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i mean, we had emmett till. i was alive when emmett till happened. my dad would never let me go to mississippi with him to his home state because of emmett till. who is this emmett till, i was wondering. >> wow. >> and we've had george floyd and now here we are again with jacob blake. and i just want to tear a page out of his mom's play book. you've said it, we got to keep our eyes on the prize because like reverend dr. martin luther king jr. said who headlined that march on washington 57 years ago yesterday said, you know, one of his favorite comments that i recall is that we've got to march on these ballot boxes so that we can elect people who will do justice, you know, and show love and mercy. if we can hand a bottle of water to a murderer on a hot summer night in kenosha, we don't have to shoot a black man in the back seven times in front of his children and then shackle him to a bed. we -- there's a whole lot to unpack. just like i said, there's layers of this. >> there's a whole lot. congresswoman, may we speak many tombs and may we not speak i

for the case of emmett till it's about reopening that case, holding people accountable who are still responsible today. that's the message, jim. do whatever you can to make a change. jim? >> i would imagine back then if there was video of emmett till's killing as you have right now in the age of cell phones, smartphones. suzanne malveaux, thanks very much. other news we're following, could a coronavirus test that gives results in as little as 15 minutes, very simple to take, be a game-changer? there is some skepticism so let's get to the questions here. i'll speak to sanjay gupta. >>> plus, demonstrators have been marching in kenosha, wisconsin, washington, d.c., calling for racial equality and justice and now we're learning that top pentagon leaders have been watching, and we're going to tell you why. you'll want to hear this this. >>> plus, it's a stunning message from the mayor of lake charles, louisiana to the residents who evacuated ahead of hurricane laura. look and leave, he says. just the devastation. so incredible it may take weeks before residents are even able to return an

. >>> this morning we're remembering emmett till on the 65th anniversary of his killing. white men after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in mississippi. till's death stirred nationwide outrage and became a catalyst in the civil rights movement. a cbsn special airing "the power of august" tonight shows how till's kill flooding 1955 and the death of george floyd this year triggered movements for change. let's go back to vlad duthiers. vlad, good morning again. > anthony, as you noted, it's been decades since emmett till was killed. the painful legacy of his death still seems fresh amid the civil unrest we've been seeing worldwide surrounding the murder of george floyd. i want to warn some of you, the images you're about to see may be disturbing. life for most black men and women in 1950s america was a daily struggle. their lives were separate and unequal, and especially in the south. black people knew their lives were also at risk. >> there was overt racism. it was often notorious. for a young man like emmett till to travel from chicago to the mississippi delta

as john put it, emmett till was my george floyd.ks, sandra bland, and breonna taylor. >> we've gone from a mean-spirited sheriff to a mean-spirited president. mr. trump, look right down the block from the white house. we've come to washington by the thousands. we gonna call they name. >> there are two systems of justice in the united states. there's a white system, and there's a black system. the black system ain't doing so well, but we're gonna stand up. every black person in the united states is gonna stand up. we're tired! >> how would the history books remember you? what would be your legacy? will your future generations remember you for your complacency, your inaction, or will they remember you for your empathy, your leadership? >> there's a knee upon the neck of democracy, and our nation can only live so long without the oxygen of freedom. >> what we need is change, and we're at a point where we can get that change, but we have to stand together. we have to vote. >> we will meet the moment. we will work towards healing, justic

as john put it, emmett till was my george floyd. he was my rayshard brooks, sandra bland and breonna taylor. >> demonstrators took to the washington mall as yet another family grieves and people seethe in outrage of the killing of yet another black man. 29-year-old jacob blake was shot in the back seven times by a police officer. the organizer reverend al sharpton called the president mean-spirited. >> how do you speak while this young man, jacob, lies in a hospital and you won't call his name? how do you sit while breonna taylor is in her grave and you won't call her name? well, mr. trump, look right down the block from the white house. we've come to washington by the thousands. we're going to call their name. >> at today's march, the mother of breonna taylor whose killers, police officers who bust into her home and fired off shots, and the brother of george floyd, whose killing in may sparked off today's march also spoke. perhaps most poignant were the words of jacob blake sr. who addressed the crowd even as his son lies in a hosp

