would say yale in the 1970s, i majored in english and there was one author whose name was never james baldwin for my money. baldwin the most important author of that era, the middle of, the 20th century in america. it amazes me that he was never talk to me. it shows how wrong education be sometimes and how long it takes to catch to the reality of the situation without. over to you. should i ask or answer that you should let's talk about this, okay? yeah. yeah, absolutely. so waging a good war can. i can i put it up? yeah. you know, me and tom have talked about how the subtitle military history of the civil rights movement is going to really transform that and how the civil rights movement worked. right. in a way. i mean, i read this book and in galleys. it's a brilliant book and as somebody who's really studied the civil rights movement my whole career, i think what this book does in more depth than any other book is really at what i call the heroic period of the civil movement from 1954 to 68. and i also call it america's second reconstruction, but really at it in a panoramic way of why thos

to leave someone out of the history -- african-american history like james baldwin is absurd becauset only just a fiction writer, nonfiction writer, he was an activist and he was also queer. and his thinking has shaped, along with many others -- audrey lord, what we nowhink ofs blk qer sdies. you can't parse out the inllectuistoryf blac studs withouthese importa thinrs. that iwhy it is iortant f studentsho are ihigh school to be exposed to ese thinkers and also tonderstand th historal conte out of which they emerged, even if they in their time work using the language that we use now, i.e. queer. they were engaged in conversations and questions around sexuality as it pertains to black people. and sexuality as a question, as a mode of thought also applies to the period of slavery and thereafter. as black people, we are sexual beings. that is why it is important to understand the role that sexuality plays in the history of black people. if you think about, for instance, the institution of slavery and how sexuality was vital to sustaining that institution in terms of using black women's

tonight, featuring james baldwin, one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of the 20th centurye history and truth the republicans want in it, a black, gay man, sensitive, self reflective, and spared no critique of the united states that he loved and sought to make better. >> >> i don't know if white christians hate us, but i know they have a christian church that is white, and a christian church that is black. it's the most segregated place in america, and so that's a's a great deal about a christian nation. i can't afford to trust most white christians, and the christian church. i don't know whether the labor unions and their bosses really hate me, that doesn't matter, but i know that i'm not in their unions. i know that the real estate lobbyist keep me out. i don't know if the board of education hits by people, but i know that the textbooks are given to children to read, in the schools that we have to go to. >> the feature on james baldwin and more, all month on the readout blog. that is tonight's readout, all in with chris hayes starts right now. out, all >> tonight on -- >>

i mean, it helped that i had james baldwin as a professor at umass. it was amazing. wow but, you know, it's there. we just got to get it into the school. well, you're right. i mean, it there and there has been a profound change in, the scholarship since the mid 1960s. and it has only grown. and it is i the foundation is there there's no question about your exactly right but as the southern poverty law center discuss covered, they interviewed a couple thousand teachers and they found out they won't teach it. and today, if you live in new hampshire florida, michigan washington, you might lose your job if you teach it. we're going backwards. yeah and as i pointed out earlier, there are textbooks which still have derogatory images of african-americans and then that people are using. and on top of that, you've the web and anything is possible with web, both good and and we have millions of students that are home schooled. we have and they are they can use anything including john h. van evers work to when they're home schooled. yes, that's what i was thinking. was that thi

della reese, james baldwin came here three times. >> reporter: former program director joe spencer wasing those young, hopeful reporters who would go on to do great things. >> how was gpr a pioneer? >> one of our great legacies was that we brought in people who had never had jobs. back in 1973, '74, '75, if a young man like yourself would go to a tv station in the market and ask for a job, the first thing, "oh, you have any experience?" the answer was no. but they were able to come here, learn their craft, and was able to move on to other jobs and other opportunities. >> reporter: critical work for an industry still struggling to increase diversity among its ranks. according to the radio television digital news association, in 2021 only about one-quarter of staffers and local tv newsrooms were people of color. back in l.a., shaun robinson gears up for the latest season of "90 day fiance." recording her lines at a local studio. >> join us as the couples discuss their rocky journeys all in the pursuit of love. >> reporter: keeping with her the lessons she learned at wgpr. >> i'm just rea

prominent authors and academics have also been removed from the ap curriculum, including the late james baldwin, the author ta-nehasi coates, the law professors michelle alexander and kimberle crenshaw, professor barbara ransby, and the late bell hooks. ucla professor robin d.g. kelley, whose writings were also removed from the curriculum, said -- "this is deeper than an ap course. this is about eliminating any discussion that might be critical of the united states of america, which is a dangerous thing for democracy." the college board announcement came on the first day of black history month. the biden administration has reached an agreement with the philippines to give the united states access to four more military bases in the former u.s. colony. this will allow the u.s. greater access to the south china sea and taiwan as tensions rise between washington and beijing. the deal was announced after u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin met philippine president ferdinand rcos, jr. in manila. marcos is the son of the former dictator ferdinand marcos who was a close u.s. ally. filipino activists he

