brewster cahill is the founder and the digital librarian of internet archive. archive.org is the website. mr. cahill, thank you forlitera. my name is peniel joseph, and i'm a professor history and public affairs at the lbj school of public affairs at the university of texas at austin. and it's my distinct honor and pleasure to be in conversation today with two extraordinary authors dr. daniel black and mr. ernest mcmillan. i'll introduce each and we will really commence the conversation. dr. daniel black, the author of eight books, and he's a professor of african american studies at clark atlanta university in atlanta. his novels include don't cry for me, an next and book of the month club, pick as well as the coming perfect peace. and they tell me of home. he is the winner of the distinguished writer award from the middle atlantic writers association and has been nominated for the tauzin prize for fiction, the ernest j. gaines award, and the georgia author of, the year award. he was raised in arkansas and lives in georgia. thank you. thank you. and

and now we want to introduce you to brewster kael. he is the founder of something you might be familiar with. it's called the internet archive. mr. kael. what is the purpose of the internet archive? the archive is a nonprofit research library largely used over the internet by people trying to dive deeper into wikipedia articles by clicking through on the citations on the bottom and finding themselves on web pages that it might have been disappeared or on the books right at the right page to be able to follow up and learn more. how many unique visitors do you have a day per year? per day. we get about 2 million people coming to the website but about 5 million come and use the internet archive's in one way or another. it's between the 200th and most or 300th most popular website. so actually want a library and is it free? yes, everything is free. the internet archive, we collect web pages, books, music, video and the idea is that this is free public access and yes, you can borrow, you can look at all web pages. it's a it's a library. so

brewster cahill is the founder and the digital librarian of internet archive. archive.org is the website. mr. cahill, thank you for

getting shot for people to really listen >> reporter: hope despite sky-high tensions shaquille brewsterc news, providence >>> and coming up, as we continue tonight, the ransomeware attack on emergency rooms across the country how it's impacting patients, next >>> one of the nation's largest health care providers is under siege a major cyberattack forcing hospital ers to turn away patients in multiple states as miguel almaguer reports, it's just the latest high profile company to get hit by hackers. >> reporter: tonight, the ongoing cyberattack at ardent health services is forcing roughly a dozen of their hospitals to divert patients away from emergency rooms, impacting critical care in at least four states ardent, a major national health care provider, has now taken its network offline after cyber criminals hijacked their operating system how dangerous can a hack be at a hospital? >> very. it's life threatening. it's as simple as that this does put people's lives at risk. >> reporter: still scrambling to restore its vital i.t. operations after the thanksgiving day hack, ardent health co

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shaquille brewster went to brown university. >> reporter: brown university students grappling with thene of their own. >> he lightens up the mood but is a passionate person. >> reporter: he was shot in the spine in vermont with two of his friends saturday. >> they were speaking arabic, being arab. that's not safe in many parts of the country anymore. >> reporter: the president of brown's arab society is so concerned about harassment, he asked us not to use his name. the fear at brown is tense. students are launching a safe walking service for palestinian classmates, while jewish students are facing backlash on social media. how would you describe the atmosphere here on campus? >> it's pretty bad. >> reporter: this woman is jewish. she says she's been avoiding pub lech spaces. >> by virtue of being a jew or an arab or muslim or israeli, there's a feeling that you are so hated by so many people no matter what you do or say. >> reporter: this woman was arrested during a pro-palestinian sit-in earlier this month. >> it's not jews against arabs. >> reporter: the university dropped all charg

. >> nbc's shaquille brewster is joining us from burlington, vermont, with more now. how are those students? how are their families doing? >> reporter: hi there, ana, two of the parents are back here in burlington, it was an emotional return, as you saw some of that video as they arrived at the airport here. you heard the parents of hisham. he's still in the hospital right now with that bullet, recovering from that bullet to his spine. doctors saying that he may not walk again, and that's part of that emotional return that you saw. we also know that the parents of keenan have also come here to burlington. he was released from the hospital earlier this week. they said in a statement earlier this week that he was actually fearful of leaving the hospital, just as a sign that it's not only physical wounds that these students are recovering from but also emotional wounds that they'll have to recover from. but fortunately two of those three students now have their parents back here in the united states. the parent of the third student, they're still working on some visas to