and now here we are 65 years later with the same thing happening in the same week emmett till was killed 60 years ago while the mainstream media portrays the months of unrest as a struggle for racial equality what's becoming more clear it's also a class struggle when you stack all of these issues in injustices on top of each other and you landed a period with a pandemic. that will just exacerbate. everything. should not be surprising that a population will and is happening in cities all across the u.s. after a night of looting in downtown chicago in early august a black lives matter organizer saying quote i don't care if somebody decides to loot a gucci or a macy's or nike because that make sure that that person eats that is reparations these businesses have insurance they're going to get their money back my people aren't getting anything i can understand the difficult life decisions people have to make as a rich result of living in a neighborhood doesn't have. a business. over 15 clothes. that is in the middle of a pandemic and the pandemic making it all much worse people are wor

on washington, not only the 57th anniversary, the original march, the 65th anniversary of the emmett till's murder, what do you make of events like this? how important is something like this? >> anderson, i first want to apologize that my face is not lit but we have a maybe symbolic. we are not black people on the scene. >> i thought you had planned this lighting for that particular reason. >> i'm a filmmaker. i should know better. anyway, anderson, all jokes aside. i want to thank you for having me again, and how many times have i been a guest on your show, you know, after someone black or brown has gotten shot? just looking at the footage of mr. jacob blake's son saying how his son who was shot seven times in the back paralyzed from the waist down, his angkles are shackled to the hospital bed, right away i think about that's what they did to -- that's what the slave catchers did. where my ancestors, if you got caught, the least thing they did was put shackles on your ankles. and one of your producers told me that so far our brother king jacob blake has not been charged with anything. if h

it happened to emmitt-- emmett till, emmett till is my family.do, mike brown, sandra, this has been happening to my family, and i have shared tears for every one of these people that it has happened to. this is nothing new. mi not sad, i'm not sorry, i'm angry. and i'm tired. i haven't cried one time. i stopped crying years ago. i am numb. i have been watching police murder people that look like me for years. i'm not sad, i don't want your pity. i want change. >> trevor: those are powerful words, those are words filled with pain and it only makes sense that jacob's sister is angry. because not only have black people been mistreated for generations by the police, but because there is almost never any police accountability. these incidents remain an open wound and the pain and the anger just builds and builds with no closure or relief. black people are tired of hearing i'm sorry and then nothing happening. because essentially what they are really hearing is i'm sorry this is happening, and i'm sorry that it is going to happen again. and it is becau

it was on that day in 1945 -- before the march on washington on august 28, 1963, before emmett till wasurdered on august 28, 1955 -- that baseball executive branch rickey met with jackie robinson and signed him to a contract with the minor leagues. two years later, he would become the black player in major league first baseball, where he wore jersey number 42. that's why in the midst of the protests for jacob blake, the new york mets and miami marlins stood for 42 seconds on the field thursday and then left the field without playing the game, leaving behind a black lives matter t-shirt on home plate. well, chadwick boseman passed away on august 28, the day major league baseball celebrated jackie robinson, the legend that boseman played in his breakout role in the 2013 film, "42."." this is a clip. >> giveme a uniform. give me a number on myack k an i will give yothe guts. ♪ am just a blplayer. >> you are a hero. >> why don't yololook ithee mirror? this ia a whitman'n's game. >> i'm not goinanywhere i'm right here! >> maybe tomrow we wl all wear 42. watchnd everyone should chadwick bosem

