US Politics

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Black Scholar Praises Heroes and Indicts “Scoundrels” of McCarthy Era
02 Mar 2020
The peace activists that were persecuted in the McCarthy era were not fighting just for the absence of war, but were “anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist and demanded an end to United
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Last Surviving Member of the Move 9 is Released
02 Mar 2020
Delbert Africa, imprisoned along with eight other members of the Move organization in 1978 in the death of a Philadelphia policeman, is finally free to “tell his story,” said Mumia Abu
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“Respectable” Black Women Fought Mass Incarceration
02 Mar 2020
Back in the days when 90 percent of southern prison inmates were Black, socially conservative Black clubwomen fought for prison reform, believing that “putting Black women in jail was hurting the B
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If the Left Doesn’t Critique Endless War, Who Will?
02 Mar 2020
“We must raise the issues of war and imperialism in electoral politics in this country,” even if the Democrats don’t, said BAR senior columnist Margaret Kimberley, speaking at
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 24, 2020
25 Feb 2020
Black Oppression is Environmental Injustice
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 24, 2020
25 Feb 2020
Black Oppression is Environmental Injustice
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia Speaks on the Cops and Today’s Deadly Economy
25 Feb 2020
The nation’s best known political prisoner sees parallels between the plight of today’s low wage workers and conditions during the Great Depression, when workers were brutalized for seeking unioniz
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Blacks Continue to Die on the Alter of White Womanhood
25 Feb 2020
Although Emmet Till and Trayvon Martin were killed 57 years apart, both of the Black teenagers died for the same reasons, said Angela Onwuachi-Willig, a dean and professor at
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One Dollar Bail, But Still in Jail
25 Feb 2020
Despite the abolition of bail for many offenses in New York State, thousands of people remain lockup up because of hurdles created by bureaucracy and hostile jail personnel, said Amand
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Black Oppression is Environmental Injustice
25 Feb 2020
The definition of environmental racism must be broadened to include such phenomena as the ghettoization of Black people, which “deteriorates the landscape that Black children grow up in,” said&…