well, olympic president, thomas black insist the child care games will be a historic success. his was coming is so care reports its highest number of new curren, of ours cases in almost 6 months. because be meeting with your friends. prime minister actually ready to go with both men promising a safe and secure gang the torch relay will not staying on public roads to limit the possible spread of corona virus and athletes of now just been told to put their own metals on and victory ceremonies to reduce the risk of infection. these will be historical limpy games for many different reasons. first, they will be the 1st ever postponed olympic games are long history. second, they will be historic for the way, how the japanese people overcame it. so many challenges in the last couple of years . now, almost the entire olympic refugee squad has delayed its arrival in tokyo after a team official tested positive for corona virus. on the us say men's basketball team has bounced back in that prelim pick warm up for the victory over argentina. suffering back to the faith against nigeria and

well, olympic president, thomas black insist the tokyo games will be a historic success is what's coming is tucker reported. highest number of new current of ours cases in almost 6 months or backs. been meeting with japan's prime minister, she had to go with both promising a safe and secure games that sort trade i. well, that is thing off public roads to limit the possible spread of corona virus and athletes will, they've just been told they'll have to put metals around their own next, at victory ceremonies to try and reduce the risk of infection. please will be historical in games for many different reasons. first, they will be the 1st ever postponed olympic games in our long history. second, they will be historic for the way, how the japanese people overcame so many challenges in the last couple of years. well my, the entire olympic refugee squad of delight the arrival inside care that stuff the same official tested positive for corona virus. some better news for the usa, men's basketball team, who's back in the prelim pick will months with this picture of argentina, af, after they suf

and his full limbic president, thomas black consists, the tokyo games will be a historic success. fax was coming is to report the highest number of new current of our cases, nor my 6 months. ah . so the story of the afghan taliban says it sees control of a main border crossing with pakistan and follows weeks of rapid territorial games. the spin bolduc crossing connect kandahar city directly with pakistan and is a major supply line for anyone who controls it is afghan us on 2nd busiest entry point and connects is vast south west with pakistan on the ports and the province of biloxi, stun picture show taliban fighters at the gate, it would be a major advance for the group, which was taken advantage of the withdrawal of us forces to push back afghan forces . but the government says its troops have repelled the faces. from cobble is charlotte bellis. then border is a very strategic border crossing because it is afghan, a stand 2nd, the busiest border crossing the location of it. it's just south of kandahar and south west and the son which is the telephone strong hole. but now with thi

rushed to hospital and now faces the prospect of emergency surgery and sport olympic president thomas black, insist the tokyo games will be a historic success backwards coming in took care reported highest number of new code 19 cases in almost 6 months. ah hello, a very warm welcome to the news owl. we begin in afghanistan, where the taliban has been continuing its advance in the country fight to say they have seized a strategic border crossing with pakistan. but the afghan government insist push the fight is back though. civilians in the area have said that the taliban is now in control of the border post. now these spin bolduc crossing connects the town of washing effectively the nearby city of kandahar to cham on impact is don, this is afghan, is don, 2nd busiest entry point and the main link to pakistani ports controlling it enables the taliban to collect revenue. afghan government data shows that it's used by $900.00 trucks each day. the takeover has forced pockets on to the field parts of its border after there was heavy fighting in the area. charlotte balance has more in this now fro

in response to the lack of transparency by the police and local government after 20 or black man named timothy thomas was killed in a black ally by a cincinnati police officer, the 15th black man to be killed within six years by the cincinnati police which led to the largest rebellion since los angeles 1992 i think one really important distinction that even 64 to timothy thomas in 2001 and what we saw beginning with ferguson in last summer is that the operating in ferguson and in minneapolis did not start to jump off violent, it is not throwing rocks at policeng officers or beating white people, the jumpoff was all of the uprising started out as peaceful protestsacnd individuan the police responded to the nonviolent going back to the obama quote what do you do when the police respond with violence to violence they teargas crowds of people that were holding visuals for michael brown the police be people with their batons and we sent in the armored tanks from my rock and people again going back to self-defense people responded by throwing bottles back at police and burning rvs down. by diluting that it

