Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

The People Versus Whirlpool in Benton Harbor
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
22 May 2018
🖨️ Print Article

The giant Whirlpool Corporation, which has long dominated the politics of 90 percent Black Benton Harbor, Michigan, “has not paid taxes” to the city for years, said Rev. Edward Pinkney. Whirlpool’s pet project is the annual PGA golf tournament in the overwhelmingly poor town. On May 26, protesters will demand that 25 percent of all profits from the venture be turned over to community organizations.

#Black Liberation Movement

Related Podcasts

 Black Political Party Puts Grassroots Organizing First
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Political Party Puts Grassroots Organizing First
08 February 2021
Although the Baltimore-based Ujima People’s Progress Party has engaged in electoral politics during its decade of operations, its focus is grassroo
 Activists Seed Public Schools With Black Liberation Curriculum
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Activists Seed Public Schools With Black Liberation Curriculum
08 February 2021
The Ida B Wells Education Project has begun “centering Black liberation movements” in the classroom curriculum of a growing number of public school
 Black Is Back Coalition: “Black Power Matters”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Is Back Coalition: “Black Power Matters”
16 November 2020
“The struggle has to be more than simply a declaration of our significance as human beings, as in the term ‘Black Lives Matter,’” said Omal

More Stories


  • We’ll Have to Fight Corporate Democrats for Medicare for All
    Margaret Flowers
    ​​​​​​​We’ll Have to Fight Corporate Democrats for Medicare for All
    18 Nov 2020
    We must not allow the Democrats to weaken our demand that every person in the United States have access to the care they need.
  • Torture Survivor Jackie Wilson Exonerated in Pandemic Murder Trial
    Flint Taylor
    Torture Survivor Jackie Wilson Exonerated in Pandemic Murder Trial
    18 Nov 2020
    Wilson’s 40-year ordeal has ended, but his attorneys hope to make Chicago prosecutors pay for their crimes.
  • Letters of Life from Slow Death Row
    David Gilbert
    Letters of Life from Slow Death Row
    18 Nov 2020
    Tiyo Attallah Salah-El’s exemplary life (without parole) is testament to the human spirit and the cause of abolition.
  •  Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 16, 2020
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
    Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 16, 2020
    16 Nov 2020
    BLM National Leadership Focused on Money and Careers
  •  The Mulatta in White Brazilian and US Imaginations
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
    The Mulatta in White Brazilian and US Imaginations
    16 Nov 2020
    “The mixed Black figure, the mulatta” is “a central focus of containing and managing Blackness and upholding whiteness” in both Brazil and the United States, said Jasmine Mitchell,
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us