adam clayton, sugar ray, thurgood marshall, eugene allen.e five starting basketball players on the east high east high basketball team in the baseball players, the history of blacks, cinema, these been ferocious characters who i've tried to stitch. into the american flag. then it's all i've tried to do. sometimes. people ask. is it hard to write about these who have lived through segregation and jim crow? uh. and if gets me down and i think the that keeps going is that the people who i have about have all also had a ferocious wit a ferocious wit wit. adam clayton powell jr. he was a minister for and before he got to the new york city or to the u.s. congress. he would travel to churches all around the country when he was 30 years old. he in north carolina, he was at a train station. he was a black man. but as you can see in the picture on, the wall, he was very light of skin to the oountry and i he might look white. but he had such pride pride in bravado. somebody at this train. told the conductor. hey, i think i saw a black man man walking i

remind yourself, he will be looking out on a crowd and in that crowd is a statue of thurgood marshall who challenged the laws in the state that did not allow african-americans to attend college. he will reference that in his speech. we have seen some excerpts and in those excerpts what you will hear is part of his vision that he has been championing all through this process. the other thing that's interesting to me is the number of folks who have shown up. a majority of the maryland congressional delegation is here. that includes steny hoyer and others. you will also see a number of county executives and mayors. this is one of those events you don't want to miss. >> there is a statue of thurgood marshall who was denied admission to the university of maryland law school. he was born in baltimore but went on to found the naacp legal defense fund. the state court of appeals use to stand where you see that crowd. he argued successfully there and later became the nation's first black justice of the united states supreme court. charles: this morning he went out to the docks where enslaved i

>> i didn't work with him but thurgood marshall i did work with a. as a matter of fact when i was retained to represent the montgomery improvement association on the phone and talked to mister marshall and asked him to let me come up there and talk to him and his staff for them to help me with work and we file, crowder versus gale was one of the cases he erected for me in that case and of course we know he went on to become a justice on the supreme court. >> host: we do have a question and i know you were interested in talking about the ski syphilis study your work on that which was groundbreaking. analysis are? >> i have been involved in a lot of suits against the state of alabama for the study in many instances the judge and designated the justice department to be a part to it. then i found out 1972 that the government itself had been engaged in deadly deception with over 623 african americans which trustee is county seat in connection with the study of untreated syphilis in the negro males didn't tell them about. i had to then i'll lawsuit against

. >>> supreme court justice thurgood marshal announced he would retire, court's most forceful liberalod marshal was on brown reverse education he was on the supreme court to give a voice to blood clot americans >> i kept my word to the american people and senate by picking the best man, for the job on the merits, in fact he's a minor so much the better >> what do you say to critics who say the only reason you're being pick asked because you're black >> a lot worse things have been said, i disagree with that but i'll live with it. >> the senate is scheduled to vote tomorrow on the supreme court nomination of clarence thomas but now some lawmakers are concerned about an accusation harm dating back ten years >> anita hill enters the room. >> democrats would challenge clarence thomas on basis of conserve views race would not be an issue but i think anita hill brought race back into the pitcher ythe senate judiciary committee is meeting to hearings on charge made against clarence thomas >> he spoke about facts about women having sex with animal >> this seemingly personal matter is aired ou

>> i didn't work with him, but thurgood marshall i did work with, as a matter of fact, when i was retained to represent the montgomery improvement association, i got on the phone and talked to mr. marshall and asked him to let me come up there and talk to him and his staff and for them to help me with the legal work, and the first case that we filed was one of the cases that [inaudible] was counsel of record for me on that case. of course he went on to become a justice on the supreme court. >> absolutely. we do have a question. i know you were interested in talking about the tuskegee study and your work on that which was ground breaking. >> i had been filing suits for discriminating against african americans. in many instances the judge had designated the justice department to be a party to it then i found in 1972 that the government itself had been engaged in a deadly deception with over 623 african americans in macon county, which tuskegee's county seat in connection with a study of untreated syphilis in the negro males and didn't tell them about it. i had to file a lawsuit against them.

