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Members of the team sometimes go to bed hungry. watch. >> definitely best to get a scholarship to our university, but the at the end of the day that doesnt cover everything. we have hungry nights we dont have enough money to get food and sometimes, you know, needing money, things like that, you know, to some credit you feel like you need -- like you want something in return. >> uconn has made a ncaa clean sweep with championships for both the mens and womens teams but shabazzs statements are thr...

All american citizens and good citizens and we were paying the taxes and deserve to have all of the rights and so that the battle was not only on the football field, but also to make sure that we were recognized as american citizens and be able to be a part of the freedom, equality, and justice. >> and a different battle is happening and i want to hear your thoughts on it, because you have college basketball players who say it is now time for them tho unionize and you know what has happened with...

Definitely behind the huskies winning the championship over kentucky. its what he said well before the championship game that might be the driving force in the way that college athletes are treated by their schools. when he was asked about northwestern university scholarship students being able to unionize he said this. >> at the end of the day that doesnt cover everything. we do have hungry nights that we dont have enough money for feed. sometimes money is needed. >> he goes to bed hungry. conn...

>> basketball heaven, uconn wins the ncaa tournament, and getting buzz this morning, surprising comments from one of uconns star players over the weekend to have efforts to allow college athletes to unionize. shabazz napier says that he goes to bed hungry at night because he cannot afford food. join us the with the conversation on twitter at t tamron hall, and my team at news nation. r fiber. try phillips fiber good gummies. r fiber. theyre delicious, and a good source of fiber to help support r...

New york. >> reporter: welcome to america, where one in five kids go to bed hungry. >> so, on november 1st, there was a large cut in the food stamps budget, over $1 billion, and the largest population thats getting hurt is the working poor. >> i worked my whole life, but im not going to be ashamed to come to the food bank because weve got to get the food for the family. >> were definitely seeing an increase of families coming in. what we see on the rise is a lot of children. children are going t...

To eat their dinner, i dont make them something else, they go to bed hungry. >> really? i admire that. what if they do that for 30 days. >> a place for discipline and also a place for pushing forward with -- >> heres what i think they did wrong. >> kids are start -- >> couldnt they have done this in stages? why take all the junk out. mix it up with the alfalfa or of -- it was just cold turkey, literally cold turkey. >> in the states where the schools were able to enforce this new legislation, fo...

Such place. it was all one of his lies. >> jones built this church and offered sanctuary there, a safety net to the elderly and poor, usually blacks from the inner city. they signed over their social security checks and the peoples temple cared for them for the rest of their lives. >> he built this whole thing on the premise of brotherhood, economic equality and a world where no babies go to bed hungry. >> jerry parks and his family followed jones from the midwest out to ukiah in 1966. jerry got...

>> i know now as sure as im sitting here and i knew and have for a long time there was no such place. it was all one of his lies. >> jones built this church and offered sanctuary there, a safety net to the elderly and poor, usually blacks from the inner city. they signed over their social security checks and the peoples temple cared for them for the rest of their lives. >> he built this whole thing on the premise of brotherhood, economic equality and a world where no babies go to bed hungry. >> ...

The way i got myself to go to sleep for a couple of nights was i honestly prayed they went to another program, she said. its probably more likely people have gone to bed hungry, her view of the situation. the report is by msnbc.com, and you can find it on our facebook page. let us know what you think. and right now, we are waiting for president obama to address the house democratic conference in cambridge, maryland. were going to bring that speech to you live. thats up this hour. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪...

Its our job to help them understand their potential and then get them enrolled in a college that can help them meet their needs. they all know just getting into school is only half the story. once students are there, they have got to graduate. thats not always easy, especially given what many of these kids are dealing with when they get to campus. just think about it. you just heard a snippet from troy. just to make it to college, these kids have already overcome so much. neighborhoods riddled w...