Amnesty International documents how the Israeli government is using an experimental facial recognition system to track Palestinians and control their movements. The findings are part of "Automated Apartheid," which reveals an ever-growing surveillance network of cameras in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron and in East Jerusalem. Amnesty researcher Matt Mahmoudi, adds that the surveillance technology is part of an overall coercive structure used against Palestinians by Israel.
Read MoreEmory University Professor of African American studies & Author of The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America., Carol Anderson articulates her thoughts on gun control as well as Republican attacks on democracy. Anderson asserts U.S. gun culture has always been connected to “the inherent, fundamental fear of Black people.” She notes the expulsion of two Black Democratic state lawmakers in Tennessee for leading a gun control protest at the Capitol highlights how gerrymandered state governments uphold white supremacy in the face of “youth that are pushing forward for a different vision of America.”
Read MoreThe latest updates concerning the Tennessee 3. Also, Justin Pearson gives a fiery and inspirational address to supporters after he is reinstated after being expelled, along with Justin Jones, from the Tennessee State Legislature.
Read MoreThe western African nation of Burkina Faso is facing its second military coup in eight months. We speak with Aziz Fall, coordinator for Justice for Sankara, an international campaign dedicated to uncovering the truth behind the 1987 assassination of Burkina Faso leader Thomas Sankara. He says the legacy of U.S. military intervention and French colonialism has led to instability in the region. "People are outraged with the role of France but also the role of the United States," says Fall.
Read MoreThis weekend marked the 103rd anniversary of the 1919 Elaine massacre, one of the deadliest episodes of racial violence in U.S. history. On September 30, 1919, guards stopped two white men from breaking into a meeting between Black sharecroppers in Elaine, Arkansas, who were organizing to demand fair payments for their crops. After an exchange of gunfire, a white man was killed. White mobs, backed by the U.S. military, responded, indiscriminately killing hundreds of Black people under the false claim of stopping a Black insurrection. Much of the Black farmers' land was stolen as a result.
Read MoreDemocracy Now looks at Harvard University's recent report detailing the school's extensive ties to slavery.. The report documents dozens of prominent people associated w/ Harvard who enslaved people, including four Harvard presidents.. "Harvard's ties to slavery begin with the founding of the institution," says MIT historian Craig Steven Wilder, author of "Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities."
Read More“The Ransom,” a new series in The New York Times, details how France devastated Haiti’s economy by forcing Haiti to pay massive reparations … after enslaved Haitians rebelled, founding the world’s first Black republic in 1804. Historians Westenley Alcenat & Gerald Horne discuss the story of Haiti’s finances and how Haitian demands for reparations have been repeatedly shut down. Horne also requests The New York Times make the revelatory documents that the series cites accessible to other historians.
Read MoreWhile Van Dyke’s release after serving more than three years of his 81-month sentence was in line with the day-for-a-day credit offered most Illinois offenders, there was one way in which his case stood out: Despite the fact that he remained in IDOC custody, Van Dyke did not appear in the department's online inmate locator, in accordance with state protocol for most cases.
A new 280-page report from Amnesty International detail the Israeli government's crimes against humanity, constituting apartheid against Palestinians.
America’s Best Christian, Betty Bowers, preaches about ‘Freedom’
Read MoreDayton police violently arrested Clifford Owensby last month even though he is paraplegic and repeatedly told them he could not use his legs to get out of the car during a traffic stop. Bodycam video shows officers dragging him out of his car and yanking him by his hair as he shouted for help. Owensby had his 3-year-old child in the car at the time of arrest.
Read MoreThe testimony was invite-only … the only people who were able to testify were opponents of Critical Race Theory. None of those invited to testify about how race is being taught in Missouri schools were Black.
Read MoreSteven Carrillo’s path to the Boogaloo Bois shows the hate group is far more organized and dangerous
Stanley S. Litow, former deputy chancellor of the city’s school system, explains the significance of this development. He also addresses the challenges that Porter faces for what will likely be a limited tenure at the helm of the nation’s largest public school system as government leaders seek to fully reopen the nation’s schools.
Read MoreWhen Dandridge stayed at one of those casino hotels where she was billed to perform, she was told the swimming pool was out of bounds for Black guests. Dandridge … showed up at the pool in her bathing suit as the all-white swimming crowd gazed. Then Dandridge just stuck her toe into the water.
Read MoreJervis Middleton's lawyers say that the former officer had grown frustrated with the Lexington department after his concerns over internal racism had gone ignored
A highly anticipated new feature film, “Judas and the Black Messiah,” tells the story of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton and William O’Neal, the FBI informant who infiltrated the Illinois Black Panther Party to collect information that ultimately led to Hampton’s killing in 1969 by law enforcement officers. Shaka King, the film’s director and co-writer, says focusing on Hampton and O’Neal was a way “to make 'The Departed' inside the world of COINTELPRO,” referring to the decades-long illegal FBI program to undermine Black and radical political organizations.
"MLK/FBI" explains that the FBI surveillance tapes will be released in 2027, and yet, in this era of Black Lives Matter, it is important to show the impact of speaking out, as King did about topics ranging from racial oppression and the Vietnam War.
Read MoreWe talked about the significance of these changes and what they mean for Native American rights, including the Supreme Court ruling and the potential implications it will have for criminal justice on tribal land.
Read MoreFifty-five years ago today, Malcolm X was assassinated ... at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said he was considering reopening the investigation ... after a new documentary series was released on Netflix called “Who Killed Malcolm X?” Ilyasah Shabazz, one of six daughters of Malcolm X, award-winning author Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, & Shayla Harris, a producer for the series, talk to Democracy Now.
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