the naacp agreed with that and of course, "the washington post" took a different angle. it is terrifying explained jeff bezos' personal newspaper when billionaires start buying the media outlets. msnbc and cnn did not laugh at that claim but amplified 2 to and added some here at elon musk as a hard-core white supremacist. who knew? technically elon musk as an african american but 2022 has always been a surprise. how did he make sense of all of this watching from home? here you have one news story but two diametrically opposed interpretations of the story. who is right? who are the good guys and who are the villains? we have been praying about this all day and a simple test to answer that question. we are about to show you two images, both are famous and you have seen both of them very many times, in the 1980s, get a pen and paper and record your reaction to it. remember there are no right or wrong answers. watch. >> overnight the wall went up an overnight family members were cut off from each other, a city in a country divided. there was a scramble to get out. people jum

before he took that job with chock full of nuts, he also had a job with the naacp recruiting and working in the southern regions. as i mentioned earlier, he was a newspaper columnist where he sometimes wrote about sports but mainly about issues of social concern and civil rights. he was engaged with martin luther king. they were at the "dream" speech, jackie and the whole family were there and up front. he worked specifically with martin luther king on repairing some burned churches in georgia. that was a project that king asked him to take on that he did. he publicly feuded with malcolm x, although when malcolm x was assassinated, respected him greatly for being part of the same cause, but they argue publicly about the way to go about it. he was just simply, as a speaker, as an engager, always there. he also had certain projects such as he started a low income housing construction company shortly before his death. there was a black-owned bank in harlem that he was part of. he was at once doing day to day things and also using his celebrity as best he could to draw attention to issues an

king the naacp. he helped to start a bank to help other minorities start their own small businesses and to own their own homes and after his death. mrs. robinson carried on that legacy by starting the jackie robinson foundation which has provided college scholarships and training and career opportunities for more than 1400 underserved students. in fact, i know that we have a few jackie robinson scholars here today who are studying at howard and georgetown and yale and brown and even my alma mater, princeton. first ladies in their own words continues now on american history tv, michelle obama traveled to alabama in 2015 to address the graduating class of tuskegee university historically bought college. she reflected on how she had grown in her role as first lady. she also acknowledged criticism directed her at herself and president obama and spoke about dealing with racism. and while the history of this campus isn't perfect the defining story of tuskegee is the story of rising hopes and fortunes for a

the naacp adding an unregistered license plate should not be a death sentence. the still unidentified officer has been stripped of his police powers, but remains on paid leave, pending the official state investigation. >> we will see transparency, we will see truth. >> reporter: now, once that investigation is done, the results will be given to the police department for any potential disciplinary action. but also to the county prosecutor for any potential charges as well. meanwhile, later today, we're expecting to hear from the family and ben crump, who has not only called for the firing of this still unnamed officer, but also his arrest and prosecution as well, john. >> omar jimenez for us in grand rapids. keep us posted. >>> "new day" continues right now. >>> good morning to viewers in the u.s. and around the world. it is thursday, april 14th, i'm brianna keilar in lviv, ukraine, with john berman in new york. a large scale assault on the donbas region could be just days or even hours away, according to french military officials. the kremlin clearly stating tha

the naacp adding an unregistered license plate should not be a death sentence. the still unidentified officer has been stripped of his police powers but remains on paid leave pending the state investigation. >> we will seek transparency. we will seek truth. >> reporter: now the investigation into what happened and the officer is still with michigan state police and remains ongoing despite the video being released now in the name of transparency. once those results are in, they'll be sent to the police department for potential disciplinary action but they'll also be sent to the county prosecutor for any potential criminal charges. until then this officer, still unnamed, remains on paid leave though stripped of his police powers. omar jimenez, cnn, grand rapids, michigan. >>> a severe weather threat in the u.s. is moving east right now with philadelphia and new york in the path of these storms. the same system led to tornado watches from illinois to texas on wednesday which have since expired. meanwhile, some northern states are facing blizzard conditions while te

