African America

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…
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…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio June 17, 2022
17 Jun 2022
A Washington DC Black Lives Matter organizer's efforts to prove police surveillance, of her activities, an anti-imperialist summit countered the U.S. narrative at Summit of the Americas, a defense…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Lives Matter Organizer Under Police Surveillance
17 Jun 2022
April Goggans is an organizer with Black Lives Matter DC. She filed a Freedom of Information act request with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington in order to determine the extent of…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Anti-Imperialist Summit
17 Jun 2022
Erica Caines is Co-Coordinator of the Black Alliance for Peace Haiti and the Americas Committee. She is also co-editor of the Hood Communist blog. She discusses the recent anti-imperialist summit…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
A Guantanamo Defense Attorney Speaks
17 Jun 2022
Bryan Bullock is an Indiana based attorney who specializes in employment discrimination and civil rights cases. But from 2005 to 2011 he served as habeas counsel for 3 detainees held at Guantanamo…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
January 6 Hearings
17 Jun 2022
The congressional hearings investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol are a diversion for desperate democrats. They also ignore the constant threat of mob violence caused by racist…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Number of Police Killings in 2022 Outpace 2021
10 Jun 2022
Police killings continue at a rate of more than 1,000 per year in the U.S., with 2022 numbers outpacing those of 2021. Sam Simyangwe of Mapping Police Violence provides analysis of the death toll and…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio June 3, 2022
03 Jun 2022
The effort to end qualified immunity in New York, rezoning and housing in Harlem, and the National Day Laborers Organinizing Network at the People's Summit.