Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America; Rhiannon Giddens on Pulitzer-Winning Opera “Omar” About Enslaved Muslim Scholar Omar ibn Said; “Another Wasted Life”: Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired New Song
Headlines for June 18, 2024; Ahead of Juneteenth, Maryland Pardons 175K Pot Convictions, Seeking to Remedy Harms of War on Drugs; Holocaust Scholar Raz Segal Loses Univ. of Minnesota Job Offer for Saying Israel Is Committing Genocide
Headlines for June 17, 2024; Report from Rafah: UNICEF Decries Israel’s “War on Children” as Starvation & Deaths Mount in Gaza; Rep. Jamie Raskin: Trump’s First Return to Capitol Hill Since Jan. 6 Cements His GOP “Stranglehold”; Rep. Jamie Raskin: Only a Two-State Solution Can End “Nightmare” of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Arundhati Roy Faces Anti-Terror Prosecution in India as Modi Expands Crackdown on Critics...
Headlines for June 14, 2024; Supreme Court Protects Access to Mifepristone, But War on Abortion Rights Continues to Escalate; Birding While Black: Christian Cooper on NYC Audubon Society’s New Name & Racist Central Park Incident; “Better Living Through Birding”: Christian Cooper on Being a Queer Black Man in the Natural World
Headlines for June 13, 2024; Secret Recording of SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito Offers “Window” into His Conservative Ideology; ProPublica Reporter Defends Work After Samuel Alito Accuses Outlet of Politically Motivated Coverage; From Gaza to Sudan, Number of Global Armed Conflicts Reach New Post- WWII High; Palestinian Diplomat: Gaza Ceasefire Only Possible Once Israel Commits to Ending the War
Headlines for June 12, 2024; Sarah Leah Whitson: U.S. Ceasefire Push in Gaza Is Welcome, But “40,000 Dead Palestinians Too Late”; Hunter Biden: President’s Son Convicted in Federal Gun Case, Faces Tax Evasion Trial Next; Bananas and Blood: Chiquita Ordered to Pay Colombian Families $38 Million for Backing Death Squads
Headlines for June 11, 2024; “Clear Shift” Toward the Far Right: Anti-Immigrant Nationalists Gain Ground Across Europe; Doctor Just Back from Gaza: The Health System Has Totally Collapsed Due to Israel’s Genocidal War; U.S. Jewish Army Intel Officer Quits over Gaza, Says “Impossible” Not to See Echoes of Holocaust
Headlines for June 10, 2024; Report from Gaza: “Devastating” Israeli Raid to Free 4 Israeli Hostages Kills 270+ Palestinians; “Massacre”: Analyst Slams Israeli Military Raid That Frees 4 Hostages, Kills 270+ Palestinians; “War Is Not the Answer”: Meet the Israeli Peace Activist Whose Parents Were Killed Oct. 7; “Life Comes First”: Israeli Peace Activists Condemn War on Gaza, Demand Ceasefire Deal
Headlines for June 07, 2024; Israel’s Widespread Use of White Phosphorus in Lebanon, Gaza Violates Int’l Law: Human Rights Watch; Deadly Heat: Record Scorching Temperatures Kill the Vulnerable, Worsen Inequality Across the Globe; ” VOICES : A Sacred Sisterscape”: Poet aja monet & V on New Audio Play Centering Black Women’s Stories
Headlines for June 06, 2024; “Apocalyptic”: 40 Killed in Israeli Airstrike on U.N. School Sheltering Displaced Palestinians in Gaza; “Where Olive Trees Weep”: Dr. Gabor Maté & Ashira Darwish on New Film Exploring Trauma in Palestine; “Propaganda Machine”: NY Congressmember Jamaal Bowman on AIPAC’s $25 Million Campaign to Unseat Him
Headlines for June 05, 2024; “My Journey of Loss”: Gaza Twin on Death of Mom, 14 Relatives & Continuing to Flee Israeli Bombs; “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept”: Meet the Palestinian Lawyer Censored by Columbia and Harvard; Biden Limits Asylum & Shuts Down Border for Migrants Ahead of Debate with Trump
Headlines for June 04, 2024; A Setback for the “Cult of Modi”? Indian Opposition Faring Surprisingly Well in Early Election Count; El Salvador’s “Coolest Dictator” Bukele Begins Controversial Second Term with Backing from Biden & Trump; “More Than a Symbolic Victory”: Mexican Women’s Movement Paved Way for Election of 1st Female President; “The Trauma Is Unimaginable”: Save the Children CEO Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza, More Focus on...
Headlines for June 03, 2024; Will Israel Agree to the “Israeli” Ceasefire Proposal? Confusion Reigns After Biden Presents New Plan; “Divest from Genocide”: 1,000+ Protest Brooklyn Museum for Israel Ties; NYPD Throws Punches, Arrests 34; Meet the Pro-Ceasefire MP Candidate Banned by U.K. Labour Party for “Liking” Jon Stewart Skit on Israel; ” ANC Failed”: How Mandela’s Party Lost Its Majority for First Time Since End of Apartheid...
