Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 4, 2020
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
04 May 2020
🖨️ Print Article

Margaret Kimberley · Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 4, 2020

Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 4, 2020

Corporate Media Largely Decide Which Black Lives Matter

A study by sociology professor Alicia Simmons, of Colgate University, found that corporate media journalists sometimes adopt an adversarial relationship with local police, but most often treat them as valued news sources. The police are always thought of as adversaries in the Black community. ““We know that police have turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to communities of color,” said Simmons. The police tell Blacks, “I’m going to over-police you, but I’m going to under-protect you.”

Dubois’ Views on “Veil” of Blackness Explains White Suburban Micro-Aggressions

Upscale Black mothers who moved to Detroit’s white suburbs in search of better schools for their kids are suffering “battle fatigue” from constant struggles with their neighbors, according to Chasity Bailey-Fakhoury, a professor of sociology at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, who conducted a study titled, “State of the Art: Living Within the Veil.” “The veil is a mechanism for protecting the Black psyche,” she said, “but also a mechanism for sustaining racial oppression.”

Black Ex-Felons Are Slow to Vouch for Other Former Offenders 

Contrary to the conventional wisdom, Black former offenders “need to see strong evidence that the formerly incarcerated person has really changed, said Sandra Susan Smith, a University of California professor of sociology who did a study on the subject. Smith discovered that ex-offenders who have good jobs are reluctant to put their own reputations at risk by vouching for recently released friends and relatives. The employed ex-offender’s attitude is, “If I don’t see evidence of real change, then I’m not doing anything.”

Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network is hosted by Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey. A new edition of the program airs every Monday at 11:am ET on PRN. Length: one hour.

Black Agenda Radio

Related Podcasts

Black Agenda Radio
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio March 8, 2024
08 March 2024
This week, Deborah Jones and Thandisizwe Chimurenga joins us to discuss the book, "What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman", an
Black Agenda Radio April 1, 2022
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio April 1, 2022
01 April 2022
Left Voices are Censored
 Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 19, 2021
Blsck Agenda Radio with Maergaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 19, 2021
21 July 2021
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 19, 2021 Class Struggle Shapes Haiti Political Conflict

More Stories


  • Huge Teenage Linebackers Can Be Hurt by Racism and Abuse
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
    Huge Teenage Linebackers Can Be Hurt by Racism and Abuse
    15 Jun 2020
    Black college athletes are emotionally and physically harmed in ways not widely recognized, said Dr.
  • Repaying the Movement for Her Freedom
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
    Repaying the Movement for Her Freedom
    15 Jun 2020
    Bresha Meadows faced long imprisonment in the shooting death of her abusive father when she was 14 years old, but was sentenced to a year in juvenile detention and six months
  • Beware “Domestication” of Protest
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
    Beware “Domestication” of Protest
    15 Jun 2020
    Opponents of transformational change are seeking to “domesticate” the protest movement with bland calls for “justice” for George Floyd, who is dead and beyond justice, said Ajamu Barak
  • Police Must Answer to the Community
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
    Police Must Answer to the Community
    15 Jun 2020
    The demand for community control of police ushers in a new stage of struggle, in which “young people are imagining a world where these tremendous institutions of imperialism and the police state ar
  • Time to Sharpen Our Weapons and Wits
    Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
    Time to Sharpen Our Weapons and Wits
    11 Jun 2020
    Having not yet won real power over the police, this is no time for a lull or a truce -- it’s time to sharpen our political instruments and deepen the mass movement’s social penetration.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us