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the voting rights act was signed in 1965 in part because of that convention in which fannie lou hamer played a major role in signed by lyndon johnson. i am standing next to a later portrait of patsy mix who had been working on the voting rights act, as a woman of color, she also witnessed the infringement of her citizenship rights so part of her legacy is the voting rights act but also panel 9 after the voting rights act, she went on to design and be an architect of the title ix amendment which is the equal opportunity education act a lot of women have benefited from. these two figures helps to take the story up to 1965 and beyond, citizenship rights is an ongoing conversation and these activists, particular these women helped change american law. i am excited to have told you a little bit about this, this included 6 galleries in this long hallway a really covering the time from 1832 up to 1920 but also pointing to the events that happened after the passage of the nineteenth amendment up to the 1965 voting rights act and the voting rights of these women. what i hope people come away w

dr stuart hamer us anna says ya just iraq sure of center for consciousness studies it's really great to have you here with us today consciousness is like one of my favorite topics so i can't wait to dig into your brain so you said that some concepts of consciousness are naive what concepts and why are they naive. most people would say that the brain is a computer of neurons acting as bits like individual on off states and that if you get sufficient complexity in competition that consciousness emerges but really there's no evidence for that that consciousness is an emergent property of computation it's an assumption that the brain is a computer but there's no evidence for that and i think it's a it's a poor assumption for example it assumes that each neuron is a simple on off switch yes or no but a single cell neurons or cells in a single cell like a paramecium swims around finds through defines a mate has sex can learn it escapes from a capillary tube faster and faster it's intelligent it may not be conscious but it's intelligent so if a single paramecium or even an amoeba which can

right now we're looking at a portrait of fanny lou hamer, who was a great activist and especially in the 1964 democratic convention, she gave a speech that galvanized the american public because it was televised, and she said i'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. and that was alluding to her long struggle to try to have rights as an african-american, citizenship rights in the united states, and so earlier she had attempted to vote in the early '50s, and she had actually been denied because she was illitera illiterate. as a young woman she had to give up going to school in order to help her family, so she worked as a young woman ask never learn -- and never learned how to read. this is one example of an activist whose words were spoken from the heart, and she really had this unmeasurable effect in influencing the american public at large because her speech was tell vevised in 1964. and so the voting rights act was signed in 1965 in part because of that convention in which fanny lou hamer played a major role, and it was signed by president lyndon b. johnson, and i'm also standing

women like mary church terrel, sandy lou hamer, and diane nash, and the great shirley chisholm.e are not often taught their stories. we all standans, on their shoulders. and there is another woman whose name is not known, whose story is not shared, another woman whose shoulders i stand on. and that is my mother. shyamala gopalan harris. she came at the age of 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer. she met my father who came from jamaica to study economics. they fell in love in that most american way, while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960's in the streets of oakland and berkeley. ew of a stroller's eye vi what the great john lewis called "good trouble." when i was five, my parents split, and my mother raised us on her own. like so many mothers, she worked around-the-clock to make it work, packing lunches before we woke up and paying bills after we went to bed, helping us with homework at the kitchen table and shuttling us to church for choir practice. she made it look easy, though it never was. my mother instilled in my sister maya and me

women like mary church terrel, sandy lou hamer, and diane nash, and the great shirley chisholm. we are not often taught their stories. we all standans, on their shoulders. and there is another woman whose name is not known, whose story is not shared, another woman whose shoulders i stand on. and that is my mother. shyamala gopalan harris. she came at the age of 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer. she met my father who came from jamaica to study economics. they fell in love in that most american way, while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960's in the streets of oakland and berkeley. ew of a stroller's eye vi what the great john lewis called "good trouble." when i was five, my parents split, and my mother raised us on her own. like so many mothers, she worked around-the-clock to make it work, packing lunches before we woke up and paying bills after we went to bed, helping us with homework at the kitchen table and shuttling us to church for choir practice. she made it look easy, though it never was. my mother instilled in my sister maya and m

