Harry Edwards, UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociology, joins Russillo & Kanell to discuss the events at the University of Missouri and to explore the black athletes' decision to take a stand against racial injustice.
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- He penned his will on an autumn day, his 25-year-old life summed up by his three most coveted possessions. Jonathan Butler had a laptop, a stack of books and a backpack. He bequeathed each of the items to his friends.
Butler had spent more than a quarter of his life as a student at the University of Missouri, a Midwestern campus with a student population that is 77 percent white.