deciding i m bold enough and i m going make it change. beulah mae donald took on one of the most violent criminal organizations in the united states. this is an incredible story of courage. the body of a black man has been found hanging from a tree in mobile, alabama. living in mobile was a quiet town. it is nothing but oak trees. but after march 1981, it was kind of like creepy to me to look at the trees. the hurt is still there. the hurt my mom went through. i just visualize her face and i go like i can t talk about it today. my momma, beulah mae donald was a quiet woman. she was a good-hearted person. all the neighborhoods we have lived in, everybody loved her. ms. donald was a very liked person because of her personality. she volunteered her time working with children, a model mother. michael was my brother. michael was well loved. he was quiet. he worked at night and he kept my oldest son during the daytime. michael was a well-mannered and a polite young
have had police. it s the modern day lynching. what are we going to do about it? we move forward with people deciding i m bold enough and i m going make it change. beulah mae donald took on one of the most violent criminal organizations in the united states. this is an incredible story of courage . the body of a black man has been found hanging from a tree in mobile, alabama. living in mobile was a quiet town. it is nothing but oak trees. but after march 1981, it was kind of like creepy to me to look at the trees. the hurt is still there. the hurt my mom went through. i just visualize her face and i go like i can t talk about it today. my momma, beulah mae donald, was a quiet woman. she was a good-hearted person. all the neighborhoods we have lived in, everybody loved her. ms. donald was a very liked person because of her personality. she volunteered her time working with children, a model mother. michael was my brother. michael was well loved. he was quiet. h
many of us woke up, this morning, to learn of, yet, another, mass shooting. a 19-year-old gunman who opened fire at a fedex facility in indianapolis, killing eight people before, also, killing himself. this news, mind you, comes on the 14th anniversary of the virginia-tech shooting, when 32 people were gunned down. meaning, we have arrived at a place, where mass shootings occur on the anniversaries of other mass shootings. here s what president joe biden had to say, today, about the epidemic of gun violence in america. this has to end. it s a national embarrassment. it is a national embarrassment, what s going on. and it s not only these mass shootings that are occurring. every single day, every single day, there s a mass shooting in this in the united states, if you count all those who were killed out in the streets of our cities and our rural areas. it s a national embarrassment, and must come to an end. it is an embarrassment. i mean, learning of a mass shooting is a
rare session today and tackling history. washington hires the first black president of an nfl franchise. we ll talk to him about the challenges of changing the team name, cleaning up the culture, and now a cancer battle from their from their brand-new head coach. first, we begin this morning with a look at today s eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. my concern is that the valley will not be here. everything s burned down as far as i can see. this is going to be the long haul as we keep saying. reporter: devastating wildfires burning and spreading out of control in northern california. reporter: cal fire s been around 0, 120 this t realess bg for the gulf of mexico. tropical storm marco and tropical storm lauer a. look at that. unheard of! making a landfall so close to one another. faced tough questi demandinghi delivery. the postal service is committed to delivering the election mail securely and on time. in order to keep the country running and movi
the investigative reporting workshop is an award-winning nonprofit organization that develops more than 200 new stories copublished with at least 200 media partners, especially the pbs program frontline the washington post and the au. u. wamu. the mission of the black alumni alliance is to create a lifelong and worldwide community among more than 6600 au alumni who identify with the black in african heritage committees through increased opportunities for meaningful engagement through the goal of meaningful awareness, pride, participation, involvement and philanthropic commitment to american university. we re thrilled to have a number of alliance members here tonight, including the president gordon andrews. i m sure gordon will make some brief remarks closing out our program a bit later. it is our distinct honor and pleasure and privilege to welcome courageous, tenacious investigative journalist jerry mitchell to our campus tonight. special thanks to sherri williams who