of schoole case segregation, brown beat -- brown v. board of education. we will begin by listening to linda brown on the roots of this case. my memory of brown began in the fall of 1950. in the quiet kansas town of topeka, where a mild mannered lack man took his seven-year-old and walked the hand briskly for blocks from their home to the all white school and tried without success to enroll his child. parents felt that the time to numeral their parents in a school close to their home was hard to do. father wouldght arrive home baked -- to find my mother was upset because i had to take a walk and catch a school bus some two miles across town. i can remember that walk. of itd only make half some days because the cold would get to better for a small child to there. i can still remember taking that better walk and the terrible cold that would cause my tears to freeze on my face. that is linda brown talking about her experience. letter to theory supreme court and one of its landmark decisions. we will learn more about that case and what its implications twome i

but john brown was no republican.cate a single republican in his harpers ferry enterprise. so neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us. but let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us dare to do our duty as we understand it. [ cheers and applause ] >> it is within this speech that he kind of marries the pragmatic argument of preventing the extension of slavery with the moral argument that there is a problem with slavery, morally, and that it is damaging the credibility and the unity of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] >> the speech makes lincoln a national political star, and he capitalizes on his newfound fame to become the republican party's nominee for president. though the north embraces lincoln, southern states refuse to even put him on the ballot. running against a divided field of democrats, including old rival stephen douglas, lincoln carries all but one free state, enough to win the presidency, with less than 40% of the popular vote. [ crowd c

but john brown was no republican.o implicate a single republican in his harpers ferry enterprise. so neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us. but let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us dare to do our duty as we understand it. [ cheers and applause ] >> it is within this speech that he kind of marries the pragmatic argument of preventing the extension of slavery with the moral argument that there is a problem with slavery, morally, and that it is damaging the credibility and the unity of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] >> the speech makes lincoln a national political star, and he capitalizes on his newfound fame to become the republican party's nominee for president. though the north embraces lincoln, southern states refuse to even put him on the ballot. running against a divided field of democrats, including old rival stephen douglas, lincoln carries all but one free state, enough to win the presidency, with less than 40% of the popular vote. [

and then brown -- brown's grounds weren't decided. well, the way i teach plessy, there are a few things i want to get out of it. one of it is that it is the capstone case of the redemption era, the era that ended reconstruction. and if you read the decision, one of the things about it is that there's this element of intellectual dishonesty in the decision that i point out to students. justice brown at one point talks about the implication that was argued that separate but equal stigmatized black people. and he said that to the extent that there's any stigma imputed by the law, it's not because the law did so itself, or was intended to do so, but because black people interpreted it that way. it's kind of blaming the victim phenomenon in the case. the other thing that i think is important, there's so much more we could say in talking about plessy, but harlan's dissent is the thing that perhaps survives most. and that deserves some attention. i'm sure we're going to talk about his -- his dissent. and so we'll get to that. but i think it'

brown versus board of education case. then, after that, another chance to see today's march for our in washington, d.c. activists against mass shootings. >> cases,mark c-span's special history series produced in partnership with the national constitution center. exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic supreme court decisions. >> mr. chief justice and matt please the court. >> quite often the ones the court took were often unpopular. >> let's go through a few cases that illustrate medically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. host: good evening. tonight, plessy v. ferguson. this 1896 case established the concept of separate but equal that enabled jim crow segregation laws to flourish legally in this country for the next five decades after the decision. it did not change in the u.s. until the 1954 round versus -- brown versus board of education, and it the -- the civil and voting rights acts of the

ough after brown v. board of theation was decided in 1950's, 1954, there were scholars who said that plessy was decided on grounds that were pretty solid. and browned ground -- brown's grounds weren't. it is the capstone case of the reduction era. the era that ended reconstruction. decision, one of the things about it is this is -- there is an element of intellectual dishonesty in the decision that i point out to students. justice brown at one point the implication that was argued that separate but equal stigmatized black people and he said to the extent that there is any stigma impudent by the law, it is not because the law did so itself or was intended to do so, but because black people interpreted it that way so it is a blaming the victim phenomenon. in the case. the other thing that i think is important, there is a much or we could see in talking about 's dissentbut harlan .s the thing that survives most that deserves some attention. i am sure we will talk about is his dissent and we will get to that

