Health scholar Steven Thrasher on why the pandemic is not “over,” as President Biden claimed; As outrage grows over a political stunt by Republican governors to send asylum seekers to Martha’s Vineyard and other liberal cities, we look at the “Reverse Freedom Rides” of 1962, when Southern segregationists bused Black families to Cape Cod and other Northern areas.

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Democracy Now! 2022-09-20 Tuesday

• Headlines for September 20, 2022
• Juan González: Hurricane Fiona Damage Shows Puerto Rico Still Hampered by U.S. Colonial Control
• Is the Pandemic Over? Public Health Advocates Decry Biden's Claim as Thousands Still Dying from COVID
• Reverse Freedom Rides: Flying Migrants North, Florida Gov. Steals Page from Segregationists 60 Years Ago

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