Black Masses Not Yet Sold on Defunding the Police

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford

08 Dec 2020

🖨️ Print Article

Margaret Kimberley · Black Masses Not Yet Sold on Defunding the Police

Lawrence Grandpre, research director for the Baltimore-based activist organization “Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle,” agrees in principle with the demand for defunding police but doesn’t think Black Lives Matter has been able to sell the concept in Black communities. “Working people need to see you on the ground every day, for years, pushing that alternative,” but that’s not yet happened, said Grandpre, speaking on Dr. Jared Ball’s acclaimed podcast “I Mix What I Like.”

Defund Police

More Stories

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio August 5, 2022
05 Aug 2022
This week we have one special guest, Omali Yeshitela. He is Chairman of the African Peoples Socialist Party (APSP) and leader of the Uhuru Movement and the Black is Back Coalition. The APSP Uhuru…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
FBI Attack on the Uhuru Movement is a Warning
03 Aug 2022
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ARTICLE: We Can Defeat Repression, Charlene Mitchell, 1973
03 Aug 2022
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Movement Sorely Misses Glen Ford
03 Aug 2022
Remembering Glen Ford and all that he taught us.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Fraternal fist-bump between gangstas—Fugget about it… (For Allen Ginsberg, my other favorite ‘Jersey Boy’)
03 Aug 2022
Fraternal fist-bump between gangstas—Fugget about it… (For Allen Ginsberg, my other favorite ‘Jersey Boy’)

Related Podcasts

More Stories