shaquille brewster joins us from the campaign trail in kentucky.to the polls this year? >> reporter: hi there, zinhle. there are some 30 races, 30 elections that are taking place across the country come tomorrow. voters going to the polls to vote on things like mayors, school boards, other ballot initiatives. but at a national level, there are a handful of races that we're watching extremely closely because they could offer some major takeaways. key statewide elections across the country tuesday offering important indicators for 2024, with both parties testing campaign messages. increased early voting in ohio, voters deciding on marijuana legalization and whether ohio will become the latest conservative state to take on abortion laws in their state. >> it's up to each family to make the choices. >> this goes much, much too far. >> reporter: in virginia, governor youngkin's political power and a push for a 15-week abortion ban are on the line as voters take volume of the state legislature. crime and education. democrats messaging on threats to abort

shaquille brewster is in des moines for us.fter the debate, what did they tell you? >> reporter: hi there, crist, it was certainly an appreciation for being a smaller debate stage, a more controlled debate, and people said they got to hear more from the candidates and learn a little bit more by watching the debate. and when i asked the room if there was anyone who flipped completely, who came in supporting one person and now leaving supporting another, there were no complete flips, but you did hear perspectives changing and their views on some of the candidates shifting. listen to a little bit of what i mean, starting with someone who said he was walking into that room, kind of stuck and torn between ron desantis and nikki haley. >> after tonight's debate, have you made a decision? are you closer to either of the two? >> that decision will be made, i think, on january 15th, 2024. >> that's the iowan answer there. who are you leaning towards right now? >> i like haley, i like her foreign policy better. >> who did you come in sup

there's still a lot of time until they go into those caucus rooms. >> so interesting, shaq brewster,nk you. we're joined by the former chief of staff mike pence who dropped out of the republican race for the presidency. so mark, we heard maura tick through some of the issues discussed. i want to dive into one of the other top issues last night. we saw what happened this week with the issue of abortion and the elections in ohio and virginia, here's what we heard from candidates about that last night. >> i trust the people of this country state by state to make the call for themselves. >> we need a 15-week federal limit. >> here's the missing ingredient in this movement. sexual responsibility for men. we live in an era of reliable genetic paternity tests. >> we're better off when we can promote a culture of life. i think of all the stuff that's happened to the pro-life cause, they have been caught flat footed on these ref ren da. >> no republican president can ban abortions any more than a democrat president can ban these state laws. so let's find consensus. >> mark, do you think any o

chris. >> shaquille brewster, thank you so much for that.40 seats in the state legislature are up for grabs. the democratic legislative campaign committee has invested $2 million in tomorrow's elections with record numbers for voter outreach, including making 2 million phone calls and more than a million door knocks. heather williams, democratic legislative interim president. good to see you. why so much attention in virginia, what's at stake and what do you think it might tell us, the results of 2024. >> i'm excited to be here to talk about these really important races. to zoom out, right, what's happening in the states is so so important. state election, and ultimately our state houses are the races and the policies that affect us the most are decided. in virginia tomorrow, as you said, we've got all of these elections and at stake is whether or not virginians on wednesday, expect an abortion ban in the state. the stakes are so incredibly high, and virginians understand where we are headed. they are ready to go to the polls. they are ready

. >> nbc shaquille brewster is live at brown university, where one of the victims went to school.hearing from brown university students. they go back to class today right after thanksgiving break. >> reporter: here at the university, the topic of the israeli, hamas war has been in focus. there have been demonstrations, a lot of activity in response to that. news that one of the classmates was impacted in the shooting over the course of the weekend is really just trickling out. people are learning and understanding exactly what happened. the university's president released a statement last night saying that they sent personnel up to burlington, that they're in contact with tahseen's family. and they will be hosting a video later today. those who saw the news online or through social media, you're hearing words like frustration, anger and fear. i want you to listen to what some students have been telling me today. >> i was shocked but also not surprised because there have been other acts of violence that are isolated from this event. i guess it really hit close to home. >> especiall

