many similar movements that arae on the way. inevitably, and the few visionaries who have grasped this obvious truth weirdly , have not been welcomed by blue am america. they have been mockeda, they and derided as prophets, always are. a fewfe years ago, foro, example, a blue blond woman from montana called rachel dolezal declared that she wanas black because she decided that she was black . blackness was rachel dolezald lived experience, but she was not greeted as liberators. t gr she was almost immediateh booed off the stage and then she disappearee d and tellingly, none of the people yelling atye rachel dolezal ever explained whdy she couldn t be black. why not?t? in this country, you can change your , but not your race. really, how does that work? what species of science are weec talking about here? it was note are we defensible al and so over time, like alle ar indefensible arguments, it will collapse someday. the new york times will give g rachel dough s all its
special edition of politicsnation. i m in new york, we will have the reverend al sharpton joining us momentarily from selma, alabama. you are looking at now live at the bridge. we are taking in this feed, straight msnbc at rockefeller center. in a moment, president, biden is you see there, we ll march alongside dignitaries. including reverend al sharpton, who is not too far away from this picture you see here. they will be marking the 58th anniversary of bloody sunday. moments ago, the president laying out the threats as he sees them, threatening a voting rights. it looks like they are just beginning their walk. this fundamental right remains under assault, conservative supreme court has gutted the voting rights act over the years. since the 2020 election, a wave of states and dozens of anti voting laws fueled by the big lie, and the election deniers, now elected to office. and that annual walk, as you see on the left-hand side of the screen, just beginning. it s about 25
laid down and shed his blood, you have the unmitigated gall to beat your brother, chase im down and beat him some more. call for backup, and they take 20 minutes, and you watch him and you are too busy talking among each other, no empathy, no concern. if you read the story of joseph, when his brothers threw him in the pit, nobody came to help him. like nobody came to help tyre. waiting on ambulance service that didn t show up until it s too late. what will happen to his dream. we ll just tell them something else happened, but we are going to throw him in a pit, but i come to memphis today to tell you the same mistake joseph s brothers made, is a mistake you made. you thought you threw joseph in a pit. you thought you threw dr. king s dream in a pit. but every time you throw something in a pit, god takes the pit and raises it up and changes the whole world. e world. let me be clear, we understand that there are concerns about public safety. we understand that there s needs to
would like to live a long life, longevity has its place, but i m not concerned about that now. i just want to do god s will. and he s allowed me to go up to the mountain, and i ve looked over, and i ve seen the promised land. i may not get there with you but i want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. a haunting speech from reverend martin luther king jr. delivered the night before he was assassinated in memphis. we ll be honoring dr. king this morning and exploring his legacy throughout the morning on morning joe. also ahead this hour, we ll have the latest developments on the classified documents found at president biden s home, and the gop s false equivalency when it comes to this discovery. hundreds of files of donald trump tried to stash away at mar-a-lago, to equate is a little tough. congress is on the clock to raise the country s debt limit. it comes after a dire warning from treasury secretary janet yellen. plus, we ll get a live
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