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Kamala Harris and the Failure of Black Political Imagination
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
16 Aug 2024
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Black Agenda Radio · Kamala Harris and the Failure of Black Political Imagination

Our guest is Jon Jeter. In addition to his contributions to Black Agenda Report, he is a former foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, the author of Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People, and the co-author of A Day Late and a Dollar Short: Dark Days and Bright Nights in Obama's Postracial America. He joins us from Washington to talk about the state of US politics and his soon-to-be-published book, Class War in America: How the Elites Divide the Nation By Asking Are You a Worker or Are You White?

Black politics
labor
Class struggle

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