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3, 4, 9, 8, 7, 1 8, 8, 8, 5, 2, 3, 4 9, 8, 7. >> i'm katie bo lillis in washington, and this is cnn first of all, needing a parent's permission to listen to a book written by a black person is objectives outrageous? book about any controversial topic or political theory, just a book written by a black person. but that's exactly what teachers in south florida say. they felt forced to get this week because so the new state law today was the school making a political statement or do black history month programs now need special approval? plus the testimony of fani willis grilled by lawyers trying to force her off the donald trump case here in georgia, some black professional women say they saw

a double standard. we'll get into that. >> and biance goes country treat, listen, we knew there would be some haters, but much of the criticism of her making music and genre is just ignorant of history. so we're going to educate some people i'm victor blackwell. let's start the show >> if you have kids, you >> probably can not count the number of permission slips you've signed for a trip to the zoo or museum? when i was in school, we needed them before we could attend sex education. okay. >> but the >> permission slip that parents at a school in miami-dade, florida were asked to sign this week it is unfortunately a sign of the time students needed permission to, and this is a quote participate and listen to a book written by an african-american that's it. it doesn't mention the contents

of the book. no radical theories. just a book written by a black person, a parent shared it online. and this, as you'd expect, went viral and we called up the parent to ask what he thought about this. and here's a bit of his reaction what concerns me more is just parents who may not be realizing what they're signing off on or not signing on and then potentially their kids being taken out of the class for that. that just seems to be very strange. >> and this is the first instance of it. and who knows where it could go from here >> we'll see you in and got in touch with miami-dade public schools and they say the description may have caused confusion. their word and they added in compliance with the new state law permission slips were sent home because guest speakers would participate during the school authorized education-related activity or florida governor ron desantis, he acted too. here's what he

said >> you had this incident in miami where they they did some permission slip for that was absurd. it was there's nothing in state required that the state board of education immediately wrote a letter of the principal, said, knock it off, stopped with the nonsense. >> are let's talk about this with historian and educator marvin dunn, a, he recently taught a black history month lesson at a miami-dade middle school that also required a permission slip. he's the author of a history of florida through black ayse professor. thank you for being with me. let me start here with where you fall on this. what's this from your view of political statement or based on your understanding of the law and maybe the confusion around it that the teachers here, we're being prudent, so they wouldn't get in trouble object to thank you very much for having me on this morning you know, a further desecration is not a boutique search we're apparently going in order three english for my child to

science. but no black history but we will take to be bible studies. so it's now in florida at the point where schools are continuous. they don't know what to do. their intimidated educations, children florida because of these laws desantis had passed. so it's a mess in florida right >> now. >> what we're >> seeing in florida is the status coming down, nothing from last week, the election run for the presidency. and now trying to backtrack on some of these laws that he had passed but i think it's a bit late for that. people are now in florida schools. there isn't too though it can be done and what cannot be done particularly around the vacational grace >> yeah. i want to pick up on one thing you said there you said that this was if i heard you correctly, a platform for him to potentially get the nomination for president and maybe there's some backpedaling do you expect that some of these laws, the stop woke act, the parental rights in

education will be altered, repealed because that obviously is not happening in 2024 they have to be altered. they cannot be enforced. we are absolutely enforceable essentially, what these laws passed because he knew that that was a certain amount of anger in the country in florida particularly around race. and he thought that critical race theory that would be the golden ring, that would bring taking him into, into the white house. and it's all backside. now, the math is not having it. america is not going to go, which led the state intruding into the classroom to the extent that we should happening in florida. this is dr. fly and i countries you or your event at palmetto middle school in miami-dade you were there to talk about your personal experiences with >> segregation. also understand that if a holocaust survivor wants to speak with students, those students also need a permission slip i wonder what your reaction was when you

