Cofounder of the black voter matters organization, and shes here with us today to talk about the black voter and the 2020 elections. Louisiana dash shah latasha, good morning. Guest thank you for having me. Vo host first, tell us what the black Voters Matter Fund is. Guest the organization started in 2016 because we wanted to shift the dynamics around how we were hearing the National Media talk about black voters. More importantly, we wanted to build more power in our communities so we could have more influence on policies impacting us. So we started the back Voters Matter Fund because what we felt is that in order to really have a robust democracy, you have to have an edge gauged electorate. And engaged electorate. And we would do work to engage voters on the ground level, on the local level so that they should shape policies and representation for their communities. Host so wt did your organizing approach look like this year . What didin you do out on t ground to get mor black voters
Another spike in coronavirus cases will meet the front line workers during one of the hardest jobs that there is every day. And u. S. President orders u. S. Troops to come home from afghanistan. The move is drawing fire from americas nato allies, including germany, plus 2 fatal crashes kept it grounded for 2 years now. After months of scrutiny, the boeing 737. 00 max has been cleared to fly again. I burnt off to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world. Welcome. We begin tonight with politics and the pandemic. Lawmakers here in berlin have voted to give the German Government new powers, allowing it to introduce restrictions to tackle the coronavirus crisis. German president , vulture steinmeyer, signed the bill into law earlier this evening. It takes effect tomorrow. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets today to protest as politicians debated the legislation thank water cannon and pepper spray deployed by police to disperse the demonstra
About how other people live think and work and it was always worth it yes im a citizen of the world. This is the story of a farewell the story of the final year in the career of detail a man he has shaped the german Cultural Landscape of the past decades like few others with his incredible ability to grasp at the right moment. As head of the German National library as loued of Museum Island. As president of the ghetto institute but his last 12 months did not go as planned it was a dramatic. A last official trip to africa after a long flight the president of the go to institute touched down in namibia a film a German Colony. History is everywhere in the capital into. The colossal Independence Museum tells the story of the long struggle for liberation from colonialism. The most recent chapter of that story is all about restitution returning cultural artifacts. The tribal leader hendrik that boy isnt a maybe a National Hero because of his resistance against german colonial rule. Its symbo
And we are pleased to have with us senator tammy duckworth. Needs nouckworth introduction. She is an iraq war veteran, former assistant secretary at the department of Veterans Affairs and now u. S. Senator for the state of illinois. Illinois. And i think for those of us working and National Security, certainly for those of us who are women and National Security. We think about people are breaking down barriers, et cetera duckworth is at the top of the list. One of the first handful of women in the army to fly combat missions during Operation Iraqi freedom. First u. S. Energy given birth while in office. And particularly in todays event the first member of congress he was born in thailand in the first asianamerican he was elected to congress and the state of illinois. So in addition to the work shes done on defense and Veterans Affairs, et cetera duckworths spent a lot of time thinking about the military challenges we face in the pacific. She has really been an advocate for the alliance
Grounded after 2 fatal crashes. The months of scrutiny. The boeing 737 max hes cleared to fly again. Well lets pick up those points with nina hauser who is there in the thick of it. Well, welcome back. Nina. So overly restrictive a lack of legitimacy. Do the demonstrators have a point all the criticism of that, of those amendments all that law because its not as starts a new law, but the criticism does come from all sides. It comes from these demonstrators and it also comes from members of the german bundestag. But the difference, and id like to make that difference between the 2 groups is that the people behind me here dont believe some of them dont believe in the current of virus. Some of them didnt either government. This is to me, its legitimacy whatsoever. So they dont stick to the rules at all, social distancing, cetera. Theyre not wearing masks, which is why the police saw themselves forced to employ to deploy the water cannon. The criticism from the bundestag is much more varie