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Congressman Bobby Rush Introduces Legislation to Disclose COINTELPRO Records The bill would also eradicate J. Edgar Hoover's name from FBI headquarters. Hoover was head of the FBI when its counterintelligence program was involved in Fred Hampton's assassination. Congressman Bobby Rush | Photo by Ralf-Finn Hestoft/Corbis via Getty Images Congressman Bobby Rush introduced legislation yesterday that would disclose records from the Counterintelligence Program, known as COINTELPRO. The bill would establish both a COINTELPRO Records Collection and a Review Board and eradicate J. Edga...

Legislation from Rep. Bobby L. Rush seeks to force public answers about Hampton’s killing by Chicago police and the bureau’s surveillance of U.S. citizens decades ago.

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Final Call News This year the Nation of Islam celebrated its annual Saviours’ Day Convention. It was the Nation’s first virtual convention. One of the major sessions at each annual convention is the International Workshop. According to the workshop’s facilitator, NOI International Representative Abdul Akbar Muhammad, the yearly workshop is designed to highlight the work of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and Nation of Islam “not only in America but outside of America as well.” Min. Akbar Muhammad has visited over 140 countries, spent 10 years living and working in Ghana and h...

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Today, we will spend the rest of the hour unraveling one of the great mysteries of the Vietnam War era. On March 8th, 1971, a group of eight activists, including a cab driver, a daycare director and two professors, broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole every document they found. The activists, calling themselves the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, soon began leaking shocking details about FBI abuses to the media. Among the documents was one that bore the mysterious word ”COINTEL...