US Politics

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
AFRICOM Causes Humanitarian Crises on Two Continents
05 Jan 2021
Under the guise of helping fight the Boko Haram, the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) has helped the French-speaking West African government of Cameroon wage war against its English-speaking popula
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Only a “Transformational” Electoral Politics is Useful
05 Jan 2021
Ajamu Baraka, national organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace and 2016 Green Party vice presidential candidate, said electoral politics should be treated as a “strategic questio
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Pandemic Reveals Crisis of US Imperialism
05 Jan 2021
“I think what we are looking at is a severely wounded, crippled US imperialism as the chief hegemon of world capitalism,” said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black Is Back Coalit
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
South African Police More Lethal Than US Cops
05 Jan 2021
“South African police kill between two and three times as many people as US police do, per capita,” said Paul Clarke, a doctoral candidate in African and American Studies who has d
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 28, 2020
29 Dec 2020
South African Police More Lethal Than US Cops
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Corporate Baseball’s “Feeble” Gesture to Negro Leagues
29 Dec 2020
Major League Baseball’s recent moves to recognize the contributions of the Negro league teams they once excluded amount to only “the beginning stages of any kind of restitutive or reparative justic
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Capitalism + Covid-19 = Mass Death in US
29 Dec 2020
“The US health system has failed utterly and completely to protect the people” in this country, said veteran activist Sara Flounders, co-editor with Lee Siu Hin of the new, 50-writ
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
South African Police More Lethal Than US Cops
29 Dec 2020
“South African police kill between two and three times as many people as US police do, per capita,” said Paul Clarke, a doctoral candidate in African and American Studies who has d
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 21, 2020
22 Dec 2020
Stokely Carmichael’s Black Power Meets African Liberation
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Sex was Central to Dutch West Indies Anti-Colonial Politics
22 Dec 2020
Sexual issues were loudly debated among anti-colonial activists in the Dutch Caribbean colonies of Curaçao and Aruba, said Chelsea Shields, a history professor at the City Universi