An Against the Grain Interview with Prof. Jay Arena
In this Against the Grain interview, about 50 minutes, Jay Arena outlines the process of destroying public housing in New Orleans and more broadly across the country, with particular attention to the roles played by not for profit organizations and black elites carrying out the neoliberal agenda of gentrification.
This interview was broadcast recently on KPFA Berkeley, and can be found online, with hundreds more like it at Against the Grain Radio, http://againstthegrain.org.
BLM National Leadership Focused on Money and Careers
âThe mixed Black figure, the mulattaâ is âa central focus of containing and managing Blackness and upholding whitenessâ in both Brazil and the United States, said Jasmine Mitchell,
âThe struggle has to be more than simply a declaration of our significance as human beings, as in the term âBlack Lives Matter,ââ said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black Is Bac
Breya Johnson, co-chair of Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) in Washington, DC, said her organization enjoys a âworking relationshipâ with the local Black Lives Matter chapter, but
A significant portion of Black males are âcontrariansâ that take positions at odds with the general Black political consensus â while Black women tend to take the communal approach.
