African America

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Call for a General Strike Beginning May 1st
06 Apr 2020
Cooperation Jackson, based in Jackson, Mississippi, issued the call and list of demands to protect the people from both the virus and disaster capitalism.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for week of March 30, 2020
30 Mar 2020
COVID-19 May Trigger a “Crisis of Legitimacy”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Mumia: Things Fall Apart
30 Mar 2020
Citing the novel by Chinua Achebe, political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal notes: “We see outside our doors, our windows, a world we did not know, that now exists.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Can Black Marxists Imagine the Unimaginable?
30 Mar 2020
“There’s always something new that we couldn’t anticipate,” said Minkah Makalani, professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Bernie Sanders’ Socialism Isn’t the Real Thing
30 Mar 2020
When North Carolina writer and activist Joshua Briond was introduced to the words, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,” he knew that Be
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
COVID-19 May Trigger a “Crisis of Legitimacy”
30 Mar 2020
Can the corporate state hold, “or will it collapse under the weight of mass opposition and mass ‘distancing’ from the authority of the state?” asks Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteir
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 23, 2020
24 Mar 2020
Black Trillion Dollar “Buying Power” is a Capitalist Hoax
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Too Fast to Be a Woman
24 Mar 2020
When South African track star Caster Semenya won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, critics claimed “she was cheating and had no right to compete with other women” because she performed more
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
James Baldwin’s African Awakening
24 Mar 2020
Although famed writers James Baldwin never wrote a book entirely about Africa in his long career, his later works show him awakening to “the potential of Black internationalism” with the decoloniza
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Trillion Dollar “Buying Power” is a Capitalist Hoax
24 Mar 2020
For decades, politicians and business people have claimed that, if only African Americans used their alleged trillion dollar consumer purchasing power wisely, Blacks would make great economic and p