realize that there needs to be special permission for you to talk about american history >> i was angry, actually, the school required me to write, but what i was going to talk about before i even went to the school that was unusual of my sense was that as as a stolen and particularly black of store and that we need to push even more to get out of washington our stores in these schools, despite the bluff opposition that we face in florida. and i think in this country we don't, and we're going to see in florida, i think the diminishing re-education to the point where we lose teachers, but administrators and florida is certainly not the ideal state to hold up as, as, as, an example of the country should be doing that's the case. >> yeah, i just want to point out that the book that that dr. on wednesday or tuesday actually, it was going to read to those students was just about a little black boy who had confidence. i am everything good. this wasn't about critical race theory or

anything that was controversial, but simply because he was coming in for black history month program. this is what happened i don't want to give the idea that this country has always taught all the nuances of american history. this might be the first-generation though that is seeing a contraction of what is being taught about american history. and i want to give you one more opportunity as the historian here. they tell us what that means for our country. what that means for the next-generation >> it means that some of the most important stories in american history are going to be diminished or removed from a record. it means that we're going to have the generation of americans growing up not knowing what racism is, not new language nation really is. when i spoke to those students, about on that on middle, i told them directly what racism is and all races are not necessarily like. look at how country is not a racist country that we will not allow discrimination in our country

and that's the goal that they should see americans they need to look to the future without discrimination being a part of national pitcher mahfud dunn. i thank you so much for the conversation that permission slip got a lot of attention this week. i thank you for giving us the context and perspective fulton county prosecutor, fani willis, did you see that testimony she was in the witness chair this week giving some fiery answers. the questions about her personal life are finances in relation to the election interference case is against donald trump and several of his allies. now the defendants want her removed from the case. they say that she had an improper romantic and finance anshel relationship with nathan wade. the weight is one of the lawyers she hired to be a special prosecutor on the case well, let's make clear that she was not happy to be in this position. she was not the only one when the defendants made the allegations of misconduct. a lot of black women thought, here we go again another black woman in authority being targeted while she's trying to do her job. no. others say that she should have

known better considering her position and the double-standard she faces joining me now to talk about this is terracotta redfield gansu. she's a former president of the georgia association of black women attorneys. thank you so much for coming in studio. >> thank you for having me. did you see a double-standard and what we watched this week? >> i don't know if i >> saw that the standard, but my my my position regards guarding it doesn't matter as much as i think the conversation around black women in power being held to a double double standard >> so i'll tell you that the catalyst for this conversation with you was some of the black female lawyer who are my friends yes. who were livid first about the allegation, then that it was confirmed, but also about the treatment and when it gets to this double

standard i think the talk that we often talk about is black men and police, but black professionals, the talk that happens there let people into that conversation well, most black professionals have grown up hearing. >> there. you have to be twice as good to get half as much and that comes from a place of love and wanted to protect people in similar ways that we tapped talk about the top okay with relating to police and however, it doesn't prepare us fully really for the pain and the hurt that is experienced when you have when you actually experienced these sort of double standards so i'm thinking of things like being distrusted or mistrust it, not being believed people talking over you, it can be in some ways simple things, but

there's sometimes a really, really large things when you're feeling like if i had been another race or gender would you be talking to me like this? >> that's what are the things i want to get into is because i'm not gonna sit here as a black professional and act like i don't know about the double standard and that the standard is higher for for me to be at this network, at this job, right? to have gotten here? yes. >> but i know what is a man what is that from? i don't know the gender bias. explain what that is. and you feel in these spaces men oftentimes get a level of credibility when people think of leaders, they often think men, right? and so women black women in particular, faced a double whammy in terms of racial bias, as well as gender bias and black women, you know, there are a number of stereotypes about maybe being too aggressive or things like that that come to come into play in

the workplace. >> i'm not going to ask you specifically about the allegations because that's really not what the conversation is here. but what has been the response that you've heard from your counterparts members to what's happened since the allegations? so misconduct were made. >> there. they vary widely. we have some people who are wholly disappointed and really, really upset to folks who are fiercely defending and protective of her people have said, this is politically motivated, right there, there others who have said well she should've known better, right. like she should have expected this. we get taught this along, you know, early in our labs that you're going to be under extreme scrutiny. and this really is an unforced error and then there are other folks who are just really wanted to hear it, see it all play out right? there. really want them to not rush to