governor brown? governor brown: thank you so much for having me here today. i am honored to be sharing the dais with my colleague governor leary hogan. by providing our states' perspectives, i hope we can underscore the urgency of the crisis that has touched every single corner of every state in our entire nation. part of what makes opioids so dangerous is the fact that there is so much of it, and it is not hard to get. as easily asin reaching into the average family medicine cabinet. that is what happened to max of southern oregon. he was a poet and a chef. when he was 17, he got into a car accident and was prescribed opioid painkillers. what started as there be became self-medication and spiraled into abuse. from prescription pills, he moved on to heroine. his mother julia was devastated as she watched the grip of opioids consume his life. he died of an overdose at age 25. max'shard to look on story. what if we lived in a society where he was not change for having a problem or for reaching out for help? what if he had had access to better treatment? what if

jan crawford outside of the supreme court with linda brown's legacy. >> the brown lawsuit was joinedsimilar cases. became known as brown vs. board of education. their name was first alphabetically. because of that. linda brown became the face of a movement that changed history. >> my memory of brown began in the fall of 1950. in the quiet kansas town of topeka. >> linda brown was 7 years old when her father, reverend oliver brown marched her to an all white school four blocks from their home. he wanted to enroll her so she wouldn't have to walk to the all black school two miles across town. >> i can remember that walk. i could only make half of it some days, the cold would get too builter for a small child to bear. >> when her enrollment was denied. the reverend sued the board of education. the decision led to the desegregation of schools. brown became the fearless face of the movement. and was celebrated for her role in the historic decision. caroline campbell was brown's long time friend. >> it was very difficult for her. as a young person to be thrown in the spotlight. she was a q

governor hogan, governor brown, thank you both very much for being here.t is it you think generally eaking the federal government doesn't understand about what are you facing. >> i think maybe that this crisis is evolving so rapidly and that it is as deadly as it. and that we really need more resources from the federal government. that's the main thing we are trying to cvey. we're dealing with fentanyl as the number one killer in ferent across di the country but we had nearly 2,000 deaths last area. and 70% spike in fentanyl which is something the federal government has to get involved in from an interdiction stnce, coming from china and mexico. >> governor brown what did you come here to tl the government. >> i wanted to make sure that they knew that oregon and many other states, most of my governors are really focused on treating thic s as a pubalth crisis as opposed to a criminal justice issue. s and that it key that we focus on education, prevention, and treatment for folks that are suffering from substance abuse, particularly with opioids. >> the pres

last 400 yea tonight, jeffrey brown travels to san diego, as part ongoing series, "culture at ri." >> welcome tone of our walk-in virtual reality environments. o> brown: it's meant transport you across space and time. >> it's the world's highest resolution vtual reality environment. it's running at 500 megapixe, half a gigapixels worth of resolution. >> brown: called the "sun cave," it's an immersive, sci-fi-like f wonder-- hard ly convey on television-- driven by the latest advances in computer visualization and 3d imaging. >> so, it really gives us a mechanism to deliver, visually, very compelling representations of that environment. >> brown: it's all part of a project overseen by faulko kuester, a german-born professor of structural engineering at the university of california, san diego, one that puts high tech to work on behalf of cultural preservation. >> virtual reality is a very powerful mechanism that allows us to explore spaces, and environments, and scale, but on our own terms, in a controlled and safe environment. and it became somewhat natural think about how we can actua

th brown: jennifer lawrence is asserting her powee days, on and off screen.parrow" opens around the country today. for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown in washington. >> woodruff: later tonight on a pbs, "frontline" presentlm co-produced with the bbc on harvey weinstein. the documentary takes an in-depth look at allegations against the powerful movie producer, and cludes interviews with new accusers and a former company executive. >> it was on the froage of the new york post, and those of us tndt heard about it read it kind of looked at each other. i don't think anybody was t surprised. >> tom prince, an executive who left the company last year is speaking out for the first time. no current executives would agree to an interview. prince says he had become concerned about instein's use of company funds to fly women around the world. >> pretty much in every production i would get a phone call or an email saying, we have to fly an actress to the movie set, and i would always come back and explain to them that this is a one or two-day roll and, you know, we're

