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

Two Black Martyrs' Mothers Confront Black Lives Matter
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
06 Apr 2021
🖨️ Print Article

Margaret Kimberley · Two Black Martyr’s Mothers Confront Black Lives Matter

Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice, the 12 year-old killed by Cleveland cops in 2014, has teamed up with Lisa Simpson, mother of Richard Risher, the 18 year-old gunned down by Los Angeles police in 2016, to demand accountability from the cash-rich Black Lives Matter organization. “Those people got $90 million, and all they did was uplift” police victims’ names, but “took care of no communities and no families.” The mothers are demanding a meeting with Patrisse Cullors and Tamika D. Mallory to address a whole range of proposals on the future of the Black liberation movement. 

Black Lives Matter movement

Related Podcasts

Black Agenda Radio July 8, 2022
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black Agenda Radio July 8, 2022
08 July 2022
U.S.
Atlantic City's Black Community Fights for Justice
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Atlantic City's Black Community Fights for Justice
08 July 2022
On July 4, 2020, seven Black men were arrested while protesting the police killing of George Floyd.
 Make Black Lives Matter Fund-Raising Socially Accountable
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Make Black Lives Matter Fund-Raising Socially Accountable
21 June 2021
“Finance capital doesn’t fund liberation movements,” said Dr Joy James, the Williams College Humanities professor who moderated a

More Stories


  • Islam, Politics and Black Music
    Norman Richmond aka Jalali
    Islam, Politics and Black Music
    27 Sep 2017
    Africans on the Continent and in the Diaspora have been attracted to Islam.
  • Black Agenda Radio, week of September 25, 2017
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Black Agenda Radio, Week of September 25, 2017
    27 Sep 2017
    Omali Yeshitela on rescuing the movement from its rut, Ajamu Baraka on the black political clawss's endorsement of the Trump war budget, Margaret Kimberley on the white supremacist experiment that
  • In Venezuela, the Military Stands with the People
    Carlos Aznárez
    In Venezuela, the Military Stands with the People
    27 Sep 2017
    “Chávez created this philosophy, which is anti-imperialist and also humanist.”
  • Omaili Yeshitela
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Black Movement in a Rut?
    27 Sep 2017
    Black Is Back Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela worries that a disturbing “new norm” is setting into the cycle of police atrocities and Black community response. Speaking in St.
  • Ajamu Baraka
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Black Caucus Backs Trump’s War Budget
    26 Sep 2017
    Democrats detest everything about Donald Trump -- except his war policies, said Ajamu Baraka, the former Green Party vice presidential nominee and spokesperson for the Black Allian
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us