inspired us to pick up the torch and fight on women like mary church to rail mary cloyd the fannie lou hamer and diane mannish constance baker motley and the great shirley chisholm we're not often taught their stories but as americans we all stand on their shoulders and there's another woman whose name isn't known whose story isn't shared another woman whose shoulders i stand on and that's my mother sha mulago pollen harris. she came here from india at age 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer at the university of california berkeley she met my father donald harris who had come from jamaica to study economics they fell in love in that most american way while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960 s. in the streets of oakland and berkeley i got a stroller as i view of people getting into what the great john lewis called good trouble when i was 5 my parents split and my mother raised us mostly on her own. like so many mothers she worked around the clock to make it work packing lunches before we woke up and paying bills after we went to bed helping us with home

advocates that the world came to know in the 1960s with the civil rights movement including fannie lou hameramelia boynton. >> reporter: from the freedom riders to the edmund pettus bridge. >> they continued to fight through the 19th amendment and all the way through to the voting rights act of '65. >> reporter: today black women are still fighting voter suppression but now are able to vote for a black woman as vice president. >> thank you for bringing that story to us that is "nightly news." join us for special coverage of the dnc night 2 at 10:00 eastern. tomorrow on "today" jill biden will be live thank you for watching, everyone i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night ♪ >> kelly: welcome to "the kelly clarkson show" and the summer staycation celebration, everybody appeared to let's get this show underway. we have a great song for you today. here is me and my band y'all with "i can't help myself." ♪ ♪ ooh ♪ sugar pie, honey bunch ♪ you know that i love you ♪ i can't help myself ♪ i love you and nobody else ♪ in and out my life ♪ you come and you go ♪ leavi

i think about fanny lou hamer who in the 1960s had to tell the democratic party that black voters shouldincluded in their agenda. and then you think of course of shirley chisholm, 1972 launching her bid for the white house. she was dismissed in many ways, obviously didn't win, but the idea behind that candidacy was to expand the american imagination about who could hold power, expand black people's imagination about who could hold power, black men's imagination about who could hold power and certainly just the broader population. and obviously when kamala harris announced her candidacy in january, she also talked about shirley chisholm saying that she was carrying this banner that shirley chisholm unfurled in 1972 almost 50 years ago. so we will see what this process is like. but the history of it, and i also think it should be noted that this is still a risky pick. america is still a country that is marred too often by racism and sexism. black women in particular often ignored, stepped over and stepped on. so data that somehow, a, that this was inevitable and this is a risky bold choice

dr stuart hamer us anna says ya just director of center for consciousness studies it's really great to have you here with us today consciousness is like one of my favorite topics so i can't wait to dig into your brain so you said that some concepts of consciousness are naive what concepts and why are they nice most people would say that the brain is a computer.

exploding debt and reduced investments in our future, or if, like the late civil rights pioneer fannie lou hameru're just old plain sick and tired of being sick and tired, then join us, work with us, win with us, and we can make our country the country it was meant to be. [cheers] now, george bush talks a good game. but he has no game plan to rebuild america -- from the cities to the suburbs to the countryside -- so that we can compete and win again in the global economy. i do. [cheers] he won't take on the big insurance companies and the bureaucracies to control health costs and give us affordable health care for all americans, but i will. [cheers] he won't even implement the recommendations of his own commission on aids, but i will. [cheers] he won't streamline the federal government and change the way it works, cut 100,000 bureaucrats, and put 100,000 new police officers on the streets of american cities, but i will. [cheers] he's never balanced a government budget, but i have -- 11 times. [cheers] he won't break the stranglehold the special interests have on our elections and the lobbyists h

