the cutting room floor. there is free community college, lower prescription drug prices and paid family leave, which a majority of americans currently do not having a says to. joining me now, congresswoman joyce beaty of ohio, chair of the congressional black caucus and congressman jimmy gomez, madam chair, i will start with you on this one. i have heard you speak glowingly about this bill. so i know how you feel good about it. there are things we enumerated and opened up the show. i want to know your response to people who do feel disappointed, particularly paid family leave and the price of lower prescription drugs, which will be heavily felt particularly the black and latino constituencies in this country. what is your message to them this morning? while we made progress, $400 billion for child care and pre-k. as you mentioned, the $550 billion when we think of our fight for environmental justice. but what i will say to them is, it doesn t mean that we stop fighting to g
birds, crosby, stills and nash, and crosby, still, nash & young. a legendary songwriter that managed all at once to be of his era and for the ages. helplessly hoping heart again hovers nearby, awaiting a word gasping at glimpses of gentle truth s spirit, he runs, wishing he could fly that is david crosby with steven stills and graham nash at woodstock. only their second concert as a trio, still famously telling the crowd there how scared they were. for most of his 81 years, his music career seemed fearless in a life that was at times as turbulent as his music was at times soothing and brilliant. our randi kaye has more. reporter: he helped shape the sound of 1960s folk recognize as a founding member of the birds. but david crosby will always be best known as a founding member of crosby, stills and nash. the wildly popular group was made up of crosby, steven stills and graham nash. their sound distinctive for its melody and harm days. i am yours, you are mine,
you. and the letter that was sent to the ap board says, listen, we dismiss this as presented. in the future, if the college board would like to work with us on something that would meet our criteria, we d be happy to consider it again. from what i was told anderson and bakari, this was declined because it sought to teach critical race theory which are violative of the april 2022 law governor san tis signed, this antiwoke act. the syllabus is pretty dense, and i m telling you what the reason was. the state of florida, governor desantis said they believe in education, not indoctrination. bakari, what do you make of that? it s ridiculous. i have a great deal of respect for david urban. we just got done celebrating martin luther king s birthday and you have individuals who say these famous quotes by king but they don t even know who he was because we don t teach the history correctly. people whitewash his legacy. they don t talk about the fact he was a revolutionary, that he wa
But i m an african american studies major. i m actually the son of someone who s a director after an african american studies at south carolina, and who happened to be shot in the civil rights movement. i think it s a shame what ron desantis is doing, but nobody will stop him. there was a lot of talk about critical race theory. that was a focus in awe lot of states by republicans. this is african american studies, which is different. a democratic state florida senator tweeted that florida has japanese language and culture, italian language and culture, as well as spanish language and culture, adding, quote, it s crazy how ap african american studies made the chopping block in florida. to that, what do you say? so, anderson and to bakari as well, i did believe it or not read that 82-page syllabus today, which i could send to
Victims. there are going to be some folks who actually believe this fake war, this fake wedge issue, and are going to turn a few elections on behalf of some of those republicans. yeah. i think you make a really good point. they re essentially fighting to stay dumb. this is history. they re saying, no, i don t want my kids to learn. what is your take here? we re talking about this topic and, you know, the opposition to it. it is just, you know, example 101 of, like, white fragility. this is all that it is. look, when i was in undergrad at morehouse, i was an african-american studies major. outside of just learning the history of our people in this country, what i really learned most about was the history of america and what happened to us. so when that ad you just showed, which is hilarious and, you know, when you see those people talking about faces turning peat red, they re embarrassed and don t want their kids or don t