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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140420:14:51:00

Built and sustained racial integration. the organization continues the work today. inform their magazine, the oak parker, they explain sustaining diversity requires consistent effort. so long as there is an oak park there must be a housing center. m joining me is the director of the housing center. also at the table is james perry, executive director of the new orleans fair housing center. he s also here because he s my husband and i want to spend easter with my family. dorothy brown and author of some of my best friends are black. let me start with you with oak park. we have been talking for some time about wanting to talk about this on air. what are the models of success that you have developed in oak park for creating integrated communities. the way we ve been able to create and sustain is that we ve been able to work proactively with folks as they re serging for housing. when people are looking for a ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140420:15:05:00

Author of some of my best friends are black. james s the national fair housing act a success or failure? it s a very interesting question. america itself is an experiment. and this experiment is quite imperfect. and i think we constantly work to perfect it, but clearly we re not there yet. the same is true when it comes to the effort to integrate the communities. dplon strait ee we still see there are clear problems. have we succeeded? no. have we made progress? the answer is clear yes. has there ever been a hud secretary as good as george romney? on this issue. f not on all issues. but on this issue, has anyone in our sort of contemporary era including the obama administration, been able to articulate at that level, we have the right empowered by this act to hold accountable local communities that don t do what oak park is doing. that aren t affirmatively following fair housing. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140406:15:04:00

Professor at new york university, khalil mohammad, and tanner colby, author of, some of my best friends are black. let me start you here, khalil. when you look at the disinvestment in public goods that has occurred since 1964, do you read where we are right now, 50 years later, as the civil rights act having been successful or having failed? oh, well, from that vantage point, it s failed miserably, partly because the civil rights act, although it was about access, ultimately, underneath it, it was about equity. and at the end of the day, we department just gain access to the lunch counter, we needed money to eat there. that quip speaks volume about the idea that under nixon s new federalism, the next president after lbj, created the possibility for the federal government to put more control at the state level and at the state level, to ultimately be able to use political favors, as ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131208:16:03:00

Into a twitter on every biased utterance, it s time to develop a public vocabulary to discuss structural racism in the ways that it continues to cause and maintain american inequality. joining me now are michael denzel smith, a blogger for the nation .com and a nobler fellow at the nation institute. march lina morgan at harvard university and executive director of the hip hop archive, tanner colby, author of some of my best friends are black, and walter kimbo, president of dillard university, in my hometown of new orleans. so michael, you wrote a piece this week, in which you responded to the kind of rosa parks tweet that caused this big twitter frenzy, but specifically asked the question, why do we keep sort of framing this as, things are better now than they once were? yeah, it doesn t matter whether it s better. because we can pat ourselves on the back for being better than ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131117:15:51:00

Reporter, adam sore roe. also here, dorothy roberts with the university of pennsylvania and author of killing the black body. also, tanner kolbe, author of some of my best friends are black, and professor wesley harris, associate provost of faculty professor at m.i.t. and as i have always called him, uncle wes. i want to start with you, adam. it was hard, i think, probably for you, for me, as children of interracial parents, of mixed race parents not to take personally that there s a gag reflex in response to our families, but is cohen on to something about the idea that this threat to the conventional is at the core of republican angst at this moment? i don t know if it s at the core of republican angst, but certain, people are much less okay with interracial marriages than that graph suggests. no one in america today or very few people think it should be illegal, but when you ask them, i think the more important question, how would you feel if ....

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