politicsnation. tonight up in the air. right now, many americans have their eyes on the skies. watching for more than just a super bowl flyover. president biden ordered the u.s. military to shoot down another on identified object over the great lakes today. according to a congressional source briefed on the matter, and to u.s. officials. it is the fourth high altitude object shot down in north america airspace over the past week. just a minute, i will spoke to a member of the house foreign affairs committee about the latest developments. and as possible foreign threats loom, culture wars are raging at home. i am headed to florida this week as head of national action network to join in demonstrations against governor ron desantis s effort to suppress african american studies in the sunshine state schools. i will be talking to a leading scholar at the center of the ongoing debate just ahead. and later, a big game and a major milestone for the nfl. two black quarterbacks will
politicsnation. tonight s illiad, up in the air. right now, many americans have their eyes on the skies. watching for more than just a super bowl flyover. president biden ordered the u.s. military to shoot down another unidentified object over the great lakes today. according to a congressional source briefed on the matter, and to u.s. officials. it s the fourth high altitude object shot down in north america, airspace, over the past week. in just a minute, i will talk to a member of the house foreign affairs committee about the latest developments. and as possible foreign threats loom, culture wars are raging at home. i m headed to florida this week, as international action joins in demonstrations against governor ron desantis to suppress african american studies in the sunshine state schools. i will be talking to a leading scholar at the center of the ongoing debate, just ahead. and later, a big game and a major milestone for the nfl. two black quarterbacks will go head to
by that suspect were staffed predominantly by people of asian descent. all but one of the women killed were of asian descent. the suspect was apprehended and taken into custody late last night. he was charged today with eight counts of murder. law enforcement says he has admitted to the shootings. police say he told them he has a sex addiction and that s why he says he killed all those women working in those spas, because he wanted to eliminate his temptation for his addiction or something. police say in talking with the suspect, he gave them no indication that the killings were racially motivated, even if they did predominantly target asian women. a police captain in the cherokee county sheriff s department, cherokee county is where the first shooting took place. when he discussed the suspect s explanation for the shooting, he told reporters it was because the suspect was having a, quote, bad day yesterday. that s what he said. as if that was an explanation for why the young
women, they are the most likely to be killed by the police and so on. but i think what is really behind this is the fear that intersectionality is a uniting framework. people see common cause with each other. so, the reality is that black people are not just straight, men, middle class. when we expand our understanding of black reality to include the way the patriarchy, homophobia, class, shapes our reality so we can better transform at, it means that we have connections with other movements and other people and that is exactly why they re trying to force us to give up intersectionality and that is why it is a shame that the college board went along with it. all right, i think both you, professor kimberly crenshaw and the bishop for being with us tonight. i will see you in florida on wednesday. coming up, lawmakers in minnesota are rising up to address a voter suppression
kimberly crenshaw, and the bishop rudy mckissick junior for being with us tonight. coming up, lawmakers in minnesota are rising up to address a voter suppression tactic that goes all the way back to jim crow. and later, new reporting reveals that the trump campaign knew about the presidents claim of election fraud, and why they kept the findings of their own study a secret. but first, an update with richard? thank you, rev. good sunday to you. some of the stories we re watching, the earthquake death toll in turkey and syria just surpassed 33,000 people. that s a jump of almost 10,000 in one day, as first responders struggle there. it s been a week since 7.8 magnitude quake shook the region. rescue workers one of a possible secondary disaster there, struggling to meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of homeless and displaced