black oboist. are you great or did they choose you for your color? >> and your biography of thomas sowell is extremely significant of those of the 20th century. >> thank you i appreciate it >> justice ginsburg many people may now that if you work for her was one of the hardest working individuals ever to live she had an extraordinary work ethic and expected the same of her clerks she had exacting standards and held us up to those standards but never asked more of us than she did of herself and that was a special thing about her leadership and mentor ship because she carried you along with her and you wanted to prove yourself to her and rise to your very best i analogized i am big on analogies like the more like like playing with michael jordan that she rises to be the best but also very much invested in her clerks in real-time. it wasn't something that came later. so for example when we would go back-and-forth in writing opinions we would give her a draft and triple space pages and it comes back completely covered in ink. this is a theme because this happened with the book 20 years

first ordained african american episcopal priest, the founder of the african church of saint thomas, the first blackchurch in philadelphia, put it. quote, in the constitution and the fugitive bill, no mention is made of black people were slaves. therefore if the bill of rights for the declaration of congress are of any validity we beseech that as we are men we may be admitted to partake of the liberties and inalienable rights they are held forth. firmly believing that the extending of justice and equality to all classes would be a means of drawing down the blessings of heaven upon this land and thus the real happiness of every member of every member of the community. this was not done. the curse of slavery continued to plague the political, social and economic policies of america. only to be terminated by a terrible civil war. but the residual effects of it may become embodied in our continuous struggle with racism and racial violence as ideas of white supremacy. and in the way we tell the story of how america began. beyond the intellectual brilliance of our founding documents. i will end with this.

to delegitimize justice clarence thomas as an authentically black. sadly, as these examples make clear, those who claim to want a more diverse federal bench often do not. in conclusion, the goal of judicial selection is not proportional representation, but the creation and maintenance of the most fair and impartial judiciary in the world. as we seek to diversify the legal profession and the federal bench, we must never forget that the most important qualifications for a judge are good judgment and commitment to the rule of law. thank you for having me. i am happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. next, we will turn to ms. diaz yager. you may begin. >> thank you. distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for this pickle hearing on the importance of judicial diversity. i am honored to be here. i serve as president of the national hispanic bar association. we are a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that represents the interests of more than 67,000 hispanic legal professionals. we act as the collective voice for issues of common concern

response to the lack of transparency by the police and local government after a 20-year-old black man named timothy thomasled in a dark alley by a cincinnati police officer and was the 15th man to be killed within six years by the cincinnati police which led to the largest rebellion since 32. one important distinction from even the 642 timothy thomas in 2001 and what we saw beginning with ferguson last summer is that the uprisings in ferguson and in minneapolis didn't start -- the jumpoff was not violent. it wasn't throwing rocks at police officers or even eating white people -- the jumpoff was all of these uprisings started out as peaceful protest individuals and the police responded to that again going back to that obama quote. what do you do when they respond, when they tear gas people holding vigils for michael brown, beat peoplein wih batons and in armored tanks from iraq and people then again going back to self-defense, people responded by throwing bottles back at police and burning things down and looting. but it was the police response to the nonviolent protest and that period that is important. i

but i'm sure you recall clarence thomas saying he was the wrong black man.is race really made him susceptible to being attacked. but i was glad to hear earlier the comment that we have too many judges from yale and harvard. there are outstanding law schools across this country. some more so in certain fields, but i have been shocked at just how few supreme court justices are considered that went to some other law school no matter how brilliant. i would love to see more diversity in that area. would you comment about that? >> sure. as a graduate of harvard i cannot say i think there are too many of us out there. >> [laughs] >> but i agree with your basic premise. a lead educational pedigree is not usually the best determinate of what would make a good judge. i was thrilled to see justice barrett bring that to the court. notre dame is a prestigious law school but it is not up with the ranks of harvard and yale. i was pleased to see her bring that diversity and i think she is a perfect example of how, you know, you can find competent, brilliant judges from any

