is she the jackie robinson of transgender sports? >> jack: he was born as well and that is what i will call him. this is another reneglection of the left's attempt to take away masculinity, the left's attempt to take away reality. this is a mental health issue, this young man has a mental health issue, a lot of people who don't understand their identity have a mental health issue tochlt disrespect jackie robinson, african americans were enslaved in this nation and went through segregation and jim crow and so many other things and for you to compare yourself to jackie robinson shows he is mentally ill. we need to pray for him and this nation right now because we're promoting and pushing this agenda identity on our children and it must stop, it must understand. this is absolutely ridiculous and in my house, his name is will. >> griff: regardless how anyone feels the ncaa will be reviewing the situation later this week. jack, thank you very much. >> jack: god bless you. >> todd: a manhunt underway for the person accused of killing this

now, you may not know the name but o'ree was the jackie robinson of north maesh hockey. the first black player in the national hockey league, he was honored on the 64th anniversary of his nhl debut and not only by the bruins, the city of boston proclaimed yesterday willie o'ree day. i recently spoke to o'ree about his life and groundbreaking career. >> reporter: willie o'ree became the first black player in the national hockey league in 1958, suiting up for the boston bruins. o'ree, now 86, was playing minor league hockey in quebec when he got the call. >> on january the 18th, 1958, the bruins called and says we want o'ree to meet the bruins in montreal to play two games against the montreal canadias. >> o'ree did what jackie robinson had done 11 years early, integrate a white sport as a black professional. >> they sat me down and said, willie o'ree, we brought you because we thought you could add a little something to the club. don't worry about anything else just going out and playing your game. >> the speedy winger did and afterward, described it this way. >> it was t

jackie robinson pointed to the same fear in a letter. he wrote about anne in 1964 and literally could not go home. and of course had been happy to leave for oppressive town an excellent student. she got a basketball scholarship and eventually graduated from tougaloo college there. she joined the naacp and the student nonviolent coordinating committee also known as nick and among many other actions. take took part in the sit-in in 1963 at the woolworth in jackson, mississippi, which you have seen this picture already in class. i didn't know if you'd seen that one, which is on memphis norman one of the other young men who was with them and he was you know, almost killed in that moment. it was an extremely tense and dangerous three hours in which this man almost died. she was of course horrifically treated with all kinds of disgusting items being poured on her and so was her friend joan trump power and her teacher john salter. he also was viciously attacked with brass knuckles and very bloody attack there. the police were outside many of th

jackie robinson was to acting with jackie robinson was to baseball. someone who came along, behave with dignity, achieved at the absolute top of the game and paved the way for others to follow him. the fact that he could go from a 1963 oscar to becoming the first black man to win the best actor oscar for years later, black man to win the best actor oscarfor years later, he black man to win the best actor oscar for years later, he was the biggest box office star in hollywood with those three huge films in the year, this was someone that america right in the middle of the 1960s with all that was going on, wanted to pay their money and go and see at the cinema. and at the vanity fair in the night of the oscars, he still loved following what was going on with cinema and he was once asked in an interview what his name had been in life. i think this is a great quote. he said i always wanted to be someone better the next day than i was the day before.— i'm joined now by playwright and author bonnie greer. good of you to join us. good of you tojoin us. your

jackie robinson integrates majorly baseball in 1947, almost a full decade before the flowering of the montgomery bus boycott. and the civil rights movement in the south. a sit in air before state ins of freedom rider before freedom rides. oftentimes, sports is like a weather vane in our society, and it tells us which way the wind is blowing. and sure enough, right now what we're seeing is the wind blowing towards justice, the wind is blowing towards some sort of reckoning with the history of racism, not just in the united states, but throughout the world. this is a global movement, and i think what you're seeing with so incredible about this is that what it does is it punctures privilege because it's very easy to be a white person in the united states, or i guess anywhere throughout the world and not have to confront the reality of what it means to be black, not have to confront the reality of what it means to be an indigenous person. and when you have sports athletes, when you have them speaking out about these issues, it punctures that privilege. it's severs, that segregation. and i

well, i had a rosa parks and even jackie robinson who was court-martialed himself for standing up to segregation at fort hood in 1944 a believer in civil disobedience murray also participated in restaurant sit-ins in the early 1940s and led a national campaign on behalf of a black sharecropper odell waller who was executed for killing his landlord in self defense in 1942. she and eleanor roosevelt both made passionate pitches on waller's behalf. shortly after world war ii she joined the congress on racially quality on an integrated journey of reconciliation an early freedom ride if you like. she also set up a law practice in new york and her work ledgered to a thorough review of many state laws on discrimination culminating in her voluminous states laws laws on race and color. interestingly she was invited to do this by the methodist church who wanted to you know, understand policies around the country. 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 v

