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  • Randall Robinson On Reparations for Slavery

    In a new book entitled

    ??The Debt, TransAfrica founder and president Randall Robinson argues that America still owes an enormous debt to Africans and African Americans for the incalculable damage that...

    February 08, 2000 | Story
  • From Iowa to New Hampshire: A Look at the Democrats

    With Monday’s Iowa caucuses over with, candidates are now focusing on the nation’s first presidential primaries, which will take place in New Hampshire next week. [includes rush transcript]

    January 26, 2000 | Story
  • The Debt: Randall Robinson Talks About What America Owes to Blacks

    Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and as people across the United States commemorate the life of the great civil rights leader, many here still languish in poverty and remain disenfranchised as...

    January 17, 2000 | Story
  • Haitians Seek Immigration Equality

    Attorney General Janet Reno said yesterday that politics should be kept out of the emotional case of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez, a Cuban shipwreck survivor who was found clinging to an inner tube...

    January 14, 2000 | Story
  • US Journalist Allan Nairn Freed

    After the Indonesian regime released him several weeks ago, pro-independence leader Xanana Gusmao sought refuge in Indonesia. Authorities have "sequestered" him since his arrival in Darwin...

    September 20, 1999 | Story
  • East Timor: Journalist Allan Nairn Faces Ten Years Imprisonment by the Indonesian Military

    Today we continue to follow the developments in the case of journalist Allan Nairn. Three days ago, he was detained by Indonesian soldiers as he walked past a military checkpoint in Dili, East Timor....

    September 16, 1999 | Story
  • East Timor

    East Timorese resistance leader Jose Ramos-Horta said after meeting US President Bill Clinton in Auckland, New Zealand today that he hoped emergency relief airdrops would begin within twenty-four hours...

    September 13, 1999 | Story
  • Democracy Now! Exclusive: How the United States Has Supported the Militias in East Timor

    Today, we bring listeners an exclusive story on the links between the Indonesian military, the militias that are conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing in East Timor and the United States government....

    September 08, 1999 | Story
  • Indonesia-Backed Militias Rampage through the Capital of East Timor

    Militias armed and backed by the Indonesian military are rampaging today through the capital of East Timor, just two days after the Timorese voted on a historic referendum on self-determination sponsored...

    September 01, 1999 | Story
  • Marcus Garvey, Jr Speaks On the 112th Anniversary of the Birth of His Father

    Today is the 112th anniversary of the birth of Marcus Garvey, the founding father of the black nationalist, "back to Africa" movement. Garvey founded and led the Universal Negro Improvement...

    August 17, 1999 | Story
  • Stonewalk Memorial for Unknown Civilians Killed in War

    A group of peace activists, including two Vietnam veterans who tried to stop the 1968 My Lai massacre, will ask Congress this week to honor of millions of civilians of civilians killed by war in the...

    August 05, 1999 | Story
  • The Story of the Hurricanes

    The United States announced aid totaling $47 million to Haiti and the Dominican Republic to help them recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Georges last week.

    October 02, 1998 | Story
  • What Clinton Should Really Be Impeached for — a Look at Policy

    Our next guest has battled both Kenneth Starr and President Clinton in court on the issue of Haiti. And he says that there is a list of political crimes for which Clinton should be impeached.

    September 15, 1998 | Story
  • Peace Brigades International

    This weekend host Amy Goodman went to the community of Harvard, Massachusetts, 30 miles outside Boston where I spoke to a gathering of Peace Brigades International. The group began about 15 years ago,...

    May 04, 1998 | Story
  • Conversation with Former Haitian President Aristide

    Ever since more than 20,000 US troops swept into Haiti in September 1994, removing Haiti’s military dictatorship and restoring priest turned president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the question of...

    March 04, 1998 | Story
  • Police Misconduct and Human Rights

    Over the summer, Democracy Now! broke a story exposing the whereabouts of a death squad leader accused of committing crimes against humanity. Emmanuel Constant, the head of the Haitian death squad...

    November 17, 1997 | Story
  • In the Time of the Butterflies

    They were four sisters and they dared to speak out against the RafaelLeonidas Trujillodictatorship in the Dominican Republic. Three of the Mirabal sisters paidthe ultimate price, cruelly murdered by...

    September 09, 1997 | Story
  • NEW YORK TORTURE

    The crisis in the New York police department sparked by the allegations of a brutal torture of a Haitian immigrant deepened yesterday. The two top officers of the station house at the center of the...

    August 15, 1997 | Story
  • PENTAGON CHIEF

    At the White House yesterday, President Clinton and Defense Secretary William Cohen formally nominated Army General Hugh Shelton for the post of chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He replaces outgoing...

    July 18, 1997 | Story
  • HAITI

    The US Ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, is expected to fly to Port Au Prince, Haiti today, amid rising protests against World Bank and IMF imposed austerity measures and the continued...

    July 14, 1997 | Story