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Over to win and oscar was the second silent film to take the academy's top prize and the first since 1929. another first? best supporting actor christopher plummer, the oldest actor ever to win an oscar at the age of 82. >> you're only two years older than me, darling. where have you been all my life? >> reporter: meryl streep added a third oscar to her mental with best actress win for "the iron lady" beating out viola davis from "the help". >> when they called my name i had this feeling i could hear half of america going, oh, no. oh, come on. why? >> reporter: best supporting actress went to ...

Texas introduces us to one of them. >> ever since i was a little girl it was always my dream to become an astronaut. >> reporter: this is the video 23-year-old sarah cook made to convince voters she should win a trip to space. she says her background in synchronized swimming has helped prepare her for a suborbital flight. astronauts train underwater to prepare for space. >> having that experience would be a big help for me. >> reporter: sarah cook grew up in austin and attended mccallum high school. then she graduated with honors from george washington university in washington, d.c. she is flu...

Ensure basic human and labor rights for their help. coming up, why "the help" doesn't help any of this. r unner, in absolute perfect physical condition and i had a heart attack right out of the clear blue... he was just... "get me an aspirin"... yeah... i knew that i was doing the right thing, when i gave him the bayer. i'm on an aspirin regimen... and i take bayer chewables. [ male announcer ] aspirin is not appropriate for everyone so be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. so he's a success story... [ laughs ] he's my success story. [ male announcer ] learn how t...

Biggest 21st century civil rights win that none of us know very much about. what is the work now? we've got it in one state. what are the next steps so that the work of domestic workers now is not what it was in 1965? >> the next step, what's going on now is we have a necessary tick workers bill of rights in the state of california and that has already passed one part of the legislature in california and it's in the senate for a vote. it's up for a vote in the senate. we don't want it to be just like one state pass a domestic workers bill, and this is something that new york did. we want calif...

Mammy monument in 1923. so this idea of building monuments to domestic workers is not actually new, but it's still sort of this covering, this imaginary. >> right. in 1923, the daughters of confederacy are almost successful in erecting a memorial of the mammys in washington augu, d.c. the same senate passes this -- that refuses to protect black people from violence celebrates this version of interracial relationship hads, this version of black and white interconnection that's not about violence, which i argue is fundamentally violent and is about doing violence to those women's lives. this is ...