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Black Agenda Radio July 1, 2022
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
01 Jul 2022
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Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Radio July 1, 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 SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective.

Gwen Debrow of the Campaign to Free Mumia joins to tell us what we can do to go all out for Mumia Abu Jamal during the July 3rd nationwide actions.

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 indictment of slavery in the U.S., but the words are still relevant to Black people 170 years later. The late Ossie Davis read excerpts from Douglass’s remarks.

Slavery in U.S.

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