-period my name is thomas and his senior counsel at the naacp or lds .-period thank you for their paternity to justify about putting rights in the united states today .-period since the founding 9040 by thurgood marshall dave advance r black americans and others . of the s efforts have done more difficult since 2003 or since 2013 with the us up in court and i decided shall be county versus holder . attorneys argued in the support and defense of the voting rights act and as you know section five required jurisdictions with histories of determination to seek preclearance from the university or federal courts. before before them committing change related to voting . the state had the burden of proving that a voice was not dissuaded right . however they held the congress is not sufficiently justified the coverage formula when it reauthorized the voting rights act in 2006. by ending preclearance the support of states with a consistent record of voting dissemination without scrutiny . results have been for the double and devastating. within hours of of the dec

candace, why with the naacp try to cover this up?s off of hate and race and it's embarrassing because it is revealing an ugly truth which is that victimhood has been become a virtue in the community. my heart goes out to this girl she is believing a narrative that is being spun that black americans, what they should aspire to his victimhood and that is what needs to be talked about and that is not a narrative that the naacp ever wants to be talked about because there would be no need for themd to exist. >> laura: victim apology is something we have talked about a lot on the show, and whetherhe it's a white person claiming that he is a victim or a black person -- in this case there does seem to be this narrative that is forwarded a lot on college campuses and even younger now. kids who are younger. most kids aren't even paying attention to skin color. they are beyond that. my kids are. they don't care about that. what about this, monique? [laughter] what does this tell about us the reaction that people want to be it's true on the left

we're going to let the naacp look at the list. within weeks, automatically 40,000 had been removed from that number. and the number continues to grow. so it can be done if we want to do the right thing. and i would just ask my colleagues that the next time we open up a congress and start to read the constitution, let's just be clear that's something we want to follow. when we disenfranchise people who have paid their debt to society, we've violated the constitution. it says every citizen, every american. we don't take away your citizenship when we incarcerate you, especially when you have paid your debt. so i want to thank you all for the work that you do. we need more people doing this kind of work and raising awareness of what is happening in our communities because there are many people like some of my colleagues who do not believe that anything is wrong with our system. they believe it's okay to have these strict voter i.d. laws. i would suggest to them when they come up with examples like, well, you know, you have to have a c

and republicans, progressives and conservatives, the left and right, the aclu and the coke brothers, naacp and heritage foundation in partnership with the administration led by jared kushner ultimately were able to get a bill to the president's desk he signed into law. i was a meaningful accomplishment, in the context of dealing with the mass incarceration epidemic that we have in america. the judiciary committee last week at an oversight hearing led by karen bass on the first step act. where we heard from administration officials who continued to express commitment. >> .. >> .. to work with the president and the other side of the aisle. unlike, by the way, the posture adopted by the previous majority for much of the presidency of the barack obama where they had one mantra of obstruction now, obstruction tomorrow, obstruction forever. we have indicated by working with the administration on things like the first step to act that will take a different approach and we will take the approach on prescription drug pricing, introduction, usmc and anything that makes life better for the american p

the announcement by the naacp and who it says is standing in the way of progress. >>> new attacks inorthern syria after president trump announced the withdrawal of the remaining u.s. forces from syria. the dangerous fallout that critics say we could see next. >>> syrian troops of moving to northern zero after striking a deal with curtis forces to fight it offensive in the area. >> steve harrigan reports on what has happened in the region since u.s. troops were paroled back by the white house. stroke syrian forces moved north starkest forces moved south of setting the stage for deadly and attends classes near the border. the syrian army has been deployed following a deal with curtis fighters helped fend off turkish invasion. turkey calls the movement into syria and anti-terror operation. the goal is to force out the kurds and create a 20 mile safe zone. curtis soldiers are pushing back with reinforcements from the government. people defeat the turkish forces and this immaculate and holy land. >> they turned to the syrian regime after president trump pulled american forces from the reg

