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We’re living in a time where blackness almost seems to be a death sentence. It almost seems to mean that your life is somehow lesser than others. The world is constantly telling us to not love our blackness. I want to somehow make it known that to be black is to be OK, that you can love your blackness, that you should be proud of your blackness, that it’s not simply just a death sentence.
Will Adnan Syed, focus of the breakout podcast hit “Serial,” get a new trial in Maryland?
After two unsuccessful attempts to appeal his conviction, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals agreed in February to hear arguments about why Syed should get a new trial, based on the contention he had ineffective counsel. A hearing is set for June 9, though our guest says it could be delayed. For more, watch today’s Democracy Now! interview with Douglas Colbert, Syed’s bail hearing attorney.
Listen to Amy Goodman’s new column about U.S.-Cuba relations, the late Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano and his classic book, “The Open Veins of Latin America.”
The date was Aug. 7, 1930. The place: Marion, Indiana. Three young African-American men were lynched. The horror of the crime was captured by a local photographer. The image of two hanging, bloodied bodies is among the most iconic in the grim archive of documented lynchings in America. Indiana certainly doesn’t want to be remembered for this terrible crime, or for being a bastion of hatred. So why did Indiana Gov. Mike Pence legalize a new wave of intolerance by signing into law Indiana’s controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act?
“The future of Europe is in flux, as popular movements in Greece and Spain gain power and challenge traditional economic and political systems. The global economic crisis created enormous suffering for billions around the world. But it also created an opening, allowing people to reassess the rules under which they live and work, to challenge those in power, and to demonstrate that another world is possible.”
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The Cold War is over. Cuba’s government is communist, but so are the governments of China and Vietnam, both of which have deep ties to the U.S. The 11 million people of Cuba, as well as all of us here, deserve an open connection as neighbors, based on equality, grounded in peace.
Amy Goodman in her latest column, “Obama and the Beginning of the End of the Cuban Embargo.”
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