national hispanic heritage month runs from september 15th to october 15th in the united states each year. the commemoration actually began as hispanic heritage week, when it was signed into law by president lyndon b. johnson in 1968. it was later expanded to a full month in 1988, although you can see it split between two months. to mark the occasion this year, i traveled to san antonio to speak directly with six members of the latin-x community with concerns directly related to them. we discussed a range of topics, including why covid has affected the latin-x population and why vaccination rates are still languishing in their community. listen to what they told me. the one thing i would say is misinformation. and misinformation seems to be targeted to people that don t take up information. and there is a mistrust of the system. and there is the cultural incongruence between the two. the only way i see that we can solve is that is any chance that we get, we being the leaders in the co
captain with the montgomery county maryland police department and a founder of the black police experience. we have some breaking news now out of kabul, afghanistan. the associated press is reporting that a bomb has exploded at the entrance of the igda mosque in kabul. a number of civilians are dead according to the taliban spokesperson. according to the associated press, there was a memorial service being held for the mother of a taliban spokesperson, who has tweeted that the attack has claimed lives. there is suspicion right now that this bomb may have been fomented by the islamic state khorasan. isis-k operates in kabul and is an adversary of the new taliban government. yet more violence in afghanistan. we ll bring you more information as it becomes available. still to come, marking hispanic heritage month in texas. discussing a wide range of
involving the police. 59% involving black people. so there seems to be some intentionality here and some complicity. and while medical examiners may not be sitting down with the police and saying, we re going to underreport these deaths, it speaks to a culture that has been created. and that this pattern has now emerged. and it has been going on for obviously, at least since the 1980s, when it was really important to capture information correctly, because it was during a war on drugs and during an increase on mass incarceration. so there seems to be a distinction here between civilian deaths at the hands of police and being charged with a crime. because, obviously, there are going to be instances in which civilians die at the hands of police and it s not a crime. but one of the struggles we ve had is there s no federal database of police shootings of people. we just don t have good numbers. so we are often arguing about on the basis of different