Civil rights pioneer Julian Bond has died at the age of 75. Over more than five decades in the civil rights movement, Bond helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, co-founded and served as president of the Southern Poverty Law Center and chaired the NAACP. He spent 20 years in the Georgia state Legislature despite attempts by white colleagues to block him from sitting over his opposition to the Vietnam War. Julian Bond appeared on Democracy Now! multiple times, including in 2009, when he reflected on the 100th anniversary of the NAACP.

Julian Bond: “I’m constantly asked, 'What new thing is the NAACP doing?' because Americans like new things, you know. They want you to do something new every year. We do the same thing. We do it in new years. We fight racial discrimination.”

We’ll spend the hour remembering Julian Bond after headlines.