klan. that was their reaction. [ laughter ] that was exactly -- hmm. then it got quiet for a long time. but i could tell it was that kind of quiet where they were like that might be good for ratings. but kamau might die. but that might be really good for ratings. [ laughter ] when i pitched the ku klux klan idea i didn't think they'd actually let me do it. you know what i mean? i was just trying to be edgy and get the job. and i thought we'd negotiate it down to like the rodeo. [ laughter ] you know what i mean? let him ride the horse. horses are weird. i thought we'd end up there. but i never thought in a million years that cnn would let me go talk to the kkk. but they did. ♪ >> my name is w. kamau bell. as a comedian i've made a living finding humor in the parts of america i don't understand. and now i'm challenging myself to dig deeper. i'm on a mission to reach out and experience all the cultures and beliefs that add color to this crazy country. this is "the united shades of america." ♪

he wore klan uniforms and paraphernalia around klan gatherings but not in the public. he was a coat and tie kind of guy, and he set up an organization that was pretty sophisticated. >> shelton's chapters were responsible for really horrific violence, and shelton's people were organized and were vicious. a number of them had military training, and that made them a much more dangerous threat. >> over the last several months, members of the aryan nation's church and other neo-nazi groups have been connected to a whole series of very violent events. >> the united klans of america, the country's oldest group of ku klux klansmen is threatened with financial ruruin. >> they started calling into the night, wee hours of the morning to say we're going to come and get you. they just kept calling, kept calling. >> they got fired up because we sued them. >> in 1983, the klan burned our building in montgomery, alabama. >> not only had our office been fire bombed in the night by a klan group, morris lived at that time on a farm. >> they came to my house trying to track me down. they

if you write about the klan, you are going to die. >> the klan and you had all of the naacp and all overgine criminal courts in the '80s in mobile, alabama where you have a jury box where 11 jurors were white and one juror was black of white defendants being held accountable for the death of michael donald. the stakes could not be higher and the racial tension could not be higher. the nation is literally watching. everyone had to have a sense of this being a historical ab aberration. a criminal trial for folks, you have a reason to be afraid and concerned. it is white supremaciy and america race. >> hays' father threatened to kill him. >> if i open my mouth of anything, i would be dead. >> i was really scared. i moved out of my mother and father's house. bennie hays coming to my mama's house looking for me to shut my mouth. when my mother and father went to the grocery, i wrote him a note and said i moved out. i could not live here anymore. i honestly believed they would have killed my mom and dad. security is very tight at the trial tom harrison charged hays 20-year-old went out looking

the klan had killed him.and said, they never found out who killed my sibling, my father, my mother. my brother died and they never found out. y'all are blessed. y'all are truly blessed. and i tell god right then, thank you, god. because we could be like them, wondering. expert sulfate-free formulas. validated by colorists. non-stripping to keep any colored hair beautiful for weeks. everpure from l'oreal paris. hi, i'm a new customer beautiful for weeks. and i want your best new smartphone deal. well i'm an existing customer and i'd like your best new smartphone deal. oh do ya? actually it's for both new and existing customers. i feel silly. but i do want nationwide 5g. i want nationwide 5g. are we actually doing this again? it's not complicated. only at&t gives new & existing customers the same great deals. like the samsung galaxy s21 5g for free when you trade in. sweetarts a candy that's just one thing? when i have sweetarts ropes bites? that are sweet and tart?!? why wouldn't i want both??? shhhhhhhweeetar

hays admit she's a member of the ku klux klan.ges that could send him to the electric chair if convicted of killing a young black man, michael donald. >> the two or three times that i paid any attention to henry, he appeared to be scared to death, justifiably so, because the ship was sinking. every witness i put on was another nail in his coffin. >> when tiger knowles told the story, i think everybody was so amazed. because if it hadn't been for him, we would have never known. >> testifying for the prosecution, jamesed at his fel klan sman michael knowles and said they killed donald in 1981 because he was black. >> the klan wanted the message to get back to the black people of not just alabama, but of the whole united states that we would not stand for a black person killing a white police officer and getting away with it, especially in alabama. we'd gotten the rope and we'd gotten the gun, and i tried the hangman's news in henry's car. we were out on a hunt. that's what we were doing. we were hunting black people. >> klansmen sai

