Civil rights.

  • Democracy Now! June 12, 2003

    Hour 1:Road Map to Peace or Road Map to War? Just one week after President Bush met with the Israeli and Palestinian Prime ministers, 25 Israelis and Palestinians were killed in suicide bombings and Israeli military attacks in one of the bloodiest days in the region in years; Pentagon Advisor Richard Perle on North Korea:…

  • Democracy Now! June 12, 2003

    Myrlie Evers-Williams on the Murder of Her Husband Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers Who Died 40 Years Ago Today It was 40 years ago today that a gunshot in the night took the life of Medgar Evers, the Civil Rights leader. His assassination concluded a seminal day in the Civil Rights movement; Should corporate criminals…

  • Democracy Now! May 29, 2003

    Hour 1: No more Clear Channel! Stop the FCC Media Giveaway – Despite a national call for a delay, the FCC is poised to vote on media consolidation rules on June 2nd. Clear Channel has become the symbol of media consolidation, growing from a small-time operator of 40 stations to the nation’s largest radio station…

  • Democracy Now! May 29, 2003

    Part I of Democracy Now! s Special: Legendary Civil Rights Singers, Sweet Honey in the Rock. In the civil rights movement, in jails, in rallies, the sound was a way of announcing a community and anybody who walked toward you, including the police, would be walking into your sound, and they would get to you…

  • Democracy Now! May 30, 2003

    Exclusive: Democracy Now! Broadcasts for the First Time a Recording of a Police Sergeant Interrogating a Man Moments After Police Shoot him 5 Times, Paralyzing and Blinding Him. Farmworker Oliverio Martinez wails for help, says he is choking and dying, and pleads with the sergeant to stop. This week, the Supreme Court ruled that his…

  • Democracy Now! May 30, 2003

    Sweet Honey in the Rock: Part II with the Legendary Civil Rights Singers. I think that it is very important to understand that there is an American history of terrorizing its own citizens that s held in the legacy of African Americans. Families wonder how they can get their young boys to the age of…

  • Democracy Now! May 19, 2003

    Hour 1: The U.S. faces wave of media mergers and unprecedented consolidation if FCC relaxes media ownership rules; Dissident FCC Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein speaks out against media ownership deregulation; Indonesian military launches a massive attack on separatist movement in Aceh. Hour 2: Harlem Woman Dies After Botched Police Drug Raid; The Ballot or the…

  • Democracy Now! May 19, 2003

    Harlem Woman Dies After Botched Police Drug Raid; The Ballot or the Bullet. It s Liberty or Death. It s Freedom for Everybody or Freedom for Nobody : Malcolm X would have been 78 years old today. |9:00-9:01 Billboard 9:01-9:06 Headlines 9:06-9:07 One Minute Music Break 9:07-9:20: Alberta Spruill, 57, became the fifth New Yorker…

  • Democracy Now! April 18, 2003

    Hour 1: An icon of civilian suffering: Dr. April Hurley, recently back from Baghdad, speaks about Ali Ismaeel Abbas, the badly-burned child amputee wounded in a missile strike on his house; Christian missionary groups head to Iraq to combine aid with evangelization: A debate between the Southern Baptist Convention, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and…

  • Democracy Now! April 18, 2003

    Bechtel Group wins first major Iraq reconstruction contract: This comes 20 years after Donald Rumsfeld met with Saddam Hussein seeking approval of a Bechtel-owned pipeline to run from Iraq to Jordan; The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color-line : On the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Souls of…