also been round enough to observe a 30 year campaign to delegitimize justice clarence thomas as an authentically blackdly, as these examples make clear, those who claim to want a more diverse federal bench often do not. in conclusion, the goal of judicial selection is not proportional representation, but the creation and maintenance of the most fair and impartial judiciary in the world. as we seek to diversify the legal profession and the federal bench, we must never forget that the most important qualifications for a judge are good judgment and commitment to the rule of law. thank you for having me. i am happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you. next, we will turn to ms. diaz yager. you may begin. >> thank you. chairman johnson, ranking member jordan, distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for this pickle hearing on the importance of judicial diversity. i am honored to be here. i serve as president of the hispanic national bar organization or h nba. we are a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that represents the interests of more than 67,000 hispanic legal professionals

you have the notorious pirate black beard, you have thomas dale the heavy handed governor of the jamestown colony, you have king phillip the native-american leader name sake of king phillip's war. and most prominently you have a number of american loyalists from the revolutionary war. you have simon gerdy, you have walter butler, at one point they asked where is benedict arnold, he is away on other business otherwise he would probably be a foreman of the jury. so here we are in the early 20th century and yet the greatest villains include these loyalists. they are portrayed as kind of the arch villains of america's past, they are people who resisted the founding of the republic, they are portrayed as proud, very heady, sometimes kind of clown i wishly incompetent, sometimes blood thirsty savages. really all of these stereotypes play into the popular conception of american loyalists, even hundreds of years after the conflict had ended. and, you know, in many ways this obscures the reality of american loyalism, american loyalism is incredibly complex, so what we're going to do today is we're

black beard. you have thomas dale, the heavy-handed governor of the jamestown colony. you have king philip, the native american leader namesake of king phillips war. and, most prominently, you have a number of american loyalists, from the revolutionary war. you have simon gurney, you have walter butler. at one, point they asked, whereas benedict arnold? he's away on other business, otherwise, he would be the foreman of the jury. here we are, in the early 20th century, and yet, the greatest americans in american history include the loyalist of the 19th, and 20th century. loyalists are portrayed as the arch villains of america's past. they resist the founding of the republic. they are portrayed as proud, very heavy, sometimes, clown nationally incompetent. sometimes bloodthirsty savages. really, all of the stereotypes play into the popular can sum conception of american loyalists. even hundreds of years after the conflict and ended. and in many ways, this obscure the reality. american loyalists is incredibly complex. so what we are going to do today is take a look back t

what's been making headlines for days is the racist abuse unleashed on the 3 black england players who missed penalties. feedback thomas joined the stream to talk about racism in british football. he's a presenter for office 5 tv and a full my professional football player. in our post show chat, we tried to work out if there was any way to stop the piece of black and brown players. by some facts, i'm trying to find positives, but it is, it's a tough one, a is a tough one. like i said, we are super heroes. and there things going well, the billions when you, when it's not gone the way the country you want it to. but i guess i'm, like i said before as well as those organizations are trying to put awareness on an ally on racism. and i'm thankful for that because the and i didn't prove that conversation are being big. it's conversations being had, i just want to see change. i want to see more change in people who last me was this was the aunt for them is wow, how do we, how do you provide change? i'm like, i've never been a racist in my life. i don't know how to change it. i've never been in this, she's understood why peopl

>> guest: well, i guess to use today's -- thomas sowell was canceled, canceled a long time ago. he's a conservative. he's a blackonservative. and way back in the 1970s when he began writing about racial controversies, he got in trouble with a lot of his fellow intellectuals in the academy, and in the media. and he's never really shook that. i thinks it's something that has cost him professionally in terms of notoriety and probably the main reason a lot of people today, notwithstanding the fact that he's really written circles around those folks, maybe all of them combined. not only in terms of breadth of his work but also the rigor of his analysis i think is really unmatched by those folks, yet they remained much better knowna than thomas sowell. that's what the reason i wanted to write the book. >> host: it's a truly important book. was anything surprising in your research? >> guest: i followed his career for quite a while and i've been trying to get him to cooperate with me in writing this book for a long time as well. and had interviewed them over the years a number of times and got to know him a little bit.

