on the eve of the first anniversary of the dobbs decision overturning roe v. wade, conservatives like mike pence say they want to further crush reproductive rights. it will be pardon to say it was rigged with a trump friendly judge. what kinds of an edge do those two facts give the former president? good evening. i m ali velshi filling in for joy reid. we begin with post roe america. one year ago the supreme court ruled in dobbs v. america. the ruling overturned roe v. wade, the law of the land for 50 years, and remains as unpopular as ever. today major 2024 gop contenders shared the stage at the faith and freedom coalition conference to push more restrictions on abortion. thank god almighty for the dobbs decision. we are creating a culture of life in america. i will sign a federal law to restrict abortion as well as president of the united states. we must not rest and must not relent until we restore the sanctity of life to the center of american law in every state i
this moment right now, we re discussing reparations nationally. intel so we have a reparations case ongoing, these institutions be held to account. everything from the newspaper that you participated in the lies, and participated in the cover-up. the insurance companies that wouldn t honor claims. what is the state of greenwood today? i remember my very first time in greenwood, five years ago, when i started this project. i had in my mind that idyllic vision we discussed. the entrepreneurship, the success, the solidarity. i was really surprised to discover that greenwood has been taken in a lot of ways. my very first time was the anniversary of the race massacre in 2018. i suspected there to be hundreds of people out there, commemorating what had happened. showing some reverence for that sacred ground. instead, there was a baseball game going on. actually a minor league baseball stadium in greenwood. there were more people concerned with going to see the tulsa drillers play than co
survivors of the tulsa massacre when a white mob descended on greenwood in 1921 destroying it killing 300 people 102 years ago. it s due to their persistence that we remember the massacre at all. in his book built from the fire victor luckerson wrote for more than a century, greenwood has been grappling with wrong in all its combative forms. wickedness flamed white hot in 1921 but the embers continued to burn long after. tulsa wanted badly to forget, but greenwood demanded the city remember. congratulations. it was a three-year project? five-year project. it s been a long road. tell me what greenwood was like before the massacre? who were some of the great
residents? one of the pleasures was learning about the prp people. it was known as the eden of the west. it was a black utopia. i loved learning about some of the folks living there. j.h. and carly goodwin, they owned a grocery store. lulu williams, she was a entrepreneur.autonomy. she owned that gym and not her husband. i love to pull out those narratives and making people feel alive. j.b. strafford and even beyond those places, it was a place of corner stores, dive bars. whether you had a penny or $100, greenwood is a place that came alive every weekend. the maid s day off. all the maids in tulsa were off. if the women are off work, the guys are going to be out there, too. right. those are the most active days in the community as well. it was a beautiful, lively
want to find a smoking gun that proves who was responsible for what happened in greenwood in 1921. but we already have the smoking guns. the smoking gun is the fact that the city of tulsa police department deputized by people in greenwood on the night of the massacre. handing them badges and stars to giving them the authority to kill black people. the smoking gun is the fact that when one white man in tulsa went to the police department, a police officer told him get busy, get a gun, kill a black person. the smoking gun is the fact that after the race massacre, real estate developers immediately s loft a scheme to siege greenwood land from black people in that community. we already understand that there are so many institutions in tulsa that were conspiring against greenwood. guess what? those institutions are still there. the tulsa government, still in power. the chamber of commerce, all these institutions that played a role in the race massacre stir, our ongoing today. but none of