bob had investigated the klan successfully.eddy saw the 16th street church bombing in birmingham. >> the klan felt that they were either protected or purely invincible. their influence in sympathizers were embedded throughout government, throughout law enforcement in both the city and the state level. >> in spite of the fact that four innocent negro girls were brutally murdered in a church in birmingham, alabama, not a single arrest has been made. >> a little over six years after the bombing, i was elected attorney general of alabama. that meant i had the real position where i could do something about it. so i got a terrific investigator named bob eddy. one great witness bob eddy found was chambliss' niece. she testified that two or three days before the bomb went off, robert was ranting and raving about the blacks and the demonstrations. and he said, you just wait till sunday. they'll beg us to segregate. somebody said, what do you mean? he said, you'll find out. you'll find out. and so that was pretty powerful. that made an i

members. >> bob eddy knew who was at that klan meeting.iger knowles, frank cox, teddy kyzar, henry hayes, and bennie hayes, the second highest ranking klansmen in the state of alabama. >> bennie hayes was a grand titan, which is the third highest ranking official in the united klan. >> bennie jack hayes was a hard-nosed businessman, and he could drop a mine in his pocket and pull out a quarter. bennie jack was a very detailed man. he was pure evil when he set his mind to it. >> henry hayes was bennie hayes' son. he was a lifetime member. he was secretary/treasurer. he collected the dues and the minutes and stuff like that. >> he was a holdover from the '60s. he was doing his best to be a hippie. he loved to smoke dope. but henry was a very lovable young man. he made sure to please daddy. if daddy caught on to some stuff he was doing, his daddy would discipline him harsh. even in his adult life, he let his daddy do with him what he wanted to. taylor knowles was an entrepreneur on the equal of bennie jack hayes. he was very ambitious. he had

this precipitated the anger, the outrage, the fear of the klan. >> the klan actually called "the newsted a subscription to the paper. that was one of their moves in terms of keeping a constant threat to say, you know, we're going to come and get you. and michael did not back down. on the morning of march 21st, 1981, michael went down to see for himself what was going on. and he took pictures of every body at the scene that he could. >> there were a group of people right across the street from where it took place. and these guys were just sitting there smoking cigarettes, talking like it was just a normal day. that's one of the things that caused michael to take so many pictures of them. he was just wondering how they could just stand there nonchalant. and we had no idea who they were. >> it turned out he took pictures of the klan. c micelles work like a magnet. in one swipe gently cleanse, remove makeup, and brighten. new micellar water with vitamin c. by garnier, naturally. >> it took courage. it took strength. >> law enforcement started to zero in on us. "the people v. the klan" co

this precipitated the anger, the outrage, the fear of the klan. >> the klan actually called "the newaper. that was one of their moves in terms of keeping a constant threat to say, you know, we're going to come and get you. and michael did not back down. on the morning of march 21st, 1981, michael went down to see for himself what was going on, and he took pictures of everybody at the scene that he could. >> there were a group of people right across the street from where it took place, and these guys was just sitting there, smoking cigarettes, talking like it was just a normal day. that's one of the things that caused michael to take so many pictures of them. he was just wondering how they could just stand there nonchalantly. and we had no idea who they were. >> it turned out he took pictures of the klan. yep! bye! that's why we love skechers max cushioning footwear. they've maxed out the cushion for extreme comfort. it's like walking on clouds! big, comfy ones! oh yeah! priceline works with top hotels, to save you up to 60%. these are all great. and when you get a big deal... you fee