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many refer to him as the jackie robinson of hockey. interestingly at dodger stadium in 1949 two years after robinson broke the color barrier, 14-year-old o'ree had the opportunity to meet his hero. he said as robinson made his way to the receiving line, willie arrived patiently and when he said, i am a baseball player but what i really love hockey and robinson said i didn't know black kids played hockey. in 1958 willie put on a boston uniform for a game against the canadiens and first black player in nhl history. o'ree played in 45 games fr the bruins hiding a secret that he was blind in one eye. willie paved the way for a new generation of hockey players. wayne simmons of the toronto maple leaves said he set the table and did it with dignity and class. i thought of his story when teachers, players or coaches would laugh of my dream. willie's story did not end after he left the eyes. 17 years after he retired, the nhl hired o'ree as the first ever diversity ambassador. this role put willie in a position to grow the p sport to provide a

reverend jesse jackson said it about baseball, it was not as good as it could be until jackie robinson can play. you can have the best competitors heating, you ultimately end up with a better outcome globally, domestically inside of a company. and so to me, the american dream is possible, but it is failing a lot of people because of some of these racial blinders that exist. david: why do you need to be the co-ceo of ariel? why don't you do nonprofit words, corporate boards, and other things? mellody: anyone who knows me knows that question to sonic sense, my heart, my love is ariel. ariel is my first child. ♪ david: some people would say you are on a lot of corporate boards and nonprofits, you have married a wealthy famous person named george lucas, the creator of star wars among other things. why do you need to be the co-ceo of ariel? why don't you do nonprofit boards, corporate boards? why do so want to do this? mellody: anyone who knows me knows that that does make sense for me, because my heart, my love is ariel. it is my first child. it was the thing i thought of when i woke up.

reverend jesse jackson said it about baseball, it was not as good as it could be until jackie robinson could play. you can have the best competitors heating, you ultimately end up with a better outcome globally, domestically inside of a company. to me, the american dream is possible but it is failing a lot of people because of some of these racial blinders that exist. david: why do you need to be the co-ceo of ariel? why don't you do nonprofit boards, other things? mellody: anyone who knows me knows that question to sonic sense, my heart, my love is ariel. ariel is my first child. ♪ david: ceos are under pressure to say something about public issues. do you think that is a good thing that jamie dimon or the ceo of starbucks should say things about policy issues that are outside of their domain of the company? mellody: we are human beings with opinions and i don't think being ceo, co-ceo, chairman means that i cannot have an opinion about something. i always put that in the context when i'm giving my opinion, this is my opinion. it does not have to be an opinion that represents starbu

. >> o'donnell: willie o'ree was called the jackie robinson of hockey when he broke the hockey when he broke n.h.l.'s color barrier in 1958. last night, the boston bruins paid tribute with the highest honor a team can give an athlete. they retired his number. cbs' major garrett reports in our ongoing series "unifying america." >> and boston's o'ree down the ice. >> reporter: when willie o'ree became the first black player in the n.h.l. in 1958, he achieved a lifelong dream-- making it to the pinnacle of his sport. >> after the game, i didn't recognize that i had broke the color barrier until i read it in the paper the next day. >> reporter: o'ree played 45 games across two n.h.l. seasons encountering discrimination and hard knocks along the way. >>i heard the racial remarks and racial slurs. i fought a lot. i fought because i had to, not because i wanted to. >> reporter: last night in boston, the bruins retired o'ree's number, 22. and today, o'ree watched as the house unanimously voted to award him the congressional gold medal, its highest civilian honor. o'ree flourished in minor leag

