through an act of violence at the hands and the feet of people who had been charged with keeping them safe. with the brother of george floyd and the mother of breonna taylor in attendance, tyre nichols, yet another young, black life snuffed out by the brutality of police is mourned in memphis. and later, congresswoman omar joins me as republicans continue their revenge tour. plotting to deny her a seat on the foreign affairs committee. we begin tonight on the first day of black history month, while it s still legal, presumably even in florida. in memphis, tyre nichols was eulogized today by reverend al sharpton, vice president kamala harris, ben crump, and tyree s family in an emotional and powerful ceremony in the city that was once the site of the final speech of reverend dr. martin luther king jr. on the night before his assassination in april, 1968. looking at the balcony where martin luther king shed his blood, for city workers, for black city workers, to be able
Controversy continues to swirl around Wisconsin Elections Commissioner Robert Spindell. On Tuesday, a gathering of voting rights advocates on Milwaukee’s predominantly African American North Side denounced Spindell as a danger to democracy and called for his resignation. The groups, including Black Leaders Organizing Communities (BLOC), Souls to the Polls, and other allied organizations, announced that […] The post Voting rights advocates push for removing Spindell from elections commission appe
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A Republican member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission who has faced calls to resign after falsely declaring that former President Donald Trump won the state claimed Thursday that “no white