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Overwhelmed by all the support i received. thank you. i look forward to clearing my name asap. what exactly are the allegations here? >> huffington post reported on friday that eric bolling a few years ago had apparently sent lewd text messages to some of his female colleagues and it had been kind of rumored around, one reporter from the daily beast, had chased the story around for a while, but now he's been suspended from fox news as they investigate. >> on facebook page, this one accuser caroline heldman said, my only surprise is that it took so long for people to come forward about bolling'...

Get talked about but ultimately get repaired. >> the conversation is happening, dialogue is taking place. are institutions of higher learning really hearing what black students are saying, after all timothy wolfe only stepped down when the football players' boycott cost the school money. what kind of message does that send? >> that's always been the thing that turned the corner on social justice. people didn't listen in 1960 until people stood on the bridge and people didn't pay attention to racial justice until there was a bus boycott. there have always been boycotts that led to change. state...

Montgomery bus boycott. 59 years ago today the people of montgomery decided they could take it no longer. they engaged in a local struggle which morphed them into a national movement. which changed america for the better. 59 years later, we are dealing with this issue of police brutality and i'm really inspired by the young activist on the ground in ferguson and across some 130 city, more in the united states of america. this is a very critical moment. we are glad to be a part of that conversation. >> i do want to ask you about that conversation. you are reaching out to high school and college...

Disorderly conduct after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger becoming a leader in the montgomery, alabama bus boycott. in september 1957, 900 african-american students were warned blood would run in the streets if they attempted to enter the all-white high school in little rock, arkansas. they entered the school anyway. in 1964 students sat down at a lunch counterin north carolina. when they were asked to relieve they remained in their sits creating a national movement of sit-ins. fire hoses and attack dogs were used on children who joined in civil rights protests in birmin...

Organized the nation's first boycott of segregated buses. it became the blueprint for the montgomery busboy c boycott led rosa parks and dr. martin luther king. >> dr. martin luther king came to me because he knew two years prior we had had a bus boycott. we gave the know how. >> he commanded respect from politicians on both sides of the aisle later becoming the president of the national baptist convention. he passed away in baton rouge earlier this month at the age of 95. lying in repose at the louisiana state capitol, something that would have been unthinkable in that state before he came al...