, bankrupted them, destroyed the klan for a time being. >> and you've been following the derek chauvinsimilarities between george floyd's case and michael donnell's cases? >> well, i think the real similarity you go all the way back to the '63 bombing case and the other crimes of that era. what i see in thisisiss that peop that feel empowered, that they feel like they can do anything. in this case it was a police officer. you know we love to give our police officers the benefit of the doubt. we should in so many instances, but sometimes there are officers that seem to abuse that like derek chauvin and can do whatever he feels appropriate. and in connecting those dots, in the early '60s, it was people that were giving these dog whistle politics to the klan in one case, maybe police officers in this case that it's okay, you do your job and nothing will come of you. that i think is the biggest connection. and what we're seeing in the chauvin case now is a break down of that blue wall where so many police officers are pushing back and saying no, no, not this time, not on our watch. we beli

a death penalty for the first time against the klan for the murder of a black person.ent to civil court and won and literally won the keys to the klan headquarters. demonstrating that the american judicial system, as challenged as it may be, as riddled with racism and biased as it may be, that you can prevail. so that is a story that literally reverberates across time into this present moment. and the reason why i'm so -- i'm so excited about this film is because it literally speaks to us in this moment. race and division and the brutalization of black life. and the courage that ordinary people demonstrate in the face of racial injustice. >> you set that up so perfectly for us. it's also remarkable to me. i looked at it and as i'm reading it and keep seeing the promo, and i think to myself, oh, 40 years ago. i'm about to turn 45. the 1980s are not that long ago, and i think, too, putting that in perspective, that this happened in 1981. and there was a long way to go then. there's a long way to go now, but lynching, i think, for a large portion of the country, is someth

she went and bankrupted one of the largest klan in america's history.is is a story that speaks to her courage but also the courage of the african-american community in mobile and the community of conscious, the black press and to some degree the justice department. the civil rights division. it is a story that took place in the 1980s what speaks to where we are in 2021. why? pa pamela, many of us are trying to p process what's happening in minnesota and chicago and asking yourselves can we secure justice, this case speaks to what we can do now. the agency and the power we had in this moment. it is a very, very powerful film. a bit of history and her story and a very powerful story. >> the context of what's happening in this country it does bring to mind, how big of a threat are the kkk and other white supremacist groups to people of color to day. >> that's right, and our democracy. when we see white supremacists taking the lives of blacks and jews and immigrants. and so looking back gives us some measure of hope and inspiration but also real sober appre

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on the heels of the early klan case, the splc started klan watch, today known as the intelligence project. an investigative unit that monitors white supremacist and other far-right extremist groups you may be familiar with our annual "year in hate and extremism" report which lisa kindly referenced, where every year we include a census of hate and antigovernment groups. in 1989, the splc built the civil rights memorial in montgomery and commissioned maya lin to design it. the memorial and its interpretive center each year draw thousands of people, including many schoolchildren, to learn about the struggle for civil rights and the martyrs of the movement. in the early 1990's, we launched a highly successful teaching tolerance program to produce and provide free anti-bias resources to teachers, student, and classrooms throughout the country. just this year, we renamed this program learning for justice, to better reflect its current effort to engage parents an caregivers, community organizations, and others in supporting children to learn more about our hard history, in order to make our demo

a lot of these created anxiety and those part of the reaction of people in the klan.verything is changing and i want to stop this. it was not only anti-african-american and anti-asian american, anti-jew, anti-catholic, all of these things. from the sacramento perspective, you had the sudden interest of the kkk in sacramento and it happened on palm sunday 1922 at the westminster presbyterian church. six hooded klansmen marched in and handed a letter to the reverend and it had $50 and it and a letter that said we have been watching what you are doing. we appreciate your work if we want to support you. there was an immediate outcry amongst the people here, saying we don't want this year, and it started this backlash this back-and-forth. it plays quite an interesting role in the prohibition story. the editor of a local newspaper was very vocal against prohibition. like most, he was not in favor of saloons. saloons were the sticking point for more that for most people. -- were the sticking point for most people, but with alcohol in general, people did not have a problem. m

