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environmental decisions in years, the courts conservative justices cited with several red states and coal companies, and limited the epas ability to crack down on greenhouse gas emissions. in a victory for the president, the court ruled in favor of the ministrations efforts to shut down the trump remaining mexico immigration policy. we will have reactions to that straight ahead. also coming up it is now justice jackson. this afternoon, to tonya brown jackson became the first black woma...

And i heard why not you. he founded tku, believed to be the only organization of its kind in the region. >> we are finding people within the community. we are finding our resources within the community and giving our folks an opportunity to move from surviving to thriving. its headquartered in the shadow of the historic edmund pettus bridge, scene of a bloody battle for voting rights in 1965. >> there are people who say theyre different, sifrl rights and the rights of lgbtq and those things are ...

The nation past this year in alabama that criminalizes gender-affirming surgeries for trans people under 19 and restricts the use of puberty blockers and hormones. >> what were hopeful are is more visibility of black queer, brown queer, trans people living open and whole it will give the opportunity for the community to ask those questions that they desperately want to ask in a way that we can open up and have intentional dialogue about what it means to be trans and what it means to be a black t...

So its been a bruising pride month after a close call with violence at an idaho lgbtq event. there was heightened anxiety and security at events across the country and the overturning of roe fueled justifiable fears that the supreme court decisions that legalized same-sex marriage and intimacy will be next, not to mention the ongoing offensives against transgender individuals in states. in selma, alabama, plaque black lgbtq community are carrying on and how theyre working to complete the unfinis...

Selma, alabama. >> i met quentin bell walking in the freedom of fighters and hes tapping into the spirit to make room in the bibl belt in the south for those who the movement have left behind including the lgbtq community. lets take a listen. >> growing up in selma, alabama, quentin bell never thought the city would have something to offer someone like him. >> when i did decide to transition i had a few family members who pulled away. if me walking in my truth makes you uncomfortable then we don...

Are doing here in selma in 2022. >> while folks like quentin say that theres been so much progress, what you hear over and over again during the reporting that so many folks in the community, lgbtq community have suffered from engaging in the church community and the bible belt and they have found an older generation and some have been reluctant and some embraced this new movement to continue what they didnt finish. >> thats incredible. what a strong man to do that and to focus his legacy, his w...