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he turned a beat that kids could dance to into the motivating force of a business empire and made singers into stars. the legendary aretha franklin and little richard join us in a few minutes to talk about dick clark, but here's a look back at his career by koreen wynter. >> reporter: he was known as the world's oldest teenager. dick clark began his career on the weekly dance party that would later be known as "american bandstand" in philadelphia in 1956. the show became a national and later an international sensation, after it was picked up by abc one year later. ♪ ♪ come on bab...

the world. he integrated a corner of the media watched by the entire nation while a third of that nation was still segregated. he turned a beat that kids could dance to into the motivating force of a business empire and made singers into stars. the legendary aretha franklin and richard -- and little richard will join us in a few minutes. but here a look back at his career by koreen wynter. >> reporter: he was known as the world's oldest teenager. dick clark began his career on the weekly dance party that would later be known as "american bandstand" in philadelphia in 1956. the show b...

he made singers into stars. the legendary aretha frank lili will join us. >> reporter: he was known as the world's oldest teenager. dick clark began his career on the weekly dance party that would later be known as "american bandstand" in philadelphia in 1956. the show became a national and later an international sensation, after it was picked up by abc one year later. ♪ ♪ come on baby, let's do the twist ♪ >> reporter: in spite of racial attitudes at the time, clark was a pioneer in promoting african-american artists, including percy sledge, the silhouettes, the supremes and g...

Islam. what happened that day is terrorism. >> coming out of that hearing, somebody said, the japanese would never have dared to build on pearl harbor. what makes this different? >> if you were at that hearing the way i was at that hearing you, come out understanding that there is a great need for dialogue now. >> reporter: el gamal says many don't understand islam. but does that make is islam phobia? >> 100%. >> why? >> because the moderate voice of islam is not coming out. >> can you guarantee that this center will root out extremism or completely reject any extremists that -- >> 100%. we wi...