and there began to see a militant resurgence ever the ku klux klan, they put major klan actions out of business and one of the first and perhaps most famous of this cases, an all-white jury in mobile, alabama awarded a $7 million verdict to the mother of 19-year-old michael donald. michael was a black teenager who was picked up off the street by klansmen, tortured, murdered and hung from a tree in a residential neighborhood. that case put an end to the united klans of america, the same group responsible for the deadly bombing of the 16th street baptist church in birmingham. for the murder of lee ola liuzo after the selma march and other atrocities. that's been facet of our work, and since then launched hundreds of cases to protect the rights of black and brown people, underserved communities, children, women, workers, immigrants, the lbgtq community, incarcerated people and many others. >> on the heels of the cases, they started klan watch, today known as the intelligence project. analyzes trends in their movements. you may be familiar with our annual year in hate and extremism report

the ku klux klan was invented september 1865. there were eight massacres, major, between 1866 and 1876 starting in memphis, ending in hamburg, south carolina, and 1876. so this was not an untroubled period. the ku klux klan hearings and all of these volumes are online now and you can read them. that's the closest that we've come in this country to a truth in reconciliation commission. when grant sent troops to suppress the ku klux klan. and they asked all of these black people who had been victimized by the ku klux klan. black women were raped, they were threatened, bribed, beaten to keep them from voting because they had so much power. and i think that the manifestation, the expression of all that power, not only scared the daylights out of the former south, as you might except, right, but i don't think the north was ready for all that black power either. because the north was complicit with the roll back of reconstruction. certainly you could see signs by 1872. 1873 is the first great depression in the united states. it's calle

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this is not a sketch. >> i knew the klan existed. like, wow, like, they really believe this. >> they've got god and kentucky on the same level. >> yeah. god and kentucky. what? >> i feel like klan imagery is a little bit maybe older. i feel like maybe our generation relates it to a little bit more. did your generation have that same fear? >> i'm not scared if i go down south i'm going to get lynched anymore. i'm more scared when i go outside the house. like, am i going to get shot by a police officer? >> what nicholas just said right there is the whole show. it's easy to focus on the kkk, but you can avoid the kkk. but the police? you're going to eventually have to deal with the police. a 2018 rutgers university study showed that negative media portrayals, which foster fear of black men, were a significant factor in a five times higher rate of unarmed black men being shot by police than unarmed white men. that fear has justified not only excessive force, but also claims of self-defense. >> i think a lot of it has to do with, when you

"the people versus the klan" tells the true story of a black mother who took down the ku klux klan aftere o'donnell was an innocent american. >> no doubt the klan is behind this. >> that was my baby, and nothing they do can bring him back. ♪ ♪ this time i won't let go ♪ ♪ i'd rather die than give up the fight give up the night ♪ >> we must continue the fight. >> the stakes could not be higher. ♪ i'd rather die than give up the fight, give up the fight, give up the fight ♪ >> this is an incredible story of courage. >> a powerful new cnn orange series "the people versus the klan." tomorrow at 9:00 on cnn. you need a financial plan that can help grow and protect your money. an annuity can help cover essential expenses in retirement. have the right financial professional show you how... find your rhythm. this is what an annuity can do. your happy place. professional show you how... find your breaking point. then break it. every emergen-c gives you a potent blend of nutrients so you can emerge your best with emergen-c. are you managing your diabetes... ...using fingersticks? with the new free

the ku klux klan hearings and all of these volumes are online now and you can read them.at is the closest that we have come in this country to a truth and reconciliation commission. grant sent troops to suppress the click click glenn. all these black people had been victimized by the ku klux klan because they have been trying to vote. why men were raped, black men were, lynched they were threatened, even arrived, there were offers of bribes to keep them from voting because they had so much power and i think that the manifestation and expression of all of that power not only scared the daylights out of the former south, as you might expect, but i don't think the north was ready for all of that white power. because the north was complicit with the rollback of reconstruction. certainly you could see by 1872, 1873 is the great depression the united states. it's called the panic of 1873. until the great depression started in 1949 it was called the great depression. you looked around and said do we really need to protect the slaves? aren't they? free can they stand on their own

