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Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: The President of South Africa maintains that the recent riots that followed the arrest former president Jacob Zuma were actually part of an insurrection against the state. And, some things seldom change when the two parties switch places in the United States. President Joe Biden is just as hostile to China and Cuba as Donald Trump was. But first -- Broward County College in south Florida recently hosted a discussion about the turmoil in Haiti, where the president was assassinated by a mercenary force from Colombia. All the participants in the Browder College talk were Haitian Americans – among them, professor Reginald Darbonne and author and activist Pascal Robert, who emphasizes that class is an important part of Haiti's historical dynamic. That was author and activist Pascal Robert, speaking at Broward College, in South Florida. The continuity of US foreign policy, even as the Democrats and Republicans trade places in the White House, is quite amazing. Although Democrats portrayed President Donald Trump as representing everything they opposed, when Joe Biden took control of the Oval Office he left Trump's moves against China and Cuba intact, virtually unchanged. That subject was explored by Sean Blackmon, of Sputnik Radio, in an interview with Netfa Freeman, of the Black Alliance for Peace. That was Netfa Freeman, of the Black Alliance for Peace, on Sputnik Radio with Sean Blackmon and  Jacqueline Luqman. When former South African President Jacob Zuma was arrested on corruption charges, housands of his followers rioted and looted in two African Provinces, last week. President Cyril Ramaphosa claimed the disturbances amounted to an attempted insurrection against the state. To dig deeper into this story, VAV Radio called o Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Detroit-based Pan African News Wire.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up:, When Haitian president Jovenel Moise was assassinated,, purportedly by a mostly Colombian band of mercenaries, the regime in Port-Au-Prince promptly begged the United States to send troops to Haiti. President Biden initially said “No,” but that could change any time, since invasions of Haiti have become a habit for the U.S. over the past century. We'll hear from Gerald Horne, the prolific author and University of Houston professor, on the long and brutal history of U.S. and European aggression against Haiti, the world's first republic liberated by enslaved people. But first – across the length and breadth of the US, states are passing or debating Critical Race Theory. Or rather, white Republicans are busy making up their own fantastic versions of what Critical Race Theory is, so that they can outlaw those who dare to discuss issues of race in the United States. Here to explain the historical roots of the madness, are Paul Macomb, a Haitian American philosopher and socioist currently teaching at the University of West Virginia, and writer and political analyst Pascal Robert, also a Haitian American. Pascal Robert: That was Pascal Robert, the activist and writer, along with Dr. Paul Macomb, of the University of West Virginia, at a webinar on Critical Race Theory as it actually exists in the United States – as opposed to the fantasies in the minds of millions of white Republicans. The poor and oppressed majority in Haiti had been mobilized for many months, demanding that president Jovenel Moise step down for a long list of crimes. And then last week, Moise was cut down in his residence by a dozen bullets, purported at the hands of Colombian mercenaries. Dr. Gerald Horne and Dr. Jemima Pierre spoke at a webinar on “Haiti vs Imperialism and Necolonialism” a day before the assassination. Their talk on Haiti's history is especially valuable, because it provides a background to understand today's events on the island nation. Pierre is a Haitian American who teaches anthropology at UCLA. Horne is a professor of History at the University of Houston, and the author of over 30 books – many of which put HAITI front and center in hstory.

 Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Whatever is wrong with the Democratic Republic of Congo, you can blame it on the United States, which has been running things ever since Washington helped kill Congo's first elected leader, Patrice Lumumba, six decades ago. We'll hear from the director of Friends of Congo. And, there will be one less King in Africa if a social movement in Swaziland is successful. Dr. Yannick Marshall is a professor of Africana Studies at Knox College. The title of his latest article in Black Agenda Report delivers a blunt message: “Black Liberal, Your Time is Up.” We asked Marshall, who are these Black liberals that have called the shots in Black politics for so many years?   The strategic center of Africa is the Congo River basin – an area that has also been ground zero for massive genocides and half a century of U.S. imperial dominance. Maurice Carney is a director and co-founder of Friends of Congo, which advocates tirelessly for African liberation. Carney was interviewed by Tierney Sheree, of African Esquire TV.   In southern Africa, a broad social movement  is determined to oust the King of Swaziland, one of the continent's few remaining monarchs. Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan African News Wire, reports that Swaziland's people are saying it's past time for the King to vacate the throne.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Which way is the reparations struggle going? There is still no consensus among Black Americans on what the United States must pay for centuries of slavery and oppression. And, Chicago is the city where community control of the police is closest to becoming a reality. We'll get an update from a local activist. But first – The United States government last week seized the website of the Iranian news service Press TV and three dozen of that country's other internet outlets, claiming the sites were spreading “disinformation.” What gives Washington the right to roam the planet, shutting down other nations' information services? We posed that question to Ajamu Baraka, national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace. That was Ajamu Baraka, national organizer wth the Black Alliance for Peace. In recent years, increasing numbers of white people have come to favor some form of reparations for the harm Black Americans suffered under centuries of slavery and discrimination. But there is still no consensus among Black people on what kind of reparations should be demanded from the United States. Efia Nwangaza is director of the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination, in Greenville, South Carolina, and a longtime reparations advocate. Nwangaza is trying to pull reparations supporters together in her state. That was Efia Nwangaza, at the Malcolm X Center for Self- Determination, in Greenville, South Carolina. In Chicago, a majority of the board of aldermen now support community control of the police. Jasman Salas is co-chair of the Chicago chapter of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, the organization that is spearheading the effort. Salas says women and trans people would greatly benefit from community control of the cops  

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Joe Biden made his international presidential debut at the G7 meeting, proclaiming that “America is Back,” and meeting the Queen of England. But what does that mean for the future of the world? Journalist Richard Medhurst provides a political analysis. And, New York State Assemblyman and former Black Panther Charles Barron has mixed feelings on legalization of marijuana. But first -- What's the ultimate cost when Black social movements accept corporate funding? This month, Dr. Joy James, professor of humanities at Williams College, moderated a summit meeting of activists and organizers on Accountability in Social Justice Movements. The founders of Black Lives Matter report they amassed $90 million, much of it last year from corporate philanthropists following the George Floyd protests. What does the donor class hope to get in return? Dr. James put the issue in historical perspective. That was Dr. Joy James, speaking from Williams College. The G7 nations held their annual meeting this month, to much fanfare. A gaggle of European nations, plus the US, Canada and Japan, consider themselves to be world leaders. But another way of looking at the G7, is a collection of white settler regimes and former and present colonial powers. We spoke with Richard Medhurst, an independent journalist and political commentator who was born in Damascus, Syria. Here's how he views the G7. That was Journalist Richard Medhurst, speaking from Vienna, Austria. Charles Barron, the former Black Panther and current New York State Assemblyman from the neighborhood of East New York, took part in a webinar on legalization of marijuana, organized by the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations. The session was called “Reefer Madness” – which kind of sums up Charles Barron's view of the matter.    

