Healing town hall, live from studio being new orleans. Now joined now by chris hayes and join all right. Good evening, and welcome to our town hall of the national day of racial healing and event creating, 60 years ago by our sponsor of the w. E. Case kellogg foundation. The specialties held every year on the day after the dr. Martin luther king holiday. If you look around, you will see that we are in this glorious space, incredible room. It is part of a studio b which is a set of former warehouses turn to an Art Experience by the artist brandon be mike odoms, here in the by Water Neighborhood of the great city of new orleans. Our colleague jermaine lee who has been doing some reporting for this project is here with us as well and so is the young fellas the land where we unfortunate to be meeting tonight has made a Gathering Place and trading hub of different backgrounds and cultures going back centuries. And so we want to acknowledge, thank and honor the Indigenous People for hume thi
studio being new orleans. here now is joy reid and chris hayes. [applause] all right. good evening, and welcome to our town hall of the national day of racial healing and event created six years ago by our sponsor, the wk kellogg foundation. this special day is held every year the day at their dr. martin luther king holiday if you look around, you will see that we are in this glorious space, incredible room. it is part of a studio b which is a set of former warehouses turn to an art experience by the artist brandon be mike odoms, here in the by water neighborhood of the great city of new orleans. our colleague trymaine lee who has been doing some reporting for this project is here with us as well and so is the young fellas brass band. fabulous. the land where we unfortunate to be meeting tonight has made a gathering place and trading hub for people of different backgrounds and cultures going back centuries. and so we want to acknowledge, thank and honor
healing town hall, live from studio being new orleans. now joined now by chris hayes and join all right. good evening, and welcome to our town hall of the national day of racial healing and event creating, 60 years ago by our sponsor of the w. e. case kellogg foundation. the specialties held every year on the day after the dr. martin luther king holiday. if you look around, you will see that we are in this glorious space, incredible room. it is part of a studio b which is a set of former warehouses turn to an art experience by the artist brandon be mike odoms, here in the by water neighborhood of the great city of new orleans. our colleague jermaine lee who has been doing some reporting for this project is here with us as well and so is the young fella s the land where we unfortunate to be meeting tonight has made a gathering place and trading hub of different backgrounds and cultures going back centuries. and so we want to acknowledge, thank and honor the i
from what defines the school houses. on their first day of the new school, minnijean brown-trickey and eight other black kids found an angry mob and the national guard locking the school house door. it was 1957 in little rock, arkansas. and teenagers were trying to integrate little rock central high school. they tried three different times over the course of a month. commander of the division was asked to delay the entrance of the negroes for a general walker decided, no, it had to be done. finally, backed by 1200 soldiers, they made it inside for their first full day of class. minnijean brown-trickey and her friends were known as the little rock nine, and we remember them today as heroes. at the time, they were just kids, trying to learn amid a torrent of abuse and white students call the names, spat on them, threw at them, even sprayed them with acid. one day, a white girl hit minnijean in the head with a purse and minnijean responded
at them, even sprayed them with acid. one day, a white girl hit minnijean in the head with a purse and minnijean responded by calling her white trash. for this one misstep, the school expelled minnijean. wait since past notes that red, one down, eight to go. minnijean brown, now minnijean brown-trickey, would end up finishing her education for her home in new york city. she spent a lifetime of thinking about racial healing for the country and for what she herself endured in trying to push the country forward. we were ordinary teenagers and we were interested in changing something. and we believed that we could. [applause] and joining us now is minnijean brown-trickey. minnijean, think you. it s so great to have you here. seriously, it s amazing to have you. we also have pulitzer prize -winning nikole hannah-jones, great of the 16 19 project, who has stuck around. the term racial healing can feel abstract, i think, to some. but in your case, you were 14 years old, undergoing just