The most unpatriotic, and sadly not unprecedented. Time and again weve weathered threats to the right to vote in free and fair elections. Each time we founding a way to overcome. The 21st century jim Crow Assault is real. Its unrelenting. And were going to challenge it vigorously. Biden mirrored Lyndon Johnsons voting Rights Speech in 1965 invoking the civil Rights Anthem we shall overcome. In assailing what he called the greatest threat to democracy since the civil war. But biden didnt offer much in The Way of a plan. When President Johnson delivered his speech to a joint session of congress, he was urging passage of the voting Rights Act. A law thats now essentially dead. And today texas democrats continued their fight against republican Voter Suppression efforts in their state after more than 50 elected democrats left texas last night to block the passage of new Voter Suppression laws. The longest serving black woman in the Texas Legislature outlined exactly whats at stake for her c
Were sitting on a bomb. You can have a black person killed with a video, then this is what youll get. This is a revolution. We got to increase the peace. Should people be frightened . I think people should wake up. Its 1991. Wake up. We have talked at Each Other and about Each Other for a long time. Its high time we all began talking with Each Other. Can we all get along . [ applause ] in about 20 minutes from now David Dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from City Hall and take a public oath of office and become new York Citys 106th mayor and the citys first africanamerican mayor. I intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. David dinkins being inaugurated on new Years Day in 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. People are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. A grandson of slaves was sworn in today as the nations first elected black governor. Did you ever think y
Now says Vaccine Supply is starting to outpace demand. More than half of the Adult Population has received at least one dose, thats true, but they are the lowhanging fruit, so to speak. The people eager to get the vaccine. There is an entire segment of the population who, for a number of reasons, are not so eager. In fact, some Public Health experts are giving up on the idea of Herd Immunity because they dont think enough americans can be convinced to take the shots. Which has us askin if we need to do a better job at focusing on the good news to reach the skeptics. There has been a lot of attention focused on the Breakthrough Cases of covid19, people who test positive after theyre vaccinated, but let us keep that in perspective. Those cases are incredibly rare. Fewer than 6,000 out of more than 89 Million fully vaccinated americans, according to the cdc. Just listen to Cdc Director Rochelle Walensky with Savannah Guthrie on today. So what about those people who are breakthrough, who d
killed by police, was vindicated by a court that did the right thing. but also right now black america has a rare choice as to just how enthusiastically it wants to celebrate chauvin s conviction and how much faith it s willing to put in our justice system, because just one day after chauvin s conviction i was still in minneapolis as head of the national action network to eulogize the life of 20-year-olds daunte wright. while reading about the death of 16-year-old ma khia bryant and five other americans killed by police just 24 hours after the chauvin verdict. still, our justice system has a rare public opportunity to earn black trust by attacking police misconduct with federal action. congressional democrats have for the most part rallied behind the george floyd justice in policing act as the best way forward, and the senate s lone black republican says he now sees some bipartisan daylight for the bill, signaling at least a cosmetic interest in reform from the congressional
defence, as wales found space. the same corner, and an even better finish from louis rees zammit. ball, line, flag, done it. five points was the winning margin and welsh relief the winning margin and welsh relief the final emotion. joe wilson, bbc news. the leaders of the premier league manchester city are playing champions liverpool. it s half time at anfield and it s 0 0. earlier england captain harry kane made a successful return from injury, scoring in tottenham s 2 0 win over west brom. in the other game, wolves v leicester was goalless. rangers who are the scottish premiership s runaway leaders could only draw at bottom side hamilton today. ross callachan equalised in the last minute of injury time. rangers are still unbeaten in the league and now have a 2i point advantage over celtic, who have two games in hand. there were shock defeats for both top teams in the women s super league. chelsea lost to brighton ending their 33 game unbeaten run. manchester united