Protesters demanded that Medgar Evers College cancel Hillary Clintonâs scheduled commencement address at the mostly Black Brooklyn institution, next month. The Clintons are a criminal family, said Dahoud Andre, of Komokoda, the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti. If Medgar Evers College honors the former secretary of state, it will be condoning âthe crimes of the Clinton family, and Hillary Clinton, personally, against the people of Haiti and against Black youth, who she called âanimalsâ and âthugsâ who should be âbrought to heel,ââ said Andre.
The recent drownings of 500 refugees in the Mediterranean call attention to the displacement of millions of people as a result of imperialist actions.
In Alabama Covid funds are used for prison construction, opportunities for the incarcerated to be released have been eliminated, and violence is rampant. Alabama makes the case for prisonâŚ
Foreign policy is our focus on Black Agenda Radio this week.
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.
Carlos Martinez is a co-editor of Friends of Socialist China, a co-founder of No Cold War, and a coordinating committee member of the International Manifesto Group. He joins us from London to discussâŚ