t mayers, esquier, a special adviser for public safety with the greater grand rapids naacp. thank you forjoining us. cl e, you have said this is not a one—time issue, a distressing incident, we have seen the footage. many would think after so many discussions and soul—searching over the past couple of years, the black lives matter movement after the death of george floyd for example, also a black man killed by a police officer, that we would be in a different place now in the us. what do you think this incident represents?— the us. what do you think this incident represents? thanks for takin: incident represents? thanks for taking time _ incident represents? thanks for taking time out _ incident represents? thanks for taking time out to _ incident represents? thanks for taking time out to have - incident represents? thanks for taking time out to have a - taking time out to have a conversation around this horrific incident. i also want to reaffirm that we are standing with the family and sending our condolences to them. again, it represents in our opinion, years and yea

she worked on civil rights cases alongside thurgood marshall at the naacp legal defense fund. she was integral to the outcome of brown v. board of education, striking down the separate but equal doctrine. judge jackson's own parents attended segregated schools. martin luther king, the face and voice of the civil rights movement that motley helped fight for in the courtroom. they're good marshall, the jurist who was confirmed, despite the objections of southern segregationists in the senate, as the country's first black supreme court justice in 1967, three years after the civil rights act passed. all of that and more has been the heavy lifting that jackson says made this they possible. all the stories are intertwined in ways that make america a better democracy. they made the highest achievements in this country a little more accessible to anyone who dares to reach for them. because of what they did in their days, change came to america today. these games matter. they build over time. they make the country able to live up to its ideals, for the whole world to see. none of this

meaning, she litigated hundreds of cases for the naacp, legal defense fund, and developed a reputation as an excellent lawyer, particularly on cross examining segregationists who just were not accustom at all to being questioned by a black person, certainly not a black woman. marshall supported her career and was there with her, including on the day that she was sworn in as the first black woman to have a seat on the federal judiciary. >> this is probably a good time to talk about lyndon johnson, president johnson and the feedback, if you want to call it that, that president johnson received, let's just call it what i is, hateful and racist responses to what he had done. you lay it out in the book. in 2022, think about and we read about it, that happened. in that moment, we are talking about in the '60s here. people should understand that this could have been life-threatening to her with this appointment. >> well, there are two things i would say about that. first of all, lyndon johnson was so proud to have appointed constance baker motley to the bench. he vetted her comprehensively. t

the next will be the nongovernmental entities, the naacp and also the urban league i am sure will come to follow next. >> you have 263 clients in a class action. you say to us you expect that number to be around 300 by the end of the month. thank you for joining us. john doe, thank you for telling us about your experience and sharing that video of your arrest with us. here's a look at the other top stories we are following right now. the gunman behind a mass shooting in downtown sacramento, the gunmen, multiple, are still at large. six were killed and 12 others injured after shots rang out following a large fight near the state capitol sunday morning. the city's mayor called the shooting a senseless and unacceptable tragedy. >>> covid hospitalizations in the u.s. are at their lowest levels since the tracking began. meanwhile oversees in the uk covid cases reached new record highs with an estimated 1 in 13 people infected with the virus in the last week alone. former president barack obama will return to the white house tomorrow for the first time since he left it. he will be there to p

example of how they use social media to target black leaders, setting up fake accounts to criticize the naacp. it will be between the two parties to come to a court-ordered agreement. >> thank you. >>> an emotional day today for families of loved ones still held in russia as they take in the news of former marine's release. this is set to show the moment that reid was being brought to a plane for today's prisoner swap. nbc news cannot verify when, where, and under what conditions this was shot. he had been accused of -- he approached a thousand days in custody. president biden in a statement welcoming him home and pledging we won't stop until paul whelan and others join trevor in the loving arms of family and friends. he referenced paul whelan there. he's also a former marine. he was sentenced to 16 years in jail over accusations of spying. he's been held since december of 2018. then there's brittney griner. her agent writing about how her community is doing. they're doing everything they can to get her home. trevor reid's parents calling his release a testament to a response to they were hav

