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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Reproductive Justice
01 Jul 2022
We discuss reproductive justice in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling which overturned the Roe v. Wade decision. Loretta Ross is co- author of the book Reproductive Justice, and co-founder of…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Campaign to Bring Mumia Home
01 Jul 2022
Gwen Debrow of the Campaign to Free Mumia joins to tell us what we can do to go all out for Mumia during the July 3rd nationwide actions.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
"What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" read by Ossie Davis
01 Jul 2022
On July 5, 1852 Frederick Douglass was asked to speak on the topic of the nation’s independence celebration. Now known as What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, the speech was a stinging…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democrats Exposed By the End of Roe v. Wade
29 Jun 2022
The full extent of Democratic Party treachery was exposed when the Roe v. Wade decision was overturned. Only right wing Americans have any expectation of getting what they want from the electoral…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: Revolution: It’s Not Easy, Quick, or Pretty, Pat Parker, 1980
29 Jun 2022
A 1980 speech by Black lesbian poet and activist Pat Parker provides a feminist, anti-imperialist blueprint for the present.
Erica Caines
Punch Left Move Right: Stacey Abrams and the Democratic Party Shuffle
29 Jun 2022
Stacey Abrams's campaign to become Governor of Georgia features the popular democratic strategy of pretending to be progressive while advocating for right wing issues, such as allocating more money…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Terrible Origins of July 4th
29 Jun 2022
The causes of the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence are rarely taught in this country. The American colonists chafed under British rules limiting their settlements and feared they…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio June 24, 2022
24 Jun 2022
Leftist formation wins Colombian presidential election, the effort to end involuntary servitude in U.S. prisons, the impeachment of a Black legislator in Brazil, and the nature of fascism and need…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Involuntary Servitude in the Prison System
24 Jun 2022
Savannah Eldrige is the founder of Coaliton to Abolish Slavery in Texas, an organization devoted to ending involuntary servitude in that state. She is also the founder of Be Frank 4 Justice which…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
INTERVIEW: Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer by Jack O’Dell, 1965
22 Jun 2022
A 1965 Freedomways interview with Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer provides an unvarnished and unsentimental portrait of Mississippi – and of the tasks of the Freedom Movement.