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thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. ee you at the end of tomorrow >> thanks john for joining us this evening. tomorrow morning, the family of tyre nichols, the 29-year-old who was fatally beaten by police on january 7th, played nichols to rest at the mississippi boulevard christian church. vice president kamala harris plans to attend, along with current biden administration officials and former mayors keisha lance bottoms and mitch atlantic. reverend al s...

Low level traffic enforcement. but the reason they are doing it in those neighborhoods is they know -- they will get enough people with enough stuff in the car, they can charge them. the mayor can be proud of the numbers. the community can feel safe. it is a pr vicious cycle. until we start actually asking questions about what the safety means. and exactly as folks in oakland have been saying and folks in chicago and philly have been saying. we need to use police for less. for the things that we...

Left in this country, black folks were only saying we want tougher punishment for these folks who are taking over the streets, they were also saying, and we would love if you would invest in the community so we dont have to call out in crisis in the first place. we mostly dont tell that history. that message was mostly lost on politicians who are scared of talking about it. and we are now at a point where we say, well, there must be a generational divide. there is an experience of disinvestment....

Can actually help, who can actually protect and serve, not harass, not ultimately, in the most egregious instances, kill. >> to that end, this unit was supposed to be dealing with homicides. this was supposed to be a violent crime unit. the two anecdotes that i have heard from specifically the scorpion unit in memphis. one man was sitting with a friend getting a pizza. the other man was in his car, displaying no outward probable cause, for the police to not only come at him, but you ultimately k...

We often have casual encounters that can impact our lives in surprising ways years later. Such is the case in meeting Film Producer/Director Robert Schnitzer when he traveled to Mississippi

Like his role model Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. before him, Chokwe Lumumba had a dream. The mayor had big plans for Jackson. It was January 2014. As our meeting

Mill Street Studios and the Jackson Urban Renaissance...

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Theyre come to bat for tournaments, when they have nowhere else to turn, they turn to black women in these communities. to see a community where black women have showed up, showed out, are wanting change. sabrina robinson unseated a 12-year incumbent. thats no small task in a city like memphis. >> its true there is such a gap between reputation and how reliable those voters are and how engaged they are. did they talk about the sort of what its been like to go from candidate to now either office ...