allegations which include bigotry, racism, sexism and home phobia. the committee is requesting documents and information. also tonight an agreement to scrap race as a factor in nfl concussion settlements. the new york times purporting the league reaching the agreement. let s discuss now. also ken jenkins, a former player. good to have both of you on, to see both of you again. we wanted you to keep us updated on this story, and you all are, so thank you very much for that. so ken, it s been a long battle getting to this point. explain this policy of race norming and what the agreement will mean. sure. this started about a year ago, actually last august, so a little more than a year ago when two former players sued the league claiming that their claims for payouts for dementia under the concussion settlement
documents and information. and also tonight, an agreement to scrap race as a factor in nfl concussion settlements. the new york times reporting the nfl and lawyers for black players who accuse the league of discrimination reaching the agreement. so let s discuss now with ken belson, nfl reporter for the times, and also ken jenkins, a former player. good to have both of you on. we wanted you to keep us updated on this story, and you all are, so thank you very much for that. so, ken belson, it s been a long battle getting to this point. explain this policy of race norming and what the agreement ll mean. sure. this started about a year ago actually last august, so a little more than a year ago when two former players sued the league claiming that their claims for payouts for dementia under the concussion settlement were denied in part because race was used as one of the categories to determine whether
numbers of vaccinations have been quite good in the adolescent population. as high as 30%. so we ll see. i have good confidence that parents will get kids vaccinated. i hope it will convince some families to get vaccinated earlier. heidi prezbola, thanks to both of you. a major change today on how the nfl will pay out concussion settlements. in july we experienced the hottest month ever recorded on earth. now up with city is getting people to pay more attention to heat waves. coming up they re going to name heat waves and categorize their
back to a very ugly yesterday, a time when assumptions were made about the intellectual and cognitive abilities of the progeny of enslaved africans in this country. you think back to the turn of the 19th century and how jack johnson, who was the first black man allowed to fight for the heavyweight championship, was portrayed in media in this country and abroad and how he was how he was described as being someone or something less than human. and this is a new construct, right? because this this fight in this lawsuit and this race-norming idea may not have been around 20 years ago. this is something new when it comes to the concussion lawsuits and the concussion settlements,