Jordan Neely was a Black man who died after being held in a chokehold by Daniel Penny, a white vigilante, on the New York City subway in 2023. Penny was acquitted by a jury, but the Peoples Senate, which is the next phase of the Spirit of Mandela Coalition, is hosting a community forum at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn on Saturday, February 1st. This is the first in a series of workshops organized by the Medgar Evers College Coalition. We are joined by Tag, who is on the coordinating committee of Spirit of Mandela.
The Trump administration opens a new ICE detention center in New Jersey’s biggest city and a hub for immigrant communities, earning a bold response from immigrant rights organizers.
In this week’s segment, we discuss the modern history of Black politics in the city of Newark, New Jersey, after the death of a long-serving former mayor and the arrest and brief detention of the…
Our guest is Craig Mokhiber. He is an international human rights lawyer and former director of the New York Office of the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Human Rights. He stepped down from that…
Lawrence Hamm, of the People’s Organization for Progress (POP), joins us from Newark, New Jersey, to talk about Black politics in that city. The late Sharpe James was mayor for a record-setting 20…
Ajamu Baraka spoke with Garland Nixon about the need to oppose U.S. foreign policy in Africa and in the Middle East.
