7488000. If you live in the mountain or pacific time zones, it is 202 7488001. A special line this morning for minneapolis and st. Paul residents. That number is 202 7488002. You can also send us a text. That number is 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. You can start calling and now as we show this headline from the Minneapolis Tribune overnight. Many as Police Station set on fire, protesters marched downtown. Thousands gathered downtown yesterday to express anger with restraint at a peaceful gathering but later, the third precinct station became a target. You can see many of those pictures this morning of the violence in minnesota and protest overnight. We want to show you tweets from Governor Tim Walz of minnesota when he announced the National Guard was being deployed to handle some of the violence. A series of tweets saying it is time t
For that generous introduction. The phrase beyond my wildest dreams is kind of a throwaway phrase in our culture. But i thought maybe one day i write this book and people notice it, maybe one day the mayor of charleston will be holding it in front of an audience. [laughter] it tells the story of reconstruction and im going to read some passages from it some of which deal with the Police Department and some of which deal with the charleston mayor as the police chief and current mayor here is plain and poignant. We are all errors to something. We have no say we are born where we are and we have no say of what we inherit and what we dont. All we have control over is what we do with it. We are going to recount some of the triumphs of the city and the greatest tragedies so it is for all of you moving on from the tragedy of 2015, youve created this group. You decided intentionally to create this space where difficult issues in the community could be discussed. It would have been easy and hum
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League held a discussion on civil rights, specifically youth specific participation and mobilizing the black community to vote in the upcoming elections. The conversation took place in washington, d. C. And runs about an hour and half. ■■, [applause] thank you very much. Morni morning. Im going to take a quick seat. Is that okay . Through trying to compete in the contest. [laughter] next year. First of all, thank you very much for joining us. Lets think the bill. [applause] and a longtime partner and colleague working at the u. S. Conference of mayors and now at the league as an ordained elder. Always cold and evangelist. Lets give it up. And a warm thanks for courtney and johnson johnson. I use the product this morning. But most importantly, i appreciated you taking the connection between the National Urban league that reaffirms the partnership and reaffirms the role played in Opening Doors to Corporate America a long time ago. Before it was called diversity, equity and inclusion.