. >> now, the naacp's derrick johnson said "if you believe in free speech on your platform, let's talk openly on twitter spaces. people have a few questions. musk just published this tweet earlier today saying that, you know, i'm against censorship. that goes far beyond the law. if people want less than free speech, they'll ask a government to pass laws to that effect. many outspoken supporters are celebrating today, cheering on musk's vision to restore power to users and overhauling the platform. >> now that musk is taking control of it, there's a greater chance to she a platform of ideas. elon musk is setting a new standard. >> neil, musk has to execute on his standard. the fight is just getting started. >> kelly o'grady in los angeles on that. now to jerry baker from the "wall street journal." first of all, your gut reed on elon musk itself. a lot of conservatives are praising over his taking over twitter. he's going rule the roost as a conservative. he strikes me as more libertarian. what do you think? >> yes, is more of a libertarian. it's clearly he's not friendly to a lot of con

republicans, progressives and conservatives, the left and the right, by the aclu and the koch brothers, the naacp and the heritage foundation, al sharpton and grover norquist, all points in between and signed into law by donald trump and it is a foundation, struck a blow against mass incarceration but was a bipartisan blow and there are additional criminal justice reform measures that are working their way through congress also with bipartisan support and if we can do it on colonel justice reform, we can figure out ways to find common ground in other areas where traditionally you don't expect democrats and republicans. >> you talk about bipartisanship and track record, strong track record of bipartisanship. i wanted to before we wrap this up i wanted to ask about -- about the resistance to bipartisanship that we see on the left and the right. you are democrat so i want to ask you what do you say to those democrats who find it distasteful, morally problematic even to work with republicans in the house who were supportive of donald trump, let's be frank, autocratic ambitions. this -- you mentioned

criminal activity and at least one posed community member just to criticize the local chapter of the naacp. local officials responded. take a listen. >> i found the contents to be repugnant, at times horrific. they made me sick to my stomach and outraged and i think that our community feels the same way. we have a hell of a lot of work do as a city. >> reporter: there is still a federal department of justice probe in the patterns and practices at the minneapolis police department that is ongoing. but when asked about it, the state commissioner for the department of human rights said that there is not going to be an issue of dueling jurisdictions here because their investigation focused on any state laws that may have been broken while the federal one as you can imagine will focus on whether any federal laws have been broken. omar jimenez, cnn. >>> california needs rain and lots of it. reservoirs are way down and people are being asked to cut their water usage. we'll look at just how dry it has actually got there. >>> a dry start to 2022 across a large area of california. we'll touch on wha

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the naacp adding an unregistered license plate should not be a death sentence. the still unidentified officer has been stripped of his police powers but remains on paid leave pending the state investigation. >> weel avenue seek the truth. >> reporter: the investigation remains ongoing. despite the video being released in the name of transparency. once that's in, it will be sent to the police department for potential disciplinary action. it will be sent to the county prosecutor for any potential criminal charges. for now the still unnamed officer shipped on the family. christine, laura? >> omar, thank you for that. let's bring in cnn legal analyst arriva martin. >> good morning. >> you saw the video for yourself. we've all now watched it. he's clearly running away from the officer. there's going to be some debate whether he was going for the taser. at first he was trying get away. >> yes, laura, we've seen this. we've had these situations where routine traffic stops end this in these violent confrontations and ultimately an african-american american man left dead

the naacp adding an unregistered license plate should not be a death sentence. the still-unidentified officer has been stripped of his police powers, but remains on paid leave pending the official state investigation. >> we will see transparency. we will see truth. . >> omar jimenez joins me now. i understand there have been protests in grand rapids tonight. what are people saying? ? >> reporter: we've seen protests throughout the evening. things doctor "v" calmed down now, but earlier there were hundreds marching and demonstrating in downtown grand rapids outside a very barricaded police department chanting "justice for patrick lyoya." familiar calls, different case. now, there's still an ongoing investigation, of course, to determine whether this officer's actions were justified or whether he crossed a line. but the attorney for the lyoya family, ben crump, is already calling this use of force unnecessary and excessive and joins a chorus of people calling not only for the firing of this officer, but also the arrest and prosecution of this officer as well, don.

