, also known osteoarthritis pain, he may be saying out in different ways, it's a long-lasting condition that makes it painful for your cat to move like they once did, like when walking or climbing red flags are everywhere the cats are really good at hiding their pain. so you just need to know what to look for. visit cat red flags.com to learn about the signs of oa pain and how your vet can help you know what's brilliant think about it. boring is the unsung catalyst for bowl. >> what straps mold to a rocket, hurdles and into space. or boring makes vacations happen, early retirements possible, and startups start off because it's smart, dependable, and steck. >> all words you want from your bank for nearly 160 years pnc bank has been brilliantly boring. so you can be happy to fill, which is pretty unborn if you think about it. >> wow when did i call the filter? 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yes. but what does the designation mean that this is now a holiday for the country? >> i think that it means progress math. it means if we progress to the point, whereas everyone is willing to acknowledge the fact that we do have black people their significant and i think it progress. do you think is just for black people? no. >> that's why i said i think it's progress. i think it's for everybody everybody should acknowledge it and everyone should celebrate it your i almost started that question as is it an african american holiday, but i read somewhere that you don't prefer to be referred to as african-american that you write a black american or american why okay, man i wrote a poem and it's called being a black american okay. >> now, in my, in my life and my career, i've been all over the world. i have never even been to africa okay. when they will offer me dates and stuff in africa was during apartheid and i wasn't gonna go during apartheid. and do that. you know, there's, there's a passage in the poem that i wrote and it says all the wonderful black americans who served and all the wars served in the armed forces and gave their lives and all the wars they didn't do that for timbuktu o'keefe down the kenya did have a mississippi and alabama and georgia, louisiana, and texas and the janja. did i continue? if you're novice data, if you don't claim that you play it right to the hand of the white supremacy and glucose clan, who claimed they own is land now, that's why, because we have cultivated it, we built, we've raised the kids. we've done everything that you could possibly do to contribute to a country okay, so now for me to come along and say, okay, i'm an african american that's kinda denouncing my american citizens use can announce on the fact that i'm an american i'm proud to be an american american. as like i said, bint all or this is the greatest country in the world to me so i'm proud of that fact and i want to be acknowledged as an american that's why you talked about progress and black progress in this country. and often when we think about progress and especially the civil rights era, the music we hear music that's kind of a soundtrack is motown take me to the time away? dr. king came in. and what he was doing was matching what motown was doing and how the i have a dream speech came to be a motown recording. >> one of my proudest achievements the proudest things in my life is moretown. man is the fact that when we first started motown, we will fledgling, we will just in detroit in an arbor and flint, michigan. okay. and there are areas in detroit. i grew up in the george was born there. there are areas in detroit, whereas if you were black and you in one's areas, you better be working for somebody or you've got to have someone who says you worked for miss ozone is also that's why you in that neighborhood, if for released. got you. there you might get your blood worked or be put out whatever it was. but there were areas in detroit like that. so we've been in business for maybe a year and we begin let us from the white kids in those areas. i regret the fact that we didn't think because we were just young people making music don't want to what we loved and i regret the fact that nobody thought to save those letters there would be invaluable at this point we're going to let us want awake, isn't a man. we got your music we love your music. >> what our parents don't know that we have it because if they knew that we had it, they might make us good get rid of it you're so later we get a letter from the parents. >> hey, man, we follow our kids will listen to your music and we listened to it we're glad you're making music that our kids can listen to those doesn't be invaluable now. >> so dr. martin luther king came to mortality, said i want to do my, i have a dream speech here with you guys go, you're doing with music what i'm trying to do with legislation do you know what i didn't know until i started preparing to talk to you was that there was another imprint. >> there was black forum where there were the recordings of langston hughes and elaine brown and other speeches. i've never heard of that in the decades since that era, talk about the importance for not just you, but barry gordy and everyone at, at motown. the tell those stories and bring those voices i think it was very important men because it enlightened people as two people didn't know about black people, black culture of black creativity, or black talents are things you mentioned likes and use fortunately, i grew for new hood and joy so the elementary school i went to, one of the first ports that we learned about was elected use so i think it's a great thing for people to know about all that you know about the contributions that black people have made to disk country and that was a light on it. let me ask you about the dynasty of motown, right? you are one of the obviously most well-known artists at motown. but then came brandy and neo and erica baidu. and now their city girls and quaver, what do you think about some of the newer artists in the music you hear now, i think we've got some wonderful new loudest in ms vcc. i'm not one of those people who says when your kids are so than the music is negative it's progress every every, every musicals genre has its, has its era. so when new era now, we're in an era where these young people are people who attracting the. most, attention. you know but it goes on and on and on and on. and i think music is in good hands. >> how long have you been touring oh