On the first night of the DNC, protesters briefly unfurled a banner that read “Stop Arming Israel,” before it was wrested away by convention staff. Three members of the group Delegates Against Genocide, Esam Boraey, a human rights activist & delegate from Connecticut; Florida DNC member Nadia Ahmad; and progressive Jewish activist Liano Sharon, an elected delegate from Michigan, said, “He’s the one who can stop this genocide by picking up the phone and making a phone call, and he has chosen not to do that.”

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Donahue’s commitment to bringing major social & political issues to the public spanned decades. Listen to his 2013 interview on Democracy Now as well as his former producer Jeff Cohen speak about their challenges with MSNBC regarding the Iraq war.

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Workers will not be ‘accomplices’ to the strikes on Gaza, says union

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Goodman, now the acting deputy Senate sergeant-at-arms, was first hailed as a hero after video emerged of him guiding the violent mob away from the Senate chamber

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Founder of Gjenge Makers, which transforms plastic waste into durable building materials, Matee also designed the machines that manufacture the bricks in her factory.

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The Missouri Democrat went on to specifically address the Republicans whose incessant lies about the results of the 2020 presidential election, & efforts to overturn the results of that contest, helped fuel last month's attack, pointing to her resolution calling for investigation and expulsion of seditious members of Congress.

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The U.S. Black Lives Matter movement, as well as Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the “Pentagon Papers” about the Vietnam War, U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and WikiLeaks, have also been nominated

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Nine-year-old Tani Adewumi was hoping to defend his title this weekend at the New York State Scholastic Chess Championship. The tournament was canceled due to Coronavirus. When Tani won the primary school division in 2019, he was living with his family in a homeless shelter.

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On Friday February 7, Democracy Now! co-host Nermeen Shaikh sat down for a rare joint interview with the Squad, the group of four freshmen Democratic congresswomen who have taken Capitol Hill by storm: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Nermeen Shaikh spoke with the four politicians at an event organized by The Rising Majority at Howard University.

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Kiss and Make Up: Rafa Apologises to Ball Girl Like a Gentleman | Australian Open 2020

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Kim will be the first Korean-American to join a NASA mission in space. He has also served as a U.S. Navy SEAL and a Harvard-trained physician. It all started with his enlistment in the Navy, where he started his career as a seaman recruit after graduating from high school in 2002.

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One day before Jane Fonda’s 82nd birthday, the longtime political activist, feminist and two-time Academy Award winner was arrested for the fifth time, as she has been nearly every Friday in Washington since she started Fire Drill Fridays, calling for action to address the climate crisis … She was arrested along with more than 140 others inside the Hart Senate Office BuildingThis month Jane Fonda wrote an op-ed in The New York Times headlined “We Have to Live Like We’re in a Climate Emergency. Because We Are.”

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Haseltine Pozzi is a local artist and longtime art teacher who's made it her mission to collect as much of this shameful garbage as possible. It washes up from Asia, Europe, California and right here in Oregon. In her gallery in the nearby town of Bandon, where she'd spend summers with her grandmother exploring the wild beaches, she… form life-size garbage creatures of the very marine life threatened by all this plastic.

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A rural county in Pennsylvania was once dubbed the "refugee capital of America" by the BBC. How did Lancaster County earn this nickname?

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Guy Bryant never intended to be a father figure. But over the past 12 years, he's housed more than 50 foster kids in his Brooklyn apartment.

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Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings died Thursday October 17, at 68. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks to longtime friend and mentor Larry Gibson about Cummings' rise the national political stage.

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Have you heard of the Belin-Blank Center at the University of Iowa's College of Education? No? Belin-Blank's mission is to identify and nurture young people who excel at math and science and the arts. And they have made a point of reaching out to, and accommodating, twice-exceptional kids

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In her first extended broadcast interview in the United States, DN spends an hour with Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist who has inspired millions across the globe. Last year she launched a school strike for the climate, skipping school every Friday to stand in front of the Swedish parliament, demanding action to prevent catastrophic climate change. Her protest spread, quickly going global. Hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren around the globe have participated in their own local school strikes for the climate.

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Today marks a week since Ismail Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian student who was denied entry into the United States, began classes with his fellow Harvard freshmen. Ajjawi was initially turned away at Boston’s Logan Airport after immigration officials searched his phone and computer, and interrogated him about his religion and social media posts by friends that were critical of U.S. policy. He was then forced to return home to Lebanon, but his case provoked outrage on the Harvard campus and among some Palestinian rights and academic freedom groups.

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In a tremendous show of sportsmanship and cultural solidarity, Naomi Osaka invites Coco Gauff to join her post-match interview after defeating her in straight sets. Grab a napkin …

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