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She survived. but also a name you'll probably remember, hadea pendleton. remember that case from 2013? the 15-year-old as she had just performed for the president. one week later, shot in the back. there's a cycle of violence that seems to keep continuing in chicago, and no one seems to know how to break that cycle. >> all right. jason carroll, thanks so much. so jason's asking that question. what do you do about this terrible violence? what could be worse than a 9-year-old shot multiple times? with me, andrew holmes, a community activist in chicago. he himself was shot in the cross fire when ...

Yorkers after a judge's decision that ruled stop and frisk to be unconstitutional. your city is about to go down the same dark murderous path. my next guests agree and know tragedy all too well. they are the parents of the late hadea pendleton. this 15-year-old girl, incredible, was shot and killed in chicago just one week, nine days, after singing at president obama's inauguration in january. we welcome cleopatra and in nathaniel. thank you for joining us. please accept our condolences on your daughter's loss. >> thank you. >> peter: your great loss. we know in new york city that a federal ju...

At a point of investing in solutions. and i think there's something that all of us can do, the foundation community can support programs like mentoring programs and job training programs. individuals around the country can step up and support mentoring organizations and become mentors themselves. we can advocate for responsible policies like the repeal of stand your ground laws and states around the country and our congress can step up as well and invest in black men and boys. i think there's something that every single american can do to step up and be there for this demographic that's too of...

The legacy they want it to leave for their son. before, black men and women were killed and we didn't know their names. now trayvon martin's name is on t-shirts, billboards, twitter feeds. jordan davis was killed. we know his killed. then hadea pendleton was killed. the president put her family in the box next to the first lady of the united states and recognized the pain and suffering of black parents and equal to the pain and suffering of white parents when they lose their children. six or seven months ago in sandy hook we lost 20 beautiful young children. and the pain that tracy and sabrina...

Negative vote. if it is not a negative vote, how do we deal with these 30 states? so what we're doing over the course of this convention in the areas of voting rights, immigration rights, gun violence, we have the parents of hadea pendleton, eric snyderman new york state attorney general speak, eric holder will be here tomorrow, four members of the cabinet. we're planning in each area a civil rights action agenda because much of what dr. king fought for, voting rights and civil rights, is at stake now, in this court in this session, if they vote against the voting rights act and vote against a...