In 1892, a Black man was lynched in the Hudson Valley
A new book about the mob killing of a Black man in 1892 shares eye-opening history of Hudson Valley racism and slavery
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A new book about the mob killing of a Black man in 1892 shares eye-opening history of Hudson Valley racism and slavery
In this case country. i'll read a little bit of the statement to you. president biden saying, mr. arbery should be here today celebrating this holiday with his mother and with his father. nothing can bring mr. arbery back to his family and his community. but the verdict ensures that those who committed this horrible crime will be punished. the president going on in that written statement to say, while the guilty verdict reflects our justice system doing its job, that alone is not enough. and you know, this has been a case that president biden has been watching right from the very start, katy. ...
So there's that. desperate times call for desperate measures. what democrats, even some nce of republicans are charging, trump and his gop protectors are resorting to truly comical, ned%ing stunts, stunts like matt "frank the tank" gaetz, crashes a scif party. way to show them, boys. stunts like senator lindsey graham showing the president he has had is back lick instituting an actual resolution. why? because the president has been denied basic fairness, poor guy. stunts like the president of the united states calling this a lynching. yeah, this is totally how people who aren't worried behave....
Decision, where a black man tried to sue to have himself and his family declared citizens, and the courts said, no, you can never be a citizen of the country to which you were brought via kidnapping. he honors what is a low point in our supreme court jurisprudence. 1896 is plessy versus ferguson's horrific separate but equal doctrine where the government sanctioned segregation and prejudice. those are the things that donald trump honors when he compares his circumstances with lynching. and real quick, eamon, you mentioned jammel bowie's terrific column in yesterday's "the new york times," and ...
This testing on a day when support for impeaching the president and removing him from office is on the rise. now at 50% for the first time. it is trademark trump to turn up the volume when he wants to distract you from something important, like today's witness or today's numbers. so this morning the president deploying a word with historic meaning, calling the democratic investigation, quote, a lynching. bill taylor is the crucial witness behind closed doors this hour. taylor is a career foreign policy hand who the trump administration pulled out of retirement to take the top diplomatic job in...