James Earl Jones reads Frederick Douglass's historic speech, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"; Angela Davis, Cornel West, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Tamika Mallory on the historic uprising against racism and police violence.

Democracy Now! 2020-07-03 Friday

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Headlines for April 17, 2024; One Year into War, Sudan Wracked by World’s Largest Displacement and Hunger Crises; No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel; Can UAW Unionize the South? Volkswagen Tennessee Vote Could Change U.S. Labor Landscape

Democracy Now! 2024-04-17 Wednesday

Headlines for April 16, 2024; Yanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Raid & Shut Down Palestinian Conference; “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism”: Yanis Varoufakis on New Book & Why Assange Should Be Freed; Under Cover of War in Gaza, Assault on West Bank Intensifies: Palestinian Journalist Dalia Hatuqa; “I’m Jewish, and I’ve Covered Wars. I Know War Crimes When I See Them”: Reporter Peter Maass on Gaza

Democracy Now! 2024-04-16 Tuesday

Headlines for April 15, 2024; Is Regional War at Stake as Israel Weighs Response to Iran? Roundtable from Tehran, Tel Aviv & D.C.; Trump in the Dock: First Criminal Trial of a Former U.S. President Begins Today in NYC

Democracy Now! 2024-04-15 Monday

Headlines for April 12, 2024; “Council of War”: Walden Bello on Biden’s Trilateral Summit with Philippines & Japan to Contain China; “A Stalemate and Attritional Grind”: Journalist Luke Mogelson on 2 Years of Russia’s War in Ukraine; Israeli Scholar Neve Gordon on Israeli Mass Surveillance in Gaza & the Use of AI to Kill Palestinians

Democracy Now! 2024-04-12 Friday

Headlines for April 11, 2024; “We’re Responsible for This”: American Surgeons Return from Gaza, Call for End of U.S. Culpability in Genocide; As Arizona Reinstates 1864 Abortion Ban, Doctors & Organizers Fight Back to Preserve Access

Democracy Now! 2020-07-03 Friday

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