By Tom Price and Jo Ann McClellan
In February 1946, community leaders and business owners Julius Blair and James Morton with veterans just returning from World War II, challenged the racial order in Columbia, Tennessee by taking a stand against a threat of violence. More than 100 African Americans were arrested, jailed, and charged with various crimes, including attempted murder. Dubbed the “Columbia Race Riot”, some historians believe this event “jump started” the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Almost immediately, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was contacted and a team was sent from Nashville, Chattanooga, and New York.
How Much Has the Filibuster Cost America? Intelligencer 2/6/2021 Ed Kilgore
As Democrats mull a reform or even an abolition of the hoary and disreputable institution of the Senate filibuster, it’s easy to confine the stakes of the debate to desirable legislative items that are currently front-and-center: reforming democracy, fighting climate change, and reforming health care, and other progressive goals that simply cannot get through Congress to Joe Biden’s desk because 41 senators can and will veto every one of them.
Fundamentally, the filibuster (which really didn’t exist in a meaningful sense until the late 19th century) allows any determined Senate minority to resist and in many cases kill legislation it dislikes. Until 1917, with the invention of “cloture,” there was no way to force the end to a filibuster. Still, the filibuster didn’t achieve its full evil flowering as the favored tool for preservation of Jim Crow until between the world wars
Author and ex-stockbroker Jordan Belfort joins Tucker Carlson Tonight with reaction to tumultuous week on Wall Street
This is a rush transcript from Tucker Carlson Tonight, February 1, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
TUCKER CARLSON, HOST: Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson Tonight. Happy Monday.
The news is moving with bewildering speed, in case you haven t noticed. We ve noticed.
No presidential administration has ever changed so many basic institutions and facts of American life, and done it so quickly. We ve done our best to bring you nightly updates on what s happening for the week and a half that Joe Biden has been President, but at times, it s overwhelming, there s just too much to cover.
With President-elect Joe Biden’s choice of federal Judge Merrick Garland as his new attorney general last week, the question arises: Will Garland carry out his responsibilities in a nonpartisan manner, or will he return the Justice Department to the days of the Obama-Biden administration when, as I have argued, Eric Holder politicized the department more than almost any other prior attorney general