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  • Black Agenda Radio November 18, 2022
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    Black Agenda Radio November 18, 2022
    18 Nov 2022
    The electoral process furthers the interest of capital and subverts what the people want. A manufactured crime panic enhances the power of the police and perpetuates racist politics.
  • A Manufactured Crime Panic in New York
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    A Manufactured Crime Panic in New York
    18 Nov 2022
    Ashoka Jegroo is a multimedia journalist who reports on protests and policing.
  • Mumia Speaks on the Cops Today’s and Deadly Economy
    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
  • Abolish Schooling As We Know It
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Abolish Schooling As We Know It
    18 Feb 2020
    Public schools in Black America are part of the mass incarceration system, said David Stovall, a professor of African American Studies and Criminology at the University of Illinois
  • Mumia: Media Joined the “War Against Assange”
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Mumia: Media Joined the “War Against Assange”
    29 Apr 2019
    The nation’s best known political prisoner expressed solidarity with Julian Assange and lambasted those institutions that turned their backs on the independent publisher while claiming to defend pr
  •  South Carolina “Bears Responsibility” for Prison Deaths
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    South Carolina “Bears Responsibility” for Prison Deaths
    15 Apr 2019
    The deaths of seven inmates during disturbances at the Lee County state prison, a year ago, “was the state’s responsibility, that has not been acknowledged,” said veteran anti-mass Black incarcerat
  • A Failed Black Upper Class Project to “Reform” Poor Black Girls
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    A Failed Black Upper Class Project to “Reform” Poor Black Girls
    18 Mar 2019
    Between 1919 and 1939, the National Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs attempted to run a school for “wayward” Black girls called the Efland Home, in North Carolina.
  • Solitary Confinement As a Tool of Political Oppression
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Solitary Confinement As a Tool of Political Oppression
    06 Nov 2018
    Since at least the 1950s, prison officials have used solitary confinement as a political tool against Black inmates, said Brittany Friedman, a professor of sociology at Rutgers Uni
  • Mumia Deserves Humanitarian Release
    Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
    Mumia Deserves Humanitarian Release
    08 Oct 2018
    Dr Joseph Harris, the personal physician to Mumia Abu Jamal, said the nation’s best known political prisoner should be released for humanitarian reasons, due to the liver damage he
  • Mumia Supporters Gear Up for Hearing
    Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
    Mumia Supporters Gear Up for Hearing
    14 Aug 2018
    Mumia Abu Jamal supporters need to converge on Philadelphia in large numbers, on August 30, for hearings on Abu Jamal’s contention that judicial bias tainted his trial process, said Johanna
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