klu klux klan after the brutal lynching of her son michael.the klan and i was getting to where i knowed too much. if anything ever happened, and i wind up being a fall guy -- he took his hand and done like that and said, your pockets will be padded with money. you will never have to work, ever again. but if you ever open your mouth about the klan, you are going to die. >> be sure to tune in for back to back episodes tonight at 9:00 right here on cnn. >>> eight years ago this week, the world watched the deadly bombing a the finish line of the boston marathon tilg three people and injuring more than 260. one of the survivors of the blasts, heather abbott's life was changed by the injury she discovered. she found a way to turn that injury into triumph. >> i heard the first explosion just ahead in front of me. the next thing i knew, a second explosion occurred just to my right. that was the last thing i knew before i landed in the restaurant on the ground. i was in the hospital for several days while doctors were deciding whether or not to amputat

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>> i feel like klan mimgry is a little older.ation relates more than your generation, have that same seer? >> i'm not afraid anymore i'm going to be lynched anywhere. now it's am i going to get shot by a police officer. >> what he said right there is the whole show. it's easy to focus on the kkk but you can avoid them. but the police, you're going to eventually have to deal with the police. a 2008 rutgers study showed that negative media were a significant factor in a five times higher rate of unarmed black men being shot by police than unarmed white men. that has justified excessive force and claims of self-defense. >> i think a lot of it has to do with mainstream media we're dehumanized. so when an twron gets killed, it's like that's a young black dude. >> you know how it goes, antoine rose is shot and killed by michael rossfelt, who had been fired from his prior post for similar conduct. many outside his community focused on a drive-by shooting he was allegedly involved in. his community find it hard to focus on that since the

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it generated fear and outrage and the black community believed it was the ku klux klan. fought for justice and took the kla flrks to court and took them down and her story is "the people versus the klan" on c nnn this weekend >> the hurt is still there. i just visualize her face. i don't want to talk about it. she was a quiet woman. all the neighborhoods that we lived in, everybody loved her. >> "the people versus the klan" premieres sunday night at 9:00. "ac 360" starts now. >>> good evening. the tenth day of witness testimony in the derek chauvin murder trial may prove to be one of the most important. two physicians including the medical examiner that performed an autopsy and ruled it a homicide, a pivotal moment for a defense that rests in large part on trying to create doubt in the mind of one juror about the factors that actually contributed to george

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the klan" about a mother's fight for justice after the death of her child. to play a clip from the series. here it is. >> that morning one of my cousins called and said they believe it's michael. it's him. that's all i could say was "it's him." i was just numb. i couldn't believe that this was happening to us, and i looked outside my mom's door, and it was people everywhere. i mean everywhere in the neighborhood, they had come from far and near. my sister, cynthia hamilton, she went to identify the body with my husband. >> all he had done was left his mom's house that night to walk to the service station to buy a pack of cigarettes. not knowing what was waiting for him. i can only imagine what mrs. donald went through. >> what connection do you see between michael donald's story and what happened to your son? >> well, i see several similarities. i see that that was a mother who had lost her son and was so hurt as with my son, but she was not willing to just let it be swept under the rug because we can't let these things just get swept under the rug and we do

. >>> the new cnn original series "the people versus the klan" tells the true story of beulah a. a black mother who took on the ku klux klan after the brutal lynching of her son michael, and how her legacy lives on today. >> this shouldn't just be a moment, it should be a movement to come together. >> in the present moment we honor the names of people who have been lost to hate by saying it aloud, say his name, say her name, say their names. every hashtag that you read today and endeavor to see the humanity of the hashtag is part of his legacy, because his mother, beulah mae donald, chose to take on his killers and hold them accountable, which inspires us today to hold accountable those who desecrate and destroy black lives. that's the legacy of michael donald. that's the legacy of beulah mae donald. >> don't miss the powerful conclusion of "the people versus the klan" with back-to-back episodes tomorrow at 9:00 and 11:00 pacific here on cnn. we'll be right back. here you go, let me help you. hi mr. charles, we made you dinner. ahh, thank you! ready to eat? yes i am! wayfair's bi

