U.S. Housing Policy “Absurd”
Federal housing policy “defies any kind of rational logic” with its “overwhelming focus on homeowners” while neglecting the dire plight of renters, says Keeanga-Yamahta Taylor of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign. “We confront the absurdity of empty housing, a growing homeless population, and a growing population of people who are evicted.”
Black Cops Back Proposition 19
The National Black Police Association has joined with others in law enforcement in support of November’s referendum on legalization of marijuana. “More white people use drugs, more white people sell drugs, but more Black people get arrested,” said association executive director Ronald Hampton.
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Blacks are closing the “happiness gap” with whites, says University of Pennsylvania researcher Justin Wolfers. Although not as “happy” as whites, African Americans are significantly happier than they were in the 1970s.
Plus…
Jared Ball marks the passing of young, gifted, female and Black Green Party mover and shaker Natasha Pettigrew, and Glen Ford presents a background report on Newark Mayor Cory Booker, the Black Trojan Horse for the most reactionary moneybags in America.
Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network is hosted by Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey. A new edition of the program airs every Monday at 4:00pm ET on PRN. Length: One hour.
In hopes of getting rid of Trump, progressives have followed Trump to the right.
Biden always obliges Trump by denying that he will do anything that rank and file Democrats want and that would in fact increase his odds of winning.
Neoliberal capitalism is incapable of containing the pandemic or facilitating an economic recovery for the masses.
Rhythms of red, white, blue ‘party’ lights flashing beneath screaming sirens; The rush of warm crimson drawing 2, 4, 6, 8, 10—and then some…
The carceral class is made up of persons of African descent who are systematically stigmatized as unfit for freedom and deserving of the dehumanization that comes with being incarcerated.
