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Extended interview with Rev. James Lawson and historian Michael Honey.

Israeli forces open fire on Palestinian protesters in Gaza on the anniversary of Land Day and kill at least 18 people, including children; we look at lessons from the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike 50 years after MLK's assassination in Tennessee.

This is Part 2 of our conversation about Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s role in the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, 50 years after his assassination. We go to Memphis to speak with William “Bill” Lucy, former secretary-treasurer with AFSCME, and H.B. Crockett, one of the striking sanitation workers in 1968. Crockett worked for the Memphis Sanitation Department for 53 years before retiring. Bill Lucy played a key role in the 1968 Memphis strike and is president emeritus of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists.

Headlines for March 30, 2018; David Shulkin's Firing at the VA Is Latest Step in Trump-Koch Push to Privatize Veterans' Healthcare; Meet the Doctor Suing Trump: Dr. Eugene Gu on Gun Violence, Privatization of VA & White Supremacy; Remembering Stephen Hawking, Groundbreaking Physicist and Advocate for Climate, Palestine & Peace

North and South Korea will meet, but John Bolton could derail denuclearization progress; a Guatemalan mother takes sanctuary in a church where the minister vows to face arrest if she is deported; protests continue over the police killing of Stephon Clark.

States threaten to sue Trump administration over addition of citizenship question to 2020 census; Louisiana refuses to bring charges against officers who killed Alton Sterling; and Democracy Now! airs more of our exclusive interview with Chelsea Manning.

In her first live television interview, freed Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning discusses attacks on trans rights under Trump, the war in Iraq, her time in prison and her platform as a U.S. Senate candidate in Maryland.

As more than a million people took to the streets in cities across the world on Saturday for the March for Our Lives, we air highlights of the historic youth-led protests.

15 years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we look at the consequences of the criminal war; Houston day laborers fight wage theft for reconstruction work after Hurricane Harvey; immigrant homeowners after Harvey report receiving little help from FEMA.

Watch an exclusive excerpt from our February interview with Masha Gessen, the award-winning Russian-American journalist and staff writer at The New Yorker, in which she discusses the pending Russian presidential election.

Watch Ohio-based band Mourning [A] BLKstar perform their songs in the New York City studios of Democracy Now! that are dedicated to victims of police brutality, including Tamir Rice and Eric Garner.

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on running again for president even as he may head to jail on corruption charges, the assassination of Rio city councilmember and activist Marielle Franco, and U.S. interference in Latin America.

50 years ago today U.S. soldiers slaughtered more than 500 Vietnamese women, children and old men. We speak to an American peace activist and two Vietnam War veterans who returned to Vietnam to mark the anniversary, and discuss the GI resistance movement.

Extended conversation with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of The Intercept.

Extended interview with author and activist Rebecca Solnit. Her acclaimed essay “Men Explain Things to Me” is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month.