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Bandcamp / Buy Fifty-some years ago, Nina Simone recorded a song for the children. On its face, “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” offers encouragement and hope. Beneath the surface, its somber chords and heavy gait reach for something more complex, unable to ignore the darkness clouding the aspirations of the next generation. In 1969, there were plenty of reasons for a young Black person to feel broken. Within the decade, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and four little girls in Birmingham had been killed for being Black. The relentless violence communicated that no one was sa...

Member of the senate has to make up their own mind on each nominee and i obviously ammo posed to mike pompeo. i think his record on lgbtq issues, on muslim issues, on issues of war and peace from my perspective cannot earn an affirmative vote from me, but other members have to make up their own minds. >> we will have to leave it there. senator markey, appreciate your time, thank you. >> thank you. all right, this is a tough story but we have to talk about it. sandy hook families are taking legal action against this guy, conspiracy monger alex jones. he called the massacre of 20 children and ...

But what you're going to see here is also again, not unlike a little bit of what we saw in health care, you're going to start seeing divides within the republican party, within the majority party. you saw lipid say graham in sara murray's piece, the more tea party wing of the republican party, to ron's point about the non-college whites. this kind of proposal can en liven the core base of trump's support in many ways. this speaks to some of their most heartfelt concerns about economic pressure on them and their neighbors. it's not this will be rejected out of hand. it's not that this may even ...

Priorities, rolling back regulation, making things easier for business, cutting on environmental protection. they're not necessarily the red meat for trump's base so much. >> so do they have a point, the white house, when they say you guys are ignoring all we're getting done? >> well, i think it's interesting. the things i think are maybe their greatest accomplishments are often not the ones they talk about. they talk about gorsuch, and i think rightly so. you don't hear them talking much about the regulations and things. i also think when you're creating the kind of chaos they are, it's disin...

Responding to that. >> certainly -- i saw that piece as well. he's done stuff in terms of executive orders and thrown some red meat to the base here, as david was just saying. i actually think in the capital, there is growing concern, particularly among republican leaders about what this means for 2018. lawmakers are nothing if not focused on their own self preservation in terms of re-election. as much as donald trump continues to do things they don't feel will help them get elected, i think you'll see them start to part ways, whether that's on russian sanctions and how he approaches russia. y...