judgment and just see how it plays out. >> well, she certainly spoke for herself this weekend. uh, nathan wade spoke for himself as as well. we'll see what the judge decides, but i thank you for that context because often we have this conversation without that element of it, tear the right-field, janti. thank you so much >> are coming up. we'll speak to a bishop who says he prayed with fani willis before testimony. and we'll talk about why his church and another major denomination are now teaming up in this unprecedented way this election year. >> plus you got to listen to this. and attorney, who was once involved in the young thug ysl gang trial, attorney now has been arrested on gang charges herself it is a mess. will explain it >> united states have scandal with jake tapper tomorrow at nine on cnn >> skin craving next level hydration, new neutrogena, hydro boost, water cream, a vital boost of nine times more

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the political and social engine that it was 2030 60 years ago. now attended to membership have slipped over time across races and denominations. but when the pastors and deacons get out of the sanctuary, can they get black voters to the polls? well, two of the largest church dominations here in georgia see the challenge and they're coming together for the first time to co-ordinate on voter outreach. it's a partnership that could soon move nationwide with me. now, is bishop reginald thomas jackson of the african methodist episcopal church. his church is now going to work with a christian methodist episcopal church to try to get voters out. thank you for being here for us to be with you. so i read that you told the new york times that the black church and i wrote this down has not been persistent or consistent in motivating an educating our community on the issues that affect them. >> has the church >> abdicated that role or do black people just not come to

the church for that anymore? >> i think is a combination of both >> the >> greatest period of growth in the history of the black church was really doing the civil rights movement because the black church was actively involved. in fact, in leadership at a movement came from the black church over the last 40 years or so, we have abdicated much of that leadership. and i think we have to take it back >> i'm surprised that this this is a new thing that the ame and the cmy churches have to, i guess, make an effort to work together when we see that some of the white denominations, the protestant denominations, do that in our powerhouse for the gop. why has this not happened before? we're now? >> well, the fact there's really is not new. in fact, in the 2020 election and 2022, a host of different organizations, ame, see me church of god and christ, but we worked together. in fact, 2020, you saw it for turnout of

black voters. but with the cmes and a emmys, this should we just decided we wanted to make a form more pat because this is a critically important election and it's important that we turn out the vote. and i think this is also an opportunity for the black church to prove itself. again, to say what we did before we can do again, black voters overwhelmingly support democrats here in georgia and nationally, is this an effort to get black voters to the polls, or is this an effort to get black voters to the polls? for joe biden? >> this is an effort to get black voters to the polls and vote in their best interests. again, major part of this is going to be education can and mobilization. vote and your best interest, for example, i've heard all over by blacks are not going to turn out they're angry, they're discouraged, they want to know why the promises made. we're not kept. let's see, we'd done lousy job of informing and

educating our people. for example, in terms of monies for hbcu in terms of judges, hold both hosts so things blacks and made progress, but they raised the question, what happened to police reform? what happened to school loans? well, the fact of the matter is somebody needed say two our community, the reason these weren't done it because we didn't have the votes. and all the liver going get the votes as if it goes to the polls and elect people who reflect our injuries i told everyone at the top that attendance is down. let's put up what we know from the latest gallup poll, 2003, 41% responded that in the last seven days they've gone to some place of worship. that was that number actually 41% is not from 1939, it's also from to house in 320 years later, it was 31% down 10%. so you can't wait for him to come to, you know, in fact, the challenges we have to go to them. and for example eveleigh major problem is where

many of our churches are >> the people who >> live across the street and up to street have no relationship with those churches and the fact of the matter because if you provide certain people need, they'll come get it. and when people see that the black church cares and is active and their communities they will come that single mom trying to raise three children wants to know what does this church offer to help me raise my children? >> let me ask you about fani willis district attorney here in fulton county, you prayed with her thursday before that fiery testimony in that case >> how was she before? for that tell me about that moment in the morning. >> well, spoke with her because i just wanted to give her a word of encouragement. i was pleased. >> she didn't even okay. mean she was ready. and fact she was eager to testify. and i'm not sure that people have any idea of what fani willis has gone

through over the last several years? not able to live in our house, go out to eat go to a movie, have guessed it's been a very lonely time. but she was eager and she was ready. and i think she represented herself well. >> all right. misha. thank you so much for coming in. >> yes, sir. welcome. glad to be with you. all right. coming up. an attorney who called herself, ms got proof on social media is now facing charges herself her connection to a trial that's been getting national attention, that's next remember we store >> remember when rivals became teammates, became it'd be all-star 2020 >> grace didn't believe in magic, but her daughter happy

