The successful struggle to elect newarks first black mayor, kenneth gibson. Elected in june of 1970, gibsons administration marked a turning point for the black Freedom Movement in newark and was part of a National Wave a black political organizing that culminated in the election of black mayors in cities like cleveland, dairy, atlanta and detroit from 1967 to 1974. These histories feel particularly vital right now as black lives struggle against Police Violence in the wake of the murders of george floyd in minneapolis, jacob blake in kenosha, breonna taylor, as once again sounded the call for black liberation while raising familiar questions about electoral politics and black freedom struggles. 50 years ago, gibsons landmark election came on the heels of the 1967 rebellion in newark, when the Police Beating of an unarmed black man named john smith sparked a fiveday uprising against White Supremacy and its an forces in blue in the jim crow north. Amidst heightened organizing around rac
Tribune, tom brokaw of nbc, and brit hume of abc news. The importance of tonights debate is underscored by two facts. Both george bush and Michael Dukakis said their selections of a running mate would reveal a lot about themselves. And based on the history since world war ii, there is almost a 5050 chance that one of the two men here tonight will become president of the United States. The candidates are senator dan quayle, the republican nominee, and senator Lloyd Bentsen, the democratic nominee. [applause] Judy Woodruff for the next 90 minutes, we will be questioning the candidates following a format designed and agreed to by representatives of the two campaigns. However, there are no restrictions on the questions that my colleagues and i may ask this evening. By prior agreement between the two candidates, the first question goes to senator quayle, and you have two minutes to respond. Senator, you have been criticized, as we all know, for your decision to stay out of the vietnam war,
To be president of green. Honestly israeli pm signed peace deals with the u. A. E. And bahrain in washington something donald trump called a historic breakthrough for the movies met with outrage in palestine. A very warm welcome you watching r. T. International with minichiello. From moscow has urged for the alleged poisoning case of opposition figure alexina valmy not to be politicized also talks with his german counterpart russias top diplomat stressed the need for cooperation heres what the Foreign Ministry had to say. Any further evasion from satisfying the stated requests will be perceived as a lack of desire on the part of our partners to help establish the truth in the framework of move jet save and comprehensive investigation of what happened they alleged nerve agent poisoning off a russian opposition figure was high on the agenda of a European Parliament session on tuesday the vast majority of speakers pointed the finger of blame squarely at russia although no evidence was pre
Starting with all of the days sports news. For his his 1st goal for barcelona since demanding to leave the club again. So that the Police Operation to get thousands of refugees off the streets and into a new tent camp has begun on the greek island of lesbos theyve had to shelter wherever they can since fire swept through europes largest refugee camp 9 days ago it had housed more than 12000 people thats nearly 5 times the number it was built for many of the homeless have been reluctant to move into the new camp fearing that they will be stuck there lets get the very latest we can cross to Stephanie Decker whos live there unless of course for us and steph so its time to go say the authorities they seem determined to ensure that this happens now more people moving. Yes i mean certainly if you look just behind us there youll see the moving in the line stretches all the way up the road which is the most that weve seen it since this calm was set up just a couple of days ago and this is becau
British police doubled during the covert health crisis. A very warm welcome to you youre watching R T International with me here. Alexei no bound they could not have survived if he had been poisoned with norbit chalk thats the claim of the russian doctors who 1st treated the high profile kremlin critic when he found severely ill nearly 3 weeks ago piece all of us has the details. The doctors that 1st try to lex in the valley when his plane was forced to make an Emergency Landing with him in clear distress he was making his way from siberia to moscow he didnt make it there the plane landed in bombs that was way he received treatment 1st theyve dismissed claims from here in germany in berlin where hes currently being treated that he was poisoned using a novacek nerve agent they say that being poisoned with such an agent he would have died speak hours after the poisoning and been administering it they say that theyve carried out over 60 tests on alexina valmy while he was in their care th