man. >> i did my first really professional date at the apollo theater in new york on the rachel show. i was with the miracles at the time in 1958 man, wow we were teenagers in 1958. and i'm getting ready to go now and play the apollo again, they're going to shut the apollo doll for two or three years for renovation. and i will always play at the apollo man so my goodman, i was going back to play at the apollo because it's tradition the first time ever walked into the apollo and my life with the miracles that there was a mural on the lobby wall and everybody that i loved was up there my my my number one singing idol at that point, we're jackie wilson it's up there. sam cook rachel ella fitzgerald louis armstrong. i mean, just oh, the black x that you could from way back when health is zero started at the. apollo she wanted to talent you that you're powell. that's how she got started so the apollo is black tradition musically. and i will always play it. i don't care if they tear everything else on hold and 20 fifths, three down. oh, if they keep the follow, let me bring it back to where we started here at about progress what's next what next in this country do we as black americans have to fight for accomplish, achieve? >> what do you think? >> voting that's probably the most important things we can do. >> and especially now especially now okay get out and vote don't. let anybody stop, you know, there are a lot of states where we have people who are in power, who tried to prevent that tried to prevent the black vote because they know how powerful it is. you know. >> so my suggestion is get out and vote this was some people in there that we want and that we trust you know, because i'm really squeamish right now here's smokey robinson performing his motown hit second, that emotion ight god, mother of soul, hattie lewbel ahead the, cnn presidential debates, june 27th, nine live on cnn and streaming on max. >> welcome to the waiver hood with wave. >> finding your style is fine the music stopped grabbing it, doesn't matter if you're outdoors dollars i'm sorry, carl, this is me and chair form. i don't see you. this perfect for you, but you love it. i told you we should have done opinion data i explained how many died and not sending rockets you need to sit down. please. >> every style, every home i want a lot of businesses, so my tech and my network need to keep up. thank you. verizon business. now, our businesses get fast and reliable internet from the same network that powers our phones. so whatever is next, we're cooking with fire switch to the partner. >> businesses rely on but i think what the role term everyone comfortable, yet there's plenty of space hi baby gun no, no, no, no, don't president seating for seven. >> everyone wants arrive okay. >> i gave him and see despicable me before and theaters july 3rd rated pg one second. >> you feel safe then the police are on their way. >> well he's still do this making you uncomfortable. >> good when you've got type two diabetes like me, you have up to four times greater risk of stroke, heart attack, or worse? 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>> so tell me when you see the new artists, the younger artist out and you kind of think back to when you start and the early 60s, the progress that especially please black women are experiencing in the industry. what do you feel? what do you think i think it's about time. >> they kill him, the man, the young girls on the mynor doing well too but i'm very happy for all of those girls because they're they're really doing their job well. and i appreciate it. and i know all of them so they'll like my little girls. i teach because they always asked me questions about how it was back in the day. >> you're known as the godmother of soul yeah. what does that space that title mean to you? >> it's an honor to be the godmother and all a lot of young kids called tell me there anti i have a lot of children that come in mother or mva so it's an honor to be called. anything they decide as long as you're on call me bad name. >> yeah. yeah. so when you tell these stories and you think back to the early 60s and you were touring with the blue bells considering the social differences, the cultural differences do you think? the of those times fondly still owe i have two. that's my life yeah. >> that's how it started doing things when we were doing them and not being honored and not being treated well, how good you continue to sing through it to perform through it, even at sometimes when you weren't treated the best, you saying that's your job. >> and i'm going to say no matter what, if you treat me well, if you treat me not so well, that's what i do and i will continue through a bad time. because we had to keep keep on moving on. and never stopped. never let anything that somebody did to you that made you feel less than a penny bother your job? the kraft? >> yeah. there are some people who are watching who think of you first as adele wayne. and the weigh in wayne's mother on a different world, wasn't as sweet joy? that yes, i loved that show. >> the problem car blur and i was just happy to be asked to be doing the mother and i i'll do it again. how would you diversity says that while that show was on enrollment at historically black colleges and universities surged increased? yes. isn't that wonderful for that showed will be gone off the air. now, you know, you can get it every now and then whatever, but it should still be on because it did help a lot of kids say, okay, i'm going to go to college. >> it's pride month and you embraced your lgbtq fans before there was an acronym, right before everybody reached out. why what what led you to do that? >> i never know why my gay following are attracted to me. because i always say i'm the original drag queen. >> and you know who back in they are wearing a hair and doing all that crazy stuff. >> if a lashed came have on my cheek, i will give it to the audience if a rum was in my sagan's, i would say, hey, you guys ever run like i'm not afraid to be myself and i think a lot of gay people would like to come out of the closet and a lot of my friends said because of me, they came out because i'm so open. i'm not afraid to make mistakes i'm not afraid to be myself. and i love, i love my gay foul on. i mean, i think they've really may paddock of a bell. yeah. yeah. >> when you look at our current country has changed, some things have not changed over the