that is the strategy i have a photo in my apartment of fannie lou hamer and ella baker. i posted one that said to be strategic and had issues with the system and how they went about directing the issue writing the political strategy and went to ella baker to put the strategy together so when trying to work through somethin something. >> i want to squeeze a couple more in. >> calling from los angeles my question has to do with the new vote by mail measures so how have your strategies changed in the get out the vote efforts mobilizing people from their homes to go to the polls? >> great question. who knew in the most consequential election we would have to get creative and rely on voting by mail in a way to scale up everywhere. it on the democracy. and then to have some very smart people and we are connected and policies that we might be in failing sometime soon because the reality is the coronavirus has issues that have been in our community across the country with health and inequality whether an issue of elections in the country. we have some plans but frankly democrats

that woman get punished multiple times by several people, someone kicks her but 15 minutes, you see hamer getting kicked in the head, that man swung his leg into his head. the suspect, 25-year-old marquis love is no stranger of the law. he has been arrested 7 times in the last eight years according to court documents the most recent being domestic assault and harassment. there was an anti-george lloyd post hours before he was assaulted, the post said george lloyd was a 46-year-old fell in high on fentanyl and got four televised funerals, what does canon in and get? he was riding his bike in his front yard. authorities declaring another right in the city. at the same time a man was arrested in connection to an attack with a baseball bat on a us marshal during violence in the city last month. in seattle the mayor has until monday to figure out if she will cut the police budget following pressure from city leaders and key owners joe and andrea were forced to shutdown their seattle store due to the ongoing violence. leaders pushing to defund police need to be policed. >> could resign immediat

fannie lou hamer and diane nash constance baker motley and the great shirley chisholm.are not often taught their stories, but as americans, we all stand on their shoulders. there is another woman, whose name isn't known, whose story isn't shared, another woman, whose shoulders i stand on. and that is my mother. she came here from india at age 19 to pursue her dream of curin cancer. at the university of california berkeley, she met my father donald harris who had come from jamaica to study economics. they fell in love and that most american way, while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. in the streets of oakland and berkeley, i got a stroller's ey view of people getting into wha the great john lewis called goo travel. when i was five, my parents split, and my mother raised is mostly on her own. like so many mothers, she worke around the clock to make it work , packing lunches before we woke up, and paying bills after we went to bed. helping us with homework at the kitchen table, and shuttling us to church for choir practice. she made

you know, seeing fannie lou hamer, knowing her story and , wheree had been through does a person gain that strength, you know? where does that come from? that someone of such humble origins could give such leadership that really shook the nation and changed it. that convention when she said, we didn't come all this way for two seats. that a woman from that background could say that, my goodness. you don't have to be einstein. [laughter] nation manyin the people, all kinds of people who could become movers to make things happen differently in the country. capable of extraordinary change. and the wholes, civil rights movement was that way. about people who resources on which, you know, to rely. but so much strength in that movement -- you think about the freedom writers. i will never forget the diane nash story, when she is called by the justice department, they say, you know, you can't do this, you can't pick up this ride. you could be killed. she says, we know that, we are aware, we have all made out our wills. it is just powerful. there on a massive basis, not just one were two or th

of the tireless work of shirley chisolm, charlene mitchell, sojourner truth, rosa parks, fannie lou hamer, barbara jordan, ida b. wells, and myrlie evers in their fight for representation and equalality." sunrise movement co-founder varshini prakash praised harris for taking the no fossil fuel momoney pledge, endorsining the green new deal, and taking o on big oil as california's s attory general.l. former presidential candidate bernie sanders also praised harris, tweeting -- "she understands what it takes to stand up for working people, fight for health care for all, and take down the most corrupt administration in history." meanwhile,e, the whihite house, president trump atattacked harrs describing h her as "nasty." he made nono mention of the fact he had twice d donated to harr's re-electction bid d to be california's attorney general in 2014. we are joined now by two guests. joining us from harris' hometown of o oakland, california, is aie allison, president and founder of she the people, which has worked to elevate the political voice and leadership of women of color. also with us is

