News about Ali Velshi

Dr. Uché Blackstock and Dr. L. Ebony Boulware were on MSNBC to talk about Boulware's new study on ethnicity and health problems. People are only 20 percent accountable for their health, according to Blackstock, and the remaining 80% is determined by ethnicity.

Ali Velshi, the current MSNBC anchor, agreed with his show host's description of the new Florida legislation as a "road test for authoritarianism" in the vein of the Nazi Party in 1930s Germany. Velshi, the left-leaning network's founder, was joined by transgender activist and journalist Imara Jones to debate bills that he described as 'aimed at banning the rights of transgender Americans around the country.'

As the network undergoes a significant change of its leadership, NBC News president Noah Oppenheim is leaving the network after five years. Rebecca Blumenstein, a deputy managing editor at the New York Times, will be named as the new president of editorial for NBC News, replacing Oppenheim. Blumenstein, a long history in print and digital publishing, but lacks expertise in television news, will lead NBC News at a time of rapid change in technology and customer preferences.'

Andrew Roberts, a British historian, slammed MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi for starting a special on the Queen's legacy by blaming the royal family on live television on Saturday. The MSNBC anchor said she represented an institution with a long and painful history of brutal colonialism, violence, extortion, and slavery.' During his interview, Roberts said that the majority of Britons and people around the Commonwealth continue to support the monarchy, while Velshi was mainly focusing on the "negatives" and the "horrors of colonialism," even though the UK has ended slavery before the United States. Nonetheless, Velshi appeared to be eager to discuss colonialism, bringing the subject back to life in his special.