n >> brown: it our usual dress, or mode of transportation. but this is an unusual tale, one that takess underwater, cultural heritage. they can't be anything but the total summation of a certain culture's way of trying to move across the water. >> brown: and also goes on a very different kind of dive. >> we can literally dive and swim toward the shipwreck itself. >> brown: ...through virtual reality, in a lab in san diego. >> what we're looking at for bermuda right now are five tllion data points that have been collected f first set of shipwrecks that have been documented. >> brown: we begin in the real world of bermuda, a british- island territory that sits00 les to the east of the u.s. and is home to 65,000 residents. it's known for its breathtaking coastlines and beaches, its high-priced real estate, the mystery of the "bermuda triangle," and its four centuries-long history of shipping and wrecks, some 300 of them that have crashng the island's encircling reefs. >> there's a charming feeling about being around a shipwreck. to me, it's quin

it didn't change in the united states until the 1954 brown v. board of education decision and the supreme court and civil and voting rights act of the 1960s. decades before rosa parks refused to give up her seat on an alabama bus, plessey took a seat in a railroad car and we are going to introduce you to a descendent and he will set the stage for us in the court case. the visits the locatio this is e east louisiana railroad. in 1892 in june 7, plessy purchased a ticket to the board of the louisiana railroad car that was mandated separate cars be established for black-and-white. one block away arrested and this wasn't a random act of civil disobedience. it was a well-thought-out plan crafted by the citizens committee. the group of citizens here in new orleans made up of 18 lawyers, prominent citizens who were totally against the segregation rules established by the legislature in 1890. the conductor. they did not agree with segregation. to fight against the separate car eventually was moved to the state level and became known as the plessy versus

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>> andhen i asked women. >> brown: what about in the #metoo moment?you ask yourself similarof typeuestions and feel you had to speak out? >> i felt like it was important to show support, because that's e,w all of these people who have suffered abelt comfortable coming forward, was because of this outpouring of support. and then also, we had to start creating movement, you know? we have to reshape the way that we're treated. things that were normalized before are no longer going to be normalized.>> rown: did it surprise you? >> no, it didn't surprise me. i thinthere's a huge gap between the amount of men and women th are working in higher-level jobs and decision- maki jobs. and it's something that just has to change. >> brown: one thing that all expod for the world was this sort of power imbalance in hollywood, right? >> a young actor, or a less experienced actor, doesn't have the sa opportunity, the same power, to say no. >> brown: to say nabout pay, or >> whether it's pay or arassment, yeah. they want to wor so, they don't have the same power to walk

jeffrey brown has our second look at this story we originallf brought you lal. >> brown: you know the frustration. you're late for work, or picking up your child. gh the citying thr anreets and every block or two, it seems, there's other red haght. it's a problem tplagues commuters acro the country. fact, according to a texas a&m study, the average commuter in the u.s. spends upwards of 42 hours a year at a complete standstill, stuck in traffic. >> heavy congestion from ncrille island tt and then opens up. >> brown: eight years ago, traffic problemsn pittsburgh ocalthe attention of a philanthropist who gave seedmo y to carnegie mellon university. the idea? to have its robotics experts u artificial intelligence to create a smarter transportation grid, that will eventually remake the commute for drivers, cyclists and bus riders. almost half of all pittsburghs commutive alone in their cars, so the first priority was road congestion. courtney ehrlichman helps run the program, called traffic 21. >> the problem in pittsburgh is like the problems around the country. you have this existing in