emmett till was buried in an open casket funeral in 1955, 65 years ago. rodney king was beat on video in 1991. if seeing black bodies destroyed by racism and racist institutions were enough to make it stop, we wouldn't have the movement that we have right now. so unfortunately these kinds of behaviors will continue until we actually begin to see not only accountability in the system, because that hasn't shifted either, and we are still in a place where very, very few police are actually held accountable for taking someone's life, but we also have to fully re-imagine what public safety looks like in our communities. moving money from departments like the ones in kenosha, wisconsin, where over 30% of the municipal budget is poured into that department, moving it into better housing, better schools, better social services so that communities are safe from the ground up is not only not too much to ask. it's what the american people deserve. >> i am reminded that 65 years ago today, in fact, young emmett till walked into bryant's market. the encounter that wou

as john put it, emmett till was my george floyd. he was my rayshard brooks. sandra bland.r. >> democratic vice presidential candidate kamala harris moments ago in an address that she pretaped, addressing the crowd at the get your knee off our necks commitment march led by the reverend al sharpton and the national action network. it coincides with the 57th anniversary of the march on washington and dr. king's "i have a dream" speech. joining me now, nbc's morgan radford and nbc's garrett haake, both at the march. morgan, you've been talking to people. what are they saying? the significance of these people, they've all been given masks, trying to social distance. it's an extraordinary gather. >> reporter: it is extraordinary, andrea. you can see tens of thousands of people just standing here, because today they're here calling for change. they're chanting "black lives matter," saying "no justice, no peace." they're also saying, why are we having to have this conversation now, 57 years since martin luther king gave his "i have a dream" speech, because the dream, the protester

15 years old themselves the one boy who stuck out in their mind who they couldn't let go of was emmett till who had been, as we no, lynched and murdered by several white men because they thought he had whistled at one of their wives so these mothers, in their mind, they are thinking i have to get out of the south. and they all came north but when he got kicked off this team -- >> in 11th grade, and extraordinary player. >> yes. >> he was given a choice cut your afro or leave the team so he went home and his mother said you do when you got to do and he left the team in cap the afro. [laughter] >> his mother said i did not come, i did not leave the south and come north for you to give up your dignity or your rights so i will stand behind you 100%. now, when i was cut. >> because of unenlightened coaches, let's be clear. [laughter] >> from the best will team it felt like my life had ended. i was crushed and ran down the hall knowing that my name would be on the coaches door and, you know, my name was not there and the tears were just coming and i was in eighth grade and tears, you know, my lif

and, kate, this day also significant because it's the 65th anniversary of the murder of emmett till. you might recall it was back in 1955. 14-year-old back boy in mississippi tortured and lynched after being wrongly accused of offending a white woman. i had a chance to talk to his cousin deborah watts who is part of the foundation to keep his case alive, and she says it's not good enough just to show up and be here. you have to -- and -- and call for change. you have to know what the change, is and she said for the case of emmett till it's still holding his accuser accountable who is still alive today, and so that is the message. you don't have to be here physically. you can livestream or just watch, but you must do something moving forward after this march is over. kate? >> i was going to ask you really quick. how are they accounting for social distancing there? >> reporter: they are encouraging people to social distance. the regulations very strict just getting into the mall area. you have to have your temperature checked. you have to have a mask on. they are encouraging people to

and emmett till, 14-year-old from chicago, lynched in mississippi and his mother decide to publicize the image of his lynched body and "jet" magazine and other national publications picked it up, and julian must've seen this photo and right of the stories. it was sold to black newspapers and white newspapers. he expressed interest interpren about going south. i remember he wrote something like him if that's what they did to emmett till, what won't they do to me? he was concerned about going to the south but he seemed to find a comfortable home at morehouse. going to go to a passage in "race man" published by city lights books just this year in which he describes, julian describes his first encounter or movement into the civil rights movement. pam, i am on page two, and it begins this way. these are julian's worst they begin to me as did for many more --, page three about paper forthcoming 1860, city in a caÉe in a college campus in atlanta, a place where students went between, instead of classes. a student named lonnie king, lonnie played a very important role in julian's life, lonni

