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Protests in Minneapolis and nationwide continue over the police killing of George Floyd; Police violence is on the rise in Latin America, the new pandemic epicenter; Trump signs an executive order to punish social media companies for monitoring content.

Upon the death of trailblazing AIDS activist Larry Kramer, we feature one of his last major speeches, at the 2019 anti-corporate Queer Liberation March.

Protests continue in Minneapolis amid calls to file murder charges against the police officer who killed unarmed Black man, George Floyd; We celebrate the life and legacy of Larry Kramer, the trailblazing writer and AIDS activist who helped start ACT UP.

Ibram X. Kendi on the police killing of unarmed Black man, George Floyd, the viral video of a white woman threatening a Black Central Park birder, and the new COVID Racial Data Tracker; Two die from COVID in ICE custody as calls grow to release detainees.

We continue our interview with an epidemiologist in New Zealand about how the country’s response compares to government actions in the United States and worldwide.

We look at the pandemic's devastating impact on Brazil's Indigenous peoples, who are dying at double the rate of the rest of the country; New Zealand, which implemented one of the earliest lockdowns, has largely succeeded in eliminating the coronavirus.

Special broadcast: We spend the hour with Noam Chomsky as he discusses President Trump's disastrous coronavirus response, his threats against China and the World Health Organization, and much more.

“A volcanic rage is rapidly rising to the surface in this country,” says historian Mike Davis, “and we need to harness it to defend and build unions, ensure Medicare for all, and knock the bastards off their gilded thrones.”

Authorities arrest a third White man for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery; We speak with renowned Indian journalist P. Sainath; As all 50 states partially reopen this weekend, historian Mike Davis says, "Reopening the Economy Will Send Us to Hell."

We get an update from Bangladesh, where a cyclone threatens a camp, home to 1 million Rohingya refugees, and look at COVID-19's threat to refugees across the globe; a new report finds 1 million children face death from the pandemic's secondary impacts.

Reverend William Barber calls for a Mass Poor People's Assembly on June 20; New York City shuts down its subways overnight, removing people who rely on the trains for shelter; a largely immigrant public elementary school fights demolition in New Jersey.

States begin to reopen even as U.S. deaths from the coronavirus top 90,000; The pandemic batters journalism, with at least 36,000 media workers experiencing layoffs, furloughs or pay cuts since the start of the outbreak.

How will the pandemic end, and how will the world look when it's over? We spend the hour with renowned medical historian Frank Snowden, author of the new book "Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present."

Amid the pandemic, calls grow to halt deportations to Guatemala and Haiti; the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that may shape the outcome of future presidential elections; we look at voting by mail and whether democracy can survive the pandemic.