i wanted to ut where they want to be in a year. >> brown: was it hard? i mean did people want to talk to you? >> it was easy. it was incredibly easy. and i chalk that up to the fact that these people are rarely treated like a human being, you know? >> brown: breen's sketches, and the animated videos that accompanied them, told their stories. jenny said she had nowhere to go and she blew through her savings. she said she has serious mental illn well as other health issues but takes medication >> this guy right here tjack, he clait he was able to throw a 95 mile an hour fastball in high school. and i white sox looked at him, jack says his goal is to get to south carolina before he dies to see his granddaughter natalia. he has her name tattooed on s arm-- the same arm he used to throw those fastballs. >> brown: on ourwith breen, we met jeff mourning, homeless for the last seven years. how hard is to live on the streets out here? >> it's actually really dangerous, people wait for people to go to sleep and then they try to rob them, especially >> brown: as it

husband return ten years later she become a rich businesswoman from high nevada fassbender by here brown also embodied the young west german republic which pursued its reconstruction with determination and without remorse but without coming to terms with its nazi past century three hundred morgan told you recommend it at the conclusion of the war germany should be changed into a farm. other words the german nation should be broken. his visit to germany. is proof. enough. is not the spin on the ship. of. the it. is that in the. midst. of a man on the. line of the now fast been there was born in the rulings on the thirty first of may nine hundred forty five just three weeks after the capitulation of the third wife in the wake of this event a defeated and hungry germany was divided into a capitalist west and a communist east the start of the cold war in the west the marshall plan came into force in one nine hundred forty eight with the purpose of rebuilding the shattered continent this special chapter of german history coincided with fast been dissed childhood and became the fundamental the

father oliver brown took the school board to court the case known as brown versus board of education went to the supreme court where attorney thurgood marshall argued that racial discrimination in schools violated the u.s. constitution in one nine hundred fifty four the court struck down segregation ruling that separate but equal was inherently unequal the decision gave a powerful boost to the civil rights movement within a decade president lyndon johnson signed the civil rights act outlawing most forms of racial and religious discrimination in the years following the supreme court's decision in brown versus board of education the struggle to desegregate was long bitter and occasionally marked by violence recent studies have shown that many black children still attend schools in racially and economically isolated neighborhoods brown became a school teacher and remained active on civil rights and social justice issues decades before the youth activism of the present day embodied by the black lives matter movement and the march for our lives linda brown became a living symbol of a youn

governor brown, to you first. trump adminisration is saying basically that the state of california is protecting lawbs. is that what you're doing. >>> no. that's absolutely untrue, and as you've seen from the various indictments and the guilty pleas, the white house is full of liars, and, unfortuately, our attorney general, with this political stunt, as to the lies of the white house. we're not protecting criminals. we have a law that says exactly the oms. and jany tif sessions or immigration wants to work to help deport criminals in thise' state, be glad to help him. but that's not what he's doing. he's going after men, women, an childrenme who have worked 10 or 20 years picking our foodo washinur dishers, building houses. and, yeah, we needmmration reform for the whole nation. we don't need a gestapo-kind of tactic wit vitriole spewing out of jeff sessions' mouth. 's not what our highest law enforcement officer should be doing. >> woodruff: attorney bgerra, i'm goo read something attorney general sessions said i

in the f jeffrey brown takes us to bermuda and san diego for his going series, "culture aro >>: it's not our usual dress, or mode oon transportati that takes us underwater exploring shipwrecks in bermuda. >> shipwrecks have to be cultural heritage. they can't be anything but the total summation of a certain culture's way of trying to move across the water >> brown: and also goes on a very different kind of dive. >> we can literally dive and swim toward the shipwreck itself. >> brown: ...through virtual reality, in a lab in sango dghte billion data points that have been cleed for t e realetegin in th island territory that sits 600 miles to the east of the u.s. and is home to 65,000 residents. it's known for its breathtaking cotl ain bstndatesea t, hechsitt y of the "bermuda triangle," and its four centuries-long history shipping and wrecks, some 300 of them that have crashed along the island's encircling reefs. >> there's a charming feeling about being around a shipwreck.o e, it's quintessentially bermudia this kind of thing,ls but ito eroding. >> brown: ilippe rouja, who's been divin