dubois, who helped found the niagara movement and the naacp and was a towering intellectual figure. another is charles hamilton houston, known as the man who killed jim crow, because of his civil rights lawyering that laid the groundwork for brown v board of education. those figures are vitally important to understand as representatives of harvard. jeffrey: this new fund of $100 million is a lot, but what exactly is it for? tomiko: it is a significant financial commitment and we are pleased the university has established this fund that is meant to address the harms of slavery locally, nationally, and in the caribbean through leveraging its expertise and education, of course access to educational opportunities is a known driver of social mobility, which explains our leading there and is consistent with our mission. we will seek to establish a public memorial to allow people on and off campus to engage with this history. we have committed to supporting new and sustained partnerships with historically black colleges and trib colleges, and also we recommended as a committee and the univ

, progressives and conservatives, by the left and the right, by the aclu and the coke brothers, the naacp and the heritage foundation, al sharpton and grover norquist. all points in between, and signed into law by former president trump. it is a foundation. it struck a blow against mass incarceration, but it was a bipartisan blow. there are additional criminal justice reforms, measures working their way through the congress right now. also with bipartisan support. if we can do it on criminal justice reform, i think it also means we can figure out to find ways to find common ground in other areas where traditionally you don't expect democrats and or publican's to come together. host: you talked about bipartisanship and, as i mentioned before, you have a strong track record of bipartisanship. before we wrap this up, i wanted to ask you about some resistance to bipartisanship we see both on the left and the right. you are a democrat, so i want to ask what do you say to those democrats who find it distasteful or morally problematic even to work with republicans in the house who are supporters

as a long time so the rights activist, former president of naacp, congressman, can you tell us if we can expect to see police reform taken up by the democrats before november? >> that's the best question of the night. i say that, because the house of representatives have twice passed a police reform bill, and the senate has yet to go near that bill. it's a condemnation on behalf of the entire senate. but really led by a few senators, and i think when something like that happens you have to tie up business and say nothing is going to move to at least get this bill out on the floor to vote. this is a situation, and by the way, i really appreciate your remarks that the eulogy, you and ben crump being there from that family. there from the congo. this is all new to them. new land, they were refugees. there's a need to pass this. i'm gonna continue to say would i say, and i know many of my friends on the senate side don't want me to say this, but i can't call it any other way. they've got to find a way to make sure that the bill gets on the floor for a vote, and that means using any means

some of the national organizations like national action network, naacp and others coming in to support them, and they are, the family, is looking to bring in an independent review and possibly autopsy. it seems just unthinkable to many of us that you would turn a traffic stop into an unarmed man being shot in the back of the head and killed. we've seen some of the tapes. obviously, not all. but clearly the police man and patrick were in a tussle. the police man was on top of him. so he knew he was not armed. if his face was down, because he was shot in the back of the head, clearly, you were not in danger. why would you even draw your gun, lest your gun fire a shot to this young man's head. absolutely, there are laws about pursuit of our policemen and this pursuit in our judgment is certainly one that appears to be against all laws and the death of this young man needs to be prosecuted. >> here's the thing, though, rev. we've been having this same conversation for so long now. it is forever frustrating. what's even more frustrating about it is, there is widespread awareness of this iss

. >> we have the naacp putting the video of her admitting that she had that that meant insane, all it does is belie the fact that that is why these lawmakers or policymakers are calling for it. we can pump that up right now if we have it, guys. >> we are here to tell the president that with the pen he can't and should and must cancel student debt, period. >> that is right because she holds the dock. let's talk about basic economics for a second. if you wipe away a cost, it is absorbed as with over 90% of that recent tax hike in california which spread protests across the state was because of pensions. it is not that tuition is covering the actual cost of the labor of that professor. it is their pensions and when you dig in deep, you see that handful who carries the both of those costs. when the government tries to make it seem like it is this poor student who is trying to get their degree, no. it is because of march economics, botched budgeting at the hands of the state like california and new jersey that have tripled the system, tripled the college and the tuition system so that they

