The president of Talladega College is set to decide whether the college’s marching band, the Marching Tornadoes, will participate in President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural parade.
Talladega College is Alabama’s oldest private historically black college, and petitions for and against the band’s participation have emerged.
Anthony Cook (@anthonycook_dh), editor of Talladega’s Daily Home newspaper, joins Here & Now‘s Robin Young to discuss what’s being said about the controversy.
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