Market Meltdown Stalls Whitening of Harlem: Gentrifiers Go Bust
A Black Agenda Radio interview with Nellie Hester-Bailey, executive director, Harlem Tenants Council by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford
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The financial crisis has at least temporarily stalled the ethnic cleansing of Harlem by predatory developers and the investment banksters that back them. However, the gentrifiers’ champion, billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg, seeks to win another term in office in order to finish the racial and class makeover of Harlem and other non-white communities. He is abetted by a host of “supine” Black office-holders ever eager to displace their own people.
Dahoud Andre joins us from KOMOKODA, the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti.
We're joined by Imani Umoja of the PAIGC (African Party of Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde) and the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, the steering committee of the Black Alliance for…
The presence of CARICOM in Haiti to mediate talks is believed to be merely a smokescreen to further deceive the popular masses and continue the ruin of the country.
Margaret Kimberley spoke with Jennifer Bates, an organizer with the BAmazon Union, at the Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference (SHROC) which was recently held in Nashville, a…
An end of the year radical Black reading list from the editors of The Black Agenda Review.
