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Early today starts right now good wednesday morning. Im Frances Rivera minneapolis d who died when a white Police Officer knelt on his neck for rest his funeral attended by more than 500 people comes after weeks of global and National Protests that have called for police reform. Nbcs dan shenamen has more on the emotional good bye reporter more than two weeks after george floyd died in police custody, it was time to say goodbye. We honor him today because when he took his last breath, the rest o...

Conference. Have of people moving, how the National Park service and preservation is how the story of black migration. My name is madeline, and the Senior Executive assistant at the National Parks conservation association. Lowder . Is that better . Sorry about that. Im so proud to be with you this afternoon. On behalf of teresa and the president and ceo, thank you for taking the time to join us and welcome. For those of you not familiar with the National Parks conservation association, we have b...

rights la of the year to share his personal views about religion. but the problem is alito and the other right-wing justices are imposing their personal, moral and political beliefs on all of us. and new reports show how theyre using made up plaintiffs in recent supreme court cases to do it. also tonight, new details on donald trumps efforts to over turn his election loss in arizona. amid new reporting that jack smith is giving close scrutiny to trumps clown car team of lawyers. pl...

This possible. To those of you joining us for the first time, a warm welcome, and an invitation to explore the wide range of programs here. Before we begin, now is the perfect time to turn off your cellphone or anything else that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. A team ofy of 2016, New York Times staffers discovered dozens of unpublished photos in the papers archives. Some were published in a multimedia series, unpublished black history. The monthlong series covered...

For those of us from the south, 50 years ago we received our marching orders when dr. Martin luther king jr. Quote it the prophet isaiah, i have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted and every hill should be made low and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the lord should be revealed and all flesh. And this is the faith that we go back to the south with and those are our marching orders and this is the faith that we go back to the south with. Yes, the south. Wh...

There they are, there. so i cant come up with any one special one now. its just that both of us were music lovers. and i still am to this day. >> ive asked what the most important thing is people should know about medgar evers. whats the most important thing people should know about merle evers williams? >> that im human. im prone to error. i try not to make errors. im very strong about what i believe in. and i will go to the nth degree to see that that happens or takes place. medgar was very mu...

Called the freedom sisters. talking about the women of the movement is not something we focus on enough. tell bus that very quickly. >> so many times when we go to museums and exhibits, we mostly see the men. but i tell you, the power behind the thrown happened to be sisters. ford motor fund had an opportunity to curate an exhibit several year ago, toured around the country. weep are now stewards of that collection. it really does talk about the many brave women, the merle evers, all of those fo...

a military uniform, this guys a full fledged dictator. >> his lies, like some kind of a dictator. >> when they have not lied about obamacare. >> its a fairy tale. >> its beginning to break the backs of american workers. >> you cannot make this up, this comedy of errors. >> its another giant scam. >> you get put on lists. >> hes sociopathic. >> how many of them are signing up out of fear? >> this is insanity right now. >> we could repeal obamacare and get this monkey off the backs of th...

Conduct an autopsy on their own party. >> exactly. so true. i want to talk about the march on washington because for one of the things that was so incredible women took the stage and the story goes that merle evers was supposed to take the stage and wasnt able to do so she got stuck in the crowd, what have you, but it was inspiring to see so many women particularly given that women have become such an important voting block in this country and god willing well have more women running for office ...

11th is not an accident. the american people were lied to. >> darrell issa and others took that and crusaded against the administration. >> benghazi. >> we were not given a clear picture of what went on. >> i stood next to president obama as the marines carryied those flag draped caskets off the plane at andrews. i put my arms around the anothers and fathers, the sisters and brothers the sobs and daughters. >> had i been president at the time i would have relieved you of your post. >> ...