Across the United States. We will speak to members of the Standing Rock sioux and Navajo Nation and go to north dakota, which has the highest covid19 death rate of any state or country in the world. Then democracy now cohost Juan Gonzalez looks at how the Corporate Media missed the real story about latinx voter turnout in the 2020 election. Juan the main story is that in an election which saw historic tnout, people of color, and especially latinos, had an unprecedented increase in voting. And they, not white voters, represented the bulk of that increase. Amy plus, we will speak to antiracist activist bree newsome bass and princeton professor eddie glaude about the election of joe biden and Kamala Harris. We have to get about the work of responding to the problems we face as a nation at scale and not returning back to some sense of normalcy, which in some ways laid the foundation for the disaster that was and is trumpism. Amy a that d more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democrac
Ran a criminal organization. As a budge on accuses armenia of attacking one of its main cities as the conflict for the disputed region of nagornokarabakh intensifies. Kyrgyzstans Parliament Names a new Prime Minister as the political crisis there deepen. And were live in south africa where demonstrators a demanding the president address allegations of corruption about missing funds for Coronavirus Relief. And in sport Le Bron James leads the l. A. Lakers to victory ending for the n. B. A. Finals the lakers are now just one win away from the 6 sharing whats happening so. Welcome to the program we begin with breaking news coming to us out of greece leaders of the far right golden dawn posse have been found guilty of running a criminal organization. The protesters gathered outside the court to hear the verdict the police fired tear gas to break up the demonstrators it comes after the killing of a musician and antiracism campaigner in 2013 golden dawn member John Psaropoulos is our corresp
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1 15. So our focus today then is going to be the montgomery bus boycott. Like i said. Thats what you read all of your sources for, except the payne article which gave you a larger focus. To do that. We are going to go back to our discussion of origin points, right . Our favorite slide which you are going to be so sick of, right, representing the narrative arc of the popular story of the Civil Rights Movement. And we are going back to our topic of origin points again with the objective of troubling it. One, putting those events in context, but also troubling the idea of them as arge points. Last week, we discussed brown versus board of education. We discussed the decision, response, the impact, but also the legacy. And i want to talk more about the legacy as we go forward. But we are to the going do that today. Then on tuesday, we spent time talking about the emmett till case, right . And the lynching of emmett till in august of 19 a 5. We used a mix of primary and secondary sources to
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