rally in the city of orange burg of on the intends to run for president against vladimir putin in next year s election. at least sixteen people have been killed in a triple bombing at a police station in the syrian capital damascus a car bomb exploded and two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside of the building the country s interior minister said that another attacker got inside before being shot by police damascus has seen relatively little violence in syria s five year civil war. ok let s head now back to brenton when guard who we were trying to speak with a little bit earlier about his experience basically attending this concert in las vegas. you know a concert of which we know that you know scores of people are now dead and hundreds more injured threatened as we mentioned where we re really glad to hear that you made it out at least safe can you tell us what you experienced last night you know
meeting with the mothers of trayvon martin. in our streets as i was sitting in that meeting listening to the pain and the anguish of the mothers to talking to me a 9-year-old boy in chicago on his way his grandmother s house, holding his basketball which he took everywhere with him, he was lured into the alley and shot. he was assassinated because of some kind of gang related feud involving apparently his father. this has to end. i think it s appalling the this move to for profit prisons in our country. i think it s immoral, i think it s wrong. i was there with martin luther king, jr., dr. king, in the march on washington. so i have a long history, but more importantly, i think i have the economic and social justice agenda now that once we get the word out, will in fact resonate with the african-american community. well, joining me from orange
carolina it s all about winning the african-american vote. in 2008, 57% of the people who turned out to vote in the primary here were african-american. so hillary clinton is here at the historically black college in orange burg which is a very important place to win as a democrat. 62% african-american in the country. so she s going to be really leaning in to some of the issues that you talked about in the set-up there, alex. criminal justice reform. her meeting with the family of families of people killed in gun violence and killed by police violence. yesterday she wrote an op-ed in ebony magazine writing about needing to commit to communities of color. bernie sanders is doing the same thing in a different part of the state. he s rolling out a leadership team that will include black lives matter activists and civil rights activists and he hopes to introduce himself to the community that he s unknown in otherwise, alex. all right, thank you for that. and for all of you in just
is a black progress ar white progress, the other he talks about a basically optimistic view, where people stand, things are worse or horrible. he makes this.about how his mother told him stories and growing up in south carolina and having to, her family having to go to the veteran to the vet s office to have tear teeth pulled and go around the back end because if they came in through the front door, white people would not bring tear pets to that veterinarian. he says that s not a story from five, six, seven generations ago. my mom told me that story. that s how much progress we made. basically, there is a lot of stuff going on, we have come a long way in whatever the town is if south carolina. gene robinson talked about growing up in orange burg, forth carolina. the same thing what he went through, willie, you look back at what was happening 50 years ago, 59 years ago, rosa parks still being told get out of
simple, to help blacks compete by enabling them to earn a degree at a time when they were barred from other institutions. nearly all 105 schools that exist today were established after the civil war, but the very first opened its doors in 1837. cheney university of pennsylvania, then known as the institute for colored youth. cheney has struggled in recent years, like many hbcus, and the problem usually boils down to money. some serious financial concerns were weighing heavily on the campus of howard university today. jackson state plans to pursue litigation against grambling state and others. south carolina state in orange burg is on the verge of going broke. thursday, north carolina lawmakers started considering a budget proposal that could force elizabeth city state university to shut down. last year, st. paul s college in lawrenceville, virginia, did just that, closing its doors after 125 years.