. >>> local leaders and the naacp are calling on the san francisco board of supervisors to end it whatare calling racist politics, impacting people living in the city. the reverend brown, the president of the san francisco prep chapter of the naacp says the city supervisors are standing in the way of progress for black america. he says there is a click on the board of supervisors that has resisted mayor london breed's proposals, which are designed to improve the lives of black people in the city. >> they also missed with a homeless issue, citizenship, in addition to that, all of these issues impacted in a greater measure african americans. >> the reverend brown also says the board has a decades-old history of trying to stop efforts of black political leaders, including former mayor , willie brown, was elected as the city's first black mayor in 1996. >>> native american culture took center stage in a celebration in san francisco today. indigenous peoples day around the bay area, christian is live now around the christopher columbus statue was was vandalized over the weekend. christian,

the naacp and other african- american leaders to meet at 10:30 a.m. at the third baptist church in san francisco. >>> the mayor, the city council and immigration rights activists will be railing tonight in behalf of dreamers. they want the state senate to pass a bill to protect dreamers and give them a path to permanent citizenship. the house passed a similar bill called the dream enterprise asked her if he really begins after hook. it will be at martin luther king jr. park in berkeley. >>> teachers only mount evans going unified school district protesting this morning calling for better contracts. they are demanding better resources for students and teachers. mont alto education association to meet with the school district management as well as a mediator trying to reach a deal in the contract calls. >>> several disco wrapping up in the blue angels side of town after putting on quite a show. swept the blue angels returned to the oakland airport yesterday. they flew back to their home base in florida after putting on three shows. they performed san fr

it was elijah cummings who filled the side of fumai who ran the naacp for a long time. what happens to the congressional seat in baltimore? >> there will be a special election called by the governor, but first a primary and then a general election i think october 28th is the deadline for the governor to set the date for th that. a lot of speculation that elijah cummings' widow who is chair of the party will choose to run for his seat. it seems to me she would likely be in a pretty commanding position to do so given her political standing and this outpouring of affection. >> can i jump in? i think susan is right, there's a lot of speculation about maya. i just want to say that maya has been in politics for a long time. she was actually a staffer on capitol hill, served as chief of staff to former congressman mel watt out of north carolina. she ran for governor earlier this year and unfortunately had to drop out of that race because of congressman cummings' failing health. she's also be loved by the people. she's chair of the democratic party, replaced kathleen matthews,

the civil rights activist and naacp secretary of 37 years old was shot through the heart of the highpowered rifle by a white supremacists by rain delay back with will not be imprisoned until the nineties on federal charges and we think about june of 63 there's 15,000 people arrested in the united states vis-À-vis civil rights demonstrations in 1963 so i think about 63 when it's an inflection point and birmingham is a global humiliation for united states because everyone from the soviet union to china and to folks in africa and other parts of europe stop calling americans savages and say that white supremacy is a global shame. there is no genuine democracy in united states. it's a critical crisis of american democracy and america standing in the global world and it's hard to remember that by 63. 64, certainly think about march on washington in 1963 and that's going to be the first and last time john f. kennedy here is martin luther king junior say speech. it's important to remember, came talked about reparation in that speech and vaulters is going to be a huge advocate and will discus

i had been inspired by a lawyer from the local naacp named one need to jackson mitchell -- juanita jackson mitchell. she had fought for a swimming pool near our local home. i told the counselor i wanted to be a lawyer. so that i could go out and help people. i must tell you the counselor looked at me and said, you poor kid. he said he will never be a lawyer. i want to make it clear, he was my color. let's be clear on that. he then said something to me that has haunted me all my life. he said, "who do you think you are? how dare you think you can become a lawyer. your mom has a fourth grade education and your dad has a fourth-grade education. former sharecroppers seven , brothers and sisters. how do you think you're going to do that?" young people, i must tell you i almost lost my faith that day, but i went home and told my mother, who did not have a phd in education, but had a phd in faith. [applause] rep. cummings: and others, teachers who are now dead, that believed in my potential and saw things in me that i did not even see in myself. our recreation leader captain jim smith took me und

