it s sunday june 4th. i m ali velshi. after we can revelations regarding the special counsel jack smith classified documents investigation we got more news this morning about the future of that case. and we see news has exclusively learned that the federal grand jury that has been hearing evidence in that case will reconvene this week after a recent lol in proceeding. the purpose of the grand jury s upcoming meeting is unclear. it s not necessarily an indication that smith and his team are prepared to seek an indictment just yet. the justice department would not comment on the investigations status but previous reporting from out what s like the wall street journal has indicated that smith is wrapping up that part of his investigation that quote in recent weeks prosecutors working for smith have completed interviews with nearly every employee at donald trump s florida home. from top political aides to maintain staff. as the head of a large organization that s been one of the
by white rioters who took nearly 100 years for that story to be adequately told in classrooms. if you think that piece of history is now safely preserved in oklahoma schools and libraries, think again. two years ago oakland governor kevin stitt signed a bill that bans the teaching of critical race theory in schools. every time we bring up crt, i gotta remind you. it s an academic theory that since racism is ingrained in the history of the united states. it s taught in college, not in elementary schools. it s a legal theory. it s become the catchall for the right to try to suppress conversation about racism in america everywhere including in schools. the oklahoma bill bans teachers from promoting the idea that quote and individual by virtue of his or her race or sex is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive whether consciously or unconsciously, and quote. critics of the law of many educators say the target teachers from discussing oklahoma is fraud racial past. at the time the bill was
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word didn t reach the enslaved folks in galveston, texas, until june 19th of that year. and so black folks in america have celebrated juneteenth ever since. but very few americans outside the black community had ever heard of the holiday, because america has a long history of erasing the brutality that blocks folks have always been subject to. and as you know, this year marked the 100th anniversary of the tulsa race massacre. while it got reflection it deserved, tulsa was not an isolated incident and an isolated event. black americans lived under the constant threat of lynching and race massacres for generations, and that reality is rarely studied in any depth in american history classes before post-graduate level. the newest attempt to stop the
me for point of personal privilege. as walking down, i regret my grandchildren are not here. this is a really, really important moment in our history. by making juneteenth a federal holiday, all americans can feel the power of this day and learn from our history and celebrate progress and grapple with the distance we have come, but the distance we have to travel. and i said a few weeks ago, marking the 100th anniversary of the tulsa race massacre, great nations don t ignore their most painful moments. great nations don t ignore their most painful moments. they don t ignore those moments in the past. they embrace them. great nations don t walk away. we come to terms with the