Jan. 11: Msnbc political analyst Harold Ford, Jr. and former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume discuss the political fallout from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid s racial remark about President Barack Obama more than a year ago. watch
First, Hugh Price of the National Urban League, William Bennett, author of The Book of Virtues, and Rep. Kweisi Mfume, head of the Black Congressional Caucus, discuss Islamic leader Louis Farrakhan and the Million Man March. Then, a conversation with Human Rights Advocate Harry Wu about public security. watch
Tansu Ciller, deputy prime minister and foreign minister of Turkey, speaks about the war between Turkey's Kurds and Iran and the Turkey crisis in Cyprus. After, former U. S. Congressman Kweisi Mfume talks about leaving congress to head the NAACP, the nation's oldest and largest Civil Rights organization, and his goal to turn around the controversy-plagued organization. Finally, director Mike Leigh and actors Mairanne Jean-Baptise and Brenda Blethyn talk about their new film, Secrets and Lies, the story of a working-class English woman who is reunited with the daughter she gave away at infancy. The film won both the Palm D'Or and the Best Actress awards at the Canne Film Festival. watch
