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Democracy Now! 2023-05-19 Friday

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Democracy Now!

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4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for May 19, 2023; Malcolm X at 98: Angela Davis on His Enduring Legacy & the “Long Struggle for Liberation”; Ben Crump, Attorney for Malcolm X’s Family: “We Refuse to Let Anybody Exterminate Black History”; “By Any Means Necessary”: Watch Malcolm X’s Speech on Racism & Self-Defense at Audubon Ballroom

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Amy Goodman. Democracy now is funded by you, not by the weapons manufacturers when we cover war or gun violence.

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0:28.0

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0:36.0

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0:53.0

From New York, this is DemocracyNow.

0:56.0

The reason we are witnessing these uproars right now from DeSantis's strategies and flourished to the actions of the college board is that education is inter-really-religious social change.

1:11.0

And this is something Malcolm taught us both through his words and through his actions.

1:19.0

As the teaching of Black History is coming under attack, we spend the hour marking what would have been Malcolm X's 98th birthday.

1:28.0

We'll play a major address at Malcolm's legacy by Professor Angela Davis, given in the ballroom where he was gunned down.

1:36.0

We'll also hear from civil rights attorney Ben Crump, then Malcolm X in his own words.

1:43.0

To bring about the complete independence of people of African descent, here in the Western Hemisphere, and first, here in the United States.

1:54.0

And bring about the freedom of these people by any means necessary.

2:00.0

All that and more coming up.

2:03.0

Welcome to DemocracyNow.org, the war in Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

2:14.0

As the G7 summit gets underway in Hiroshima, Japan, world leaders agreed to new sanctions against Russia over the invasion of Ukraine.

2:23.0

In the head of their first joint meeting today, President Biden and other leaders paid tribute to the victims of the world's first nuclear attack.

2:31.0

The U.S. bombing of Hiroshima, August 6, 1945, laying reats at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and planting a tree.

2:39.0

President Biden did not issue an apology for the attack. A group of anti-nuclear activists rallied on the streets.

2:48.0

Biden is in Hiroshima and he's brought along with him, but in a fire of nuclear missile, I cannot forgive him for this. He needs to apologize to the people in Hiroshima.

2:59.0

At least 140,000 people died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which leveled the city.

3:05.0

Three days later, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb and Nagasaki killing another 74,000 people.

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