her name is taylor dumpson. in 2018 taylor dumpson was elected student body president by her peers at american university in washington, d.c. she's the first ever african-american woman elected to be student body president there. in response, somebody hung nooses, nooses and bunches of bananas for the extra racist kick all over the campus of american university. and after there was some publicity about that, a prominent neo-nazi web sooirkts run by one of the defendants in the charlottesville case incidentally, that prominent neo-nazi website took up the case, so to speak, and they doxed her, posted her personal information online, and they encouraged the monsters who freak that neo-nazi website that they should step up the attacks on her, keep it going and worse. what would you do in that circumstance, having every avowed neo-nazi on the internet coming for you after those physical threats already. she responded by going on offense. she brought a case led by the is national lawyers committee for civil rights un

taylor dumpson joins us now live. miss, dumpson dumpson, it's great to have you here. >> thank you for having me, rachel. >> let me start first of all by asking if i got any of that wrong, and asking how you are doing. i imagine this is been an incredible turning point in your life. it seems to have set you off on the path that you are on now. >> absolutely. the hate crime definitely changed my life and the harassment that ensued afterwards continued to do so. i'm definitely one of the lucky ones and people who have survived. i take it as an obligation and responsibility to share my story because, unlike heather hire, i'm able to steer my story as my own person. heather has her mother, susan burrow, and other folks around there to advocate on her behalf. she's a survivor but i am one of the lucky ones here to share my story. >> you are now practicing -- a practicing civil rights lawyer. you bend drew this under very unusual circumstance given when he went to. what should the country understand about this strategy, abou

. >> taylor dumpson, attorney and presidential fellow with the national lawyers committee for civil rights under law with a remarkable story of her own to how she ended up there. ms. dumpson, thank you. good luck to you, and thanks for being with us tonight. i appreciate it. >> thank you so much. >> we've got much more ahead here tonight, senator elizabeth warren is going to be joining us in just a moment. stay with us. ust a moment stay with us if you have high blood pressure, a cold is not just a cold. unlike other cold medicines, coricidin provides powerful cold relief without raising your blood pressure be there for life's best moments with coricidin. now in sugar free liquid. ♪ ♪ you've never seen anything quite like it. we've never created anything quite like it. the all-electric, all-mercedes eqs. bogeys on your six, limu. they need customized car insurance from liberty mutual so they only pay for what they need. woooooooooooooo... we are not getting you a helicopter. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ hearing is important to living life to the fulle