Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 12, 2018
The Chains That Bound Blacks and Indigenous Americans
Blacks and Native Americans share a history of enslavement at the hands of European settlers, said Dr. Gerald Horne, professor of history and African American studies at the University of Houston and author of the new book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean. âThe nature of ethnic cleansing in North America not only involved mass murder; it also involved mass enslavement,â said Horne. âYou can find, today, Native American DNA all over the world, because they were sent to the slave markets of Turkey, to Madagascar â all over the world.â
Ethnic Cleansing is Still U.S. Policy
âThe Black Misleadership Classâ acts as âagents and collaboratorsâ in the planned shrinkage of Black and brown populations, said veteran tenants organizer and Black Agenda Radio host Nellie Bailey, at a Tribunal on Ethnic Cleansing of the Black Community, in New York City. Father Frank Morales, an activist Episcopal priest, said, âWe have to create heat on the street, with masses of people. Then weâll see some changes.â
Happy Birthday, Jericho Movement!
The organization created by and for U.S. political prisoners -- most of them Black Panthers, some incarcerated for nearly 50 years -- marks its 20th anniversary, March 24. The Jericho Movement has taken the struggle to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. âWeâre trying to organize on an international level,â said co-chair Jihad Abdulmumit, âso that the world can see whatâs going on with our freedom fighters.â
Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network is hosted by Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey. A new edition of the program airs every Monday at 11:am ET on PRN. Length: one hour.
Marco Rubio's Munich speech was a declaration of war wrapped in nostalgia for the old white "supremacist" world order.
The U.S. and Israel are rogue states whose existence threatens international peace and security.
The difference between the responses to the U.S. and Israeli bombings of Iran by grassroots Chavista organizations and the Venezuelan government demonstrates the importance of people's movements,âŚ
The media cycle has moved on, but the family of Wali âGrillzâ Bey is still waiting for answers after his murder by Newark Police.
Black workers built a strong U.S. labor movement. They now endure plant closings, deindustrialization, and low-wage work as a result of neo-liberal policies.