nbc's shaquille brewster has more. >> reporter: brown university students grappling with the shootingf their own. >> he's always like lightens up the mood but at the same time is a really passionate person. >> the junior was shot in the spine in vermont with two of his friends on saturday. >> all they were doing is speaking arabic, being arab, and clearly that's not safe in many parts of this country anymore. >> the president of brown's arab society so concerned about possible harassment he asked us not to use his name. >> does the war feel as far away as it is? >> it hasn't felt far away through the entirety of this. >> reporter: the atmosphere at brown is incredible will tense. students are now launching a safe walking service for palestinian classmates, while jewish students are facing intense backlash on social media. >> how would you describe the atmosphere here on campus? >> it's pretty bad. >> maya rackoff is jewish. she says she's been avoiding public spaces. >> by virtue of either just being a jew or an arab or a muslim or israeli, there's a feeling that you're so hated by so

political editor marc murray, nbc's correspondent columbus, and nbc news correspondent shaquille brewster who is in louisville, kentucky for us. priscilla, i want to start with you. tell me what you are hearing about abortion in ohio. >> yeah, every voter that has agreed to speak with me today has said that they will be voting yes on both the abortion amendment and the marijuana amendment. that abortion amendment is going to a shrine the right to an abortion in the state constitution with a note that the state legislature can limit abortion access after the point of fetal viability, so about 24 weeks. there is the amendment that would allow for tional use of marijuana. everyone i saking to, saying that they are voting yes. that's inne with the polling that they saw last month from ohio voters showing 57% in support of both of the measures. i talked to one woman about why she was voting in that way. i want to play what she had to say about it. >> i hope the people who are empowered in our state right now understand that the majority of ohioans are absolutely in favor of our right to not on

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a caltrans spokesperson tells us that the person was hit just before 4 this afternoon at brewster avenue in redwood city. there were about 150 passengers on board the train at the time of the incident and nobody was and were transported to another train. this is cal trans 13th fatality of the concord police are looking for the driver involved in a hit and run crash. that killed an 86 year-old man last night. thanksgiving night. police say it happened just before 7 o'clock in the area of oak grove and ryan road saw officers say the victim was a passenger in one of the vehicles involved. the ban on street vending in san francisco's mission district is set to go into effect on monday. opponents of the ban say the move would hurt local families trying to make a living. they're asking the city to push back their plans until the end of the holiday season. supporters of the ban say the markets are hotspots for crime. city leaders say that they will re-evaluate the ban in 90 days. holiday spirit shining bright in downtown danville. tonight, the east bay village held its annual old oak tree tree

joining us now is shaq brewster, host of politics nation on msnbc reverend al sharpton.locked. they couldn't reach a conclusion on those two civil rights charges against brett hankison. he's the former louisville police officer who was involved in that, as you mentioned, march 2020 raid inside breonna taylor's apartment. let's remind viewers of the facts here. this was months before the murder of george floyd. it was part of that social justice movement and the calls for reform. according to breonna taylor's boyfriend who was in the apartment at the time they woke up during this overnight raid. they heard noise at the front door. when they went toward the door police busted in and he used his legal weapon to fire one shot at an officer, striking one in the leg. that's when police returned fire, a hail of 30 bullets. brett hankison was one of the officers part of that raid. while he didn't shoot breonna taylor, she was shot multiple times and died in that raid, prosecutors say he went above and beyond. he used reckless force when he fired through a window and a sliding gl

. >> shaquille brewster is in des moines. >> what was their reaction to the debate. >> reporter: we've had a chance to talk to people on streets about who they were leaning toward for 2024, republican voters a lone voice for support of vivek ramaswamy, haley, overwhelming support for donald trump or ron desantis. we did have a chance to follow-up after the debate with a number of republican voters, here's what they had say. >> when i came here i was split 50/50. i'm swinging more toward desantis today. >> what nikki haley said about abortion, the greatest thing a republican has ever said about abortion. >> i'm still for trump, i think he's strong, i think america is still pulling for him, i'd love to have seen him on the debate. >> reporter: so the resounding consensus after the debate was that the two people who shined the most on stage were nikki haley and governor desantis, the first person you heard from who said he was 50/50 between the two now leaning toward desantis, this is veteran-heavy and friendly area jacksonville here, desantis has momentum among voters here. resounding co

