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Democracy Now! host and author of Standing Up to the Madness, Amy Goodman, explains how the Patriot Act has impacted Americans' civil liberties. WSJ bureau chief and author of Slavery by Another Name, Douglas Blackmon, defines what he calls the "re-enslavement" of African Americans and tells how it occurred.
Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman
Author of "Standing up to the Madness," explains how the Patriot Act has impacted Americans' civil liberties. (3:24)
Journalist Amy Goodman is host/exec producer of the daily international TV/radio news program Democracy Now!, which airs on more than 800 stations and on democracynow.org. She's received acclaim for exposés of human rights violations in East Timor and Nigeria and won many of journalism's most prestigious awards. Goodman began her broadcasting career as a volunteer at NY's Pacifica station WBAI, ultimately becoming its news director. Co-author of three New York Times best sellers, her new book is Breaking the Sound Barrier.
Douglas A. Blackmon
Douglas A. Blackmon
Douglas A. Blackmon has written about race, the economy and American society and been nominated multiple times for the Pulitzer Prize. Now Atlanta bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, he was previously an Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter and managing editor of a Little Rock, AR paper. Blackmon wrote his first newspaper story at age 12, in his Mississippi hometown, and has penned his first book, Slavery by Another Name, revealing a form of U.S. neoslavery that thrived after legal abolition.