this is ebony's baby. not long ago, mothers like ebony didn't get second chances. in some parts of the country, things are changing. >> the state's funding for child protective services is the lowest in the nation. >> the way they had been doing it was not working. >> ohio is at the center of america's opioid crisis. thousands of parents struggling with addiction have left a generation of children displaced and a system overwellhelmed. >> the kids have been the collateral damage. >> now, ohioans inside and outside the system are stepping up. to give the youngest victims of the crisis a fighting chance. >> i didn't want to end up like my mom or dad. >> help parents get their kids back. >> i know for a fact that i'm going to be in a place where this isn't my life. >> who is ready to go? ♪ ♪ >>> america has been engulfed in an opioid epidemic for over a decade. >> americans are getting their fix from pharmacies and medicine cabinets at home. >> doctors overprescribing pain pills. drug cartels flooding small towns with cheap heroin and a seemingly endless wave of overd

>> ebony is a smart girl. it takes a lot to admit, i need help. when we went to pick her up, she sent me home with two carloads of baby stuff. she loves this child. >> i used to have the perspective, get your stuff together. now having seen some stuff firsthand, it's not simple. people can't just pull themselves up. they need help. >> the host of "this is life" lisa ling is joining us. tell us more about what you witnessed when you visited these families who are struggling with addiction. it seep seems like the childre the hardest hit. what impact does this have on them? >> it has an incredible impact on the kids. it's incredibly traumatizing at all levels of childhood. when it comes to babies, some are born addicted to opioids and have to be weaned off the drugs. some of the older kids, they deal with isolation, loss of a parent or both parents. i met a young woman who told me stories about how when she was 11, she used to go looking for her mother in the middle of the night in the cold in ohio. some of the things the kids have seen are things no

chemicals from the printing process also see from the paper into the environment a catapult magazine found ebony i mean free to speak on printing on a different sort of paper to save trees. this is the magazine issue where we changed over from normal paper to recycled paper so here i calculated how many trees were filled with normal and on the back with recycled paper if publishers would simply switch from normal paper to recycled paper it would be a huge step. to sure it would be so much less damaging to the environment. it's a viable solution for big publishers says. simple and catapult says it costs them less than one percent more to use recycled paper and if people opted for the same high standards as asked him to put in completely sustainable printed products could become as common as wild clumps. our next report takes us to senegal many of the country's 15000000 inhabitants live beside the atlantic ocean where the sea level rise caused by climate change is making the existing problem of costly russian worse 4 decades ago a forest was planted in the northwest of the country to combat the pr

journalism there are opportunities to do that by working for a black newspaper black magazine like ebony and jet so that was another opportunity and another outlet to get training. >> this is the perfect segue because as mainstream outlets began to integrate, job opportunities for black people and in 1968 in the carter commission had a report yet admonishment for absence of diversity and said the underlying problems of race relations were in part do to the reality that newspapers overwhelmingly by white people deciding what is a story and then writing the stories so essentially they were feeling of the narrative to inform the public because the stories were not showing up in any of these newspapers now ten years later the survey says where the recommendations the commission made was to diversify and now ten years later when see who we are doing and only two thirds of newsrooms still have the where people of color working and then newsroom as staff. so i wonder they set a goal at the time by 2000 and the staff of the newsroom would reach and the meaning the same proportion of the populati

light into end of the tunnel a little bit of hope we step back 70 already vaccinating to rob 850000 eboni chewed us so that the nation's budget should go so it kept our projection up to vaccine and distribution of the vaccine will be kept in january so that's there's room for hope. for god with regard to the panda. was something that's always german sandusky elementary elections in september which will be the end to me is i'm going to read the last chance that would be something that sometime as we look forward to another. you know it was so rarely about a month then think. what german chancellor angela merkel has called on germans to help beat the pandemic by sticking to the roles in the wakes and months ahead in what is likely to be her final you used address the chancellor said the country is facing hard times but now the vaccinations have begun hope is inside the cone of us punish me the coronavirus pandemic was and is a once in a century political social and economic challenge serious and has to it's a historic crisis that has demanded a great deal of all of us and too much of some o

silver, but i think the legend, scott crossfield saw that silver fabric on a table at the david clark ebony and said oh, that looks really cool. for pr, that should be what a suit should look like. over the course of gemini and apollo, they got rid of that. this is silly, we don't need that. i noticed with "the martian, " the suit looks a lot like david newman's suit. the first things are what they think they should be, but i know it will evolve into what functionally it needs to be. that is kind of the exciting thing, i think, seeing what naturally develops that i don't know. >> thank you. i would just like to thank our panelists for an all too short program. people who know me, we could be here for hours. unfortunately, the house says we cannot. please join me in thanking our guests. [applause] next discussion about geoscience and how lunar samples from the apollo mission's help scientists understand the moon and solar system. the national archives in american geophysical union co-hosted this 90 minute event. >> good evening. i am david, the archivist of the united states, it

martin luther king had a column in ebony magazine and a guy right since i've got a problem, which i do mlk said pray it away and seek therapy. should rfk, jfk and mlk be canceled? by this logic, they ought to be. >> dan: yeah. i'm dan, not brian. not nearly as good-looking as brian kilmeade that thank you for the shout out. >> sorry about that. >> dan: leo, you as a former man of the left yourself, there's no logic in this. i don't understand. are we really going to go to a set of principles where apologies are no longer relevant but they are no longer relevant for anyone who's not a liberal? larry brought up a few great examples. you have the virginia governor. couldn't decide if he was in blackface or a ku klux klan hood. jimmy kimmel and blackface. joe biden campaigning with a ku klux klan member. they can apologize. what are the rules? >> that's the thing. they get to pick and choose who they want to cancel. dan, your point was well taken. they are trying to destroy the american valley system. they want us to cancel the people who gave us the declaration of independence, the consti

