University of North Carolina. Parents were my parents walther b gaither and fanny little gaither. Uh, great falls was my fathers home. My mother, fannie mae, was originally from anderson, South Carolina and my mom and dad met while they were students at friendship. College in rock hill, South Carolina. After they both graduated from friendship they moved permanently to great falls. Initially they were both schoolteachers. You could be a schoolteacher at that time with just a Junior College education. My dad did not stay in teaching because he discovered that what was listed on his contract as is per month payment for teaching was not the same as he this was thatand a time when the boards of education were all composed of white men. And so at the end of the year, my father approached the person who signed his voucher for, uh, payment and said, i noticed that there is a discrepancy here. Differenceve dollars between what he was supposed to be paid and what he was receiving. For questioni
And dance. This is an hour and 10 minutes. Maxine waters, the most powerful black woman in america from the 43rd congressional district, lets give a big round of applause to maxine for her time. Wow, lets give a hand for everybody. [applause]. Icht im so proud to see all of you here. We have been presenting young gifted and black for many years, but i wanted you to know this is the 50th anniversary of hiphop. I also want you to know im the oldest person in america who loves hiphop. [laughter] and so, this is happy 50 years this anniversary, to an art form that has inspired us so much and inspired so much of the world. Now, ive had to defend hiphop and rap since long before it became this global phenomenon, since infancy, and when i was elected to congress in 1991, many politicians, including black politicians were either distancing themselves, or trying to sensor rap music. The same year, during a senate hearing, there were members of congress wanting to sensor rap music and so i decid
Millions of in another section. The bridge area around the holy area. The grand mosque is a virtual construction site. Cranes surround the complex with a multibillion dollars project underway. The sheer number of people converging on mecca every year results in tragedies such as stampedes. The saw District Attorney government goes to great length to ensure the safety of visitors but fridays tragedy will force a review of measures surrounding construction work to islams holiest site moscow is setting up military support for the president of syria. Western Officials Say russia is sending antiaircraft Missile Systems to syria and they believe it will be operated by russian troops. Russia says theyre sending experts to train syriaens to use the weapons. Now to an emotional and loud debate in washington over the iran nuclear deal. Regardless, the republicanled house tried to send the president a strong message using the anniversary of 9 11 as a backdrop. Mike is in washington. Mike . Report
Orders to try to capture this man. But apparently a firefight broke out. Handtohand combat he resisted. He was killed in the firefight along with other isis fighters there. His wife captured and taken back to iraq. The big question why this guy, why was it worth risking so much u. S. Military lives to go after him . What we are being told is he was an isis leader if you will in their oil and gas operations. So thats very key. Because of the Financial Impact the financial benefit to isis. But perhaps more serious even there had been a sense by the u. S. That he was increasingly involved in isis command and control. And isis operations. And u. S. Officials are beginning to indicate there may have been a reason to believe he might have been in contact at some point with abu bakr albaghdadi, the very reclusive leader of isis. The guy the u. S. Of course wants to get. All right. Lets talk more about this Senior International correspondent Nick Paton Walsh is with us from beirut. Nick you ha
Cnns Jeremy Diamond is at the white house. Jeremy, the president has a lot on his mind. Hes been retweeting an awful lot. Lets talk about the president s comments about investigating biden. Reporter thats right. The president , in an interview yesterday with politico essentially leaving the door open to directing his attorney general, bill barr to investigate some questions of conflict of interest involving the former Vice President who donald trump, in that same interview referred to as essentially the likely nominee, the likely democratic nominee, who he expects to face in the 2020 general election. Now, these questions of conflicts of interest are things that the president and his allies have been pushing for several weeks now and relates to the Vice President s roll at the time hunter biden was on the board of a Ukrainian Natural Gas Company that was being investigated by that prosecutor. Now, its important to note that biden was one of several foreign leaders calling for this pros