This is just the beginning. Good afternoon. Im sarah, executive editor at axios, and welcome to our lives event. Many of your joining us live from wherever you are. We are Live Streaming on facebook, youtube, on twitter and, of course, you can also catch us on axios. Com. If you are on twitter you can join the conversation by using the hashtag axios events and be sure to include our handle at axios. Lets get started. Im coming to today live from a home in washington, d. C. And today we have a very big conversation. Our event is the epidemic of inequality. And today will have an important conversation about systemic racism in our country. The reason were here was marked by the death of george floyd in minneapolis but as everyone has seen in the streets, in cities and in states across our country over the past 11 days theres an underlying problem that is yet to be fully addressed, and with adequate reforms and justice. So today were bringing you four speakers, two with a National Perspec
Where Live Streaming on facebook on youtube, twitter and you can catch us on axios. Com. You can join us and join us with our handle at axios. As a woman is seen in the streets and cities and in states across our country over the past 11 days theres an underlying problem that is yet to be fully addressed and with adequate reform and justice. So today we bring you four speakers, two with the National Perspective and two with a local perspective to begin to have a conversation about whats next and where we go from here. Let me just tell you that we have coming up today. We have derrick johnson, ceo of the naacp. We have Melvin Carter, mayor of st. Paul, minnesota. We have lovely warren, shes a rochester, new york,k, and web congressman bobby rush of illinois. So first i i want to start with our first guest, is president and ceo of a the naacp, derrick johnson. Welcome. Hes joining us live from jackson, mississippi. Thank you for havingroon me. Thank you so much. The first question i want
Protest across the nation and the measured needed to Reform Police departments. Good afternoon. Im sarah cayhill. Im the executive editor at axios. And welcome to our live zoom event. Many of us are joining us live. We are Live Streaming on facebook. Were on youtube on twitter. And you can catch us on axios. Com. And if you are on twitter, you can join the conversation by using the hashtag ax yos events. And be sure to include our handle at axios. So lets get started. Im coming to you live from my home in washington, d. C. And today, we have a very big conversation. Our event is the epidemic of inequality. And today, we want to have an important conversation about systemic racism in our country. The reason were here is because of the death of of george floyd in minneapolis. But as everyone has seen in cities and states across our country over the past 11 days, theres an underlying problem that has yet to be fully addressed and with adequate reform and justice. So today, we are bringing
Lovely born, mayor of rochester, new york, and we have congressman bobby rush of illinois. So first i want to start with our first guest is president and ceo of the naacp, derrick johnson. While come. Hes joining live from jackson, mississippi. Thank you for having me. Thank you so much. The first question i want to ask you, derek, is about this moment. And where do we go from here . With seeing so many protests before. We have seen the beginning of the black lives Matter Protest Movement in the movement begin many years ago. And yet when we think about the problems and where to start, it does seem a bit overwhelming. It seems like so many things are entrenched in our institutions, some would ask you a think whats on a lot of americans minds right now, which is what you think is a first place to start . As we look at the situation in minneapolis, and you are so quick, its not isolated to minneapolis. This is a systemic decades long problem of racism. And for us to begin to heal as a na
By downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. Good morning. Its Sunday March 10th and you are watching Velshi On Msnpc i am Charles Coleman jr. Filling in for velshi. We are ten days into march and its a hot momentous month. Major developments set the sustaining for the rest of the election season as campaigns made a pivot to the general election. Yesterday, we got a preview of whats to come as joel biden and donald trump prepare to faceoff in their rematch in november. Last night, both candidates held Campaign Events 06 miles from each other in georgia. Its important swing state biden and trump have won. Biden won last, by a narrow margin of 12,000 votes in 2020. His to stop in atlanta is part to reach out in voters in critical swing states that now that the ballot is effect ofly set. Aside from georgia, the president made the appearance in pennsylvania on friday. Vice president harris traveling to las vegas and phoenix where she spoke about the administrations support for Repr