special edition of politicsnation. i m in new york, we will have the reverend al sharpton joining us momentarily from selma, alabama. you are looking at now live at the bridge. we are taking in this feed, straight msnbc at rockefeller center. in a moment, president, biden is you see there, we ll march alongside dignitaries. including reverend al sharpton, who is not too far away from this picture you see here. they will be marking the 58th anniversary of bloody sunday. moments ago, the president laying out the threats as he sees them, threatening a voting rights. it looks like they are just beginning their walk. this fundamental right remains under assault, conservative supreme court has gutted the voting rights act over the years. since the 2020 election, a wave of states and dozens of anti voting laws fueled by the big lie, and the election deniers, now elected to office. and that annual walk, as you see on the left-hand side of the screen, just beginning. it s about 25
There and how did these parts get through layers and layers of inspection . John im john roberts in washington. Happy friyay. Sandra outages, delays and close calls becoming all too normal and just last month United Airlines issued a nationwide ground stop after an equipment failure. John the faa is facing technology and staffing challenges, including at the highest levels. No one has led the Critical Agency for the past 18 months. Every day some 3 million passengers board commercial flights in and out of u. S. Airports. Faa manages 29 million square miles of air space. When it comes to aviation safety, the buck stops with the faa. The faa is needs to be modernized. Its still, you know, its papers in a filing cabinet. Sandra fox Business Reporter Ashley Webster is with us. Great to see you, by the way. What can you tell us about the search for the engine parts. Boggling how they got there to begin with. It is a shocking story, sandra, the company accused of selling bogus jet engine par
Taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts for curators. Were joined inside with Robert Wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. He is the author of the book long road to hard truth. Thanks very much for being with us. Thank you. Its a pleasure to be here. So talk of this museum began back in 1916. It took a century to be built. Walk us through the process. Back in early 1916, in march or so, gentleman named ferdinand de soto lee, created a nonprofit called the National Memorial association, and its goal was to construct a physical memorial here in the Nations Capital to honor the contributions of negro soldiers and sailors who had fought in every war from the revolutionary war on up until that time. Within a couple years the organization broadened its mission to want to construct what they called a National Memorial building to negro achievement and contributions to america in all fields of endeavor from business to education to the arts, et cetera. Essentially a National Muse
I want you to know who these lovely young men are. They are both named mark. Which is very convenient. Mark mario, distinguished president of the National Urban league, and mark steiner, who is a brilliant journalist and a former and current activist in social justice. You will hear a lot more from him. They will be joined by more people you will see shortly. To get us started, i would like to bring to the podium one of my favorite people at the smithsonian. He is a distinguished leader of this institution. His official title is the Elizabeth Mcmillan director of the Smithsonian National museum of American History. He is part of our top collaborators in the work that we do, particularly with the exhibition space we have at the american museum. John. [applause] well, good morning. It is a pleasure to welcome all of you to the interNational Museum of American History. I would say, if ever there is a time in america when we need historic understanding, as well as museums that present hist
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