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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield 20240604 16:11:00

I m super excited, and i m super hopeful because the vice president the white house, so many celebrity activists, everybody is paying attention to tennessee. but this isn t the first time people have paid attention to tennessee. this isn t the first time people have paid attention. to the south. you look at georgia, you look at other states and other cities where black and brown people have put their lives, their livelihood and their bodies on the line for this notion of democracy. they ve been met with extremism and resistance from the republican party and the democrats parachute in with, you know all of this hope. but then once the cameras turned off no one is there and i ve been on the ground here are organizations have been on the ground here in 2018. we registered 91,000 people to vote and i state turned around and wanted to pass a bill that would criminalize voter registration. and once the cameras went off, everybody packed up. so while i m inspired that so many people are comin ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC The ReidOut 20240604 00:43:00

The time, ronald reagan, was absolutely silent. so talk a little bit about elizabeth taylor s activism there. let me read you a piece here, from your book, it says most of the time this was about aids patients. most of the time they would say the patients at hospice just needed someone to touch them. she decided to do unpublicized hospice vists. she wanted them to know they were loved. she was the first major excellent activist to take on hiv and aids. i think she was actually one of the first celebrity activists, period, to really devote her life to a cause. because the second half of her life was all about hiv and aids. so she used her relationship with the reagans and i got this rare look into these private letters and diaries where she s writing to nancy reagan and pleading with her to have the president speak about aids because it was years. the first cases, you re talking ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Global Citizen Festival A Concert to End Extreme Poverty 20190928 20:02:00

Williams and queen, joy reid s favorite, adam lambert. but it s not just music. celebrity activists. that s right, stephanie. today global citizens have taken more than 23 million actions that s led to over $47 billion in commitments. those commitments have helped 880 million around the world. global citizens does this by tackling issues that contribute to the crisis the most. among them health, education, gender equality and climate change. we are less than an hour away until things kick off on the stage right behind us. that s where our very own savannah sellers is right now. take it away, savannah. hey, guys. i can actually see you right behind me. we have super excited fans. are you guys excited for what we re going to see here? right? it is just getting started and the gates have only been open for a little while and people are actually physically running ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150507:03:30:00

Next tuesday at the capitol, he plans to unveil a 13-point progressive agenda modeled on newt gingrich s contract with america and designed to combat income inequality which includes universal pre-k, $15 minimum wage and paid family leave. it was developed in part at a closed door meeting of leaders and elected officials. his advisors say more than 60 big names have signed on include could including members of congress and celebrity activists. i disagree with newt gingrich on many things. in 1994, he put forth a contract with america. it had a crystallizing effect for his party and conservatives. it was a clear sharp set of objectives, ways to change america. as an organizational tool, it was very effective. what is bill de blasio up to? joining me katrina vanden. editor and publisher of the nation who was at the closed door meeting with the mayor last month. what s going on here? mayor de blasio believes that economic inequality is the crisis of our times. ....

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