. >> the naacp leased a statement asking the elon musk not to allow former president trump back on twitterberry he said he plans to stick with his own social media platform quoting i'm not going on twitter, i'm going to stay untruth, i hope elon buys twitter because he will make improvements to it an he's a good man, but i am going to be staying on truth. in the list believe, but whatever elon musk does with twitter, there will definitely be a shakeup in the question becomes how things shake down and how much of the current twitter staff remains on board. former twitter ceo dorsey tweeted the goal of creating an platform that is trusted and broadly inclusive is the right one. this is also a new twitter ceo getting the company out of an impossible situation, this is the right path, i believe it with all my heart. meanwhile twitter says that transaction has been approved b its board of directors. ends, the approval of shareholders, the deal should close sometimes this year. >> thank you very much. let's talk simard tonight about the far-reaching impacts of the elon musk twitter take over. great t

several organizations, including the sierra club and the naacp, demanded climate care jobs and justice. >> we cannot wait any longer. you know, the people out west affected by wildfires right now cannot wait any longer. the people from puerto rico where i'm from cannot wait any longer for another hurricane maria to come by. this is the moment to act on climate. i think the path is very clear right now. the path is very clear to pass climate legislation. so we cannot wait longer. it's time to bring this home now. >> parts of the u.s. from the canadian border down to texas are brace for a triple threat storm. snow, heavy rain, strong winds. the west is dealing with several massive fires. joining me is cnn meteorologist derek van dam. blizzards at the end of april? is that what we're looking at? >> can you believe it? not only blizzards, the severe weather threat, also the threat of fires or at least ongoing, because that's been a highlight of our weather stories the last several days. let's talk about the blizzard that's shut down parts of i-90 right near the border of montana and south

circuit judge including from the congressional black caucus, the naacp, the leadership conference, and others. so the unfounded and trumped up attacks that just jackson -- that judge jackson has faced is nothing but a ruse. a campaign to give republicans cover for voting against such an historic know many because -- historic nominee because she is so highly qualified. i would like to refocus on what an exceptional and historic nominee judge jackson is. she has more judicial experience than four of the current justices have combined when they joined the court. she has brought support from across the political spectrum, including from prominent conservatives, federal judges appointed by republican presidents, former republican officials, and a bipartisan group of 86 former state attorneys general. organizations from across the political spectrum and covering a wide range of issues support her, from the black and hispanic u.s. chambers of commerce and the national education association to the fraternal order of police, the largest police union. she has been widely praised as being eminent

. >> martha: the naacp president is speaking out. he's very upset that there's a possibility -- he says do not allow 45, which refers to former president trump to return to the platform. do not allow twitter to be a petri dish for false democracy. my first question to you, a lot of people see the suppression of the hunter biden story as just that. what do you make of that? the former president of the united states is not allowed to send out a tweet, victor. >> i make of who is allowed. if he's not, the taliban? yes. the iranian theocrats? yes. the russian oligarchs? yes. elon musk's slogan, his message is, let's open it up to everybody. but their message by needs or definition, but they want to centaur people. let's continue to deny ex-president-elects even to the former president of the united states. it's not a winning message is. obama and biden going to say let's stop elon musk because we don't want free expression. that's what it boils down to. they can say what they want. in the end, if it's successful and it will be if he want

the naacp pleading with musk to keep former president trump far away. "do not allow 45 to return to the platform. do not allow twitter to become a petri dish for hate speech or falsehoods that subvert our democracy." and cnn's brian adding this. >> i think it's an example, which, if you get invited to something, where there are no rules, where there is total freedom for everybody, do you actually want to go to that party? or are you going to decide to stay home? and that the question for twitter users. some of them love the idea that there's going to be no moderation and no rules at all. others might not want to be anywhere near that. >> emily: and of course the white has weighed in. >> no matter who owns or runs twitter, the president has large been concerned about the power of large social media platforms and the power they have over their everyday lives. tech platforms must be held accountable for the harm they cause. >> emily: kayleigh, i think this constitutes a meltdown, and the question is, why? because it shatters the censorship that the left ha

been thinking about people like marion wright edelman, or elaine jones who is the former head of the naacp, what a mistake we've had as a country to not have had their greatness on the court. and the greatness of many others. >> and while her presence on the u.s. supreme court does not change the 6-3 leaning, do you see that her interpretation of law, the history of her rulings, her words, her experience, her life experience, will in some way make an impact on what's presumed to be the 6-3 ruling when justice breyer was there? >> you know, the addition of every new justice to the supreme court changes not only the individual decisions you might see, but the composition of the court. the court as an institution itself will change. we will now have more than one perspective around blackness on the court. we will now have parity, basically, on the court in terms of women, with four women on the court. we will have a dynamic that will be new that for the first time the 6-3 divide that you name, it will be all women in that three. and i think that will shape the country's understanding of what

