I hope whatever i am is useful to the larger, Huge Movement that this is. We laughed with Richard Lewis . Thats a great question. Therapist. Balrina misty copelands tearful wishes . I want the ball aworld to be given the respect it returns. The cryative force behind game of thrones . Did it have to be . Why couldnt it have been five king dotcoms. David foster composed for us . I went over the piano. I went, oh, after the love is gone, what used to be right is wrong we heard about mass incarceration and the death stevenson. We created distance between the people we put in jails and prisons and the rest of us. Liberian leader Ellen Johnson surlee and her drive on advance womens rights. This country is over 100 years old. Now, we want to change. Now we want to see what a come with do. We feature the ethiopianborn, swedish raised chef using his passion for community. Whenever an opportunities to give back and hire, i want to hire a more diverse kitchen. This is the best of talk to al jazeera. There was no bar too high for this balrina. Misty copeland became the first female africanamerican dancer. Copeland was one of six children raised by a single mother. She stumbled into the pal awofford at age 13. She had natural talent. However, copeland had to fight for the right to dance, eventually even suing her mother for emancipation. These are just some of the challenges a balrina faced as she rode to the top and along many. Did you ever envision that this is what your life could be . No. No. Its still hard to accept that its a reality. I dont know. Again, i am so, like, humbled and grateful for the background that i have had and the situations i have been through and just the elite standing and that i want to forever be able to give back to ballet what its done for me. And thats the constant battle i have within myself and proving myself to the ballet world and getting all of the expos youre that i have been getting that its not about something that people someone wanting to be famous because i never wanted that. I want the ballet world to be given the respect is that it deserves and to be seen by more people for so many to experience the beauty that i have received from the ballet world, and with every opportunity and every incredible thing that happens still such a shock. Overwhelming . Its over whelming. I never step outside of myself and think thats me. Its like thats a proud moment. Thats the girlie mentored. Thats her. Thats ballet and it makes me so proud to be a part of it. A constant refrain in your book is this poor little brown girl, for the little brown girl. Thats a constant. Its clear that thats what motivates you. Thats what drives you, and i am sure there are little brown girls who meet you who probably get pretty emotional when they see you. Yeah. I cant imagine the pressure that i would imagine that its got to be kind of an honor, too. Isnt it . I dont feel any pressure from that at all. Its the same way i i look at mogensen and how emotional i got, just hearing her story being the first africanamerican ballet dancing in a major Ballet Company to experience what she went through in the s. I saw myself in her and i know thats what they are seeing in me. And it pressures me to keep going, to keep setting an example for them to push as hard as i can to make it as far as i can in the ballet world so that they will have an easier path. Spike lee emerged as a director and actor in the 1980s. Films and documentaries are a window into urban america. His latest memory, shirak show cases the decay of the chicago south side. Its a satire as gun violence is an epidemic and tougher National Laws including background checks are needed. Sarah hoy spoke with lee in the studio in brooklyn, new york. Talk to me a little bit about why now . Well, chicago is the southwest side of chicago is like the canary in the coal mine for gun violence. New york city is. 3 times the population of chicago. So ken wol mont cowrote this script and we knew it had to be chicago. Just by choosing chicago, we choose the biggest, then everything. Kevin and i tried to do this film six years ago. It wasnt final for it six years ago. The time is now. Why . Well, the film begins with emergency. This is an emergency. Gun violence is something that affects every american. We have to get out of the thinking that this affects any certain people, nay certain neighborhoods. Violence. Although there may be. 1 type of life on southside or the westside or another part downtown on the magnificent mile, you still have over 400 actual murders so like you said, this affects everybody. By going to chicago, you being there, filming there, do you see a tale of two cities . I mean those lines are said by samuel jackson. It is a tale of two cities. Those familiar withtha, thats the Charles Dickens novel, and, in fact, the martha took place on black friday was a clear indicator that there is a people being affected who were furious about this tape, those rooms by, to say the execution of laquan, the murder of laquan, sixteen shots, our first day of someones june 1st, a last day of film was july 9th. During that time, first of june to july 9th, while we are shooting, while we are filming shirak, 303 people went, 65. 331 . Six got murdered and for 9yearold ty sean lee is in to an alleyway. I dont care what his father is, what his father did. Hes a gang member. Not no 9yearold should be world. He specially not the United States of america, the socalled becon of democracy. Since Al Jazeera America launched, we have spoken to some of the biggest names in the music industry. Artist akon has sold millions of records worldwide. The newsition, song writer and producer was born in the u. S. But spent much of his child hooded in senegal. Et cetera an activist and a fill an though partnership who turned sights on helping africa. His project, akon light in africa is working to bring soar countries. Every country, is like he is a music guy, you know. It was always that, but we came prepared for answers to every question. We also came prepared to execute. We didnt come into these countries with an idea. We already put together full team, if you will infrastructure. So