Prior to being elected to congress, she served on the bostons city council for eight years and was the first woman of color elected to the council in its 100 year history. Please welcome congresswoman ayanna pressley. E] rep. Ressley today, i am thinking of the ancestors, not just the ones recorded in our history books, but those omitted from the pages. The freedom riders, the organizers, the community builders. Every loved one passed a brownbag lunch. Lunch, read a freedom song, set up a prayer. Sacrifice and selfdetermination shaped history and brought us to this moment. The truth of the matter is we are because of them. We are black with a capital b. We are the manifestation of the movement. We are and cultural proud blacks. If my granddaddy the reverend e. James echols were here, he would whisper in my ear and say baby, make it play. I intend to do just that, make it play area we are in unprecedented and uncertain times. We are challenged by the state of the nation and the crisis w
Extremists around the world. Six years after first promising to close guantanamo, president obama is beginning to release more men from the 13yearold prison. This week, four afghans were sent home, but 132 men remain locked up. Will guantanamo ever close . Then we look at why a veterinarian from portland, oregon is still locked up in an East Timorese jail after getting into the wrong taxi in september. And we end with a story of love, birth, and politics a story some are calling diplomaculate conception. The wife of one of the members of the cuban five who was just released from prison after 16 years is expecting a baby, due in just two weeks, thanks to some unusual diplomatic moves. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Police in missouri have fatally shot in 18yearold black man just two miles from ferguson or an officer killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown in august. The victim has been identified as ant
To be doing everything i can to close it. It is something that continues to inspire jihadists and extremists around the world. Six years after first promising to close guantanamo, president obama is beginning to release more men from the 13yearold prison. This week, four afghans were sent home, but 132 men remain locked up. Will guantanamo ever close . Then we look at why a veterinarian from portland, oregon is still locked up in an East Timorese jail after getting into the wrong taxi in september. And we end with a story of love, birth, and politics a story some are calling diplomaculate conception. The wife of one of the members of the cuban five who was just released from prison after 16 years is expecting a baby, due in just two weeks, thanks to some unusual diplomatic moves. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Police in missouri have fatally shot in 18yearold black man just two miles from ferguson or
To be doing everything i can to close it. It is something that continues to inspire jihadists and extremists around the world. Six years after first promising to close guantanamo, president obama is beginning to release more men from the 13yearold prison. This week, four afghans were sent home, but 132 men remain locked up. Will guantanamo ever close . Then we look at why a veterinarian from portland, oregon is still locked up in an East Timorese jail after getting into the wrong taxi in september. And we end with a story of love, birth, and politics a story some are calling diplomaculate conception. The wife of one of the members of the cuban five who was just released from prison after 16 years is expecting a baby, due in just two weeks, thanks to some unusual diplomatic moves. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Police in missouri have fatally shot in 18yearold black man just two miles from ferguson or
Big storm threatens to unleash wind and snow on your perfect holiday get getaway. We are tracking mother pitch that ears wrath, mother natures path, it all begins right now. Hi, everybody, im Ashleigh Banfield in for john berman and michaela pereira. They have the day off. At this hour in new york police believing up security, protesters threatening to march in the streets of harlem despite mayor bill de blasios appeal for a haultd to all of the demonstrations for now. That is until after the funerals for those two nypd officers who were gunned down in an ambush. Last hour, mayor de blasio and his wife visited the memorial for those two officers. The mayor is asking for everyone to stay calm and he is rejecting claims that he is antipolice. All the while, we are learning more about the man who killed those officers in cold blood. Investigators say this brand new Surveillance Video shows the shooter, ismaaiyl brinsley, about three hours before he unleashed his deadly rampage at a mall i