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In Part 2 of our interview with Ben Jealous, former head of the NAACP, now professor of practice at the University of Pennsylvania, he discusses his family history of fighting white supremacy as detailed in his new memoir, “Never Forget Our People Were Always Free,” his work to fight stop incarceration and abolish the death penalty, and more.

Democracy Now! 2023-01-10 Tuesday

• Headlines for January 10, 2023
• At Summit in Mexico, AMLO Urges Biden to End U.S. "Disdain" for Latin America
• Rosewood Massacre: Families Mark 100 Years Since White Mob Razed Black Town & Killed Black Residents
• "Never Forget Our People Were Always Free": Civil Rights Leader Ben Jealous on His New Memoir

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Democracy Now! 2023-01-09 Monday

• Headlines for January 09, 2023
• Bolsonaro Backers Storm Brazil's Key Gov't Buildings in Jan. 6-Style Attempt to Oust Lula from Power
• Biden Visits Border But Doesn't Meet with Asylum Seekers as Administration Cracks Down on Immigration
• Harvard Faces Outcry for Rescinding Post to Ex-Head of Human Rights Watch over Criticism of Israel

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Democracy Now! 2023-01-06 Friday

• Headlines for January 06, 2023
• Two Years After Jan. 6, Capitol Attack Casts Long Shadow Over GOP That Allows Extremism to Fester
• "We Need Ceasefires Everywhere": Bishop William Barber's Message of Peace for Ukraine & the World

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Democracy Now! 2023-01-05 Thursday

• Headlines for January 05, 2023
• Diana Buttu & Gideon Levy: Israel's New Far-Right Gov't Entrenches Apartheid System with U.S. Support
• Chaos in the House: Is This Just the Beginning of a Far-Right Attempt to Make Congress Dysfunctional?

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Democracy Now! 2022-12-29 Thursday

• Headlines for December 29, 2022
• Iran Protests Pass 100 Days as Demonstrators Facing Brutal Crackdown Request International Solidarity
• Are Peace Talks Possible? Prof. Gilbert Achcar on Whether Russia & Ukraine Can Negotiate End to War

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Democracy Now! 2022-12-28 Wednesday

• Headlines for December 28, 2022
• Supreme Court Keeps Title 42, Causing Rise in Deadly Human Trafficking & Blocking Asylum Seekers
• "Abject Failure" in Buffalo: Blizzard Death Toll Rises as Activists Slam City's Failed Prep, Response
• "Tired of the Apologies": Workers, Flyers Say Southwest Airlines Meltdown Was Decades in the Making

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Democracy Now! 2022-12-27 Tuesday

• Headlines for December 27, 2022
• "A Criminal Act": Taliban Government Bars Women from University, Working for NGOs in Afghanistan
• Pandemic Poverty: Ray Suarez on How COVID-19 Set Back Low-Income Workers in the U.S., Especially Women

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Reed Brody, the international human rights lawyer, talks about his new book: “To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré.” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ed Yong discusses his book, “An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us.”

Democracy Now! 2022-12-23 Friday

• Headlines for December 23, 2022
• "The Central Cause of January 6th Was One Man": House Panel Urges Trump Be Banned from Public Office
• "This Is a Racial Backlash": Stanford Prof. Hakeem Jefferson on Role of White Supremacy in Capitol Attack
• "The Quest to Defuse Guyana's Carbon Bomb": Meet the Environmental Lawyer Taking On ExxonMobil

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For more than half a century, Juan González has been eyewitness to countless major battles led by working people in the Americas. As a radical activist in the 1960s and 1970s with groups like the Young Lords, the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization and the African Liberation Support Committee, he urged working-class unity in the fight against racial oppression and colonialism. As a journalist, he covered major strikes in the U.S. and Latin America — the 1981 PATCO strike, general strikes in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico in the 1990s, the 2005 New York City transit strike, the resurrection of May Day by immigrant workers in 2016 — while also exposing the plight of maquila workers in Mexico and Central America, of U.S. workers thrown out of work by factory flight or sickened on the job by toxic chemicals. Juan recently talked about his decades defending and chronicling workers in a speech at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.

Democracy Now! co-host Juan González recently spoke at the CUNY Grad Center in the final of his three “farewell” speeches in New York before he moved to Chicago. In a speech titled, “Latinos, Race and Empire,” Juan talked about his time with the Young Lords, the future of Puerto Rico, corporate America’s embrace of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), and more.

Democracy Now! 2022-12-22 Thursday

• Headlines for December 22, 2022
• U.S. Faith Leaders Call for Xmas Truce in Ukraine as Zelensky Visits D.C. Seeking More Arms & Money
• "We Are at a Precipice as a Nation": Cornel West & Christina Greer on Jan. 6 Insurrection & More

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About 190 countries reach a historic conservation deal at COP15, the U.N. biodiversity conference; The Biden administration delays the end of Title 42 as thousands of asylum seekers wait at the border; Atlanta residents fight the construction of “Cop City,” a massive police training camp.

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Democracy Now! 2022-12-20 Tuesday

• Headlines for December 20, 2022
• In Historic First, House Committee Urges DOJ to Criminally Charge Trump for Jan. 6 Insurrection
• "No One Is Above The Law": Calls Grow for Trump to Be Charged to Avoid Another Coup Attempt

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Democracy Now! 2022-12-19 Monday

• Headlines for December 19, 2022
• As Title 42 Nears End, El Paso Declares Emergency over Influx of Asylum Seekers
• Judge Orders Philly DA to Disclose All Evidence in Mumia Abu-Jamal Case. Could It Lead to New Trial?
• Morocco's Occupation of Western Sahara Is at Center of Growing European Parliament Bribery Scandal

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