Jaribu Hill is Director of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights. She joins us to discuss a Mississippi political scandal involving a former governor who gave millions of dollars in funds from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to political cronies and even to a multi-millionaire former football star. In addition, the city of Jackson has been without clean water for more than a week. She joins us from Greenville to talk about Mississippi politics and how these two scandals came about.
Historian Johanna Fernández makes the case for the Young Lords as profound thinkers as well as highly capable street activists.
The lockdown included bans on any sales of alcohol and cigarettes and even barred exercises outside the home.
The IMF refused a COVID–19 emergency loan to Venezuela unless it agreed to overthrow President Maduro and installs the Washington-backed Juan Guaidó.
Elders and already sick folks are at risk down South, the Blackest region of the nation with the worst health care.
COVID-19 May Trigger a “Crisis of Legitimacy”