. >> the march on washington made sure that they commemorated the death of emmett till because that was the whole launching of the civil rights movement months before rosa parks. >> reporter: this week we saw professional athletes in the nba and major league baseball force the cancellation of games to protest what happened to jacob blake. and future athletic hopefuls were watching. oakland's gerald nervous is a scholarship baseball player at grambling university in louisiana. like many young athletes, the outfielder is struck by what he's seeing. >> that's really brave of them. i feel like to set aside, you know, the entertainment of the sport and kind of focus on a broader spectrum of social justice. >> reporter: what the pros are doing is making an impression far beyond the hardwood or the baseball diamond. in emeryville, eric thomas, abc7 news. >>> a lot more to come here. testing is a big part of getting schools ready to reopen. the strategy and possible solutions in the covid-19 pandemic that may s dee bay ty man is brightening the lives of others and maybe changing the way donatio

as john put it, emmett till was my george floyd. he was my rayshard brooks. sandra bland.oad ahead, it is not going to be easy. if we work together to challenge every instinct our nation has to return to the status quo and combine the wisdom of longtime warriors for justice with the creative energy of the young leaders today, we have an opportunity to make history, right here and right now. so, thank you so much for inviting me to celebrate with you. let's march on in the name of our ancestors and in the name of our children and grandchildren. thank you. [applause] >> let's hear it for senator kamala harris. our next speaker is one of the legacy original organizations that was here in 1963. please welcome the former mayor of new orleans, the president and ceo of the national urban league, mark morel. black lives matter. >> i want to thank rev. al sharpton and the national action network, my friend and brothers, as well as martin luther king iii for assembling us here on august 28 in the year 2020. in 1963 courageous men and women descended on this site, led by six legacy c

lynched and money mississippi many people who gathered in 1983 recognize the beautiful murder of emmett till it was one of the sparks that started the civil rights movement as we know it and here we are 65 years later still calling on this same level of equity to ensure equal protection under the law is afforded to all citizens citizens so particularly african-americans in this moment for african-americans we understand and we've seen this before in our history and that's why you see so many people taken to the streets and protesting in louisville kentucky now it condones the west consonant in d.c. today because we recognize that this moment we must fight with all we have to ensure democracy work for all and turn out the vote in november because our lives depend on. he was president donald trump says he is the only thing standing between democracy and the mall but he made those comments at a campaign rally in new hampshire a day off to formally accepting the republican nomination to run for a 2nd term he described the people who tried to drown out his speech at the white house on thursday as

lynched and money mississippi many people who gathered and i 1063 recognize the beautiful murder of emmett till it was one of the sparks that started the civil rights movement as we know it and here we are 65 years later still calling on this same level of equity to ensure equal protection under the law is afforded to all citizens so particularly african-americans in this moment for african-americans we understand and we've seen this before in our history and that's why you see so many people taken to the streets and protesting in louisville kentucky now it was constant in d.c. today because we recognize that this moment we must fight with all we have to ensure democracy work and turn out the vote in november because our lives depend on . protest as a gathering in berlin to march against coronavirus restrictions 22000 people are expected to take part and count the protests are also planned these are live pictures from berlin chancellor angela merkel has warned they could get worse in the coming months the summer comes to an end germany has recorded more than 242000 infections. olivia has announ

lynched in money mississippi many people who gathered in 1953 recognize the beautiful murder of emmett till it was one of the sparks that started the civil rights movement as we know it and here we are 65 years later still calling on the same level of equity to ensure equal protection under the law is afforded to all citizens citizens but particularly african-americans in this mob and we had that speech from president trump last night at the republican national convention not once did he mention the name of jacob blanco george floyd or any of the african-american shot and killed by white police that's a huge problem isn't it when the president himself doesn't even acknowledge that a problem exists. well much what we use today is the result of what's coming out of the white house a level of can only suppress behavior that racial hate. campaign. $60.00 to $26.00 we. are very. fortunate. and a little over the last 3 and a half years for african-americans we understand and we've seen this before in our history and that's why you see so many people taking to the streets and protesting in louisvi

