Black Urban Crises and Push-Out “Engineered” | Black Agenda Report

Black Urban Crises and Push-Out “Engineered”

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford

13 Apr 2021

🖨️ Print Article

Margaret Kimberley · Black Urban Crises and Push-Out “Engineered”

Dr David Stovall, author of an article titled, “Engineered Conflict: School Closings, Public Housing, Law Enforcement and the Future of Black Life,” said “one of the ways to attract business interests to cities is to displace those people who you have deemed to be dangerous or politically harmful” – meaning, Blacks. Stovall, a professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an organizer with the Peoples Education Movement, notes that the Black population in Chicago has been steadily declining since the turn of the 21st century.

More Stories

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Shaky Joe Biden, Billionaire Bloomberg, and the Global Race to the Bottom
23 Jan 2020
Bloomberg has put himself and his fortune into the contest to rally his (ruling) classmates to the task of shoring up corporate control of the Party if Sanders seizes the top spot.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Internet Does Washington’s Dirty Work
22 Jan 2020
As long as the internet is in private hands it should be seen as a “frenemy” -- a useful resource that can also be wielded as a weapon.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
White Supremacy and War Are Vise Grips Strangling the Working Class: What we Can Learn from China
22 Jan 2020
The same white supremacist ideology that dehumanizes Black Americans also steers the US Empire’s regime of endless war abroad.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The New York Fed’s Financial Stranglehold on Iraq
22 Jan 2020
The US is threatening to seize Iraq’s oil revenues if Baghdad expels American troops.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
No, he did-ant—call her Pocahontas—did he?!
22 Jan 2020
"I’m a capitalist to my bones…” - Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-MA No, the dumb Don did-ant call Hocus-Pocus, “Pocahontas—“ did he?!