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I mean, when i walk out the house, i have to worry about whats going to happen to me today. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by life isnt a straight line, and sometimes you can fi yourself heading in a new direction. Fidelity is here to help you work through the unexpected, with Financial Planning and advice for today, and tomorrow. The william and flora hewlett foundation. For more than 50 years, advancing ideas and pporting institutions to promote a better world. At www. Hewlett. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and indiduals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff dozens of American Cities are bracing for new protests, and potentially, new violence, tonigh ....
go home! it s like a bomb. we re sitting on a bomb. you can have a black person killed with a video, then this is what you ll get. this is a revolution. should people be frightened? i think people should wake up. it s 1991. wake up. we have talked at each other and about each other for a long time. it s high time we all began talking with each other. no justice, no peace! can we all get along? in about 20 minutes from now david dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from city hall and take a public oath of office and become new york city s 106th mayor and the city s first african-american mayor. i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. david dinkins being inaugurated on new year s day in 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. people are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. a grandson of slaves was sworn in t ....
Characters in onewoman shows. Ive followed several catastrophes over my career, and i find that catastrophe is the place where people become most creative in their language. One of her latest projects a play about the schoolto prison pipeline a trend in which children move from the classroom into the criminal justice system. I met a young man who was in prison outside of of washington, d. C. He is 18 years old. He says, once you become you get committed, which means being sent to jail they give you services. He says they give you they give you a job, you get a tutor, you get mental. Baltimore is home to the performance artist. Its an appropriate setting to research violence and economic despair. I think that that poverty is now considered some kind of a disgrace, some kind of a pathology. Smith has received countless accolades and awards. In Popular Culture shes best known for her tv work on nurse jackie and the west wing, and fi ....
Begins the job of demolishing jakartas oldest red light district. The United States and russia has welcomed a cessation of hostilities in syria that at the end of the first day appears to be largely holding. The United Nations said that major fighting has ceased, but there have been isolated reports of artillery and gunfire. Almost 100 rebel factions agreed to respect the truce. That does not al nusra front oillets. They record them as terror groups saying they were not part of the deal. They have stopped airstrikes but the u. S. Is continuing to parking lot imwitis continuing to strike isil. The sky above aleppo is usually buzzing with syrian war plains. The city has not had become morning probably in years. But fighters here are under no illusion. The regime is not trust worthy. But we are here and well prevent the regime from advancing in our areas. There is a cautious sens ....