during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now hi, ari. thanks, nicolle welcome to the beat. i m ari melber we are tracking several stories, including maya wylie we begin with the escalating heat on defendant donald trump the nation watched as he came to new york for the first criminal arraignment of his life, a legal requirement, not a choice. trump had to sit in court for this unusually long i rainment which included a rare rebuke by the judge for threats he had been making. those threats part of a second civil case also filed this week by the d.a. dealing with the clash of some house republicans. here s the news right now. today donald trump is back in new york again and again under court order. these are not trips that he chose. they have been forced on him by the law and how often he is on allegedly, under the allegations, the wrong side of the law. if you re trying to keep track or it seems like this stuff is happening
the photographs from that era are by this latin dude. what does that mean to a community again, hip-hop culture is in the street, on the walk, to share that? it s incredible gives you a sense of importance, of self-worth, to hear yourself and see your people and your culture represented. and you heard it in music. tony on the show used to do the mix tape, because rap was not put on the radio it survived in mix tapes. i love you saying that. we just had deejay drama on this week like so many things when dealing with marginalized expression see the book bans today i m going fight for that autonomy. to be seen, heard, written, and put into textbooks it s always a fight. you keep getting margi marginalized cha-cha. two steps forward, three steps