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. >> reporter: governor jerry brown minced no words in his response to what he called a declaration of war from u.s. attorney general jeff sessions who filed a federal lawsuit against the state of california for it's sanctuary policies. >> this is a political stunt. it's more like fox news and what's going on in washington and it's not about the truth. it not about protecting our state. it's about dividing america. >> stop protecting lawbreakers. >> reporter: speaking at a law enforcement event in sacramento, sessions did not mention brown by name, but he did talk about what he considers the missteps of california leaders, like lieutenant governor gavin knewsoknenewsom who applauded libby schaaf's warning of the i.c.e. raid. >> and gavin newsom praised her for on instructing our law enforcement. >> you might as well accept it as one of the most inefficient attorney generals in american history. >> reporter: sessions' speech ws met with protest and with strong opposition inside the state capitol, where brown stood shoulder to shoulder to california's attorney general. >> here in califor

jeffrey brown has our story. >> brown: 1948 indian brand motorcycle, one of the sleekest machines you're like to see. clothing with the logo for your local sports team. and perhaps in your refrigerator riest now, a box of land o'l butter. >> she's holding the butter, right. she's on her knees a's holding the box that she's on. so it recedes into infinity. so there's something reallyly profoueird going on. >> brown: even more profound, just how pervasive native imagery is embedded into the american subconscious. that's according to paul chaat smith, a member of the comanche tribe and co-curator of an exhibition at the national museum of the american indian: >> it's really this paradox. the country, 330 million people today. one percent of that population is native american. for most people they don't see or really think about indians, yet they're surrounded by indian imagery, place names, and have connections with indians on a kind of deep, emotional level. >> brown: whether we know it or not.er >> wheou know it or not. >> brown: to that end thetl exhibition is , simply, "americans," and

nice to see you again. >> thank you. >> brown: thanks for coming.ht i'll get rto it.re were a lot of people who wondered about how this matched up with you, right. so elaine from fyettesville, arkansas, is any part of this novel drawn from your own experience? another question, are your main characters based on real people you know? >> well, i have been migrating my who life, so in a way i suppose i was always going to write at some point a novel about migration. moved to california when i was 3, back to america when i was 18 from pakistan, london, now back to pakistan. so the experience of migrationon and the emo pain and confusion that comes from it i think do in a way comfort me but at the same time the horrors thaare things i'm not familiar . with nightmares, living in pakistan, is someone is terrified of what could happen as opposed to what is happening. v> brown: a lot of people noticed that not g the names of the two characters but not other characters, right? ume places are namedt not the city where they're from. so christina pikme fro cherry valley, californi

browning assured him, seward, not the president, was the real practical men, as browning characterized them. referring to the charges against seward, the president commented, "why will men begin a lie, and absurd lie, that they could not impose upon a child and cling to it and repeat it in defiance of all evidence to the contrary?" browning did not respond and i won't either. [laughter] since i then said, " heard last night of the proceedings of this caucus, i have been more distressed then any event of my life." when the committee of the caucus met with lincoln on december 18, a senator began by reading the paper outlining the views of the republican senators. lincoln must have been relieved to hear the paper, approved by the committee of the caucus, was not an indictment of the administration. as the resolution stated affirmed the senators confidence in the president and recommended changes for his consideration and hopefully, his action. these changes were not specified in the paper but all knew that the replacement of seward and democratic generals were at the heart. the this was f

us brown girls, brick built, masters of every metaphor and evermorphosis. catch us with fresh manicures, nail filing dosidian stones and painstakingly crafting our own mirrors and stories into existence. this poem that i read for you all was thinking through, what does it mean to be someone who maybe didn't grow up with a mirror and wanting to create that now? to see your reflection and also show kids who might look like you, like ¡hey we're here. it's very much thinking about those of us who wrote even when we didn't see ourselves as main characters a for those of us who are writing now who hopefully will come forward with more exaand who are also going to carry the torch of saying, our stories are just as important as any other in the cannon. i think a lot abt the vements that are happening right now in terms of me too and times up. weoing to shift the status quo, shift the way that women have been trear so long and i just hope that the shift always remembers women or color disenfranchised women who maybe may not have the loudest opcrn may not be that lou

