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  • Dr. Margaret Flowers
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Doctors Back Single Payer
    22 Aug 2017
    A new survey shows 56 percent of U.S. doctors now favor establishment of a single payer healthcare system. Only a minority of physicians opted for single payer back in 2008. Dr.
  • Kamm Howard
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Black Political Class "Illegitimate"
    22 Aug 2017
    Veteran activist Kamm Howard, speaking at the national conference of the Black Is Back Coalition, in Chicago, said data show Black peoples’ two main “desires” are reparations and self-determination
  • Mumia Abu Jamal: Tear Down These Walls
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Tear Down Those Prison Walls
    22 Aug 2017
    In an essay for Prison Radio, Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal said the U.S.
  • BA Radio August 15, 2017
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 15, 2017
    16 Aug 2017
    Black Control of the Police is a Democratic Right
  • Diop Olugbula
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Black Control of the Police is a Democratic Right
    16 Aug 2017
    The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations held its annual conference in Chicago, highlighting its 19-point National Black Political Agenda for Self-Determination.
  • Frank Chapman
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Black Chicago Politicians are “in the Mayor’s Pocket”
    16 Aug 2017
    Frank Chapman is part of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.  His organization is pushing a measure to take “all the power away from the mayor, away from the independ
  • Albert St. Jean
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Flipping the Script on the NYPD
    16 Aug 2017
    When the New York City Police Department held a community-oriented “Night Out Against Crime” in The Bronx, activists with the Freedom Cities movement staged a “Night of Safety and Liberation” count
  • Cedric Johnson
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Political Scientist Rejects Organizing Based on “Purely Ethnic Affinity”
    16 Aug 2017
    Cedric Johnson, a political scientist and associate professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago, has no confidence in the long term effectiveness of organizing ba
  • free mumia abu jamal
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Mumia: Trump’s America Shows Its Nasty Butt
    16 Aug 2017
    The events in Charlottesville, Virginia, reveal the raw racism endemic to the United States, said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, in an essay for Prison Radio.
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    08 Aug 2017
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