. >>> supreme court justice thurgood marshall has announced that he will retire.ce and the only black in court history. it is the definitive end of an era. >> thurgood marshall was the lawyer on brown versus board of education. he was on the supreme court to give a voice to black americans. >> i kept my word to the american people and to the senate by picking the best man for the job on the merits. the fact he's minority, so much the better. >> judge, what do you say to critics who say the only reason you're being picked is because you're black? >> i think a lot worse things have been said. i disagree with that, but i'll have to live with it. >> the senate is scheduled to vote tomorrow on the supreme court nomination of clarence thomas. but now some lawmakers are concerned about the accusation of sexual harassment dating back ten years. >> anita hill enters the room now. >> democrats were going to challenge clarence thomas on the basis of his conservative views. his race was not going to be an issue. but i think the anita hill allegations brought race back into th

through abolitionists like frederick done a scum a jurists like thurgood marshall, activists like dr.er king jr., now guard and guide wes moore and aruna miller as they strive to make maryland the leading state for opportunity, equity, diversity, dignity, safety and prosperity for all. we give you praise in advance. all the successes of this administration. we give you praise in advance in the face of our spiritual adversary whose adversity could not stop the said -- this opportunity. we give you praise on the state capital that undocumented, and slave hands built. the steps of a good man and a good woman are ordered by the lord. we praise you because no weapon shall be able to prosper. dine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever. we pray collectively from our collective faith and traditions. i pray in the name of the one who saved my soul, the one who made me whole, jesus christ. amen, hallelujah, glory to god. [applause] >> please continue standing and put your right hand over your heart. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the

i just need to think of the rats of nymph and i learned for the first time about the work of thurgood marshalluth bader ginsburg and then in their 25ve years ago that i resolve to become a lawyer just like them and change the stories our country chose to tell neither that day nor that conviction has left me. for the treasures of the books are edged into my being in my heart still mourns those from where the red for grows and delights of the wayside school feeling itself with the feminism of the wrinkle in time t. but most of all the honor of having found books and reflected me at a party on —- at a time when he needed it despite all messaging i was not singularly unwanted perhaps i was just as worthy as the next child. there are few things more comforting than the sight and smell of books because you are here add a book festival at 9:00 a.m. on a saturday. [laughter] i suspect you can relate. now that you know a little bit about me it may be safe to share a confession. i'm actually not that different from jerry. sometime over the winter in the fifth grade i also had a missing overdue book and

through the library i learned about thurgood marshall and ruth bader ginsburg. some 25 years ago that i resolved to become a lawyer like them and change the story our country chose to tell in courtrooms and laws and books. neither that day nor that conviction has left me. through the treasures of the books that i discovered are etched into my being, my heart still mourns where the redfern grows, the silliness on the wayside school and feels itself with feminism with a wrinkle in time. the honor of finding books, perhaps despite all messaging, i was not singularly unwanted, perhaps i was just as worthy as the next child. to this day whenever i feel scared and lost there a few things more comforting than the site and smell of books, because at a book festival at 9 am, i expect you can relate. it may be safe to share a confession. i am not that different from jerry. sometime over the winter in the fifth grade in 1997 or 1998 i had a missing, overdue book. as i checked out a new batch of books one afternoon the librarian said there was a problem. i appeared to have

the rats of nim it was through the library that i learned for the first time about the work of thurgood marshall and ruth bader ginsburg. and it was then in there some 25 years ago. that i resolved to become a lawyer just like them and change the stories our country chose to tell. in its courtrooms and its laws in its books neither that day nor that conviction has left me. for the treasures of the books that i discovered are etched into my being. my heart still mourns little ann and old dan from where the wet red. fern grows still delights in the silliness the wayside school. still steals itself with the feminism of a wrinkle in time. but most of all the honor of having found books that reflected me at a time when i needed them gave me a sense that perhaps despite all messaging. i was not singularly unwanted that perhaps i was just as worthy as the next child. to this day whenever i feel scared and lost there are a few things more comforting than the sight and smell of books. and because you are here at a book festival at 9 am on a saturday. i suspect you can relate. so now that you know a littl

