Symbols around which conversations and disagreements over racial issues took place. This class is about one hour and 10 minutes. Matthew andrews we have been exploring the question of gender and womens rights and sports. We will return our focus to race relations. Were going to explore what i like to call the return of the great white hope in the 1980s. You know all about the original great white hope. You did research on it. Jim jefferies in 1910. He comes out of retirements and tries to redeem the white race and defeat jack johnson. Was unsuccessful. He failed. In the 1980s there were a few white athletes who are thought of in the same way. These were white athletes that White Americans hoped would score symbolic victories in sports and the attitudes towards these athletes suggested that perhaps the nation had not come as far as many people like to think. The United States may have entered what commentators were calling a postcivil rights era. The 1970s and the 1980s. Clearly race wa
Is next. Good morning. Welcome back to nbc 10 news today. Im rosemary connors. Its 6 00 on this sunday. Brittney shipp is tracking those clearing conditions out there. Good morning. We have a slight chance of showers, yesterday we knew the thunderstorms will be rolling through heading into the afternoon. Today the other big difference is the temperatures will drop so well stay well below average with a high of 74 for philadelphia. Same thing along the shore. Heres a closer look at the satellite radar shot. You can see most of the rainfall is well off to the northeast. Even north of boston. We have a few lingering showers to the south of washington that could move in as we head through the rest of today a bit of sunshine by 8 00 a. M. , mostly cloudy skies return to us closer to 11 00 a. M. 2 00 p. M. , temperatures slow to warm up. We wont even make it into the 70s until around the time you head out for lunch. 72 by 2 00 p. M. The high today at 74. Im tracking how long these temperatur
Good morning. This is nbc 10 news today. Im rosemary connors. Its 5 30. Lets get to our weekend weather with first alert meteorologist brittney shipp. Good morning. Good morning. It will feel like fall today. Temperatures in the mid 70s, in some locations low 70s. We will see clearing skies. Just a slight chance of showers. It wont be like what we saw yesterday. We saw a decent amount of scattered showers and thunderstorms on and off throughout the area. Going into today, mainly dry. Just keep in mind that chance of showers and temperatures today will range between 71 and 74 degrees. Its also going to be a chilly start to the morning depending on where you are. Were seeing a cooler start with most temperatures now in the 60s. 65 in philadelphia. 60 in pottstown. 62 in allentown. 68 in wildwood. And temperatures in Atlantic City at 67. Ill have more details on what you can expect coming up in my full forecast. New from overnight, police in Delaware County are investigating a shooting th
And was right there. The new family only on gma. Hey, good morning. Much of america is talking this weekend about the new star wars movie. We were just talking about it. The force awakens is breaking Box Office Records globally. And coming up were going to tell you about the special guest i took to the theater. The term weve used before, highlevel nerdery. And geekery, as well. How many times are we going to say that . Many. We start with the charges and countercharges flying as we head into the big president ial debate held right here on abc. A federal complaint was filed and overnight there were new developments in the threeway battle between Hillary Clinton, her chief rival Bernie Sanders as well as the Democratic National committee, the dnc. Yeah. This all stems from the revelation that members of the Sanders Campaign accessed confidential clinton voter files so how will this drama play out on the debate stage tonight . Abcs cecilia vega is right cecilia, good morning to you. Repor
The new family only on gma. Hey, good morning. Much of america is talking this weekend about the new star wars movie. We were just talking about it. Yes. The force awakens is breaking Box Office Records globally. And coming up were going to tell you about the special guest i took to the theater. The term, weve used it before, but ill use it again, highlevel nerdery. And geekery, as well. How many times are we going to say that . Many. We start with the charges and countercharges flying as we head into tonights big here on abc. A federal complaint was filed and overnight there were new developments in the threeway battle between Hillary Clinton, her chief rival Bernie Sanders, as well as the Democratic National committee, the dnc. Yeah, this all stems from the revelation that members of the Sanders Campaign accessed confidential clinton voter files so how will this drama play out on the debate stage tonight . Abcs cecilia vega is right there this morning. Cecilia, good morning to you. R