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>> joining me now, giuliani cobb, staff writer of "the new yorker," african-american studies at the university of connecticut. you were there today. we all watched that in the office just in total wrapped disbelief at what we were seeing. what was it like to be in that arena? >> well, you know, as you can hear from the audio, people just erupted when he began singing. and it's hard to really convey you know the intensity of that moment of silence that preceded it. you know there's that interminable pause and you're wondering, has he lost his way in his text you know? has he become overcome wit...

reaction. but first, an update on the latest breaking news on this day we have in upstate new york where a nearly three-week-long manhunt for two escaped murderers is coming to a dramatic head. at this hour one escaped prisoner is dead while one remains at large. richard matt and david sweat escaped from a maximum security prison 21 days ago. tonight law enforcement tells nbc news richard matt has been shot and killed while authorities believe they are close to closing in on sweat. governor andrew cuomo of new york is expected to address the situation later in this hour. if it happ...

good morning. i'm melissa harris-perry. attorney general loretta lynch announced a civil rights investigation has been launched into the policies and practices of the baltimore police department. >> this investigation will begin immediately and will focus on allegations that baltimore police department officers used excessive force, including deadly force, conduct unlawful searches seizures and arrests, and engage in discriminatory policing. baltimore mayor stephanie rawlings-blake announced they launch an investigation. on friday the six officers charged in the case of freddie gra...

Must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. and we shall overcome. [ applause ] in this country, civil rights and voting rights have been purchased with the precious cost of blood and the fearlessness of a leader willing to spend the moral capital those martyrs provided. but today that legacy is in jeopardy. just this week the republican-controlled state senate in ohio passed the bill to shorten early voting, a move that limits the ability of poor people, black people, the eld ler i to cast their votes. that bill goes to the republican-controlled statehouse and presumably to r...

0 power was the beginning of something big because as president, lyndon johnson would go on to implement a policy agenda of social reform that he called the great society. and it would become the most sweeping transformation of american domestic policy since president franklin roosevelt's new deal. johnson laid out his vision of a great society in a 1964 commencement speech at the university of michigan. >> the great society rests on abundance and liberty for all. it demands an end to poverty and racial injustice to which we are totally committed in our time. >> during his time in office, pres...