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We want to start the conversation by talking about rosa parks. What do we know about rosa parks, jane . I wanted to start today with an evening meeting. That evening is november 27, 1955. On that november 27 rosa parks came to a meeting at dexter Avenue Baptist Church to hear tm howard, dr. Tm howard talked about the recent acquittal of the two killers of emmett till. Dr. King introduce fascinating and howard was there to spread the word. Howard had been one of the key organizers in trying to get even a trial of those two men and after those men he had been acquitted was on a tour through the ...

Broadway. He joins us live to talk about his passion project today, tuesday, october 21st, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. Im matt lauer, along with hoda kotb, al roker and Natalie Morales. Savannah continues on maternity leave. And sad news about Oscar De La Renta. Yeah. I was at an event last night and there were a lot of people from the fashion world. When they heard the news, it was one of those dead stop moments there. He was an ol...

So journalism and the articles and the pamphlets this people dont read 500 page book. They read articles. We need to have newspapers and blogs, thats really what makes these movements work. I want to go back to the thinking about what they offer us today and then kind of what the myths i often talk about them is a fables because i think theyre told to us to give us certain messages i would argue are sort of problematic. I think most School Children now learn that rosa parks was courageous. Right . But that courage is framed through this image of a tired, accidental act that spontaneously burst...

As i reached over, nancys rectangle shape wooden next and where my phone rested, my heart raced. I have taken dozens of latenight calls over my more than two decades in the ministry. I knew that good news never arrived at this time of night. When i focus my eyes on the phone, i saw the name of the caller and my spirit sank. It was not tosha davis the ran the sunbird soundboard. She was a part of my family. I entered her phone number into my phone under the name that tosha davis dewitt. Though she stood at just barely fivefoot tall, we lovely nicknamed her our little be. Her huge smile, quick w...

An event he was in many ways unprepared for. He wandered down to richmond, virginias slave auction rooms, and there beheld an auction of humans for the first time, and he became captivated by this subject and painted a number of images and published a number of drawings in the illustrated london news in order to help raise awareness about american slavery. Host was he an abolitionist . Guest i suspect when he first came to america he was aware of the Antislavery Movement and would have described himself as being opposed to slavery. But after coming here and witnessing american slavery and witn...