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: US universities like to think of themselves as forces for the public good. But we'll speak with a Black professor who says American higher education is a relentless gentrifyer that spreads police terror and low wages. And, a Black Alliance for Peace activist says the United States is trying to isolate China because Washington cannot compete with the Asian economic juggernaut. But first – Too Black is a poet, writer and podcaster based in Indianapolis, who recently authored an article in Black Agenda Report titled "From Black Wall Street to Black Capitalism." Too Black says the business district of the Black neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma that was destroyed by whites in 1921, was actually more like a Black Main Street than Wall Street, and employed very few Black residents at the time of the massacre. That was Too Black, a poet and writer speaking from Indianapolis. Universities in the United States have become capitalist engines of extraction and destruction in Black communities. So says Davarian Baldwin, a professor of American Studies and founding director of the Smart Cities Lab at Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticut. Dr. Baldwin wrote an article in Black Agenda Report titled “In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower.” That was Professor Davarian Baldwin, speaking from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. The Green Party recently took a look at Joe Biden's First 100 Days in office, with a focus on the new president's war policies. One of the speakers was Julie Varaghese, of the Black Alliance for Peace. Varaghese said the US is waging a Cold War with China because Washington is losing the global economic competition.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Performance art used to be a sideshow of movements for social change, but nowadays art has become central to political organizing. We'll explore the artistic side of mass mobilizing. And, the George Floyd protests of last summer, when tens of millions of people marched under the Black Lives Matter banner, have had profound and sometimes strange effects on the ruling class and the institutions that keep the rich in power. Now, even the CIA claims to be a benign, multi-cultural force for good in the world. But first – the Black Lives Matter movement has been enormously reinforced by activists from the widest range of ethnic and racial backgrounds. But how can organizers keep this multi-ethnic, multi-cultural army on the march for social change? Kovie Biakolo is a widely published writer, editor, and scholar specializing in culture and identity. We asked Biokolo what needs to be done to keep a mullti-cultural army on the move. That was writer and scholar Kovie Biokolo, speaking from New York City. Performance art is an important part of modern political organizing. Troizel Carr is a doctoral candidate in performance studies at New York University, and holds a teaching fellowship at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. We asked Carr about the role art plays in abolitionist organizing since the murder of George Floyd. That was Troizel Carr, a doctoral candidate specializing in performance studies. The CIA – the guys that specialize in political assassination, overthrowing governments the US doesn't like, and lying to the public about EVERYTHING – is now trying to package itself as a politically benign institution, staffed by “woke”young Black and Latino intelligence agents. But anti-imperial activist Ramiro Sebastion Funez is using his podcasting skills to strip away the CIA's new camouflage. Funez calls it “Unmasking Imperialism.” He interviewed Erica Caines, of the Black Alliance for Peace, who said Joe Biden is also trying to act like he's always been a friend of Black and brown folks.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: When millions marched for justice for George Floyd, corporate philanthropy put millions of dollars in the hands of Black Live Matter founders. We'll explore the effect all that money had on the Movement. It's not your grandmother's capitalism anymore. People now examine the role that race plays in the class conflict. And, Blacks in the US are less likely to battle the cops, these days, than two generations ago? We'll explore how that happened. But first – the movement for community control of the police is strongest in Chicago, where the board of Alderman is poised to put the cops under the tightest leash in the nation. Frank Chapman is executive director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, which leads a strong community control coalition. That was Frank Chapman, of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, speaking from Chicago. The racial nature of capitalism is now better understood, largely thanks to a rejuvenated Black liberation movement. Justin Leroy is a professor of History at the University of California, at Davis, and has co-authored a book titled “Histories of Racial Capitalism.” Dr. Leroy says the US electoral system leaves the money classes, the capitalists, in power after every election. That was Justin Leroy, speaking from the University of California, Davis. After more than 20 million people protested the killing of George Floyd and other victims of police repression, last summer, corporate foundations poured millions of dollars into the accounts of Black Lives Matter founders. Has all that money eroded the revolutionary character of the Movement? We put that question to Imani Wadud, an activist and doctoral student in American Studies at the University of Kansas. That was Imani Wadud, at the University of Kansas. Author, activist and researcher Elizabeth Hinton's new book, “America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion,” shows that Black urban revolts have dropped off dramatically since their peak in the early 1970s. Hinton explained why, in an interview with fellow activist and author Keeanga Taylor.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Much of the radical activist sector of Black America is gearing up for an international tribunal in October, that will indict the United States for its many crimes against humanity. The US puppet states Uganda and Rwanda have caused the deaths of at least six million Congolese in recent decades, but Washington blames Congo's troubles on Islamic extremists. The problem with that rational is, very few Muslims live in the Congo. And, we'll have a report on the systematic poisoning of a small Black town in Florida.   But first – The lop-sided war between Palestinians and their Zionist occupiers has spread to the streets of Israel, where Arab citizens have taken to the streets. For an overview of the fighting in Israel and the occupied territories, we spoke with Sara Flounders, a longtime activist with the International Action Center, in New York City. In October, a commission of jurists from =around the world will convene in the United States for an International Tribunal on US Human Rights Abuses.  The organizing campaign leading up to October is called “In the Spirit of Mandela,” and was kicked off with a Webinar featuring Jihad Abdulmumit, a former Black Panther political prisoner and current co-chair of the Jericho Movement. The United States is trying to blame the ongoing slaughter in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Islamic fundamentalist jihadists – despite the fact that hardly any Muslims live in that country. Kambale Musavuli spent years organizing in the United States. He's now back in his native Congo, and working as an analyst for the Illinois-based Center for Research on Congo-Kinshasa. Musavuli says its not Muslims, but the US-backed governments of Rwanda and Uganda, that are to blame for the death of six million Congolese.  The mostly Black town of Tallevast, Florida, was a poor but hard-working community where most of the families owned their homes and found ways to educate their children. But the water, land and people of Tallevast were poisoned by industrial polluters, including some of the biggest names in the military-industrial complex. James Manigault-Bryant is a descendant of one of Tallevast's founding families. Dr. Manigault-Bryant is now a professor of Africana Studies at Williams College. He wrote a recent article for the Boston Review, titled “Poisoning Tallevast.”

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: The US Census Bureau caused a big stir when it predicted that Anglo Whites would become a minority of the US population by either the year 2042 or 2045. But, what impact will the huge Latino immigrant influx have on racial attitudes deep into the 21 st century? We'll explore that question. And, the South American nation of Colombia is gripped by protest, as the US backed government attempts to impose a harsh austerity regime. We'll hear from a Black Colombian activist. But first – the Covid-19 pandemic has worked vast changes in US life, but some things remain the same -- such as the fact that women still do most of the housework, and immigrants assume much of the burden of cleaning up the country. We spoke with Nicole FROI-Oh, a Colombian-Brazilian journalist and researcher who authored an article titled, “The Pandemic Housework Dilemma Whitewashed.” That was journalist and researcher Nicole FROI-Oh. Census Bureau data seem to show that white majorities will become a thing of the past in the United States before the mid-point of the 21 st century, largely because of continued immigration. However, what happens to that calculation if many of those immigrants from Latin America insist on claiming to be white? Could that prolong the existence of white majorities in this country? We posed that question to Professor Shantee Rosado, of the Africana Studies and Latino and Caribbean Studies departments at Rutgers University. Professor Rosado's current book project is titled, “Latinxs and the Emotional Politics of Race and Blackness in the U.S.” That was Dr. Shantee Rosado, speaking from Rutgers University. The South American nation of Colombia, where millions of Black people have been driven from their homes in recent decades, is in the midst of a general strike against the US backed regime. President Ivan DOO-Kay's police and military have killed scores of protesters. We spoke with Sharo Mina-Rojas, a leader of the Black Communities Process organization in Colombia, which is manning blockades of the roads near the largely Black city of Cali.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host, Glen Ford. Coming up: Haiti, a country whose popularly elected president was overthrown by the United States in 2004, suffers under yet another leader imposed by the US, who wants to change the constitution to make himself even more powerful. And, the death of the dictator of the African nation of Chad has France and the United States worried about how they'll keep control of the volatile Sahel region. But first – the corporate media would have you believe that President Joe Biden is the spitting political image of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But veteran activist Margaret Flowers, of Popular Resistance, rejects that comparison. Flowers says the Biden presidency is as corporate as they get. That was Margaret Flowers, of Popular Resistance, speaking from Baltimore. The Haitian people have been protesting almost non-stop ever since Jovenel Moise was named president after winning only a small fraction of the nation's voters in an election fraught with irregularities, in 2016. Moise now proposes to change Haiti's constitution, so that he can rule with immunity from prosecution for crimes. We spoke with Daoud Andre, a Brooklyn-based radio host and an organizer with the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti. Andre says Washington calls the shots in Haiti. That was Daoud Andre, of the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti, speaking from Brooklyn, New York. For the past 30 years, the oil-rich, but dirt-poor, nation of Chad, in Africa's Sahel region, was run by Idris DAY-bee, a dictator backed by both France and the United States. But DAY-bee was reported killed in combat with rebels, last week, and his son is now in charge. Dr. Gerald Horne, a professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Houston, is adept at interpreting political events around the world. Horne was interviewed by Willmer Leon and Garland Nixon on Sputnik Radio. Black politics is a vibrant force in the United States, including behind bars. Bilal Abdul Salem Bey is incarcerated in Hutchinson, Kansas. He's a member of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party, and filed this report for Prison Radio.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: The nation's best known political prisoner will celebrate his 67 th birthday later this month, if Mumia Abu Jamal survives his latest health crisis. And, most people think of maroons as enslaved people that escaped to hideouts in the mountains. However, history shows that maroons often found freedom at sea. But first – George Floyd's death at the hands of Minneapolis police set off the largest protests in US history. The trial of the cop charged in Floyd's murder was still in progress when police in a nearby town killed another unarmed Black man. In Washington, Sputnik Radio host Garland Nixon spoke with Dr. Gerald Horne, the prolific writer and professor of African American Studies and History at the University of Houston. Dr. Horne says Blacks have always been in conflict with the U.S. State and its police. That was Dr. Gerald Horne, speaking on Sputnik Radio, in Washington. Justin Dunnavant is a post-doctoral student with a deep interest in Maroons, the enslaved people that escaped captivity and established relatively free settlements in the Americas. Dunnavant has researched enslaved and maroon communities in the Caribbean, Central America and Africa. He's written an article titled, “Have Confidence in the Sea: Maritime Maroons and Fugitive Geographies.” Dunnavant says people that escaped from slavery lived in lots of places besides up in the mountains, thanks to their seagoing skills. That was Justin Dunnavant, an expert of seagoing maroon communities. Supporters of Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation's best known political prisoner, expected that he would undergo heart surgery for blocked arteries last week. But the Pennsylvania prison system won't even tell Mumia's family what medical plans they have for responding to Abu Jamal's health crisis. A number of his supporters gathered for a press conference last Thursday, in Philadelphia, hosted by educator Marc Lamont Hill. First up, was Mumia's grandson, Jamal, who said the people's movement – not supposedly progressive district attorney Larry Krassner – would ultimately free Mumia.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Gentrification is shrinking Black populations in cities across the country. We'll speak with a Black trans anarchist organizer who says poor folks need to stop gentrification in its tracks, by taking over every vacant building. And, despite all the high hopes among Black voters, President Joe Biden is already deporting huge numbers of Black immigrants. But first – David Stovall is a professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an organizer with the Peoples Education Movement. Dr. Stovall is deeply involved in the fight to slow down and reverse the ongoing Black exodus from Chicago. He's author of an article titled, “Engineered Conflict: School Closings, Public Housing, Law Enforcement and the Future of Black Life.” Dr. Stovall explained why he thinks the conflicts affecting Blacks in the cities are “engineered.” That was Dr. David Stovall, speaking from Chicago. No big city has seen more gentrification and Black push-out than San Francisco. Nevertheless, black trans anarchist organizer Jemma DeCristo is still there, in the city by the bay. DeCristo is in full agreement with a recent Truthout article on the mostly white and affluent folks that call themselves “YIMBYs.” These YIMBYs say “Yes” to the proliferation of high cost housing in their own backyards and throughout the city. But Jemma DeCristo says what the rich gentrifiers are actually saying when they call themselves YIMBYs is, “Yes to white supremacy in my backyard.” That was Jemma DeCristo, speaking from San Francisco. SEE-ON Gurmu is Legal Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, or BAJI, which advocates for the rights of Black immigrants to the United States. BAJI is part of the Black Immigration Network. SEE-On Gurmu says the new Biden administration immediately showed its hostility to Black immigrants  

