professor britney cooper, easy maz jobrani and liz plank. tonight. that was a lot of fun. coming up, what if everything we knew about gymnastics is wrong. those are words from gymnast and mom of two, chelsea mammal. . but next ransomware attacks are hitting businesses, cities and even schools. can they be stopped? that's after this break. >> nbc news first reported yesterday that the team stir labor union was hit by a ransomware attack in 2019, and told to pay a ransom. but despite advice from the fbi they refuse, this comes after we learned the world's largest beef supplier recently paid millions to ransomware hackers who breached its computer networks. here's nbc's tom costello. >> meatpacker jbs just the latest company to pay a ransom. $11 million in bitcoin, after cybercriminals knocked out plans to process 20% of americas meat supply, to pay or not to pay is the dilemma all ransomware targets face. the small school district in california was attack last fall, teacher payroll, grades and lesson plans locked up for nearly two weeks as hac

joining me now, britney cooper, an assistant professor of women and gender studies. is a columnist for msnbc and author of for the love of men, from toxic to more mindful mass clint. and miles, hoeflt of the podcast, back to school, he has a new comedy tour. things are looking bright. and a new special on peacock called pandemic warrior. all right, panel. we lived through four years of president trump and that was the president that literally pushed a prime minister of montenegro out of way to get in front of a group photo. in your view, is this week a return to some sort of normalcy? >> this week, this year. it's been so nice to wake up and not have 50 tweets about rosie o'donnell or whatever he is going after. just, i look at the news and it says, the world is falling apart. and i go, thank god we can finally talk about it and not deal with some made-up cram. i'm telling you. part of what has happened this week is not so much what president biden is doing, but what we are not seeing former president trump do. which is push that guy out of the way. who pushes the pr

and britney cooper, author of the book- eloquent rage, a black feminist discovers her superpowers."th you. >> dr. cooper, because the words on your shirt seem to be doing the talking today. >> that's right. juneteenth is an incredibly important commemoration in this country. we have to tell the truth about the fact white northerners and southerners were not trying to let go of people held in bondage and had to be forced by the military. it didn't just take war. it didn't just take the military, it took an ultimate act of congress to get these folks to recognize they don't own the right to any human being. even though i am a bit ambivalent this morning about what it means for white folks to be out here wishing people a happy juneteenth, because i grew up with it being a regional celebration in my local community in louisiana, right next door to texas, i definitely think it is important for the nation to acknowledge that there was not some singular clean event in which the north won the civil war, the union soldiers won the civil war and then every black person got freed. that's absol