We broadcast from the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, where some 2,000 people are expected to gather to look at how media, technology and democracy intersect. One of the major topics this year is media consolidation. As newspapers struggle to survive, billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch have expressed interest in buying Tribune Company, which includes the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is also weighing a bid for the Los Angeles Times in a market where he already owns two television stations. We’re joined by Craig Aaron, president and CEO of Free Press, the main organizer of the National Conference for Media Reform. [includes rush transcript]

• Connecticut Gov. Signs New Gun-Control Law
• Maryland Lawmakers Approve Gun-Control Bill
• Obama Budget to Endorse Cuts to Social Security, Medicare
• NATO Strike Kills 6 in Afghanistan
• U.N. Suspends Aid to Gaza over Safety Concerns
• Over 400 Fast Food Workers Take Part in NYC Strike
• Federal Gov't Agrees to Limit Immigration Raids
• ExxonMobil Eases Arkansas Oil Spill No-Fly Zone
• Protesters at California Fundraisers Urge Obama to Reject Keystone XL
• Environmentalist Daniel McGowan Returned to Prison After Publishing Article
• Use of Offshore Tax Havens Detailed in Leaked Records

A historic trial is underway challenging the New York City Police Department’s controversial "stop-and-frisk" policy as unconstitutional and unfairly targeting people of color. Recent data shows the vast majority of the five million people stopped and frisked by the NYPD over the past decade are African American or Latino, with nearly 90 percent neither ticketed nor arrested. We play secretly recorded police tapes heard in the courtroom and speak to three guests: Sunita Patel, a staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel on the stop-and-frisk federal class action lawsuit; Nicholas Peart, a Harlem resident who testified last month about his multiple experiences being stopped and frisked; and Ryan Devereaux, a journalist covering the trial for The Guardian and The Nation. [includes rush transcript]

Forty-five years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King was in Memphis to march with sanitation workers demanding a better wage. We air part of a speech he gave to the National Association of Radio Announcers the previous year in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. King spoke about the power of the media and the horrors of war in Vietnam. [includes rush transcript]

The Associated Press has dropped the phrase "illegal immigrant" from its popular stylebook, a move welcomed by immigrant advocates who argue the term is a dehumanizing slur. The influential AP Stylebook is the definitive guide for reporters and editors both within the news cooperative and beyond. We’re joined by Rinku Sen, publisher of Colorlines.com and president of the Applied Research Center, which launched the the "Drop the I-Word" campaign in 2010 in order to remove the term "illegals" from everyday use and public discourse. [includes rush transcript]

As North Korea threatens to launch a nuclear attack on the United States, the Obama administration is quietly expressing concern its own recent actions may have been too provocative and could inadvertently trigger a deeper crisis. We discuss the latest on North Korea and tensions in the region with Christine Hong, assistant professor at University of California, Santa Cruz, and an executive board member of the Korea Policy Institute. She has spent time in North Korea, including a visit to the country as part of a North American peace delegation. [includes rush transcript]

• Report: White House Reconsiders North Korea Strategy
• North Korea Authorizes Nuclear Attack, U.S. Speeds Guam Missile Deployment
• Connecticut Approves Gun-Control Bill; Maryland Bill Advances
• Obama Pushes Bipartisan Gun Reform in Colorado Speech
• Report Ties Lax Laws to Higher Rates of Gun Violence
• 54 Killed in Taliban Attack on Afghan Court
• Israeli Troops Kill 2 Palestinians as Prison Protests Spread
• Hagel on Pentagon Cuts: "Everything is On the Table"
• Clinic of Slain Abortion Provider George Tiller Reopens in Kansas
• Tennessee Measure Would Cut Welfare for Children's Low Grades
• Ex-SEC Head Joins D.C. Consulting Firm
• Retail Giants Use Database on Workers Accused of Theft
• Rutgers Fires Men's Basketball Coach over Abuse, Slurs Against Players
• Fast Food Workers Stage Strike in NYC
• Activists Launch Month of Protests Against Drones
• 45th Anniversary of MLK's Assassination in Memphis

City Council members in Nelson, Georgia, voted unanimously to require heads of households to own guns and ammunition on Monday. The so-called Family Protection Ordinance requires a gun in every home in order to "provide for the emergency management of the city" and "protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants." The ordinance has sparked national media attention — and a local debate. We speak with Nelson residents on both sides of the issue: Jackie Jarrett, a member of the Nelson City Council who voted in favor of the gun requirement, and Lamar Kellett, former chair of the Nelson Planning Commission, who opposes it. "[Would you] rather rob somebody in New York, where they got strict gun laws or you can’t own one — if you do, just got to have three shells for it? Or do you want to come to Nelson and try to rob somebody, because, you know, they’ve got a weapon on the other side of that door?" Jarrett asks. But Kellett disagrees. "The Second Amendment gives you the right to bear arms. And I feel like an individual certainly has the right to not bear arms," he says. [includes rush transcript]

