Amanpour: Eleanor Holmes Norton, Martin Luther King III, DeRay Mckesson, Art Acevedo and Nikole Hannah-Jones

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Protests continue to roll through over 100 U.S. cities in the wake of the death of George Floyd last week. Christiane Amanpour is joined by congresswoman for the District of Columbia, Eleanor Holmes Norton, to discuss the importance of justice and her experience during the Freedom Summer of 1964. Civil rights activist Martin Luther King III and Campaign Zero co-founder DeRay Mckesson, talk to Christiane about the violence of the current protests and the need to make yourself heard at the ballot box. Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, tells Christiane why he joined marchers over the weekend and explains why he thinks that law enforcement should condemn the killing of George Floyd. And New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, who spearheaded the paper’s 1619 project, contextualizes the current situation into the broader narrative of slavery in America. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amampur. Here's what's coming up.
0:10.0	Who will answer? I can't be free.
0:14.3	Who will answer the cry of pain from the streets?
0:17.4	Who will make Black Lives Matter in America?
0:20.0	Tonight we ask, Congresswoman and longtime civil rights activist Eleanor Holmes Norton.
0:25.4	Then, for every black mother, brother, sister, uncle, present, they saw their family at George's base.
0:35.0	The role and responsibility of law enforcement,
0:38.0	Art Acevedo, Chief of Police in Houston, Texas,
0:42.0	George Floyd's hometown, he joins us. Also ahead.
0:47.4	The politics of protest with the old guard and the new, Martin Luther King the third third and Black Lives Matter organizer De Ray McKesson and
0:56.1	and the 400 years that led to this and every moment like it with Pulitzer Prize winning
1:06.1	journalist behind the 1619 project, Nicole Hannah Jones. I'm Christina Wancore, working from home in London.
1:31.0	The images that stun the world as protests roll through
1:35.1	more than a hundred American cities since the death of George Floyd a week ago
1:39.9	today, it was Memorial Day. It is the worst unrest in America since the assassination
1:45.4	of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Back then though the Democratic
1:50.7	candidate for President Robert F. Kennedy came out into the streets to
1:54.6	calm the terrible tensions and to speak to hurt an angry black Americans.
2:00.2	He also had this important message for the nation that calls itself exceptional.
2:07.0	Some Americans who preach nonviolence abroad fail to practice it here at home. Some accuse others of rioting
2:19.4	and inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them.
2:29.0	Indeed, when we foreign correspondence
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