SANCHEZ: Welcome back. I'm Rick Sanchez. This is your list, RICK'S LIST. And it is now time to check the list of the most intriguing people in the news today. This guy's a lawyer, a lawyer from Austin, Texas, who's rarely seen without his trademark cowboy hat. He's taking a personal interest in the effort to revise school history books to reflect fewer progressive views and emphasize prominent Republicans. His name is Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas chapter of the NAACP. And here's the personal part, he's a descendent of Julia Bledsoe, the opera star that made famous the song "Old Man River." Gary Bledsoe because of his descendents fighting to keep references of his famous relatives in Texas school books in a campaign called "Don't Whiteout our History." We'll see if it works. The Texas state school board votes on the proposed changes today. Gary Bledsoe today, one of the most intriguing people in the news. Before she was captured and detained in North Korea, I was the last person to interview her. It happened right here on this show. Laura Ling is live with me again today to talk about North Korea in light of what happened recently with South Korea. And on it goes. It goes like this. Are you ready? "I went to a fight at a city council meeting broke out." You get it? You'll see it. RICK'S LIST continues after the break.
Texas School Board Continues With Controversial Textbook Reform