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to help estimate a number. many times throughout american history the question of how many jellybeans are in a jar has been a racist tool of oppression. in 1890 mississippi lawmakers gathered in jackson to find a way around the 15th amendment which gave african-americans the right to vote. the white judge who presided put the matter bluntly. we came here to exclude the negro. nothing short will answer. the mississippi lawmakers adopted two measures to make voting all but impossible for black people in mississippi. one was a poll tax. you had to bring the equivalent of $58 in today s money to vote. the other was a literacy test. registrars could ask arbitrary questions to decide if prospective voters were smart enough to vote. white people always seemed to get the simple questions. black voters, well, black voters were asked such things as how many bubbles are in a bar of soap? and they were also asked things like how many jellybeans are in this jar? these practices beca ....
after the country ordered down a commercial airliner flying between greece and lithuania in order to capture prominent activists. we ll have more on that later in the hour. but we begin in minneapolis and the events around the life and death of george floyd. joining me now nbc correspondence shaquille booster, live in minneapolis, michael aaron dyson at vanderbilt university. he s also the author of long time coming reckoning of race in america. also with us, kristin gib bones federer, an msnbc legal analyst. and melissa murray, nyu law professor, murray, a former law clerk to sonia sotomayor. all-star panel on a very important topic. shaq, i ll begin with you, 9 minutes 26 seconds, it s what the world has known. it s the moment of silence in the last hour. what was that like, or have people that you ve been talking with feel like there has been a change in the last year or frustrated with the rate of progress? reporter: you see both of those sentiments co-existing ....
now on bbc news, it s time for wednesday in parliament. hello again, and welcome to wednesday in parliament. as labour demand a full inquiry into links between ministers and lobbyists. dodgy contracts, privileged access, jobs for their mates this is the return of tory sleaze. with civil servants dragged into the row, borisjohnson admits there is a problem. i, indeed, share the widespread concern about some of the stuff we are reading at the moment, mr speaker. also in this programme: how to make your point at prime minister s questions silently. but first: it s almost five years since david cameron left downing street, but the former pm dominated prime minister s questions. the fall out from his work with the finance firm greensill capital lobbying government ministers for access to a covid loans scheme continues to fill the front pages. the firm, which was the main lender to liberty steel, has collapsed, possibly putting thousands ofjobs at risk. but david camero ....
making. it s time to end america s longest war, it s time for american troops to come home. afghanistan veteran turned congressman on the president s decision to end the longest war. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. today was wrenching in minneapolis area where the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin continued as lawyers put forward defense for killing of george floyd while in the streets people are out mourning, angry, protesting, chanting, traumatized about the police shooting and killing of daunte wright just a few miles away. all this happening as we approach the one-year anniversary of george floyd s death. inescapable context is not just floyd s death. aftermath of the death and protests and police response to the protests, and also what happened on january 6th at u.s. capitol. it s hard not to see fundamental contradictions in how the state wields force against citizens in terms of who has authority, ....
for your business. they re coming for your game or event in your hometown and they re coming to cancel everything from sports to how you make a living. emily: you are watching out numbered. i m emily compagno. host kennedy on fox nation, tomi lahren, senior editor of the federalist and fox news contributor mollie hemingway and joining us today at town hall political editor and host of the guy benson show on fox news radio, guy benson. a welcome i d like to start with you on this, you heard in the intro that taking with a all-star game out of georgia is estimated to cost $100 million in local revenue for those businesses. it s estimated that almost 50% of black and brown owned businesses in have closed for good and we know the population of atlanta is about 55% of black america, and in a customer the upcoming masters are being held, that the population is also 55% so my question is how is this a boycott over purported black and brown disenfranchisement that dispropor ....