i had been inspired by a lawyer from the local naacp named juanita jackson mitchell. she stood up for us little children in south baltimore where we had marched to integrate the riverside swimming pool not far from our homes. so i told the counselor i just wanted to be a lawyer. i dreamed of becoming a lawyer so that i can go out and help people. i must tell you, though, the counselor looked at me and said, you poor kid. he said, you will never be a lawyer. i want to make it clear, he was my color. let's be clear on that. he then said something to me , chairman mfume, that has haunted me all my life. he said, who do you think you are? how dare you think that you can become a lawyer. your mom has a fourth grade education. your dad has a fourth grade education. former sharecroppers. living in a three room house. seven brothers and sisters. how you think you're going to do that? young people, i must tell you, i almost lost my faith that day. i went home and told my mother, who did not have a ph.d. in education but she had a ph.d. in faith. [applause] and others -- teache

the naacp and other african- american leaders will be meeting at 10:30 a.m. at the third baptist church in san francisco. >>> the mayor, the city council and immigrant rights activists rally tonight in behalf of dreamers. they want the state senate to protect dreamers give them a path to permanent residency. the house passed a similar bill called the dream and promise act. the rally starts at @ p.m. tonight. it will be at mlk park in berkeley. >>> teachers on the mount diablo unified school district will be protesting this morning, demanding better contracts. they want better resources for students, and teachers. the mount diablo education association will be meeting with the school district management along with a mediator by to work out a settlement >>> the blue angels soaring to the sky. they put on quite a show. >>> the blue angels returned to the oakland airport yesterday and flew back to their home base in florida. they performed three shows over san francisco friday, saturday, and sunday but even though the blue angels are gone, there is still plenty t

speaking of basketball, let's move to the naacp.ansas jayhawks, they had a big pre-season celebration to mark their first practice. they even hired snoop dogg to perform. whoever booked him clearly doesn't know who snoop dogg is >> this morning the university of kansas is apologizing for this video you see here. wearing a k.u. shirt, snoop doping performed several of his hits unsense soared, fired money bills into the audience with a canon and brought out acrobatic dancers. the u.k. president said we apologize, we expected a clean version of the show. ( cheers and applause ) >> what if the organizers expect to happen? if you invite snoop dogg to perform, you know what you're getting. >> yep. >> what did you expect? the kids version bop of jen and juice? >> i would love that. ♪ rolling down the sidewalk in my big wheel ♪ ♪ sipping on juicy juice ♪ did back with my mind and my legos ♪ ♪ and my legos and my mind ( cheers and applause ) >> no, that's terrible. >> it's usually better when i wear any do-rag. but, roy, this wasn't a good l

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. >> the advertisement is being denounced tonight by the local naacp chapter. >> we cannot be silent in the face of this kind of bigotry and racialized expression in the politics of the mayor of mayor london prebreed's re-election campaign put out a statement calling that billboard disgraceful. reporting live in san francisco sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. >> former secretary of state hillary clinton made a trip to the bay area today. she's promoting ae was joined b chelsea clinton. n a book tour. it's a group of essays that highlight women who made a difference and also talked about the current political climate. >> how do i do something to care about children in cages on our border or the contempt of the rule of law and violations o th minneapolis on thursday. >>> investigators looking into the dramatic explosion and fire at the new star facility in crockett hope to gain access to the scene this week. workers spent the weekend draining ethanol and water and foam from that site. a report released late friday shows there was no unusual activity at the site when those tanks one c

include the incident project, asia and pacific american health problems, the most favored action, the naacp, national conference of american indians, national or the league and dedicated to advancing a voting system that is free, fair and accessible to all regardless of race, ethnicity or language proficiency. in addition to helping identify leaders on the ground to testify, collaborative partners embarked on a request for efforts to lift up the voices of every day voters of color in their experiences so to complement the field hearings we conducted a series of peoples hearings in select states to gather first-hand accounts of voter suppression through the creation of a website we vote for voters across the country to share their voting experiences. we held hearings in states like alabama, north carolina, ohio, north dakota, south dakota, georgia, florida and texas and heard from voters firsthand. witnesses there attested to other things, having to wait in long lines to check ballots, being denied by language assistances at the polls, being denied disability at the polls, having to restore

