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Calls are growing for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release people from detention during the pandemic, as two people have died from COVID-19 while in custody. We speak with The Intercept's Ryan Devereaux, who reported on how Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia, held at the Otay Mesa Detention Center, suffered horrifying neglect before he passed away. We are also joined by Erika Andiola with RAICES Action. "None of those folks — especially people who migrated seeking asylum — they did not do anything to deserve a life sentence in a detention center," Andiola notes.

Ibram X. Kendi says early media coverage of COVID-19 as "the great equalizer" missed the racial impact of the disease. But it soon became clear "that it was Latino Americans and African Americans and Native Americans in particular who were disproportionately being infected and dying." The award-winning author and founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University joins us to discuss why he started the COVID Racial Data Tracker.

"I can't breathe" — that's what George Floyd, an unarmed African American man, repeatedly told a white Minneapolis police officer who pinned him to the ground Monday with a knee to his neck. Video of the police attack went viral. Now four officers have been fired. This comes as another video went viral of a white woman calling the cops on a Black man in New York City's Central Park and falsely accusing him of "threatening her life" after he asked her to leash her dog. We discuss these developments and more with Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University and National Book Award–winning author of "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America" and "How to Be an Antiracist."

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FEATURING RICHARD WOLFF – Randall Lane, Business writer for Forbes magazine has just published a lengthy article entitled “Greater Capitalism: How the Pandemic is Permanently Reshaping Our Economic System for the Better.” In it Lane laments the fact that too many Americans worry the economy is rigged to benefit the rich but points out that...

FEATURING DAVID ENRICH – One of the world’s largest and most successful banks, Deutsche Bank, has a history that is as sordid as one can imagine. The same bank that has loaned the Trump Organization billions of dollars has bene implicated in aiding terrorist regimes and defrauding investors. Now, that story is told in a...

Thousands of people gathered in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Tuesday to protest the brutal videotaped killing of a black man named George Floyd by several police officers. Mr. Floyd was seen pleading on the video recording of the last moment of his life, saying he could not breathe while a white police officer who knelt with...