We talk about the killing of Robert Brooks by prison corrections officers and the need to close Rikers Island. We also discuss a recent Cuban conference dedicated to ending racism in that country.
Darren Mack, co-founder and co-director of Freedom Agenda, talks to us about the killing of Robert Brooks, who died after being beaten by corrections officers in a New York state prison, and the needā¦
The National Program against racism and racial discrimination conference was held in Cuba as part of the UN declared International Decade of People of African Descent.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Hagiography is inevitable when presidents and other prominent people die. The unwillingness to āspeak ill of the deadā and the propaganda that would have us believe in American exceptionalism must beā¦