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cp ellis was a leader in the local chapter of the ku klux klan.n morphed into a plan. he ripped up his kkk membership card. real-life events were portrayed in a recent hollywood movie "the best of enemies," putting people with opposing ideas in a room for ten days to work it all out. acquaint. that's what our democracy is based upon and we're doing a terrible job of it right now. to have constructive discussions about real issues slips away daily as anxiety and fear seeps in. less common ground, wisdom. discourse has been replaced by gas lighting, trolling and zero sum thinking. anti-trans bills, anti-immigrant sentiment. radical politicians. everything say cultural wedge. we are wired to defend our values and principles and prnl beliefs from anyone or anything we feel is attacking them. in fact, that's the only common theme left. everyone in america feels like they're under attack. while there are gaps in consensus, there are no longer bridges. where there were one sides that try to work together there's infinish infinite corners. there's your si

. >>> a quick programming note, the new cnn original series the people versus the klan tells the truee klu klux klan after the lynching of her son. here's a preview of the latest episode. >> consider what gwen carr is going through now in the wake of eric garner's death. consider all the mothers behind the hash tags who had children we understand to be human beings. >> our child, they die one time, the mother, the father, the family, we die a little every day. >> don't miss the moving conclusion of the people versus the klan with back-to-back episodes tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. >>> 3 million covid-19 related deaths worldwide. >> until everybody gets vaccinated, could there be other variants that now escape the immune system. >> the optimism about what the vaccines could deliver for us has, you think, eclipsed the amount of vaks ccinations that we've gotten in arms. >> there have been 45 mass shootings in the u.s. in just the last month. >> we never expected that, you know, they would go to work, and we would never see them. >> we're just still looking for them, ho

it's the people versus the klan.mobile, alabama, killed by klan members in 1981. his mother beulah may donald, fighting for justice for her son. >> living in mobile was a quiet town. it's nothing but all trees. but after march 1981, it was kind of like creepy to me to just look at the trees. the hurt is still is there. the hurt my mom went through, i just visualized her face, and i go like, i'm not going to talk about it today. ♪ my momma beulah rmae donald, sh was a quiet person. all the neighborhood we lived everybody loved her. >> watch this series. the cnn original series "the people versus the klan" premieres sunday 9:00 eastern, right here on cnn. >>> and we'll be right back. ♪ ce veteran made of doing what's right, not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members,

klan." it tells the story of a woman who took down klan. >>> the sikh community is in mourning as four members were victims in the indianapolis mass shooting. >> protests for a sixth straight night outside minneapolis and the potential for even more tonight. >> what happens every night is that for hours and hours you see peaceful protests and then as night falls, things tend to get a little bit more contentious. ♪ ♪ prince harry flanked by the duke and duchess of sussex. they look comfortable, harry and william breaking away together in the name of prince philip in death he's brought the family together. >>> i'm pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are in the cnn newsroom. police officials in two american cities right now, minneapolis and chicago, are closely watching for a repeat of friday night. that was when angry protesters marched and rallied and clashed with police. they have been reacting to a pair of fatal officer-involved

and so she brought a civil suit against the klan in alabama.one of the longest standing white supremacist domestic terrorist organizations that existed in the nation. do you believe in your struggle to the point where you would liter literally lose your life? >> she had every reason to be afraid. >> reporter: fear didn't stop her, beulah may and other black leaders in the country took on the men that killed her son, and the terrorist organizations that fueled their hate. >> this is a must watch, the all new cnn original series, the people versus the klan, premiering tonight in back-to-back episodes at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >>> the second we let our guard down, it comes roaring back. >> we're not even halfway through our vaccination program. so now is not the time to change course. >> vaccine requirements are becoming part of the new normal. >> they would say that it was everything but derek chauvin's knee on his neck that killed him. >> he went frame by frame and showed us when the life was actually sucked out of georg

but they did. >> we felt the cops and the klan working hand in hand. we don't tolerat