he was referred to as a jackie robinson of hockey. we can never have a meeting without talking sports. the house passed a bill unanimously, which honors the contribution of a sports legend who broke the nhl -- national hockey league's color barrier despite being legally blind in one eye. isn't that remarkable? so we'll have the signing -- do we know what time is today? >> [inaudible] speaker pelosi: well, we'll let you know if you're interested. otherwise, we'll send you a picture. sorry? >> he had four goals -- [inaudible] speaker pelosi: how about that? isn't that remarkable? >> tremendous. that was his record. speaker pelosi: that's wonderful. good for you. well, i'm just staying up late at night watching warriors and stuff like that. in any event, any questions? yes. reporter: madam speaker, i understand that last thursday you asked the house administration to look at [inaudible] which, you know, it includes the first penalty for the violation [inaudible] speaker pelosi: that's right. reporter: [inaudible question] progressive mem

many call him the jackie robinson of hockey. the boston bruins tonight retiring the number 22 jersey worn by former player willie o'ree. on this day in 1958, he became the first black player to break the nhl's color barrier. inducted into the hockey hall of fame in 2018, o'ree now 86, says having his number retired and hanging from the rafter is something he never dreamed of. this will all play out at the bruins game tonight. very fitting tribute. i'm david muir. i'll see you tomorrow. good night. >> please don't think it's ok to do nothing and take your chances of getting infected. >> what we can and is the emergency. kristen: a warning from health officials at this pandemic is far from over. >> we are supporting the ousd students and their strike. larry: in oakland, frustrated students staging a state -- staging a sick out. good afternoon and thank you for joining us. kristen: you are watching abc 7 news at 4:00 right here live on abc seven, hulu plus and wherever you stream live. larry: new covid data proving just how hard om

many call him the jackie robinson of hockey. the boston bruins tonight retiring the number 22 jersey worn by former player willie o'ree. on this day in 1958, he became the first black player to break the nhl's color barrier. inducted into the hockey hall of fame in 2018, o'ree, now 86, says having his number retired and hanging from the rafter is something he never dreamed of. this will all play out at the bruins game tonight. a very fitting tribute. i'm david muir. i'll see you tomorrow. good night >> free covid-19 tests for every household. the government launching its website early. and concern over new 5g service -- why it is compelling several airlines to cancel flights. accessible. you can now order from the government, but is it too little, too late? dan: at have been infected with covid-19 over the course of this pandemic according to john's hopkins university data. more than 66 million cases have been detected since 2020. in california, we are averaging more than 110,000 new cases per day, but our seven-day positivity a

. >> o'donnell: willie o'ree was called the jackie robinson of hockey when he broke the n.h.l.'s color barrier in 1958. last night, the boston bruins paid tribute with the highest honor a team can give an athlete. they retired his number. cbs' major garrett reports in our ongoing series "unifying america." >> and boston's o'ree down the ice. >> reporter: when willie o'ree became the first black player in the n.h.l. in 1958, he achieved a lifelong dream-- making it to the pinnacle of his sport. >> after the game, i didn't recognize that i had broke the color barrier until i read it in the paper the next day. >> reporter: o'ree played 45 games across two n.h.l. seasons encountering discrimination and hard knocks along the way. >> i heard the racial remarks and racial slurs. i fought a lot. i fought because i had to, not because i wanted to. >> reporter: last night in boston, the bruins retired o'ree's number, 22. and today, o'ree watched as the house unanimously voted to award him the congressional gold medal, its highest civilian honor. o'ree flourished in minor league hokey, win

swim team compares herself to jackie robinson. teammate tell next guest in interview says she is like the jacque robinson in transsports. she mocks the situation instead of caring what she is doing to her feel mates. washington examiner chris joins us now. chris, who did you speak to for this story? >> hi, brian, thanks for having me. i spoke to one of the swimmers on the u penn swimming team. obviously for giving the political climate, she requested anonymity. because she was worried about potential, you know, future ramifications if she identified herself. >> brian: she says that la referred to her as the jackie robinson of trans swimming or trans sports? >> yeah. that's really hard to believe that's what it came to. that's what she told me. made that comparison she is the jackie robinson of trans sports. >> brian: they are quiet your reporting reveals. never talks about the team and never talks about the impact it's going to have on the team women sports. i'm sure these women wanted to be ncaa champions individually but you can