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Corporate Democrats and Republicans have long had a near- monopoly on electoral politics. But the Black Is Back Coalition wants to put Black Liberation in the U.S. electoral mix. And, the term fascism looks quite different from a Black historical perspective. Ajamu Baraka takes an in-depth look at the subject. But first – We'll hear from Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice, the 12 year-old Black youth who was shot to death by Cleveland police in 2014. She's joined with Lisa Simpson, mother of Richard Risher, the 18 year-old shot dead by Los Angeles police in 2016, to demand accountability from the small group of people that control millions of dollars in Black Lives Matter donations. The mothers are demanding a meeting with Patrisse Cullors, Sean King and Tamika D. Mallory to address a whole range of proposals on the future of the Black liberation movement. Ms. Rice is advised by activist and academic Dr. Joy James and Fred Hampton Jr., son of the assassinated Chicago Black Panther Leader. Rice says it's time that the Black Lives Matter hashtag folks answer to the Black community. That was Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice, speaking from Cleveland. On April 10 and 11, the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations will hold its yearly Electoral Campaign School – digitally, of course. Black Is Back chairman Omali Yeshitela tells us how the electoral school became a yearly feature of the Coalition's schedule. That was Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition. The Black Alliance for Peace is one of the member organizations of the Black Is Back Coalition. Alliance National Organizer Ajamu Baraka recently addressed the subject of fascism. We think Baraka's remarks are a useful addition to Omali Yeshitela's position on fascism.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: There are many obstacles to Black American liberation. We'll speak with a young writer and activist who says one of the primary impediments to a more powerful liberation movement is the Black elite, whose main goal is to prosper under capitalism. And, we'll take a look at the life and work of Audre Lorde, the poet and Black feminist thinker. But first – Transgender people attempting to migrate to the United States have a difficult time, especially if they're Black. A young woman who goes by the name Deborah “A” is a national organizer for the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project – or, “BLMP,” for short. Deborah “A” says the BLMP works through regional networks across the country. That was Deborah “A”, of the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project. It's bad enough that Black liberation movements have always encountered massive white American hostility, but elite sectors of Black America have often opposed mass Black street action. Kandist Mallett is a columnist for Teen Vogue magazine. She's author of a recent column titled, “The Black Elite Are an Obstacle Toward Black Liberation.” That was writer and activist Kandist Mallet. Jack Turner is a professor of political science at the University of Washington, and co- editor of the book, “African American Political Thought: A Collected History.” Turner's contribution to that collection is a chapter titled, “Audre Lorde's Politics of Difference.” It's a rich subject. Audre Lorde was an important Black poetic and feminist luminary who was New York State Poet Laureate in the last years of her life. Professor Turner says Lorde clashed directly with President Reagan when the U.S. invaded the Caribbean nation of Grenada, in 1983. Professor Jack Turner, speaking from the University of Washington. With U.S. media describing the past 12 months as the “worst year ever,” imagine if you were locked up in even closer confines, with no defense against Covid-19 for a solid year. Long term Pennsylvania prison inmate Segio Hyland filed this report for Prison Radio. And, here's another report from a Prison Radio correspondent – Tabitha Maynerd, incarcerated in Michigan.    

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: the prolific radical professor Joy James speaks out on decolonizing the Black movement in the United States. Dr. James urges activists to condemn the militarization of US African policy, as well as militarized policing in Black communities in this country. And, Great Britain, which grew rich through centuries of global looting and mass enslavement, is now eager to deport thousands of Black residents as morally unfit to reside in the United Kingdom. But first – the United States and Europe are the wealthiest nations in the world, but have done very poorly in coping with the year-long Covid-19 epidemic. So have most of the former white settler colonies of Latin America. Layla Brown-Vincent is a professor of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts, at Boston, and author of a recent article titled, “The Pandemic of Racial Capitalism: Another World is Possible.” She says that Cuba showed, early in the epidemic, that its practice of socialist internationalist medicine is the global gold standard. That was Dr. Layla Brown-Vincent, speaking from the University of Massachusetts, at Boston. In celebration of International Women's Day, the Decolonial Feminist Collective recently hosted an online interview with Dr. Joy James, the prolific author and Professor of Humanities at Williams College. The talk was entitled, “Radicalizing and Decolonizing Feminism.” Dr. James says the subject has revolutionary roots. Dr. Joy James was interviewed by Jalessah T. Jackson, and Salome Ayuak, of the Decolonial Feminist Collective. Around the turn of the 21 st century, Great Britain began a wave of deportations of Black residence with roots in Jamacia and other former colonies in the Caribbean. Luke De Noronha, a writer who teaches at the University of Manchester, is author of the book, “Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica.” According to De Noronha, the British government claims it is only ridding itself of “foreign criminals.”