ebony fowler is one of those americans. he lost his job in march. he was caring for his mother.mailed me and i read his story. subsequently his go fund me which he started because people were asking to contribute received a lot of support. it helped him and his mom afford their bare necessities, their rent, allowed them to stay in their apartment. ebon joins me. give us the short version of your story? >> hey, ali. you know, i've been working in live entertainment. i take care of my mom. it's something that i have done and i am aware that i needed to do it. that's on me, and i've taken care of it. this year they just took the jobs away. they took the jobs away, they locked us in a box and that's -- and i've got to keep her safe because we're both ill. so, you know, that's all well and good. stay inside, be safe, we'll pay you to make sure you don't go off a cliff and then they're just like, well, we're just going to stop paying. is the virus gone? no, the virus is still here. >> your gigs are not back. the thing that stood out. the thing that caused so many of my viewers to resp

ebony, a young black anesthesiologist at the university of virginia, who is advocating so strongly forbetter outcomes in ethnic disparities in health care. you know, it is hard forme to even begin, but barney graham was the one who developed the actual vaccine that we're now tting into our arms, the vaccine that is both pfizernd moderna who contain the same vital protein that was designed tu barney graham at the national ins of allergies and infectious diseases. >> nawaz: lawrench it is realld for many people to remember what the early weeks of 2020 re even like. you call your piece the plague yr, but we're still in it. the virus isn't done with us yet. so after looking at all of the strands of this, theli cal, the social, the medical, and so on, what do you think we can learn from all of those thatings ell us about what our next year could look like? >> well, think this virus has been like an x-ray onieour soc. and it allows us to see all of the broken places. and it could that now that we're so aware of them, we'll do something to mend them. health care, for instance, you know, we're

certainly stacey and the black women activists that did black lives matter and the commitment march, ebonyiley and others. >> yes. >> and you must remember, unlike ali, when i was a kid in the civil rights movement, we did this one this year in a pandemic. we had to organize huge marches -- >> yep. >> -- and hope nobody got sick. more big awards are on the way. first time now for a look back at one interesting interview i had with the terminator, the terminator, on "politicsnation." >> i'm so happy that you are exercising every morning. i see you when you post in the gym, with the head band around it and sweating. that's the proof that you're actually working out really hard. you're sweating. this is really great. this is another thing we have in common is interest in being fit. >> that's right. have to be fit. have to be fit for the fight. >> that's right, yeah. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. thank you, al. thank you >> thank you very much thank you, al. ma >>> welcome back to the 2020 revvie awards from rockefeller center. here's your host, al sharpton. >> our next category has so

meeting weekly with a group of thoughtful and passionate leaders who understand good literature for kids ebonyk you for your insight and kindness and commitment to find merit in each book which led to many hours of lively conversation when i look back on the year 2020 i'm grateful i will have these memories to keep. our five national book award finalist for keying and the dragonflies published by scholastic press. we are not free. everybody looking. when stars are scattered. and the way back i'm happy to announce issues national book award for young people's literature goes to king and the dragonflies. ♪ king in the dragonflies hooks from the first sentence the voice rings true things the task sick masculinity and self-discovery slowly come into focus as they begin to understand the first hope of this world and has created a timely story that is painfully timely. >> can you hear me? >> i'm trying not to cry but i really appreciate it. thank you national book foundation and the panel of judges for this incredible honor. this is an interesting year to win an award. this has been the hardest and

let's join my mother who is our correspondent in the ebony capital sun i what more do we know about what seems to have happened in the circumstances around the blast. yes. according to my speak on sources on the ground the media people there witnessed that the fall down or of 3 missiles from outside of their ports so the the number of people have been killed and also others injured as a as a result of the attacks the head of the parliament has called on the government all the members of the government to to come to aid in order to to send a strong i suppose to do so try to sabotage the riyadh's agreement that this agreement would be implemented on the ground and that the government would return back despite of these attacks the government's poor people or the members of the government who are of to aid in has been have been or transferred to a safe place also the via the minister of minister of information mummery any blame the whole thing is while here the the whole of these have condemned such on the plants but according to experts our observers they blame the they say that the. parent

i think colene, ebony tata's, the old testament and randy reback for their insight, their kindness, andcriticize but to find merit in each book reread which led to many hours of lively conversations. when i look back on the year 2020, the year i'm sure we would like to edit, i'm grateful i will have these memories to keep. our five national book award finalists are king of the dragonflies by jason calendar, published by scholastic press, we are not free by tracy chee published by Ãbeverybody looking by candace ill published by dalton books, when stars are scattered by victoria jamison and omar mohammed published by dial books for young readers and the way back by gabriel sabin published by alfred Ãi'm happy to announce this year's national book award for young people literature goes to jason calendar for king of the dragonflies. >> kason calendar, king of the dragonflies scholastic press an imprint of scholastic ink. king on the dragonflies hooks the leader from its first taunting b,12 king voice rings true and not a single line feels so frivolous. being of texas masculinity, racism, se