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>> thank you, tavis smiley. go in peace. >> thank you, don. appreciate you. my friend. >> was it a tragic accident? an unarmed black man in new york city shot dead by a police officer in a dark stairwell of an apartment building. up next i'm going to talk to the man's mother and his stepfather. ♪ ah, ♪ h it. ♪ push it. ♪ p...push it real good! ♪ ♪ ow! ♪ oooh baby baby...baby baby. if you're salt-n-pepa, you tell people to push it. ♪ push it real good. it's what you do. ♪ ah. push it. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what ...

This is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. you just saw our cnn special "the cosby show: a legend under fire." we've got more to come. meanwhile, outrage spreading over police killing of african-american men and boys. from ferguson to the nypd chokehold case to the killing of a 12-year-old playing with an air gun in cleveland. protests boiling over again tonight. cnn's reporters are outside new york's barclays center. prince william and his wife courtside for the nets-cavaliers game. lebron james wore this. "i can't breathe" t-shirt during tonight's warm-up. we're going to ask tavis smiley what dr....

Standard in the media when it comes to people on the right who equally say -- let me be very clear. i don't think that level of discourse has a place. i think we can have significant policy differences between the parties. but that doesn't mean -- for some reason when guys on the right say something it takes days and weeks of media coverage when folks on the left do it it's sort of fodder. harry reid on the floor -- >> i see your point. these people say these things. and i'm going to agree with you. they're horrible they shouldn't be said. ted nugent said bill mauer used the c word. that is my...

Far less likely than a white student to be able to read proficiently by the time you're in fourth grade. by the time you reach high school, you're far more likely to have been suspended or expelled. there's a higher chance you'll end up in the criminal justice system. and a far higher chance that you are the victim of a violent crime. and the worst part is, we become numb to these statistics. we're not surprised by them. we take them as the norm. >> all right, look, he's right, tavis. but what is this going to do about it. when i read the fact sheet about this thinitiative. they are talking an...

Even tell you how many great grandchildren. so she would say what she has seen in her lifetime has changed so drastically that it makes her head spin sometimes. but yes, just because there is a black nan the white house with a beautiful brown family, we can't get lulled in to come place zen sency in to thinking that we have overcome or the dream has been realized. a number of us have succeeded. i do agree with tavis with his one premise that not enough of us reach back. however, the great divide right now that in my opinion blocks the dream from being realized is this tremendous economic divid...