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From msnbc World Headquarters here in new york. Welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. We begin with new developments in georgia, where security is tightening around the Fulton County courthouse as State Officials raise concerns about the potential for violence. Two new subpoena suggests the fani Willis Grand Jury will meet in the next couple of days. Indictments related to attempts to overturn 2020 Election Results are widely expected there this week. One Georgia State official said today, tr...

>> we were getting ready for a big celebration. we were winning everything, and all of a sudden, it was just called off. so well be going to the u.s. supreme court. we want all voting to stop. we dont want them to find any ballots at 4:00 in the morning and add them to the list. >> that, of course, was donald trump on election night, calling for the nullification of mail-in ballots. that was part of the plot to overturn the election. and now, text messages have surfaced from former geo...

in the waters around taiwan, after expressing anger over a visit to the island by a senior us politician. englands victorious lionesses urge the next prime minister to help more schoolgirls play football. good morning from the commonwealth games in birmingham, where it was a special night, of athletics, as aylish mccolgan ran the race of her life, to emulate her mother liz, by winning gold for scotland, in the 10,000 metres. good morning. 0ver good morning. over the next few days it wi...

This past week we celebrated what would have been Dr. Martin L. King Jr.’s 95th birthday. Over the past few years, the Dr. Martin L. King holiday was normally the third weekend of the month; this year it came early and caught some off guard on the second weekend of the month. The good news […]

Ago. and now, are faced with images of that brawl in montgomery, alabama, a city that holds important prominence in the civil rights movement. what goes to your mind? >> in the last 60 years, we are fighting for rights that [inaudible] and then to see these people, this man doing his job, being assaulted. but there was some that stood up for him, and fought back, in the city that the montgomery bus boycotts started, with dr. king [inaudible] it showed me that, just like people came to the rescue...

Riot girl takes on a whole new meaning.

Born in Chicago in 1913 to an activist family, Margaret Bonds began her studies with the best of Bronzeville… composers Florence Beatrice Price and William Levi Dawson.

It was mamie till mobleys decision to publish the excruciating images of her sons battered disfigured body and her decision to hold an open casket funeral that helped galvanize the montgomery bus boycotts. it was used, 1963, the date of the march on washington. to this date, not a single person has been held accountable for emmett tills murder. viewers were spared the gruesome violence. what we see is the story of a mom who loved her carefree, outgoing boy. the task of bringing till to life was ...

It was -- to publish the excruciating images of her sons battered, disfigured body, and her decision to hold an open casket funeral, attended by thousands, that helped galvanize the montgomery bus boycotts in the civil rights movement. the date of his death was deliberately used in 1963 as the date of the march on washington. to this day, not a single person has been held accountable for emmett tills murder. in the new film, viewers are spared the gruesome violence, because the director did not ...

Katarina johnson—thompson after she won gold in the heptathlon at the commonwealth games yesterday. she has by her own admission had a pretty rough couple of years, for various reasons. last night she won the gold medal. a very great moment for her. i am going to pick up on the death of roy hackett, which was announced yesterday. if you are not familiar with him, announced yesterday. if you are not familiarwith him, it announced yesterday. if you are not familiar with him, it is worth knowing ...