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But you hear a young person say we have to be here, and talk about what this generation is getting from the last, it's embodying dr. martin kings granddaughter. 15-year-old yolanda king. she got up on that stage and tapped into what is really a powerful force. tapping into what it needs to be a young person in this. let's take a listen. >> if i could speak to my grandfather today, i would say, i am sorry. we still have to be here, to rededicate ourselves to finishing your work. and ultimately, realizing your hidden dream. >> how long, you may ask, will it be before we get our freedom? i don't ...

Little girl. no one betting on people would have bet that she would become the first woman president of harvard university or even that harvard would ever have a woman president. harvard is now a month away from inaugurating its second woman president, professor claudine gay, the daughter of haitian immigrants. in her new book, now professor drew gilpin faust writes, for many white southerners of my generation, a life defining question has been how long it took us to notice the contradictions between the democratic and christian ideals intoned in church and school and the patterns of injustice...

Stupid. for bands of my generation, you understand about the ups and downs. you can see it, like, where the pitfalls? what is the -- you are going to take? when might this happen? when might that happen? for those people who are on the first wave of sort of global pop superstardom, if you want to call that, it was news to them, like, why does everyone suddenly hit are banned? we sold eight billion records last year. what's the deal? so, it's confusing. >> it was not just the bg's, but the idea of the dance,, in that period. it was no longer acceptable for this kind of music to carry the weight...

Robin went through a kind of, not a break time, but something where he felt very shy of being in public, and doing things for a while. >> the backlash was a very frightening experience. when things get to that point, you are out of control of the whole thing. >> without the bee gees, we went on the backburner for a while. so, until this dies down or something. we could not do anything as the bee gees at all. >> backlash, i am really good on. any band that is successful is going to have some form of resistance, that's the law of nature. when they get so successful, sometimes the only interestin...

Of my generation. and i'm happy to be in that support role but more than just be in that support role but more thanjust support, i be in that support role but more than just support, i think the basis very much key to the smith's sound, many of the songs will be built around the melodies on that base but i think the most important thing about andy, and i think asjohnny summed up in this tweet, what a beautiful human being he was. i do in the government and a bad word about him that's quite rare in the music scene. about him that's quite rare in the music scene-— about him that's quite rare i...