he cannot alienate the white audience and there's a resemblance to what branch ricky told jackie robinson, the brooklyn dodgers and also what joe lewis had, too. they cannot be offensive. like, total line. ricky said after a couple years, oh jackie went crazy because he couldn't hold -- they let him loose. but when? sidney slapped that cracker. [ laughter ] >> the guy in the movie. this is what -- >> yeah. >> in the scene. >> in the scene he was that. >> in the scene. >> but listen, i want to play -- >> i mean, that's when the handcuffs came off. >> that is the iconic moment for both of us. the iconic poitier moment. "in the heat of the night". >> was mr. colburt ever in this greenhouse last night abdoout midn midnight? >> you saw it. >> i saw it. >> what are you going to do about it? >> i don't know. i don't remember that. there was a time when i could have had you shot. >> don, 1967 i was 10 years old. >> i was 1. [ laughter ] >> and brother sidney gave it to him. i remember it like it was yesterday. black folks lost their mind. [ laughter ] >> look -- >> we never seen that before. ever

robinson and sandy koufax, who dedicated a big portion of his life to service, right? and so i think that's really interesting. when you think about people like audrey hepburn, people like danny kaye, you know, the first goodwill ambassadors to unicef, and they weren't afraid to be vocal. and then i thought about jane fonda, who -- wow. i mean, and there is a great example of someone who messed up famously in person and then decided that she was going to really do the work, the hard work, to reflect upon what she did, of course i'm talking about when she spoke out against our troops in the '60s. .. >> what an incredible soul he was and talking about things that we didn't even talk about at the time in the 80's. we weren't talking about the environment. i wasn't talking about animal cruelty and all of the things that did similar so much soul and heart and i thought about it actually in my last 5 years. any activists of their time think of the last six years. >> not going to any one school for any length of time, for example. >> yeah, i'm not going to lie it was not an e

robinson day. play ball players who participate in the special social media activation, to show support for baseball and honor the legacy of the first baseball player rate major league baseball's that segregated the sports. one of the key activations is the first ever national play ball weekend. this global celebration will be heldek w june 10 through the 12, both minor and major league baseball teams and players will host weekend activities on the same three days whether playingr road.e or on the for hispanic heritage month in september and october, play ball mayors will host a dominican variation of wiffleball games near city halls and local parks. look out for special conference of mayors and equipment and demonstration games you and your families can join in the 90th annual meeting in nevada. when we got? very go. give it up. you are a new mayor are just interested in the program, i invite you to stop by their booth. staff will reach out to you in the coming weeks to engage your city in this ye

and there's a -- there's a -- there's a extresemblance to wha rookie told jackie robinson and also what joe lewis had, too, they cannot be offensive. they had to, like, toe the line. after a couple years, oh, jackie went crazy because he -- he couldn't hold -- they let him loose. but when sidney slapped that cracker -- >> you mean the guy in the movie. >> yeah. in the -- in the -- in the scene. >> in the scene, he was that. >> but listen, i want to play it because that -- we -- >> that's -- that's when the handcuffs came off. >> that -- that is the iconic moment for both of us. the iconic poitier moment. 1967's "in the heat of the night." watch this. >> was mr. coburt ever in this greenhouse, say, last night about midnight? >> yeah. i saw it. what are you going to do about it? i don't know. i'll remember that. there was a time when i could have had you shot. [ laughter ] >> don, 1967, i was 10 years old. >> i was 1. >> and -- and -- and brother sidney gave it to him. i remember like it was yesterday. black folks lost their mind. >> it was -- >> we never seen that before, ever! >> but it

robinson day. play ball mayors will participate in a special social media activation to show for baseball and honor the legacy of the first baseball player to break major league baseball's color barrier that segregated the sport. one of the key activations i'm anticipating greatly is the first-ever national play ball weekend. this global celebration will be held june 10 through the 12th. both minor and major league baseball teams and mayors will host their play ball weekend activities on the same three days, whether they're playing at home or on the road. for hispanic heritage month in september and october, play ball mayors will be hosting a dominican inspired variation of wiffle ballgames near city halls and in local parks. look out for special u.s. conference of mayors equipment and demonstration games you and your family can join in the 90th annual meeting in reno, nevada. there you go. there we go. all right. give it up. [laughter] if you are a new mayor or just interested in the program, i in

