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Some more money in and were going to fight to defend every one of our members who teach honest history. but the other remedy is this. were going to the courts. like take the texas law. it basically says -- i dont have the exact language. but it basically says that you can only teach slavery as if it was a deviation from the founders. no, thats completely the opposite of our professional responsibility and our standards that says we have to teach honest history. so in texas were going to go to th...

Conversation. and also cost the company 1,000 paying jobs. >> alicia: member of the so-called squad cori bush getting backlash for this tweet on independence day. "when they say that the fourth of julys about american freedom, remember this. the freedom they are referring to is to white people. this latest eliminated and black and black people still arent free." >> the tweet is prompting reaction from those who agree with her and those who have quite a different take. lets take a look at what el...

Fourth of july this year. in addition to the tweet that you read, she went on to say this, quote. we know what our own freedom looks like. end the slavery permitted under the 13th amendment. we are the experts on our own liberation and we wont stop until its won. the 44-year-old freshman congresswoman from missouri is a nurse and has made other controversial statements before including when she used the word birthing people when she referred to her childbearing experience. some were quick to cri...

Supreme Court held June 23 that California state regulation required agricultural employers to allow union organizers onto property constituted unconstitutional taking. John Roberts, 6-3 majority, said regulation appropriated property owner's right to exclude.

Voluntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the united states. except as punishment for a crime. that loophole allowed another form of slavery, forced prison labor to thrive and helped create the mass incarceration crisis we have today. but my next guest is trying to change that. joining me now is the co-sponsor of legislation to revise the 13th amendment, senator jeff merkley of oregon. senator, welcome back to the su...

Continue to change if people of good conscience fight for it. it is always a kind of back-and-forth process, isnt it? after all, the 13th amendment which banned slavery was ratified in december 1865, just months after the first juneteenth. but the supreme court mangled it with its ruling in policesy versus ferguson. establishing the principle of separate but equal. americas work to become a more perfect union is often slow and the pace rarely seems to accelerate. still, i think the larger risk i...

Out there. jonathan capehart is loaded and ready to go. a critical week for democracy with the for the people act coming up for a senate vote. beto orourke jones me live before his big voting rights rally in texas. now that juneteenth is a federal holiday, there is a move to revise the 13th amendment to eradicate a lingering vestige of slavery. senator jeff markley is behind the effort and will be here to explain. and then there is this. >> critical race theory is bigoted, it is a lie, and i...

>> yeah, thats a common reaction. thats what surface but a very common reaction. a gallop poll this week shows 62% of adults say they only know a little bit or nothing at all about juneteenth. heres what you need to know. juneteenth commemorates a pivotal moment at the end of the civil war in 1865. it had been two years since president lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation and two months after the confederacy surrendered. on june 19th, 1865, major general gordon granger of the union army ...

Constitution that allowed another form of slavery, prison labor. any friend jonathan capehart joins me now. this is a story that a lot of people dont know the history of and the association of, that prison labor in many cases was started shortly after slavery, chain gangs and things like that were there to provide labor to a lot of american industry. >> right. thats right, ali. the 13th amendment, this all goes back to the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery, but there was a loophole and it ...

Of the show that all enslaved people were now free. six months later, congress passed the 13th amendment. it formally abolished slavery in the u.s. except as full time for crimes. lets continue with janel ross, senior correspondent for "time" magazine and shes in the room. i can reach -- its like youre here. its crazy. glad to see you. not just because youre a person in the room sitting next to me, but also just because of the significance of this day. what do you make of juneteenth becoming a...