senior law enforcement analyst and fbi director drew mccabe, justin, an executive director of thurgood marshal civil rights center and rayshon ray a senior fellow is with us. i want you to get a sense, turn to you first, dr. ray about this because you in the work you've done as a sociologist and beyond you work with police officers and training. and for every instance where you have fourth amendment constitutional violations that have been alleged and excessive force and duty to intervene and not doing so, it becomes an opportunity for training as well. tell me when you hear about this case, what is your reaction? three minutes, allegedly, of a sustained beating following a traffic stop. >> i think the first thing people have to think about the length of that. as you were saying before, that is like the length of the time that a person would be in the ring and have five people beating on you people have to think about that. the research we've done at the university of maryland, one of the things we found black officers have similar attitudes and also similar behaviors as white officers, that's

and so that was really one of her first big contracts there thurgood marshall. refer to this work as the bible that lay behind his arguments in the landmark desegregation case brown versus board of education in 1954, by the way. he also relied on one of her papers from law school that pauly had written to point out how discrimination was a badge of inferiority for black students. you may remember these studies of dolls, right? that weren't used in that in that case. in 1956 polly was hired by the firm paul weiss. well there she also published her family's history proud shoes highlighting the role of her enslaved ancestors and she wrote poetry as well. she met irene barlow at the firm arlene arlene. sorry became her romantic partner until barlow died in 1976. so i wanted to ask if you had any reactions to her poem that you had for today. hope is a song in a weary throat did anything come up for you when you read that poem anything that polly was talking about and she wrote that a little bit later. she went around 1970 or so, but i wondered if anyone wanted to com

stand here today, looking out over lawyer small, and you can see at the memorial to justice thurgood marshallible to not think about our past and our path. we are blocks away from the annapolis docks. were so many enslaved people arrived against her will and standing in front of a capital that was built by their hands. we made uneven and unimaginable progress since then, and it is a history created by generations of people whose own history was lost, stolen, or never recorded. one thing we know is we're standing here in our history, and our shared history and collective history made by people over the past two centuries, regardless of origin to the state fought and built the state. and a country that works for everybody. there are two people here today that embody that spirit sitting next to me. two extraordinary women. named cama and joy. [applause] hama came to this country from india. enjoy came from jamaica -- and joy came from jamaica. yeah man [applause] [laughter] they immigrated to america with hope in the heart, not just for themselves, but for future generations. today they are sitt

i'm extremely proud of them, and we stand on the shoulders of giants from vp harris to thurgood marshalllums like yourself. we're extremely humbled and proud we had an opportunity to spend this day of service and to give back to our community. >> always proud of my fellow bisons. coach kenneth makeney, jelani williams, good to see you. great conversation and thank you for doing the work that you're doing. >> thank you so much. >> thanks for having us. >> thank you. >>> still ahead, you might remember the incredible story of a mechanic who jumped into action and then saved dozens of lives during that historic and deadly buffalo snowstorm. it happened just last month. well, this hero was praised for all of his actions, and he has been given a once-in-a-lifetime gift. my interview with him next. s on! 50% off?! that deal's so good we don't even need an eighght-time all-star to tell you about it. wait what?t? get it before it's gone onon the subway app! do you struggle with occasional nerve aches in your hands or feet? try nervivenerve relief from the world's #1 selling nerve care company. n

candidate and school board member michelle mckessic and justin hansford executive director of the thurgood marshall good to have you have both on. there is so many things to digest. first among them is a family's pain here. i want to get to some of the legal issues if we can. and justin, a consistent feature we have seen in deadly police encounters is the traffic stop. you go back to daunte write, stopped for having an air freshner on his rearview mirror. here the police chief openly questioning the idea that he had been recklessly driving prior. is that a broader problem? the police traffic stop itself? >> yes, well first thanks for having me. the d.c. police reform commission here in the nation's capital where i live, last year recommended that we take place out of traffic stops in this city, for that very reason. we have other ways to be able to enforce traffic violations without having people with guns and with the ability or the training of using violence and deadly force to subdue people who are simply out trying to get from one place to another. so those are some serious proposals that we ne

i think when you take money from the public schools, i am a disciple of thurgood marshall. his most famous case, brown versus the board of education, it was about trying to be able to give children equal opportunity at education. and we all know, you were not able to deny black people access to education, they came up with all kinds of impediments to try to make sure it was not and even playing field. the south carolina bar association and then all the other states across america started having a test where they could not deny african-americans for going to law schools. and the bar exam became a way to keep black people from being able to practice law in those states. there are always these impediments that they tried to come up with to prevent everybody from having an equal opportunity at education. they understand how important education is. i say that to say this. when you allow, whatever you call parents choice or charter schools, what you are doing is having some basic element that you have marginalized people of color not being able to get the enhancements that we are

