and the great poet elizabeth alexander cops to nerdland. first the the "today" show interview that left everyone stunned. >>> good morning. i'm joy reed in for melissa harris-perriment the developments this week involving the shooting death of eric harris in tulsa, oklahoma oh have been nothing short of astonish. last sunday this program showed you disturbing video that was released of an unarmed man shot and killed by a reserve deputy. that civilian volunteer, 73-year-old robert bathes said he thought he was grabbing a taser but pulled his gun. he can be heard saying i shot him, i'm sorry. policer were trying to arrest harris for allegedly selling a gun to under cover officers. by monday bates was charged with second degree manslaughter. he turned himself in and was released on $25,000 bond. thursday a uh newspaper report based on anonymous sources emerged making a startling allegation that bates's training records were falsified. his attorney denied the allegations and the sheriff's department dismissed it as rumor. on friday surrounded b

and, we have one of america's most gifted and accomplished poets, my dear friend elizabeth alexanderho is going to share some work with us so, i'm not going to speak long. poetry matters. poetry, like all art, gives shape and texture and depth and meaning to our lives. it helps us know the world. it helps us understand ourselves. it helps us understand others. their struggles, their joys, the ways they see the world that helps us connect. in the beginning, there was the word. and, i think it is fair to say if we did not have poetry that this would be a pretty barren world. in fact, it is not clear that we would survive without poetry. as elizabeth once wrote, we encounter each other in words. words spiny or smooth, whispered or declaimed. words to consider, reconsider. that is the power of poetry. you know, sometimes only after reading a poem or writing a poem that we understand something we already went through or experience. that is why we often reach for poetry in big moments. when we fall in love. when we lose somebody close to us. or leave behind one stage of life and enter into

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le i'm thinking elizabeth alexander is important essay on rod think king.y seen as criminalized. it's not the photo or video that get us past the image of the black body predisposed to experience the violence and justified violence at the same time. we need body cameras. but the racial bias we have when we see them under attack is already there. >> you know we have a problem. we are used to all white folks reacting to this stuff. we know that pattern. but there is a new group of people who don't view race the same way that folks used to view race. they don't live premierly in race states but they do live. they are fuelling this move pt. young people weren't taught the antecedent to them. it's shocking. and the frequency has increased. the war on drugs has quadrupled the number of oh interactions between the police and black citizens. primarily add black people. it's not the war on on black people suspected of drugs. >> when you make the point about -- i think it echoes your point about the problem being blue, not black and white in a clear sense. it goes fo

. >> i want elizabeth -- we're allies on a host of issues, but she's wrong on this. >>> good day, i'm peter alexander in on this gorgeous day in washington for my friend andrea mitchell. paris is on a heighten state of alert for at least the next 48 hours after the arrest of a 24-year-oldal algerian national who that's right there say was planning an attack on parisian churches this sunday when his plot was foiled. nbc's kelly cobiella from london. you followed the news conference that wrapped up a short time ago. what's the latest? >> reporter: we're learning a little more about this. the man is a 24-year-old i.t. student from syria and, but live -- from algeria but living in france the past several years. prosecutors say he planned to attack two churches last sunday morning. they say they got a call at 8:50 in the morning, a 911 call last sunday from someone who said he'd been hurt in an armed robbery. when they responded, they found the suspect outside his apartment bleeding from the leg. they also say they found a stockpile of weapons in his car including automatic weapons, handgun, ammunition, b

alexander dra, virginia, this morning. and in england, the royal family including queen elizabeth ii and prince philip, also celebrated easterattending the traditional service at st. george's chapel at windsor castle. >>> for years maggie gabron has been working to change the lives of poor people in egypt. the devout christian has helped thousands through her organization steven's children. now her work has become increasingly focused on coptic christians as terrorists are targeting them in the middle east. >> reporter: julie, brutal beheadings of 21 coptic christians shocked the world. these men who didn't renounce their faith even in the face of death. now we know where that faith may have come from. her name is mama maggie. she's known as the mother teresa of cairo. for two decades she has served the children living in egypt's slums through their organization, stephen's children. seven of those beheaded came out of her school, five she knew by name. >> i touch them, i eat with them, i pray with them, i play with them. we cry together. we study together. yes, they are my boys. >> reporter: when they were beheaded the 21 me

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