is urgently needed although it did show some new gains in hiring. also tonight a new cnn analysis finds the u.s. could reach herd immunity against the coronavirus by this summer through vaccinations alone as the pace of shots continues to improve dramatically. we re also following the escalating crisis surrounding new york governor andrew cuomo. new reports say his aides rewrote data to hide thousands of nursing homes deaths. this as the former aide is offering more detail about her sexual harassment claims, calling cuomo and i m quoting her now, a textbook abuser. there s a lot oo cover. let s go first to our congressional correspondent ryan nobles up on capitol hill. ryan, a marathon senate effort on covid relief has now hit a wall over a fight over unemployment benefits. where do things stand, ryan, right now? reporter: well, wolf, we are witnessing a staring contest between republicans and democrats right now over one of the most important provisions in this covid relie
rights in sports. today we re going to return our focus to race relations and questions of race in american sports and american sports history. specifically, we re going to explore what i like to call the return of the great white hope in the 1980s. you know all about the original great white hope. you did research on the original great white hope. jim jeffreys in 1910 comes out of retirement and tries to redeem the white race and defeat jack johnson in the ring in reno. you know he was unsuccessful. he failed. well, in the 1980s, there emerged a few white athletes who were thought of somewhat in the same way. these were white athletes that white americans hoped would score symbolic victories in sports and the attitudes towards these athlete s suggested that perhaps the nation had not come as far as many people like to think with regards to race. perhaps racial issues had not gone away. the united states may have entered what commentators were calling the post-civil rights er
watch on demand at c-span.org or listen on our free c-span radio app. now, historian matthew andrews of the university of north carolina at chapel hill talks about how the racial tensions of the 1980s were reflected in the sports. particularly when white and black athletes faced off in boxing matches and basketball games and became symbols for racial disagreements. his class is about an hour and ten minutes. okay. we re going to go ahead and get started. we ve been exploring the question of gender and women s rights in sports. today we re going to return our focus to race relations and questions of race in american sports and american sports history. specifically, we re going to explore what i like to call the return of the great white hope in the 1980s. you know all about the original great white hope. you did research on the original great white hope. jim jeffreys in 1910 comes out of retirement and tries to redeem the white race and defeat jack johnson in the ring in
avalanche kills 200 people. and normalization of relations with cuba being take off the terror list. and leonard nimoy has died at the age of 83. hello there, thank you for joining us. police in mexico have arrested the head of the ninth templar drug cartel. the government had offered a reward for the former schoolteacher. his cartel ruled through extortion and intimidation but recently has been driven out from many areas by vigilanty groups. the arrest is a success for the government. the alleged heads of several other cartels were captured last year. one of mexico s most wanted men taken without a shot. gomez allegedly ran one of mexico s most powerful criminal organizations, the ninth templar. in recent years the cartel branched out from drug traffic trafficking to exhorting farmers and anyone they could squeeze protection money from. he always maintained he was a man of the people. at that time i was a born criminal, drug trafficker because i took risks. they want
trek fans mourn the death of leonard nimoy at the age of 83. we begin this news hour with opposition in leader in russia has been killed. he was shot four times near the kremlin while he was out for a walk. president vladimir putin has condemned the murder. his spokesman said that they re taking the investigation of the murder under his personal control. let s go out to fred weir who join us live. what more do we know about this? well, one of the main long-term opposition leaders in this country. he s one of the most irreconcilable people who was in government himself in the 1990s. he was deputy prime minister. he went on to become a presidential not contender but some people talked as presidential contender. he always staked out his differences very clearly very eloquently. he was to be a major speaker at the spring rally first main opposition rally here in moscow in months and months. which is to take place on sunday. so all these things come together to make this a re