disagreements it s a reminder of how much it would mean to reach out. that does it for me tonight, the rachel maddow show starts right now. i love that closing story. that was excellent, and you do not know this, but it is very much in keeping with the theme that i m going to be talking about this whole hour, so i know we didn t coordinate this, but this was we have a mind meld today. i will be looking forward to that. just a reminder of humanity even with disagreement which is sometimes hard to remember in this time. yeah, and it is the thing that most frustrates the people who want us to forget that for their own political purposes but it s the only way out, thanks, my friend. much appreciate it. well done. thanks at home for joining us. the capital of the great state of mississippi is jackson, of course. the airport in jackson, mississippi, is called jackson medgar wiley evers international airport. it is named for medgar evers, the civil rights leader. after he
good night and i am symone sanders townsend in for stephanie ruhle. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. the capital of the great state of mississippi is of course jackson. the airport in jackson, mississippi is called jackson medgar widely evers international airport. that airport in jackson is named after medgar evers, the civil rights leader. he was a decorated u.s. army veteran in world war ii. after he came home from the war, after the united states supreme court ruled on brown versus the board of education. in may 1954, segregation, racial segregation was of course supposed to end in american public schools. as you know, it did not. six months after brown v. board, the naacp named medgar evers its first ever field secretary in the state of mississippi. they named him field secretary in mississippi so he could lead their efforts in that state to organize against segregation, to organize for civil rights. and in 1
thanks my friend much appreciated and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour it s really good to have the capital of the great state of mississippi is jackson. the airportpi of jackson, mississippi, is called jackson medger wily evers international airport. it s named for medger evers, the civil rights leader. he was a decorated u.s. army veteran in world war ii. after he came home from the war, after the united states supreme court ruled on brown vs. board of education in 1954 racial segregation was of course supposed to end in american public schools. as you know, it did not. six months, after brown v. board they named him the first ever field secretary of mississippi so he could lead their efforts in that state to organize against segregation, to organize for civil rights. in 1963 medger evers was murdered. he was shot in the back in his own driveway. he was only 37 years old. but now37 the jackson, mississippi, international airport is named for him. and just a
concerns and costs. hello and welcome to bbc news. i m anjana gadgil. at least four people have been killed in a shooting at a teenage birthday party in the american state of alabama. it happened in the town of dadeville. at least 20 people were shot and wounded, most of them teenagers. at this stage, there is no official confirmation about what led to the shooting, but there seems to have been some sort of altercation that then escalated. the us presidentjoe biden has been briefed on the shooting. there have been over 140 mass shootings in the us so far this year, continuing the trend of a rise in gun violence. the authorities in alabama gave this update in the last hour. this incident occurred at approximately 1034pm here in dadeville. there were four lives not fatalities, lives there were four lives were tragically lost in this incident. and there has been a multitude of injuries. as they said, this is going to be a long, complicated process. we are thankful to the she
it s newsday. it s 6am morning in singapore, and midnight in khartoum where fighting has continued between the sudanese army and the paramilitary rapid support forces. these are the latest pictures of sunday night from the capital, khartoum. earlier, a three hour temporary humanitarian pause was meant to have allowed civilians to escape, but it s not clear how well it was observed. the world food programme halted its operations in sudan after three of its members were among nearly 70 people reported to have been killed. international efforts to end the fighting we will continue with sue don in the moment, but let s take you to breaking news in alabama. authorities are giving an update following a deadly shooting at a teenage birthday party. from the fbi as well as the office of prosecutorial services in montgomery, they ll be assisting our victim service officers in serving these victims. our thoughts and prayers are with all the families. there are no words to describe the