Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 23, 2017
Philadelphia to Celebrate Dubois Birthday
Next year marks the 150th birthday of the great Black scholar-activist W.E.B. Dubois. To celebrate the occasion, the Philadelphia Saturday Free School will mount a year-long literacy and democracy campaignâ titled âPhiladelphia Reads W.E.B. Dubois.â Duboisian scholar Dr. Anthony Monteiro said the campaign will explore âthe totality of Duboisâ work,â with the aim of enhancing âthe ability of Black working class and poor people to fight for our rights and for peace and justice.â
DA Wants Sugar Bearâs Blood
Courts threw out Robert âSugar Bearâ Larkâs conviction in a 1979 murder because Blacks had been systematically kept off Philadelphia juries. The cityâs District Attorney is now demanding that a new jury put the 63 year-old Lark to death. Although Lark is ânot a political prisoner in the traditional sense of the word,â said longtime Mumia Abu Jamal supporter Dr. Johanna Fernandez, Lark seems to have been âtargeted because of his outspokenness against political corruption and police misconduct in Philadelphia.â
FBI Tries to Shield Violent White Supremacists
Activists in cites nationwide marked National Stop Police Brutality Day, this past weekend, including Newark, New Jerseyâs Peopleâs Organization for Progress (POP). POP chairman Larry Hamm noted that the FBI come up with a new designation for Black political activists.â Weâve had a rise in activities among white supremacist and racist hate groups,â said Hamm. âWhat the FBI is trying to do is take the spotlight off these groups and put it on groups they call âBlack Identity Extremists,â which are actually fighting to protect the interests of the Black community.â
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