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his arrest and suggests that he'd get rid of his phone. christina lee is here. she's been covering the ysl trial and co-host the podcast king slime, the prosecution of young and ysl christina this is hard to believe that this has happened for me. not you can follow. but first tell me about nicole fagan and her role in this case. yeah absolutely. so nicole fagan was representing some quarius mender whose case has been severed from the trial. and this was before the trial at officially began. the reason why was because she was one of two attorneys who became pregnant and therefore wasn't sure whether she'd be able to serve the entire time. so into aquarius vendors case was severed, but then in the meantime, course like she's still connected to this trial for all these reasons. so what she accused of in this other case relate to the double shooting. >> so she is accused of basically tipping off a suspect basically saying like, hey, the police is going to come after. you might want to watch out. this isn't somebody who she was representing, but it's still represents a conflict of

interest in this case. >> so we went and checked her social media and it seems like she i guess, runs into former clients occasionally here is nicole fagan >> there is nothing better than when you walk out of the gas station and somebody, me like a uniform and, you know, real world i live in holliman p1, the claim myself sometimes but then when he is like, you might not remember because those long time ago which you got me on entail that makes me feel good. >> i don't even want to be claiming myself. sometimes she said that did not age well she's not the first attorney associated with this case to be arrested, though. >> no, she is not. as far as i can remember, like there was at least one other defense attorney the who was arrested at the courthouse were bringing prescription medication inside in an unlabeled container. never mind that the prescription was actually to him. so he was arrested. but i mean, that's on top of like, i guess, the judges who've been reprimanded for misconduct for just not showing up in time who had been ordered by the judge to order lunch for the entire

defense attorney team like so to me, it's funny. you say this is crazy. i say this is typical for the ysl trial. >> so the ysl trial, i mean, they were arrested. when was this? 21 months ago, young thug was arrested, right? >> may 2020 me too. may 2022. jury seated in november >> why is this taking so long man >> that is the beginning of a fantastic answer, by the way. >> well, you're talking in 26 defendants told i mean, there are six in the courtroom right now. there were still talking about 56 counts in this fairly sprawling rico indictment. and i know there was concerns in the beginning about song lyrics and social media being emitted as criminal evidence for all the reasons, i think that people talked about before is hip hop going to be on trial? what i've been seeing over the past couple of weeks is that when you also admit that as evidenced? it bogs down the proceedings by a lot. so instead of talking about like, specific incidents and specific crimes the trial is focused so much on these overt acts that are supposed to speak to the quote, unquote criminal mindset

of young thug. and so over the past couple of weeks alone, i've seen more discussion over whether to admit a tiny desk concert that young thug performed in 2020? 21 than any one specific crime >> so this is obviously the second most well-known rico case here in fulton county. the first being the trump case, and all of his co-defendants how if at all, does the handling of that case in what we should expect in the trump case? >> i mean to start both cases have a lot of drama. obviously. and it was interesting because the ysl indictment person seated the trump indictment, but it certainly sets up the tone for fani willis being elected as district attorney. she came out the gate basically saying, like, i have more rico cases than atlanta has seen in the past decade or so. and this was before trump was indicted. and so like i think the both cases so that she came out like with like, set intention to

make her known in case with the ysl trial to target a criminal streaking activity here in the city. but of course, as we've seen, there's so many other implications come with both of these cases and also we're seeing in both cases how social media, in particular ends up being overt, acts when you're talking about a rico indictment these days, a lot there, >> christina lee, thanks for helping us understand it. thank you so much. much, victor. all right. still ahead. the problem with donald trump's latest claim about a new form of crime. will set everything straight >> the story of ssd premiere sunday, february 25, day ten on scene tempur-pedic design the ergo pro smart base to help you fall asleep more easily. that's the only smart base that features our exclusive soundscape mode. that synchronizes a gentle massage with relaxing sounds to help you drift peacefully off to sleep during the tempur-pedic president day sale, save up to

