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Parkland School Shooting. Oh, and shes also said that democrats should be executed. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she is very concerned about the ongoing threats to members of congress and she says now the enemy is coming from within the house of representatives. There are new developments this morning in the effectiveness of vaccines against new coronavirus strains. Earlier results from Drugmaker Novavax show it is 89 effective against the regular strain, but only 60 effective against the var...

carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger. so helms called in the political consultants who in turn helped the helms campaign to fight back. this is what theygn came up wit this ad. >> you needed that job because you were the best qualified, but they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gains says it is. your vote on this issue, for racial quota, harvey gain, against racial quotas, jesse helms. >> you ...

lets take a look at the weeks top stories. >> as you know, i cant talk about particulars of this or any other ongoing criminal manner. as i said when i appointed mr. smith i did so because it underscored the justice departments commitment to an oath independents and accountability. mr. smith is a veteran career prosecutor. he has assembled a group ive experienced and talented prosecutors. and agents, whose share his commitment to integrity and the rule of law. any questions about this ...

hurricane fiona continues its dangerous march forth as it churns past bermuda. right behind fiona is a storm that could become a major concern next week. weve got an update on all of that for you ahead. and the pressure on former president trump is mounting on multiple fronts. now the special master, who trump himself requested to review material seized from mar-a-lago is again putting his legal team on the spot giving the trump team until next friday to back up trumps name the fbi p...

Of thoroughbred new york artist to speak these words. 60 years after the premiere on broadway. >> leslie, for people who do not know the story of purlie victoria, set the scene a little bit unharmed what we will see. >> you see a brother come back to the farm on which he was raised. he comes from sharecroppers we will talk about share cropping in the months leading up to the show but my great-grandfather with the sharecroppers actually. it was not all it was cracked up to be. purlie comes back t...

>> im looking at her and im like, man, she can be anything that she wants to be. and as soon as i said it to myself, im like, oh, man, can we afford to put her through college. >> reporter: because black students arrive on campus with less wealth than white peers, they tend to take out more and bigger loans for the same degrees and they will owe about $7400 more than their white counterparts at graduation. it is one reason jonah founded an organization that mobilizes black students especially on...

I think that the police perceived this threat because people are telling them they cannot continue to do business as usual. and that is threatening to them. and one of the things that we really need to understand when we talk about whats happening with african-americans, that its happening with impunity. police are doing it so frequently because there are no consequences. again, if there were consequence, they would stop. to put this in a larger historical context, this notion of african-america...

Empire. dr. king at a certain point actually started to reach out to farm workers because he realized that the same hands, right, that are now picking the crops and feeding the country in the southwest, its the equivalent of what african-americans were dealing with share cropping in the south, these were one and the same issue. when you have latinos voting at less than 40% in the state of texas, is there any chance of creating the political momentum is even possible? you have an undervote of 60 ...

Water horizon oil spill. after more than a century of relying on oyster fishing as a food source and a driver of the local economy, the fishermen are left facing a cultural and economic losses. the film follows one member of that community as they have their fight for justice and accountability from b.p. and the government. >> these people have suffered enough. we cant let b.p. use delay tactics to deny justice. ive been on these waters since i was a child. i have never in my life saw anything s...

System. well have you provide all the labor and well reap the profits. i dont want to overstate it, but is this basically a contemporary system of share cropping that the students find themselves in, mr. branch? >> yes. one day well wake up and kick ourselves and say how can we be so brainwashed and not recognize this. you cant manage conflict between academics and big-time sports unless you recognize the conflicts exist. right now we prethaend big-time athletics and education are the same thing...