as you've seen with jackie robinson, and barack obama in elementary schools. i choose to remember people who came from the projects in this detroit, who are a product of policies and allow their communities to have a chance. ben carson unfortunately does not have a -- of black people who choose to speak from, and continue to have retro aggressive spaces. i think if we want to talk about qualifications, he should concern himself as one of the neural surgeons, but he was allowed to run a -- but basically we are talking about a republican opposition. to a black woman supreme court justice. the part that they are not saying out loud, is that they are assuming that a black woman is somehow less. that is not the case. all of the -- of the women that we've seen thrown out by the media, who the president is considering right now, have supreme call if occasions. from the professional side and then from the -- that's the part that needs to be said out loud. another challenge is the qualifications of the 108 out of 115 white males who have served in this place. but we do

so jackie robinson got one, the murdered civil rights actor, even aretha franklin. american schools american veteran post, ymcas name for him. and the ever persistent medal of honor campaign. the navy preferred to keep quiet until in the late 60s when as you all know race relations in the united states had new phase with black nationalism rejected with service. vietnam and riots on navy vessels at sea and of course among soldiers in indochina. and the navy saw a need to appeal to black recruits and at the end of the draft you got to get them to volunteer. so part of the campaign to reform the image of the racist navy took place in the form of memorial confessions. one of these was a naming of a barracks enlisted men's barracks spoken in 43. the other it was a destroyer escort uss miller launched in 1973. a destroyer escorted the vessel there's already a destroyer called the miller name for james miller the war hero when they gave the name to the ship the original miller pandas james miller this was just a miller. still did not know it necessarily it was a badge of h

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he was to hollywood what jackie robinson was to baseball. the first black to win an oscar for acting. i think that this country, this world, and certainly the world of cinema could never pay the debt that is owed to sydney poitier. those who grew up in his shadow aspired to be more because he set an example that made us straighten our backs and walk more erect because we saw ourselves in him, a reflection of what excellence could look like and be like. >> you know, i'm glad you point this out. you know, with time one, i guess, could forget just how many barriers he broke. >> very easy to forget what you see all kinds of black artists today. but when sydney poitier did it, we had just come out of the world of black face, and of slap happy kind of acting. and sydney poitier was one of the first one that blacks were being projected seriously on a broad level. they did it on the big stage with big cinema companies, and broadened it so no one could miss it. and then at the same time, stayed committed to the cause. sydney poitier was at the march

robinson bird it's a plan it's a rimmed out cadillac all my superheroes black ♪ ♪ like that yeah all my super come on ♪ ♪ every block every hoo every city every ghett put them hands up one time yeah ♪ ♪ we need a black superhero yeah yeah every block every hood ♪ ♪ every city every ghetto ghetto yeah need a black superhero ♪ ♪ ♪ hero hero her yeah superhero ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause >> jimmy: come on. thank you so much. robert glasper you don't mess around. you don't mess around. "black radio iii" is out february 25th. my thanks to javier bardem, daveed diggs, robert glasper, rhapsody, bj the chicago kid, amir sulaiman, dj jazzy jeff the roots right there from philadelphia [ cheers and applause thank you. thank you for watching stay tuned for "late night with seth meyers. good night everybody [ cheers and applause ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ♪ >> announcer: from 30 rockefeller plaza in new york, it's "late night with seth meyers. tonight -- aidy bryant, star of "search party," actor and comedian john early, an all-new "closer look, featuring the 8g band with

no one else is calling this the jackie robinson moment but they are too afraid to say it out loud but instead just ignore this issue. i want to move this with you bobby as well. 270 quote unquote health experts have written a letter asking spotify to censor joe rogin. by allowing the propagation of false. spotify damage public trust and scientific research throughout the covid-19. joe rogan was repeatedly spread false claims on podcast promoting distrust in science and medicine. it's been written up in rolling stone. it's now the call silence joe rogan, bobby. >> yeah, will, what's fascinating about this, i think, sort of troubling is medical experts that are calling silence of rogan this time not just blue checks on twitter. i find that more concerning because what rogan is doing. not spreading medical misinformation. unlike most people on tv and journalism, he actually admits when he's wrong like he did this week. medical experts, they don't think rogan is misleading. is he challenging them. rogan has been sole voice. is he asking questions nobody else is asking. from these experts