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As protests continue in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, over the police killing of Andrew Brown Jr., we speak with Reverend William Barber about the struggle for police accountability in the United States; The University of Pennsylvania and Princeton are under fire for being in possession of human remains of people killed in the 1985 MOVE bombing, which the universities had for years without permission or knowledge of the families. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

New protests erupt in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as the police officer who shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back last August returns to work; State Republican lawmakers across the U.S. push bills to criminalize protests, including measures that give immunity for those who hit protesters with their vehicles; President Biden makes history by recognizing the mass killing of Armenians in 1915 as a genocide. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

As President Biden hosts a virtual global climate summit and pledges to cut U.S. emissions in half by 2030, environmental groups say global leaders are not being ambitious enough. We look at Biden's response to the climate crisis, the link between climate change and migration in Central America, and the state of climate emergency in sub-Saharan African countries. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

India is in a public health crisis as COVID-19 cases surge and hospitals run out of oxygen; A doctor at Baylor University is working with an Indian company to develop a low-cost COVID-19 vaccine; On Earth Day, we look at "The Red Deal," an Indigenous plan to save the planet. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

On Earth Day, we host an extended conversation with two of the two dozen Indigenous scholars behind the new book, “The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth.”

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty on three charges for murdering George Floyd, making him the first white Minnesota police officer ever to be convicted of killing a Black man. We hear reactions to the verdict from Minneapolis residents and George Floyd's family and speak with organizer Kandace Montgomery and professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Jury deliberations begin in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for killing George Floyd; The Sikh community is in mourning after a gunman attacked a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, killing eight people, including four Sikhs; How the Indianapolis shooter got past Indiana's "red flag" law to buy his guns, despite police seizing a shotgun from him last year. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Thousands protest in Chicago over the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, who was shot dead with his hands in the air; A lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps is suing two Virginia police officers who pepper-sprayed him, pushed him to the ground and pointed their guns at him during a traffic stop at a gas station; A New York court has vindicated an African American Buffalo police officer who was punched in the face and then fired and stripped of her pension for stopping a white cop from choking a handcuffed man during an arrest in 2006. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Newly released police bodycam footage shows 13-year-old Adam Toledo had his hands in the air when a Chicago police officer shot him dead last month; Why the family of Anton Black, a Maryland teenager killed by police, is suing the state's former medical examiner, who just testified for the defense in Derek Chauvin's trial; We look at President Biden's decision to issue sweeping sanctions against Russia and to expel 10 diplomats. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

President Joe Biden announces that he plans to withdraw U.S troops from Afghanistan by September 11, ending the longest war in U.S. history; Rep. Ro Khanna on U.S. policy in Afghanistan, Iran, Yemen and more; The CDC temporarily pauses use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine over concerns about rare blood clots. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

President Biden vows to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks; A new Frontline documentary looks at the rise of right-wing extremism across the U.S. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Protests continue in the Minneapolis area after a police officer shot and killed Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop; The trial of former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin is taking place approximately 10 miles from where Daunte Wright was killed; We look at the right-wing smear campaign against Kristen Clarke, Biden's pick to become the first Black woman to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, says the union is filing a complaint against Amazon for unfair labor practices after workers at an Alabama warehouse voted against forming a union; Labor scholar Jane McAlevey on what went wrong in Alabama and the future of organized labor in the U.S.; We remember former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Standing Rock Sioux historian LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, who both died this weekend. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

As the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 tops 560,000 and Brazil records over 4,200 deaths in a single day, we look at how Cuba has successfully fought the pandemic despite the U.S. embargo and is on track to release two new COVID-19 vaccines; How the pandemic has exacerbated inequality across the hemisphere; President Biden announces new executive actions to curb gun violence. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The U.S. and Iran prepare for more indirect talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal after President Trump withdrew from the agreement three years ago; We speak to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams about the Biden administration leaving in place a Trump-era policy to allow military commanders to use landmines across the globe; ACLU policy analyst Jay Stanley on the growing controversy over "vaccine passports." Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe