This league is far bigger than anyy one owner. This institution has been around and will stand for a long time ejected. The nbas strong reaction to a team owners controversial comments. And how sports fans are battling racism around the world. And who is she . How researchers are hoping to finally solve the centuriesold question. Who modeled for the mona lisa. We begin tonight in iraq. Where in just a few hours. The country is set to hold parliamentary elections. It will be a landmark vote. The first since American Forces pulled out in 2011. Over the last year. More than 8thousand people have died in violence in iraq. The worst unrest there. In years. The aftermath of a Suicide Attack northeast of baghdad. Ahead of wednesdays election. It has been an increasingly common scene. Attacks have killed hundreds of people. With suicide bombers targeting political rallies and polling stations. The parliamentary elections the First Nationwide vote since American Forces left in 2011 is expected
Their stories will be uncovered, remembered, and appreciated. Fewer and fewer of the greatest generation remain. Throughout their life many of the stories have triumphed over the challenge is africanamerican women faced. Many of their accounts of victory over racism or ignored. It is up to the children, grandchildren, greatgrandchildren to recover the stories of the women have survived. It is their responsibility to ensure that these victorious women are up from. It will be a double victory. [applause] thank you very much. Historical women has always been kind of facing sexes and with the movements such as the Civil Rights Movement and Labor Movement and scholars like and elise, centered on the female exclusion in a Labor Movement. Deborah grey white writes about the exclusion of women from civil rights. And during the second or more did any women experienced sexism from within the movement . Was this a deviation from the pattern of excluding women from the Civil Rights Movement which
They did not defund planned parenthood. They definitely dont want to build a border wall. But now almost ten months into the republican congress, Top Republicans on capitol hill have finally found an issue they can really rally around. Preserving President Obamas immigration policy. The Trump Administration has announced that next tuesday will decide the fate of daca, the Obama Era Program which apparently illegally gives work permits to Illegal Immigrants who arrived in the country as children. Killing that program would fulfill one of the term campaigns promise. It would also fit with the republican partys stated position against amnesty and in favor of enforcing the law rather than granting politicized immunity. Scrambling to preserve daca. This morning in a radio interview, Speaker Paul Ryan begged the president to keep the program in place until congress can pass a bill granting amnesty to the Illegal Immigrants daca covers. I actually dont think you should do that. I believe that
M v hr who try and give up will find against them are perseverance our perseverance. Those who survive our heroes and they are now conveying things, passing it forward and on the future generations and our children will also have to become those who will also convey that message, they will become the witnesses of the witnesses and never give that role up because, thanks to what they will learn, they will become those who have the power of knowledge. They know that we do not have the right or the privilege of forgetting and the stories of our victims is a story that is a vibrant, vital one and a crucial one that must be passed on. This will be awe inspiring to these children because our children will have to protect and defend democracy and
humanity that is so fragile and delicate and one must fortify it time and time again so we are uniting here today once again in order to draw that inspiration and award it to our youths so they will find in their heart, the courage so that on the day
Since 9 11. These horrific events have in some ways come to define the United States. Every day in 2014, 92 people were killed with a gun, on average. In total, there were almost 11,000 gun murders, more than 21,000 gun suicides and over 81,000 nonfatal gun injuries that year. Compared to other rich countries, americas gun violence is on another planet. In 2011, the United States had over seven times as many as gun homicides per 100,000 people as did canada. Over 50 times as many as germany and almost 60 times as many as the united kingdom, according to gunpolicy. Org. So can americans learn something from other countries on this crucial issue of keeping its citizens safe . In this hour, were going to travel the world to look for solutions. Gun violence rates in one country are a fraction of americas levels. Well visit another nation where liberals and conservatives reached agreement on gun control and afterwards, shootings plummeted. But first lets visit a country where the people are