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A nine-year-old girl’s testimony at a City Council meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, about police brutality has gone viral, as protests continue over the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott.

Headlines for September 28, 2016; Alabama Guards Stage Work Strike Months After Prisoner Uprising at Overcrowded Holman Facility; Hunger Strikes, Marches & Work Stoppages: Unprecedented National Prison Strike Enters Third Week; "I Called You to Help Me, But You Killed My Brother": Police Shoot Dead Unarmed African-American Man; What Drives Trump Supporters?: Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild on Anger & Mourning of the Right

Headlines for September 27, 2016; Outside First Presidential Debate, 24 Arrested at Protests & Jill Stein Escorted Away by Police; Expanding the Debate: Jill Stein "Debates" Clinton & Trump in Democracy Now! Special - Part 1; Expanding the Debate: Jill Stein Spars with Clinton & Trump in Democracy Now! Special - Part 2

Headlines for September 26, 2016; Keith Lamont Scott's Wife is Latest Black Woman Forced to Film State Violence Against a Partner; Activism Works: Charlotte Police Release Dashboard & Body Camera Video in Keith Lamont Scott Killing; Marc Lamont Hill Responds to Trump: "We Can't Arrest Our Way Out of a Problem of State Violence"; Exclusive: Freed Gitmo Prisoner Jihad Abu Wa'el Dhiab Speaks as Pres. Candidates to Debate Terrorism; Lawyer for Gitmo Prisoners Released to Uruguay: They Haven't Seen Their Families in 15 Years

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Headlines for September 23, 2016; Moral Mondays Leader Rev. Barber: Release Video of Keith Scott Shooting, It Belongs to the Public; Protests over Tulsa & Charlotte Police Killings Stem from Economic Policies That Perpetuate Racism; Sen. Warren Calls for Wells Fargo CEO to Resign & Face Investigation Amid Growing Scandal

Headlines for September 22, 2016; State of Emergency: Charlotte NAACP & Protesters Demand Police Release Video of Keith Scott Shooting; Protests Call for Arrest of Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby for Fatal Shooting of Terence Crutcher; Tulsa Still Faces Historical Trauma from 1921 Riot That Left 300 Dead on Black Wall Street; Rashad Robinson: Let's Implement Stop-and-Frisk on White Billionaires Like Trump; Connecticut State Troopers Unwittingly Film Themselves Fabricating Charges Against Protester

Standing Rock Sioux tribal historian LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, a co-founder of the Sacred Stone Camp that launched on her land on April 1 to resist the Dakota Access pipeline, gives an update on construction and organizing at the site.

We go to Uruguay for an exclusive interview with former Guantánamo prisoner Jihad Abu Wa’el Dhiab as he continues a hunger strike demanding he be allowed to leave the country in order to reunite with his family, and we speak with attorney Ramzi Kassem, professor of law at the City University of New York School of Law, who helped win Dhiab’s release and represented many others at the prison.

Headlines for September 21, 2016; Protests Erupt over Police Killings of Terence Crutcher & Keith Lamont Scott in Tulsa & Charlotte; U.N. Summit for Refugees & Migrants Creates New Urgency for Global Crisis of 65 Million Displaced; Holocaust Survivor: Trump Jr.'s Skittles Comment Brings Back Dark Images of Children Murdered in WWII; Did Obama Host a Summit on Migrants While Ignoring a Refugee Crisis in the U.S.'s Own Backyard?

Headlines for September 20, 2016; U.S. Muslims Fear Hate Crimes & Overreaction by Law Enforcement in Wake of Chelsea Bombing; Could Cellphone Alerts Used to Search for New York Bombing Suspect Open Door for Attacks on Muslims?; Large Somali-American Community in St. Cloud Concerned About Backlash After Knife Attack; Professor Calls for Fighting Systemic Ignorance That Leads to Islamophobia in the Classroom; Calls to Treat Terror Suspects as "Enemy Combatants" Push U.S. Toward Totalitarianism

Headlines for September 19, 2016; Two-Party Tyranny: Ralph Nader on Exclusion of Third-Party Candidates from First Presidential Debate; A Debate on Empire: Is Donald Trump One Terrorist Attack Away from the Presidency?; Ralph Nader: Bernie Sanders' Opposition to Third Parties is Why His Movement is in Disarray; Nader: Trump is a Freeloading, Pontificating Empty Suit Who Has Cheated on Everything He's Done; Ralph Nader: Calling a Third-Party Candidate a "Spoiler" is a "Politically Bigoted Word"; 50 Years After Vehicle Safety Victory, Ralph Nader Talks "Silent Violence" by Corporations

Headlines for September 16, 2016; Exclusive Video: Ex-Gitmo Prisoner Dhiab Awakes from Coma in Uruguay; "Because Scott Walker Asked": Leaked Docs Suggest Wisconsin Gov Illegally Raised Corporate Donations; Will SCOTUS Let Investigation Continue into Alleged Illegal Fundraising by Republican Scott Walker?; Hit Man Recalls Violent Past of Philippine President as Wave of Killings Raises Human Rights Concerns; StoryCorps Launches #WhoWeAre Oral History Campaign to Feature Stories of Hope & Compassion

Headlines for September 15, 2016; Debate: Should Obama Pardon NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden?; What Would Happen to NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden If He Is Tried Under the Espionage Act?; U.S. Foreign Policy for Sale? Behind the Trump Organization’s Vast Financial Network

Headlines for September 14, 2016; Oliver Stone & Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Making New Film "Snowden," Humanizing World's Most Wanted Man; "Pardon Snowden" Campaign Launches, Led by ACLU, Amnesty & Human Rights Watch; Obama's War on Whistleblowers Forced Edward Snowden to Release Documents, Says WikiLeaks Editor; Is Hillary Clinton's Criticism of Edward Snowden a Distraction from Real Issue of Surveillance?