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MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The world watched and held its breath as a judge read the guilty verdict for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
Tubman Museum director, Harold Young, says he let out a sigh of relief as the judge stated the conviction.
“No one really knew what the verdict was going to be,” Young said. “And I just felt relieved.”
Although George Floyd was from Minneapolis his cries for help before his death echoed all the way to Middle Georgia. This led to several demonstrations and calls for equality last summer.
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FILE - In this Aug. 28, 1963 file photo, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, speaks to thousands during his I Have a Dream speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in Washington. A new documentary âMLK/FBI,â shows how FBI director J. Edgar Hoover used the full force of his federal law enforcement agency to attack King and his progressive, nonviolent cause. That included wiretaps, blackmail and informers, trying to find dirt on King. (AP Photo/File)
Today’s national holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday serves to remind us of his legacy and the foundational teachings which guided his work as an advocate for legal equality for the African-American community as well as for the underserved in society. Undergirding his work was the belief that men and women everywhere, regardless of color or creed, are equal members of society.
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The awkward crack was relatively tame compared to the other offensive remarks the comedians said on camera.
In addition to the Scarlett remark, Colin and Michael wrote jokes about Jeffrey Epstein, Rosa Parks, and the Hocus Pocus sequel.
Ah man! The good news is Sammie Davis Jr. will be played by Scarlett Johansson, Jost said before burying his hands
Live on camera: The joke was written by Jost s costar Michael Che, and the Weekend Update segment marked the first time he had ever seen it
But it was the joke about Scarlett that made headlines and definitely produced the most laughs.
each day, they slip in and out of the casinos almost unseen through their own entrances. but it is these people who have seen it all. seen everything. night after night. denny has been working here since cesar s opened in august of 1966. he s dealt cards to everybody? to diana ross. sinatra. sammie davis. sinatra was not supposed to be aimable at the table. he was fast. but those were the days. but it is nice now, too. would you describe yourself as a degenerate gambler? yes. i have been. i m trying to work past that. we have a two 2-year-old at home but i ll always have the gambling. eric and erica are professional gamblers. poker players, to be precise.
it is not symmetric, it is ever changing. it will be a challenge for our leadership, for our country, but the growing fall di of those weapons what president bush was faced with when making his decision on iraq was there was a study by john hopkins university called dark winter, and if my memory serves me correctly what a series of experts got together, and they said what if we took smallpox and put it in three locations in the united states of america, and in a relatively short period of months, the dark winter exercise done by john hopkins university concludes, and i ll be wrong by a bit, but concluded that something in the neighborhood of 800,000 americans would be dead. someone here knows that exact number. is that where s keith? no keith. that s close enough. [laughter] something, a multiple of that would be infected with smallpox. imagine in our country if that happened, think of the marshall law if that happened and the inability to move from state to state. fr