Now citizens of pandemic 2020, you see a photo of anybody crowded together like this anymore and it flips your stomach over a little bit, right . Youre too close together. Nobodys got a mask. It activates something in us now to see that. But there they are, a thousand people or more all crowded into that one alabama polling place, may 3rd, 1966 in birmingham. Cant do that nowadays for any reason. But theres something important to know about this photo, both for then and for us now. Again, that photo is 1966. The year before that photo was taken in alabama, the future congressman john lewis was very nearly killed while he was trying to lead a march for Voting Rights across the Edmund Pettus bridge at selma, alabama. John lewis and his fellow marchers, black and white, mostly black, were set upon by Alabama State troopers and by a minuted posse the local sheriff had rounded up against local white men. The violence that day against the marchers was horrifying. It turned out the country wa
From history that looks different to us now through our pandemic eyes. But have a look. Here it is. This is closing time at the polls in birmingham, alabama, in may of 1966 because we are all now citizens of pandemic 2020, you see a photo of anybody crowded together like this anymore and it flips your stomach over a little bit, right . Youre too close together. Nobodys got a mask. It activates something in us now to see that. But there they are, a thousand people or more all crowded into that one alabama polling place, may 3rd, 1966 in birmingham. Cant do that nowadays for any reason. But theres something important to know about this photo, both for then and for us now. Again, that photo is 1966. The year before that photo was taken in alabama, the future congressman john lewis was very nearly killed while he was trying to lead a march for Voting Rights across the Edmund Pettus bridge at selma, alabama. John lewis and his fellow marchers, black and white, mostly black, were set upon by
French Officials Say a commercial jet liner with 116 people on board likely crashed on the way to africa. I am jon scott. And i am jenna lee, the plane was heading to the capitol of algerriac and the search for t plane is now underway in ma li. The plane disappeared from thero screen and as you likely know northern mali and that is creating a lot of questions. And amy kellogg is live with the latest on this, amy . Exactly. When a plane disappears over a conflict zone, all sorts of thoughts come to mind and at related and we have no indication that that is the case and what is frustrating to anyone watching the story and people looking for loved ones at this cpoint, there is no news about why itc crashed. We just heard from the french president who said it is problemable and likely it cras ed, but they simply dont knowc what happen. He would devote all of the france military might currently in the region fighting terror to the search forc the plane believed to have gone down incn
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This is the most enthusiasm i have ever seen. With gloria stein am, robin morgan and jane fonda. You stay in the fight. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Just four days away from election day. Today brought into sharp relief the choice between the two Major Political coalitions in this country at this pivotal moment. On one side the first black president campaigning for the man seeking to be floridas first black governor, andrew gillum, and heading to georgia to campaign for stacey abrams, the first black woman governor in the nations history. The health care of millions of people are on the ballot. Making sure working families get a fair shake. Is on the ballot. But maybe most of all, the character of our country is on the ballot. And then theres President Trump whose Closing Argument is grounded in racism, fear and lies. A man who is repeatedly using flat out racist language according to both the public record, Television Cameras and his former