and, of course, the book includes a speech by kimberly crenshaw, whose work is under attack not only intersectionality, but critical race theory, and also a statement by the african american policy forum that she directs. so we really had the benefit of howard's input, the work of actors and students who read these pieces over the years on various stages and in various classes. and then i really am grateful for haley's own experience as an organizer and her ability to speak to speeches that she had heard or been inspired by in her own right now. amy: haley pessin, we're speaking in the midst of the writers guild of america strike, thousands of people on picket lines across the country. introduce us to what rosario dawson, the great actor, read at your big opening splash of this book in town hall. >> yes, rosario dawson read a statement by alianza nacional de campesinas. this was 700,000 farmworkers, female farmworkers who stood with hollywood actors against sexual assault at the height of #metoo in november of 2017. >> dear sisters, we write on behalf of the approximately 700,000 wom

. >> joining me now is kimberly crenshaw, she is a columbia law and ucla law professor, and is the authorou for joining me again, on the show today, kimberly. let's go right to this, the investigation into this incident was only launched after a bystander jack footage and it went viral, which then prompted the l.a. county sheriff's office to release body camera footage to the public. i wonder how many other altercations similar to this have happened without bystanders? we certainly get a lot of calls at the national action network, you wrote your book about the stories of black women who have been victims to state violence and police brutality. what is your reaction to the story? >> well, reverend, always a pleasure to be here. of course the number of events like this that go on march, that we know nothing about, is countless. while we wrote this book, we thought it was absolutely important for the public to understand. that black women and girls are also victims of anti black police violence, black women and girls as young as seven, as old as 93, have been killed by the police. black wom

joining me to discuss all this is kimberly crenshaw, law professor and executive director of the africanicy forum. her new book "say her name, black women's stories of police violence and public silence" came out this week. we're going to discuss that too in a moment. i want to start with this. as an academic, i'm a professor at morgan state university. you're teaching at multiple universities. what is the sort of negative long term consequences of what we're seeing in florida? what does it mean to dumb down the education of children at a high school level and then back that up by threatening professors at the university level? what does it do to a state, to a community? >> well, absolutely, this is the end game that we have been talking about for the last two years. the anti-woke cabal is moving from we weren't responsible for the bad thing, to it wasn't that bad after all. this is the exemplary example of what happens when you apply both sidesism to the brutality of american enslavement. this is basically saying, look, slavery was, you know, sort of complicated. yeah, people were owned

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. >> kimberly crenshaw's executive director of the african american policy farm. she is the author of the new an important book, say her name. black women stories of police violence and public silence. still ahead, hints of donald trump's next plan to further dismantle democracy. we have another jam-packed velshi and starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ good morning. it is sunday, july the 23rd. i'm ali velshi. the eruption of violence at the capitol on january the 6th as the darkest manifestation of donald trump's disregard for democracy. even long before, that there were plenty of signs that the now twice impeached, twice indicted, destroys former president had a disregard for democracy. back in 2016, he openly campaign and promoted imprisoning hillary clinton, his main political opponent. he created a bogeyman of the americans who work a civil students in the various agencies that make up the federal government. the swamp, and his parlance. or, the deep state. he often praising the dunes of autocratic leaders like vladimir putin, kim jong-un, while undermining america's rel

we had kimberly crenshaw on the other day, she said my great grandmother was enslaved.s a midwife. she would much rather not had been enslaved and learn being a midwife. and if you are a free people, you can learn whatever you -- want >> of course, it's not only bs. it is dangerous. and thank goodness for adolf hitler, my father suffering as a child during the holocaust, right, as a presenter -- >> my father's from bullet. and he was part of the last generation of the holocaust. if it wasn't for hitler, my father would have never become a constructive surgeon in toronto, because they ended up leaving the country after the war was over. i'm, thank goodness for hitler, right? is that what they want to start teaching. and superman israel. i saw him fly over the city yesterday. the level of stupidity that's coming from this far right, that is being supported, if that's the worst part, all those folks that were there in erie, pennsylvania, they are supporting this level of stupidity, whether it's to donald trump's pack, which to me makes no sense. he gets to use at his own d

yes, kimberly crenshaw introduced the phrase in 1989 to describe the intersection of race, class and gender. and of course, there are many more categories that we use now. but ginsburg took inspiration from dorothy kenyon and polymerases path. pathbreaking article, jane crow strum emphasizes ginsburg is searching for the right cases to bring to the court, sometimes being derailed what she got. but in her search to show how sex discrimination impacted men was she unknowingly unintentionally letting her gaze, i bring up the search for the right cases made. me think of polly murray, a black who would use him pronouns in correspondence. she was not the right case to get the to try and fight to enroll. and you once sees law school in the late 1930s, she was not the right case to be the face of a bus boycott like rosa parks or to get credit until years later for the legal thinking behind. marshall's argument and brown. what could have happened? one of the perfect cases had been to protect an african-american woman's right to decide what to do with her pregnancy listed, or if it had been a

i just got off a panel a few minutes ago with -- crenshaw, all of you know, who kimberly is.essor of law. at columbia i believe. and she talked about 26 states in this country now are banning the teaching of black history. this is directly linked to the supreme court decisions that are stripping away our fundamental rights. so if a child growing up today, not understanding the vestiges of history or the vestiges of slavery, i should say, is a huge concern. when >> alfonso, leaders from all sectors of black leadership are here in new orleans. one of my highlights was to meet a good friend of mine oprah winfrey during it to talk about economic promise, something that you are at the essence festival later tonight. you are set to make an announcement and really try to bring some cohesion to all of the leadership, all of the influencers and get results. as long as you are in leadership, you've been results oriented. no drama, let's get something done. what can you, before this announcement, what can you share with your audience around the country? what are you forecasting that we