but i know the awful truth as james baldwin wrote. people who shut their to reality simply invite their destruction. and anyone who on remaining in a state of long after that innocence is dead, turns himself into a monster. and i would rather maimed and broken and in pain than a monster i never be healed. i cannot promise that it will be better. i cannot impart to you the cheerful and childish that is the curse of. i can tell you to stand up to pick up your cross, to keep moving. i can only tell you that you must always defy the forces that eat away at you, at the nation. this plague war. sometimes i feel like a motherless child. a long way from home. a long way from home. it is death. i defy. not my own death, but the vast enterprise of death. the dark primeval lust for power and personal. the hyper masculine language of war and patriotism them used to justify the slaughter of the weak and the innocent. and mock justice. i do not use these words. we cannot flee from evil. some of us who have been to war have tried through drink and d

as author and civil rights activist james baldwin once said and i quote, not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed unless it is faced. and so, my fellow ohioans, we must face the fact that no ohioan will ever fully live up to their potential or be able to lead purposeful or meaningful lives if their mental illness remains in the shadows and untreated. [applause] >> despite all the good intentions in the past, our country has never fully built a mental health system. 60 years ago, president john f. kennedy signed the community mental health act of 1963, releases thousands of women and men with mental illness from psychiatric hospitals. the promise then was that a system of care would be built so that these men and women and others would untreated mental illness could live with dignity and receive treatment in their own communities. sadly, that promise was never fully kept. not nationally, nor here in the state of ohio. and the community system of care was never fully built. but with your help, we have started to make progress. since the time i took office,

fact that folks who put on the civil rights marches, a lot of those folks were actually gay like james baldwin, i think it works to a point for desantis when he's thinking about trying to work his way through a primary with fights against kimberly crenshaw and mickey mouse, but i think more broadly, i don't think it's going to -- >> he's focused on this very elite college program. only a million students around the country even take a.p. courses let alone this smaller a.p. black history course. i would have loved to take this class. we had american history in which slavery was barely discussed. desantis has wrapped his hands around the k-12 public education system and using name calling to his advantage, calling racist or woke theory to even talk about the roots of american history. he's taken an autocratic approach to it. education is supposed to be locally managed. he's managed to show an example of how a state can take over these local issues and now potentially show a path for how the federal government can do that as well. >> you think this is a winner for him? >> i think it's a winner fo

such as queer theory, though critics of desantis argue prominent black and gay voices such as james baldwinecognized in such a course. as leyla santiago reports, governor desantis is threatening to completely withdraw state funding for up a a.p. classes. >> reporter: hundreds of protesters gather outside the florida state capitol. >> we won't take it anymore! >> reporter: including faith leaders from around the country condemning the governor's decision to block the college-level african american studies course from high schools. >> our children need to know the whole story, not just how bad you were but to know how strong they are! >> reporter: this just days after florida governor ron desantis suggested the state might re-evaluate its relationship with the college board, which administers advance placement, or a.p.-elected classes and the s.a.t. in florida. >> does it have to be done by the college board, or can we utilize other providers who i think have a strong track record? turns out there are courses more rigorous than a.p. and the colleges accepted. you have the cambridge, which is

. >> author james baldwin issued that prophetic warning about race in america almost 60 years ago.om the curriculum for students studying advanced placement african american history. he joins a long list of authors and scholars grayeringly absent. in black history month, no less, their writings which were originally included in a draft syllabus of the class were removed shortly after florida governor ron desantis banned the course. the college board states that the course has been shaped over years by the most 'eminent scholars in the field. it's not lost on all of us. we as journalists understand our role in writing history, these kind of moves have a political lens to them. but in real life, the issue here is are we really trying to teach history or are we trying to teach what's comfortable for us. toluse, your excellent book, "his name is george floyd" about george floyd probably would be on the banned list. >> i think so. a lot of the writers that were banned aor are taken out of the course are writers dealing with contemporary issues we've faced in this country, including blac

big picture question, eddie, of willingness to change, and so last night, i went back again to james baldwin's deeply thought provoking essay, "nothing personal" on isolation, on police brutality. you pointed out a year or so ago, he wrote it under the shadow of medgar evers assassination in 1963 is you called that essay a eulogy of sorts. i wonder, would your eulogy today for tyre nichols come to a different conclusion than baldwin did? is the call to action the same? >> wow, would it be different? no. there at the root of it, chris, is this refusal of the country to comes to terms with who and what it is. baldwin not only wrote about police generally but black police but how race shapes the way they inhabit that culture, live that culture. it's interesting that you brought that up. we can talk about the framing from the 1968 safe streets act to the war on crime and to how all of that has increased the mass incarceration, led to the militarization of the police, the way in which communities are over policed and over surveilled and under protected. baldwin was talking about a general framework

