Stay updated with breaking news from Charles dubois. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
we re going to talk through our daddy issues. let s do this. [cheers and applause] captioning sponsored by comedy central [cheers and applause] oh my god. is that for me? thank you, welcome to the nightly show. thank you, very much. i appreciate it. no i appreciate it. i know who you re really clapping for. [laughing] because tonight we have a special show. we re talking about black fatherhood. we thought there was so much to talk about with this issue. we re getting trait into the conversation, okay let s introduce our panel. oscar and grammy nominated hip hop artist and actor, common. [cheers and applause] i told you that was for him. i told you. [cheers and applause] okay. new york times columnist and author charles blow. thank you. [ applause ] founder and president of center for urban families joe jones. and our nightly show contributor, mike yard. before we start i have to say there was a number that we heard that just really shocked me. i want to get ev ....
on monday the nightly show debuts right after our show. look forward to that. here it is your moment of zen. did your bartender of five areas try to poison you? did your daughter get charged with beating to you death with a fruit bowl and stuffing your corporation in a suitcase? maybe your bff is kim jong un. if your answer to all those three are no then are you better off than the peopleed by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org tonight it s black history month. to celebrate i got you a show with five black men on the panel. it should have been six but one was ran over. we are talking about black fathers. nobody cares about you no african priests. so climb down off the poll, america. we re going to talk through our daddy issues. let s do this. [cheers and applause] captioning sponsored by comedy central [cheers and applause] oh my god. is that for me? thank you, welcome to the nightly show. thank you, very much. i appreciate it ....
jones. and our nightly show contributor, mike yard. before we start i have to say there was a number that we heard that just really shocked me. i want to get everyone s reaction to that. let s play it first. more than 72% of children in the african-american community are born out of wedlock. that means absent fathers. okay. 72%. that number, i could not believe it. i hardly believe -p 2% of all the things al says, right. that number seems staggering to me. charles, what is your impression of the number? does that feel right to you. no, the number is correct. what we don t get when we hear the number is the context around the number. which is married black women use to have more children then even white women. their rate of child birth has dropped tremendously. that leaves only the unmarried black women having more of the children right. that s part of the context. so part is the way the census is taken. no, it s not the census. it s the cultural shift on black ....
oscar and grammy nominated hip hop artist and actor, common. [cheers and applause] i told you that was for him. i told you. [cheers and applause] okay. new york times columnist and author charles blow. thank you. [ applause ] founder and president of center for urban families joe jones. and our nightly show contributor, mike yard. before we start i have to say there was a number that we heard that just really shocked me. i want to get everyone s reaction to that. let s play it first. more than 72% of children in the african-american community are born out of wedlock. that means absent fathers. okay. 72%. that number, i could not believe it. i hardly believe -p 2% of all the things al says, right. that number seems staggering to me. charles, what is your impression of the number? does that feel right to you. no, the number is correct. what we don t get when we hear the number is the context around the number. which is married black women use to have more chil ....
we are live in atlantic city. but we head to the floor of the new york stock exchange, nicole petallides. there s some green on the screen. what have you got for us? reporter: i enjoyed watching some of that gambling video, looks like fun. all up arrows. no record on the dow, no record on the s&p today. i know you re used to me saying it, but not yet or not today. but for the nasdaq you ve got the record, okay? 4,017, a new intraday record that we haven t seen since the year 2000. all three have up arrows, the nasdaq up one-half of 1%. the vixx, the fear indeck, pulling back a little bit. let s take a look at some names that are hitting new highs, right? i said no record highs on the dow, but you do have on the nasdaq. walmart and nike, these are dow components that hit highs, american express and also travelers, macy s not a dow component. new highs also some others worth noting, southwest airlines hit a high, pulled back. we ll watch that, obviously, as people are t ....