News. Aljazeera launches today. The prospects and the challenges ahead. The Supreme Courts rulings on samesex marriage set reverberations across the country. We look at how states are grappling with the landmark decision. It mate be august but at the white house today, football was in the air, 40 years late. Im proud to welcome the only undefeated, untied team in nfl history to the white house for the first time. Give it up for the 1972 Miami Dolphins and Health Officials say 300,000 americans contract lyme disease each year, 10 times more than previously thought. We explore what is behind the latest numbers. All ahead on tonights news hour. Major funding for the pbs news hour has been provided by cheer egypt ace military government dealt another below to the Muslim Brotherhood today taking the groups stream leader in cut. Margaret warner begins our covering. Authorities charge the groups general guide, Mohammed Badea with inciting violence in the aftermath of muhammad morrisseys oust
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Marching to change history. A day when the voices of the movement echoed across america. We are of a massive moral revolution. How long can we be patient . We want our freedom and we want it now. A call to action and a call for peace. The words that inspired a people, a nation, and the entire world. Free at last, free at last, thank god almighty we are free at last. Tonight, a special twohour edition of politicsnation. The march on washington. The dream continues. Good evening. Im al sharpton live from the Lincoln Memorial here on the national mall. 50 years ago hundreds of thousands of people stood where i am. Right now watching history. Millions more watching at home seeing the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, call for justice and equality. Powerful speeches and powerful music from singers like lahalia jackson, bob dylan. Tonight well hear those voices. Well also hear from congressman john lewis. I talk to him today from the exact spot on the Lincoln Memorial where he spoke 50 y
In this iconic photo. Ill talk to her now 50 years later about how the march changed her life. We also have my interview with congressman john lewis from the steps of Lincoln Memorial where he spoke a half a century ago. Im honored to begin the second hour of our show tonight with bernie a. King, ceo of the king center. Thank you for being here today. Thank you. Glad to be here. You head the king center where your mother founded many years ago. And you have struggled and worked to keep the legacy of your mother and father alive. And this march tomorrow is one of five days that you have helped to orchestrate and push and pull and make sure it happened. But you were a child when this happened. I was an infant. In arms when the march happened. And you were still very young when you lost your dad. How do you explain the fire in you . Well, i mean, other than the holy spirit, thats where it comes from. It also comes from growing up in a home where we were taught about giving back service to