And dance. This is an hour and 10 minutes. Maxine waters, the most powerful black woman in america from the 43rd congressional district, lets give a big round of applause to maxine for her time. Wow, lets give a hand for everybody. [applause]. Icht im so proud to see all of you here. We have been presenting young gifted and black for many years, but i wanted you to know this is the 50th anniversary of hiphop. I also want you to know im the oldest person in america who loves hiphop. [laughter] and so, this is happy 50 years this anniversary, to an art form that has inspired us so much and inspired so much of the world. Now, ive had to defend hiphop and rap since long before it became this global phenomenon, since infancy, and when i was elected to congress in 1991, many politicians, including black politicians were either distancing themselves, or trying to sensor rap music. The same year, during a senate hearing, there were members of congress wanting to sensor rap music and so i decid
With the champions liverpool questioning the criteria and pointing out that some children at the top of the premier league, cross boroughs to go to school. After beating aston last night the education secretary announced a change, which means all of londons primary villa last night. Schools will now stay closed. The absolute right place ready . Down and up for all children to be is in school, but we need to really focus he got millions of us up and about during lockdown in 2020, on making school safe and ensuring that we get a Clear Strategy but what has joe wicks in place to support our most got planned for 2021 . Well speak to him just before 9 00. Disadvantaged children, whom we are extremely worried about that attainment gap which has grown massively for them, as this pandemic continues to rage. Its not the first decision the department of education has had good morning. 0ur cold spell of to reverse, but ministers say weather is going to continue for quite a while yet. Today it is
Some breaking news, the us has just topped 20 million cases of coronavirus. This come as Research Confirms the the new coronavirus variant discovered in the uk has a much quicker rate of transmission. If the new variant is now present, with this increase in the r number, all of a sudden instead of a decrease of 30 , we get a massive increase, the number of cases over the same period could triple. So, this is more or less the most serious change in the virus that weve seen. The us struggles to roll out the Covid Vaccine as it records over 20 million cases, according to thejohn hopkins university. A new era begins, as the brexit transition period ends and the uk completes its formal separation from the european union. Now on bbc news sportday. Hello and welcome to sportsday im sarah mulkerrins, coming up. 2021 is off to a flyer for bristol as the bears win to move second in the premiership and hand newcastle their first loss of the season. Amid rising coronavirus cases japans Prime Minis