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Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 1, 2016
02 Feb 2016
A Reprieve for “Child Lifers” in Prison Thousands of inmates serving life sentences for crimes committed when they were juveniles may be eligible for release from prison in the wake of a U.S. Supreme…
The Clintons: “We Came, We Stole, Haitians Died”
27 Jan 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The Haitian people’s furious resistance to yet another fraudulent presidential election has scuttled U.S. plans to replace “Sweet Mickey…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 18, 2016
19 Jan 2016
U.S. Demands Global Respect, But Disrespects Its Own Black Citizens President Obama’s polices, “both foreign and domestic, are the same as any leader of the Empire,” said South Carolina activist and…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 21, 2015
21 Dec 2015
Michigan Water Crisis Rooted in Crisis of Democracy In majority Black Flint, Michigan, the mayor has declared a state of emergency due to unsafe water, while in mostly Black Detroit tens of thousands…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 9, 2015
10 Nov 2015
A Movement in Need of Vision and Ideology Hundreds of activists will converge on Philadelphia’s Temple University, January 8-10, under the banner “Reclaiming Our Future: The Black Radical Tradition…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 2, 2015
03 Nov 2015
Kick the Cops Out of Schools Parents and citizens outraged at the manhandling of a 16 year-old female high school student by a white policeman in Richland County, South Carolina, are pressing for…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 28, 2015
27 Oct 2015
Three Days of Protest Against Police Violence in New York City The Stop Mass Incarceration Network’s Rise Up October campaign brought thousands into the streets of New York for three days of actions…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 21, 2015
22 Sep 2015
What Price Reparations? Based on calculations by University of Connecticut researcher Thomas Craemer, reparations to African Americans for slavery would cost between $5.9 trillionand $14.2…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 7, 2015
08 Sep 2015
Solitary Confinement to be Sharply Curtailed in California A settlement between activist inmates and California prison officials will sharply limit the use of solitary confinement in the state. “I do…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 31, 2015
01 Sep 2015
Blacks Disenfranchised by School Takeovers “Black and brown communities are being stripped of democracy” by state takeovers of their school systems, said Keron Blair, executive director of the…