Democracy Now! - Today’s headlines

Artículos

• "Another Wasted Life": Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired New Song

  19 de junio, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  “Another Wasted Life.” That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens. She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark International Wrongful Conviction Day. The song was inspired by Kalief Browder, a Bronx resident who died (…)

• Rhiannon Giddens on Pulitzer-Winning Opera "Omar" About Enslaved Muslim Scholar Omar ibn Said

  19 de junio, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  As part of our Juneteenth special broadcast, we feature our interview with pioneering musical artist Rhiannon Giddens, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her opera Omar, about Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar in Africa who was sold into slavery in the 1800s.

• Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

  19 de junio, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. We begin with our 2021 interview with historian Clint Smith, (…)

• "What Authoritarians Do": NYC Comptroller Brad Lander Speaks Out After ICE Arrests Him in Courthouse

  18 de junio, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested outside an immigration courtroom Tuesday. Lander has been volunteering as an observer and escort for people with immigration hearings in recent weeks. In this case, while accompanying a man named Edgardo, a group of ICE (…)

• Mosab Abu Toha: As Attention Shifts to Iran, Israel Ramps Up Killings, Starvation & Annexation in Gaza

  18 de junio, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  As Israel’s attack on Iran overshadows Israel’s ongoing assault on the region, we speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha on the deepening crisis in his home of the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of starving, desperate civilians have been killed and wounded (…)