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When the Pew Center recently polled African Americans it found that a solid majority of us now believe that historic gaps between black and white incomes, wages, along with disparites in health, wealth, morbidity, mortality and more are closing. Both the Pew Center and Ford agree this is good news, except for one thing. It's not true. Black unemployment is the highest it's been in 70 years and rising, and all the gaps between blacks and whites are further widening, not the other way around. The only thing that's changed is we now have a black face in the White House...
This was the 2018 Black Agenda Report panel at the 2018 Left Forum in NYC. The participants took part in other panels and presentations as well, which we will showcase in coming weeks.
“Everybody knows that the bankers are criminal, and everybody hates the banks.”
“It is interesting that she gets scrutiny for all the wrong reasons.”
The following is an edited version of remarks delivered to the Black Agenda Report panel on “Russiagate: Muzzling the Black Left and the March to War,”at the Left Forum, in New York Ci
“Russia has friendly relations with Israel, and more than a million Russian Jews emigrated to Israel, but Iran is a strategic ally of Russia.”