us toese women inspired pick up the torch and fight on. ,omen like mary church terrel sammy lou hamer and diane mash. the great shirley chisholm. we are not often told their stories. as americans, we all stand on their shoulders. there is another woman whose name is not known, whose story is not shared. another woman whose shoulders i stand on. that is my mother. india at age from 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer. at the university of california berkeley, she met my father who had come from jamaica to study economics. they fell in love in that most american way, while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960's. in the 60's evoked -- in the streets of oakland and berkeley, i got a shoulders i view of people getting into what john lewis called good trouble. when i was five, my parents split and my mother raised us mostly on our own. like so many mothers, she worked around-the-clock to make it work. packing lunches before we woke up. paying bills after we went to bed. helping us with homework at the kitchen table and shuttling us to church for choir p

[applause] from fannie lou hamer in atlantic city in 1964 to the rainbow coalition in san francisco todayhe atlantic to the pacific, we have experienced pain but progress, as we ended american apartheid laws. we got public accommodations. we secured voting rights. we obtained open housing, as young people got the right to vote. we lost malcolm, martin, medgar, bobby, john, and viola. the team that got us here must be expanded, not abandoned. [applause] twenty years ago, tears welled up in our eyes as the bodies of schwerner, goodman, and chaney were dredged from the depths of a river in mississippi. twenty years later, our communities, black and jewish, are in anguish, anger, and pain. feelings have been hurt on both sides. there is a crisis in communications. confusion is in the air. but we cannot afford to lose our way. we may agree to agree or agree to disagree on issues. we must bring back civility to these tensions. we are co-partners in a long and rich religious history, the judeo-christian traditions. many blacks and jews have a shared passion for social justice at home and peace a

one of the heroes are our democracy from a personal hero of mine, and i'm talking about fannie lou hamer, and i love this which i will read this for you all watching. it says we will stand up for what belongs to us as american citizens because they cannot say we haven't had patients. and i want to talk about the patience of black america because it's been on display for so long in the country, and we thought in this election cycle in many ways and i wonder what you think the answer to that question should be. >> guest: it sounds so mundane but if it is demanded is asked to be included in the nation we helped build, the nation we helped birth, the nation we have cleaned, the nation we have served, the nation that we have nurtured. we ask simply that we get equal access to opportunity and equal access to justice and power. that's not a lot to ask. that is what every citizen should be able to enjoy by virtue of citizenship and for black women in particular, that citizenship has been constantly undermined and denied. and that's what i'm pushing for. i get a busy reputation for being too cand

king, of rosa parks, of fanny lie lou hamer, and i try make sure that all of those admirers understand that the groundwork was laid by harriet. even frederick douglass, he says his work was fueled by the work of harriet. you know, and sometimes it's really hard in the work that we do when you're lifting up someone who was a historical figure. a little easier for you guys, because you got a president. >> well -- >> maybe not right here, but you know, it's really hard when someone, you know, when they only go as far back as dr. king. i mean, that's sort of where we are as a culture. and there's just december there -- there's a whole lot of stuff that happened prior to thhat happened prior to that-- there' whole lot of stuff hat happened prior to thatyhat happened prior to thathat happened prior to ththat happened prior to that we forget about. >> you mentioned liberation theology, i'm from central america, and liberation theology in my formation personally and in the '60s,' 70s, '80s played an extraordinary role in the struggle for liberation. would you articulate how do you in the afric

fannie lou hamer is latoya's great aunt. she, too, was blooded in her battle.unitions were meant to be a step forward from those dark days, but like the fight for civil rights itself... [yelling] >> lee: ...that work is not over. >> it was always taught to me early on, if you want to see change, see good in your community, you have to be a part of it. i do think it is important to continue to participate because there is still so much change that needs to happen. [yelling] com ♪ you can adjust youriggest sacomfort on both sides...eep your sleep number setting.. can it help me fall asleep faster? yes, by gently warming your feet. but can it help keep me asleep? absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable will it help me keep up with mom? you got this. so you can really promise better sleep? not promise... prove. and now, all beds are on sale. save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. plus 0% interest for 60 months on all smart beds. ends monday. >> lee: it happened this