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and pineal woods in mississippi. the documentary was a pawnee woods. the documentary is not out yet. i got the perk of being able to see it early, but the documentary is coming and it gives us the history and immerses us in the lives of the students and staff who talk about the joys and the challenges. watch >> many of our young people there searching for their place in the world. they want to be seen >> i still power it is education it's a way of proving people wrong. it's a way of showing myself that i can do better than what i was told that i could do with me now, to discuss sacred soil, the pining would school story is filmmaker jj anderson and >> dr. will crossly the school's president and ceo. welcome to you both you all have done a thing not just through the education, but through this film. dr. crossly, i want to start with you and i was wondering where i'd start.

you say in this film, we will find a way or we will make one really was a moment of punctuation. tell me about pining woods from that perspective. >> well, thank you for having us on versus delight to be with you and thank you for helping us to share a story that, that thought process that we shared in the film is really the epitome of who tiny was has always been when education wasn't available for african-americans lawrence jones came here and started this work with that determination and so it's that perseverance, it's that resilience that really is the epitome of who we are. and so just really excited that we can share a little bit of our story with the rest of the world. >> jbeil, what attracted you to this story and to the school? >> yeah, absolutely. victor, like you said, i was really shocked to learn that there

were only for blackboard in schools left when there were over 100 prior to 1954. and my father went to a blackboard and school called blocks academy, which was one of those schools that closed down. and he had such fond, strong memories about this school what attracted me to party, what's in particular was their mission and their approach. hollywood's believes in developing a child head, hearts, and hands, right so when they're looking to develop a k, they're not just thinking about the classroom, they're thinking about developing empathy accountability serious critical thinking feels right. and then there's also this wonderful other facet that they have, which is a strong agricultural program in 1920, about 14% of farmers were black in today, only 1% are, right. so the idea of continuing this ritual, this legacy, and teaching children about self-sustainability and communal sustainability and such major ways. that's what really attracted me to pining woods >> dr. crossly there's another line i'm watching it. right

the whole time. after i harvest what i put into the soil, the soil will be better than when i found it. that agricultural element and the relation to society, the metaphor of using your hands to plant and grow the community, pull that thread for me yeah. >> no, it's i think it's what we should all be striving for and we're simply doing it with our young people. and we're seeing them do it. you know, our hope is that we don't just sustain what we have but did becomes regenerative. that it is better than it was when we found it and we want that to happen with the soil. drue are agricultural program, but we want that to happen with our communities that are young people will become leaders in their communities. and so as they go out into make the world a better place, that it's not just it's about me getting my

own, but it's about ensuring that i can have a larger impact on society that we think is what tiny woods has always been about. and we actually see our young people doing that already. and so i hope you can see that come through when you watch our young people in this documentary. >> we have talked out to crossly on this show about the challenges as it relates to funding and finances for hbcus. but there was a student who left at the end of the school year and he said that people don't get back to black communities, especially black schools. if we're not all black, the campus would be thriving. tell me about the challenges and if you agree with that, but the challenges specifically that this school faces and just to keep it open and keep a competitive. >> yeah. and so it's a weird this is 115th year. we're excited to still be here doing the work part of the work that

we have done is to understand that we're in control of what happened moving forward in this space. and so when we have these kinds of challenges, and the challenges he's talking about facilities challenges, challenges with having some of the equipment and supplies that we might want to do, to do some of the work for our young people. those challenges let's that we have been privileged to have donor step up and help us with. but there are challenges that remain >> our >> goal. our goal would be the no young person would leave this space. a space that you can see that young man that you talked about, a space that the young people love they no young person leave this space because there's not the resources to do the work they'd like to do. >> jj, i was watching the documentary and in the beginning it really is an immersion into their day in their life i was waiting for someone to turn to me and say,

