Against alshabab. Hes also the first sitting president to address the African Union. Well go to nairobi for an update. But first, after hundreds gathered in chicago this weekend for the funeral of sandra bland, we go to texas to look at the history of racial profiling in Waller County, where she died, and Police Relations with the Africanamerican Community there. Well speak with judge dewayne charleston, who served as the first africanamerican justice of peace in Waller County and is calling for the local sheriff to resign. Sandra died in sheriff bland smiths custody and control. Yall digest that. Think on that. Sleep on that. And pray on that. He needs to go. Amy all that and more coming up. Amy welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman n. Yemen, at least 130 people are dead after saudiled air strikes pummeled a residential neighborhood in the western port city of mohka late friday. The strikes at a housing complex for power plant workers fla
Against alshabab. Hes also the first sitting president to address the African Union. Well go to nairobi for an update. But first, after hundreds gathered in chicago this weekend for the funeral of sandra bland, we go to texas to look at the history of racial profiling in Waller County, where she died, and Police Relations with the Africanamerican Community there. Well speak with judge dewayne charleston, who served as the first africanamerican justice of peace in Waller County and is calling for the local sheriff to resign. Sandra died in sheriff bland smiths custody and control. Yall digest that. Think on that. Sleep on that. And pray on that. He needs to go. Amy all that and more coming up. Amy welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman n. Yemen, at least 130 people are dead after saudiled air strikes pummeled a residential neighborhood in the western port city of mohka late friday. The strikes at a housing complex for power plant workers fla
The sitin movement and how that galvanizes the movement. It gets it really moving again by the late 1950s. Once again, it was College Students who get that movement rolling in 1960 and 1951. In 1960 and 1961. To the point where there are tens of thousands of people involved. We see that rolls over into freedom rights of 1961. We see that continuing, culminating on the march on washington in 1963. And the gigantic birmingham demonstration where there is the fantastic letter from the birmingham jail. What we are going to do today is take a step back. What is happening between 1961 and 1964 for sncc in particular. After it was created after the sit in movement, we know they were involved with the freedom rights at the end. We know they are wedded to nonviolent direct action, but what makes them do it . They will plan and execute one of the most ambitious civil rights call it a demonstration would not do it justice. One of the most incredible civil rights events of the era. They call it th
Find offensive. [applause] thanks. Go ahead. You start. Figure out what to do. So much of this book is based on the interview, interviewing people. I am going to be up front. I am really intimidated by this guy. I thought i was intimidated by you. I want to give a little bit of background. I never really met john. I heard of jon else. He is this ghost. My first job was with chinese american filmmaker, legendary filmmaker and i came on the tail end of a series called bean sprouts. The crew a crewmember they would talk about jon else as the white guy that passed the asian litmus test and so i never met him but heard of him. I was working with wayne weighing in monaco and john was her, wayne congratulated him, winning the macarthur fellowship. I had no idea what it was at the time. Wayne said it is called a genius grant. And then i was actually in started working on a film that was actually because what we did is we gave don a camera to just film his everyday life for a full year of his s
It was College Students who get the movement rolling again. Arehe point where there tens of thousands of people involved and we see that rules and with the freedom rides we see that continuing to roll and commentating in the march on washington in 1963 and then the gigantic, heavy, media drenched demonstrations where Martin Luther king writes the eloquent letter from a birmingham jail that you all read. But we are going to do today is take a step back. Whats happening between 1961 after snake was created. After the sit in movement, they were involved in the freedom rides. It that they are doing . What they are going to do is plan and execute one of the most code ofs civil rights demonstrations to one of the most incredible civil rights events of the era and thats going to take place, they call it the mississippi summer project. Colloquially, it becomes known as freedom summer. We will see a large freedom summer in 1964 and they will do another in 1965. But why freedom summer . What lea