went all the way with great women leaders on the edmund pettus bridge, amanda boynton and fanny lou hamertil the voting rights act in 1965 and that goes on with stacey abrams still fighting against voter suppression. a lot of great women leaders started the suffrage movement and became civil rights leaders in the emerging civil rights movement and their descendants still today. >> let's bring kristen welker, our colleague at the white house, in on this conversation. kristen, you study politics 24 hours a day as far as i can tell and the female vote absolutely essential. >> reporter: it's essential, it could not be more critical, savannah. that was underscored when joe biden said that he was going to pick a woman vice presidential nomin nominee. true to word, he did in fact do that and he picked senator kamala harris. she is, of course, a history-making pick. she is the first woman of color to serve as a vice presidential nominee on a major party ticket. and so undoubtedly, democrats feel as though that will help them. the ticket itself reach out to women voters. we saw that last night whe

of the heroes of our democracy, a personal hero of mine from mississippi, i'm talking about and lou hamer. i love this quote which i will read for you all watching. it's as we will stay in stand up for what belongs to us as american citizens. because they can't say we haven't had patience. i want to talk about the patients of black americans,, black women in particular. i think that's been on display for so long in this country and i thought a lot in this election cycle about frankly what america owes black women. i wonder what you think the answer to that question is? >> its equality. i think it sounds so mundane as an answer but the reality is it's always ever demanded. we have asked to be included in the nation we help build, a nation we helped birth, a nation we have cleaned, the nation we observed, the nation that we've nurtured. we ask simply that we get equal access to opportunity, equal access to justice, equal access to power. and that's not a lot to ask. that's what every citizen should be able to enjoy by virtue of his citizenship. -- virtue of -- for black women that citizensh

now, this phrase was first used by fannie lou hamer, civil rights activist who was beaten in the 1950s for trying to vote. fannie had grounds aplenty for being sick and tired of being sick and tired. but any princeton student, i don't care if he is green, purple or orange who thinks of himself as oppressed is in the grip of a terrible delusion that will encumber him for the rest of his life. well perhaps, you're thinking, at least the adults on campus are trying to give students a firmer grip on reality, to the contrary, the adults actively encourage the hysteria, massive diversity bureaucracy is devoted to cultivating and students evermore species of self-involvement and evermore preposterous forms of self-pity. do you want to know the reason for astronomical tuition, look no further with the beer bureaucratic bloat, students act out psychodrama of oppression before an appreciative audience of diversity, vice of equity diversity and inclusion, who use the occasion to expand their dominion. many campuses have created bias response teams, models presumably on active shooter response tea

women like mary church terrel, sandy lou hamer, and diane nash, and the great shirley chisholm.ten taught their stories. but as americans, we all stand on their shoulders. and there is another woman whose name is not known, whose story is not shared, another woman whose shoulders i stand on. and that is my mother. shyamala gopalan harris. she came at the age of 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer. she met my father, who came from jamaica to study economics. they fell in love in that most american way, while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960's in the streets of oakland and berkeley. i got a stroller's eye view of what the great john lewis called "good trouble." when i was five, my parents split, and my mother raised us on her own. like so many mothers, she worked around-the-clock to make it work, packing lunches before we woke up and paying bills after we went to bed, helping us with homework at the kitchen table and shuttling us to church for choir practice. she made it look easy, though it never was. my mother instilled in my sister maya

black women, with all the hurdles we face when it comes to voting rights. 56 years ago,vo fanny lou hamerabout voting rights of black americans, as well as black representation in the democratic party. this k year, in 2020, we have senator kamala harris who will be accepting the vp nomination under the democratic ticket. to say that's a historical moment is an understatement. a lot of people are going to be watching. a lot of people are going to be fired up.eo andto one thing to note, as wel. all of us are watching this convention at home because of the failed leadership of this administration. and that's not going to b go unnoticed. and i think a lot of the democrats, as well as senator harris, is going to mention that on the stage this week. >> well, and, sam, as we're looking at, you know, the program that they've put together. t and as we are all battling this pandemic. you know, they're going to have governor john kasich. that, by itself, is pretty rich considering kasich's past and the congressman that he once was. now,reon speaking at the democr convention. and pernbernie sanders.