black runner that a beat all of the other runners. people don't know that though, do they. >> they don't. thomas spent quite a bit of time writing about this period that is often overlooked. they chartered the progress that was being made and it was remarkable progress. we saw the gaps closing, income gaps closing. the poverty rate, for example, in america fell by 40 percentage points between 1940 and 1960. that's before the civil rights act and before the voting rights act. you had middle-class professions, social workers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, accountants. a number of them quadrupled between 1930 and 1970. that is before the affirmative affirmative-action and you are right this period does not discuss what it should and i think that is because it really interferes with the prevailing narrative which is that what we see these outcomes today among the low income blacks and the legacy of jim crow. if you point out to them blacks were progressing at a faster rate in generations closer to slavery and jim crow than they are today it interferes with that narrative that the left often pushes and

black americans. supreme court justice, clarence thomas for example.ama, larry elder, ben carson, one of the best surgeons the world has ever known. this idea that they are downplaying all of the accomplishments of these people to keep up this divisive narrative, get some retweets, maybe get some card-carrying member of the new squad in the house. it really downplays not just the progress that we've made as a country, but also the progress that american, black americans have made for their communities and for their country when it comes to fixing what you say is inequality in these communities. i recommend people read "white guilt." it talks about these problems that have persisted for decades under black leadership. that is something i think people have to start talking about. >> geraldo: i also think that the greatest civil right is a job with the possibility for promotion and other benefits. i believe in free enterprise system. you know, it is, i just want to quickly say, to your points, any time i criticize any of you, i get picked up in the variou

once we making headlines for days, if the racist abuse unleashed on the 3 black england players who missed penalties, c, j thomas joined the stream to talk about racism, a british football. he's a presenter for awful 5 tv, and a full month professional football player. in our post show chat, we tried to work out if there was any way to stop the piece of black and brown players. by some facts. i'm trying to find positive, but it is. it's a tough one is a tough one. like i said, we'll see here, isn't there things going well, the billions when it, when it's not gone the way the country when it see. but again, i'm like i said before as well as those organizations are trying to when is on an ally on racism. and i'm thankful for that because the, and i've been through the conversation all being big is conversations being had, i just want to see change. i want to see more change in people who is asked me what was the answer them as wow, how do we, how do you provide change? i'm like, i've never been a racist in my life. i don't know how to change it. i've never been there and understood why people to raise this. why wa

and they form their own church absent jones forms the first black episcopal church on a saint thomas and richard allen forms the ambient church bethel church, and then becomes its own denomination in 1816, and he becomes its first mission. i was gonna i was gonna point out humbly that it absalom jones wasn't episcopalian. so i just wanted to just head out there. listen. the the gates has been episcopalians as long as they christians so i saw the book. yeah. yeah, you know, it's it's a they phillips episcopal church. in cumberland, maryland, all the gates are from cumberland, maryland, and you know what in all the coleman's my mother's family. they were methodist in piedmont, west virginia 25 miles away. do you know why so many black episcopal churches are called saint phillips? filipino yeah, when philip the evangelists meets the ethiopian unique who is representing the queen of marroway, right? he was a real queen and her title was the candy key and he was a eunuch. he was the treasurer and he is there runs in he's reading the book of isaiah right into philip the evangelists. so sin

black brotherhood. take it away. >> hello five thomas.or being with us, i am incredibly excited to have the chance to spread the word about this remarkable book which i have been talking with fatima about for some year now which has surpassed my every expectation being a work of history that has an enormous sweep, it covers a lot of ground, tremendous importance and yet is so readable and fun so i thought it was a very complex work and i thought maybe the best place to begin would be where you began fatima in york introduction. how has the book comes to be? it begins with your father really. >> thank you, jennifer and thank you for being here. my father found some journals into trash, you put them in the closet. in the 1950s and they sat there about 50 years. when i was looking for something to write about, i saw all of these journals and realize this is a really important part of history. >> can you describe, what are the journals and what is the organization that produced them? >> the journals of the associate economies, this started in

