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    Three Americans held captive abroad released this week

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  • #VelshiBannedBookClub: 100yr old Grace Linn quilts to fight bans

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  • Rep. Barbara Lee: The AUMF gives US presidents a “blank check” to wage war

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  • Fmr. SDNY deputy chief: 'No reason to put much stock' in Trump’s arrest claim

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  • Targeting LGBTQ rights: Straight from authoritarian Germany and Russia

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  • Velshi: We are failing the world by failing at gender equality

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  • The reality for Palestinians: 'There is nobody here to protect us'

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  • #VelshiBannedBookClub: Meg Cabot’s ‘Ready or Not’ 

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  • Fmr. FDIC Chair Sheila Bair on the 'rushed failure' of Silicon Valley Bank

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  • Velshi: Walgreens had a decision to make. It took the easy road. 

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  • Rep. Bennie Thompson on J6: We ID’d Trump as the culprit

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  • How anti-trans bills are 'creating political refugees in the United States'

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  • One major drug company just put a cap on its insulin prices. What comes next?

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  • Remembering 'Bloody Sunday' with its youngest participants

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  • Mehdi Hasan talks art of TV debate: ‘You can’t afford to waste time’

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  • Ukrainian journalist Karolina Ashion on reporting in exile

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“When it starts getting dark, I'm outta there.” Velshi Across America tackles race in the South, sundown towns & white guilt

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For this week’s “Velshi Across America,” Ali Velshi traveled to Tougaloo College in Jackson, MS for a wide-ranging discussion with six Mississippians. In the lead-up to the MSNBC premiere of the new documentary “Civil War,” the group discussed how the war has been taught in the South, why whites are resistant to the truth about its origins, and how the remnants of slavery impact Black folks in racist parts of the South to this day. “When it starts getting dark, I'm outta there.”