gave them the originals of the field reports, which i think the first sncc reference to fannie lou hamer, for instance, but i have copy machine copies of that. >> so, you were very much aware of what was going on elsewhere in the state? joan: oh, yeah. i couldn't go up into the delta, being white, but i certainly knew what was going on. and people, for r&r, would be down at tougaloo or at the freedom house on rose street. so, i was, in some ways, more in touch with what was going on here and there than some of the people out there were. i remember we went up to hodding carter's office, ed king and i, and i forget who else was in the car, once. and, oh, my lands, to openly go up into the delta. i mean, that was a big event. >> was this the young hodding? joan: no, this was the old guy. >> oh, old hodding. oh, i see. joan: i guess it was the old guy. then it was amazing years later to meet the grandson, who had written a book on his travels and i had traveled the same routes. we had both been there, days apart, things like that. in 1960 two, jackson, mississippi, the capital was a segregat

they are charting new paths in the spirit of shirley chisholm, charlotta bass, sandy lou hamer's thenlewis. they get in good trouble. necessary trouble. they call things out otherwise ignored, elevating our nation and changing the course of our lives for the better. with every vote we cast for forward thinking, honest leaders, we chip away at ingrained systems of inequity arc ofbend fo-- bend the justice. true leaders make sure policy is informed by all of us, bridging our burdened past to a safe, equitable, and even joyful future. joe biden and kamala harris are heeding voices within the movement for racial justice, listening to the people and acting with empathy to reflect our shared humanity. tonight, we will hear from a number of american leaders, including former acting u.s. attorney general sally yates, who refused to defend an unconstitutional travel ban and pay for -- paid for it with her job. real. threat is it is clear and it is present. we have watched the president for three years. look at what he's doing. fear,t joking, instilling sewing divisions, stoking racial division

junior, goodman, and reeve, viola, james those were paid for through the sacrifices made by heroes such hamersenateed has failed to an voting rights act, we have had to overcome new tactics to suppress our votes. discriminatory voter id requirements, cutbacks in early voting, voter purges targeting those who have missed elections, and disenfranchising those who have served their time and paid their debt to society. itscovid-19 is making , to stand even deadly in line in polling places. we shouldn't have to risk our lives to cast our vote. we need to be able to do what president trump does -- vote safely, by mail. but now we are struggling to overcome the dismantling of the u.s. postal service for the express purpose of suppressing our vote. toh all of these stress lives and liberty, our challenge is to use this mauve -- this moment to expand this movement. a movement that not only raises its voice, but cast its votes, pursues its vision, and makes lasting change. the scripture says, where there is no vision, the people perish. our vision is expressed by a phrase we must never forget. that is,

just in case there is another fannie lou hamer."ike to seen, "we that other voters share our belief value -- our beliefs, values." terry in missouri. republican line. good morning. caller: hi. host: you are on. caller: ok. i feel a convention is important because like the previous caller said, it does strengthen you, say, if you are a democrat, or it may change your mind. host: when you watch conventions, what do you look for particularly? is it just with the speakers will say? are there other parts that gain your interest? caller: yes. how,k especially for especially, for example, what joe biden thinks. me, it is i think, to kind of in limbo. i plan on voting republican this year. i voted republican previously, but in years past i voted for barack obama and i did vote for bill clinton. to know what stand joe biden will take. a lot of times, the news media will say that he is moderate, but actually, if bernie sanders and aoc are going to be more the leaning directions, then i feel we need to know that regardless of who wins the elec