The National Rifle Association has unveiled the recommendations of its "School Shield" task force, calling for armed guards at every school in the country. We get reaction from Judith Browne Dianis, a civil rights litigator, racial justice advocate and co-director of the Advancement Project. Browne Dianis helped author the new report, "A Real Fix: The Gun-Free Way to School Safety," part of a week-long series of actions led by students in cities across the country to oppose the deployment of police in schools. "We know that more police means criminalization of young people, especially young people of color and LGBTQ youth," she says. "The young people they’re there to protect often become the young people who are hauled off in handcuffs." We’re also joined by Paul Barrett, assistant managing editor at Bloomberg Businessweek and author of "Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun." [includes rush transcript]

At his most recent public event campaigning for gun control, President Obama chastised those he called "powerful voices on the other side interested in running out the clock ... to prevent any of these reforms from happening at all." But one of the leading journalists covering the weapons industry in the United States, Paul Barrett, says Obama in fact has backed down on gun control by refusing to take on members of his own party who also stand in its way. Barrett, the assistant managing editor at Bloomberg Businessweek and author of "Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun," contrasts the inaction at the federal level with the landmark new measure in Connecticut that marks the strictest gun-control package in the country. [includes rush transcript]

• U.N. General Assembly Approves 1st Global Arms Treaty
• U.S. Deploys 2nd Warship in Pacific to Confront North Korea
• Kerry Denounces "Unacceptable Rhetoric" from North Korea
• ExxonMobil Ordered to Take Corrective Action on Oil Spill
• Anti-Abortion Measures Advanced in Alabama, Indiana
• Arkansas GOP Overrides Veto of Voter ID Law
• Defying State Threats, Arizona Town Approves Same-Sex Civil Unions
• New York Lawmakers Indicted for Bribery Scandal
• Schumer Protested for Stance on Immigration Reform, Private Prison Ties
• Texas Death Row Prisoner Wins 2nd Reprieve over Racial Bias in Jury Selection
• Top Climate Scientist James Hansen Retires to Focus on Activism

Wenonah Hauter, the executive director of Food & Water Watch, joins us to discuss her new book, "Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America." Hauter tackles the corporations behind the meat, vegetables, grains and milk consumed by millions every day — including some of the most popular organic brands. "Foodopoly" details how a handful of large corporations control the nation’s food production in ways that limit how small farms operate and how ordinary people make choices in grocery stores. And in the wake of the recently passed provision dubbed by critics as the "Monsanto Protection Act," Hauter also discusses the new report by Food & Water Watch, "Monsanto: A Corporate Profile." [includes rush transcript]

President Obama outraged food activists last week when he signed into law a spending bill with a controversial rider that critics have dubbed the "Monsanto Protection Act." The rider says the government must allow the planting of genetically modified crops even if courts rule they pose health risks. The measure has galvanized the U.S. food justice movement, which is now preparing for its next fight when the provision expires in six months. We host a discussion on the "Monsanto Protection Act" and the safety of genetically modified foods with two guests: Gregory Jaffe, director of the Biotechnology Project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that addresses food and nutrition issues; and Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch and author of the book, "Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America." On Wednesday, Hauter’s group is releasing a major new report called "Monsanto: A Corporate Profile." [includes rush transcript]

• Report: Syria Marks Deadliest Month Since Uprising Began
• North Korea Vows to Restart Nuclear Facilities
• Iraq: Suicide Bomber Kills 9 amid Rise in Violence
• Connecticut Lawmakers Reach Deal on Strict Gun-Control Rules
• Georgia City Makes Gun Ownership Mandatory
• Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for Aurora Shooting Suspect
• U.S. Criticizes Egypt for Curbing Free Speech After Comedian Faces Questioning
• Judge Rules Stockton Is Eligible for Bankruptcy in California
• Official Tally of Guantánamo Prisoners on Hunger Strike Continues to Rise
• Yemen: Hundreds Call for Release of Guantánamo Prisoners
• U.S. Soldier Fatally Stabbed in the Neck by Afghan Teen
• Judge Rules Reselling of Digital Music Is Copyright Infringement
• Former NYPD Captain: Police Commissioner Targeted Men of Color in Bid to "Instill Fear"
• New York City Resumes Search for Human Remains in 9/11 Debris
• Judge Dismisses Nearly All Claims Against Banks in Libor Scandal
• DOJ Official Who Led Financial Crisis Probe Returns to Law Firm to Defend Corporations
• British Forces Recount Abuses at Secret U.S. Prison in Iraq

