Black Agenda Radio, June 23, 2010
Catastrophe
Locked in a dance of mutual culpability with BP, the Obama administration flounders while the Gulf is slowly murdered. Conveners of the Gulf Emergency Summit vow, "We must not allow the Gulf and oceans to be devastated. Our mission is nothing less than stopping this catastrophe."
Violence Pushes Down Black Test Scores
A new study by sociologist Patrick Sharkey shows Black students’ test scores plummet in the days after a homicide in their neighborhood. Data gathered from the Chicago public schools shows no similar pattern among Latino students.
Chomsky on Haiti
Linguist and activist Noam Chomsky regaled a crowd at New York’s Riverside Church with a generation-by-generation chronicle of United States’ torture of the Haitian people. “In 1990, the Haitians committed a serious crime,” said Chomsky. “There was a free election, and they voted the wrong way.”
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Uncommitted Movement leaders numerous times openly endorsed Harris, whose Zionist and equally genocidal track record and policies are clear and have been throughout her career.
Chuck D was once seen as a rapper with the politics to back up his lyrics. But in recent years he has thrown his hat in the ring with the Department of State, acting as a willing agent of the U.S.…
Listening to his speech at the Democratic National Convention, contradictions emerged.
This week, we hear from the co-authors of a new book about the growth of militarized policing facilities. Also, we revisit commentary from 2018, which explains that Washington’s support for apartheid…
Dahoud Andre, with KOMOKODA, joins us for a conversation about Bwa Kayiman, the ceremony that launched the Haitian revolution, and its lasting legacy.