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: The Black Is Back Coalition is made up of 15 organizations that work together on issues of mutual concern. We'll hear from two activists who spoke at a recent Black Is Back Coalition webinar. And, if colonialism is dead, then why are European nations effectively doing border patrol thousands of miles deep inside the African continent? We'll explore why so many African migrants are drowning at sea, while Europeans and Americans establish military bases all over the continent. But first – at least 25 organizations around the country are fighting to establish community control over the police. One of them is Pan-African Community Action, or PACA, in the Washington DC area. But PACA organizer Netfa Freeman says some activists mistakenly think that community control over the cops means keeping the blue “army of occupation” in place. In reality, says Freeman, community control is the best – and most democratic -- way to achieve both defunding and total abolition of the police. That was Netfa Freeman, of Pan-African Community Action, speaking from Washington DC. The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations has been around since 2009 and is now made up of 15 organizations, all of which are united around a 19 point National Black Political Agenda for Self-Determination. The Coalition held a webinar, last week, on the subject: “Fascism, Neoliberalism, and the Way Forward.” We'll hear from two of the speakers. Jihad Abdulmumit is chairman of the Jericho Movement, which fights to free political prisoners. And, Ajamu Baraka is national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace. We begin with Abdulmumit, followed by Baraka. That was Ajamu Baraka, of the Black Alliance for Peace. Ever since Barack Obama's administration, the African continent has once again been crawling with European and American soldiers and foreign military bases. We spoke with Ampson Hagan, a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He's been doing research on how Europeans, in partnership with the United States, have essentially extended their borders deep into Africa in order to keep Black migrants from getting anywhere near Europe. Hagan says the focus of this containment policy is the former French colony of Niger.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host, Glen Ford. Coming up: Calls are mounting to abolish the cops on US college campuses. And, where does the US get the right to dictate who governs Haiti? We'll speak with a longtime fighter for Haitian sovereignty. But first – It's been confirmed that the nation's best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, has been infected with Covid-19. Abu Jamal is a senior citizen prisoner, having spent the last 39 years in the Pennsylvania prison gulag. Longtime Mumia supporter Dr. Johanna Fernandez held a press conference to demand that Abu Jamal and all elderly inmates and political prisoners be set free. Fernandez was joined by Mumia's movement doctor, Ricardo Alvarez, and Rev. Kieth Collins, who has known Abu Jamal since they were both youngsters in Philadelphia. Dr. Fernandez said setting Mumia freeis good medicine, as well as justice. That was Rev. Keith Collins, speaking from Philadelphia. The modern Free Speech Movement began on California college campuses in the Sixties, and soon led to demands that campuses be free of police. But instead, cops have become even more deeply entrenched and militarized at US colleges, just as in the larger society. Dylan Rodriquez is a professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside, and he has plenty of experience combating the cops. Dr. Rodriguez says both the university system and its campus police are undergoing a crisis of legitimacy. That was Professor Dylan Rodriguez, speaking from the University of California, at Riverside. The Haitian people have made it plain that they want to be rid of Jovenel Moise, the incredibly corrupt president imposed on Haiti by the United States. Thousands of Haitians have been in the streets for weeks, demanding that Moise step down. But the regime refuses to budge, and has responded with gunfire that has left dozens dead. Dr. Jemima Pierre is an anthropologist in the Department of African American Studies at UCLA, and an activist with the Black Alliance for Peace. Pierre was interviewed by Dr. Jared Ball on his influential podcast, “I Mix What I Like.” She says Washington is the source of Haiti's misery.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Some say the term fascism was born when Europeans started treating each other the way they'd been treating the colonized people of the world for centuries. We'll discuss the subject with Omali Yeshitela, of the Black Is Back Coalition. And, Ajamu Baraka, of the Black Alliance for Peace, warns that you can't effectively fight police repression at home while condoning the U.S. acting like the policeman of the planet. But first – a new newspaper has hit the streets in Philadelphia, dedicated to the liberation of the nation's best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal. Pam Africa is coordinator of International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal. She wants folks to sign a petition, in the newspaper, demanding that Philadelphia's district attorney stop standing in the way of Abu Jamal's freedom. That was Pam Africa, of International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Mumia has been confined to the Pennsylvania prison system for the past 39 years. He filed this report for Prison Radio, in memory of Cicely Tyson. At noon on Saturday, March 6, the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations will hold a webinar on “Fascism, Neoliberalism, and the Way Forward.” The Democratic Party claims that it is a bastion of resistance to Republican fascism – but it is the Democrats that are most eager to put limits on free speech and access to the Internet. Black Is Back Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela offers this analysis. That was Omali Yeshitela, of the Black Is Back Coalition, speaking from St. Petersburg, Florida. The U.S. Peace Council recently held a joint webinar with the Venezuelan section of the Committee for International Solidarity and Struggle for Peace. The event's lead speaker was Ajamu Baraka, national organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace.  

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Black people in Britain go to prison at roughly the same rate as African Americans, and British activists are also demanding prison and police abolition. Dr. Gerald Horne says the United States is finding out that it's no longer a uni-polar world, with Washington in command of everybody else. And, we'll hear two essays from prisoners of the American Mass Black Incarceration Regime. But first -- SAHM-ah Mcgona SEE-say is a Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, and an organizer with the group called “Survived and Punished.” Police claim they are the force that fights for the rights of victims. But in fact, says SEE- say, the police, prosecutors and prisons only create more victims. She explains. Many Americans are unaware that Black people in Great Britain have a long history of urban rebellions against racist policing. We spoke with Dr. Elliot Cooper, a Research Associate at the University of Greenwich, who sits on the board of The Monitoring Group, which challenges state racism and racial violence. Dr. Elliott-Cooper is co-author of a scholarly article on Britain, race and the criminal justice system, titled “Moral Panic(s) in the 21 st Century.” Dr. Gerald Horne is professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. Horne, a prolific author, was interviewed on a Sputnik Radio program hosted Dr. Wilmer Leon the Third, in Washington. Dr. Leon noted that president Joe Biden has been making noises about maintaining strong US economic sanctions against governments he doesn't like, and insisting that US allies go along with Washington's dictates. But, Europe seems tired of being bossed around the U.S, as Dr. Horne explains. This week, we're featuring two items from deep inside the U.S. prison Gulag. Laura Taylor is locked up in the Pennsylvania state penal system. She's composed a message to the guards that boss her around every day and night. Ms. Taylor calls it a “Resignation Letter.”

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: A professor at Morgan State University sees today's Black Americans as still living in the wake of slavery. He calls social activism “wake work.” And, a professor of theology believes t  hat religion remains a great resource for social transformation, despite the great harm perpetrated by organized religion over the centuries. But first -- Ajamu Baraka, national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace, recently spoke at a webinar put together by the Dissenters organization. The subject: How the new Democratic administration is attempting to refurbish and strengthen the Euro-American world order, under the leadership of US Imperialism. Dr. Corey Miles teaches sociology and anthropology at Morgan State University, in Baltimore. He says today's Black US population is living in the “wake” of centuries of slavery, and that the work activists are doing now should be called “WAKE work.” “Wake” is not the same as “woke” – but Professor Miles says both concepts can be understood through Hip Hop.   Dr. Vincent Lloyd, a professor of theology and Africana Studies at Villanova University, says a progressive, liberationist theology can be useful to the movements against both police repression and U.S. imperial wars. However, Dr. Lloyd acknowledges that Christianity is a two-edged sword. Jesus is often called the Prince of Peace, but hundreds of millions have been killed or enslaved in the name of Christianity.

 Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Most Americans have been led to believe that the only purpose of political parties is to win elections. But a Black party in Maryland believes its main mission is to organize the people. And, Black people that immigrate to the United States from elsewhere in the diaspora inherit the historical legacies of Black Americans, but also bring their own perspectives on liberation. We'll hear from a multicultural scholar, born in Nigeria.   But first – politically active Black teachers have created a 21st century version of “freedom schools,” to prepare a new generation for struggle. Peta [Peh-TAY] Lindsay is a California teacher and a founder of the Ida B. Wells Education Project.   The Ujima People's Progress Party has been organizing for about a decade in Baltimore and other Maryland cities. But, for Ujima, winning elections takes a back seat to grassroots organizing and political education – as organizer Nnamdi Lumumba explained on Dr. Jared Ball's influential podcast, I Mix What I Like.   Kovie [KOH-vee] Biakolo [Bee-AH-kolo] is a writer and scholar, born in Nigeria, who specializes in culture and identity. Her recent article is titled, “We Can't Talk About Immigration Without Acknowledging Black Immigrants." Biakolo says the period of the Harlem Renaissance was a turning point in Black American politics and culture, partly because of the influence of Black immigrants.    

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Donald Trump told lies every day, but so did Democrats, who now have most of the microphones to themselves. We'll hear from a former CIA analyst, who knows a great deal about lying. Mumia Abu Jamal has a commentary on the “American Way of Fascism.” And, we'll discuss anti-Black racism in Brazil, and police brutality and corruption in Nigeria.   But first -- a report by the Institute for Policy Studies shows that the billionaire class in the U.S. has grabbed more money, in shorter time, during this pandemic and economic crisis than has ever been amassed in the history of the world. The crisis has given birth to 46 new billionaires, for a total of 660 super-rich oligarchs, while the billionaire class has added more than a trillion dollars to their already fabulous wealth. Omar Ocampo was one of the researchers that studied this explosion of billionaire wealth. Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton, of The Gray Zone, are serious journalists of the Left. They recently interviewed Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst who has vigorously argued that Russiagate is a fiction concocted by his former employers and the Democratic Party to justify a New Cold War, and to provide an excuse for Hillary Clinton's loss in 2016. Although the media these days refer to every Black activist and protest group as “Black Lives Matter,” today's youth-based, Black-led movement is made up of many organizations. One of the newer groups is the North Carolina-based Assata Collective. We spoke with Crystal Eze (eh-zeh), a college nursing school graduate and member of the Assata Collective who has been organizing against police repression in both the United States and her birthplace in Africa. Academics make up an important section of the current movement for social transformation. Dr. Ugo Edu teaches African American Studies at UCLA, and is a medical anthropologist. She's done field work in Brazil, thinks that environmental justice should be at the cutting edge of the Movement. Mumia Abu Jamal has been a political prisoner for more than two generations. But Abu Jamal is known around the world as a keen observer of current affairs. His latest essay is titled, “The American Way of Fascism.”