these pathos haunted black writers as richard wright, who wrote them with icy rage, and james baldwin, who wrote of them with sorrow, pity, as when flying into atlanta over woodland, he imagined that the rust red earth of georgia acquired its color from blood that had dripped from lynched bodies hanging from these trees. in this case, since literature, one recent instance out for me in her book, the warmth of other suns, isabel wilkerson and writes of an elderly black man, george, whom she interviewed at his home in harlem around 90. mr. recalled going as a boy some 70 years earlier to the local drugstore in hometown of eustis, florida with the plan of buying an ice cream cone. the pharmacist liked to greet his black customers by addressing a question to. a little terrier he kept with him in the store. what would you rather do? he'd ask the dog. be a n-word or. die. at which point the well-trained pet would flip on to its back, shut its eyes, play dead for white patrons. this canine comedy act hilariously entertaining for black children. there is no fathoming the damage it did to thei

the idea that high school students on their way to college can't study, say, james baldwin, who's a gayan because we don't want queer studies. like what are you talking about? gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender are black people as well as anything else. so he's got the agenda, and his agenda, unfortunately, is not an agenda that's about education. it's about his own elevation to the white house. that's all this is about. >> all right, thank you both very much. a conversation, which, as we all know, will be continued. >>> another close call at a u.s. airport, the third in just one month. this time it was a 777 in the path of a cargo plane. >>> plus, a survivor of that massive earthquake revealed what he had to do. he was trapped for more than a week, and it did keep him alive. has skin-strenengthening nutrients and moisturizers that help rebuild your skin. dove men+care. smoother, healthier skin with every shower. (psst psst) ahhhh... with flonase, lergies don't have to be scary. spray flonase sensimist daily for non-drowsy, long lasng relief in a scent-free, gentle mist. (psst psst) fl

james baldwin once said, i can't believe what you say because i see what you do.f these types of incidents happening in such a short time, and then we look at into a talent for the last set of years, we continue to have these derailments. we have these leaking that happen, with -- which means that norfolk southern must do so much better. to make sure that they are not only rebuilding confidence, they are making the community hole. >> when things, do yuma stuff, allie for joining us this morning. there's gonna be more developments, and as they come and welcome you to come back and tell us what accountability is going to look like for all of these agencies. >> thank you. >> and coming, up tonight at 10 pm eastern, msnbc's films presents, when truth is truth. the rudy giuliani story. a new four part series four times studios, exploring the former prosecutors and mayor's rise to power, fall from grace, and how little he changed. between the director of this riveting documentary joins me now. whenever heartburn strikes, get fast relief with tums. its time to love food

. >> we the jury find the defendant james baldwin junior guilty of murder. >> i just broke down crying decision. he wants the public to know that he did more than they think to look into judy's death. still, he realizes because of his incomplete investigation, a killer might've walked free. you get emotional over this. >> i do. i take it personal. this case was a big learning experience for me. i'll never dropped the ball on anything, and then i did it. and i'm sorry for it. >> jamie never took the stand, but he did speak at the sentencing. >> she fell from a ladder. that's why i was trying to get her to the hospital. i love my wife. i mean, more than anybody in this room. i mean, we had a great relationship. >> the judge sentenced the 60 year old to life in prison, without the chance of parole. jamie is appealing. is he evil? >> yes, he 100% as evil. satan spawn. 100%. >> judy's family says they can finally move on with their lives. and there's one thing that brings in peace. you are religious, does that give you any comfort to know that your mom and dad are not together? >> oh, yeah.

. >> the feature on james baldwin and more, all month on the readout blog. that is tonight's readout, all in with chris hayes starts right now. out, all >> tonight on -- >> he seems to take -- did you guys take the bait from him? >> i didn't take any bait. >> one day after the biden address to the nation, the circus continues in the house. >> did either of you approve the shadow banning of my account at lauren boebert? >> david plouffe and jen psaki and how the president rattled republicans. >> at one point, it looked like you are trying to shush your side of the aisle. what happened? >> plus, the secret planes tickets are social security hiding in plain sight. >> if it was matt gates, i think that we do need reforms to social security and medicare. >> the latest ruling chapter from the scolding of george santos. >> it wasn't very normative of him. >> this all starts right now. good evening, i'm chris hayes. if nothing else, the last 24 hours have given us some perfect illustration of the very different, rhetorical universes at the two political parties are

