Today, America commemorates Juneteenth. On this day in 1865 Union soldiers rode into Galveston, Texas to tell the slaves the Civil War was over and they were free. This year, the day is particularly meaningful, as America protests racial injustice. To reflect on past, present and future, Christiane speaks with distinguished historian Eric Foner and renowned professor and author Carol Anderson.

Malcolm Gladwell has for years reflected on and written about race and policing in America--notably in his most recent book, “Talking to Strangers.” Now, with a new season of his hit podcast “Revisionist History” being released, he joins the show to discuss this moment in race relations.

President Trump says COVID-19 is dying out, but the data directly contradicts his claim. Oklahoma is seeing a record increase in new cases this week and 23 other states show spikes as well. Epidemiologist Dr. Larry Brilliant has been sounding the alarm about pandemics for years. He explains to Walter Isaacson what he learned about combating viruses while working for the WHO in India.

Domestic abuse is so severe in some regions that the United Nations is calling it a “shadow pandemic.” It’s happening everywhere, but Iran and in Mexico stand out as particularly egregious cases. Christiane speaks with reporter Farnaz Fassihi and activist Gabriela Jauregui about this hidden crisis.

John Bolton's forthcoming memoir, “The Room Where It Happens,” recounts his 17 months with an administration he describes as corrupt, ill-informed, and reckless. President Trump calls the book “pure fiction,” while his Justice Department tries to stop its distribution, citing “national security interests.” CNN correspondent Jim Sciutto joins the program to discuss.

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, we have been bombarded with stats and facts about the economic fallout. But what does it all mean? Raj Chetty is trying to make sense of it in his role as economics professor at Harvard and director of the research group Opportunity Insights. The group's new index looks at jobs, income and spending, neighborhood by neighborhood, with some surprising conclusions.

At the 1968 Olympic Games, U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos -- shoeless, in a protest against poverty -- raised the black power salute for freedom. They never ran again. Decades later in the NFL, Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem to protest police killings of unarmed black Americans. He hasn’t played since. LA Times sports columnist LZ Granderson joins to discuss.

In Latin America, there is an alarming number of new COVID cases. Brazil reports a record 35,000 new cases in just 24 hours, even as the government insists the outbreak is under control. Peru has also turned into a hotspot despite early measures to control the virus; there’s an exodus from Lima, of those unable to pay rent or feed themselves. Former Mexican Health Minister Julio Frenk discusses.

White evangelical Christians are a key support group for President Trump. Rev. Robert Schenck is a clergyman from this very group. His rhetoric against abortion clinics helped motivate the 1998 murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian, an OB/GYN in Buffalo, NY. Since then, Rev. Schenck's soul-searching has led him to a new ideology. He discusses the importance of embracing empathy in these times.

President Trump has lashed out at German Chancellor Angela Merkel, pulling nearly 10,000 U.S. troops out of Germany and accusing her of delinquency on military spending. In fact, Germany has raised its share of the NATO budget to more than $50 billion since President Trump took office. Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, responds to the president's decision.

The new documentary "Picture of His Life" follows renowned underwater photographer Amos Nachoum on his ultimate quest: to be the first still photographer to capture images while swimming with the polar bear. He joins the show alongside Yonatan Nir, who co-directed the film with Dani Menkin.

President Trump is retaliating against the International Criminal Court, which is investigating whether U.S. forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan. The Trump administration has announced sanctions against the court officials leading the inquiry. Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji heads up the I.C.C. and is calling America’s attack on the court troubling and disappointing.

Phillip Atiba Goff is a leading scholar on law enforcement and race. He’s a psychologist and CEO of the Center for Policing Equity (CPE), a think tank that collects and analyzes data to better understand police behavior and fight implicit bias. He tells Michel Martin how CPE is working in collaboration with law enforcement and communities to help make policing less deadly and less racist.

Having denied the existence of institutional racism in the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has now announced a commission to investigate racial inequality. To discuss all this, Christiane speaks with Baroness Valerie Amos – she has served as a cabinet minister in the UK government, worked at the United Nations, and will soon be the first ever black master of a college at Oxford University.

Shows like "Cops" are being taken off the air after more than three decades. David Simon created perhaps the most widely praised depiction of American policing in "The Wire," having started as a journalist for The Baltimore Sun many years ago. He’s also written several bestselling books on crime and policing, and joins the show to discuss the role of cops in the American public imagination.

When it comes to racism, most white people have the same visceral reaction: “I’m not a racist.” But Dr. Robin DiAngelo argues that’s not true. Her 2018 book “White Fragility" digs into unconscious bias--and why white people are so defensive when it comes to talking about race. As the book returns to the bestseller list, we are airing an extended cut of her 2018 conversation with Michel Martin.

An aptly timed new BBC drama addresses very recent history: the Windrush scandal, which saw a generation of British subjects from the Caribbean being wrongly detained and even deported. “Sitting in Limbo” dramatizes these events, and stars Patrick Robinson, who joins the program to discuss the film and race relations in Britain.

In 2000, when Richard Parsons became the CEO of Time Warner, he said it was just the beginning of a wave of senior Black CEOs. But in 2020, boardrooms in corporate America are still overwhelmingly white. To discuss what is needed to combat inequality, Christiane speaks with Parsons and Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation.

Michael Eric Dyson is a professor of sociology at Georgetown University who has written extensively about race relations. In 2017 he authored "Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America," which calls on white people to confront uncomfortable truths about racism – as he explains to Hari Sreenivasan.

The viral video of bird watcher Christian Cooper being threatened by a white woman in Central Park showed, as Deval Patrick said, that the woman understood that with one call to police, she could “rain hell down on the life of a Black man.” To discuss what the incident represents and what needs to change, Christiane speaks with Cooper, alongside his sister Melody, who posted the original video.