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Thomas blew up. >> thomas figures is a black prosecutor and a federal officer in the 1980s. he's fighting discrimination from without and discrimination from within. and he has to listen to his colleagues speak to him in condescending ways, including his boss, jeff sessions, who says to him, "you need to watch the way you speak to white people." and he has to secure the trust of law enforcement. and so, thomas figures has to walk a tightrope. >> he wasn't gonna ever give up. they may have thought he was, but he was not ever gonna give up on it. >> i think the culprits became sensitive to the p...

Communications. today, thejudge communications. today, the judge said communications. today, thejudge said he'd made an unreliable witness that she didn't effectively believe his version of beliefs. she asked why when he was arrested three days after making that post on facebook, he didn't talk about autocorrect at the time. she found him guilty. he will be sentenced at the end of this month at birmingham magistrate court. as he left court with his wife, he was still protesting his innocence. i've got a statement from the club he belongs to, and it says west bromwich albion has a proud history...

Barbie. you see you talking. what this all represents is something that is so important and it represents all the work you did, fighting discrimination. but also on the front lines, fighting covid. when little girls play with your barbie, what do you want the takeaway to be? >> the biggest takeaway is that little girls of anyone in the younger generation can do anything. it doesn't matter what your skin color is, what your background is, what your culture is. you can do anything. and i hope when they do see this barbie doll and they see someone who looks like them, they know that anything is p...