Coverage of the National Democratic Party Convention from Denver, Colorado.

Host Cecil Prescod interviews Kevin Alexander Gray, a writer and activist living in South Carolina. He managed the 1988 presidential campaign of the Rev. Jesse Jackson in the state. His forthcoming books are “Waiting for Lightning to Strike: The Fundamentals of Black Politics” and “The Decline of Black Politics: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama.”

Cuba: Interview, film review and commentary.

Bill Resnick will interview Cuba expert Sam Farber. They will discuss Cuba in transition and the possibilities for development, self-determination and Socialist democracy. Movie Moles will review the 1964 film Soy Cuba! made by Russian film makers interested in telling the story of the Cuban revolution. Soy Cuba! was a breakthrough in filmmaking.
 

Democracy Now! expands to daily two-hour broadcast during the Democratic National Conventions. Hear the second hour of the broadcast as Amy Goodman and the Democracy Now! crew travel to Denver and St. Paul to cover the convention from the streets to the suites to the convention floor.

Democracy Now! expands to daily two-hour broadcasts during the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Hear the second hour of the broadcast as Amy Goodman and the Democracy Now! crew travel to Denver and St. Paul to cover the 2008 conventions from the streets to the suites to the convention floor.

Hour 2 of special Democracy Now coverage of the National Democratic Party Convention from Denver, Colorado.

Judith Mowry and John Canda, of the Restorative Listening Project, share their experiences and insight on healing the harm of gentrification in Portland.  John and Judith also traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend the Race and Reconciliation Conference hosted by Janet Langhart Cohen and  her husband, former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, where they presented on the Restorative Listening project. Hosted by Celeste Carey

Topics include the life and work of the late Mahmoud Darwish, who was considered to be the most important contemporary Arab poet working today. In  the words of poet Naomi Shihab Nye. Mr. Darwish is “the Essential Breath of the Palestinian people, the eloquent witness of exile and belonging, exquisitely tuned singer of images that invoke, link, and shine a brilliant light into the world’s whole heart. What he speaks has been embraced by readers around the world – his in an utterly necessary voice, unforgettable once discovered.” His more than twenty poetry books include The Adam of Two Edens, Mural, Why Have you Left the Horse Alone, and Eleven Planets.