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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio May 30, 2025
30 May 2025
In this week’s segment we talk about jails and prisons in New York City and State and the end of city control of the infamous Rikers Island jail. But first a Washington DC activist analyzes how the…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Afeni on Fighting the Bipartisan Fascist Consensus
30 May 2025
Afeni is an activist and lead organizer with Herb and Temple in Washington, DC. She joins us from Oakland to discuss politics in the U.S. and how the people can fight the fascism produced by the…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Belief in American Exceptionalism is a Bipartisan Affair
04 Aug 2023
Glen Ford analyzed a 2019 Democratic Party presidential debate and points out that support for U.S. aggression towards Venezuela and other nations is a bipartisan project.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Electoral Politics Subvert the Peoples Needs
18 Nov 2022
President Joe Biden’s student loan debt relief plan has been declared unconstitutional by a federal judge.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
For African/Black Working Class and Colonized Peoples, Midterm Elections in the U.S. Offer No Relief from War, Repression and Capitalist Misery
09 Nov 2022
The 50 year old neo-liberal agenda explains why political choices in this country provide little change that benefits the masses of people. The recent midterm election results will not bring about an…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Why Democrats Don't Win The Way They Should
09 Nov 2022
The people prefer the initiatives which democrtatic party leadership claim to support. But their interests are those of the oligarchy and not of the voters. Slim margins of legislative victory…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio November 4, 2022
04 Nov 2022
Black politics in Pennsylvania and the mid-term elections, the Play Cousins Collective serves Black families in Louisville, Kentucky, and in New York City, Dr. Al-Fatah Stewart fights for justice and…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Politics and the 2022 Mid-Term Elections
04 Nov 2022
Dr. Anthony Monteiro is a Duboisian scholar and founder of the Saturday Free School for Philosophy and Black Liberation, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. He joins us from Philadelphia…
Dr.Wilmer J. Leon, III
Reagan’s “Shining City on a Hill” Was Really a Mirage
26 Jan 2022
It is best to be wary when American politicians create expressions like "shining city on a hill." One of Reagan's signature phrases has been reused time and again by republicans and democrats a
Daniel Melo
Democrats and Trading People for Political Power
26 Jan 2022
Electoral politics in this country is a cover for oligarchic rule. Democratic party victories provide very little material benefit for the people they depend upon for support.