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• «America’s Moment of Reckoning»: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Cornel West on Uprising Against Racism

  3 de julio, puesto en línea por mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  Scholars Cornel West and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor respond to the global uprising against racism and police violence following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. "We're seeing the convergence of a class rebellion with racism and racial terrorism at the center of it," said Princeton (...)

• Angela Davis on Abolition, Calls to Defund Police, Toppled Racist Statues & Voting in 2020 Election

  3 de julio, puesto en línea por mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  Amid a worldwide uprising against police brutality and racism, we discuss the historic moment with legendary scholar and activist Angela Davis. She also responds to the destruction and removal of racist monuments in cities across the United States, and the 2020 (...)

• «What to the Slave Is the 4^th of July?»: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech

  3 de julio, puesto en línea por mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  In a Fourth of July holiday special, we hear the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, he gave one of his most famous speeches, "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro." (...)

• Did the Army Ignore a Soldier’s Murder? Questions Mount over Vanessa Guillén Disappearance

  2 de julio, puesto en línea por mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  The U.S. Army says it has a suspect in custody in connection with the disappearance of Vanessa Guillén, a missing 20-year-old Fort Hood soldier whose family says her remains were likely found in a shallow grave near the Texas Army base. A second suspect in the case — a soldier who the Guillén (...)

• Barbara Ransby on the Biden Problem: Social Movements Must Defeat Trump & Also Hold Dems Accountable

  2 de julio, puesto en línea por mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  Amid a mass uprising against racism and state violence, social movements are not just fighting hostility and backlash from President Trump, but also dealing with a "Biden problem," according to historian, author and activist Barbara Ransby. "I think it's fair to say that Joe Biden is not our (...)

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