And physicians we have. Because over 1700 amy nearly 1600 people died tuesday in the United States from covid in the deadliest day of the pandemic in six months, we go to el paso, texas, where authorities have set up 10 words. Then to north dakota, the deadliest state in the world for covid. We will look at how the virus has devastated Indian Country. Black americans and latinas are three times as likely to contract covid than others and more likely to die. Native americans are more than four times as likely to be hospitalized as others. Amy we will speak to members of the Standing Rock sioux tribe in north dakota, the Oneida Nation and a navajo activist in arizona. We will talk about covid and the resident it voter turnout of native americans. Unprecedented voter turnout of native americans. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. Over people died in the united 1700 states tuesday from covid19 in whats been des
And physicians we have. Because over 1700 amy nearly 1600 people died tuesday in the United States from covid in the deadliest day of the pandemic in six months, we go to el paso, texas, where authorities have set up 10 words. Then to north dakota, the deadliest state in the world for covid. We will look at how the virus has devastated Indian Country. Black americans and latinas are three times as likely to contract covid than others and more likely to die. Native americans are more than four times as likely to be hospitalized as others. Amy we will speak to members of the Standing Rock sioux tribe in north dakota, the Oneida Nation and a navajo activist in arizona. We will talk about covid and the resident it voter turnout of native americans. Unprecedented voter turnout of native americans. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. Over people died in the united 1700 states tuesday from covid19 in whats been des
Good evening and thank you all so very much. If you will all sit down. Thank you so much for coming out to night. Its heartening to see so many people here on this important day for our country. Before we get started i just want to mention that this panel will go a little longer than usual because its a very special program as you can see from our guests and because the topic is so important, so we will run longer than usual, but in every other way it will be the same as our other panels. There will be a discussion and opportunity for question if you can make it to the microphone that would be great because this is being filmed on cspan and also live streamed on politics and prose Facebook Page at its helpful if people can hear the question as the question is asked. Lastly, there will not be a signing afterwards, but we do have copies of all of our guests books at the front. They are all very prolific. We dont have all of all of their books, but we have some of all of their books, so p
Good evening. And on this important day, this goes beyond a very special program. As you can see, the topic is important, it will run longer than usual but in every way it is the same as our other panels, there will be an opportunity for questions. If you can make it to a microphone that would be great because it is filled on cspan, and live streamed on our Facebook Page and it is helpful if people can hear the question is the question is asked. Lastly there will not be a signing afterward but we have copies of all our guestss books, they are very prolific, we dont have all of all of their books, but some of all of their books and help yourselves to those as well. We appreciate you being part of this discussion. We can think of no better way to honor the legacy of Martin Luther king junior especially on his National Holiday named for him then having this distinguished group of panelists to educate and lead us in a conversation about race in america. Before we get going lets explain for
Derrick johnson, the interim president and chief executive officer for the National Organization for the advancement of colored people. First of all, i would like you to at least silence your cell phone and other electronic devices, though we do encourage you to follow us on social media. Just because we were born in 1908 does not mean that we are still there. Sclubdc,follow us pres npclive. As you are setting your phones to vibrate, getting your twitter questions ready, i also want all of you to have these lovely whitcards in front of you. Start the time to scribbling those wonderful questions, if you have not already submitted any, so we can keep the conversation going and healthy. You can keep passing them up to the front. You dont have to wait for mr. Johnson to finish his remarks. There are members who will raise their hands and help bring them forward at any time and get them to donna, who will sort through them and get them to me. There is another way you can get questions in, t