and she's the one that introduced me to zora neale hurston and james baldwin and those my those are my children's stories that she would read those stories to me for years. i was afraid of that story. i didn't want to share that story. nor could i say anything i'd say, oh yeah, my sister had a terminal illness or something of that nature. but the moment that i reworked my origin story that i realized that i had a brilliant, wonderful sister who, had a mental illness, who had given me an incredible and could speak about it. shame. i found out that there was a community of people who had the same experience and we were empowered in sharing that story. america has a problem sharing the truth of, its history, the moment we can share, the truth of our history is the moment we work, our origin story and we can see better in the future. but as long as we hide and shame can't teach black history, can't teach indigenous history, can't talk about this, then we will continue down the same path that is destructive in this nation. wonderful. i'm deeply moved, by the way, in which you link your own

gulag archelo, the origin of totalitariasmmoral man and moral society, the collective esss of james baldwincollected essays, journalism and letters of george orwell, and the brothers care matzoh by. sky -- and the brothers karazamov. chris: that last one is about a mining strike. he is a great reporter. it is a very powerful word. and when he was taking to the street of paris, the crowd chanted. an amazing writer. a book that i read before, i just finished reading gulag archipelago and three quarters of the way through another work, which is a stunning piece of scholarship. host: i have not read the first three of your favorite books. i have them on my bookshelf and always wanted to. in search of lost time, mother -- i just it was a real boy. ulysses, i have heard it is just very difficult. chris: i do not think it is not difficult. in search of lost time, i've read a during the war in bosnia. they take the bridge out and you had to bear. i do not think ulysses -- i think edict is e eatest american novel. it is about -- i forget who said it was about the death of civilization, which it is.

i want you to read james baldwin when you're stuck and listen to john coltrane when you're not in in the moment was like none of that is helpful. what i what i would love is some prompt to go right but it ended up being helpful in long run i mean reading baldwin is is it's just it's searing moral clarity you kind of you get out of the mealy nature of washington and it's just this is right this is wrong it's like a hot knife through butter and that can be really inspiring. and then coltrane, i'd never really listened to and. it's just this free form jazz that when you're listening it, you kind of think, all right, i can go in any sort of direction here. so yeah, it was it interesting advice? yeah. yeah. and what i think it reveals when read that when i read about that what it in my mind is that that there's some art here, right. that this isn't just about the mechanics of putting words together, but there is some art about the emotion that we want to inspire in people who are listening. that's very true. i mean, to deliver a speech is not just reading words on a page it's a performanc

current pilot program and unit for, the students are expected, or we had hoped they would read james baldwin'sowever the ball when a state has denied permissions to use that text. and so, ap is not going to require that particular reading, it can't even put it in the ap classroom because it doesn't have permission. and the importance of having permissions is to take the burden off of individual school districts, and teachers to provide those sources. >> professor patterson, -- of the new york times editorial board has a column with the headline, erasing black history is not the role of the college board, and she writes in part that the way forward is to confront this history, not bend it to our will or whitewash it or wish it away. your reaction to that. >> my reaction is that the conversation, jonathan, about this course should be that the advanced placement course of african american studies is giving students access to literature, through maps, through history, through visual analyses, to information about the contribution, the undeniable contributions that black people have made it to the

alongside colleagues including james stewart, frank sinatra, burt reynolds multi decade career included a golden globe winning performance in the 3 musketeers in 1973. the act alec baldwin, looks set to hold onto his starring role in the western movie rust as film resumes over a year after the cinematographer. the film was shot dead on set. the u. s. actor has been charged with 2 counts of involuntary manslaughter over the killing of how lena hutchins, steering rehearsals for the movie in october 2021. when says he didn't know the gun he was using was loaded at the time. and last night in the champions league, germany side board said dogman snatched one though the trail. the chelsea in their round of 16 1st leg ty dot most comb or the amy found the back of a net just after the hour mark to give the home side the narrow victory government at one every match this year. the return leg is in london. march 7th though was the world's largest ocean liner touted as unthinkable. and then it went down during its maiden voyage. now, rare footage of the titanic shipwreck is being released some of it for the 1st time . in 1986, a team of us scientists filled the wreckage of the find

james brown. tonight, former president donald trump pleads the fifth during his deposition, ahead of a $250 million fraud lawsuit filed by new york's attorney general. plus, alec baldwineen formally charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting on the set of his film "rust," along with the movie's weapons specialist. but first, a massive winter storm system is targeting the nation's midsection with ice, sleet, and snow. winter storm alerts are spread across 14 states. officials are urging residents to stay off the roads and be prepared for power outages. at least two deaths in texas have been reported. thousands of flights have also been delayed and canceled, mostly in the south. cbs's omar villafranca will start us off tonight from memphis. good evening, omar. >> reporter: good evening. memphis is under an ice storm warning, and let me show you exactly what that means. there's a thin layer of ice all on these trees, and on the roads, and it's causing all kinds of problems from texas to tennessee. tonight, a dangerous winter storm is gripping the south, snarling travel from texas to kentucky. creating chaos on the roads... >> slow down, don't take these