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
about racism in this country and race relations more broadly. after the fatal police beating of tyre nichols, the 29-year-old unarmed black man. there s been conversations about race, about policing, and about power and it s abuse for years. complicate of course by the fact that the five officers charged in his death are also black. that is what many feel so passionate about how we teach about the legacy of race and racism in this country. it is why it is become, frankly, so controversial. especially in places like florida where the republican governor ron desantis has been slamming a new ap african american studies course. tonight, the college board is out with changes to that curriculum, raising questions about why they choose and why they chose to remove certain topics. leyla santiago has the very latest. look at this traffic. for 42 years, he was killed right here. from that moment, it was never the same. the man was arthur mcduffie, a black father beaten to death by
but the midterms looming, pundits think that there could be a red wave coming and it could be a big. so let s talk about that right away with our panelist the i got a question about what could possibly happen next. senator dueling panels are back. joining me now here, back with me, where mesh pend oreille, punaro, excuse me, ashley, alisyn. the clock will talk in a second. number one, real quick, do you think that the red wave is coming? like winter is coming the red wave is it coming? what do you think? yes, i do think there is. no. what do you? thank not a tsunami, but it s trending towards republicans. well we had yes, no, maybe so. listen, if it were to happen, if it does happen, or if it doesn t, or maybe so, what about the impact of twitter now? i mean it was such a big part in terms of the ability of the former president s speak. it is a lot back on the platform, what impact will it have? look i don t think gonna have any impact on this coming electio
the ambitious us politician, who seemingly lied his way into congress. a very warm welcome to bbc news, and we start this hour with a special report from ukraine. from the southern port of kherson, which is under increased bombardment from russian forces, and where, today, the maternity ward of a hospital was among the places being shelled. kherson is often called the gateway to crimea and, because of its strategic importance, it was one of the first places taken by russian forces at the start of the war. it was liberated last month, in a significant gain for ukrainian troops, but civilians are now living with a daily onslaught of russian shelling. 0ur correspondent yogita limaye has spent the last four days in kherson, with colleagues imogen anderson, sanjay ganguly and mariana matveichuk, and they sent this special report. i should warn you, it contains some distressing images. kherson is being pounded. this is where one of more than a0 mortars fell in a single day. a cit