Historian, author and activist Paul Street has high praise for James Forman Jr.ās new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. Forman is a professor at Yale Law School and a former public defender in Washington, DC. His book āfills a giant hole in the literature,ā illuminating the role played by āBlack elites in the rise of the mass incarceration system,ā said Street, himself an expert on race and the U.S. penal system. āMany ordinary, working class Black voters in the 70s and 80s have actively supported the racially disparate war on crime and drugs that ended up producing racist mass incarceration,ā said Street, whose latest book is titled They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy.
This week we hear about the implications of the anti-imperialist struggle in the African nation Guinea-Bissau.
Abayomi Azikiwe joins us to discuss events in eastern Congo, the role of US backed nations such as Rwanda, and the history of exploitation and imperial control which caused theā¦
Aly Wane of the Immigrant Justice Network discusses immigration in the second part of a two-part interview. Punitive immigration policies are bipartisan, with groups such as Haitians being targetedā¦
Rafiki Morris joins us from Washington D.C. to discuss the upcoming demonstration, āOpen the Peoples National Assembly in Guinea-Bissauā and why this action is so important.
Dr. Jemima Pierre joins BreakThrough News to discuss the nationwide uprisings in Haiti where thousands of demonstrators have flooded the streets calling for the ouster of the unelected Prime Ministerā¦
