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Wave of young africans to travel abroad to get an education. they ended up getting married, having me. my father decided he wanted to get his ph.d., obtained a scholarship to go to harvard. he moved there, but the separation made it difficult for them to stay together, not to mention this was an interracial couple at the brink of the civil rights movement. my mother was from kansas, and she was born to a pair of fairly typical midwestern white americans in a lot of ways. what made them remarkable was that they ended up being more open-minded and accepting of difference and diversity than i thi...

Professionals to be, it's like you have to understand what you're coming into. it's good for white, young, upper class, educated professionals. it's not good for everybody else. and so what does it mean for us to actually be in a position to interrupt it? what does it mean to be in a position to say, i have this privilege, i have this power, i know-how, i run in these circles. we got to change something about this city. >> so you're like, maybe i need to turn this into a workshop. so talk a little bit more about the history. >> yeah. so there's a couple of steps. so i entered grad school and i...

The suspect in court today, bryan kohberger, waving his right to a speedy trial, and what this now signals. we know the suspect taught criminology, and tonight, we hear from a student in one of the classes he taught. abc's mola lenghi in that courtroom today. >> reporter: bryan kohberger today asking a judge for nearly six more months to prepare for a preliminary hearing that could send him to trial for the murders of four college students. >> are you waiving your right to speedy preliminary hearing and agreeing that that hearing can be held outside the 14-day period? >> yes. >> reporter: the ...

To be exonerated after the authorities have unsealed a trove of potentially damning evidence including the matching dna at the crime scene, similarity there. police also tracked the suspect's vehicle movements and his cell phone placing those in the proximity of the house where the four college kids were murdered. a lot of damning evidence there. we'll see how this defense actually contends with those issues. now we're also getting some chilling new detail about bryan kohberger from people who knew them. one said after the murders actually brought it up in discussion and in his opinion he beli...

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