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Anti-Blackness Throughout the Americas
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
06 Oct 2020
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Margaret Kimberley · Anti-Blackness Throughout the Americas

Anti-Blackness is the common denominator underlying Black people’s high rates of death from poverty, disease and police violence on both continents of the western hemisphere, said Jameelah Imani Morris, an activist-scholar working on her PhD at Stanford University. Like the United States, many nations of Latin America were “established on violence” against Black and indigenous people, said Morris.

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