Sit in protests along with archival footage. That begins right now. And we feel also that one of the great pillars of american democracy is that we have the right to protest for our rights. We will do it in an orderly fashion. This is a nonviolent protest. We are depending on moral and spiritual forces using the method of passive resistance. From the bus boycott in montgomery, alabama until february 1, 1960, virtually Nothing Happened in the arena of civil rights. I mean, it was dead, absolutely dead. Even Martin Luther king said that. In 1960, things did change dramatically in greensboro. It is the origin of all of those events that occur subsequent to february 1, 1960, and i happened to be there. Mcneil happened to be there, and so did richmond and blair. When you hear a railroad, the train is coming from far away and it is coming closer and you become increasingly aware of the track that the train is rolling on. And that track is what divides white from black. That is what separates
Messages and tweets. University of massachusetts amherst assistant professor traci parker joins us for discussion on the lunch counter sit ins of 1960. Who were the greensboro four and why did they decide to sit down at that lunch counter in 1960 . They work for freshman a t were four freshman at and they had been thinking about racial injustices and how to integrate and how to push the movement along for some time. It was not until Joseph Mcneil is returning to school after when hes break in 1959 is refused a meal at a greyhound train terminal and he is just trying to buy a hot dog. And gets back to campus and he is emboldened. He says enough is enough. So him and this for friends decide they are going to target the woolworths. Aggregate eating facilities in greensboro, North Carolina. I find interesting is why it woolworths, woolworths was a five and dime that many people of a certain age probably still remember. It was a chain Discount Department store. Recognizable because it is a
presidential race. president biden has pulled ahead of former president donald trump in one new national poll but still trails nikki haley. this hour we are releasing the latest fox news polls showing where the candidates are in key races in a couple of key swing states in wisconsin. it is tied between the former president and president biden in georgia former president trump is up. we will bring you more of that in a bit. also movement tonight on one of the major election issues. immigration. we have a live report from capitol hill. but we begin tonight with how the president is handling another thorny topic. the israel-hamas war. and the reaction from his base. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. in a state biden needs to win this november, his revel to call for a cease-fire in gaza is costing support among key parts of his base. the abandon biden campaign also opposes trump. b
about those peaceful pro-life protesters in iowa who are facing more than a decade in prison. their crime? praying and singing at an abortion clinic. but what if you are part of a pro-hamas protest that blocks major arteries in our nation s capital when congress is actually in session? well, the ingraham angle got exclusive video. [shouting] called the united states of america. and israel a minion and puppet. [inaudible] the hell with zionism, long live the revolution. laura: is he calling for a revolution. over there, here, both. who knows. but because he hates america, that means, of course, he is protected because a lot of people on the left don t really like america either. he is even celebrated by our anti-american establishment. now, as we told you last night, some polls are looking promising for donald trump especially in swing states just as the country faces a mine field of problems these days, so does trump. and his coming in the form may be a coordinated series
jennifer crumbley, the mother of the teenager who shot four classmates to death in 2021 and the worst school shooting in michigan s history took the stand. she is charged with involuntary manslaughter testing the limits of who might be found responsible for a mass shooting and her testimony today was shocking. i have asked myself if i would have done anything differently and i wouldn t have. if you could change what happened, would you? oh absolutely. i wish he would have killed us instead. imagine a mother saying that she wishes her own son would have killed her and his father saying if given the chance, she wouldn t have done anything differently. meanwhile, her defense attorney indicating that she and her client don t necessarily meet eye to eye or see eye to eye about how to handle the rest of the case. specifically who should testify. she told the judge, to speak more with crumbley and tonight, take an in-depth look. the question, should a parent be held responsi