This program is part of the Commonwealth Club virtual series. We like to thank our members and sponsors and supporters for making this and all of the other programs possible. We are grateful for your support and hope that others will follow examples to support the club during these uncertain times. Today im excited to be talking with Tiffani Cross longtime analyst and author of a brand new book, say it louder tiffani has spent years in politics and the media where she has witnessed the ways in which black voters are minimized and suppressed through both policy and media coverage. Say it louder builds on the work and explains the ways in which black voters have been crucial in the same political system that were often dismissed from and although Voter Suppression is not new, Tiffani Cross asserts that the changes coming by way of political activism in this country and a demographic shift. If you are watching along with this and have a question you would like to ask tiffani later in the
Of the United States Death Penalty is attempted to carry out two sets of backtoback executions within the same week, let alone four sets within the space of 11 days. Amy arkansass plan to carry out an unprecedented series of executions has been thrown into chaos after a judge ruled friday to temporarily halt the states plan to kill eight men over the next 11 days. The state have been rushing to carry out the killings before its execution drugs expired. We will get the latest. And we will look at rising in turkey where president Tayyip Erdogan has declared victory in a referendum to vastly expand his powers. But turkeys Main Opposition Party says the results should be tossed out. They claim widespread fraud. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Vice president mike pence has made an unannounced visit to the Demilitarized Zone separating north and south korea following north koreas attempted Missile Launch an
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Which is urging both sides to , deescalate their rhetoric and actions . Then to the state of arkrkansas. Nobody y in the modnn history of the United States death penaltlty is attempted to o cary out two o sets of backtooback executions within the same week, let alone four sets wiwithin the space of 11 days. Amy arkansasss plan to cacary out t an unprecedented sereriesf executions has been thrown into chaos after a judge ruled friday to temporarily halt the states plan to kill eight men over the next 11 days. The state have been rushing to carry out the killings before itits execution drugs expxpired. We will get the latest. And we will look at rising in turkey where president Tayyip Erdogan has declared victory in a referendum to vastly expand his powers. But turkeys Main Opposition Party says the results should be tossed out. They claim widespread frauaud. All that and more, coming upup. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Vice presi
Ordinary parents living in the state of maine needed to figure out what that was about. And the here to row of the the hero of the book is really the mother kelly. These twins were adopted at birth. Kelly knew there were two things that were most important to her as a mother; make sure that her children were safe and happy. And she knew she could control the safe part. She had to understand the happy part because she also knew that this child was unhappy when she guest you know, was really unsure about who this child was and resisted it. But kelly was determined. And so she did very early what a lot of us do, and she googled the words boys who like girls toys. And that became the beginning of her odyssey to understanding. She had never heard the word transgender, and so it began she began to become a student of it and to understand it to try and bring her husband into it. It took her longer to do that. It took him longer. But hes probably the one who undergoes the most transformation i