khalil: it reminds me of the rollcall of lynching victims.o publish it every year, and the primary goal was to acknowledge and provide data for the evidence of the unjustness of the lives taken by vigilantes and state actors, year after year, decade after decade. here we are again, 100 years after the lynching era began and we are faced with the same crisis because we have not dealt with the underlying issues. amy: that connection that you see -- brian stevens just did a big report on lynching in america -- what are the connections that you see? we talking about policing the united states. khalil: most of the lynching era turned on both of personal responsibility of the individual that was lynched, the alleged criminality, and in some cases, their actual criminality. in every instance, the mob was kind of, an unfortunate response, a set of individual actors who took the law into their own hands. the system was never on trial in the way that it should have been except for african-americans who led anti-lynching campaigns. in 1934, for example,

khalil, this officer lied, not got it wronged, not got confused, lied.league, heather thompson wrote in "time" recently in a quote. she said coverup is the first line of defense, and the interesting thing about this is we know after report after report decade after derk cade going back nearly a century, we have a chicago report from 1922, the kerner commission report from 1968 the mullen commission report from 1994 now the ferguson report philadelphia report, so on and so forth. in every instance when we shine a laser on the problem, we see time and time again that police officers will cover up. there is a blue wall of silence and dishonesty. it is not universal, but it is baked into the system to the point where we have to find new ways of getting the official record. >> and this dishonesty neera, this is such an important crumbling point. in the doj ferguson report untruthfulness, they say many departments are finding untruthfulness pursuant to internal investigation that results in the officer's termination. the officer's credibility on reports and in

we'll speak to asad abu khalil who openly questioned nbcl's -- nbc's claim back in 2012. then to the house the herman built. >> what you see before you is a model built to scale of herman wallace is cell. he spent years in solitary confinement for a crime he could not have possibly committed in louisiana. 27 of those years were spent in the cell. amy: we will speak to artist jackie summell about "herman's house," her collaboration with former prisoner and black panther, herman wallace. and we will get an update on the case of glenn ford freed from death row after 30 years. he is now dying of cancer in hospice care. while exonerated, he has not been compensated. but first, in an act of mass civil disobedience, tens of thousands of new york parents rebelled this week against years of standardized testing from the politicians in albany. we will speak to a parent and school superintendent. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. republican and democratic lawmakers have reached a deal to give preside

khalil is a real life bat man and studies them. >> they eat bugs, eat nectar, eat pollen. >> i never worried about being attacked by a bat but entering this cave was daunting. i keep telling myself that it's all for science. >> the bat cave is absolutely amazing. i'm drenched and covered in mud but there are probably about 50 to 100 bats. >> it's a little muddy in there but we saw some good stuff. >> the stream down there, we can clean up a bit. >> yeah. >> back in the rain forest, a critical part to understanding its condition is knowing what's living in there. take a close look at this butterfly, for example. at night you can find butterflies sleeping so i'm going to wake it up a little bit so i can show you guys. to us, it looks like an owl but to a predator, when you see it on the side, it actually looks something more like an lizard or a snake's head. you can tell looking at these parts in here that it's a male and they smell really distinctly, kind of like burnt ketchup which is really word. >> it's time to hit the books to found. bones. >> oh, yes. green bones. >> yep, there i

we are not talking about the protection of khalil mohammed. we are talking about here is a brother who like james baldwin said i want to be an honest man. i want to be a decent man did i want to be a person of integrity. your wife, your kids and your great grandfather all of them looking and saying we see a brother with integrity and that's what martin has in mind. we can't keep integrity honesty and decency alive and allowed chicanery or mendacity hiding and concealing then we end up the best that kind of culture produces and this is the age of obama. it's sentimental folks giving good speeches but no fundamental commitment to action. sentimental crocodile tears sentimental orientation. what are you doing now and the white poor too. vis-À-vis wall street, these of the the military industrial complex. nuclear catastrophe, the imperial catastrophe militarism drones or israeli-palestinian struggle. the same is true in terms of the economic catastrophe. in the last six years the top 1% of the population has 97% of the income growth. we can't say

not talking about the perfection of brother khalil. here's a brother who like james baldwin said i want to be an honest man to you know the last line i want to be an honest man and a writer. i want to be a decent man but i want to be person of integrity. your wife, your kids your great-grandfather all of them looking on you and saying, we see a brother who has five integrity. that's also what martin has in mind. if we can keep integrity and honesty and decency alive and allow the level of money chicanery, or mendacity ally in hiding and concealing, then we end up the best of that kind of culture to be and this is in the age of obama. it's sentimental folks giving good speeches but no fundamental commitment to action to so you get sentimental crocodile tears, sentimental orientation everybody nostalgic about the past. what you are doing now about the white poor too. vis-À-vis wall street, these are the military-industrial complex those catastrophes were talking a. ecological catastrophe, nuclear catastrophe, imperial catastrophe, milita

cornel west speaks with khalil mohammed, director of the schomburg center for research in black culture. >> host: dr. west, it is a real delight to have you on this show. i am grateful myself for being invited to have an occasion to interview you about this new edited volume on dr. king "the radical king" martin luther

with me is khalil ali 25-year-old gentleman from the east side of baltimore, formerly from the west side. and reginald george standing with me who was shot by police back in 2008. you all have been up to the scene at mondawmin mall where it started this afternoon which is very close to us. ali, could you describe what you saw up there? you told me you witnessed rubber bullets being used in response to rock throwing and other things. >> yes that's correct. it's mayhem up there. you have some officers who don't have clear heads. you have some young people who are out here who don't have clear heads. people are angry. people are tired. and it's time that they stand up. but we're asking that the children stay in the house and let the adults handle this. we want the children with us, but if you're not going to be with us peacefully, we don't want you to get hurt. that's why we're out here. we're out here so the kids don't get hurt. >> you're a 25-year-old young man that was organizing on saturday fliers, facebook. is that how this is coming together? is that how the word gets out? >> the word

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