Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 19, 2020
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
19 Oct 2020
🖨️ Print Article

Margaret Kimberley · Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 19, 2020

Protests in Minneapolis Disrupted by Orange-Shirted “Collaborators” with Cops

A group calling themselves “violence interrupters” played a role in the October 7 arrest of 50 protesters demanding community control of police, said Jae Yates, of the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice for Jamar. “They are paid,” said Yates. “We know that this is a city council initiative.” During massive protests in June, members of the Minneapolis city council promised to disband the police force, but have since backed off that position. Yates says her group will “confront” the orange shirts and “tell them to leave” if they show up again at demonstrations.

Anti-Blackness Spread by Global Capital

The ideology of anti-Blackness is both a prerequisite to the rise of capitalism and a product of its spread around the world, said Adam Bledsoe, a professor of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota. “What we see today is very much a continuation of the colonial project,” said Bledsoe. Global capital ascribes “value to populations in a differential way,” with Black populations assigned the lowest value.

LGBTQ Newsletter Surveys Prison Conditions

The newsletter for the prison abolition organization Black and Pink sent out a 133-page questionnaire to incarcerated LGBTQ persons, earlier this year, so that “we can laser beam solutions to the needs of these individuals,” said organizer Fatima Shabazz, a trans woman. Among the findings of the questionnaire: 85 percent of respondents have spent time in solitary confinement, half of them for two years or more. Black and Pink claims 20,000 members in 13 chapters around the country.

Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network is hosted by Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford. A new edition of the program airs every Monday at 11:am ET on PRN. Length: one hour.

Black Agenda Radio

Related Podcasts

Black Agenda Radio
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio March 8, 2024
08 March 2024
This week, Deborah Jones and Thandisizwe Chimurenga joins us to discuss the book, "What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman", an
Black Agenda Radio April 1, 2022
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio April 1, 2022
01 April 2022
Left Voices are Censored
 Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 19, 2021
Blsck Agenda Radio with Maergaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 19, 2021
21 July 2021
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 19, 2021 Class Struggle Shapes Haiti Political Conflict

More Stories


  •  G7 is a Neocolonial Cabal
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
    G7 is a Neocolonial Cabal
    21 Jun 2021
    The recently concluded summit meeting of so-called G7 nations revealed them once again to be nothing “but a cabal and gangsters” bent on “maintaining neocolonial rule” of the planet, said R
  •  Make Black Lives Matter Fund-Raising Socially Accountable
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
    Make Black Lives Matter Fund-Raising Socially Accountable
    21 Jun 2021
    “Finance capital doesn’t fund liberation movements,” said Dr Joy James, the Williams College Humanities professor who moderated a recent Accountability in Social Justice Movements
  • Freedom Ride: How Not to Celebrate Juneteenth
    Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
    Freedom Ride: How Not to Celebrate Juneteenth
    16 Jun 2021
    Juneteenth has become the latest iteration of liberal capture of Black politics, opportunistic virtue signaling, and the intentional misrepresentation of America’s history.
  • Independent Media is Political, Too: A Defense of “State” or Publicly-Funded Media
    Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
    Independent Media is Political, Too: A Defense of “State” or Publicly-Funded Media
    16 Jun 2021
    It is imperative for independent journalism to serve as the media arm of a movement that opposes the privatization of information and works toward the development of a public media apparatus.
  • REPORT: Murdering Women in Nigeria, Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe, May 1930
    Editors, The Black Agenda Review
    REPORT: Murdering Women in Nigeria, Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe, May 1930
    16 Jun 2021
    British colonial officials turned their guns on women in two Nigerian towns in the 1920s, to put down protests against “head” taxes and levies on market stalls, killing scores. 
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us