dr. goodman: mr. sanford. what a surprise! yeah. like pearl harbor. look, dr. goodman, audrey, why don't you go have a little drink and mingle? all right. yeah, doc. come on. let's mingle. uh, i have more mingling to do than anybody else. y'all come on in the kitchen, and let's mingle. uh, go right ahead there. i--i'll be back in a minute. listen, doc. a joke? yeah, a joke. and, see, they think that i only got 6 months to live. ha ha ha! yes, 6 months to live, though. what kind of a joke is that? black people have a funny sense of humor. mr. sanford, i'm black. then get to laughin'. mr. sanford, just exactly what do you want me to do? well, doc, here's what i want you to do. if anybody asks you if i'm healthy, and don't tell 'em how long i got. just tell 'em-- just say i got about 6 months left. well, i don't know. don't you think that's a little heavy to lay on your friends? it's just till tomorrow night. well, uh, all right. but to make this thing really work, you've got to remember that i'm your doctor, and you'll have to do exactly as i say, all right? all r

amy goodman: how did it make you feel? dr.a jumping eagle: it made me feelyou know, it made me think about my ancestors and what had they gone through. and this was in no way a comparison to what weve survived before, so just made me feel more determined about what im doing and why im here. amy goodman: thats dr. sara jumping eagle, a pediatrician, member of the standing rock sioux tribe. she was charged with disorderly conduct. ladonna brave bull allard, who founded the first resistance camp, the sacred stone camp, on her own land april 1st, says her daughter was recently arrested, taken into custody at the morton county jail, strip-searched in front of multiple male officers, then left for hours in her cell, naked and freezing, before the guards finally gave her clothes to wear. ladonna allard says her daughter was repeatedly asked by guards, "who is your mother? " which allard sees as an indication that her daughter was targeted because of who she is. cody hall from cheyenne river reservation in south dakota says he was als

i built a railroad, now it is done amy goodman: and tom waits. ♪ judy collins, and dr. m new orleans, peter yarrow, -- .> they called meow -- al amy goodman: that's al jolson, and our beloved odetta. ♪ dime?an you spare a ♪ dime? ♪spare a ♪ amy goodman: "brother, can you spare a dime?" may well be a new anthem for many americans. the lyrics to that classic american song were written by yip harburg. he was blacklisted during the mccarthy era. during his career as a lyricist, yip harburg used his words to express anti-racist, pro-worker messages. he's best known for writing the lyrics to the wizard of oz, but he also had two hits on broadway: bloomer girls, about the women's suffrage movement, and finian's rainbow, a kind of immigrants' anthem about race and class and so much else. today, in this democracy now! special, we pay tribute to yip harburg's life. ernie harburg is yip's son and biographer. he co-wrote the book who put the rainbow in the wizard of oz?: yip harburg, lyricist. i met up with ernie harburg at the new york public library for performing arts at lincoln