City Council Member Rita Joseph and a broad coalition of advocates are making a new concerted push for a bill that would ban the sale of menthol cigarettes in
holiday. ahead of the 40th anniversary. the president s powerful call for action, what he calls an inflection point for the nation. plus, dr. king s granddaughter will join me here in person. i will ask about carrying forward the legacy of dr. king, and the important work she s doing for her generation. i am symone sanders-townsend, i have something to say. history has thrust something upon me from which i cannot turn away. that is what the reverend dr. martin luther king junior told jet magazine as he left for atlanta georgia to become a co-pastor of ebenezer baptist church and lead a movement that would change the world. a day before the nation celebrates dr. king s legacy, history was made of ebenezer once again when president joe
so, what something like this, this is kind of one of those things where i hear a lot of people, you know, say, oh, i don t want to go watch the movie, because i m afraid, or i don t want to see and once it through this. i don t want to relive it again, right? but this is one of those things where it s needed to be seen. it s needed to be viewed. it s needed to be addressed, and accepted, so that the world can be changed and moved in a way like no other. with this being the kind of catalyst that started a lot of our movement and a lot of our change in our community, with it being, you know, televised, putting jet magazine in the first place, this is a further extension of one last question for you is on a lighter note. you re growing up here.
emmett till anti-lynching act, making lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in american history. president biden signing that law after one of the most iconic martyrs from the civil rights era, emmett till, who was an innocent child, a 14 year old in chicago, brutally lynched in 1955 all visiting family in mississippi. the case of national attention when his mother decided to do something difficult, allowing the release of a photo of his terrifically mutilated body to be on the cover of jet magazine. it was a civil rights statement at a harrowing time for her family and the nation. and it actually served to galvanize change in america. yes, this museum tells a story of people who felt the indignity, small and large