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Man, hung him in a tree. Who would do something this hideous . In my vision, a brownskinned man in a gray casket, i couldnt tell who he was. And thats when i began to call all my children. When i think about the hurt my mom went through, i cant talk about it. The mobile Police Department just didnt want to believe that mobile would still have klan in it. But they did. The fact that klansmen lived across the street from where this happened, it was something that the Police Officers found more to ...

man, hung him in a tree. who would do something this hideous? >> in my vision, a brown-skinned man in a gray casket, i couldnt tell who he was. and thats when i began to call all my children. >> when i think about the hurt my mom went through, i cant talk about it. >> the mobile police department just didnt want to believe that mobile would still have klan in it. but they did. >> the fact that klansmen lived across the street from where this happened, it was something that the police o...

Interference case. How damaging is it for the former president and the new drama in the new york fraud case the social media post that just cost donald trump 5,000 the urgent manhunt after a maryland judge is shot dead at his home the Armed And Dangerous suspect. Was he angry with the judge over his divorce . And the voices of war. The people weve met whose lots are forever changed. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt and good evening im tom llamas in for lester. We begin with th...

Being a white, male conservative today is equivalent to putting a giant “kick me” sign on your back, or at least that’s been Ryan Spaeder’s experience. Spaeder has a long list of career achievements. Perhaps most notable are his contributions to Major League Baseball, specifically as a broadcaster a...

But he was also the kind of person that did not bite his tongue. if he thought something was wrong, he was going to say it was wrong. sometimes he ran into some friction. >> thomas could be very abrupt, and he was riding this departmental attorney big time. i mean, big time riding him. finally, this attorney looked up at thomas. he told thomas, he said, you know, i could always use a good boot black. thomas blew up. >> thomas figures, this is a black prosecutor in a federal office in the 1980s. ...

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Thomas blew up. >> thomas figures is a black prosecutor and a federal officer in the 1980s. hes fighting discrimination from without and discrimination from within. and he has to listen to his colleagues speak to him in condescending ways, including his boss, jeff sessions, who says to him, "you need to watch the way you speak to white people." and he has to secure the trust of law enforcement. and so, thomas figures has to walk a tightrope. >> he wasnt gonna ever give up. they may have thought ...

Communications. today, thejudge communications. today, the judge said communications. today, thejudge said hed made an unreliable witness that she didnt effectively believe his version of beliefs. she asked why when he was arrested three days after making that post on facebook, he didnt talk about autocorrect at the time. she found him guilty. he will be sentenced at the end of this month at birmingham magistrate court. as he left court with his wife, he was still protesting his innocence. ive g...

Barbie. you see you talking. what this all represents is something that is so important and it represents all the work you did, fighting discrimination. but also on the front lines, fighting covid. when little girls play with your barbie, what do you want the takeaway to be? >> the biggest takeaway is that little girls of anyone in the younger generation can do anything. it doesnt matter what your skin color is, what your background is, what your culture is. you can do anything. and i hope when ...