Plus, a remarkable story about finding family five brothers and sisters finally back together. Its the good news story that will have you smiling all day. Early today starts right now glad to have you with us im frances rivera. And im valerie castro. The country reaches yet another grim coronavirus milestone as state officials scramble to contain the pandemic the virus is spreading at alarming rates the United States has now surpassed more than 11 million infections. At least 15 states have ordered increased restrictions with michigan and washington joining that list. Indoor dining suspended and nonessential businesses shut down. The pandemic leaves a family devastated in san antonio. 4yearold Raiden Gonzalez lost both his mother and father who died just 100 days apart after contracting covid19 the community there rallying around raiden who turns 5 this week. And ballots werent the only things circulating on election day. According to a report by the associated press, poll workers in s
Reaching out to the 70 million americans who voted for President Trump. Lets give each other a chance. We have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies. They are americans. This morning as the president elect looks ahead to 2021, President Trump is still claiming falsely that he won the election. His legal team says it is ready to fight the results even as pressure builds on the president to concede. We will have lie reporve report will talk to chuck todd just ahead. Then, our sunday focus on the historic Vice President election Kamala Harris, the daughter of immigrants who helped propel her ticket to the white house. Plus in our sunday spotlight, a great conversation between harry smith and historian john meacham about where the country is and where it is headed after this election. At least four years under President Trump. Later we will continue to a new sunday sitdown with one of the most talented artists in all of music. Grammy winner Chris Stapleton
Assassination attack that left him seriously wounded. Exploring the american story. Watch American History tv. This weekend on cspan three. Let us go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically in visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. We are about two thirds of the way through our 12 week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights 1954 case of school segregation. Brown v. Board of education. We are going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950. In the quiet kansas town of topeka, where a mild mannered black man took his sevenyearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly, four blocks from their home, to the all white school and tried without success, to enroll his child. Black parents into peak felt that the day of trying to enroll their sch
Shrank stories about individuals who led slavery volts, educated fellow free people, and participated in abolitionist on harpers welcome to the Virginia Museum of history and culture in richmond, virginia welcome to our latest special exhibition which is titled determined, the 400 years struggle for black equality. This exhibition is part of a statewide commemoration of the 400th anniversary of significant events that happened in virginia and fundamentally shaped the course of American History that statewide commemoration is called american evolution 2019 and the determined exhibition is a legacy project of that statewide commemoration. And particular, a determined determined commemorates the 16 19 arrival of the first recorded captive africans in virginia. Then it looks at the instilling 400 years and traces the legacy of the beginning of slavery in virginia through emancipation and segregation, the modern civil rights movement, up till the president they. One of the unifying themes o
Ferry. Welcome to the Virginia Museum of history and culture in richmond, virginia. Welcome to our latest special exhibition which is titled determined the 400 year struggle for black equality. This is part of a statewide commemoration of the 400th anniversary of significant events that happened in virginia and fundamentally shaped the course of American History. That statewide commemoration is called american evolution 2019 and the determined exhibition is a legacy project of that statewide commemoration. In particular determined commemorates the 1619 arrival of the first reported captive africans in virginia. And then it looks at the ensuing 400 years and traces the legacy of the beginning of slavery in virginia through emancipation, segregation, the modern civil rights movement, up to the present day. One of the unifying themes of this exhibition is the struggle for equality and explores various ways in which black virginian have fought for equality. Whether it means freedom from en