Knowledge. Thank you. Plublack power. I need a video, yall. All right. We are now moving into a section that is very important, very important to me, very important to all of you here, which is the women. Lets give it up for the women. Women for justice. [applause] we had two powerful sisters that you will be hearing from. Arst, we are going to watch video. Immediately after the video, you will hear from the president of naacpeat d. C. Chapter d. C. Chapter. [video clip] r are women are the key ou women are the key. [indiscernible] justice for women. [applause] good morning. It is an honor to stand before you on this is sort day, commemorating this historic day, commemorating the anniversary of the million man march. 20 years ago, the honorable minister Louis Farrakhan, and nearly 2 million men, from across the country joined to deliver one powerful message. We are strong when we stand together. Today, i stand on the shoulders of many men and women, civil thats leaders, activists have
[applause] thank you, i am sorry. Will you help me celebrate and salute the family of our dear sister sandra bland . Make some noise as they come now. [applause] good afternoon. I greet you on behalf of the family of sandra bland. My name is sharon cooper, one of the older sisters of sandra bland and i stand in the gap for my mother. I am standing in the gap for my older sister, standing in the gap for my little sister, and standing in the gap for my baby sister. The biggest message i want to leave you with is the world has shown us that we have to control our own narrative. I want to thank you, say thank you to those of you who are here, especially the nation for acknowledging us. If i could ask you to do one thing, can you say her name . Sandra bland thank you. [applause] for our generation, she is considered the rosa parks of the hiphop movement, the one who who really kicked this off for this new movement to get us started. I needed to make a thunderous applause all over for the si
Thanks for joining us. Got one or two problems with our Technical Department there, but lets focus on our main story. Russian president Vladimir Putin has used his annual state of the nation address to attack the west for what he described as its hypocritical attitude over the conflict in ukraine. The president said he was certain that if ukraine hadnt experienced a political crisis, the west would have come up with another excuse to contain russian power. Russias economy has been hurt by western sanctions over the countrys role in the confrontation in ukraine. Also by the fall in oil prices. Mr. Putin said that events in ukraine were simply an excuse to impose sanctions on russia. Well, our correspondent in moscow Sarah Rainsford has been following this speech. She gave me her reaction to what he had to say. As feared, we cant bring you that at the moment, so we will come back to that if we can a little bit later in the program. The situation facing mr. Putin, a challenging effort in
Think going back to eric holder donna go ahead. I have to break in here. I appreciate it. Well said. I have to break it. I have some breaking news here. Everyone thanks for joining us. Im don lemon near ferguson, missouri. Youre watching cnns special coverage the grand jury here has reached a decision the most controversial case in this country. The killing of Michael Brown and we will know soon whether his death on august 9th will officially be labelled a crime. U. S. And local Law Enforcement Officials Say an announcement is expected later today. And as you know the grand jury of five women, seven men has been deliberating on whether white officer Darren Wilson should be charged for shooting Michael Brown a black teenager who was unarmed. The nine white and three black grand jurors have had the ability to see the coverage is your rouding this case. Nine of the 12 must agree in order to indict wilson and we have a panel of legal minds to talk about this. First i want to get to cnns ju
Legal sa, lisa, we dont know what the announcement is, but is it normal to have the preannouncement announcement saying we think the announcement is imminent, but no specifics. Just the way you said that its highly unusual just like Everything Else in this case. I dont know if that means well get an announcement of a decision or announcement the decision will be revealed tomorrow or the next day. We previously have been told 48 hours notice. That could be changing. We dont know at this point. But it sounds like its today. We dont know if that announcement is going to be a decision. Walk us through so our viewers understand, if a decision is reached, assuming that happens, how does this roll out when a grand jury make this is kind of a decision. This will be very simple. There will be an indictment or no indictment. Sometimes called a true bill or no true bill. This is all, of course, about whether officer Darren Wilson will be charged with a crime. Not finding him guilty beyond a reaso