correspondent ashley with more ashley sorry bhardwaj dennis is now the owner of essence magazine marking this as the first time the magazine has been blacked own since two thousand and five absence was founded in may of one nine hundred seventy four holes half a century the magazine has been publishing monthly to majority black readership now in two thousand the year two thousand essence magazine founders clarence smith and that lewis sold a forty nine percent stake in absence to time incorporate it then in two thousand and five time bought the remaining fifty one percent last november time agreed to sell absence to the mirth corp and a cash transfer action worth two point eight billion dollars then as then sold his company sundial brands and bought essence magazine however he still remained c.e.o. and executive chairman of his company well the new takeover essence will keep its current executive team consisting of entirely black women the exact executive team will also. have an ownership interest in the business now this purchase comes at a time when traditional media is struggling with

in the house to talk big data in twenty eighteen and ashley banks looks at the new owner of essence magazine but first let's take a look at the business and financial headlines. china is quietly closing down the mining operations that produce bitcoin another digital currencies roughly three quarters of these operations are believed to take place in remote areas of china due to the cheap electricity in cooler temperatures last week the chinese regulators ordered local officials to create an orderly exit for mining operations the group said mining has used quote huge amounts of resources.

is in the house to talk big data in twenty eight and ashley banks looks at the new owner of essence magazine but first let's take a look at the business and financial headlines. china is quietly closing down the mining operations that produce bitcoin another digital currencies roughly three quarters of these operations are believed to take place in remote areas of china due to the cheap electricity in cooler temperatures last week the chinese regulators ordered local officials to create an orderly exit for mining operations the group said mining has used quote huge amounts of resource. and stokes speculation local authorities have been encouraged to use things such as electricity prices and taxes to suppress the mining the order did not specify a deadline but does require monthly progress reports because mining operations are rewarded with payments and digital currency is and are also needed to approve transactions in the currency analysts say the chinese policy could dent the price and supply of digital currencies for weeks or even months chinese regulators banned new initial coin offerings

nichelle turner, khloe melos and cory murray from essence magazine.'re there in hollywood so let me start with you. >> yes. >> i love hearing from men. we need to hear from more men with regard to the movement. i wanted to say that first. calling it a witch hunt. how is that playing where you are? >> not well. full stop. not well. >> yeah. >> you know, there are a couple of schools of thought here. i think what he was trying to say was one thing. i think he did it inarticula inarticulately. it was kind of mansplaining. he worries about the fact that can the pendulum swing too far one way in this me too movement. sometimes things that may have been innocent or not thought of or understood, can they be lumped in with the sexual harassment issue we are dealing with harvey weinstein. it came off as, oh, you know, we are accusing men who really didn't do anything and that's a problem which of course we know is ridiculous. so in that sense of the word we should see, liam, chill, just chill. >> i see you shaking your head. what are you thinking? >> this is n

and midwin charles, contributor to essence magazines. and you know we're all going to be watching him on tv tonight because it's friday. brett, to you first, whether or not the president used these specific words, i'm already seeing, well, maybe it's conflated. the president may have used this term about some african countries, but not haiti. let's take a step back. let's look at the president's history. housing discrimination. central park five lie. birtherism. calling mexicans rapists and drug dealers. banning muslims. calling neo-nazis some fine people. supporting roy moore who said the time in history he liked the most was the slave days. and here we are with referring to haitians or africans or the place they come from. send them back to those places because they're you know what. >> this is both the least surprising as well as the most outrageous maybe marker in his presidency. i think donald trump has become the typhoid mary of republican politics. he really needs to be isolated from having any kind of comment about politics. he's

mayor, michelle ebanks from essence magazine and mayor michael hancock from the city of denver coloradoease welcome them. [applause] >> so in the spirit of bipartisan ship i wanted to give you a little bit of red and blue today so that's how we'll start off the conversation. it is always an honor and a privilege to be with you. i come from a family of civil servants and elected officials spending time both locally and here in washington, d.c. and so i always appreciate the great sacrifice that you make as public servants. many kudos to your staffers that help to get you here on time because we know that is as equally as important. i'm excited to kick off this conversation because as we're thinking about these terms, equity, inclusion, an economic mobility for all. what does that really mean in a conversation kicking off today? in quite divided moments here in washington and across the country, how are our leaders really engaging? so i'm going to start off with you mark, as a former mayor. in the 1960s when the civil rights era was under way, many people moved out of cities into the subu

essence that--of these people that you're trying to convey through the pictures? shane: well, being a portrait photographer for most of my life doing--working in hollywood and trying to do things for magazinesi always try to bring out some essence about these people. and i don't know if, you know, people know a lot about the nisei at this time. i'm sure they do, but getting them to open up about a picture was very difficult to creating the kind of emotion, to show something that besides the stoic and stern face that you'd always see was a big challenge for me. so, for myself, trying to bring out any kind of emotion, trying to bring out something that showed a different side to them that other people didn't see, or only certain people saw, is what my main focus in the photographs. robert handa: yeah, and then, of course, combining it with the right kind of story. you know, i mean, again we did that with the mis veterans. sometimes they will kind of talk about what they want to talk about. maybe some of the things they don't want to talk about are some of the most interesting things, especially historically. how about for you, do pictures help quite a bit for you? robert horsting: they really