everyone is watching. she s now standing next to him again tonight. so bakari, to you, do you think she will be, should she be as forceful and fierce as she was the last go around. first of all, senator harris is force and fierce. she s a very strong person. you don t become one of few black district attorneys and the first black female district attorney in san francisco, attorney general and now united states senator without being forceful and fierce. but there was noggin nothing inaccurate of the record. one of the problems the vice president has and to steal a line from joe biden, he wants to be subject to obama and he ll have to reconcile his record from the time he did not have barack obama as a shield or a halo, just as senator harris is going to have to reconcile her record, that is all fair. this is not a circular firing squad. in fact, i think the last two or three weeks you haven t heard senator harris actually talk about that debate any more. but just yesterday the biden
montage of the documentary about films. you don t see a nonstereotypical role for black women until they show pam grier. so that tells you how iconic and how important she was in the 1970s. the hash tag now is black girl magic. pam grier invented black girl magic. the first black female superhero in my mind. oh, absolutely. what are you hoping people will embrace, learn about this era of cinematography, of movie making, and whether those messages were intentional? you know, i think the most important thing is, and i think going into the 70s, people have gotten away from the idea that movies purely had to be escapism. you could go and be provoked. you could cope and deal with morally ambiguous characters. everything wasn t so clear cut black and white. it was a lot murkier the way society was at the time.
can raise money for you if you are running political office. oprah winfrey has a spiritual connection with so much of this country, and it was built over years and years of doing that talk show. i said, when we were watching it, i said if that women can get folks to eat pizza with a cauliflower crest on it, she is going to get that woman elected. the first black female governor. they are not lisa: they are not voting for oprah, they are voting for stacey abrams. she s the most far left in their history. sheep supported single-payer. she didn t pay the irs, yet she wants to raise taxes on georgia families. she says she is against assault weapons, yet she doesn t want to she has legislation in the statehouse to seize weapons. jessica: lisa, you are killing our oprah moment, here! lisa: maybe i m not as
this is following the first two black attorney generals in the history of the country. so, we have eric holder, the first black attorney general, loretta lynch, the first black female attorney general and we go all the way back down to no blacks even in the senior staff at the justice department. and women excluded, and no women nominated for u.s. attorney. it s not just there on the judicial side. you look at secretary of states. and you look at condi rice, madeleine albright, other women in republican and democratic administrations that ran the state department, ran u.s. foreign policy. there s absolutely nothing now. how remark wrabl that, you mokn, you go out and talk to women all the time, knowing their value. it looks like the only way, when it comes to government women can do anything is what they did in northern virginia, stand in the
not happen overnight. reporter: a high school dropout and a run-away, singh went on to graduate from college and earn two master s degrees and receive a bronze star. the 50-year-old maryland native is medicare with two daughters. i have kind of grown up in the maryland national guard and it s allowing me to be able to put my fingerprint on something and hopefully to leave a legacy and to give people some type of hope. reporter: watching closely, the first black female attorney general of the united states who took office just as the protests intensified. all powerful black women whose legacy may forever be tied to this moment in baltimore s history. stephanie elam, cnn. stephanie, thank you so much. next hour, i ll talk to marcy johnson, baltimore public defender, about the conditions in which those who were arrested were locked up. here is what she says in her facebook post just to look ahead. the holding cells are 10x10 with