ExxonMobil continues its cleanup efforts after a ruptured pipeline sprayed thousands of barrels of crude oil from Canada across a central Arkansas subdivision, forcing nearly two dozen homes to evacuate. The 20-inch so-called "Pegasus" tar sands pipeline burst late Friday near Mayflower, Arkansas, creating what the Environmental Protection Agency is categorizing as a "major spill." The incident is refueling calls for the Obama administration to reject the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would deliver tar sands oil from Canada to refineries in Texas. "It’s almost as if nature was trying to send a message that it might be best to just leave this stuff underground in Canada, where it’s been safely for the last few million years, instead of trucking it, piping it, training it hither and yon across the countryside," says Bill McKibben, co-founder and director of 350.org. He is author of "Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet." [includes rush transcript]

Following the killing of Texas District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia McLelland, in their home, we speak to Linda Geffin, the senior assistant prosecutor for the Harris County attorney’s office in Texas, who herself survived a brutal attack by an unknown intruder at her home last year. Geffin, who says the incident may have been linked to her efforts against human trafficking, discusses her ordeal and explains why it has helped inform her public advocacy work, including backing the commuting of a death sentence for Duane Beck, whom she prosecuted. [includes rush transcript]

Although Duane Buck’s guilt is not in question for the 1995 murder of his former girlfriend Debra Gardner and her friend Kenneth Butler, critics say jurors in his case were led to choose a death sentence over life without parole based on testimony of a state psychologist who argued that African-American criminals are more likely to pose a future danger to the public. We’re joined by two guests: Linda Geffin, the second-chair prosecutor who helped win Buck’s death sentence in 1997, but now opposes his execution, and Christina Swarns, an attorney with Duane Buck’s legal defense team and director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Criminal Justice Project. [includes rush transcript]

A potential link to white supremacist prison gangs is being probed in the killing of a Texas district attorney and his wife in their home. Mike McLelland and Cynthia McLelland were shot dead inside their home just two months after Assistant Prosecutor Mark Hasse was gunned down outside the Kaufman County courthouse. The killings come just months after Texas warned of potential retaliation by the Aryan Brotherhood against law enforcement officials after 34 members of the white supremacist group were indicted. The murder of McLelland also comes less than two weeks after Tom Clements, the Colorado prisons chief, was shot and killed after answering the doorbell at his home. Two days later, the suspect, Evan Spencer Ebel, a former Colorado inmate and white supremacist, was killed in a shootout with Texas deputies. We speak to Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who tracks hate groups. [includes rush transcript]

• ExxonMobil Oil Pipeline Spills Thousands of Barrels in Arkansas
• White Supremacist Link Suspected in Shooting Death of Texas DA, Wife
• U.S. Sends F-22 Fighter Jets to South Korea
• NATO Airstrike Kills Child, Others in Afghanistan
• India Supreme Court Rejects Swiss Drug Giant's Effort to Block Generic Drugs
• Philippines Seeks Compensation for U.S. Ship's Damage to Coral Reef
• Lawmakers Report Agreement in Bipartisan Immigration Talks
• Federal Judge Invalidates Provisions of Indiana Anti-Immigrant Law
• Rep. Don Young Apologizes for "Wetback" Comment
• Obama Renews Call for Insfrastructure Projects
• Atlanta Educators Indicted for School Cheating Scandal
• KKK Members Rally Against Renaming of Memphis Parks
• World Social Forum Concludes in Tunisia
• Study: Cost of Afghan-Iraq Wars Grows to $4-$6 Trillion

At a ceremony unveiling a statue in her honor last month, President Obama called Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus a "singular act of disobedience." But nine months before Parks’ historic action, a 15-year-old teenager named Claudette Colvin did the very same thing. She was arrested, and her case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s order for the desegregation of Alabama’s bus system. Now 73, Claudette Colvin joins us for a rare interview along with Brooklyn College Professor Jeanne Theoharis, author of "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks." Theoharis says Parks’ act of defiance may not have happened if not for Colvin’s nine months before. Colvin says learning about African-American history in school inspired her act. "I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat," she recalls telling the bus driver and the police officer who came to arrest her. "It felt like Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another shoulder." [includes rush transcript]