include advancement project, asian-pacific islander american health forum, the most patient action, the naacp. the national congress of american indians, the national relief, raised forward and to us are all dedicated to advancing the voting system that is pretty fair and accessible to all people regardless of race ethnicity and ability are like witch proficiency. in addition to helping identify leaders on the ground to testify, the anchor collaborative partners, embarked on a robust pass-throughs effort to look at the voices of everyday voters of color and their experiences. so to complement the field hearings, we conducted a series of people series and we select in select states. to get a first-hand account of this voter suppression. after the creation of my website, we felt we count, we are voters across the country can share their voting experiences. we held hearings in states like alabama and north carolina and ohio and north carolina and south dakota, georgia, florida, texas, and heard from voters first-hand. witnesses there, attested to among other things, having to wait in long lines

you had the head of the naacp legal defense fund who would be a terrific nominee as the next mccracken president. you have michelle alexander who wrote the book, "the new jim w."w the next democratic resident should make a priority of not gender diversity but racial diversity and not just hiring from corporate lawyer backgrounds. host: also vying to be the nominee come is or someone you're supporting in particular who is best on reforms? guest: we have not endorsed candidate and i'm not sure that we will but we are trying to encourage as many of the candidates to speak to this issue and some have spoken more than others. pete buttigieg was the first one put out a proposal to structurally reform the supreme court to 15 and change how they are appointed. a proposal was put out to endorse term it's to 18-year terms. elizabeth warren is someone who has spoken out about the need to appoint a more worker-focused lawyers come working in labor law, to the supreme court and federal bench to counter the influence of the corporate minded judges that donald trump has appointed. those are some cand

the leader of the city's chapter of the naacp has denounced the billboard. >> we talked to voters about the poster and you will hear from them. there's a news conference tomorrow morning with the city's asian-american political leaders to denounce that poster as well. reporting live in san francisco, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. >>> a busy night last knighted for fire crews in contra costa county. first a head on collision around 8:30 on sellers road in brentwood, one person was crited and flown by a helicopter to the hospital, and just down the road as police were clearing the scene, two drivers hit head on, and eight people including a young boy were injured. >>> turning to the ongoing impeachment inquiry in washington, a top diplomat to ukraine is scheduled to testify on tuesday, and william taylor said, quoted, i think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help because of political campaign. he is the latest in a string of current and former trump administration employees to talk to lawmakers behind closed doors. the white house refused to cooperate with the inquiry. >>

he became as a delegate in the naacp chapter. in 2008, they held an exhibit called david johnson.nd this past june, david returned to jacksonville where he received more than 50 proclamations from national, state and civic communities for his contributions. the commission provided guidelines in the naming policy which sets forth a criteria that people may be recognized for their contributions to the city and the recreation and parks department. because of his significant contribution to creating an educational opportunity to capture the rich history of the fi fillmore, we would like to name the photo processing center, the david johnson photo processing lab and create a reading space in the lobby of the center. we have received over 100 letters in support of the request and there have been two community meetings held on friday, september 27 and thursday, october 10. based on the feedback from community members, organizations and rec and park department staff, the staff recommends that the photo processing lab at the harvey milk photo center be named the david johnson photo process

three-quarters of them black, that's according to the naacp, by the way. now, others have used that word in the same way. but they were wrong. just like this president is wrong. thousands of african-americans. they didn't call them african-americans back then. you know what they called them, right? thousands of people who looked like me were murdered, simply for who they were. this president uses that word as if it all means something that he thinks is unfair to him. that's not what lynching means. let me tell you what it means. it means being -- if you can even describe how horrific it is, it means being ripped from your home and family, taken away by a mob, tortured, hanged from a tree, left there for everybody to see. a brazen public murder meant to send a message that they can do anything they want, anything they wanted to black folks, and no one would stop them. that's what lynching is. that's what billie holliday sang about in 1939, when linking is still happening in this country. ♪ ♪ southern trees bear strange fruit ♪ ♪ blood on the leaves and bloo

