go home! it s like a bomb. we re sitting on a bomb. you can have a black person killed with a video, then this is what you ll get. this is a revolution. should people be frightened? i think people should wake up. it s 1991. wake up. we have talked at each other and about each other for a long time. it s high time we all began talking with each other. no justice, no peace! can we all get along? in about 20 minutes from now david dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from city hall and take a public oath of office and become new york city s 106th mayor and the city s first african-american mayor. i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. david dinkins being inaugurated on new year s day in 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. people are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. a grandson of slaves was sworn in today a
an idyllic spring morning. no hint of what is to come that night. the nine justices of the supreme court attend a memorial service for one of their own, the late john paul stevens. the end of the court s term is just weeks away. a whole host of consequential decisions to come. a bitterly divided country awaits a momentous decision. is this the end of roe v. wade? of law and of life. reporter: at the service the judges look collegial. they call themselves a happy family. beneath the surface there is much more to this story. they not only aren t getting along with each other, they don t like each other. people die! it is a court at war with itself. and in the center stands chief justice john roberts. john roberts is someone who is used to winning. he s very much a judicial conservative. not a fan of roe vs wade. but the chief is stayed to be keenly aware that abolishing roe could tear america apart. he cared more about preserving the legitimacy of th
The winds have picked up considerably in just the last few minutes, thank you, what is going on there . It looks like you have to hold on to stand up . You really do, sean, and we almost got blown over here. It gives you a sense of the power of this storm, it keeps increasing. And the people here who are either watching their homes and their communities on television or those who have decided to write it out just have a long, long way to go. Florence has slowed down now and its just creeping along, where nearly when you are in an area like this that is the worst of the worst, it only lasts a couple of hours. This is going to be 24 hours of Hurricane Force winds that we are just now really feeling the real effect self. To the rising tide is coming in. It is a terrible combination with the storm surge that will certainly destroy the dock and send these Dock Sessions into town to destroy everything and anything in the path. And watch the rain come down, it
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Are always important, but never more so important than the time that were living in. We heard former president bill clinton use the words total class. And we heard former president barack obama, a democrat, say a gentleman. And i think civility, his graciousness, the way he handled himself is a role model we all will miss. Jamie, dana, thank you. This is cnn breaking news. Im don lemon. It is the top of the hour. Here is our breaking news. The 41st president of the United States, george h. W. Bush has died at the age of 94. The flag at the white house flying at halfstaff right now as flowers pile up outside the bush home in houston, texas. Tributes are pouring in from President Trump and former president S Barack Obama and bill clinton. As well as former Vice President al gore and condoleezza rice, james baker, and so many more. The nation mourning the man who devoted his life to service to his country and to his family. Cnns john king now with the story of george h. W. Bush, the polit
- he spoke about acts that he had seen in pornographic films involving such matters as women having sex with animals. - this seemingly personal matter is being aired out in front of this jury of all white men, and it created a spectacle. - this is a circus, and from my standpoint as a black american, as far as i m concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks. - clarence thomas decided to fight back by evoking one of the most painful elements of black history, which was designed to point out the burden of being black. - the final count was 52 to 48. it s the closest successful confirmation vote in supreme court history. - no matter how difficult or how painful the process has been, this is a time for healing in our country. - it s not exactly a rage, but it s definitely a much-noted trend, a whole new wave of black films