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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…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The Yemen Tragedy and the Ongoing Crisis of the Left in the United States
16 Sep 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka With their support for Bernie Sanders, much of the Left has decided that “lives in the White West matter more than others.” The Democratic presidential…
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…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Making Black Lives Matter in Riohacha, Colombia
02 Sep 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The organized descendants of Africans in Colombia have some lessons to share with Blacks in the U.S. For one thing, it would be “inconceivable” for any Afro-…
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…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 24, 2015
26 Aug 2015
Black U.S. Movers and Shakers in Solidarity with Palestine One thousand Black American activists, artists and academics have signed a petition backing the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (…
Jemima Pierre
Haiti: An Occupation in Blackface
19 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Jemima Pierre The U.S. invaded and occupied Haiti from 1915 to 1934, and again occupied the country in 2004 after overthrowing the democratically elected government.…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 17, 2015
18 Aug 2015
Black People Should ‘Police’ Themselves The Milwaukee chapter of BND, the Black National Defenders, hold rallies every Saturday and knock on doors in neighborhoods to engage young people in political…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Steven Salaita, Palestine and Free Speech
12 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Zionist power engenders “fear, silence and acquiescence” in every sphere of U.S. political life, making a mockery of freedom of speech and…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 10, 2015
11 Aug 2015
One-Fifth of Pennsylvania Prisoners, Including Mumia, Need Hep C Treatment Lawyers for Mumia Abu Jamal have filed suit against the State of Pennsylvania for refusing to treat the nation’s best known…