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Daily Show for June 19, 2026
14+ hour, 30+ min ago (187+ words) A daily independent global news hour with Amy Goodman & Juan Gonz'lez. Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America; Rhiannon Giddens on Pulitzer-Winning Opera "Omar" About Enslaved Muslim Scholar Omar ibn Said; "Another Wasted…...
Rhiannon Giddens on Pulitzer-Winning Opera "Omar" About Enslaved Muslim Scholar Omar ibn Said
14+ hour, 29+ min ago (619+ words) As part of our Juneteenth special broadcast, we feature our interview with pioneering musical artist Rhiannon Giddens, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her opera Omar, about Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar in Africa who was sold into slavery…...
Another Wasted Life: Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired Her Song
14+ hour, 30+ min ago (438+ words) In the video for "Another Wasted Life," Rhiannon Giddens features 22 people who were wrongly incarcerated. Together, the men collectively served more than 500 years in prison for crimes they did not commit. Rhiannon Giddens made the video in partnership with the…...
Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
14+ hour, 30+ min ago (782+ words) And so, for me, when I think of Juneteenth, part of what I think about is the both/andedness of it, that it is this moment in which we mourn the fact that freedom was kept from hundreds of thousands…...
Photographer Misan Harriman on U. K. Far Right, Neurodivergence & Speaking Out Against Injustice
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (879+ words) AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! , democracynow. org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. There's a new documentary about Misan Harriman, about the importance of protest and taking a political stand as an artist. Directed…...
Haitian Immigrants Call on Supreme Court to Toss Case Seeking to End Protected Status
23+ hour, 49+ min ago (210+ words) Democracy Now! You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else. Haitian Immigrants Call on Supreme Court to Toss Case Seeking to End Protected Status Lawyers for Haitian immigrants are petitioning the U. S. Supreme Court to dismiss the Trump…...
Bill Pulte to Become Acting U. S. Spy Chief After Trump Calls Off Hearing for Nominee Jay Clayton
23+ hour, 54+ min ago (446+ words) President Trump called off a confirmation hearing for his pick to become the next U. S. spy chief on Wednesday, just hours before it was set to begin. The Senate Intelligence Committee had been scheduled to hear testimony from federal prosecutor Jay…...
Advocates Say Jailed Immigrants "Disappeared" After Transfer from "Alligator Alcatraz"
1+ day, 27+ min ago (212+ words) The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that all immigrants detained at an isolated ICE jail in the Florida Everglades, known as "Alligator Alcatraz," have been transferred to other facilities across the U. S. ahead of the approaching hurricane season. DHS did…...
Pure Retaliation: FTC Sues Trans Health Association over Gender-Affirming Care
1+ day, 28+ min ago (141+ words) Democracy Now! In Idaho, a federal judge has temporarily blocked a new state law that threatened transgender people with up to five years in prison for using public restrooms that match their gender identity In related news, the Federal Trade…...
Georgia GOP Rejects Trump's Push to Redraw Legislative Maps Ahead of 2028 Elections
1+ day, 38+ min ago (343+ words) Georgia's state Legislature has rejected a push by President Trump to redraw congressional and legislative districts. Republican Governor Brian Kemp had proposed a special session to revise Georgia's political maps ahead of the 2028 elections. But on Wednesday, Republican lawmakers revolted,…...