Interviews with political figures. Man, on the first day of law school whose name was norman francis. Norman was better looking, faster, smarter than everybody else. I asked my father. Well he informed me. Taught what it was look to walk in somebody elses shoes. He said i Wasnt Just Fighting for norman. I was fighting for my right to be with my friend. And weep just kind of group in that ethos. I scant remember, i had written in the book. A number of examples throughout our life. White people have been very angry at us you experienced that as a kid. No, i did. When i was 13 years old. Back then it was white people in the council chamber, really, trying to get after the City Of New Orleans. The city was becoming majority. Africanamerican. Way on its way to it. And there were, rabid people. You know, in the streets. Yelling and screaming about integration. The story its that, that one afternoon. At 8th period. Father harry thompson. The same priest that helped start this facility with th
The latest news and information from around the world with host Ana Cabrera. This. How seriously are you thinking ab it . Welcome to the ae files. Good to see you. Were here in your hometown of new orleans. In a Cafe Reconcile. Tell me why this is such a special place to you. Well, when i grew up, there was a Jesuit Priest who Half Finishing that run actually became the pastor of a downtown Inner City Church and started talking about ways to help kids and to connect people with money with people who needed money and he wanted to start a place where kids could have a Better Future and he said look, weathve got go to the toughest of the tough places and find the people who need help most. And the children and young people that are working here, kids that have lived the toughest of the toughst lives in america, some have been shot. Some of them with parents of children who have been shot. Some of them are young men and
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between a democrat and republican, but you have it within the republican party because you had republican congresswoman nancy mace crit criticize lauren boebert s comments so marjorie taylor greene takes a shot at her. the congresswomen are in opposite parties, but this isn t about party. this is about decency. this is about morality. this is about what is wrong and right in setting the tone and the tenor for what should be appropriate discourse. and that is gone. that is completely gone within the realm of politics right now, and it is because there is not only no shame in saying these outrageous things like effectively calling your fellow member of congress a terrorist, they are applauded for it in their very small silos of the world. and so they are encouraged to
for providing transportation. and the reason for these and other restricted measures, listen to texas republican state representative briscoe cane who chairs the house election committee and has been spearheading the bill. this isn t about party. this isn t about what happened in d.c. this isn t about 2020 or 2018 or even before that. this is about instilling confidence in the electorate. they feel like what happens in their government, the laws that are made was because they chose to. keeping it honest, the only reason there is any talk about a lack of confidence in the election regarding the vote is because the former president and his followers have pushed and pushed and pushed the big lie. here s what keith ingram, the director of elections, had to say about the elections in 2020. in spite of all the circumstances, texas had an election that was smooth and secure. similarly, there were no widespread irregularities in 2018. not in texas or anywhere else in
to the polls that are popular in black churches and the bill makes it harder to drive groups of voters from the churches to the polling places requiring anyone driving more than two non-relatives to submit a signed form stating the reason for providing transportation. the reason for these and other restrictive measures, well, listen to texas republican state representative brisco who has been spear heading the bill. this isn t about party. this isn t about what happened in d.c. this isn t about 2020 or 2018 or anything before that. this is about instilling confidence in the electret so they feel like what happens in their government and the laws made were because they chose so. keeping them honest, the only reason there is talk about a lack of confidence in the election is because the former president and followers pushed and pushed and pushed the big lie. here is what keith ingram the director of elections for the