“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.
Tunde Osazua joins us from Atlanta to talk about the Stop Cop City movement and why it matters to the entire country.
We discuss the March 25th meeting, Join the Green Transformation, a Green Party of New York County effort to mobilize left voters.
Proposed changes to 2030 Census questions on race and ethnicity would improve fairness and accuracy.
Kevin Alexander Gray was a contributor and good friend to the Black Agenda Report team. His passing is a huge loss to BAR, and to the Black liberation movement.
A human cause of covid-19 is possible, but anti-China rhetoric is war propaganda, not scientific evidence.