jerry brown has denounced u.s.orney general jeff sessions for speaking in the state about a lawsuit over policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.brown told reporters shortly after session's speech to law enforcement officials wednesday that it was unprecedented for him to "act more like fox news than a law enforcement officer."the democrat accused sessions of lying and of trying to appease president donald trump. brown says the actions are about dividing america.earlier, sessions said the justice department sued california because state laws are preventing federal immigration agents from doing their jobs. sessions strongly criticized oakland mayor libby schaaf for her unusual public warning recently of an operation by federal immigration officers. brown wouldn't comment on that. óóó8:35 a.m.u.s. attorney general jeff sessions is telling california, "we have a problem."sessions told law enforcement officers at a conference in sacramento wednesday that the justice department sued californ

jan crawford is outside the supreme court with linda brown's legacy. >> reporter: the brown's familyar cases from other states but it became known as brown versus board of education because their name was first alphabetically and linda brown became the face of a movement that changed history. >> my memory of brown began in the fall of 1950, in the quiet kansas town of topeka. >> reporter: she was only 7 years old when her father reverent oliver brown marched her to an all white school four blocks from their home. he wanted to enroll her so she wouldn't have to walk to the all black school two miles across town. >> i can remember that walk, i can only make half of it some days because the cold would get too bitter for a small child to bear. >> reporter: when her enrollment was denied the reverend sued the board of education. the case made its way to the supreme court which rejected the separate but equal doctrine. the decision led to the desegregation of schools. brown became the fearless face of the movement and was celebrated for her role in historic decision. carol lynn campbell wa

governor brown he said that was your goal. but marilyn does not proactively share with law-enforcement. i say that not to accuse but just to ask why not. >> we have to be careful about the sharing of information. we want to protect the folks that actually have drug addictions and not treat them as law-enforcement cases. >> the way i see this is not so much that you would attract folks who are addicts, rather you would attract terminal doctors and pharmacies which are knowingly overprescribing and those that are not aware the patients are going from pharmacy to pharmacy in order to aggregate. >> we are doing that. we are shutting down pill mills across the state. certainly would be happy to talk about sharing that information. >> what are the lake times in each of your states between someone getting a prescription filled and that showing up on your pdm p? i spoke yesterday to walgreen and they said most states it's five days in which case somebody can go to five different pharmacies. >> i don't know the exact time. we'll get ba

linda brown who is at the center of a landmark u.s. civil rights case has died at the age of seventy six she was only nine years old when she was barred from attending an all white school in the state of kansas in one nine hundred fifty four a fall that turned to the courts for justice and the supreme court would later rule unanimously that school segregation was constitutional let's speak now to derrick is a historian and author of here is and sharon is of the civil rights movement he is joining us live now from atlanta so brown versus board of education one hundred fifty four of kools was a massively important ruling wasn't it but it did not de segregate schools overnight did it there was a lot of resistance to it there was a great deal of resistance is best in the south and several other cases were taking place at the same time and it took quite a few years before you would start to see a real breakthrough. i actually heard linda brown interviewed on the radio quite recently and she was ruing the fact that brown versus board of educ

and linda brown, the woman at the center of the historic brown v. board of education supreme court case that desegregated public education in the united states, has died at the age of 75 in topeka, kansas. in september, 1950, her father oliver brown tried to enroll her in the third grade at their neighborhood's all-white elementary school as part of a civil rights effort to challenge public school segregation. this is linda brown recalling that day during a speech on the 50th anniversary of brown v. board of education. >> it all started for me on a balmy day in the fall of 1950 in the quite kansas town of topeka when a mount menard black man -- mild-mannered black man took his plump seven-year-old daughter by the hand from walked briskly quatro blocks from their home to the all-white school and tried, without success, to enroll his child. the child of whom i speak was i melinda carol brown, and my father, the late reverend oliver leon brown. amy: and linda brown was refused admission, her family joined a class-action lawsuit became the historic case

