PrIde that amerIcans should have In the long hIstory of CIvIl DIsobedIence that thIs country has seen, that South AfrIca saw, the country of my ancestry, IndIa, saw under mahatma gandhI. ThIs does work. Joyce beatty was here last nIght after her arrest yesterday. La to Sha Brown wIll joIn us. She was wIth her at the Senate OffIce BuIldIng yesterday, and Its been a fascInatIng week wIth the Texas Democrats and wIth just the very, very hIgh level of attentIon now that VotIng RIghts has In washIngton thIs week. As It should be, sIr. Have a great show and well see you soon. Thank you, alI. VIewer note. What was happenIng at the begInnIng of thIs Tv Show Is that I was tryIng to deal wIth my Allergy Eyes and that kleenex that quIckly dIsappeared from your screen. TonIght we have a strange twIst In the Texas Democrats go to washIngton story. One of the people the Texas Democrats went to washIngton to speak to has now gone to texas. One of the most Important meetIngs that the Texas Democrats h
Approaching. Senate Majority Leader Chuck schumer announced that this upcoming wednesday, the chamber is going to hold its first big vote on the bipartisan Infrastructure Bill thats being negotiated by a group of moderate democrats and centrist republicans. That bill, as weve reported, is to fund physical infrastructure, like highways, bridges, airports, rail roads, transportations. Wednesday is Schumers Deadline for senate democrats to finalize their larger, 3. 5 trillion bill that would focus on socalled human infrastructure. They plan to use the Budget Reconciliation Process to pass it. That means they can do so without any republican votes. That bill is expected to include a wide range of party priorities from Immigration Reform to Climate Change to legislation to expanded protections for unions, just to name a few things in that massive bill. However, there is growing concern that as democrats try to pass the Reconciliation Bill unilaterally, it might tank the prospects of passing
See ida b. Wells. I see fanny lou. Constance baker motley. These are the modern versions of those great women. In. In texas, a bill so restrictive, it could strip Voting Rights from millions of texans, namely latino black voters. Texas democrats fleeing their Home State Conspiracy theoryists continue to paw through ballots. The one crucial thing missing from this snapshot tonight, a solution. There isnt even a path to a solution. President biden said it himself. The 21st century jim Crow Assault is real. The World Filibuster never came up. Its hard to imagine a time when black people were not fighting for Voting Rights. Yesterday was no different. The struggle continues. We saw eight other activists get arrested while peacefully call for senate action. We have seen that good trouble in our Nations History time and again. Theres indeed a loud and growing Grassroots Movement to Save American Democracy Being led yet again by black women. That very movement found its way Into The West Wing
American democracy her most recent book which just came out is called vanguard. How black women overcame barriers won the vote and insisted on equality for all this book is fascinating you have to you have to get it it starts with dr. Joness grandmother susie jones and i must admit i havent finished the book. But it has Amazing Stories of of women who really have made a difference and we look forward dr. Jones to hearing your story. So let me just tell you a little bit about dr. Jones. She was born in Central Harlem and was originally trained as an attorney and was working on social justice issues after being trained at in new york. And so at the q a law school she became a Public Interest lawyer and spent nearly 10 years representing Homeless People people with Mental Illness women living with aids and in 1994. She was awarded a charles refson fellowship on the future of the city of new york at Columbia University based on her lawyering work. And there her career took an interesting t
Pandemic. Which she serves as president bidens right hand woman in his war, in his wartime response to the plague which remains the Prime Legislative Fight On Capitol Hill as the president s relief bill passed last night with no republican support. And even as the president is promising more vaccinations and more americans and even sooner than promised the numbers continue to bear out the fears that many black and Brown Americans have had from the beginning, that they would be left behind. I asked the nations first black and brown Vice President about all of this and, of course, the history she sees in the mirror everyday, one month after her historic inauguration and a little later in the show, ill talk to civil rights royalty, the son, daughterinlaw and granddaughter of reverend dr. Martin luther king jr. Join me with what Kamala Harriss rise means to them. Of course, without exaggerating, the Vice President still has much, much history left to make. And so with that, theres where we