anthony: some time ago something crawled, or slithered, or grew like a fungus. something that started small, got bigger, lurched like a swamp thing out of the mud and moist earth and humid nights of the delta. then, it took over the world. so next time some smart ass foreigner, horrified by our latest ham-fisted foreign policy blunder wonders out loud, what good is america? well, you can always pipe up that the blues, rock n roll, r&b, and soul all came out of this place one state mississippi. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la geno: right now we re in the middle of downtown jackson. farish street. anthony: it is a street with a lot of history. what did it used to be like back in the day? geno: the street was packed with folks. folks all over, they
The toughest business people. People that you know about. Could i ask you a question . How do you do it . I say do what . How do you get up in the morning and put your pants on . I will explain it to you some day. We have been talking about politics so long, im oded. You know what i means . Im oded on politics. Im oded on trump. I turn on the television, trump, trump, trump, all different stories. Thats true. Debunking the lies about black and brown voters following trumps unhinged rally in the bronx. His case will come to an end while the other cases get slow walked by the Supreme Court. And crockett has an Epic Takedown of marge greene. Be sure to stick around for our second hour and my full interview with wnba star Brittney Griner on how she surviveed in a russian gulag. And Bonus Content that has never aired before. You do not want to miss it. We begin with Donald Trumps preoccupation with crowd size which continued in an unhinged bronx rally where he boasted huge crowds of 25,000
is greenwood. a town with a lot of history. most of it of the not good variety. known unfortunately as much for byron de la beckwith, and tom brady s infamous speech after brown v. the board of education as anything else, fairly or not, it s hard to get past that. during all the years of cruelty and struggle from 1933 on, through it all and until today, this place, lusco s, was a beloved institution. once a grocery store, it turned restaurant to the moneyed class, serving them in discreet quarters in the back where one could enjoy an alcoholic beverage in what was then a dry state. still going after all these years. and unchanged. why? john t. edge: this place is like a reliquary of like indiscretions past. you know? anthony: but maybe, to really tell the story of this place, you have to start with the story of its most famous employee booker wright, who had been working at lusco s as a waiter
collapsed. how did we get here? to really understand the roots of it, we need to go still further back, to what may just be the most consequential moment in supreme court history. the early 1950s. the post-war boom. but for many, the american dream was only available if you were white. segregation had an iron grip on the south. we have absolutely no intention of integrating in the south. for the brown family of topeka, kansas, separate but equal meant their daughter could not attend her neighborhood school. the supreme court heard the case of brown v. the board of education. like america itself, the court was bitterly divided over separate but equal. separate educational facilities are inherently