browning assured him that seward, not the president, was the real object of the impractical men as browning characterized them. referring to the charges against seward, the president commented. why would men begin a lie, an absurd lie that they could not impose upon a child and cling to it and repeat it in defiance of all evidence to the contrary. browning did not respond, and i won't respond to that one, either. lincoln then said, since i have heard last night of the proceedings of this caucus, i have been more distressed than by any event of my life. when the committee of the caucus met with lincoln on december 18th, senator collamer began by reading his brief paper outlining the views of the republican senators. lincoln was amused to hear that the paper was not an indictment of the administration. the paper, as the caucus resolution stated, affirmed the senators' confidence in the president and recommended only changes for his consideration and hopefully his action. these changes were not specified in the paper, but all knew that the replacement of seward and democratic generals were at

california attorney general and governor brown are also responding this morning.bc news news reporter laura anthony continues team coverage at the capital. >> reporter: the press conference here at the capital kicked off 45 minutes after the attorney general spoke here in sacramento at another location. he said sessions has basically initiated, as he said, a reign of terror on california. governor brown went on to point out what he said are three laws that sessions told one, that california has open borders, two, that the state protects criminals, and, three, the state wants to secede. brown called session's remarks unprecedented, extremely aggressive, and in the view of the governor and attorney general, totally unnecessary. >> this is a time to build bridges, not walls, to pull americans together, not set us apart, and like so many in the trump administration, this attorney general has no regard for the truth. what he said today is not true. it is a lie. >> the trump administration has just failed utterly to help us fix a very broken immigration system, and this

simpson owes tens of millions of dollars to the goldmans and browns.e still has to pay them with any money he makes outside of his pension. >> reporter: in 2007 the goldman family was awarded rights to simpson's book by a florida bankruptcy court, changing the title to "if i did it: confessions of the killer." greatly reducing the size of the word "if." >> let's immediately go to a picture in los angeles. >> reporter: now, nearly 25 years after that televised white bronco chase, america remains captivated by o.j. simpson. >> and the oscar goes to "o.j.: made in america." >> just last year espn winning an academy award for "o.j.: made in america." >> ron goldman, nicole brown, this is for them and their families. >> reporter: if simpson's story felt like a made for tv movie, it became one in 2016. >> i'm trying to win. >> reporter: with "american crime story: the people versus o.j. simpson." >> i'm not black. i'm o.j. >> reporter: tonight the real o.j. simpson is settling into a life of freedom. and while many are convinced he may have confessed to murd

my father was a very brown man. my mother was a very w woman. away, they were, they embodied a border. and thate lived in a place that had a geographical markerca ed the border added to that. >> brown: he's seen en mous changes throughout the border region, even as its culture and language have shaped him as a writer. >> the border smells like cars at noon and wood smoke in the evening. so many people are dictatingat he border ought to be, should do-- and have never visited. the border is many, many things. we want to characterize it. it's like the word for pen. if i hold this pen up and i know that it's a pen, but that's all i can call it, i own it. that's it.at the end of the story. i can move on. but, if at pen is also a pluma, and in another language, is also a plume. if it's got three names, it must have six. and if it has six, it may have a thousand. and suddenly, this thing is wild in my hand. >> brown: language does that? >> language does that, because i have to choose at any given moment how i'm going to think about this pen. how i'm go

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linda brown thompson, the girl at the center of the case brown versus education, has died.ase began when brown's father tried to enroll his family in an all-white school in topeka, kansas. in 1954, the u.s. supreme court ruled separating black and white children was unconstitutional, ending school segregation. linda brown thompson died sunday. >>> "the new york times" reports the lawyer for the widow of the pulse nightclub gunman says the shooter's father was an fbi informer for more than a decade. omar mateen killed 49 people at the orlando nightclub in 2016. his wife is on trial for helping him plan the attack. her lawyer argued the case against her should be dismissed because prosecutors waited too long to disclose that mateen's father was an fbi informant. yesterday a judge refused to declare a mistrial. >>> the "wall street journal" reports the white house is investigating loans to jared kushner's family real estate business. kushner is a senior adviser to president trump and his son-in-law. government attorneys are reportedly looking into whether two loans last year t