this maryland is the state of harriet tubman and frederick douglass and thurgood marshall. i also know that the reason that i am now days away from becoming maryland's 63rd governor is not only because black folks voted for me. if you look at what happened in our race, we won more individual votes than any person who has ever run for governor in the state of maryland. the vote margin, the win margin that we had was the largest that the state of maryland has seen in a governor's race in 40 years. we won places in the eastern shore, places in western maryland where we had won more individual votes than any democrat who has run in 16 of the 24 jurisdictions in the state of maryland. so i think we saw that people are focused on not just -- they were focused and supportive of us in an historic way, not just because they wanted me to make history, but because they knew that together we could actually build a state that everyone could believe in and everyone could thrive in, that it wasn't about me making history, it was about the fact that we were focusing on policies that can ma

the thurgood marshall institute produced the black white racial wealth gap which i command to this committee. i want to underscore what some of my colleagues have already said, which is that the cost is not borne by communities of color but is borne by our economy which could be thriving, which could be far more expansive if this discrimination did not occur. when we think about the calculus between the cost of any outcome to preventing discrimination, we must also think of the loss of economic gain which comes from racial discrimination in financial services. as has been mentioned, this u.s. economy suffers from a loss of one to 1.5 trillion between 2019 in 2028 as a result of racial discrimination in financial services. the federal courts have made it very difficult for individuals who are harmed by financial institutions to use existing civil rights statutes to address racial discrimination. i will give three brief examples. the civil rights act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in public accommodations for people who have a disability but not based on race. that disparity must be fixed. e

we haven't seen an idealogical change like that since 1991 when clarence thomas succeeded thurgood marshalorsuch, and dobbs and the leak that happened in may, and then add all the other decisions at the end of june. it wasn't just dobbs. the supreme court knee-capped the federal government's ability to address climate change, it greatly expanded the right to bear arms, and it basically took another few bricks out of the wall of separating church and state. so after a testy term like that, i think it would be strange if we didn't see some evidence of tension among the justices, especially where we have this unprecedented, in recent memory, imbalance of six justices on one side and three on the other. i think this is the beginning of sort of a rejigging of relationships on the bench, and from what i've seen this fall and winter, it's not hunky-dory. the justices are having some trouble interacting with the same sort of civility that they have for years. >> one of the things we note, certainly over the last 12 months of covering the dobbs decision, is that roe and casey were decided by justic

the thurgood marshall scholars. the haku scholars. oh 1994 scholars. all those programs are critically important to supporting those students to know what is possible. i will share, real quickly, i was with doctor nave and her colleagues on the council of 1890 presidents when my confirmation vote came in. it wasn't how it had planned it. it was planning on being at home with my family with the bubbly just waiting. -- >> you pay attention to these confirmation votes? >> i do! i watch them all. >> you can tell me the names of all the nominees. anybody that voted no. >> yes i can, yes i can. [laughs] >> i was with doctor naves and her colleagues at the 1890 council of presidents. we talked about what needs to happen for us to make sure we can provide a successful trajectory for the students. i was on her campus talking to her 1890s scholars. i've been to prairie view a&m. i have been to the falcon conference. the first american lingering consortia in for 1994, our native american students. they need to see what is possible. but i was at a hotel with docto

as we stand here --[video clip] >> as we stand here today you can see the memorial to justice thurgood marshallit's impossible not to think about our past and our task. we are blocks away from the annapolis docks where so many enslaved people arrived in this country against their will. and we are standing in front of a capital that was built by their hands. we have made uneven and a map -- unimaginable progress since. the history has been created by generation after generation of people whose own history was lost, stolen, or never recorded. but one thing we know is that right now we are standing here in our history, our shared history, our collective history made by people who over the past century regardless of their origin story to the state, bought and built a state and a country that works for everybody. and there are two people here today who embody that spirit who are sitting right here next to me. two extraordinary women named jema and joy. [applause] jema came to this country from india. joy from jamaica. yeah, man. they immigrated to america with hope in their hearts. it's not just for