In this week’s segment, we hear about how the Black mayor of Buffalo, New York targeted Black and Latinx communities to raise revenue with traffic citations which resulted in a civil rights lawsuit challenging the practice. But first, we discuss the recent election in South Africa with a representative of the South African Communist Party. The African National Congress (ANC) lost its parliamentary majority and must now form a coalition government without jeopardizing its history of fighting for the liberation of African people.
Mayotte is a French overseas territory located in the Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar. It is also near the Comoros Islands, whose citizens travel to Mayotte as undocumented…
The brutal exploitation of life in colonial Venezuela was key in the making of capitalism, but the process also met fierce resistance from enslaved peoples.
In this segment we discuss the shooting of Black teenager Ralph Yarl, how restoring voting rights of those convicted of felonies increases public safety, and Margaret Kimberley's thoughts on Joe…
Dr. Gerald Horne is an author and historian who currently holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston.
Dr. Melina Abdullah is Director of Black Lives Matter Grassroots and Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles. She is also a Professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University Los…