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the current non-food auction books featured copyright case.k and now we want to introduce you to brewster kael. he is the founder of something you might be familiar with. it's called the internet archive. mr. kael, what is the purpose of the internet archive? the internet archive is a nonprofit research library largely used over the internet by people trying to dive deeper into wikipedia articles by clicking through on the citation, signs on the bottom and finding themselves on web pages that it might have been disappeared or on books. right at the right page to be able to follow up and learn more. how many unique visitors do you have a day or per year? per day? we get about 2 million people coming to the website, but about 5 million come and use the internet archive's resource in one way or another. it's about a between the 200th and most or 300th most popular website. so people actually want a library. and is it free? yes, everything is free on the internet archive. we collect web pages, books, music, video. and the idea is that this is free public access. and yes, you can borrow books.

shaquille brewster in louisville, kentucky, and nbc news national political correspondent, steve kornackit the big board. shaq, what are you hearing from kentucky voters on this key day? >> reporter: voters are telling me they definitely have local issues top of mind. i have heard education and infrastructure mentioned to me. others have said the national and international issues have been their focus, and that could be the difference here. this is a state that in 2019 the democratic governor won by just 5,000 votes, and then the following year you had donald trump win here by 26 percentage points. that's why you have the republican challenger, cameron, doing what he can to tie himself around donald trump and tout his endorsement, and also tie governor beshear to joe biden. >> i wound up supporting cameron this time. >> who did you support in 2019? >> beshear. there are things that i didn't agree with. >> reporter: there was another voter who i talked to off camera that said she usually doesn't come out to elections like this, but she really likes beshear, and she really likes how he resp

and now we want to introduce you to brewster kael. he is the founder of something you might be familiar with. it's called the internet archive. mr. kael. what is the purpose of the internet archive? the archive is a nonprofit research library largely used over the internet by people trying to dive deeper into wikipedia articles by clicking through on the citations on the bottom and finding themselves on web pages that it might have been disappeared or on the books right at the right page to be able to follow up and learn more. how many unique visitors do you have a day per year? per day. we get about 2 million people coming to the website but about 5 million come and use the internet archive's in one way or another. it's between the 200th and most or 300th most popular website. so actually want a library and is it free? yes, everything is free. the internet archive, we collect web pages, books, music, video and the idea is that this is free public access and yes, you can borrow, you can look at all web pages. it's a it's a library. so

shaq brewster is at brown university. >> reporter: so many students were away at home and as they'recampus they're just learning that one of their classmates was involved in that shooting the over this weekend. a vigil for hisham right in the main campus area over my shoulder. there are many students will learn the university president there as well as many of the student groups that have been involved in reaction and response to war for more than the past month. listen to what some students have been telling me about their reaction once they heard one of their classmates was impacted here. >> to have that happen. >> it could happen to me and any of my other peers, my first thought that's terrifying and also just very angry and very frustrated. >> reporter: those words she said anger, frustrated fear, those are the words i continue to hear from people who knew about that. >> president biden just releasing a statement on the shooting. what is he saying? >> reporter: he talked about how he and the first lady are devastated and shocked by this shooting. i want to read a little bit of st

joining me is shaq brewster in lexington, kentucky. great to see you. have going on. that's great. shaq, here's my question. i think that this race in kentucky is way more important than sometimes the attention being put into it. but it's interesting because it doesn't seem like it's ever been all that close. what is it like on the ground? are people nervous? are democrats nervous? are daniel cameron's people saying they think they have some hidden silent majority there? because most of the numbers i have seen suggest that andy beshear is going to get re-elected. >> well, jason, you said the word nervous. that is the same word i'm hearing from voters on the ground on both sides of this. when you talk to the campaigns, they both say they're feeling good but they both acknowledge the result will be close. you're hearing that from andy beshear's campaign and he just wrapped up an event here in lexington. he's having another one in louisville tonight. big crowd here. he said he's feeling good. they feel like they're seeing positive indicators but the concer

