“We need revolutionary change in this country,” said Ajamu Baraka, the veteran human rights activist who ran for vice president on the Green Party ticket and is currently organizing the Black Alliance for Peace. The Democratic Party has been “the main impediment for us developing the kind of radical, oppositional politics and consciousness that we have to build,” said Baraka, an editor and columnist for Black Agenda Report. “Most of our community understand where the Republicans are coming from, but it has been the Democratic Party that has been the source of ideological confusion” in Black America.
Israel faces South Africa in International Court of Justice, Biden uses Black church as a backdrop, and a federal judge rules in favor of voter eligibility challenges.
Richard Medhurst, independent journalist, joins to discuss events in Gaza as the International Court of Justice prepares considers South Africa’s invoking the genocide convention against Israel.
Marcus McDonald, lead organizer with Charleston Black Lives Matter and Tamara, Palestinian American organizer with Free Palestine Charleston, join to discuss how an historic Black church was used for…
Andrew Garber of the Brennan Center joins us to discuss a Georgia judge’s decision in favor of True the Vote, an organization whose mass challenges of voter eligibility limit the franchise,…
Most Martin Luther King birthday celebrations are tawdry displays of political cynicism and cooptation. The people must recapture the day from war criminals and their Black misleadership puppets
