The 114th Congress Gavels in tomorrow at noon eastern. Well see the swearing in of members and the election for house speaker. Watch the house live on cspan, and the senate live on cspan 2. And with the new congress youll have the best access the most extensive coverage anywhere. Track the g. O. P. As it leads on capitol hill and have your say as events unfold on tv, radio, and the web. This sunday on q a author talks about the film the birth of the nation. Its depiction of former slaves after the civil war ask the effort biz africanamerican civil rights advocate and newspaper publisher to prevent the movies release. Part two of the movie some is after the war exreconstruction, is the heart of the protest in the sense that this is where the blacks are just appalled by the portrayal of freed slaves. This is a scene showing what happens when you give former slaves the right to vote the right to be elected, the right to govern. Its a scene in the South Carolina legislature where their fir
Years peterson being picked up the neighbors or family members picked up. So that plays out one way or as access to Reproductive Health care in the Africanamerican Community plays out a very different way. We take children away from African American single mothers. That is an aspect. In service of the society that is headed by one group and others are kept in places. That is the interrelationship piece. It is harder to grasp. The lived experience. All right. I said i would talk for 15 minutes. I will count on you to not let me ramble too much. So that is what i want to talk about today what does the minimum wage have to do with reproductive rights and justice. So justice. So i think the easiest answer, of course, is it is a womens issue. Reproductive rights and justice is an Economic Justice issue. Unpack. Unpack and explain why we get to that. Two thirds of minimumwage workers in. And the Progressive Community that has become a mantra. Democrats and the Progressive Community have been
Prism. On that one, they are the only community, the only community in the poll, that had strong feeling about its just their position on that issue is religiously motivated. Now here, we havent done all the analysis yet. There will be more analysis of the data when we look at further demographics as weve done in the past one. But i would suggest that if you look here, just at the democrats and republicans alone, it tells you that there is something of a world view that you have to analyze. Just by looking at the differences on some critical issues. Now, going back to tamars question about attitudes toward the muslim worlds ive been doing that polling for a dozen years across arab countries on multiple issues, including attitude towards extremism and al qaeda. Weve asked many questions originally about al qaeda specifically. There is something to be learned here because initially when we probed about attitudes toward al al qaeda over the past decade and a half, certainly after 9 11, wh
The investigation, which could be political in part, stems from this incident when one of trumps supporters sucker punched a black protester at his rally. At this moment, donald trump is speaking live with a crowd of supporters in the crucial state of ohio on the eve of super tuesday number three. It comes as the war of words over the level of anger and violence at trump rallies ramped up today. Hillary clinton taking it to a whole new level, speaking to a televised town hall. She said, when you are inciting mob violence, which is what trump is doing, there is a lot of memories that people have. People remember mob violence that led to lynching. People remember mob violence that led to people being shot, being grabbed, being mistreated. Sarah palin before returning to alaska to see her husband who has been seriously injured in a snow mobile accident had her take on the trump rallies. What we dont have time for is all that petty punk ass little thuggery stuff thats been going on with th
Republicans desperate for a trump alternative and his favorite target, the media. All of this in a fiery press conference, which he called to highlight the 5. 6 million hes raised for veterans. I find the press to be extremely dishonest. I find the Political Press to be unbelievably dishonest. To have people say like this sleazy guy from abc, hes a sleaze in my book. Youre a sleaze because you know the facts and you know the facts well. Is this what it will be like covering you as a president . Yeah, it is. Im a yeah, it is going to be like this. Hillary clinton appearing on cnn moments ago lauding the reporters donald trump attacked. Hes bragged for months about raising 6 million for veterans and donating 1 million himself, but it took a reporter to shame him and to actually make his contribution and getting the money to veterans. This is coming as one of the trumps most confidential business ventures, Trump University comes under increasing scrutiny. Details how trump ran the busines