hello, everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. on what would have been martin luther king, jr. s 94th birthday, joe biden will deliver a sermon in his honor. biden will be the first sitting president to speak at a sunday service at ebenezer baptist church where he served as pastor. biden will talk about king s life and legacy, as well as voting rights on the eve of the federal holiday. this coming as new questions, as you see the president walking into ebenezer baptist with senator warnock. and you are seeing these pictures live and people standing in his presence. our cnn white house correspondent is there. arletta, this comes as the president is being hit with a lot of questions about documents that have been found in his personal residence, in delaware, as well as his former office. so what do we expect his message will be, largely staying away from the controversy, and answering some of those questions, and more specifically, addressing the legacy of
is african-american. we have made an important statement as a country. we have to continue to work at this thing. if we don t continue to step forward, we will go backwards. because the world is moving. to stand still is to go back. we have to keep moving forward. that s what the movement is about. moving forward, recognizing those changes we still have to make. host: a commemoration today on the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday. call american history tv at reverend lafayette, you were in selma, alabama several years right or to the marches, the events that happened in march of 1965. tell us how you ended up in selma, alabama p we heard the story about the x on the map marking selma off. you went anyway. what is the story there? what happened is those of us from asheville had decided that since we had the sit in movement and we continued the freedom rides, once we started the freedom rides, we decided if we would give a full-time for a couple of years, it would be like t
please welcome the president of the united states and mrs. michelle obama, accompanied by mr. and mrs. mr. george bush and mrs. laura bush and accompanied by john lewis. [ hail to the chief playing] [cheers and applause] [cheering] good afternoon again. i have the distinct pleasure to introduce to you, the governor of alabama, governor robert bentley. [applause] president obama mrs. obama president bush, mrs. bush, congressman lewis congressman sewall mayor evans it is an honor for me to be on the stage with you today and welcome all of these people to this great state of alabama. it s a personal honor for me to join in today s historic occasion on the edmund pettus bridge that has become a monument itself to the struggle for civil rights over the past 50 years. this bridge represents the strength and determination, the loss and pain that have come to define the civil rights movement in america. it s an honor for me to stand here among you today on behalf of the sta
about martin hraoutor king jr.? luther king jr.? all right. ok. do you realize he was a little boy one time just like you? ok. you knew him i m sure as an adult. so this morning or early afternoon, i m going to read to you from the book that i wrote about him. he was my brother and we had one other brother so there was three of us. now sometimes children you don t think of dr. martin luther king jr. as a child but he was really a child and grew up just like you, and so that s why i wanted to write this book. the book is entitled my brother martin. it has lots of illustrations in it. i hope that you will have a chance to get to see the book more closely. ok. so this is part of it. a sister remembers. the sister, of course, is me. ok. the book starts out i will arche some words that martine some more of the martin said and the march i have a dream that one day little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with the little white boys and white girls as sister
boy one time just like you? ok. you knew him i m sure as an adult. so this morning or early afternoon, i m going to read to you from the book that i wrote about him. he was my brother and we had one other brother so there was three of us. now sometimes children you don t think of dr. martin luther king jr. as a child but he was really a child and grew up just like you, and so that s why i wanted to write this book. the book is entitled my brother martin. it has lots of illustrations in it. i hope that you will have a chance to get to see the book more closely. ok. so this is part of it. a sister remembers. the sister, of course, is me. ok. the book starts out i will quote some words that martin said on the march on washington. i have a dream that one day little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with the little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. i have a dream today. that s what he said in washington, d.c. at the lincoln memorial. ok. t