Part Two: Speakers at the UNAC Conference in Richmond, Virginia
Ralph Poynter, New Abolitionist Movement; husband of the late political prisoner and people’s lawyer, Lynne Stewart
Ajamu Baraka, co-founder, Black Alliance for Peace; editor and columnist, Black Agenda Report; Green Party 2016 vice-presidential candidate
Larry Hamm, co-founder and chairman, People’s Organization for Progress, Newark, New Jersey
Margaret Kimberley, member of UNAC administrative committee; editor and senior columnist, Black Agenda Report
Jaribu Hill, Founder and Executive Director of the Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights
The US attacks other nations with bombs, coups, sanctions, and also by corrupting the law around the world.
The chief of the Memphis, Tennessee police department took part in trainings in Israel. These exchanges with an apartheid state are a training ground for brutality.
This week we learn about the destruction of a Black community in Portland, Oregon and the legal efforts at restitution, and the struggle to fight for reform of the cash bail system in Minnesota. But…
Isaac Saney is a Cuba and Black studies specialist and historian at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
We now turn to a discussion of Albina, a Black community in Portland, Oregon which was devastated by so-called urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s. The final blow came in the early 1970s, when an…
