officers that took hostage during protests on sunday police had earlier raided the offices of the ella baker which led to violent protests that killed 3 people a monitoring group in myanmar is warning the military will continue to torture and murder of pro-democracy activists if the international community doesn't act is systems association for political prisoners made the plea after state t.v. broadcast images of 16 ease with signs of what it called abuse those are the headlines coming up next on al-jazeera fronts good bye for now. on counting the cost of the versus the markets for the turkish economy already on the brink will the president's unconventional economics take over yet cosmos and the huge gas reserves big investors and an insurgency could do you a little. counting the costs on al-jazeera is capitalism fundamentally at odds with the climate last naomi klein so on in this up front special. in 291-1000 scientists issued a chilling warning to the world they predicted untold suffering due to the climate crisis unless global society undertook a major transformation but almost 2 years

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your book and hearing your description ofsncc and the activism at shaw university in 1961 with ella baker, there is so much history in the blessed experiences, it was really just amazing to read. i am really happy to have connected with it. also, you were an historian. it's so rich. i think we are awaiting for this next book so we are looking forward to that. you mentioned blessed experiences, you are a preacher's kid and i'm sure many in the audience share that upbringing. i welcome your thoughts on the role of religion and politics. recent reporting suggests church membership is declining, that it's at the lowest level in decades but americans seem to be clamoring for a connection to a story bigger than their own individual self-interest. i'm thinking here of the new poor people's campaign that's organized by reverend barber, also a north carolinian, leader of the naacp from a small town in north carolina. he has championed a nonpartisan progressive alternative to the conservative evangelical religious movement. his approach might be a model. the question for you, sir, is what can the d

dangerous work that we associate with women like fannie lou hamer and diane nash septum clark and ella baker the work at the grass roots the extraordinarily arduous work that requires not only the ascent but the assembly and the risk taking of thousands of black americans across the american south it. is that campaign that will force the hand ultimately of congress and a president lyndon johnson and we'll give us a voting rights act in 1965. it is that moment that is the culmination of the work that women like holly quinn brown and those associated with the national association of color women had long done. and still american women do not have the unqualified right to vote even in 2020 the voter suppression tactics that kept women from the polls in 1920 have changed and yet we recognize the way in which voter id laws shuttered polling places exact match requirements the purging of voter roles continue to deprive american women of the vote including women of the color the policies of voting officials, which do not care take the right to vote are still with us as we watch officials fumble and

it was ella baker. it was mrs.t you have got to deal with the lgbtq homophobia in the church. i think that's why there is a threat. there is no way we could have gotten the georgia vote or the vote that biden-harris got if we were still arguing among ourselves. but all of us, it's like a choir. some sing alto. some sing bass. some of us can't sing at all. we just move our lips, but it makes one choir. >> well, i can't sing, so i appreciate you involving me at the very end. you were nodding. >> yeah. i couldn't agree more. honestly, when we're talking about white nationalism and white supremacy in this country and the rise of it, right, we have to also talk about the fact that for many folks in this country, particularly for black people in america, we don't think that enough is being done about racial terror and about racial injustice. >> your organization has this new poll. we will put some of that up for viewers for you to walk us through it. we find in this poll black americans have higher satisfaction with wher

that if he and his colleagues, ella baker and rosa parks and jose williams and the e numerable host of don't know, but who made the best of america possible, if they would stand nonviolently, peacefully as sen tenials and lanterns for the country, for other people, to actually do what we said we wanted to do and be what we say we want to be. and that's closing the gap between a profession and the principles of the declaration of independence that we're all created equal, and the practice of american life for 400 years which has been not necessarily to close the gap but to widen it. and the remarkable thing, i think, about this moment, which is simply a -- not simply, but it is a step as reverend says, we won't know fully what this moment means until we know what comes out of it both in the hearts and minds of the country and in the legislative reaction. as lincoln said, public sentiment is everything and public sentiment has shifted. has it shifted enough? so what congressman lewis would be doing is he would be saying close the gap between profession and practice. so i think that maybe