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And the influence that she has had on africanamerican culture. Good evening, everyone. Think you so much for being here with us. Im the executive producer of the green space. We have been on an extraordinary journey over the last month. The green spaces honored the 75th anniversary of Zora Neale Hurstons novel, their eyes were watching god. One month from today is the threeyear anniversary of the green space. Our hope and mission is to take audiences on a soul stirring journey to connect, to ins...

today as the calls for israel to pause its war on hamas grow louder. whats next and before we can go of the war, ahead. the shady bunch. donald trump jr. and eric trump take the stand in new yorks 250 million dollar civil fraud trial. just days before the most indicted former president in u.s. history, and his daughter, ivanka, take the stand. the new gag order in the case. the tough questions the former first family is facing, and why it all means for the three criminal trials against...

That collection arrived at the 135th Street Public Library 90 years ago. He was a bibliophile who migrated from puerto rico in 1891 found a job on wall street work in the mailroom saves his pennies and worked really hard and bought anywhere are unique but he could find that was by or about black people. He eventually became famous for this collection. People would go to his home in brooklyn to see the library to borrow from the Library People like Langston Hughes and eventually people like and w...

Washington journal continues. Host the front page of usa today this morning. The headline, more democrats swear off the swearingin ceremony. They are joining their colleagues in bowing to boycott Donald Trumps inauguration in the wake of him lashing out at civil rights icon john lewis. Their asking our viewers thoughts on those actions by Democratic House members. For democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. Independents. R i want to start by talking about one of those talking to one of those memb...

The strong commitment of the u. S. To the transatlantic bond not only in words. But also in deeds. These days the us is deploying new forces, additional forces, to europe which is of great importance for the security of europe and which is demonstrates the strong transatlantic commitment of the u. S. And we are very grateful for this commitment. You also stressed that just as the u. S. Stood with europe, europe stood tall with the u. S. And we have to remember that the only time that the allianc...

Sreenivasan all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by love me tender love me true we can like many, but we can love only a precious few. Because it is for those precious few that you have to be willing to do so very much. But you dont have to do it alone. Lincoln financial helps you provide for and protect your financial future, because this is what you do for people you love. Lincoln financial youre in charge. Bnsf railway. Xq institute...

Sreenivasan all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by love me tender love me true we can like many, but we can love only a precious few. Because it is for those precious few that you have to be willing to do so very much. But you dont have to do it alone. Lincoln financial helps you provide for and protect your financial future, because this is what you do for people you love. Lincoln financial youre in charge. Bnsf railway. Xq institute...

Headline number 2, this takes to assisted suicide, lot of cash. Millions. The yesside, 4. 8 million they raised almost all from a group called compassion and choices action network. The noside is raising a little bit, over a million. There is a proposal to triple the cigarette tax. Who would oppose that . One company, one tobacco company. Ultria, or phillip morris, 5 million to minimum wage, out of state money is the big story there, perhaps not a surprise, this is a national fight that has turn...

Homicide. Still moving along slowly because if this does go to trial in the spring, its probably going to be a lengthy trial. It is set at the moment for two weeks and the judge talked about having special arrangements for the jury which means in simple english they probably will have more people than usual to come in to sort of lets say audition to be on this jury because this is a high profile case. Yeah. Theyll be one person died, over 100 are hurt after a train crashed into a platform in hob...

The area that started small. But boomed later on. C1 3 crashed into the terminal in hoboken new jersey train station yesterday morning. The train hopped the barriers at the end of the track and slammed right into the building. Steel beams, bricks and shattered glass all fell to the ou mom died. More than 100 people on and off the train were injured. Today investigators are trying to find out as much as they can about what led up to the crash. So far unstable debris is keeping everyone away train...