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: The people of Haiti have not been allowed to govern themselves since the United States overthrew their elected president, 15 years ago.  We'll get an update on the Haitian people's struggle to take back control of their island nation. And, Not since the McCarthy era has the threat of censorship loomed so large in the United States. The Democrats seem intent on making it impossible to even discuss ending the rule of the rich.   But first -- The last time Joe Biden was part of the administration in power, the U.S. got involved in seven new wars. Black Agenda Report contributing editor Danny Haiphong has some predictions on how long it will take President Biden to start his own armed conflict. Haitians continue to mount street protests demanding the resignation of president Jovenal Moise, accusing the U.S.-backed politician of massive corruption and brutality. We spoke with Daoud Andre, the Brooklyn, New York-based organizer of the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti. The young political organizing group called the Dissenters last week held an online discussion of the prospects for war and political oppression under the new U.S. administration. One of the speakers was Ajamu Baraka, national organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace and a former Green Party vice presidential. Baraka said corporate politicians are anxious to impose a regime of censorship, so that Americans won't be able to even discuss how to end the rule of the rich. Also on that program was Robin D.G. Kelley, the activist, author and UCLA professor of history. He elaborated on Ajamu Baraka's analysis.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: We hear a lot of discussion these days about the history of genocide against Black Americans, but many people are still unaware that Black leftists presented a petition to the United Nations charging the U.S. with genocide, 70 years ago. And, Patrice Lumumba, the first elected prime minister of the Congo, was assassinated 60 years ago, with the collaboration of the United States. A group of scholars marked the occasion with a discussion of Lumumba's political legacy.   But first – it's been one helluva year, politically and on the public health arena. The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations held a national conference, last week, to sum up the changes and challenges that emerged in 2020.  Black Is Back is a Coalition of organizations. Betty Davis is a New York City activist who chairs the Coalition's Community Control of Education Working Group. She says Black folks need to seize control of their local education budgets. Ajamu Baraka is a veteran activist who ran for vice president on the Green Party ticket in 2016. He's national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace, which is part of the Black Is Back Coalition. Baraka told the Coalition's year-end conference that U.S. imperialism was clearly in disarray in 2020. In 1951 Black entertainer and activist Paul Robeson and other Black leftists presented a petition to the United Nations demanding that the United States be held accountable for a long list of crimes against its Black population. The petition was titled “We Charge Genocide.” Last week, Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly joined other Black activists and academics to commemorate the events of 70 years ago, in an online seminar.  Dr. Burden-Stelly is a professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College, and part of the team that produces BAR's Black Agenda Review. She reminds us that U.S. government atrocities against Black people have never stopped.   Also present to commemorate the “We Charge Genocide” petition of 1951, was Dr. Trevor Ngwane, a lecturer at the Center for Sociological Research at the University of Johannesburg. Dr. Ngwane is co-author of the book, “Urban Revolt, State Power and the Rise of People's Movements in the Global South.” He says Black South Africa is quite familiar with colonial perpetrators of genocide.   Sixty years ago, the legally elected prime minister of the newly independence Democratic Republic of the Congo was assassinated as a result of plots orchestrated by the United States and its European allies. The Friends of Congo celebrate January 17 as Patrice Lumumba Day. To mark the occasion, activists and academics held on online seminar, moderated by Dr. Samuel T. Livingston, Associate Professor and Director of the African American Studies Program at Morehouse College. Among the speakers: Ludo De Witte, a Belgian sociologist and historian and author of his book, “The Assassination of Lumumba”;  Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, a professor of African and Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Ira Dworkin, associate professor of English at Texas A&M University. Dworkin is author of “Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State.” He Black Americans immediately recognized the assassination of Lumumba as a crime against all people of African descent.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: More and more, these days, we hear activists describe themselves as Black anarchists. But, what is Black anarchism. And, a Black author based in Europe says we all need to cultivate and make use of our “sensuous knowledge.”   But first – the white supremacist assault on the U.S. Capitol was aided and abetted by police officers. So says Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Co-Founder of the Washington-based Partnership for Civil Justice. The Partnership is demanding “a fully public investigation” into the way the cops responded to the massing of President Trump's followers at the Capitol. African Americans are near universally agreed that, had Black people stormed the U.S. Congress in such a manner, police would have used deadly forced against them. "Ebony "Sima Lee" Outlaw is an Afro-Indigenous womanist, emcee, poet, teacher and photographer, currently living in Baltimore. She also calls herself a Black anarchist – a description that has been adopted by growing numbers of Black activists. We asked "Ebony ‘Sima Lee' Outlaw how she became attracted to Black anarchism. A prominent Black writer and social critic, based in Europe, has produced a new book with a tantalizing title. Minna Salami is a public intellectual of Nigerian, Finnish and Swedish descent. Her latest work is titled, “Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone.” We reached Salami in the United Kingdom. Her book treats “sensuous knowledge” as a deeply political subject.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: The old Year, 2020, laid bare the fundamental contradictions of capitalism. We'll hear from Ajamu Baraka, of the Black Alliance for Peace, who says electoral politics must be secondary to grassroots organizing. And, U.S. involvement in the African nation of Cameroon has created humanitarian crises on both sides of the the Atlantic Ocean.   But first – the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations is in its 12th year of advocacy for Black self-determination, world-wide. Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela says the Covid-19 epidemic and economic breakdown have exposed the United States as a power in decline. Four years ago, Ajamu Baraka ran for vice president on the Green Party ticket. He then formed the Black Alliance for Peace, which has taken the lead in demanding the dismantling of the U.S. Military Command in Africa and an end to the police occupation of Black communities in the United States. Baraka was recently interviewed by Dr. Jared Ball on his influential podcast, “I Mix What I Like.” Baraka said electoral politics can be important, but only as a tool of grassroots organizing. All but one nation in Africa is collaborating with AFRICOM, the U.S. Military Command in Africa that was created by the George Bush administration but vastly expanded under President Obama. AFRICOM is deeply involved in the west African nation of Cameroon, where the United States supports a French-speaking government that is at war with both Boko Haram fighters and its own English-speaking population. Journalist Joe Penny has been covering the Cameroon conflict for The Intercept.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: hundreds of thousands of Americans have died from Covid-19, and the U.S. economy remains crippled, but China is nearly Covid-free and economically growing. A new book explores the vast differences in how the two social systems performed during the contagion. And, major league baseball claims it is embracing the old Negro leagues. However, a professor of Afro-American studies says something's wrong with that picture.   But first – Paul Clark is a doctoral candidate in African and American Studies who's been doing research on labor, policing and privatization in South Africa. Before the end of white minority rule, South Africa was a world leader in mass incarceration, along with the Soviet Union and the United States. Clark says South Africa continues to hold that dubious distinction. Veteran activists Sara Flounders and Lee Siu Hin are the editors of an important new book, titled “Capitalism on a Ventilator: The Impact of COVID-19 in China & the U.S.” It's an anthology of essays by 50 writers, that explores why the United States has handled the virus so badly, while China was able to quickly bring the contagion under control. Sara Flounders says the real loser, is late stage capitalism.   Major League baseball has finally agreed to recognize the contributions to the so-called national past-time by the Negro baseball leagues, back in the time of segregation. The historically white franchises are now, in a sense, taking ownership of the Black baseball teams that they once excluded. Is that a good thing? We asked Josh Myers, a professor of Afro American studies at Howard University.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: The post-colonial regime in Zimbabwe was determined to, literally, keep Black women in their place. We'll speak with an author who has studied that era.  And, a new book details how sex was a leading item of political discussion among anti-colonial activists in the Dutch West Indies.    But first -- Before famed Black Power advocate Stokely Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture, he made a big impression on freedom organizations in Africa – some of it good, some not so favorable. Back in 1967, Carmichael took part in several conferences on the continent, and offered a critique of how the Black Liberation movement was going on the continent. Toivi Asheeke is a post-doctoral fellow in the sociology department at Vassar College. He wrote an article titled, ““Black Power and Armed Decolonization in Southern Africa: Stokely Carmichael, the African National Congress of South Africa, and the African Liberation Movements.” Rudo Mudiwa is a Phd in Communication and Culture, and currently a Research Fellow at Princeton University. Mudiwa is a native of Zimbabwe, and is critical of how the Black government that replaced white rule treated Black women. Dr. Mudiwa wrote a recent article titled, “Stop the Woman, Save the State. Policing, Order, and the Black Woman's Body.” In the years after World War Two, sex was the big topic of discussion among pro-independence activist in the Dutch Caribbean colonies of Aruba and Curaçao   New York City University History professor Chelsea Shield has studied this era, and written a book titled “Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy after Empire.” We at Black Agenda Report had never heard of a colonial struggle in which sexual issues – including prostitution – played such an important role.  

 Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: It is now widely accepted that Black Americans are owed a debt for hundreds of years of slavery and racial oppression. But, can Reparations be a distraction from the work of Black liberation that needs to be done? And, how do you defund the police in a city like Baltimore, unless you can also assure the Black community that other ways can be found to deal with violence and crime?   But first – President-elect Joe Biden's cabinet is taking shape, comprised mainly of corporate and imperial political operatives. Rebecca Ann Wilcox is a community organizer and Phd candidate at the Princeton Theological Seminary, with a special focus on Race, Gender and Class Analysis. Wilcox believes that corporate Democrats are, in some ways, more dangerous than overt white supremacists. Zuri Arman Kent-Smith is a Poet, writer and activist with a degree in Africana Studies and Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. Kent-Smith has a particular interest in the question of Reparations for Black Americans. In the early stages of the Democratic presidential primaries, a number of candidates endorsed the principle of Black Reparations. But, does that mean the issue has become mainstreamed? The grassroots youth organization called “Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle” have been deeply involved in Black empowerment activities in Baltimore, Maryland. Lawrence Grandpre is the organization's Research Director. He was a recent guest on Dr. Jared Ball's acclaimed podcast, “I Mix What I Like.” Grandpre agrees in principle with the demand for defunding of police. But he doesn't think the Black Lives Matter organization has a clue how to sell the concept to the Black community.

 Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: New and updated terms have entered the vocabulary of Black liberation. We'll speak with an academic and activist about critical race theory, racial realism and Afro-pessimism. And, we'll take a look at the history and current struggles of quilombos, the autonomous Black and indigenous settlements of Brazil. But first -- A globally important webinar on U.S. militarization of Africa, through its military command, AFRICOM, will be held on December 4. One of the panelists is Marie Claire Far-EYE, a Congolese member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Far-Eye currently lives in Great Britain, a country where, like the United States, most people are not even aware that the greatest genocide since World War Two is still unfolding in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Shameka Powell is co-director Educational Studies at Tufts School of Arts, and co-author of an essay titled, "Kissing Cousins: Critical Race Theory's Racial Realism and Afropessimism's Social Death.” These are subjects that are hotly debated in Black academic circles, and among some activists, but not the stuff of daily Black conversation. We talked with Prof. Powell about the relevance of Racial Realism and Afropessimism. Brazil is home to the biggest Black population in the world outside of Nigeria, yet Blacks wield very little institutional power. Carla Maria Guerrón Montero is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Delaware. She's done extensive studies of Black populations in Latin America. Most recently, Professor Montero immersed herself in the Quilombos of Brazil, autonomous settlements established to escape slavery and ongoing oppression of Black and indigenous people.

 Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Community Control of police -- We'll hear from two advocates of making cops accountable to the people. Colin Kaepernick demands freedom for Mumia Abu Jamal. And, a former political prisoner is briefly jailed for registering to vote.   But first – Native Americans say the holiday “Thanksgiving” is a celebration of genocide at the hands of European invaders, and should be replaced by a National Day Mourning.  We spoke with Nick Estes, an activist member of the Sioux nation who teaches American Studies at the University of New Mexico. Black Psychology students at Bowie State University, in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, last week held a panel discussion on Police Brutality and Community Control of the Police. One of those that spoke was Netfa Freeman, an organizer with Pan-African Community Action, which is pushing for community control of the police. Freeman says police are a militarized force of oppression.  Former Black Panther Party member Dhoruba Bin Wahad spent 19 years as a political prisoner. He told the Bowie State University panel that we need to create a national front of organizations, all demanding Community Control of Police. Colin Kaepernick, the National Football League quarterback who has effectively been banned from playing because of his political beliefs, was part of a virtual press conference last week, demanding the release of the nation's best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal.  Kaepernick says Abu Jamal's continued imprisonment is a crime against humanity. Former Black Panther Jalil Muntaqim spent 49 years in prison until he was released on parole in October. When Muntaqim returned to his family home in Rochester, New York, he registered to vote—a mistake for which he was briefly jailed. We spoke with Muntaqim's cousin, Blake Simons

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: What happened when radical Black protesters found themselves surrounded by mostly white Democrats, in Washington, when the media announced that Donald Trump had lost the election. We'll find out from the chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition.  And, we'll talk with the author of a book on mixed race women, Mulattas, and how they are depicted in Brazilian and U.S. media.   But first – the corporate press has labeled virtually all Black protests as part of the Black Lives Matter movement, but the reality is that many organizations have taken to the streets against racism and the rule of the rich.  We spoke with BREE-YA Johnson, a masters student at George Washington University who is co-chair of Black Youth Project 100 in the nation's capital.  We asked Johnson about BYP100's relationship with local Black Lives Matter activists.   The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations has organized a Black People's March on the White House every year since Barack Obama was sworn in as president. According to Black Is Back chairman Omali Yeshitela, this year's demonstration coincided with the Saturday when the news media announced that Joe Biden had defeat President Donald Trump.   Wherever white supremacy has established itself, mixed race women have been used as symbolic weapons in maintaining racial oppression. Jasmine Mitchell is a professor of American Studies and Media and Communication at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. Dr. Mitchell is author of the book, “Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in US and Brazilian Media.”  She says the Mulatta is depicted and exploited in similar ways by white power structures in both countries.  

   Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Will a Joe Biden administration be an ally of the Black Lives Movement? Two of our guests say most emphatically, NO. How can the grassroots Black movement for social justice bring real power for Black people? We'll talk with a young scholar who says the movement should follow a path of “communalism.” And, a Black people's movement is making itself felt in Argentina, a country that long pretended that it had no Black population to speak of.   But first – Joe Biden and Kamala Harris pulled off a cliff-hanger victory over Donald Trump, last week, largely on the strength of Black voters. We spoke with Dr. Johnny Williams, a professor of sociology at Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticut. Dr. Williams says Joe Biden is no friend of the Black Lives Matter Movement.   Justin Lang is a doctoral candidate in Africana Studies at Brown University, and author of a scholarly article on former President Baraka Obama's unsuccessful attempts to quell the movement to abolish prisons and the police. Lang predicts that a Joe Biden administration will also try to co-opt and confuse the Black movement.   The Black Lives Matter movement has spawned a number of political currents during its brief history. Shay Akil McLean espouses a politics of “communalism.” McLean is a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He wrote an article for Black Agenda Report on Black health. We asked McLean to explain what he means by “communalism.” The South American nation of Argentina, like the United States, was founded on the dead bodies of native peoples and the labor of Black slaves. But, for centuries Argentinians have pretended that its Black population had died off. Erika Edwards has written a book that explains how Black Argentinians are resisting being written out of history. It's titled, “Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Public.”

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: In most nations in Africa, queer sex is against the law. We'll talk with someone who wrote the book on the subject. Blackness is seen differently in the United States than in Latin America. But, as our guest explains, Blacks are at the bottom of the hierchy in both cultures. And, Mumia Abu Jamal has some thoughts on the elections. But first – ever since the Black rebellion in Ferguson, Missouri, the age-old debate over revolution versus reform has been raging. Dylan Rodriguez is professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, at Riverside. Rodrizuez says reformism is just another form of counterinsurgency. That was Professor Dylan Rodriguez, speaking from the University of California at Irvine. Rodriguez is author of the new book, “White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide.” Black people are at the bottom of the social and economic rung in both North and South America. Jo-meera Salas, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Rutgers University, has written an article that argues on the different ways that Blackness is experienced in the Latin America, versus the United States. Salas's focus is Latina Black girls. In terms of the law, Africa may be the continent most hostile to queer folks. Thirty of its nations have laws against homosexuality. WUN-pini Fatimata Mohammed is a professor of journalism and mass communications at the University of Georgia. Doctor Mohmmad is author of an article in the Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies, titled “Deconstructing Homosexuality in Ghana. The nation's best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, has some thoughts on the elections. He doesn't trust the polls.

 Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Millions of young people in the United States now see themselves as agents of transformational change, and one of the best places to begin is by studying Malcolm X. We'll talk with an activist student of Malcolm's life and work.  And, white nationalist militias seem to feel right at home in western North Carolina.  A young activist from Gastonia says the whole country needs to undergo a process of DE-white supremafication.   But first – the world is reeling from the double whammy of Covid-19 pandemic and a global economic depression. The crisis has created an historic opportunity for the super-rich to massively restructure capitalist economies in ways that spell disaster for poor and working people. We spoke with Anthony Monteiro, a Duboisian scholar and activist with the Philadelpohia Saturday Free School.   The Black Radical Tradition has always emphasized that Black American liberation is part of a global struggle. Desmond Fonseca is a doctoral student of history at the University of California who has lately been immersing himself in the study of Malcolm X.  Fonseca is greatly impressed with Malcolm's writings, speeches and organizing work – especially in his latter years, when Malcolm was an outspoken advocate of Black American internationalism.   Lydia McCaskill is studying for both her Masters and Doctoral degrees at North Carolina Central University, and hopes to become a Constitutional Lawyer. But right now she's a whirlwind of political activism in her hometown of Gastonia, in western North Carolina. McCaskill has launched a Stop Injustice Initiative.

 Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Black lives matter in prison, too, including homosexual Black lives. We'll talk with an organizer for the abolitionist group “Black and Pink.” And, white supremacy is endemic in the United States, but a professor of Geography says anti-Blackness is spread around the world by Global Capital.  But first – activists in Minneapolis says their protests have been disrupted by dozens of men and women wearing orange shirts that clearly have a relationship with the police. We spoke with Jae Yates, of the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice for Jamar. The ideology of anti-Blackness is mobile, and is spread around the world by global capital. That's the thrust of an article by Adam Bledsoe, a professor of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota.. His article is titled, “The Anti-Blackness of Global Capital.” How do Black LGBTQ inmates fare in the U.S. prison gulag?  A good place to find out is in the pages of “Black and Pink.” Fatima Shabazz is one the publication's founders.

 Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Activists in Greenville, North Carolina successfully demand community control of the police. And, we'll hear from a psychologist who's done a study of the varied ideologies held by Black women.   But first, Shannon Jones is co-founder of Bronxites for NYPD Accountability, which on June 4th led a protest in the South Bronx section of New York that was massively attacked by police, who claimed the marchers had violated a curfew. At least 61 marchers and bystanders were injured, according to a Human Rights Watch study. More than 250 were arrested, including Ms Jones. She says the cops had been waiting for a chance to crack down on the movement. Activists have clashed repeatedly with police in the eastern North Carolina city of Greenville. The protests have been led by the Mapinduzi organization and the Coalition Against Racism. Mapinduzi spokesman Dedan Wha-Kee-UR-ee says Greenville's government continues to reject demands for Community Control of Police, an independent prosecutor for police brutality cases, and that a police substation be turned into a People's Resource center.   However, the city did agree to end its involvement with the Pentagon's 1033 program, that funnels military weapons and equipment to local police. Dr. Ashlee Davis is the Supervising Psychologist and Coordinator for Diversity and Social justice Initiatives at Fordham University Counseling Center, in New York City. She's author of a recent article, titled “Traditional Femininity Versus Strong Black Women Ideologies and Stress Among Black Women.” We asked Dr. Ashley, just what is  “Strong Black Women Ideology”? 

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: We'll talk with an activist-scholar we says anti-Black violence is not just endemic, not just in the United States but throughout Latin America. Political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal has a commentary on the people and system that took Breonna Taylors life. And, China has the only economy strong enough to pull the world out of recession, but the United States seems bent on waging a New Cold War. We'll hear from BAR contributing editor Danny Haiphong. But first -- The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparation, has marched on the White House every November since its formation in the first year of the Obama administration. The Coalition and its 15 member organizations will be in Washington on November 6, 7th and 8th, putting forward an independent Black politics. Black Is Back chairman Omali Yeshitela tells us about this year's Black People's March on the White House. The whole world watched as millions took to the streets to demand a halt to police killings of Black people in the United States. But Black lives are at risk everywhere in the Western Hemisphere, according to Jameelah Imani Morris, an activist scholar workin on her doctorate at Stanford University.  Morris has done extensive work with Black youth in both the United States and Latin America.  Mumia Abu Jamal is the nation's best known political prisoner, a prolific author and journalist, now in his 39th year of incarceration in Pennsylvania. Abu Jamal's latest report for Prison Radio is titled, “Breonna's Deathbed.”    

 Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: An African political scientist assesses the damage inflicted by the United States military presence on the continent. An environment activist says saving the planet will require getting rid of capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy. And, a long-time prison inmate says the system is about revenge, not rehabilitation.   But first – Asha Noor is a Somali racial justice and human rights activist with the Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative. Noor says the best way to deal wtih over-policing in Black America, is to abolish the police. The Black Alliance for Peace last week held a Webinar on the U.S. global military policy and its impact on Africa. One the speakers was Aziz Fall, an African political scientist and member of the Group for Research and Initiative for the Liberation of Africa, or GRILA. The movement to defend the Earth's environment has, of necessity, become largely a movement against capitalism. We spoke with Yolian Ogbu, a student organizer of Eritrean descent who serves on the national operations team of the climate crisis organization This Is Zero Hour. Christopher Trotter is a Black man who's been behind bars for almost four decades. He filed this report for Prison Radio.  

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: What do the AIDS and Covid-19 epidemics have in common? Both diseases were much more deadly to Black Americans than to whites. We'll discuss the racist reasons for these high Black death rates. And, After hundreds of years on American shores, Black people are still fighting for basic human rights. We'll talk with a Black astrophysicist who says “we all have the right to know the universe.”   But first – Chicago is arguably ahead of most heavily Black cities in two arenas of racial struggle: the fight for community control of police, and the long battle for reparations. Toussain Losier is a professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, at Amherst. But he earned is PhD at the University of Chicago and has long experience as an activist in that city. Losier is author of a recent article, titled ““A Human Right to Reparations: Black People against Police Torture and the Roots of the 2015 Chicago Reparations Ordinance.” He's well-acquainted with the young Black Chicago activists that told a United Nations agency in Geneva that the United States is guilty of genocide against Black people. Black people are today dying in disproportionate numbers from COvid-19, just as they succumbed to HIV-AIDS at greater rates than whites, two generations ago. Darius Bost is a professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah and a co-editor of “Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.” Bost says white ignorance of actual conditions in Black communities led to mass deaths from AIDS. He's written an article titled, ““Black Lesbian Feminist Intellectuals and the Struggle against HIV/AIDS.”   Chanda Prescod-Weinstein grew up in working class East Los Angeles, but she's now a Theoretical Physicist, as well as a Feminist Theorist, at the University of New Hampshire. Doctor Prescod-Weinstein firmly believes that everyone has “the right to know the universe.” We asked her if she agrees that a physicist is one who tries to find out how WHAT IS, came to BE.

  Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Dr. Gerald Horne's new book explores the roots of white supremacy and capitalism, centuries ago, in colonialism and the slave trade. And, Malcolm X changed the way Black people saw themselves and their place in the world. We'll discuss a new book on Malcolm, title “Black-Minded.”   But first – a Minneapolis judge is moving towards jury selection in the second degree murder trial of the policeman that killed George Floyd, setting off protests that put tens of millions in the streets. At the height of the turmoil the Minneapolis City council talked about getting rid of their police force in its present form. But Sam Martinez, of the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice for Jamar Clark, says there's been no movement towards defunding or abolishing the police, and what's needed is community control of the cops.   Unprecedented numbers of Americans of all races now claim to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement. But Americans, in general, know very little about the historical development of white supremacy. Dr. Gerald Horne is a professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, and author of more than 30 books. His latest volume is titled, “The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century.” If you want to understand why Black Lives don't matter under the current system, says Dr. Horne, look to the events of five centuries ago.   More than a half century ago, Malcolm X left his indelible mark on the Black American mind. We spoke with Michael Sawyer, a professor of Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies at Colorado College, and author of a new book, titled “Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X.” Dr. Sawyer says Malcolm X shaped the modern era of Black politics – and his own way of looking at the world, as well.

 Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up:  A Black educator who put Africa at the center of his teaching is still impacting the profession, thirteen years after his death. And, some of the biggest fortunes in the world have been derived from poisoning generations of people and polluting the air, water and soil. We'll examine the lethal history of arsenic.   But first – Joy James teaches political theory, feminist theory and critical race theory at Williams College. We spoke with Prof. James about her upcoming book, on what she calls “captive caretakers” of the Black community, and her recent article, “Airbrushing Revolution for the Sake of Abolition.”  When Dr. Asa Hilliard died in 2007, the former Dean of Education at San Francisco State University and Professor of Urban Education at Georgia State University was mourned by thousands around the world. Hilliard was famed for advocating the African-izing of African American education. De Reef Jamison is a professor of African American Studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He recently published an article, titled “Asa Hilliard: Conceptualizing and Constructing an African-Centered Pedagogy."   Arsenic. It's a lot more than just the favorite weapon of sneaky murderers. Arsenic occupies a special place in the history of killer chemical agents – which is Northwestern University Phd candidate Jayson Porter's field of study. As Porter explains, arsenic has played a huge role in agriculture, manufacturing and war, ending the lives of untold numbers of insects, plants and human beings in the process.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm , along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Both the AIDS epidemic and Covid-19 inflicted disproportionate deaths in the Black community. We'll explore the reasons why. And, the second volume on a biography of the most important Black activist and intellectual that you may never have heard of, is about to published. Stay tuned to learn why you MUST know the name and works of Hubert Harrison.   But first – U.S. politicians have for generations gained power by scaring white people with threatening images Black males. President Trump is running on a platform that essentially mimics the old newspaper headline, “Black Buck Runs Amuk.” Douglas Flow is professor of History at Washington University, in St. Louis. He's written a book, titled, “Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York.” “Uncontrollable Blackness” is a provocative title. Was it planned that way?   There's nothing new about the high death toll Blacks are suffering from the Covid-19 contagion. Thirty years ago, the HIV-AIDS epidemic killed disproportionate numbers of Blacks. J.T. Roane is a Research Fellow at the Schomburg Research Center in Black Culture, in New York City. He wrote an article about AIDS and Black Philadelphia.   In the first quarter of the 20th century, an immigrant from the Virgin Islands named Hubert Harrison influenced a whole generation of Black activists, including Marcus Garvey, A. Phillip Randolph and the entire so-called “New Negro” movement. Activist and scholar Jeff Perry has spent more than a decade chronicling the life and works of Hubert Harrison, and will soon release the second volume of his biography, titled “Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality.”  

 Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: It's not September yet, so it's still “Black August,” the month when we pay respect to political prisoners held by the United States. The Black Is Back Coalition recently held a national conference on political prisoners. The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee runs a project and twitter account that empowers political prisoners to tell their own stories. And, a long-time prisoner of the state of California reports on how incarcerated people on coping with Covid-19.   But first – David West played for 15 seasons with the National Basketball Association, and is a two-time NBA All Star and NBA Champion. West is now living comfortably in California, serving as chief operating officer of the Professional Collegiate League, which aims to put money in college athletes' pockets and prepare them for a future outside of sports. It's long been common to hear Black folks say that high paid athletes should pool their capital to develop a stronger Black American economy and politics. We asked David West his take on that line of thought. August is political prisoners' month – a time to remember those captured while resisting U.S. government oppression, and to step up efforts to free those prisoners that are still behind bars. Jihad Abdulmumit is a former Black Panther who spent 23 years in prison. He's now co-chair of the Jericho Society, and a member of the Black is Back Coalition for Peace, Social Justice and Reparations. The Coalition recently held a conference under the banner, “Fight for Black Power” and “Free All Political Prisoners.” YOUR-gen Ostensen is the son of a former political prisoner. Ostenson is with the New York chapter of IWOC, the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee. He's part of IWOC's “Inside Prison Journalism” project and edits the organization's twitter page, #PrisonsKill. U.S. prisons are among the worst places to be during a pandemic. But Vice television news reporters recently shined a light on Covid-19 behind bars, and their revelations seem to have made a difference. Prison Radio has this report from the California penal system.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Black Brazilians are dying by the tens of thousands from Covid-19, and from police bullets on the streets. Slavery was all about money, and insurance companies collected their share of the profits in human flesh. And, a Black scholar says mid-wives can help reduce the high rates of death among birth-mothers and their babies.   But first – activists around the country are commemorating “Black August,” in honor of the political prisoners who are still incarcerated, half a century after the crushing of the Black Liberation Movement.  We spoke with Jihad Abdulmumit, the chairperson of the Jericho Movement, and a former Black Panther Party political prisoner who spent 23 years behind bars. The Jericho Movement is part of the Black Is Back Coalition, which this weekend holds its national conference – where Jihad Abdulmumit will speak on the significance of “Black August.”   Brazil has the largest Black population outside of Africa, and is among the top three Covid-19 hotspots on the planet, along with the United States.  Brazilian social anthropologist Jaime Amparo Alves teaches at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He's written a book on Brazilian police terror against Blacks, and is busy raising funds for Black families caught in the coronavirus epidemic. Dr. Amparo Alves notes that Blacks in Brazil and the U.S. have another thing in common: white supremacist presidents.   To send money to help Black Brazilian families survive the Coronavirus onslaught, Google UNEAFRO [OOH-Knee-Afro] Brazil. That's U-N-E-A-F-R-O Brazil.  https://benfeitoria.com/Covid19Brazil   Slavery in the United States was the nation's biggest business by far, and all of the financial sectors got their cut of the profits. Dr. Michael Ralph, director of Africana Studies at New York University, says the insurance industry was central to how white masters measured the value of their human property.    Most people in the United States were born under the care of professional doctors and nurses. But mid-wives played a huge role in child-bearing, not so long ago. Dr. Sasha Turner, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, has written a book on mid-wives and the role they played in helping Black mothers give birth, during and after slavery in the Americas. Turner says mid-wife-ing – or mid-wiffery [whiff-ery] – was the norm before professional medicine took over.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Activists have designated August 15th a national Reparations Day, with protests targeting Christopher Columbus and Donald Trump. A former political prisoner says folks are fooling themselves if they think Joe Biden will fix the criminal IN-Justice System. And, I'll have some comments on Washington's Cold War Against China.   But first – the institution of policing in the United States has been buffeted by the most massive demonstrations of the 21st century. The wave of protests began in Minneapolis, with the police killing of George Floyd. Adam Bledsoe is a Minneapolis native who teaches at the University of Minnesota. Bledsoe has put together what he calls a “Syllabus on the Minneapolis Uprising.”    The Brooklyn-based December 12th Movement is calling for a national day of demonstrations to demand reparations for slavery and racist oppression. Roger Wareham is a longtime activist and human rights lawyer.    Dhoruba Bin Wahad is a former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army political prisoner. He spent 19 years behind bars before his conviction was reversed. Bin Wahad talked politics on Dr. Jared Ball's podcast, “I Mix What I Like.”   The wave of protests against U.S. policing and prisons has been keenly followed by the nation's two million incarcerated people. Sergio Hyland filed this report for Prison Radio.    Black Agenda Report editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley took part in a globally-watched web event that called on Americans, especially, to say “No to the New Cold War.”

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: The Black Is Back Coalition will make freedom for all political prisoners the top item at its upcoming national conference. And, What is the meaning of Pan-Africanism today, in a post-colonial world?   But first—the entire planet remains in the grips of the Covid-19 contagion. The United States has fared worse than any other developed country, economically and in terms of loss of life. Everyone TALKS about how bad things are in the Age of Covid, but it's even more crucial to ask, What KIND of crisis is this? We posed that question to Anthony Monteiro, the Philadelphia-based Duboisian scholar.   The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations holds its national conference on August 15 and 16. Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela says the emphasis will be on the plight of political prisoners.   Many tens of millions of people of African descent live outside the Continent, but what does that mean, in political terms? We spoke with Jayne O. EE-FEK-WUN-EEG-WAY, a senior scholar at the Center for Genomics, Race, Identity and Difference at Duke University. She says the Africa connection means different things to different people.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: a man born to imprisoned victims of a racist police vendetta recounts his life in the Move organization. And, today's Black activists could learn something from the Maroons, who built communities of freedom outside the reach of the slave master,   Black nationalism is a potent political force, with studies showing that about half of Black Americans see themselves as a nation within a nation. Edward Oh-NAH-Chi teaches history at Ursinus College, and has written a book titled, “Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State.” Onaci says there have been calls for a separate Black nation for generations.   Mike Africa was born in a Pennsylvania prison, a captive of the long Philadelphia police vendetta against the Move organization, in 1978. After for decades behind bars, all of the surviving Move members are now free, as Mike Africa explains.   In North and South America and the Caribbean, there is a long history of escaped slaves establishing their own communities in far-off swamps and mountains. Willie Jamaal Wright is a professor of Geography and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. Wright wrote an article titled, “The Morphology of Marronage,” which explores the history of the people we call Maroons.