Juanita Nelson, a longtime civil rights activist, war tax resister and farmer, has died at the age of 91 in Greenfield, Massachusetts. She was first arrested in the early 1940s protesting lunch counter segregation in Washington, D.C. During World War II, she met her future husband, Wally Nelson, while he was in jail for refusing to fight in the war. In the late 1940s, they worked with CORE, Congress of Racial Equality, and helped organized the first freedom rides in the South. At the same time, they stopped paying taxes for war.

In the wake of the University of Oklahoma expelling two student fraternity members for leading a hateful song, we host a discussion on how academic institutions should address racism on campus. We speak to University of Oklahoma student Rashid Campbell, Tracie Washington of The Louisiana Justice Institute, and Vincent Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights.

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Democracy Now! 2015-03-13 Friday

• Headlines for March 13, 2015
• Should McDonald's & Monsanto Have the Same Rights as People? A Debate on Corporate Personhood
• Data and Goliath: Bruce Schneier on the Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

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Democracy Now! 2015-03-12 Thursday

• Headlines for March 12, 2015
• Ex-U.S. Official: With Iran Letter, "Reckless" GOP Places Middle East Hegemony over Security
• Eyewitness to Ferguson Police Shooting: Gunfire Did Not Come from Area of Nonviolent Protest
• Univ. of Oklahoma Students Mobilize Against Racism as 2 Fraternity Members Expelled for Hate Video

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British journalist Johann Hari recently sat down with Naomi Klein to discuss his new book, "Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs." They spoke at Ben McNally Books in Toronto on February 11. Watch our extended interview with Johann Hari on Democracy Now!: Part 1 || Part 2

As the nation prepares to mark the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, we talk to historian Eric Foner about Reconstruction and the birth of a homegrown racist, terrorist movement led by the Ku Klux Klan. Foner wrote one of the definitive books on the era, titled "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877." He won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery." His latest book is "Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad."

Democracy Now! 2015-03-11 Wednesday

• Headlines for March 11, 2015
• New York Hedge Funds Pour Millions of Dollars into Cuomo-Led Bid to Expand Charter Schools
• Is Venezuela Really an "Extraordinary Threat"? U.S. Sanctions Top Officials as Tensions Grow
• Gateway to Freedom: Historian Eric Foner on the Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

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Democracy Now! 2015-03-10 Tuesday

• Headlines for March 10, 2015
• Martin Luther King III: Don't Idolize My Father, Embrace His Ideals of Freedom, Justice and Equality
• Civil Rights Icon C.T. Vivian on Nonviolence & Hypocrisy of U.S. Promoting Democracy Abroad
• Dying for the Right to Vote: Remembering the Selma Martyrs, From Jimmie Lee Jackson to Viola Liuzzo
• "I Am, Because We Are, Because Selma Was": Voices From Historic Bloody Sunday March