. >>> a preview of a powerful new cnn series, the people versus the klan, premiering tonight on cnn.black man hanging from a tree. ♪ the held health on earth you put me through ♪ ♪ sportsnet. >> michael donald was an innocent good samaritan. ♪ smoke, fire, it's all going up ♪ >> no doubt, the klan is behind this. >> that was my baby and nothing they do can bring him back. ♪ won't wave my white flag ♪ ♪ oh, this time i won't let go ♪ ♪ i would rather die than give up the fight, give up the fight, give up the fight, give up the fight ♪ >> we must continue to despite. >> the stakes could not be higher. ♪ >> this is an incredible story of courage. >> a powerful new cnn series, "the people versus the klan" tonight at 9:00 on cnn. ♪ beds get sick too protection. lysol laundry sanitizer kills 99.9% of illness-causing bacteria detergents leave behind. proven to kill covid-19 the harry's razor is not the same ♪ because some of us are not the same ♪ our close shave comes from our 5 german-engineered blades designed to start sharp and stay sharp. and we never upcharge you for high quality. so f

for the klan. the republicans don't do this.e one of his biggest supporters, he took a liking to joe biden. joe biden said. cure his -- during his momental service, he said we lost dean of u.s. senate and state of west virginia lost its most fierce advocate. z i said, i lost dear friend. now joe biden as president of united states is ruing race again. republican legislators are trying to take back the electoral systems that democrat lawyers, democrat judges, democrat governors and democrat secretaries of state, seized during the course of the last election. they do not want all of the same measures in place that were in place, they said due to the virus. so trying to reassert their authority. it has nothing to do with jim crow, everything to to with a voting system that has integrity forever all voters regardless of race, democrats push hr1. now s1. that would eliminate all voter i.d., which 80% of american people including black people support. that signature vir -- verification requirements, and allow people to vote in other p

and every friday afternoon, the klan would hold a rally in the field across my house and burn across. and that was implanted in my mind, the idea that this is a dangerous group for us, but we are being intimidated and bullied and i didn't like that. then i came know i had my first very best friend, was a white boy. he and i were inseparable until we reach the age of 15. and when we reach the age of 15, his parents told him he could no longer be my friend, and that he as a white boy was better than me, and therefore he and i could no longer hang out together. he came to me and told me that story. which is amazing. and he felt horrible about it, but he had no basis of not obeying his parents. and that split is up. we never had contact again. i became very angry as a result of that, and then that was my first protest. on a saturday morning, i will never forget it, i was in the town of lithonia and went to the bathroom, and went in what was called at that time a colored bathroom. it was a unisex bathroom, and it was dirty with all kinds of greeson oil and tiles in the bathroom and i refus

look at michael donald, a 19-year-old black man killed and lynched by the klan in 1981. donald's mother, beulah mae fought a battle to essentially bankrupt the klan, but it does not mean that the terror group disappeared. you can watch the back-to-back episodes of "the people v. the:"tomorrow night on cnn at 9:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. only cnn. >>> thank you for being with me. i'm fredricka whitfield. there are growing fears of the coronavirus vaccines after another 90,000 new cases were reported fry day which marks three days of over 75,000 new infections and growing concerns of the johnson & johnson vaccine. the cdc is saying that it is aware of adverse side effects being reported in four states, and still signs of progress, and the fda is now considering whether to allow pfizer to move aware for vaccines for kids ages 12 through 15. and we have new developments across the country, and we have polo sandoval and paul vercammen, and officials, polo, they are saying that they are seeing high positivity rates. >> one of the big telltale numbers here, fred, is that the hospit

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