time. you've been a performer what is the work that still needs? to be done? >> there's a whole lot that needs to be done people need to open their minds and realize when you see, ugly and bad and you say that it's not ugly, it's not bad that just brings us back even more. >> so this is juneteenth. it's a new holiday nationally. we're still trying to figure out how to celebrate them. as a country. is there anything special that you do on juneteenth i party yes. on june 10? yes. i mean, it's reflection we think about what we've been through and now how much better it is and the kids, some kids don't even know about juneteenth. and i want my grandkids to know that there was some stuff back in the day that wasn't so pleasant. and now we can celebrate juneteenth. so if i talked to them about everything and they're got to learn our history. >> how much do you tell them? because it seems as if there's some things that maybe you don't want to talk about because they were difficult what do you tell your grandchildren those stories? >> i have to i mean, because they have to know what we did back in the day, what we've been from way back in the day, because if you don't tell them they they won't have a clue. >> you have a very diverse audience. >> yeah. what is it about your music? >> what do you think it's about what you do on stage that brings so many people together. >> i don't have a clue, but it makes me feel good because when i look in the audience it's like a bit power of gumbo colors. all ages all everything is just a melting pot of love for paris. lewbel it brings joy to my heart. >> while you bring joy to our hearts. >> thank you thank you. >> honey. thank you. i'll call you, honey. >> i'll take it now. >> the godmother of soul, patty lewbel, performing, right, kind of lover work coming up another performance it's from john legend, one side and the trailblazer who's tireless activism kept the dream of a juneteenth national holiday ally with the journey that inspired generations the cnn presidential debates, june 27th to live on cnn and streaming on max copd hasn't been pretty it's tough to breathe i tough to keep wondering if this is as good as it gets were trilogy has shown me that there's still beauty and breath because three medicines in one inhaler trilogy keeps my airways open and prevents future flare-ups it was one dose a day drawing allergy improves lung function joe, i can read more freely whole day and night trilogy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it, do not take trilogy more than prescribed trilogy may increase your risk of thrush pneumonia and osteoporosis. call your doctor force and breathing chest paying, mouth or tongue swelling problems, urinating, vision changes, or ipad occur fast. her doctor about what's daily trilogy for copd? 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this is the fourth year that it is a national holiday how's it feel? well, i'm humbled by it. a really al till people some terms i want to do a whole dance, but the kids say i'm talking how does this feel? >> now to look forward on juneteenth and what it becomes from here i think that the future is bright because it now with it being on the calendar, it gives us a chance to really talk about what it means to be free. and so when you make juneteenth, not just about the past, but to bring it to the president of future i'm hopeful that now we can start healing and reconciling and dealing with issues that have been swept under the rug for so long. >> and i don't want people to think that we've arrived juneteenth is for everybody for not just the text's thing and not just a black thing it's freedom for all of us. >> when did the dream of making it a national holiday begin? >> well i'm saying if i walked 21400 miles from fort worth washington, the fact that we've had juneteenth i don't know how many years does 4 july which free the land, and i felt like jim teeth would free the people also felt like it for little lady and tennis shoes was walking somebody would take notice are you always certain that the holiday would come that nationally eight would be recognized? >> know look, i felt like if you work, it's something and enough people notice them and you got god in the plan it's got to help them come hell or high water in 2021 it happened. he did. >> congress overwhelmingly voted to support it president biden signed the juneteenth national independence day act and handed that pen to you. and what did that feel like oh, i was home moved i didn't know what thick. oh, so proud and happy. >> that was another term or could have done the whole game it's interesting that you say that you've not done any more than any other person would do. there are some people who watch this or look at the other icons of progress, freedom, civil rights, and say what can i do with my little community, my little space? >> what do you tell them? tell them, hey, you have so much going for you let it out let somebody else know. >> she share the things that will help us to be a better and stronger nation so get with people they now my age, they all were younger i suggest that maybe you a little group of women, a juror church talk to them tell your husband some things that he can share with the man and all the job. if we would only realize that we are one we are miracles, not effort americans are attached in americans will are americans. and we need to embrace that i hope that you've enjoyed this evening. we've watched incredible performances from iconic black artists. we've been enriched with words of wisdom from the grandmother of thank you for being with me tonight. remember this is a holiday for all americans now, here's john legend with a special performance it's a redemption song yes, there are to the merchant ship ben, it sounds are they took from the bottom. >> let me but my remains, strong by the new the young minds we board and let's january triumph triumphantly was you have they're saying he saw the free goods all read dan sham bring it down saenz saw suit, yair south for mental slang three our problem why the side love say is just a part of it we've gotten you ball want you to say read read down oh yair mental slate no. sounds good. free allergy cause non stop. the tie salvage our problems one side and look it's just a. part of it he got to vote the walls, you oh to say the free he all read down, she saw down shanon song so read read

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