dave zirin is a sports columnist for the nation magazine.s latest article is called, "3 lessons from university of missouri president tim wolfe's resignation." danielle walker is a master's student at the truman school of public affairs at university of missouri and creator of the racism lives here movement at mizzou. stephanie shonekan is the chair of black studies at the university of missouri. she is an associate professor of ethnomusicology and black studies. we welcome you all to democracy now! let's begin with danielle. can you first respond to the resignation of the university of missouri president tim wolfe as well as your campus chancellor who will leave his chancellorship at the end of the year? >> yes, i think it's important to highlight how leadership has to be held accountable when tim wolfe says he loves mu, how can you say you loved mu when you students of color suffering so long under your leadership role? it is bittersweet to see all of these changes going on in our university, but this is a long overdue and it is time for n

and dave zirin, host of the edge of sports podcast. ve, you've been doing a lot of reporting on this story before it kind of exploded onto national consciousness. give us a little bit of context of how this got to this point. >> how it got to the point at missouri, it goes back years. years of racial tension, years of students and faculty members of color feeling marginalized, feeling like they weren't being heard. and it really came to a head with the killing of michael brown in ferguson just two hours away from campus. it was a pretty generalized outrage that the columbia campus, the st. louis campus, and the campus in kansas city all felt like it wasn't being taken seriously, that it wasn't being taken as a moment to speak about systematic oppression on campus. and i really think the beginning of the end for tim wolfe was even less the football players stepping back than that moment where tim wolfe was asked on a personal camera what do you say about systematic oppression on campus and he basically said, well, it's in your head. and

jelani cobb and dave zirin, thank you both for your time. that's "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. and rachel has some new polling data on how south carolina democrats interpreted that democratic forum on friday night. i can't wait to see that. >> thank you very much, chris. it was nice of you to have me on your show and thank you for the giant tease. i appreciate it. >> you bet. >> thanks, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i do want to say thank you to everybody who tuned in on friday night to watch our big first in the south democratic candidates forum with the three democratic candidates for president. as chris said, we do have some data in terms of how that went, its impact. we know first off that we had a really big audience on friday night for this event, which is heartening. we also got a lot of really good feedback in terms of people finding it to be a really useful source of information about the democratic candidates and the differences between them and what they stand for. we had a lot of really good

jelani cobb and dave zirin, thank you both for your time. that's "all in" for this evening.chel maddow show" starts right now. and rachel has some new polling data on how south carolina democrats interpreted that democratic forum on friday night. i can't wait to see that. >> thank you very much, chris. it was nice of you to have me on your show and thank you for the giant tease. i appreciate it. >> you bet. >> thanks, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i do want to say thank you to everybody who tuned in on friday night to watch our big first in the south democratic candidates forum with the three democratic candidates for president. as chris said, we do have some data in terms of how that went, its impact. we know first off that we had a really big audience on friday night for this event, which is heartening. we also got a lot of really good feedback in terms of people finding it to be a really useful source of information about the democratic candidates and the differences between them and what they stand for. we had a lot of really good feedbac