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The NYC-based Afro-Colombian band MAKU Soundsystem performs in the Democracy Now! studio and talks about their music.

Trump insults Baltimore in his latest racist attack; Russian authorities conduct mass arrests of opposition protesters in Moscow; In Colombia, protesters in dozens of cities decry the killing of indigenous, Afro-Colombian and environmental leaders.

The Trump administration is reinstating the federal death penalty; A judge temporarily blocks Trump's plan to bar nearly all migrants from seeking asylum in the U.S.; How China is systematically separating Muslim children from their families.

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens died last week at age 99, almost a decade after retiring from the high court. Stevens was nominated in 1975 by Republican President Gerald Ford, but he came to lead the liberal wing of the court for decades and authored key decisions on cases around presidential powers, national security and campaign financing, among other issues. Stevens said at the end of his tenure on the court that his one regret was a 1976 vote upholding a Texas capital punishment statute that revived the death penalty. Stevens later opposed most death penalty sentences. He retired from the court in 2010 as the second-longest-standing justice. We speak with Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, about Stevens’s life and legacy. “He embodied these virtues of compassion, humility and wisdom, which stands in such an obvious contrast to the narcissism and bullying and lies in the White House,” Azmy says of the late justice.

Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló announces his resignation; Special counsel Robert Mueller testifies before Congress about Russian interference in 2016; Boris Johnson becomes U.K. prime minister and packs his Cabinet with hard-line Brexiteers.

Ash Sarkar, senior editor at Novara Media, talks about the deep opposition to new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló is expected to step down today; Amid global weather extremes, we speak to scientist Michael Mann about how the media can responsibly cover the climate crisis; We look back at the Young Lords of NYC, 50 years later.

Puerto Ricans take to the streets demanding the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló; We speak with journalist Carla Minet, who published the "Ricky Leaks" that sparked the protests, and the musician iLe, whose new song has become the movement's anthem.

Iran seizes a U.K. oil tanker and its crew amid escalating tensions; In Hawaii, indigenous resistance against the construction of a telescope on Mauna Kea grows; EPA won't ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos even though it can cause brain damage in children.

An extended conversation with Patti Goldman of Earthjustice about the Environment Protection Agency’s decision not to ban the powerful pesticide chlorpyrifos.

We speak with a British whistleblower whose attempts to expose lies about the Iraq invasion was called “the most important and courageous leak” in history by acclaimed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. Her name is Katharine Gun.

We continue our look at the award-winning documentary, “For Sama,” a devastating account of war-torn Syria.

Author and historian Ibram X. Kendi responds to Trump's attacks on Ilhan Omar and other congresswomen of color; British whistleblower Katharine Gun recalls how she came across an explosive NSA memo in the lead-up to the Iraq invasion of 2003.

Puerto Ricans take to the streets calling for the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló; The award-winning documentary "For Sama" reveals what daily life has been like for Syrians in the civil war.

We continue our conversation with Abigail Disney, the heiress of the Disney fortune, who is once again speaking out against the company’s unfair labor and wage practices.