welcome to the show. i am mehdi hasan. they called it black monday. it was the day the supreme court issued its famous ruling in brown v. board of education. a ruling that told americans school segregation was unconstitutional. and for a group of white mississippians, that they came to be known as black monday. the monitor came from this man, thomas pickens brady, a prominent segregationist and future mississippi supreme court justice who gave a defiant speech against the decision entitled, black monday. it was printed as a booklet and passed out to white school children in mississippi. seeped in racism and white supremacist thinking, you might not be surprised to hear that it was published by the white supremacist organization, this is since councils, a group that was also formed in mississippi, right after, take a guess, the brown the board ruling. i am telling you all of this to show you how deeply rooted the racism in mississippi goes, how vicious the backlash was to fe
a photo of the duke of cambridge with his children is released to celebrate father s day. good afternoon. the transport secretary says it s not for the government to intervene to try to prevent three days of strikes on the railways this week. grant shapps dismissed calls from the rmt union to get involved in the dispute as a stunt saying it s for the employers and unions to reach an agreement. mr shapps says the strikes would be an act of self harm. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says the government wants the strikes to go ahead to sow division in society. here s our political correspondent, damian grammaticas. set to bring the rail network to a grinding halt from tuesday, they are the biggest strikes in decades. instead of 20,000 trains on a normal day, just one in five services may run. government says children heading to take exams or patients to medical appointments will face disruption. but, under pressure to take part in talks with the unions, it says it w
Watching hello and welcome to have joining us here in the United States around the world am streaming else on cnn max, im rosemarie church, just ahead. Donald trumps Hush Money Drug continues today with several key witnesses yet to testify negotiations would between hamas and israel have stalled. We will speak to a relative of an israeli hostage about what this might mean for their loved one and mexican and idea and to fight three dead bodies found in a well while investigators search for emotive live from atlanta this is cnn newsroom with rosemarie thanks for joining us. Israel has issued a statement urging people in Eastern Raffa to evacuate, amid fears of an imminent idf Ground Invasion of the Southern Gaza city. The statement says, those people we should evacuate immediately to the expanded humanitarian area at the checkpoints, that area is in almawasi, as you can see on this map, there are well over 1 million palestinians taking refuge in rafah from the fighting. That is five time
Absolutely free. Doctors preferred better science, better results this is cnn newsroom. Im rosemarie church. You are looking at live pictures from jerusalem right now where israels official State Ceremonies for Holocaust Remembrance Day is happening. And at this time, there is a siren going for two minutes. You can hear it there to remember those who lost their lives during The Holocaust now, after the siren, israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top Government Officials will lay a wreath in the whole of remembrance. Lets just listening Holocaust Remembrance Day. And we have been listening to that siren. Want to bring in cnns International Diplomatic editor, Nic Robertson, who joins us live from london. So nick talked to us about this difference of this Holocaust Remembrance Day, particularly at this time in the midst of war and we heard sentiments from the Prime Minister speaking last night at yad vashem, The Holocaust memorial, Sayyed In Jerusalem and speaking specifica
Monday, may 6 right now on cnn republican hopefuls gathered to make their case to become Donald Trumps vp pick. And thousands displaced and a young boy killed as texas struggles to recover from the devastating flooding all right. 6 00 a. M. Here in washington alive. Look at the white house on this monday morning. Good morning, everyone. Happy monday. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us scandalous affairs, secret payments, accusations of gestapo tactics, and we still have six months to go before america is 47th, president is elected welcome to the new normal donald trump, of course, returns to court this morning for week four of his criminal hush, money trial. Week three ended with gripping testimony from former trump aide, hope hicks. She offered potentially damaging details about the Hush Money Payments that were made by trump to adult films star Stormy Daniels trump refrained from commenting on his former employees testimony so im not allowed to comment on any of that. A