Their platforms to help fight for social and racial equality. Well catch up with members of the Players Coalition who have spent years successfully lobbying lawmakers to enact reforms, ranging from voting rihts to juvenile detention. And inside jobs. On this unofficial last weekend of summer, well explore how many are falling back into a bit of normalcy. From states opening Indoor Dining to schools overseas and the workplace of the future. See how designers and scientists are helping figure out our return to work. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Lets just try and get through this one weekend and social distance, wash your hands, and were rounding the turn. Reporter a key model is forecasting there will be 410,000 coronavirus deaths in the u. S. By january. I keep saying over and over again weve got to be very careful, particularly as we enter this Holiday Weekend. Reporter the president is suggesting that former chief of staff jo
It, protesting is a waste of time, it turns people off, it doesnt accomplish anything. Well you know what . I hope those people are hungry because theyre going to be eating their words because just after two weeks of these protests were already seeing incredible results, both large and small. For example, for decades, americans have been arguing about confederate monuments and other racist statutes littered around this country. The people have said take them down, and government officials have said, oh, well think about it, well study it, well start a commission, well get back to you. Well, this time, the people said take them down, and the government officials responded with, yeah, youre right. There were cheers thursday night at the foot of richmonds richmondss e. Lee statue thats coming down. Mobile removed a confederate statue this morning and in minneapolis this one is coming down. For years, a this statue, they have tried to bring this down. The city is taking it down in the midd
Taking to the streets. With a country in turmoil, hundreds of thousands of americans are protesting against systemic racism and Police Brutality. No justice, no peace. No justice, no peace. Tens of thousands of americans protesting peacefully, filling cities and towns across the country. In washington d. C. For eight minutes 46 seconds, thousands of protestors lying down across the black lives matter plaza. In new york city demonstrators swarmed time square. In austins thousands cried no justice, no peace. In green bay, wisconsin, demonstrators closing down a bridge. In all 50 states, people of all colors, all join together. In los angeles they took the notion of a peaceful protest to a whole new lotus, adding in yoga. In houston, some marched by horseback. While on maui, they gathered on surfboards at sunset. Trevor that is really amazing. Never before in American History have there been an uprising like this, exactly like this, where you have huge numbers of people coming out every s
Because its safer for everyone that way, and im still only halfway through my hoodie collection. Now todays not going to be a normal show because nothing is normal right now. For one thing, theres still a Global Pandemic and, as of this weekend, 400,000 people from around the world have tied dyed from croafsz with 110,000 of the people here in the u. S. If youre out there, wearmasks d keep your distance as much as you can. Theres even a bigger story going on about the biggest pandemic of owl, racism, which unlike the croches doesnt go away if you stay in your house for 14 days. Instead, people have been taking to the streets. With the country in turmoil, hundreds of thousands of americans are protesting against systematic racism and Police Brutality chanting no justice no peace tens of thousands of americans protesting peacefully filling cities and towns across the country. In washington, d. C. For eight minutes, 46 seconds, thousands of protesters lined down across the black lives mat
Its an honor to be able to sit down with Howard Bryant and his book is called full dissidence notes from an uneven Playing Field. How are you mr. Bryant . Guest its good to see you again. Host this is a very interesting book today the chance to really read through it here and i really couldnt put it down. You attend original essays and i think he really touched on a lot of different topics with the different worlds that exist and they think mainstream america arent aware of those two worlds even though we are talking about them and pointing things out you do a good job of laying everything out through these different essays. You dedicated the book for tests. Guess who she is my other sister she is the original troublemakers i wanted to make sure i acknowledged her and she is one of the people that we always talk about in terms of when she and i go back and forth over the years talking about all the different subjects and details and of all the books ive done i thought this was the most