. >> this is shaquille brewster at a polling location here in louisville, kentucky.you have the democratic governor andy bashier going up and facing a tough re-election fight from the state's attorney general, a republican, daniel cameron. the governor has been touting his covid response, his infrastructure investments, and his response to natural disasters in hoping that his popularity among the voters here will help secure him a re-election in a state he won by just 5,000 votes four years ago but that former president trump won a year later by 26 percentage points. while his opponent, daniel cameron is trying to nationalize this race as much as possible, leaning into his endorsement from former president trump. the two appearing virtually in a telerally last night. this is really going to come down to whether a democratic governor's popularity can overcome its party's unpopular president. both sides are expecting this race to be extremely close. >> reporter: i'm in virginia where voters are voting on this election day. and they're telling me some of the biggest iss

shaq brewster in iowa for us. up some of that voters support, senator tim scott. you have made your personal story part of your campaign, you had two moments that resonated, one talking about how high gas prices are a crisis in some families and iowa farmers, if you raise the retirement age physically it could hurt them, almost kill them. >> when you think about the iowa farmer, the physical wear and tear on your body is tremendous. so, when you're talking about raising the retirement age, by a year or two or three, that is devastating to the average person who is a blue collar worker. i think we should take into consideration the fact that it's not just social security that is the challenge, it's all of our mandatory spending and appropriations that has skyrocketed. going back to pre-covid levels of appropriations on an annual basis as well as dealing with the overall state of spending, so that we can manage our resources better. but we have to actually increase the economic activity in the private sector so that

shaquille brewster is in iowa. you spoke with voters at the debate watch party.oters are patient. they are clear that one debate or one moment is not going to make up their mind or help them make their final determination. there were clearly moments that connected with folks who were at that debate watch party. one thing is that foreign policy discussion. folks were listening to that closely. the conversations that you heard in the room reflected the debate you heard on the stage, where there's a split in the republican party over those who want america to do more overseas, whether it's dealing with israel and hamas, or the war between ukraine and russia, while others are saying, america has done enough. one other connection that i saw and one common theme i picked up on is that there's a split somewhat between voters who like a candidate and have a connection with a candidate and who they -- the decision on who they plan to support. listen to some of the conversations. >> nikki haley. we need serious politicians in office. she's very knowledgeable. she's willing

we have got team coverage this morning, nbc's shaquille brewster in kentucky following a highly contentious governor's race, priscilla thompson and gary gumbrack in virginia. andy beshear is a popular democratic governor in a red state. how is this race shaping up? >> reporter: this is going to be a test of whether popular democrats can overcome their unpopular leader and i'll tell you, both parties are watching this extremely closely because here in kentucky, since the turn of the century, the party that has won the governor's mansion has gone on to win the white house the next year. so, are those national headwinds going to influence how voters behave as they head to the polls? listen to one of the conversations i had with a voter this morning. >> did the national mood play into how you voted? >> yes and no. >> reporter: how so? >> i've seen a lot of divisiveness across our nation, a lot of issues with people holding party lines and i'm really sick of that. we're walking back rights we already earned and so because of that it filtered over into our state, it filtered over into legislation

. >> let's bring in our nbc news correspondents, marisa para, shaquille brewster and vaughn hillyard here in miami. so governor ron desantis was at the center podium for last night's debate. what did voters tell you about what they thought of the debate? >> jose, good morning. we have been talking to every republican voter we can find. i've been asking everyone who is willing to talk with me with or without a camera, asking, just getting a check of how they're feeling about 2024. i hear a lone vote of support for tim scott, ramaswamy here and there. but overwhelmingly, what we hear on the ground in florida, here in jacksonville, very veteran friendly, the support really is behind donald trump and governor ron desantis, two of florida's own. i do notice among veterans there say particular amount of support for desantis, fellow veteran himself. what i thought was interesting last night, we had a watch party, a local gop debate watch party, and i talked to the room, i made my rounds around the room, and once again we found exactly the same, most of the room seemed to be behind desantis

arrived on the mayflower and stepped onto the rock in massachusetts, the spiritual leader, william brewster actually, recited the words of psalm 100. so really from the beginning this was a faith-based country. and, of course, it's right here in our constitution and declaration of independence, particularly the catalytic sentence about the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that are the endowment of our creator. and apropos of the religious freedom commission, that declaration of the faith-based human rights is universal, it's obviously god didn't give as much just to americans, but to the whole world, every person on earth. it's what is so critically important that human rights generally, but also religious freedom specifically, be at the center of our relations with the rest of the world. and that's exactly why we adopted the religious freedom act 25 years ago this month. truthfully, we were, well, i'll read you some words that he spoke on the floor of the senate in october of 1998. a quote for me, this effort begin with some white papers outside congress who educated u