Please welcome our honored guest, speaker nancy pelosi, accompanied by kevin mccarthy, sean clyburn, marco rubio, jared kathy castor, michael waltz, frederica wilson, president nancy r lumet and Lawrence M Drake the second. Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable nancy pelosi, speaker of the United States house of representatives. [applause] Speaker Pelosi it is my privilege to welcome you to statuary hall as we celebrate a pioneer pioneering patriotic americans. The pride of florida and america, dr. Mary mcleod thune. Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune. Please stand for the presentation of colors and the national anthem. Max holt. O say can you see, by the dawns early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming, whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, oer the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, o say does that starspangled banne
Please welcome our honored guest, speaker nancy pelosi, accompanied by kevin mccarthy, sean clyburn, marco rubio, jared kathy castor, michael waltz, frederica wilson, president nancy r lumet and Lawrence M Drake the second. Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable nancy pelosi, speaker of the United States house of representatives. [applause] Speaker Pelosi it is my privilege to welcome you to statuary hall as we celebrate a pioneer pioneering patriotic americans. The pride of florida and america, dr. Mary mcleod thune. Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune. Please stand for the presentation of colors and the national anthem. Max holt. O say can you see, by the dawns early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming, whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, oer the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, o say does that starspangled banne
It was december 1964, days before he received e nobebel peace e prize in osl. Dr. King gave a mamajor address in london on s segregation, the fight t for civil l right, anand his support for r nelson m mandela and the antiapartheid strtrugge in south a africa. If the United Kingdom and the united statetes decided tomorrow morning not to buy South African goods, not to buy South African gold, to put an embargo on oil, if our investors and capitalists would withdraw their support for that racial tyranny that we find there, then apartheid woululd be brought to an end. Totoday, dr. Kings cityty temple address, decemberer 7th, 1964, in londo. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. And those are some of the headlines this is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war anand peacace report. Iim amy y goodman. Amy odman n today is ththe federal holiday honoring dr. Martin luther king. He was born n january 15th, 192.
The fight for civil rights, and his support for Nelson Mandela and the antiapartheid struggle in south africa. If the United Kingdom and the United States decided tomorrow morning not to buy South African goods, not to buy South African gold, to put an embargo on oil, if our investors and capitalists would withdraw their support for that racial tyranny that we find there, then apartheid would be brought to an end. Today, dr. Kings city temple address, december 7th, 1964, in london. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. And those are some of the headlines this is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Amy goodman today is the federal holiday honoring dr. Martin luther king. He was born january 15th, 1929. He was assassinated april 4th, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in memphis, tennessee. He was just 39 years old. While dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights lead
And and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. 50 50 years ago today, more than two dozen armed members of the black Panther Party, including women marched on the state Capital Building to protest the passage of an act signed by then governor ronald reag reagan. This protest was enough to push the black panthers into general knowledge. Adam winkler, law professor at ucla and author of gunfight. And here to talk about the overall legacy of the black Panther Party, one of his foreign leaders. Erica huggens. Before our conversation, first a look back at that day, 50 years ago. People in this court and the people in the legislature have not been acting like human beings, theyve put trumped up charges of conspiracy and felonies on everyone who went in to exercise a constitutional right. Instead they had no right to bear arms in a public place. The Second Amendment of the constitution guarantees the citizen a right to bear arms on public property. The legislat