it premieres sunday. that s tonight actually. tonight at: 9:00. the next hour of cnn newsroom starts right now. hello again, everyone. we begin this hour in selma, alabama where just moments ago president biden arrived to mark the 59th anniversary of what s known as bloody sunday. marchers included the late congressman john lewis were beaten by white state trooper as they tried to cross the pettis bridge. arlette, the president is expected to give a speech. set the stage for us now. president biden s speech here in selma has two purposes. first off the white house said that he wants to ensure that the memory of what happened on that day 58 years ago is not a race from american history. and, secondly, the president is expected to once again make the case for voting rights. that brutal day here in selma, alabama, really served as a significant moment in the civil rights movement and led to the signing of the voting rights act. what the president has repeatedly tried to do
hello, everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. on what would have been martin luther king, jr. s 94th birthday, joe biden will deliver a sermon in his honor. biden will be the first sitting president to speak at a sunday service at ebenezer baptist church where he served as pastor. biden will talk about king s life and legacy, as well as voting rights on the eve of the federal holiday. this coming as new questions, as you see the president walking into ebenezer baptist with senator warnock. and you are seeing these pictures live and people standing in his presence. our cnn white house correspondent is there. arletta, this comes as the president is being hit with a lot of questions about documents that have been found in his personal residence, in delaware, as well as his former office. so what do we expect his message will be, largely staying away from the controversy, and answering some of those questions, and more specifically, addressing the legacy of
politicsnation. tonight s lead destination, georgia. all political roads are leading the state s controversialeek. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene made good on her threat to challenge mike johnson s speakership yet begun. while many democrats followed through on their vow to join republicans in defeating that effort, but not every democrat was on board with saving the speaker s skin. atlanta congress wam williams joins me shortly. meantime in atlanta, georgia governor mike kemp signed three new voter repression bills into law ahead of the 2024 election, making it even harder for black and brown voters to exercise their right to vote. and there s anticipation mixed with controversy on the campus of morehouse college where president biden is due to deliver the commencement address this weekend. he ll be speaking to the student body deeply divided over to war in gaza as mass protests continue in colleges and universities across the country. all of that tonight plus we re
MIT physicist Nuh Gedik has won a 2024 Ross Brown Investigator award to develop a new kind of microscopy that images electrons photo-emitted from a surface while also measuring their energy and momentum.
The Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech has named the 2024 Ross Brown Investigators. Each awardee will receive $2 million in research support over five years.