for the from the moment we came in, we came in creating pilots. We didnt ask the country. We put up our own in the president. Talking . It depends upon the pilot, you know, but we allow them to choose if they wouldnt want it first. To give them the scope of work, how we work and so on and so forth. After that, they were all in full belief and we continued and afterwards. Angela kitchens talks to us about her latest al burment e she has seen in darfurs camp. The b 52 singer champions causes sister, you have the world on your shoulders, and as you, you play with toy soldiers. Peter gabe reel, most know him for his music but he is the kobe founder of the Human Rights Organization witness. He e quips and trains people tom use video to document abuses. He spoke to ali vel. He was watching you deliver a ted talk where you talked about an incidents when you were a child and you really, you enjoyed trees and bushes and foliage but you were taken there against your will. No. I was bullied by a group of kids. I dont know. I cant remember how old i was. It was probably 7, 8, Something Like this. And they took all of my clothes off and mucked around and these were people that i thought were my friends. So it was shocking on a number of ways, you know. It wasnt too bad at school. It was a school i went to later which was worse but it was still a traumatic event for me. And when i try and sit with people who have been tortured or loved ones blown up, you know, i dont have anything in my experience really to compare to that, but ive got just, you know, a little hint of something when the world isnt what you you. It was a combination of the world not what you expected to be and some shame and some sense that people wont maybe believe yeah. I guess and i think that was one of the things that astounded me was the human rights world when i first encountered it is that it was pretty easy for people to have horrible experiences denied, buried and forgotten. Those in power got away with enormous amount, and it seemed that there was a factsastic opportunity with new technology coming, particularly cameras, of getting evidence that would make sure that some justice was achieved. Your mission it was say, if we could use this new emerging technology, the idea you could get cameras into peoples hands, this was in the 90s. Yes. Video cameras and teach people how to safely document things that were happening, injustice that was being committed, that all of the sudden you take away that idea happen. Yeah. And its very post he want, you know, we can see a ton of really powerful stuff in text, but whether we see a video, it becomes emotionally undeniable and even though we know now you can fake it in films, there is still, i think we are pretty good judges of authenticity. Later in the show, we will bring you mobi and simmons, two heavyweights who are advocates. Legendsary musical composee who has been nicknamed the hit man for the countlets awards he has won, with tony harris we look at a few hits and a few misses and more than 40 years in the entertainment industry. The by graphical sketch. Did you Start Playing at 5. Yeah. I had parents that way, you know, nurturing and not too pushy and that was perfect. I havent heard you talk much about your parents. Yes. My father was an amateur piano player and he sort of taught me a little bit, but they allowed me to have classical less options. We didnt have any money but we werent poor. Its that old story. I had a great upbringing. I had six sisters, and my mother was a homemaker, and my father worked hard, and i got a great work ethic from both of them. Upbringing. Yeah. First song you learned on the piano . First song. Now, i am taking you back. Well, the first jazz chord i learned. Okay. And i thought i was so cool. The man jumped up. What chord is that . Like a c69. First song probably was maybe pat boones Wonderful World . Really . We talked about that, too. When you think about your forming, did you form your first band or did you join a band . We formed it. And, you know, i was the guy. I would knock on the door it was a schoolteacher in the 5th grade. And performing it for the whole school. He pushed me a little bit whiplash. Right . So it turned me off. So i didnt start writing songs until i was 23 or 24 which is very late, you know. What was your first song . Well, the first hit that i first hit that i wrote was a cowrite with a friend my named real. Cheryl lin . The man noise his stuff. Yeah. Wow . Mid centers, i guess, i started writing seriously but didnt get on the hit train until knee preeven 8. Trailblazers whose revolution areas bold inovations and determination has had a profound impact in our world. Next, we will hear about the fight for womens equality from feminist moment icon, steine back on Nelson Mandela. To celebrate mythically and enthusiastically the great contribution he made in their lives. I think that spirit of Nelson Mandela is embedded deeply in the heart and soul an consciousness of south africans. Thats why i have hope this country will realize some of the ambitions that Nelson Mandela had for it. I am richelle carey. This is our final show. The last three years, we have spoken to people who are working in uncharted territory. Okonka was the first prosecutor court. He told us about his work to get the court up and running. And he told us the legal body is breaking the cycle of impunity two couples were on the battle of the front lines of marriage equality. It was a case that went to the Supreme CourtEllen Johnson surley, the president of linebiera, the first female head of state. Julian bond, we caught up with him around the 50th anniversary of the march in selma, alabama and to gloria steinem, an icon and leader of the feminist movement. You said before the feminist revolution would take about 100 years. So by that estimate, we are about at the halfway mark. There are clear gains in this country. Women make up about half the workforce. Women tend to i hope more college and advanced degrees. They are increasingly the bread winners. Do you think film nests are still needed . Let me just take what you just said. Okay . Yes, there are more women on campus than there are men by a little bit right now. Why is that . Its because women are trying to get out of the paint color ghetto into the white collar ghetto. A blue color union diop job still pays more than either one. Whats a pink colored ghetto . Healthcare. They are kind of all of the jobs that we cant outsource because they involve personal service. Those are very, very sdprop positionatley female. Now her situation is worse than in my day as an individual because she is more likely to graduate in big debt and she will make one or 2 million less over her lifetime to pay back the debt. I am not trying to be discouraging. I am just trying to say this is real life, you know, and we dont have equal pay. Why dont you take ownership of some of the gains . I do. Statisti statistics. Right . Women in their 20s who start out are actually, according to the pew research center, making closer to like 0. 