By contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Theres so much to love and admire about cicely tyson. Her outstanding performances from roots and the autobiography of jane pittman and her advocacy for civil rights and her ability to play strong women. I love this quote she gave the new york times. I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. I made the choice to use my career as a platform for the race i was born into. We look at cicely tyson and her Tony Award Winning role as kerry watts here at the theater in los angeles. That every day. Maybe then we wouldnt appreciate so much the days when hes on our side. Maybe hes always on our side, we dont know it . I had to wait 20 years cooped up in that city before i could appreciate heading back here. Jesus is mine. Oh what a fortress of glory divine year of salvation purchase of god i grew up singing that song in my pent costal church. When i saw you on broadway, a moving part was listening to the audience
His pick as soon as this week. On the other split screen, the but first, as coronavirus president of the United States continues to spread and the voting in the luxury of 1600 economic crisis deepens those in power are giving americans pennsylvania avenue with his little reason to trust they can mailin ballot from palm beach, make things better. Florida in his slippers. During a week in which the death that is literally what is going toll from the virus surpassed on in the country right now. To follow up on that in terms of the president. I think you were taken aback 150,000 President Trump retweeted a video of a doctor by the slippers. I was. That said falsely you did trip me up a little bit hydroxchloroquine is a cure for covid19. He again claimed, falsely, that by the image. I made that up. That was a guess. If we tested less there would be a guess. Well, you shared that image fewer cases. A recent poll found nearly half with all of our viewers now. Of the country does not trust tha
Mid a stark racial divide on display when Chris Jansing sat down with a group of older women in sarasota, florida. He has caused social unrest. Oh, that is not so. Oh, come on. He has encouraged white supremacists. Oh, no. Yes, he has. And he is no he hasnt. He is. He is not. He is a systemist racist institution that were dealing with. Dont use those terms. Yes i will use that term because racism is real. And i know that im not because im white and im proud of it. My people are still getting shot without provocation. Because theyre doing things wrong. Theyre not police eppi not s listening to the police. On november 3rd you chose between what you want. An the president who made racism and white supremacist the hallmark of his 2016 came and his presidency who labelled mexicans rapists an drug dealers but referred to neonazis in charlottesville as very fine people, who teargassed those taking part in a peaceful black lives matter for a photo on and told a hate drup to quote, stand back a
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Comes to black conservatives and the Republican Party. Well, Vince Ellison has entered its questions in his new book 25 lies and he joins us now. Welcome o. Glad to be here. What do you say to every day black americans who may be skeptical about you and your book and just the explosive cover. Ill give them my back storyi was born in a con cotton plantation in tennessee, my father was a sharecropper. And he aspired, he ventured out of the plantation in tennessee through the Insurance Industry and he was so thankful god had given us a middleclass life that we started the Gospel Singing Group called the ellison family, we went singing gospel music throughout the south. This is how i got such an intimate knowledge of the black church and after athat i went to the college of mississippi and working at the prison in South Carolina. Five years i worked at kirkland correctional facility and i saw evil. Iwas supposed to supervise hundred and 27 hardcore felons every day. And i was there most of