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We air excerpts of the third day of the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for killing George Floyd last May in Minneapolis; COVID-19 cases in Brazil continue to rise as the country faces a growing political crisis under the leadership of Jair Bolsonaro. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Resistance to the military coup in Burma continues despite a bloody crackdown; We mark International Trans Day of Visibility with activist Raquel Willis and ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio; How states are excluding people held in prisons and jails from accessing COVID-19 vaccines. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

On the second day of the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, jurors heard chilling testimony from eyewitnesses who watched Chauvin kill George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for over nine months.

We speak with Minneapolis-based civil rights lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong after the first day in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin; Journalist Roberto Lovato on the humanitarian crisis at the border and what's pushing so many people to flee Central America. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Hopes rise that the Suez Canal in Egypt may soon reopen after a 200,000-ton container ship blocking the canal was partially refloated; Historian Robin D.G. Kelley on the historic union drive of Amazon workers and the history of radical Black organizing in Alabama; Opening statements begin in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Georgia passes a sweeping elections bill that civil rights groups describe as the worst voter suppression legislation since the Jim Crow era; Actor and activist Danny Glover on the union fight in Bessemer, Alabama, where workers are trying to establish the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the U.S.; Evanston, Illinois, becomes the first U.S. city to make reparations available to Black residents for past discrimination and the lingering effects of slavery. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

A select few billionaires see massive gains in wealth during the pandemic; The House holds a hearing on "Extremism in the Armed Forces" to look at connections between people who participated in the January 6 insurrection and the military; A massive fire at a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh kills at least 15 people and displaces at least 45,000; We look at the devastating impact of the Saudi-led war in Yemen as the humanitarian crisis enters its seventh year. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, came just a week after a judge blocked a local law banning assault weapons like the one used in the grocery store rampage that killed 10 people; Investigative journalist Frank Smyth on the history of the NRA and the crisis engulfing the leaders of the gun lobbying group; How Australia succeeded in changing its culture of gun violence in the 1990s. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The Biden administration moves to close much of the southern border as it holds 15,000 unaccompanied migrant children; Trump-supporting Mexican conspiracy theorists are fanning the flames at the border; Workers in Alabama are voting on whether to become the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the United States in one of the most closely watched union elections in decades. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen about rising racism and hate crimes against Asian Americans, the deadly shootings in Atlanta where a white gunman attacked three Asian-owned spas, and his new novel "The Committed." Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Georgia Democrat Reverend Raphael Warnock condemns Republican voter suppression efforts as "Jim Crow in new clothes"; Author Heather McGhee discusses her new book, "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together." Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The Asian American community is grieving after a white gunman attacked three spas in the Atlanta area, killing eight people, including six Asian women; The military junta in Burma intensifies its crackdown amid ongoing protests against the coup; The U.S. and the U.K. move to expand their nuclear weapons arsenals in defiance of the international community. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Residents of Jackson, Mississippi, remain under a "boil water" advisory more than a month after winter storms disrupted the city's aging water infrastructure; Deb Haaland is confirmed to lead the Interior Department, becoming the first Native American person in a federal cabinet; The new podcast "Suave" follows David Luis "Suave" Gonzalez's reentry into society after decades in prison, produced by the award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Vijay Prashad on the growing U.S.-China rivalry and the danger of a new cold war; Thousands of migrant children seeking refuge are held in crowded cells at the U.S.-Mexico border; New York state Senator Alessandra Biaggi calls for Andrew Cuomo's resignation or impeachment over mounting scandals. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

How the American Rescue Plan aims to address decades of discrimination against farmers of color; Human rights lawyer Steven Donziger, who successfully sued Chevron for environmental abuses in Ecuador, continues to fight against the oil giant, whose unprecedented legal assault on him has resulted in almost two years of house arrest. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe