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 professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. “And in many ways, we are in uncharted territory in the United States.
In a Democracy Now! special, we revisit our June 2020 interview with the legendary activist and scholar Angela Davis about the uprising against police brutality and racism launched in May after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The protests have helped dramatically shift public opinion on policing and systemic racism, as “defund the police” became a rallying cry of the movement. Davis is professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
A government shutdown was averted after the president approved the Covid relief package and annual spending bill.
The House of Representatives has voted to approve a measure that would increase stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000, sending the bill to the Senate, where its fate is uncertain. Independent Senator Bernie Sanders has said he will filibuster to delay an override on President Trump’s veto of this year’s $740 billion defense spending bill unless the Senate also holds a vote on the $2,000 checks.
The Georgia Democratic Senate candidate told viewers the two Republicans “have blatantly used their offices to enrich themselves.
A lack of Trump administration planning has put the burden on underfunded, overwhelmed state and local officials.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed loading up a relief bill with other White House priorities that appeared destined to fail.
Trump has schemed to exclude people from the census count who are in the country illegally.
Sen. Josh Hawley’s move is likely more symbolic than substantive, but is sure to please President Donald Trump.
In a historic step, The Kansas City Star, one of the most influential newspapers in the Midwest, has apologized for the paper’s racist history. The paper’s top editor, Mike Fannin, admitted the Star and a sister paper had reinforced segregation, Jim Crow laws and redlining, and “robbed an entire community of opportunity, dignity, justice and recognition” with its biased coverage over many decades.
When Black doctor Susan Moore died from COVID-19 after posting a video from her hospital bed describing racist treatment by medical staff, her chilling message was compared to the video of George Floyd begging for his life as he was killed by Minneapolis police. We speak to two leading Black women doctors fighting racial disparities in healthcare who wrote The Washington Post opinion piece, “Say her name: Dr. Susan Moore.
As the United States reports record deaths and hospitalizations from COVID-19 in the final days of 2020, we look at how the pandemic that ravaged the country this year has shone a stark new light on racism in medical care. In a viral video recorded by Black physician Dr. Susan Moore, she describes racist treatment by medical staff at a hospital in Indianapolis and says they did not respond to her pleas for care, despite being in intense pain and being a doctor herself.
A government shutdown was averted after the president approved the Covid relief package and annual spending bill.
Dozens of immigrant women detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia have joined a class-action lawsuit against ICE over allegations they were subjected to nonconsensual and invasive gynecological procedures and surgeries that were later found to be unnecessary, and in some cases left them unable to have children.
The Republican congressman wondered what the Founding Fathers would say about stay-at-home orders to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
The 41-year-old Louisiana Republican was set to be sworn in next week.
His repeated violations of his agreement not to use the Florida estate as a residence could jeopardize his permit to operate it as a for-profit resort.
Daniel Dale told the president’s eldest son that “it’s just objective and obvious fact” that Donald Trump is “a staggeringly incessant liar.
U.S. Attorney David Freed, whose bizarre statement helped fuel the president’s discredited claims of mass voter fraud, is stepping down.
The House of Representatives has voted to approve a measure that would increase stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000, sending the bill to the Senate, where its fate is uncertain. Independent Senator Bernie Sanders has said he will filibuster to delay an override on President Trump’s veto of this year’s $740 billion defense spending bill unless the Senate also holds a vote on the $2,000 checks.
President Trump’s pardon of four former Blackwater contractors has sparked outrage in Iraq and in the United States. Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard were convicted in the killing of 14 Iraqis in 2007, when contractors for the mercenary firm opened fire on civilians in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square.
President Trump’s pardon of four former Blackwater contractors convicted for their role in a massacre in Baghdad has sparked outrage in Iraq.
A government shutdown was averted after the president approved the Covid relief package and annual spending bill.
The world-renowned British novelist John le Carré died on December 12 at the age of 89. Le Carré established himself as a master writer of spy novels in a career that spanned more than half a century. He worked in the British Secret Service from the late 1950s until the early ’60s, at the height of the Cold War — which was the topic of his early novels.
If the Senate seconds the House action, it would be the first veto override of Trump’s presidency
The tagline is “Trump: He’s What’s For America,” a riff on the beef industry’s “Beef: It’s What’s For Dinner” slogan.
The measure, approved a day after Trump signed a COVID-19 relief package, is now up to Senate Republicans.
Although Dan Patrick offered a reward to anyone who could prove voter fraud, he’s been ignoring John Fetterman’s evidence involving a Trump supporter.
“It’s nothing short of irresponsible,” the president-elect said Monday.
Dozens of immigrant women detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia have joined a class-action lawsuit against ICE over allegations they were subjected to nonconsensual and invasive gynecological procedures and surgeries that were later found to be unnecessary, and in some cases left them unable to have children.