i still haven't gotten over trade bartend or emmett till and i didn't know about .-full-stop in 1921 until there was a miniseries that came out this year. no one that i knew had been taught that in school. it wasn't in the history books. so, what i've done this weekend earlier yesterday, i've made something i'm going to send an e-mail to help enlighten folks. do you know about the class divide, the blue-eyed brown eyes experiment? >> guest: absolutely. >> caller: i thought that would be a start. there's a documentary called the untold story ofar emmett till i think that it's by keith boucher. i don't know if you know of that. >> host: what is your point on that? >> caller: what i'm wanting to know is what other documentaries, because i feel education is number one for folks that have context like you said, and i saw a documentary where james baldwin said nothing can change onto lettuce face. i jotted down what he had said and i was wondering what could they watch, what can they read, what can they do to have a context and beld educated and te action but it's volunte

as john put it, emmett till was my george floyd.e was my rayshard brooks, sandra bland and breonna taylor. >> and that is where we start today. reverend al sharpt orngs president of the national action network who we saw in those images. he helped lead the march on washington today. plus former rnc chairman and senior adviser for the lincoln project, michael steele is back. and professor of journalism at morgan state university and a contributor for the grio, jason johnson on here. rev, i always ask you this question. if you're comfortable sharing, tell us how the family is doing. >> well, this was the first time that all of them were together. the floyd family along with the families that you saw. we had about 20 families. and half of them were issues that happened this year. and they are doing as well as could be expected, but they're strengthening each other. the mother sent me -- of jacob blake was there. didn't even want to come out. got a little overheated. she's trying to pull through this and the other mothers are trying to

. >> they made sure they commemorated the death of emmett till because that was the whole launch of the civil rights. >> reporter: this week we saw the nba and baseball cancel games and future athletic hopefuls were watching. gerald is a scholarship baseball program at grambling university in louisiana. like many, he is struck by what he's seen. >> that's really brave of them. i feel like, to set aside the entertainment of the sport and kind of focus a broader spectrum of social justice. >> what they're doing is making an impression far i don't understand the baseball diamond. eric thomas. abc7 news. >>> race and social justice is one of the key areas that we're focused on at abc7 amidst our effort to build a better bay area. one of the key messages from athletes is one of the most effective ways to address these issues is to vote. about 20 minutes ago, the a's and the astros walked off their field before the game started in houston. they will not may tonight. the players all wearing number 42 for jackie robinson day. they left the a's and astros jerseys at home plate i know what a blac

it happened to emmett till. emmett till is my family. to orlando, mike brown, sandra. this has been happening to my family. and i shed tears for every single one of these people that it's happened to. this is nothing new. i'm not sad. i'm not sorry. i'm angry. and i'm tired. i haven't cried one time. i stopped crying years ago. i am numb. i have been watching police murder people that look like me for years. i'm also a black history minor. so not only have i been watching it in the 30 years that i've been on this planet, but i've been watching it for years before we were even alive. i'm not sad. i don't want your pity. i want change. >> thank you. you sense the pain and the reality that this is real, america. i know a lot of you are watching it on television in abstract, but for black america, this is our reality. and that's why we're having this commitment march. i was telling senator kamala harris and the congressional black caucus members, we have to pass this george floyd justice in policing accountability act. we have to. we can't let another day go by because eve

i'm not going to even require you to go back to emmett till. go back to rodney king.have gone unaddressed because the system is flawed, in that it has not held bad actors accountable for bad acts. and that's what we are pushing for. we are saying no-knock warrants, that there should be no ability to have no-knock warrants for drug cases. breonna taylor would be alive today if there had been a ban on no-knock warrant in drug cases. that's part of what my bill offers. my bill together with, again, those that are partners with this, is saying we need to have independent investigations. i know as a former prosecutor,an investigating and prosecuting a police officer from the police department they work with every day. and i'm going to tell you why. no matter how well intentioned that d.a. may be, there will still be the appearance of conflict. and in our system of justice, we must achieve actual justice and also the appearance of justice. and that means let's have independent investigations. i talked about a national standard for use of forc pattern and practice investigat

