Of the 1963 childrens crusade. We do so tonight with an authors talk featuring paul kicks. Paul is the author of you have to be prepared to before you can begin ten weeks in birmingham. That america, while reflecting on a photo of Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin suffocating, george floyd, paul is shocked by its parallels to the iconic may 1963 photo of a black teenager in birmingham, alabama, being attacked by a white officer and an aggressive shepherd. These similarities motivated to uncover the legacy and full history behind the historic civil rights photograph. Pauls book light on the strategy of the 1963 ten week southern christian Leadership Conference campaign end segregation led by dr. Martin luther jr. King, along with white walker, Fred Shuttlesworth and james bevel, joined the efforts of the Alabama Christian Movement for human rights to launch the Birmingham Campaign together, they sought to Bring National attention to the efforts to desegregate public facilities in
was targeted. and we re getting a disturbing look at the moment that suspect who police say is a transgender person and a former person at the school shoots out the school s windows and walks inside to carry out the attack. we re also learn much more about the six victims. three students, just nine years old and three adults in their 60s, including the head of the school. the lost, once again, renewing calls to do something to prevent the next shooting. the mayor of nashville sharing this call to action earlier on today. the country needs to pick itself up and say no to an assault weapons lobby that, again, is making it too available and too convenient and too first of mind for people to go out and commit terrible acts. and that is where we begin today. yasmin is in nashville for us. you were on your way home from one disaster in mississippi when you got the call to reroute to another tragedy. this time in nashville. i know you as a mom, your two boys, you keep thinking a
delivers independence for scotland. prince harry makes a surprise appearance at a high court hearing in london. he s among several high profile figures bringing a privacy case against the publisher of the daily mail newspaper. israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu will delay regarding the leadership of the scottish national party but before we address those stories, just to bring you some breaking news coming out of the united states the last few minutes, we are hearing of a shooting at a school in nashville. according to everything rehearing on the news agency among others, this is an ongoing situation in the local fire department in nashville, you see the tweet in fact from the nashville fire department saying it is an ongoing situation with, as you can see regrettably there, multiple patients. as the tweet puts it. multiple victims as with some local media are saying and we don t know whether or not that s people will simply been injured or if it is worse than that. i
getting word three children had been rushed to a nearby hospital. they have now all been pronounced dead after arrival from gunshot wounds. police are set to hold a news conference, got an update moments ago, that should be happening near the top of this hour. confirmed the shooter is dead after being engaged by officer on the ground. john: we don t know if there was a school resource officer or the police were the first to respond to the scene, it appears they acted in a way to take the shooter down as quickly as possible. we are still filling in a lot of the details. when you consider this christian academy, again, five miles southwest of nashville on its twitter site, its motto, shepherding minds and celebrating childhood, it s shattered for so many this horrible morning. sandra: the shooter died after being engaged by officer, according to the nashville metro police. they put it out in a statement. it s not immediately clear whether the shooter died by taking his or h
My my name is wayne coleman, head of archives here at the institute. And i want to welcome all you to tonights event event as we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1963 childrens crusade. We do so tonight with an authors talk featuring paul kicks. Paul is the author of you have to be prepared to before you can begin ten weeks in birmingham. That america, while reflecting on a photo of Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin suffocating, george floyd, paul is shocked by its parallels to the iconic may 1963 photo of a black teenager in birmingham, alabama, being attacked by a white officer and an aggressive shepherd. These similarities motivated to uncover the legacy and full history behind the historic civil rights photograph. Pauls book light on the strategy of the 1963 ten week southern christian Leadership Conference campaign end segregation led by dr. Martin luther jr. King, along with white walker, Fred Shuttlesworth and james bevel, joined the efforts of the Alabama Christia