President Biden signs legislation to make Juneteenth a federal holiday; We look at the other Juneteenth, June 19, 1838, when Jesuit priests in Maryland sold 272 enslaved men, women and children to pay off debts for what is now Georgetown University.

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Headlines for April 18, 2024; Meet USC Valedictorian Asna Tabassum: School Cancels Commencement Speech by Pro-Palestinian Student; The New McCarthyism: Congress Grills Columbia Univ. President Amid Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech; Columbia Students Risk Arrest, Suspension to Maintain Gaza Solidarity Encampment on Campus; Israel Considers Attacking Iran and Invading Rafah as Netanyahu Seeks Lifelines to Stay in Power

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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

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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

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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

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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

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