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May 9, 2021
Nts to shoot for. they want to be a brand, and thats what television does for these athletes. turns them into worldwide-iconic brands. >> the inbounds pass comes into jordan here is michael inheoul line. a shot. >> athletes in the 80s became part of an ongoing group of people that we cared about. we just had an enormous pent-up dpand for sports and the 80s began to provide, thank goodness. >> cable television is continuing to grow. its estimated that it will go into 1 million more u.s. household...
May 9, 2021
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May 9, 2021
Give us any information this is who we presume you to be, and were saying this is okay. weve all lived and understand the premise of jim crow. but i think the new idea is this thing called jim code. with implicit bias, were creating technology that is going to disenfranchise people, particularly black and brown people who simply arent in the room when these things are being thought of. >> and joining me now "united shades of america" host w. kamau bell, another provocative episode. this looks gr...
May 9, 2021
To remind myself no matter what, you cant give up, wanda. you got to keep sharing what happened to oscar and what we need to do to end this type of things from happening again. we have an obligation to love others as we love ourselves. thats what our nation needs. >> this whole thing is about love. >> it is. >> oscar brought to the world what love looked like. he didnt just die here. he was resurrected here. his voice is still heard across this world. >> when oscar grant was killed, really felt ...
May 9, 2021
The big thing that changes in the 80s is the number of hours spent watching television goes up. the number of hours spent talking about television goes up. one of the symbols of this phenomenon is "entertainment tonight." >> hi, im tom hallic. and welcome to our opening night. the premiere edition of "entertainment tonight." >> all of the critics were kind of unanimous in that they said it will never last because there simply isnt enough entertainment news to fill a half hour every night. >> "en...
May 9, 2021
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May 9, 2021
Of that money back and give it to people who are in charge of those issues. at the same time lets put money back into a program that build public safety and build an economy for everyone. thats defund 101. >> if this was a business, were getting 50% of our department thats failing and killing people while doing so, we would defund them immediately. >> yes. >> take away the current system and investing in other systems that we think will surk seed. it strips that away and says, just look at the n...
May 9, 2021
Terrorism. >> people think that policies put into place after noip really impacted only the arab community or people perceived to be arab. thats not true. noip was a further way to. thats why my organization got involved with the stop urban show campaign. >> she was born and raised in san francisco. shes the executive director of the arab resource center, an unapologetic abolitionist. >> he was, and i say was, the largest military police training in the world. it was taking place on the weekend ...
May 9, 2021
Today we have 600 police officers and tomorrow we have none. thats not whats going to happen. thats what we talk about. like whatever reforms we can make that chip away at this current system. here in oakland, but oakland police department gets almost half of our general fund. when you look at oakland in particularly all these years we were in the top one in the country year after year after year. so oakland, what are we paying for? so were saying defund but what were talking about is re-funding...
May 9, 2021
Possessed. >> walter findley, i never said that standing up, and you know it. >> norman lear and bud yorkin really turned the spinoff series into an art form. >> norman lear hates to hear it called the lear factory. all his series come out of this building, allowing lear to move from show to show like a dervish. >> "good times" was like holy smokes. theres black people on tv. >> there had never been a complete black family on tv with the father. >> what made it so unique and universal was that w...