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12 years old a white mob torched her family home. but such hate never stopped her anymore than it stopped the majority of you are looking at on this podium. over the course of the decade she made it her mission to see that this day came, it was almost a singular mission. she's walked four miles and miles, literally and figuratively, to bring attention to juneteenth. to make thursday possible. i ask, once again, that we all stand and give her a warm welcome. [applause] >> afterwards congresswoman sheila jackson lee a jackson sent this tweet with opal lee and the president of the united states a...

Work to impress upon joe manchin the significance of the for the people act. but we cannot pass it if the filibuster, as we currently know it, is in place. the good news is as senator franken mentioned before, he did indicate that he would be open to some changes which is good, because not even his pal lisa murkowski who had signed his letter seems to be anywhere in the mix on this for the people act compromise. >> i just don't see how you get to 60 but maybe somebody out there has a magic map that i don't know about. judith browne dianis and meagan hatcher-mays, thank you both for being here ...

17 years after it was signed into federal law, that all 50 states agree to observe mlk day. mississippi and alabama still combine holiday with the celebration of confederate general robert e. lee day, because mlk day was the last new holiday signed into law until today. president biden made juneteenth, celebrating the day when black people were finally liberated in texas the last action of the confederacy, a federal holiday. >> juneteenth marks both a long, hard night of slavery and subjugation and a promise for a brighter morning to come. this is a day of profound weight and profound power. a...

In the instance of slavery, it was brutal. i hope that this will be a unified, a unifying day. it will begin tomorrow, no matter who you are, if someone looks up at you, your daughter, your son and they asked what is juneteenth? and you can say what it was, and you can say it is also a day freedom, and it can bring people together. that's what i hope juneteenth, year after year will be. >> that makes me think of this controversy though over critical race theory. i've been marinating a lot on why republicans are obsessed with banning this in schools, even those actually taught in law school and...