presidents makes this rare visit to a historically black college here in south carolina and ahead of that naacpd a statement expressing skepticism and the saying the president's visit so soon after invoking lynching created and unexpected and un's pleasant situation for students here. a number of protesters behind me who have come out to protest this event and a number of supporters who came out ahead of the president's visit. a small event. a lot of media not allowed inside. of course, the president also took this opportunity, brooke, to say words in honor of the late congressman elijah cummings. that took up a portion of the beginning of his speech as well. >> thank you very much. in south carolina following the president there. meantime that anonymous senior trump administration official writing this book is teasing that it will have a lot of details from president trump himself. the back cover of this book entitled "a warning." obtained by cnn that leads -- hopefully others will remedy the era of silence and choose to peek out. these pages you will not just hear from me. you will hear a gre

reverend brown and the naacp was very instrumental and the community center and of course our mayor londonow, when i first started really getting involved in the neighborhood, it was over 20 years ago as a neighborhood activist. i remember someone telling me the story, and this is maybe 12, 13 years ago. about maxine hall. they said you need to know this story if you are going to be an activist. when i heard the story and the kind of woman she was and the kind of fighter for the community. it gave me that kind of passion to do more. when i found out her tragic how she tragically died and how the community said we are never going to forget her and making sure that she was never forgotten in the work she did. she was vessel less. i'm sure her family will have stories to tell you about how selfless she was. she was a community organizer and activist. for me that gave me a path forward of how i should push forward, how i should never take no for an answer. it also is personal for me. with the center opening, you grew up in utah. half native-american, on and off reservations my whole life growi

. >> she's got a plan he or she has adopted the naacp's plan, and i think you should read the plan beforer and call her a fraud, because you clearl. it's easy for you to say she's a hypocrite because she sent her son somewhere, but you don't respect capitalism, dan, and that is your problem. >> you don't respect personal dignity. chris, seriously, go out -- >> laura: guys, we've got to go. this is a fun second anniversary to partly spend with you guys. she also got slammed by "the new york times" this week, which was a little interesting, for defending corporations in court. she is anticorporate, but so, interesting stuff, we will see what happens. dan and chris, thank you. coming up, a big announcement about the past and future of this show. stay there. billions of mouths. billions of problems. morning breath? garlic breath? stinky breath? there's a therabreath for you. therabreath fresh breath oral rinse instantly fights all types of bad breath and works for 24 hours. so you can... breathe easy. there's therabreath at walmart. can match the power of energizer. because energizer ultimate

from the 1880s to almost 1970, the naacp said there were 4,743 lynchings in the united states, and roughlyhree-quarters of those victims were african-american. i want to talk now with american michael eric dyson. he is also a professor the georgetown university. how does he tweet this? >> it's astounding. not only does it insult african-american history. he has evinced no serious visit with that history. now to take periods of african-american life. lynching, tossing black bodies into rivers because of white supremacy means this president has not only reinforced the vulnerability of american american people by his policies, he's gotten on the wrong side. this is a man who denies racism and anti-semitism, and now he uses this to his defense skpchlt using lynching, people who had no reference to law, by definition was avoiding the legal remedy for an ostensible crime and taking a vigilante approach, so president trump is wrong on so many counts. >> you have said he is ignorant on this history. do you think he is ignorant of what a nerve he touches using this word. he hasn't used it for a lon

he became as a delegate in the naacp chapter. in 2008, they held an exhibit called david johnson.nd this past june, david returned to jacksonville where he received more than 50 proclamations from national, state and civic communities for his contributions. the commission provided guidelines in the naming policy which sets forth a criteria that people may be recognized for their contributions to the city and the recreation and parks department. because of his significant contribution to creating an educational opportunity to capture the rich history of the fi fillmore, we would like to name the photo