115 years ago, this school was founded. it was not that i mean interspersing the history and the pictures and the archive with the present it gave me the field of the first time you listen to the ms of lauryn hill and you hear those students talk about love my i felt that was a reference that went on on every leg of the trip that was, you know, we played >> it back to back and it was definitely something that we kept in mind as we were filming. but yes, this isn't to your point, this isn't your typical documentary. i definitely could have gone that route. right. but i think that our history threes are so passionately and ritually written, we can go and find them. we can go and read about them. and yet, it seems that we are still struggling to find resources to retain, to be able to pay our teachers, right and so i wanted to try a different approach and i wanted to try and approach that would communicate to those who haven't been able to have the he experience of going to his historical educational

institution of why these institutions are so important. well, right? and so right. yeah, you certainly did that. jj anderson, dr. woke crossley thank you so much. sacred soil, the pineal would school story is out february 23, find this film, find this school. we need these, these spaces. >> all right, still ahead. and artists that's getting his whole town involved in raising our parts funding for kids in his community, plus biance. and why the backlash to her new country music is ignorant of history dreams tomorrow >> laura coates examines the federal criminal charges against the president trump.

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i approve this message for all of our shared values. 3, 4, 9, 8, 7, 1, 8 day 8, 5, 2, 3, 4 9 8, 7. >> i'm evan perez, that federal court in washington. and this is cnn there is not enough funding for art classes in us schools and they're often first to get cut in education budgets robert peterson wants to change that and is rallying his town around the issue. i spoke to him about how those around him inspire his work for this week's art is life >> my name is robert peterson. i live in lawton, oklahoma and i'm an international contemporary artists i am completely self-taught. i picked up on papers for the first time in 2012. i didn't know how to mix your colors that you would use to do skin tones. i poured everything seeing out onto the palette that came in the little paint set that i had purchased at the time and eventually it just evolved into what you've seen now, you'll see a lot of different shades of blues and

tails and purples and stuff like that in my work. so it represents peace, but it also at the same time can represent like pain something that i believe is strong within black people. a lot of the subjects that i, that i used for, for references for the painting, our neighbors, friends, family, neighbors, people here in oklahoma. when you look at my work, you'll see do rags for me. what do rags represent? >> they represent crowns. i remember being young. i had your i don't know but you would put the wave cap on and what would happen is when you put it on in your waves of law around your headache created what was called a brown. and so when i do that, that's just a way of me honoring the men that i feel. i'm should be respected and admired in the same way that kings and princes and can cleans and princesses were, are honored and respected >> what next saturday, february 24, will be the first annual robert peterson date in lotan

and robert says that they'll celebrate by raising money for the local art council for more information, check out robert on instagram or at caleb lee at one.com well, texas hold him and 16 carriages of the first tracks released from biance is forthcoming country album out next month. the tiktok dances have begun, and so have the controversies a country radio station in oklahoma was forced to reverse a ban on the new music because of the overwhelming response. and some are going further than rejecting the music john schneider, a country music artists to play bow duke on dukes of hazzard. he compared biance to a dr. peeing on a tree to mark territory now a texan who's released country music before to now released the country album is not outrageous. and in more than david bowie who released a soul and r&b album or dolly parton, whose new album is rock schneider bemoans, lefties, encroaching on country music yes, biance has supported democratic candidates, but so

of willie nelson and garth brooks and faith hill and tim mcgraw. but what is different about biance when ray charles announced that he would release the country album, i'm talking 60 years ago. he was slurred to but modern sounds and country and western music is a classic and went on to sell a half million copies and was nominated for four grammys, including album of the year. and like that country album was an education for ray charles time, no doubt, biance is album will be an education for hours about the true origins of country music and perhaps who really peed and called the music their own >> thanks for joining me today. i'll see you back here next saturday at 08:00 a.m. eastern smerconish is up next