Video. Good morning. Thank you for joining us what promises to be a promising round table discussion. Looking back on the 50th anniversary on the struggle to elect kenneth a. Gibson. Elected in june of 1970, it marked a turning buoyant for the black Freedom Movement that was part of a National Wave of black political organizing that couple nated in the election of black m mayors in cities like cleveland, gary, atlanta, and detroit from 1967 to 1974. The histories feel particularly vital now as blackled struggles against Police Violence and attempted murder of jacob black have sounded the clarity call for black liberation while raising familiar questions about the rules of electoral clicks in black freedom struggles. 50 years ago, gibsons landmark election came on the heels of the 1967 rebellion when the Police Beating of an unarmed black man named john smith marked an uprising. Smiths beating recalled countless Police Killing of black men in the city that had gone unpunished over the y
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Shirley on campaign 2020. At 8 30, new yorker magazine writer jelani cobb discusses his new pbs frontline documentary policing the police 2020. Host good morning. Its tuesday, september 15, 2020. The house returns this morning at 9 a. M. Eastern and at 10 a. M. Today in the white house, representatives from bahrain, the united arab emirates, and israel gathered to sign an agreement to normalize relations. We begin this morning back on the campaign trail yesterday as President Trump met with california officials overseeing the response to raging wildfires in the state as joe biden sought to put the issue of Climate Change front and center in an address from his home state of delaware. This morning we are asking you how important our climate issues when it comes to your election 2020 vote. Give us a call. Phone lines split this way, if you are a supporter of the biden harris ticket, 202 7488000. If you support the trumppence ticket, 202 7488001. A special line for those who have been imp
Investments. Additional support has been provided by and by thE Corporation for public broadcasting, a privatE Corporation funded b t american people. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewans like you. You. Good evening, thank you for joining us. It was not quite four years ago that we y brought a newshour weekend special called america in black and blue. At the time the country was reeling from the death of an africanamerican man in minneapolis, Philando Castille, whose killing be a pol officer was caught by his girlfriend on video and a Police Dashboard camera. [ shots ] you just killed my boyfriend that was after another black man, jamar kclark, wasled by the minneapolis p. D. Local and National Protests ensued. Everybody wne philando knew that he was a good man. Hands up, dont oot hands up, dont shoot now a minneapol Police Officer has been charged with murder for killing anotherer africanan man, george floyd. Floyds life was taken just miles from where Philando Castil