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rights activist, a lawyer from the 1960s-1980s and it won awards from civil rights groups like the naacp in my family had suffered for that work not just the constant vandalism but the physical attacks on my grandfathers elementary school aged children but that never stopped him from the commitment to racial justice. when i was five a new era of my families legacy began and i will be job obit about that now. i didn't understand what was going on, not at first. the sign simply. one day and never left like some undeniable force of nature. i just expense their arrival that way as well. my mother's family had been a well-known and pull the rising city for decades but in my memory it started at gage park. it didn't look like a park to me. there were no swings or slides or jungle gyms. just an open field the severed the place will be part from the busy intersection of tenth st. and gage boulevard. as pastor of the tiny westboro baptist church my grandfather would drive the big red pickup filled with signed to meet and the rest of the church consisting almost entirely of my aunts and uncles, co

. >>> naacp legal defense and educational fund is calling for an independent investigation into the shootings in the murder case against a dallas police officer. joshua brown was shot and killed friday night, days after amber guyger was convicted and sentenced to 10 years for shooting and killing her neighbor, botham jean. brown lives across the hall from botham jean and told the jury what he heard the night botham jean police said they don't have a suspect or motive in brown's death. >>> a whistleblower . a former engineer for the airline, appear to have doctored the maintenance records a day after that crash. there is a pattern of corruption, that include fabricating documents and signing off. the boeing 737 crashed in march. >>> saint francis: clicks around the world to help save the amazon from the ongoing forest fire crisis. the pope made the rep remarks to the vatican this weekend as it opened a free week meeting on preserving the rain forest. pope francis said everyone around the world needs to be focused on the future fire that are developing in the amazon and brazil. >> the fires de

. >>> a local black leader and the naacp are calling on the san francisco board of supervisors to and what they are calling racist politics impacting people living in the city. it referenced amos brown, city supervisors are standing in the way of progress for african- americans. he says there's a click on the board of supervisors that have resisted london breed's proposal which could help to improve the lives of black people in the city. >> they also messed with the homeless issue. conservatorship. in addition to that, juvenile hall. all of these issues impacted in the greatest measure, african- americans. >> reporter: reverend brown says the board has a decades- old history of trying to support efforts of black political leaders including former mayor willie brown who was elected as the first black mayor in 1996. >>> a rescue crew is going through japanese neighborhoods trying to rescue stranded people. they are going door-to-door in boats and wading through waist deep water. also using military helicopters to pull people to safety who are trapped inside their homes. the typhoon hit

tweet, that all republicans must remember what they are witnessing here, a lynching, according to the naacp, more than 3,000 people were lynched in america between 1882 and 1968. that's more than the number of americans who died on 9/11. in addition, 1,297 white people were lynched, many for helping blacks or opposing the hangings. joining me now, nbc's kristen welker, nbc's garrett haake, and nbc investigative reporter dan hughes. kristen, this is deeply offense i ha ive when you realize what's happened throughout history. >> that's right, andrea, and congressman bobby rush said this tweet must be pulled, this condition stand. you laid out the painful history of lynching, obviously it dates back to slavery in this country and is linked to that very painful past for so many people living here. it also comes on the same week that congressman cummings is being laid to rest. all of this is really stoking racial tensions, andrea. this is a tactic we've seen from this president in the past, making statements, comments that draw headlines, and in essence it diverts from other headlines that are p

the naacp says more than 4,700 lynchings took place, most of the victims being black americans.y facing blowback this morning and will be monitoring that throughout the morning. >> jobina, thank you. >>> developing news, governor newsom is calling for an investigation into why our gas prices are so high in california. >>> new analysis find drivers here pay as much as $1 per gallon more than the rest of the country. lauren martinez is live in the east bay with a look at why. lauren? >> reporter: governor newsom reached out to javier beccera's office by the california energy commission. now the report said california drivers paid an average of krenlts mo cents more and as high as $1 in april of this year. if oil companies are engaging in price fixing then legal action should protect the publ. questions whether he's paying for higher quality gas. >> if you see the average gas prices higher and the gas mileage less, you think you get good quality gas and you're really not then at the same time the gas tax on top of it so you're really not benefiting at all. we have to ut lied it. >>