It is a humbling experience many been expire but how he turn a happenout into a rapo lend a hand. It is no just graffiti. Sprau paint has become the tall of american protest. Meet the street artists of the social justice movement. Soledad im Soledad Obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. As covid19 batters nation pandemic is exposing a at that time health carr crisis. Rural hops overwhelmed and near capacity fighting it keep their doors open. Before pandemic nearly half of all rural hospitals were praulgt at a lossment 17 have been doctors to close this year and morning 400 others face saul fate. Texas has seen more closures than think or state in recent years. Our correspondent Jessica Gomez traveled to tights tight county in the northeast part of the state and spent the day at a rural hospital struggling to stay afloat. East texas far from the hustle of big city life but now the usual peace and quiet here shattered but a pandemic. As you know we have another surge in covid. Skraurbgs thi
Plus, how do you create upward mobility for people just getting by . You will see a hydraulic track, a rockclimbing wall. They dont need a track facility. They need their house repaired. And how strangers could find out your covid19 test results. Soledad im Soledad Obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. Nine months into covid19 shutdowns, schools across the country remain a patchwork of inperson, remote, and hybrid teaching models. Parents filling the role of teachers are stretched thin. Education experts say inperson instruction is a critical part of Child Development and even more important for children with complex disabilities. In the current environment, schools are struggling to meet the legal requirements that guarantee services to special needs students. For their parents, a return to school would provide significant relief, but many find themselves weighing the risks versus the benefits. Yes, yes. Henry planted crops. My name is Shanice Nicole lyonslinares. And my daughter is vict
Moore needs to tell the world. What cautioned birds to change their tune . Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. You probably know about the battle in South Carolina between republican congressman Lindsey Graham and his democrat challenger jamie harrison. According to recent polls harrison who was once considered a long shot is in a dead heat with grateful but theres another fight in South Carolina a turf war. A battle for land and legacy. In a few days hundreds of properties in one county will be auctioned off. Dozens of those properies belong to the gullah geechee people descendants of slaves that still live on the lands. Most of it was bought by or given to free slaves after the civil war and was passed down for generations. As Jessica Gomez tells us during the middle of a pandemic the tax sale should be delayed. Along the showers of st. Helena and surrounding the marshes are whispers of the past. The stories of those to who have lived here for generations. My grandm
You really look at what is happening. But a random act of kindness planted a seed of hope. Soledad i am soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. Barriers to the ballot are not new for black and brown people in america. From poll taxes and literacy tests to intimidation and physical violence, all were blatant forms of efforts to suppress the vote. Today, Voter Suppression is the result of overly strict voter id laws, complicated rules for mailin ballots, extreme consolidation of polling places, and mass purging of voters from election rolls. Some examples, oklahoma, where state law requires absentee ballots to be notarized. Texas, where vulnerability to covid19 can not be used as a reason to get an absentee ballot. Kentucky, where just one polling place was open during the primary election in jefferson county, which serv roughly many people could be turned away from the polls in november or find out that their ballots did not count . Janai nelson is the associate director counsel of t
Pandemic comes to americas small towns. Radiology tech Michael Saenz, wrong. The process is working. Grateful to be alive and back at work. It just takes time. So that is not necessarily a the 35year old new dad, on a soledad im soledad obrien. Problem, but it is going to be a ventilator with covid19 for a difference for americans. Welcome to matter of fact. Week and a half. Soledad but, you know, if before the pandemic, nearly half things take time and someones of all rural hospitals in the Michael Saenz i was just hoping not able to announce live within United States were operating at i would get out of it and go back home, i just had a two 17 seconds of a poll closing, it a loss. In the past decade, 127 rural hospitals have closed their month old and yeah, i needed to doors. Get back to him. Seems to me not inconceivable and another 453 face the same that someone could say its fate. Jessica fighting here, for taking time. There must be a problem. Thats according to the national surv