To kind of challenge the ways thathat in much of our public conversation today there is a kind of dangerous i think distinction being made between whats being treated as the good old Civil Rights Movement and the sort of movements for Racial Justice and black lives matter today. These are very dangerous distinctions and i think really looking at the history of rosa parks and particularly look at the history of rosa parks through criminal justice, really challenges these distinctions that some commentators are making today. And so i think a real look at rosa parks remind us from scottsboro to emmett till and jeremiah reeds distorted campaigns for justice for black women who were raped to the kind of criminalization of organizing that we see with Highlander Folk School and the bus buck offs to all of the Defense Committees she served on to all the antiPolice Brutality work she did sitting on the peoples tribunal after the 1967 detroit uprising and on and on. I think seeing that scope giv
Sons graduation marred party. you came under fire for handing out gold plated designer sunglasses and gives to all 40 state senators sunglasses he got a cut rate from the manufacturer. And just as much we told you about how the governor called for an epic ethics probe and whether not joyce took advantage of his relationship with a randolph drycleaner to get his much is tens of thousands of dollars in free drycleaning. Joyce had enough scandal that is taken to hiring a Public Relations pro to handle the media calls. When i reached out to her, she told me he would be talking with and instead voted along the statement from his lawyer. It reads it is unfortunate that recent stories in the media appear to have sparked an investigation. Senator joyces been cooperating with each inquiry this taken place to date resulting from those stories and believes he has done absolutely nothing wrong. You see back here live in canton outside his law offices senator as his law Office Tonight the mass gop
Overnight hours, if you are expected to travel north watch that late tonight. Stormtracker 6 live double scan shows the send system developing in eastern texas, this one as Severe Weather with tornado watches with it. Well watch this as it progresses to the north and east. Well have more coming up in the full accuweather forecast. As the rain pushes through today and tonight keep 6abc. Com weather open on all of your devices. Rely on stormtracker 6 live double scan to get updates from the weather team on facebook, twitter and other social media platforms. Police in drexel hill is looking for the man behind a series of smash and grab robberies and he could be tied to crimes in other neighborhoods as well. John rawlins where some of these crimes happened. Reporter that is right police here are looking for a man they believe is responsible for five commercial burglaries in a ten day period and one in springfield township. The car at the time is usually cash kept overnight in a special est
History and conversation with us. And to kind of create a space to put that history of conversation with the president and struggles today. Tonight we are going to be talking about black power and political refreshment. It feels a timely in the moment we are in. I think most of you who have been here before also know that every two months i like to talk about rosa parks. Many of you know i am professor Jeanne Theoharis and i wrote a biography of rosa parks and this would have been her 100 third birthday. In honor of that, colleagues have built a new web site called rosaparksbiography. Org to challenge the ways in much of our public conversation today theres a kind of dangerous distinction being made between what is being treated as the good old Civil Rights Movement and the movements for Racial Justice and black lives matter today and these are dangerous distinctions and i think really looking at the history of rosa parks and particularly looking at criminaljustice. Really challenges t
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