93 to the dollar, which is closer than they ever have before there are these gains and i think some wonder, you know, why dont women like you who worked so hard in this movement take a step back and appreciate that positive . I think mainly we dont because they keep saying the movement is over as a way of getting rid of us having children is a socially useful event. We need to think not only about equal pay. We need to think about paying for the work of care giving that is 90 done by women. And it has no economic value what so emp. You know, we need to have a tax policy that attributes a value to that work whether its done by men or women. At replacement level. Thats deductible if you pay taxes and refundable if you dont. Right now, a third of the work in the country, which is care giving work, is done 90 or more all. Not even called a job . I mean home makers are still called women who dont work . Excuse me. They work harder than anybody. Have enough men objected to the realities of the womens movement, or has it led to men feeling displaced and confused about their role in Society Today . You know, i dont want to speak about men as a lump just as i dont want to speak about women as a lump. Some men have completely understood that its their deliberation, too, that the masculine role is ridiculous just like the feminine role is ridiculous and dehumanizing and keeps you from expressing all of your human qualities. So they are feminists for their own sake as well as for womens sake, and they say, wait a minute. I want to see my kids. I want policies in the workplace that let everybody be parents, men as well as women. I want to have an equal relationship and partnership, you know, with a female or a male human. You know, i dont want to be lonely. I dont want to be isolated. She is a famed climatologist. Jane goodall. In addition to her passion for animal did, the anthropologist has spoken out about Climate Change and environmental conversation. John seigenthaler spoke to her pansees. Whats the most interesting thing you have learned about chimpanzes . How much like us they are or how we are. The shocking but very fascinating thing is when i realize that like us, they have a dark side. Made them sadly seem more like us than i had thought before. But they are capable of violence, brutality angeled the kind of you primitive war. Can you take me back to the beginning . You were secretary for anthropologist lewis leake. Thats where you got your start . Thats where i got my start. How did that happen . When i was a tiny little girl, i wanted to study animals in africa. I fell in love with animals. He married the wrong jane. I wanted to write books about animals and everybody laughed except my amazing mother who said if you really want something, you will have to work hard and take advantage of opportunity, and you will get there in the end. So, i got invited by school friends, saved up my money working as a waitress, got out to africa, heard about lewis leake, went to see him at the museum. I wasnt asking for a job, but he took me around. He asked me hundreds of questions, and because i had gone on learning about africa animals and spent hours in the Natural History museum in london, i could answer many of his questions, and he just secretary. He is a man whose imagination has entertained millions. Game of thrones mastermind Arthur George r. R. Martin created a process. Welcome back. I am richelle carey. This is a special edition of talk to al jazeera. We are remembering some of the best interviews we have shared with you. In a moment, you will hear from mobi who went from being a relative unknown to one of the most important electronic dance music performers. He sat down with lisa fletcher. First, Russell Simons from music to fashion and social action. The do you recallal influence and a strong advocate for justice. He spoke to Al Jazeera America. We were on twitter talking about hoffmans death and your perspective sort of drug laws you said if he were alive today would he go to jail or rehab . The war on drugs has done more to destroy the fabric of the black community than anything we can think of. The war on drugs from taking innocent diseased people, locked them up, educated them in criminal behavior and dump them back in the hood with no hope. At that became jail culture. You learn. You are educated in how to do things you never would have done just by and whites and blacks, dont they use and sell drugs at the same rate . You cant have like drug laws when we were ending those laws, 94 and a half percent of the people are black or brown, incarcerated under the rockefeller drug laws in a state which have not 95 brack and brown. Be in. Number 52 came out of the encloses closet before the draft. It started a little firestorm, i think its fair to say . People are suffering. People are people need to wake up consciousness its always the same thing you have a voice, say gays should get the rights we want for ourselves theress expect we demand for ourselves we should give to others. Thats a simple mantra. I want to be able to get married again not now. Lights hear what news you are go ahead. I want to get married again. People should have the right to get married. You were catapulted from being a relative unknown to being