naacp image award? >> oh, yes. >> jimmy: yes. kids choice award. >> what? >> jimmy: kids choice award. >> never. >> jimmy: that's correct. you did not get that. the tony award. >> yeah. >> jimmy: another tony award. >> yeah. >> jimmy: the emmy award. >> yeah. >> jimmy: the oscar award. >> yeah. >> jimmy: the nobel prize for economics? >> jimmy, no. >> jimmy: that's a no, that is correct. pretty good, pretty good. [ applause ] [ laughter ] i heard you got a new puppy during the pandemic. >> i did, bailey, who i love more than. >> jimmy: oh, you love bailey. >> and my husband loves bailey. george jefferson loves bailey. george jefferson who said we ain't getting no damn dog in this house. it's going to cause houseatosis. >> jimmy: were you against? >> no, i wanted bailey. and now you should hear george jefferson. oh, bailey, come to daddy, bailey, come to daddy, bailey. but here is the thing. do you remember looking at the ingredients in your dog food when you were younger? did you look? >> the mighty dog. we used to get mighty dog in a can. i remember openin

the naacp adding, unregistered license plate should not be a death sentence. still unidentified officer has been stripped of his police powers but remains on paid leave pending the official state investigation. >> we'll see transparency, we'll seek truth. >> omar jiminez, thank you so much. we've also learned the family and attorney ben crump will be holding a press conference today at 1:30 eastern. joining me right now is areva martin and terence gainer, cnn law enforcement analyst and former chief of u.s. capitol police. ar areva, what do you see in this video? >> i see unnecessary shooting of a black man by a white cop and i question, did we not learn anything from daunte wright, philando castile, walter scott, all three incidents that involved really low level traffic stops that resulted in the death of those african-american men. it just appears that we can't get it right. that traffic stops, routine traffic stops should not result in violent encounters and dead african-american men. >> terence, what do you see? what questions do you have for this investi

shania nelson is the president director counsel of the naacp legal defense fund which frequently argues cases before the supreme court. she joins me now. shania, great to have you. i want to start with the news, the doj saying that if the cdc concludes that a mandatory order remains necessary for the public's health after that assessment, the department of justice will appear the district court decision. what do you make of this response from the department of justice, excuse me, should the doj wait for the cdc or be more forceful in appealing it regardless of what the cdc thinks in terms of public health concerns at this moment with masks? >> well, i certainly hope that the doj will reconsider its decision to wait until the cdc makes a decision we have about three weeks before we get to may 3rd and during that time we might see a spike in cases we might see an increase transmission of covid-19 that threatens to harm so many communities including and particularly, black and brown communities that have borne the disproportionate burden of this pandemic and so many ways. we are talking ab

the amazing story that is not often told, two brave activists from the mississippi naacp, medgar evers and amzie moore, had been involved since till was reported missing, first looking for the lost boy and then seeking eyewitnesses to the murder. despite the eyewitnesses, an all-white, all male jury acquitted the suspects. one member of the jury said they reached the decision within minutes but held off for an hour to appear as if they had actually deliberated. edgar evers would later be assassinated. after the acquittal, bryant and milam sold their story to "look magazine for $4000, about the same amount that mamie till paid to ship her dead son home from equivalent of over $40,000 in 2022. they admitted they had murdered him. reverend wheeler parker, jr., your response to the emmett till antilynching act that has now been signed into law 70 years later -- this is after over 200 attempts at getting and antilynching law over the last century. your thoughts? >> i've great accommodations for those who had the courage, the fire and gets in their belly to do what is right. too many times t