blacks, homicide philip dramatically. they reverse course in the 50s and then 70s and gets worse and worse well into the 1990s sorkin i don't think it's something that is theoretical, what thomasd about this is this is what you said about this leave us alone, what the civil rights movement did that was most valuable, was to get the government off the backs of black people particularly in the south with respect to the jim crow law. that was a great achievement of the civil rights movement in busting jim crow to the extent of the government tried to play a positive role for his action, it has had a deleterious attack. you can show the rise of the welfare state with the rise of homes in the black community so yes, leave us alone strategy, i think was a better strategy and at the time, frederick douglass and washington, that was their attitude. >> so with regard to know community, is it probably as true as of this with regard to black americans? ronald reagan's famous statement, the government is not the solution, it's a problem. >> yes, i think so and that was sort of -- thomas started out thinking that the government did have a positive role to play. he remained even after fried

beaten because they were marching for voting rights that was the heart of black power the movie is based on the novel by thomasys the worst thing that ever happened in the history of civilization it was given the formally enslaved the right to vote the reversal of all that was beautiful and children history of civilization. to say that is the betrayal of civilization with these unscrupulous people in the north. >> it would almost be hard to believe if it was not happening now. >> that's why this is on reconstruction because i want people to realize what is happening now is a repeat when black people are experiencing the 131,415th amendment and it was all rollback by redemption and that's what we saw with the rise of donald trump and the rise of the tea party and thank god donald trump was denied a second turn because we being gay people are trends people our rights we never finished our discussion about those five ministers. so let me wrap that up. as you said the north is being defeated. so when the newspapers said lincoln had met with the five black ministers at the white house to encourage them to lead the

thomas rhett, carrie underwood and luke combs are headlining the festival. other acts include. >> the blackn morris and smokey robinson still going strong. stagecoach will take place. april 29th through may. first next year. >> and coming up next kron, 4 news at 6 millions of american families will start receiving payments from the federal government when that money is expected to be deposited. plus, california department of public health has released updated guidelines for the upcoming school year. what you need to know. but for some big political news out of sacramento. governor newsome will not have his party affiliation listed on his name on the recall ballot. details on that after the break. is you headquarters. we just know today governor newsom, democratic party affiliation will not be on the recall ballot. a judge made that decision late this afternoon after attorneys representing newsome and the secretary of state, shirley weber faced off in court on friday. >> newsom's attorneys tried to convince a judge to order whether to allow the governor to have his democratic party preferenc

thomas jefferson can actually say that poetry is beneath -- what is it? it is beneath the dignity of responding to a critically. the fact that he could dismiss the art and have children who are black, i mean, to me, i will never, ever consider thomas jefferson in the same way. you had some very cool ideas that you took from, let's say rousseau and locke, you spun it, took ownership of it, but i'm not going to forget that you took some ideas from white guys in europe as well, and you were able to justify your bad behavior and somehow, white americans today are thinking that he's a good guy. i want to know how far you can go back, but this is really important to me because i wanted to talk about you being an artist. there is a wonderful paragraph here on page try six -- page 26. i am going backwards. donna and grace are the two women that clint meets when he goes to monticello. and that paragraph, that first paragraph, if you could read that for us, on page 26. clint: donna and grace, and so money people, specifically white people, have often understood slavery and those held in its grip only in abstract terms. they do not see the faces, they cannot picture the hands, they do not he

