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alliance, and its good for sweden and turkey and all of nato and the baltic region. >> but the big topic of discussion at this high stakes summit is the war in ukraine. ukraine wants a path to nato membership, but the u.s. and other countries are reluctant to do so while the war is still raging. looking at this is josh letterman, and also joining us, jim townsend, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for nato. and a former deputy assistant second of defense. how did this happen...

country are waiting for a court decision that could change their lives and put them at risk of deportation. there are fears an appeals court could rule daca illegal. also this hour, well get the latest from cain ukraine, where forces have broken through from the south pushing russians. moscow claims it has annexed. a new report details systemic abuse within the womens national soccer league. we begin with our top story this morning. in florida where right now it is a race against...

Years before she became a professor at Morgan State University, Ellen Irene Diggs was employed as W.E.B. DuBois’s research assistant. 

By Margaret Kimberley, BAR Exec. Editor & Senior Columnist April 12, 2023 Black Agenda Report The question of how Black people fare in a particular country can be a legitimate issue or a ruse used in the furtherance of U.S. regime change plots. “We used to talk about, when I was a kid, in college,…

The question of how Black people fare in a particular country can be a legitimate issue or a ruse used to further U.S. regime change plots.

Professor at the university of pennsylvania grad school of education. thank you for being with us. you were actually born in havana. whats been going on there? >> absolutely. right now in havana, there were protest there is this weekend. whats interesting about these protests that are happening now that are different from last summer is that these are not just marginalized neighborhoods. these are neighborhoods where you had people who in this neighborhood at some point were supportive of the re...

Working with them, and a lot of us have been impacted who research and work can the cuban community. >> i have been so enjoying your social media posts during hispanic heritage month. you highlight the extraordinary work of afro cubans, so many they are forgotten. >> absolutely. thank you, josé, for all of your work. turning now to breaking news, country singing legend, loretta lynn, has died at 90. family says she passed away peacefully in her sleep. >> loretta lynn sang about what she knew....

Being harassed, and this black woman being beat up is not only facing political pressure, but my brothers and sisters on the island and in exile, we have to understand theres a racial dynamic in cuba and we can see that in this image. >> is this just a moment or a movement? we asked that july 11th of last year. >> this is a movement, absolutely. we can see the evidence of it coming from the communities of cubans who have been exiled and are migrants in different parts of the world, in europe, an...

President Joe Biden is rolling back some of his predecessor’s sanctions on communist Cuba. The changes are intended partly to help deter a record wave of Cuban immigration to the U.S.

Cuban government tried to bar these videos from being known. there were people taking to the streets asking for change. who are these people that are now facing 15, 18, 30 years in prison? >> you know, jose, whats so interesting to me is a lot of whats happening in cuba, there is an elephant in the room. although cuba is a political apartheid, there is definitely racial discrimination happening in cuba. when cuba gets a cold, afro cubans get the flu and they die. theres one who was killed by the...