With us on the Independence Day weekend professor what is july 4th mean to you . [laughter] it means Frederick Douglassw. You could have the general celebration we have a different perspective from the africanamerican aameri community is a long history to understand the distinction in terms of the celebration for one community and a lack of the observance on the other part and what does it mean to those who have a history of bondage of segregation and jim crow to you have to understand the sensitivity from one community to another. Obviously Start Talking about the history of this country and the roles of africanamericans to provide that celebration is a whole other question. The f we have been at the forefront of the battle of freedom for justice and liberty for erfurt fr update number one so in terms of the boston massacre since that moment across the years the matter what type of internet or turmoil or conflict order world war the people were involved didnt you find a contribution o
Selfdetermination. Host author herb boyd with us on this Independence Day weekend. Professor boyd, what is july 4 me deal . Guest it means the same thing what it meant to Frederick Douglass, you know. While you can have the general celebration and everything, we have a different perspective from the africanamerican community. This was a long history to understand exactly the distinction in terms of the celebration for one community and the kind of lack of observers on the other part of the community. What does it mean to people who history of segregation. You have to understand the kind of sensitivity that might be distinct from one community to another. Obviously we Start Talking about this history of this country and the role of africanamericans in terms of providing that celebration, that is a whole another question because we have been in the forefront of the socalled battle for freedom and justice and liberty in this country from day one. From day one going back to the socalled bo
Bullet flies past customers in line at a food truck in south jersey. And a man fires a gun into a crowd outside of a local nightclub sending people running for cover. But the big story on action news is the new alligation that Donald Trumps Campaign Staff had cant with russian officialed before the election. This comes the day after Trumps National security adviser stepped down. Reporter sources tell abc news that they got wind of the contact before the election and launched an investigation. The New York Times report that people inside and outside of Trumps Campaign had repeated contact with russian officials the year before the election. It gives one name, paul manafort, the former Campaign Chairman fired over the summer and called the report ridiculous and never knowingly spoke to russian officers and they say they few they were talking to russian officials and that u. S. Officials have not seen any evidence that the trump team cooperated with the hack of the democrats or had anythi