i'll pass the baton -- >> hello, i'm thomas simson, here representing mega-black for arts and culture. we need culturally affirming spaces for art events and identity, so we can celebrate our intersectionality. specifically, we demand space for our lgbtqaa, or we demand to have an lgbtqaa cultural hub. we demand having african-american black cultural venues and centers, and those that need to be revitalized, to be revitalized. we need continued family-friendly and black affirming community events and spaces in our lakeview o.m.i. district. arts and culture is one place where we can all come together to showcase who we are, where we are, what we are, and where we're planning to go. and with this money, we will do that. thank you. i will now pass it on to federica. >> hello, my name is federica. you have heard my colleagues clearly articulate about the many buckets, areas needed, to build blacks better. san francisco's black-led organization, and the black serving organizations, are ready and starving to have funding to eradicate historical wrongs done upon the san francisco black commu

thomas jefferson can say that poetry-- i mean, what is it? beneath the dignity of responding to a critically like the fact that he could dismiss the art and yet he can have children who are black like to me i will never ever, ever, ever consider thomas jefferson the same way like i can say you know what we had some very cool ideas that you took from let's say-- [inaudible] i'm not going to forget that you took some ideas from some white guys in europe as well and you're able to justify your bad behavior and somehow white americans today are thinking that he's a good guy. i want to know like how far you can go back but this is really important to me because i want to talk about you and there's a wonderful paragraph here on page 26. c, i am going backwards. when you'd start with don and grace and don and grace are the two women that clint meets when he goes to monticello and that paragraph, if you could read that press. guest: donna and grace in so many people specifically white people have often understood slavery and those held in its grip only in abstract terms. they do not see the faces. they cannot picture the hands. they do not hear the fear or the laughter. they do not co

going over court documents and council records and newspapers, black-and-white newspapers, reading white supremacists, the novels of thomas dixon and journalism, tom watson, legislation about lynching, put together an hour by hour account of an episode of white supremacy and white violence. when i came out in 2001, local educators in georgia, the first book account of what happened. educators in georgia developed item units, put them into the georgia history curriculum. it altered social studies in the state afterwords. here is where danielle and i don't disagree on the characterization. i don't think that is the central story of america. the story of america is a stunning assertion of individual freedoms, not group identity and there's a tradition of anti-group identity in united states history. think of all the figures who are individualists, rogues, runaways, orphans, benjamin franklin, emerson, self-reliance, the road heading off to the wood dancing leave me the hell alone, emily dickinson going into her room and shutting the door, ralph ellison's invisible man, all the way to those motorcyclists in easy rider, one of

thomas jefferson can actually say that poetry that is beneath -- what is it? beneath the ddd of responding to it critically? the fact he could dismiss the art and yet he could have children who were black. like i mean, to me i will never ever, ever consider thomas jefferson in the same way. i can say you at some very cool ideas that you took from let's say russo and locke. you spun it, took ownership of it. not going to forget you took some ideas from some white guys injured as well, and you are able to justify your bad behavior and somehow white americans today are thinking that he's a good guy. i want to know like how far you can go back that this is really important for me because i want to talk with you being an artist. artist. there's a wonderful paragraph here on page 26. see, i am going backwards. when you start with don and grace. donna and grace of the women that clint meets when he goes to monticello. that paragraph, that first paragraph if you could read that for us on page 26. >> donna and grace and so many people, specifically white people, have often understood slavery and those held in its grip only in abstract terms. they do not see the faces. they cannot picture the ha

black cats. what happens if you get slightly drunk at work every day? four teachers find out in the oscar winner another round. helmed by celebrated danish director thomasrberg, another round stars mads mikkelsen as a dejected history teacher who agrees to join his mates in an experiment. inspired by a theory that modest inebriation increases creativity and opens the mind, they decide to maintain and monitor blood alcohol levels during the day, secretly swigging at school. at first they see some results. lessons definitely get livelier. and when they up the ante, there are laugh out loud moments. look out for a side—splitting scene in the supermarket. but there are of course downsides to the idea, and i think another round is best in its contemplative moments, pondering on drinking culture, friendship and mental health. nevertheless, compared to other vinterberg films, from feston to the hunt, it is a little on the slight side and i'm still surprised by its success at the bafta film awards and the oscars where it beat powerful international features such as collective and quo vadis, aida. but it's an enjoyable film that's sure to be an art—house crowd p