. >> one week later, emmett till was murdered. age.s about your for black activists in the south, this was a turning point, something they would never forget and made them realize how vulnerable they were and how fraught the system was. did that have any impact appear? -- up here? were you aware of it? joan: i was aware of it, but it was not a big deal. >> it was the same thing in indiana. i remember them saying "oh, that's too bad." grandma's in georgia, there would be discussions. the concept of lynching was not shocking, because there were these big debates as to whether leo frank was innocent or guilty. the lynch mob had gone by my house, as i understood it. so lynching was not breaking news. >> what was it like at grandma's when you were visiting? joan: oh, it was wonderful. fresh biscuits at every meal and grits and snap beans. go down fore would two weeks. my mother would load the girls in the car, me and my sister, and strive down. three-day trip, back before the interstate. >> where did your grandmother live in georgia? a

. >> friday also marked 65 years to the day that 14-year-old emmett till was brutally murdered by two white men in mississippi after being falsely accused of flirting with a white woman. his killers were later acquitted by an all-white jury. joining me now the organizer of yesterday's march on washington, the reverend al sharpton, president and founder of the national action network and host of msnbc's politics nation, a familiar face to us here. you announced this march back in june at the funeral service for george floyd. what did you want to happen, and what did happen? >> what i wanted to happen is i wanted to say to the nation that 57 years after dr. martin luther king and other civil rights leaders had marched on washington, calling for federal legislation to deal with segregation, jim crow, that we must now use that day to go back to washington to demand policing legislation on a federal level. the floyd -- the george floyd federal policing and justice act has passed the house, but it's not even brought up by mcconnell in the senate. the voting rights act, john lewis voting rig

john lewis saw pictures of emmett till in the 1950s. he knew about lynchings. he knew what happened to people who crossed the cops. there's a fellow, a young man who was lynched not far from where john grew up for not calling a white police officer mister and he ended up in a swamp. dead. and so what did john lewis and diane nash and james bevel, benard lafayette and rosa parks, what did that generation do? they stood up. what are we doing? we can't just talk about it. we've got to do, we've got to fulfill the imperative for a more just nation. and maybe that sounds like a sermon. maybe that sounds like a homily, but so what. it has the virtue of being true. >> well, daniella to jon's point, whether it is a strain in the rn krrc, which we'll contin covering tonight and we're covering that from all sides as i'll show over the course of the week, or whether it is a part of the democratic party's ongoing coalition, if you want to call it that, or history that it sometimes it doesn't want to face, which is if the system you live in requires or operates on the basis

the commitment march also marks the 65th anniversary of the brutal murder of 14-year-old emmett tilld the civil rights movement. dozens of speakers used their platform at the commitment march to confront much of the same inequality and injustice this country is still facing seven decades later. reverend al sharpton called donald trump mean-spirited after the president failed to make mention of many of the families impacted by police violence during his rnc speech. >> we've gone from a mean-spirited sheriff to a mean-spirited president. how do you speak while this young man, jacob, lies in a hospital and you won't call his name? how do you sit while breonna taylor is in her grave, and you won't call her name? well, mr. trump, look right down the block from the white house. we've come to washington by the thousands. we gonna call they name. we gonna call they name. we'll never let america forget what you done. call their names! >> jacob blake is lying in a hospital paralyzed and handcuffed to his hospital bed according to his family. the commitment march was organized in the wake of th

