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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Police, Prisons and Prosecutors just Create More Victims
23 Feb 2021
“We believe that all forms of law enforcement” in the US “are rooted in systems of violence,” said Samah Sisay, an organizer with the abolitionist group “Survived and Punished” and
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Anti-Black Racism Is Environmental Hazard
02 Feb 2021
Environmental justice should be put at the cutting edge of the social justice movement, said Dr Ugo Edu, an African American Studies professor at UCLA, and a medical anthropologist
Selamawit D. Terrefe
On Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III
16 Dec 2020
Afro-pessimism theorizes slavery as a social relation which distinguishes Blackness as a paradigmatic position antithetical to humans.
Too Black
The Myth of the Perfect Victim
16 Dec 2020
The denial of Black humanity is essential to the order of racial capitalism, and dictates that Blacks deserve whatever treatment they get.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Racism and Violence Against Blacks Endemic to US
01 Dec 2020
Critical Race Theory holds that racism is endemic to US society, while Afropessimism and Social Death “suggests that, regardless of what Black bodies do, [they] will experience gratuitous violence,
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Anti-Black Racism is Everywhere in the Americas
03 Nov 2020
Anti-Black racism is not limited to the US, said Jomaira Salas, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Rutgers University and author of an article on Black Latina girls.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Anti-Blackness Throughout the Americas
06 Oct 2020
Anti-Blackness is the common denominator underlying Black people’s high rates of death from poverty, disease and police violence on both continents of the western hemisphere, said Jameelah
Gwendolyn Wallace
To Abolish the Medical industrial Complex
08 Jul 2020
Like prisons, healthcare systems are part of the way that empire reproduces itself.
Rohn Kenyatta
Once Dead, Thrice Killed
27 May 2020
The summary execution of my brothers, sisters, women, men and children is so commonplace that it becomes numbing ‘white’ noise in the minds of an entire continent.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Black Plague
22 Apr 2020
The rapidity with which the pandemic has consumed black communities provides an unvarnished look into the dynamics of race and class that existed long before it emerged