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I.d. requirements, shorter windows for getting mail-in ballots, and new barriers for voters with disabilities. now the u.s. president is taking a tougher approach to passing election reform legislation despite two possible democratic holdouts. cnns phil mattingly has our report. >> hes quite focused on how ensuring the american people understand what is at stake here. >> reporter: a white house sharpening its message. >> the president will forcefully advocate for protecting the most bedrock amer...

Congregated so to speak to testify to sidney poitiers meaning. here was a man who broke barriers, challenged obstacles, overcame, you know, the kinds of dichlgts and conflicts that lay before him for no other reason than he was a black man and yet he did so with profound grace and tremendous elegance and cool. so he was able to embody the quest for black excellence, the demand for black humanity, to treatise with great respect. he refused to take roles that would demean him, diminish him. once h...

Others project upon borrowers. theres a legacy of banks preventing us, black people, women, lgbtq ia plus people, people with disabilities are from accessing capital to get anywhere closer to the american dream. thats one of the reasons why we should also be passing the equality act while talking about all these other things. the second is that we also start with greater barriers and baggage, right, so the median income for black folks is around $45,000 and on average were carrying close to $52,...

Our own civic and political future, each and every one of us and reach out and engage people so that there is an overwhelming of these barriers to voting in the next election and the one after that and the one after that. >> yeah. i was thinking today -- well take a break because i want to bring you back. im enjoying this conversation . i was thinking about the horrible thing that happened at the synagogue and the alliance blacks and jews had during the civil rights moment. i hope we havent move...

Was shoved, this monster on the tracks and we have a sitting council member and say we need to erect barriers around the subways to stop people from pushing people. really? how stupid of a comment is that? instead of saying lets vehemently prosecute the monsters that do this and have a police officer on every subway track to prevent this. lets put up barriers. here is an idea. when someone pushes someone on the subway track, they get arrested, go to jail. no bond to do it again. you give them 25...

Indigenous market is giving entrepreneurs a chance to hone their skills. entrepreneurs a chance to hone theirskills. but their skills. but discrimination and theirskills. but discrimination and indifference can be barriers to success. there are my perceptions across australia about aboriginal people and those perceptions also translate into the business world but we just dont want people as —— that we dont want people as —— that we do not want stuff as much as other people but that could...

Across all companies, joe. >> so, dr. patel, lets look at whats happening around the country. right now almost 87% of u.s. adults have one does. 73% are fully vaccinated, notwithstanding that strange 14% discrepancy there. now without a federal policy in place, lets be honest, its likely those numbers arent going to go up much more. what are your thoughts on this? >> yeah, thats right, joe, you arent going to see those numbers dramatically change. were talking at best maybe a percentage or two. ...

But when it came to explaining the barriers to diversity in the professional game, the chair of middlesex county cricket club said this. the football and rugby world becomes much more attractive to the afro—caribbean community. and in terms of the south asian community, there is a moment where we are finding that they do not want, necessarily, to commit the same time that is necessary to go to the next step, because theyd prefer, im not always saying they do it, they sometimes prefer to go int...

Shejoins us now. welcome. how much difference will this make for people in your industry?— difference will this make for people in your industry? good afternoon. it is really welcome _ in your industry? good afternoon. it is really welcome news _ in your industry? good afternoon. it is really welcome news than - is really welcome news than something that we have been calling forfor something that we have been calling for for a long something that we have been calling forfor a long time. 75% of...

A part poitier would play in two successful sequels. hollywood and the world is remembering the acting legend who passed away thursday at the age of 94. poitier broke barriers being the first black actor to be nominated for lead oscar for 1958 the defiant ones. the first african-american to win a lead actor oscar for lilis of the field and the first block actor to be the number 1 box office draw in 1967 with 3 memorable roles in guess who is coming to dinner, to serve with love and in the heat o...