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In Ethiopia, Obama Hails Democracy Despite Recent Election Where Ruling Party Won 100% of Seats; 438 Days Imprisoned in Ethiopia: Journalist Recounts Facing Arrest, Mock Execution & Terror Charges; Clinton & the Coup: Amid Protests in Honduras, Ex-President on Hillary’s Role in His 2009 Ouster.
Sandra Bland Laid to Rest; First Black Judge in Waller County Demands Sheriff Resign over Her Death; StoryCorps Remembers Horrific “Traffic Stop” and Police Beating That Nearly Killed Alex Landau; “Collective Healing” at Nat’l Black Lives Matter Convergence Ends with Police Pepper-Spraying Teen; Obama Visits Ethiopia and Kenya, Land of His Father, to Discuss Counterterrorism, … Continued
Sandra Bland’s Sister Responds to Suicide Allegations, Lawyer Says Waller County Withholding Details; “I Don’t Believe Sandy Committed Suicide”: #BlackLivesMatter Co-Founders Speak Out on Sandra Bland.
#SayHerName: Protests Demand Justice for Sandra Bland & Black Teen Found Dead in Jail 1 Day Later; Theodore Bikel Remembered: Fiddler on the Roof Actor and Activist Speaks Out on Israel and Palestine.
“I Will Light You Up!”: New Dash Cam Video Shows Arrest of Sandra Bland, Found Dead in Texas Jail; Juan González: Ride-Sharing Service Uber “Using Any Means Necessary” to Stop Regulation Attempts; “Between the World and Me”: Ta-Nehisi Coates Extended Interview on Being Black in America.
A Victory for the People in Havana: Former Cuban Parliamentary Speaker Hails Restoration of Ties; Secret Talks & Sperm Deals: Sen. Patrick Leahy Details Back Story to Renewed U.S.-Cuban Ties; Is the Era of U.S.-Backed Anti-Castro Terrorism Over? Reflections on Restored Ties Between Nations; “Africa’s Pinochet”: Former U.S.-Backed Chadian Dictator Hissène Habré Faces War Crimes … Continued
Special Broadcast from Opening of Cuban Embassy in Washington as U.S.-Cuban Diplomatic Ties Restored; Danny Glover and Medea Benjamin on Assata, Guantánamo and Trade as Cuban Flag Rises in Washington.
The War on Drugs is a War on Minorities: Former El Reno Prison Inmate Freed by Obama Speaks Out;Outrage Grows After Mysterious Death of #BlackLivesMatter Activist Sandra Bland in Texas Jail;Newly Released Dash Cam Video Shows California Police Shooting Unarmed Man with Hands Up;Mass Shootings on the Rise: 4 Marines Killed in Tennessee While Aurora … Continued
Former Iran Ambassador: Nuclear Deal is Model for Closing Path to Militarization and Weaponization;Mass Graves of Immigrants Found in Texas, But State Says No Laws Were Broken;Protests Erupt Outside of Greek Parliament as It Approves Harsh Austerity Measures in Bailout Deal
Juan González: Martin O’Malley Puts Forth Broadest Immigration Reform Plan of 2016 Campaign;Strange Bedfellows: Why Are the Koch Brothers & Van Jones Teaming Up to End Mass Incarceration?;PETA: SeaWorld Employee Infiltrated Animal Rights Group, Called for Grabbing “Pitchforks & Torches”