and on that note about former president joining twitter again, the naacp sent out this statement. it reads in part, mister musk. >> free speech is wonderful. hate speech is unacceptable, disinformation, misinformation and hate speech have no place on twitter. do not allow 45 to return to the platform. mister musk lives are at risk and so is american democracy. there are 18 house republicans that are asking twitter's board to preserve all the records related to musk's buyout offer. republican lawmakers have repeatedly accused twitter of censorship and say this request is part of their examination of big tech. also happening right now, thousands of stanford and lucile packard children's hospital. nurses are on strike. the nurses say they're burned out overworked and in many cases understaffed. so now they're demanding change. kron four's. charles clifford joins us now live. >> he is in palo alto has the latest for us this afternoon. good afternoon, charles. >> good afternoon. yeah, i'm on in palo alto here. just the next to the stanford hospital. other still a few protesters are peo

stephanie: connie rice was an attorney for the naacp's legal defense fund at the time. >> african-americans were furious at lapd for the humiliation, for the gratuitously cruel policing, for the constant harassment. stephanie: for nearly a week after the acquittals, long-frustrated angelenos took to the streets. nearly 10,000 military troops were deployed to restore order. i the end, more than 50 people were dead. police made over 10,000 arrests, and people had burned and vandalized $1 billion worth of property. >> it's like martin luther king said a long time ago, you know, these types of events are the voice of the voiceless. stephanie: darnell hunt is the dean of social sciences at ucla. in 1992, he was a graduate student and a dding social scientist observing and documenting the events. >> i had my camcorder and i was walking around town trying to get a sense of what was happening and how it compared to what i was seeing on television news. and i ran into this old man who just gestured me over and he pointed to a store over here and he said, see that, that's my record store. and, you kn

stephanie: connie rice was an attorney for the naacp's legal defense fund at the time. >> african-americans were furious at lapd for the humiliation, for the gratuitously cruel policing, for the constant harassment. stephanie: for nearly a week after the acquittals, long-frustrated angelenos took to the streets. nearly 10,000 military troops were deployed to restore order. i the end, more than 50 people were dead. police made over 10,000 arrests, and people had burned and vandalized $1 billion worth of property. >> it's like martin luther king said a long time ago, you know, these types of events are the voice of the voiceless. stephanie: darnell hunt is the dean of social sciences at ucla. in 1992, he was a graduate student and a budding social scientist observing and documenting the events. >> i had my camcorder and i was walking around town trying to get a sense of what was happening and how it compared to what i was seeing on television news. and i ran into this old man who just gestured me over and pointed to a store over here and he said, see that, that's my record store. and, you kno

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he then became the founder and first executor director of the naacp legal defense fund, before john of kennedy appointed him to the second court of appeals in 1960. one and 1965, president johnson chose him to be a solicitor general. the lawyer who represents the federal government government before the supreme court. before -- two years later. but despite his obvious manifest qualifications, he truly one of the greatest lawyers on the planet, marshall faced transparently racist attacks from southern senators who did not want to see a black man on the court. many of them were particularly incensed by the role marshal played with the end doubly acp. the -- legalized school segregation. the secretary shun senators tried to trip marshall in front of the senate. he faced questions in the senate as being painted as soft on crime, and senator strong thurman of south carolina, one of the most notorious racist segregationists in the history of the u.s. congress, played the part of racist quiz show host asking marshall obscure legal trivial questions. like, do you know who drafted the 13th amen

several organizations, including the sierra club and the naacp, calling on the biden administration and congress to pass climate-change legislation that has been stalled in the senate. not like there is a lot at stake or anything. they demanded climate, care, jobs, and justice. >>> now, drug overdoses in the united states are on a shocking rise. that has prompted bars across the country to offer patrons fentanyl-testing strips but some say it is only making drug use easier. cnn's kim brunhuber with that story. >> reporter: some bars and clubs in the u.s. are now offering their patrons something else, besides music and drinks, something new. a simple piece of paper that can detect the synthetic opioid fentanyl. for decades, opioid overdoses have cast a shadow over the united states. in april, the ctc estimated annual overdose deaths reached an all-time high. close to 700,000 people died of drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending in november 2021 and about two-thifrds of those deaths deaths involved fentanyl, particularly deadly opioid. according to a report by the u.s. drug enforcem

