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Across the spectrum of genre. i think there's african-american rein sobs, seeing shows like abc's "scandal" huge films like "12 years a slave" come out that are incredibly well done, well funded, well promoted. they have invested from every corner. it has been a several year. >> movies like the butler, the best man holiday, all of the above, take a listen to what tyler perry told the grio about his own upcoming film "madea christmas." >> there's a wave, a crest and it comes down and you go through a low. what i was able to do was maintain through this time. what is happening now is another wav...

Fellow with the century foundation and msnbc contributor, goldie taylor, also a columnist with the grio.com. thanks for joining us. so let's start, michael, with the basic dilemma that karzai is facing now over this sort of status of forces agreement, his council signed off on it the u.s. said we want to leave these troops behind. susan rice now threatening to leave zero troops behindsome this a real threat, the possibility that karzai won't sign this and what are the implications? >> i think the threat is pretty minimal. at the end, karzai will have to sign this, because everybody want him to...

Instance to vote no and who is the other no? >> potentially senator mark pryor has also been on the fence about this. >> thank you so much. the grio.com's julie reid, and msnbc jimmy williams and alahe azad and casey hunt on the hill for us. that leads us to today's big question. harry reid going nuclear, smart move or being it come back to bite the democrats? you can tweet us and you can also chime in on facebook, as well. florida's trey radel is taking responsibility for his actions, but that did not include stepping down from office. what he said he will do instead to make up for that coc...

His locked home when a young woman knocked at his door, at his outer door, after being involved in a road traffic accident. nor does it change the fact there was no sign of forced entry. and it does not change the fact that a 5'4" teenager was shot in the face while apparently seeking help. for more, i'm joined now by columnist and msnbc contributor, goldie taylor, whose new column "breaking black" can be found at the grio.com, and democratic strategist julien epstein. goldie, the prosecutor made sure to emphasize that in order to claim self defense, the shooter would need to have had an hones...

>> there are many people, the grio has written about this, were it not for trayvon martin case that she would have wasted away in prison and not been given this opportunity to fight back and perhaps ultimately clear her name and become a free woman. >> i think that's absolutely true. the stand your ground law did not work for her, even though the facts as we know them seemed that stand your ground should have worked. in her own words, she thinks she had the right to stand her ground because she was in her own home and had no duty to retreat. so in the wake of the zimmerman verdict, he's walkin...