Headlines for May 31, 2024; Guilty: Trump Becomes First Ex-President Felon in U.S. History; “Unprecedented in the History of American Republicanism”: Historian on Trump Verdict & GOP Extremism; Exclusive: USAID Contractor Resigns After Presentation on Maternal & Child Mortality in Gaza Canceled; “I Was Shocked”: Meet the State Dept. Official Who Quit After Report Denies Israel Blocking Gaza Aid
Headlines for May 30, 2024; “This Is a Crime”: Ken Roth on Israel’s Secret War Targeting the ICC to Derail War Crimes Charges; Univ. of Toronto Protesters Vow to Continue Gaza Encampment as Admin Demands Police Clear It; PFAS Cover-Up: How 3M Hid Risks of Forever Chemicals & “Gaslit” Scientist Who Tried to Sound Alarm
Headlines for May 29, 2024; “A Narrative of Trump Criminality”: Jury Begins Deliberations in Hush Money Case; “The North Needs to Learn from the South”: Mexico Poised to Elect First Woman President; “America’s Monster”: How a U.S. Ally Kidnapped, Killed & Tortured Hundreds in Afghanistan
Headlines for May 28, 2024; People Burned Alive, Child Decapitated: Report from Rafah on Israeli Strike That Killed 45 in Camp; Latest Israeli Rafah Attack Kills 45, Injures 110+; How Can World Enforce ICJ’s Ruling to End Assault?; “Corky Lee’s Asian America”: Chinese American Legend Spent 50 Years Seeking “Photographic Justice”
Pulitzer Winner Nathan Thrall on Gaza, Israel’s “System of Domination” and U.S. Complicity; “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama”: How the Death of Abed’s 5-Year-Old Son Sheds Light on Life Under Israeli Apartheid
Headlines for May 24, 2024; Northwestern Professor Steven Thrasher: You Are Being Lied to About Pro-Palestine Protests on Campus; 1,000 Harvard Students Walk Out of Commencement to Support 13 Seniors Barred from Graduation over Gaza; “Why Do Israel’s Bidding?”: Human Rights Advocate Hossam Bahgat Blasts Egypt Policy at Rafah Crossing
Headlines for May 23, 2024; Irish Lawmaker: Recognizing Palestine as a State Is Rooted in Our History of Colonization & Famine; Dr. Adam Hamawy Describes Desperate Conditions at Gaza Hospitals Amid Attacks & Lack of Supplies; “Power”: Yance Ford on His New Documentary & Why “Violence Is Part and Parcel” of U.S. Policing
Headlines for May 22, 2024; “Collective Punishment”: Israel Raids Jenin Camp in West Bank, Killing 8, “Shooting Everything”; “Brutal Force”: Police Raid UMich Gaza Solidarity Camp Before President Ono Testifies in Congress; “We Hope to Be a Model”: Students & Faculty at The New School Secure Divestment Vote; “The New McCarthyism”: Pro-Palestine Educators Face Censorship, Harassment & Firings Across U.S.; Will Biden Undermine His Own C...
Headlines for May 21, 2024; Meet Lily Greenberg Call, First Jewish Biden Appointee to Publicly Resign over Gaza; “A Watershed Event”: ICC Charges Against Netanyahu First Time Court Has Gone After Western Leader; Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé on Interrogation at U.S. Airport and “Collapse of the Zionist Project”
Headlines for May 20, 2024; Trita Parsi on Future of Iran After President & Foreign Minister Die in Helicopter Crash; Int’l Criminal Court Seeks Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant & Hamas Leaders for War Crimes; British High Court Grants WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange the Right to Appeal U.S. Extradition; Meet Two Morehouse Professors Who Protested Biden over Gaza and Congo During Commencement Speech
Headlines for May 17, 2024; “Resist the Normalization of Evil”: Israeli Reporter Amira Hass on Palestine & the Role of Journalism
Headlines for May 16, 2024; Israeli Human Rights Lawyer Attacked While Documenting Settler Raid on Gaza Aid Convoy; Human Rights Watch: Israeli Forces Attack Known Aid Worker Locations in Gaza; “In Cold Blood”: Russian Forces Executing Surrendering Ukrainian Soldiers; “Rampage of Killings, Looting, Torture, Rape”: Ethnic Cleansing in Sudan’s Darfur Region
Headlines for May 15, 2024; Defense Attorney Ron Kuby on Trump Criminal Trial & Representing Climate & Pro-Palestinian Protesters; “Stop This War Right Now”: U.S. Doctor Who Saved Sen. Duckworth’s Life in Iraq, Now Trapped in Gaza; “A Racist, Criminal Project”: Palestinian Historian on 1948 Nakba, Israel’s War on Gaza & U.S. Complicity; Drop the Charges: Demands for CUNY to Divest from Israel Met by Violent Police Repression & Felony Charges...
Headlines for May 14, 2024; “Displacement Has Been Weaponized”: Gaza Reporter Akram al-Satarri on Israeli Attack & Fleeing Rafah; Columbia-Affiliated Union Theological Seminary Votes to Divest from Israel’s War on Gaza; “Unbuild Walls”: Detention Watch’s Silky Shah on Debunking Immigration Myths & Embracing Abolition
Headlines for May 13, 2024; “The Plan Is Genocide”: Palestine’s U.K. Ambassador Decries Israel’s Attack on Gaza & U.S. Complicity; The Killing of Roger Fortson: Police Shoot Dead Black Airman After Entering Wrong Home; NYPD Kills Bangladeshi Teen Win Rozario After He Calls 911 for Help, as His Mom Pleads for His Life
Headlines for May 10, 2024; 12 Arrested Outside NYC’s New School as First Faculty-Led Gaza Solidarity Encampment Continues; “We Feel Unheard”: Hunger-Striking Princeton Students Vow to Fast Until Divestment Demands Are Met; Senate Candidate Larry Hamm on ’70s Anti-Apartheid Protests at Princeton and Voting “Uncommitted” in NJ; Playwright Gillian Slovo: I Grew Up in Apartheid South Africa. I Saw the Same Thing in Palestine; “Grenfell: In the Words of Surv...
Headlines for May 09, 2024; Aid Worker in Gaza: “To Say There’s Not an Incursion in Rafah Right Now Is Patently False”; Pulitzer Winner Nathan Thrall on Israel’s “System of Domination” and Biden Pausing Bomb Shipment; Indian PM Narendra Modi Runs on “Hatred and Demonization” of Muslims in World’s Largest Election