one warning that we should read, it came from the naacp, where they implored d musk, do not aw twitter to become a petri dish for hate speech. thank you. >>> new video released by the santa fe sheriff's office shows the chaotic moments on the set of "rust" just after the shooting of the cinematographer halyna hutchins. >> where was she shot? >> she came in here, it went across her chest. >> and came out the back. >> want air flight? >> yeah. >> dramatic body cam footage shows first responders rushing to the scene, rendering aid to hutchins and the assistant director. the files also contain video of alec baldwin drawing a gun and pointing it toward the camera while rehearsing a scene for the film. josh campbell has been following this story. josh, video of baldwin's initial interview with police was also released. tell us about that. >> that's right. among the trove of evidence that was released yesterday by the sheriff's department is video of baldwin himself. after the shooting he sat down with investigators, he was read his miranda rights, asked if he's being charged with a crime, th

reverse course, twitter's stock value gotten a big boost but raising concerns with groups like the naacp imploring elon musk not to let twitter become a platform for hate speech. >> the world's richest man, buying up one of the world's most powerful social media companies, generating huge buzz tonight. twitter has agreed to sell itself to elon musk, the flamboyant controversial ceo of tesla and space x for about $44 billion a deal that could bring enormous change to the popular platform. >> we're talking about the confluence of a number of conversations we're having nationally and internationally about, you know, the power of billionaires, for example, the influence of tech platforms on democracies. >> we're going to have an option -- >> with this purpochase, twitte led by one of the quirkiest business tightens known, elon musk used twitter to build his brand but also to troll others, in recent days, posted a tweet making fun of bill gate's if i s physique, questioned the relevance of twitter and if they should consider removing the w from his name. >> it's hard to take him seriously bec

the naacp adding an unregistered license plate should not be a death sentence. the still unidentified officer has been stripped of his police powers, but remains on paid leave, pending the official state investigation. >> we will see transparency. we will see truth. >> reporter: now even though that state investigation is still ongoing at this point, the video was released now in the name of transparency. once that investigation is complete, the results will be sent over to the police department for potential disciplinary action and the state prosecutor for any potential criminal charges. later today, we're going to hear from the lyoya family along with their attorney ben crump who was called not just for the firing of this officer, but for the arrest and prosecution of this officer as well. jim? >> omar jimenez, thank you. >>> here to discuss is former acting baltimore police commissioner and cnn law enforcement analyst anthony barksdale. from what you gleaned from that video we have just seen, and obviously the investigation is ongoing, does the officer's acti

du bois, who founded -- helped to found the niagara movement and the naacp, and, of course, was a towering intellectual figure. and another i might cite is charles hamilton houston, who was known as the man who kille jim crow because of his civil rights lawyering that laid the groundwork for brown vs. board of education. those figures are vitally important to understand as representatives of harvard as well. jeffrey: this new fund of $100 million, it's a lot of money, but what exactly is it for? what do you see it doing? tomiko: sure. it is a significant financial commitment. and we're pleased that the university has established this fund that is meant to address the harms of slavery in -- locally, nationally and in the caribbeathrough leveraging its expertise in education. of course, access to educatial opportunities is a known driver of social mobility, which explains our leading there and, of course, is coistent with our mission. in addition, we will seek to establish a public memorial to allow people on and off campus, visitors to campus to engage with this history. we have committed t

no arrests have been made, the head of the sacramento naacp, says the gun violence that erupted in downtown in the downtown area has been happening in surrounding neighborhoods for years. this is not a new issue. it's just an issue that's in mass numbers right today. i'm from the meadow view areas south part of sacramento, where we have these shootings every day and the dead paso heights. this is a issue that i've actually talked to the chief of police, the new chief recently on the increase of gun violence, and we needed to do something about it. and so now that it has reached this level has spilled outside of the metal view area and then to the downtown. it appears that people are listening now. the end of the acp hopes to see the city take action that will shake up where resources are dedicated to crime fighting coming up tonight at 11. house speaker nancy pelosi weighs in on the tragedy. in santa rosa homicide detectives are investigating a deadly shooting near a middle school. the shooting was first reported around 8 30 last night near comstock middle school on west steel lane. officer