The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations holds its national conference in Chicago, August 12 and 13, under the theme, “The Ballot and the Bullet: Elections, War and Peace in the Donald Trump Era.” Kamm Howard, of the Black Is Back steering committee, is active in NCOBRA, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. “One of the ways we’re pushing reparations is a Black Is Back-led push to have a reparations referendum put on the Chicago ballot in March of 2018,” said Howard.
Frank Chapman joins us from Chicago to discuss the recent police killing of Dexter Reed.
El Jones joins us to discuss the case of Sarah Jama, a member of Ontario’s provincial parliament, who has been banned from wearing a keffiyeh while in that legislature and censured for expressing…
Margaret Kimberley joined Danny Haiphong in China to react to developments in Iran and Israel's ongoing war escalations and what this means about the future of waning US dominance in the region and…
Campus protests in solidarity with Palestine have been met with brute police force and condemnation of the participants. Their mobilization is a threat to the political system, which cannot operate…
Read John Henry Clarke’s response to Henry Louis Gates’s demagoguery as he maliciously deploys a critique “Black anti-semitism” to ingratiate himself with the white zionist power elite.
