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When Martin Luther King Jr. needed funds for Project Confrontation in Birmingham in 1963, Harry Belafonte made it happen.

  Share Source: Greg Nash/Pool via AP Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) defended her calls for people in the Minneapolis area to be "more confrontational" in the event the Derek Chauvin trial did not result in a guilty verdict with an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times that was published on Thursday. Right before the verdict was set to be announced, Waters traveled to Brooklyn Center, which had experienced days of protests and riots after the accidental police killing of Daunte Wright, when she was ask...

Maxine Waters: Those targeting my words in Minnesota distort the truth Im not new to protest, challenge and confrontation. But I am also nonviolent.  By Maxine Waters Text size Copy shortlink: The journey to this moment has been painful and so very difficult. Derek Chauvins killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis was a shocking and disturbing experience for so many people. On video, Chauvin kneeled on Floyds neck for more than nine minutes as...

Views: Sometimes I wish I didnt have an editor, because then I could just title this post, "Rep. Maxine Waters Tells The Chauvin Judge To F*ck Right The Hell Off." But hey, I guess thats not all that happened in this segment, so its probably a good thing I have an editor. Rep. Maxine Waters, perpetual target of racists/GOP/honestly-whats-the-diff-anymore spoke to Joy Reid in the aftermath of the supremely satisfying and somber vision of Derek Chauvin being led away in handcuffs. After detaili...

>> the lives of four little girls stopped at 10:22 a.m. so this bombing suddenly made everybody in the nation wake up. >> it was the only one that resulted in the death of four people, the death of four little girls here in our church. >> andrew young recalled his own anguish after hearing the news. >> i was so despondent and depressed. we knew that church. that church was where we had meetings. >> king had used the churchs pulpit to recruit participants in the struggle for change in birmingham....

Known. >> in a speech back in atlanta, dr. king acknowledged that winning the nobel was one of the highest honors of his life. >> i must confess that i have enjoyed being on the mountaintop. but something reminds me that the valley calls me, in spite of all of its agonies, dangers, and frustrating moments. i must return to the valley. >> dr. king spoke with passion. he was so convincing. so when you heard him use a line like that, or some other line, you were prepared to follow him. ♪ take em ...

>> i was so despondent and depressed. we knew that church. that church was where we had meetings. >> king had used the churchs pulpit to recruit participants in the struggle for change in birmingham. in the initial plan for the campaign, known as "project confrontation," the last line on one page reads "pray that we can come out alive." >> martin said, you know, when you go to birmingham, somebody is not going to come out. >> but dr. king didnt anticipate innocent children becoming the movements...