well it what it is so when i look at civil rights movement so emmett till was killed in either 5455 thecivil rights the 1st civil rights act of 64 the voting rights act to 65 the housing rights act is 968 so approximately 13 to 14 no 1010. 9 to 10 years after and then like 10 the 15 years after you actually get the policies because you're talking about political change this isn't a national dynamic even though it occurs nationally police are governed by state politics right so in the wisconsin case can no suspends approximately 25 percent of his budget on policing more than any other indicator in order to change that what has to happen is it is simple as getting trumpet office you actually have to engage in wisconsin politics and that stuff takes a while so the reason i talk about that is because it's really important for folks to understand is not as if george floyd is killed in may and jacob blake is killed and then nothing changes is this that people have to understand it this is literally a long term struggle right if you're talking about you know fine to the civil rights movement a

emmett till's mother was trying to help us figure this out when she had the courage to leave that open't need to study it anymore. we need to act and that's what our legislation would do and so i encourage everyone to encourage mitch mcconnell to put it on the floor for a vote >> seth: he seems to be a pretty easily convinced guy when it old mitch just needs a little encouragement. >> encourage him to put the john lewis voting rights act on the floor for a vote so we can put teeth back into voting rights and make sure that the elections that we have coming up allow everyone to participate equally. >> seth: there -- i want to finish with this there is a short list. i don't know if you are aware of this there is a short list for vp and it's like a list of names of people and some would say that you might be on that list. so do you want to give me a very safe answer that you might have preplanned that you give to people when they say, "what would you -- would you want to be vice president? [ laughter ] just make it sound - >> let me read my answer >> seth: there you go. we'll just leave i

speech in front of t the lincoln m memori, as well as the anniversary of the murder of 14-year-old emmett till, who was lynched by a white mob on august 28, 1955. meanwhile, the movement for black lives is hosting a black national convention tonight, a virtual event showcasing the power and resistance of the black lives matter movement. the labor department reports anheher onmilllliou.s. workers filed initl l unemoymement clai o over e lalasteek ----he 23rd straight week in a row at jobless claims s shatted their pre-ndememicecord. meanile, the&p 500 sck maet indexlosed atn altime recd high on and forbes reports that amazon ceo jeff bezos has b become the first person ever to amass a $200 billion forortune. in japan, shinzo abebe said frfy he is resigning as prime minister due to poor health. over nearly eight years in office, he remained pro-nuclear, despite the 2011 fukushihima nuclear meltdown following an earthquake and tsunami. throughout his career, abe tried unsusuccessfully to do awawiwith article 9 of japan's constitution, which renounces war and babars japan frorom usi, or threatenin

what is so horrifying about seeing emmett till's open casket, that it im illuminates something brutaljohn lewis, being gassed. it illuminates something we do not like, something that is not consistent with how we see ourselves as a country. the same thing with these cell phones. it is not like this is new, but suddenly it is illuminated and people can see it, and it absolutely drives folks who don't even experience it crazy. it is hard to look at this and not do something. >> reporter: the cover is of th louisville woman who was shot and killed by police in her own apartment,r. time when sales of print magazines are down, jones hopes this issue becomes that increasingly rare commodity, a keep-sake. and as a child of a mother born in india, she takes her responsibility as a gatekeeper seriously. >> you can use the gate to keep people out, or you can use the gate to let people in. for me, that's what has been behind this project. it feels so agcal to me at this incredibly difficult and strange time in american history, to have been able to do that. >> reporter: tanehisi coates, who will

he expressed some trepidation about it and he wrote something like if that's what they did to emmett till but won't they do to me so he was concerned but he seemed to find a comfortable home at morehouse and there's a passage in "race man" and what she describes his first in countermovement into the silver rights movement and pam i'm on page two. it begins this way. you heard julian's words. it began for me as it did for many more and i'm on page three now it about every fourth, 1960 hours sitting in a cafÉ near my college campus in atlanta. a student named lonnie king, lonnie laid a very important role and julian's life. hee hee approach me and held up and it landed daily with world the atlanta daily black newspaper in headlight red queensboro students said and four -- and how black college students from north carolina and greensboro had her third in a row -- described her demeanor there dressed in their determination to return the following day. lonnie king says have you seen this? csi have i replied have i replayed the what do you think about he inquired. >> i think it's great. when yo