- Like bandages on woundsthat still need healing.

That's how Alveda King describes

some of the solutions tothe deep, divisive issues

that are crippling our country today.

So what is the answer?

Take a look.

- [Andrew] Alveda King, nieceof Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,

believes in pairing socialjustice with righteousness

when confronting theissues plaguing our nation.

At a time when the country is divided

over race relations,abortion, religious freedom,

and political correctness,

Alveda joins other prominent voices

to address these hot button issues.

In her book, "Black and Brown Americans

"in Search of the American Dream,"

over 30 leaders contribute

by not only raising important questions,

but also bringing strategic solutions

for healing andrestoration in our country.

- Welcome back to The 700 Club

our good friend, Alveda King.

It's so wonderful to have you back.

- Hello, Terry, it's so good to join you.

- We get to cook together

- We do.- on certain occasions,

but today, you have new booksout, a pictorial history

as well as the bookthat was just mentioned.

Talk a little bit about the current issues

that divide our country today.

What's your take on all of this?

- I was listening to Pat a little earlier

some of the things thatare concerning folks,

and I do want to mention Chick-fil-A

and their decision not to,of course, continue to donate

to certain companies,but that doesn't mean

that they're not still engaged,

that they don't still care about America.

They definitely do.

So sometimes people willchoose different paths,

but the best path we canchoose is agape love,

Christian love, and to extend love

in the midst of the heat.

People were upset aboutthe Kurds, for example,

and decisions that the president made

and he had to move in acertain direction to do that.

But if we can just stopcriticizing each other,

arguing with each other.

And you've heard mesay, every time we talk,

it's always around Christmasand Thanksgiving time,

"Don't take the turkey legoff and hit people with it."

(Terry laughs)Hold their hand

and pray for them.- Yes.

- Pray.

- One of the things in your book,

"Black and Brown Americans inSearch of the American Dream,"

you share so much of thehistory of what has happened.

It seems to me like one of theissues in our country today

is we don't know our own history.

- This is true.- How important is that

to finding healing, whetherit's for us as Americans,

as a country, or for theblack and brown community?

- I named it black and brown community

and had about 28 of my friends,

a couple of us did two articles,

so there are 30 articles together

from every ethnic group, every age group,

every socioeconomic group,but talking about issues

that impact the AfricanAmerican community.

But we didn't want toleave out any community

because we are one blood.

- Yeah.- We are one human race.

And we have to address eachother as brothers and sisters,

and we've not been able to dothat in America completely.

The message will come.

My uncle, Martin LutherKing Jr. delivered it well

during his lifetime.

But you have to tell the sametruth in every generation.

- [Terry] Who are some of the leaders

that contributed to this book?

Because you have, asyou mentioned, so many.

- Yes.

Well, and it's a diverse group.

Our friend, Bishop HarryJackson, for example,

a very strong leader inthe Christian community,

a pastor and a minister.

Nina May, who is a filmmaker,

and she deals with the issue though

of restitution and restoration

and whether we should have reparations.

And Nina says, well, thepeople who did the harm

need to pay the reparations,not America's taxpayers.

That's just an example.

But each one, ReverendBill Owens for example,

Ryan Bomberger, who's an advocate

for life and adoption.- Love Ryan.

- [Alveda] It's just adiverse group of people.

- You just mentioned reparations.

What are your thoughts on that?

I mean, that's an issue

that I think some people can't relate to,

some people feel strongly about.

It's another divisive thing today.

- With reparations, it's notgonna be done only with money.

Of course, some monies andsome funds could be used,

but it needs to be creative.

I remember, President Obamaand President Trump both said

that they did not see thetaxpayers paying for it.

They had differentreasons for saying that.

However, the people who reallyneed to pay the reparations

are the ones who are still profiting

off of money that was made from slavery,

from abortion, and all of that.

You've got billion dollar corporations

who are still very wealthy today,

and they built their wealthon that type of pain,

slavery, segregation, and abortion.

And so they should be the ones

that need to come up withsomething creative and pay.

- You mentioned Ryan Bomberger,

and you yourself aresuch a strong proponent

of the pro-life moment.

Do you think we're gaining ground at all?

- Blessedly, we can see, in America,

that the pro-life message is growing.

More Americans believe that it's important

to protect the sanctity of life.

Now we had some surprisinghelp from New York and Virginia

when two governors said it wasokay for a baby to be born,

and if the intention wasto abort, let the baby die.

America went into shock.

And so many people who wouldn't touch it

have now said, "No, we needto take another look at that."

So we are moving forward.

- With your new book,

what do you want thetakeaway to be for people?

You've got an amazing pictorial history

that goes with it as well, buttalk about the book itself.

- The book, if we can inform and educate

and activate communities to not argue

about the elephant in theroom, which is skin color.

Acts 17:26: Of one blood, God made us all.

We are brothers and sisters.

So we can educate and informourselves if we read that book

and look at the variousperspectives on the subject.

And of course, the pictorial history

of the pro-life movement,15 years of pictures.

And so these are thingsthat maybe can just help

to inform us if we take a look.

- You have to take the look

- Yeah.- before you can

understand all that's going on.

Thank you so much.

You leave a legacy of great work.

You're always, and a legacy of family

and a legacy of life.- Thank you.

- It's great work that we see you doing

- And we're celebrating- and we thank you.

- Christmas, Gigi to Gigi,- Gigi to Gigi.

- in our green- We're in the kitchen.

- and our burgundy and cranberry

and our necklaces are similar.- That's right.

- We always get the same memo.

- That's right.

Share recipes here.

Well the book is called"Black and Brown Americans

"in Search of the American Dream,"

and Alveda King also has another book.

She just mentioned it.

It's "A Pictorial History

"of the National Black Pro-Life Movement."

And both books are available nationwide

and a wonderful placeto begin to understand

and to look back and have it matter

or the decisions and the choices

we make today.- Thank you.

- Thank you.

It's always great to have you here.