So sure, you have to address it. Frankly, there are probably more people watching the Weather Channel tonight than watching the convention. David dont say that, rick, thats a little cold. The president ordered the National Guard, more National Guard today, and now the nba is suspending games and some major league suspended, too. Absolutely, and im curious to see how the campaign decides to address this tonight. And of course the Vice President is going to be speaking on law and order, and its going to be interesting to see how they thread this needle. Donald trump has been very critical of people kneeling for the pledge of allegiance. Needle,hey thread this and they want to keep the country safe, which is the argument they are going to make, and they want to be sensitive to people who are dealing with the scourge of Police Violence against africanamericans. And i need to correct myself, i said mr. Blake was dead, and hes not dead. He was paralyzed but he is in the hospital. Our best wi
A night of pageantry and politics that collides with breaking news on our shores and in our streets. Protests continue for the third night in wisconsin after the shooting of jacob blake in the back by police. A young vigilante who took up a rifle to confront protesters there has now been arrested for shooting three. Two of the victims are dead. And in an extraordinary move, the nba has posttoned tonights playoff games after the Milwaukee Bucks boycotted their game to protest the shooting of blake. The wnba, major league baseball, Major League Soccer have postponed their games tonight. Meantime, hurricane laura is bearing down on the louisiana texas border. Now a fierce category 4 storm. Set to be one of the strongest ever to make landfall in the United States. So, lets get the latest from ginger zee in port arthur. Ginger, i can see the wind is kicking up right now. We are just about to get in the main shield of what is hurricane laura. That category 4 storm, now the center of it is ab
Anxiety having some would not get to hire me. I felt my temperature increase. I could feel my sweat coming off the side of my face. Didnt have to ask joe what he was thinking. We looked at each other and of bus looked at the counter at the same time. We just started to walk toward the counter. Without a single word. That is how it happened. Guest thank you for having me three of them had met in high school. They had met before. They were not thinking about injustices, and how to push the movement along, but it was not until Joseph Mcneil is returning to school after christmas break in 1959 when he greyhound meal at a roof he is refused a meal at a greyhound terminal. Iss just trying to did he emboldened. He and his four friends decide theyre going to target the sit in ats and go segregated eating facilities in greensboro, North Carolina. What i find interesting is why woolworths . And dime. S was a five many people of a certain age probably still remember. It was a chain Discount Depar
,. ,. We decided to walk to the counter and without a single word that is how it happened. But we took a seat. University professor speaks to us about the lunch counter sit in. So who were the greensboro for and why did they decide to sit down at that counter and that february day in 1960. Thank you for having me those were four young men who are college freshman, at North Carolina at the state university. Three of them had already met in high school. So they already had a report, they met the fourth as a freshman in college. So actually when thinking about Racial Injustice is theyd think about that how to integrate how to push the movement along for sometime now but it wasnt until, Joseph Mcneil is returning to school after christmas break in 1959, when he refused to neil, and train terminal. He was trying to buy a hotdog. And he gets back to campus, and he is emboldened. He says enough is enough. So him in his four friends, decide that they are going to target the wool worse, and go
I brought a notebook and made sure to get receipts. We mulled around in the store, just trying to get some fix on where we work and what we were about to do. I was having some anxiety get to me. I felt my temperature increase. I could feel my sweat coming off the side of my face. I didnt have to ask joe what he was thinking. We looked at each other and of bus looked at the counter at the same time. We just started to walk toward the counter. Without a single word. That is how it happened. Chair nadler host traci parker joins us now for a discussion about the lunch counter sitins of 1960. Traci parker, who with the who were the greensboro four and why did they decide to sit down at that woolworths lunch counter . In that february day in 1960 . Thank you for having me. Those were young men who were just College Freshmen at North Carolina state university. Three of them had already met in high school. And so, already had a rapport. They met the fourth as freshman in college. In college. E