Blacks in Houston Must Guard Against Displacement
Working class leadership must ensure that the massive Black displacement that followed Hurricane Katrina does not recur in Houston, said Dr. Gerald Horne, the prolific author and professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Houston. He noted that both Houston and New Orleans are anti-union towns that are hostile to Black and poor people.
Imperial Policies Could Doom Sanders Presidency
“I’m afraid that even if Sen. Bernie Sanders were to become president, he’d probably just continue to manage the U.S. empire abroad,” said Dr. Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As with President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the domestic social project would be defeated by the imperial foreign policy.
Voices for Prison Abolition
Activists seeking to abolish the U.S. mass incarceration system, root and branch, rallied in 16 cities under the banner “Millions for Prisoners Human Rights.” Speakers included Laura Whitehorn, of the Northeast Political Prisoners Coalition, Tomika Shine, Baltimore representative of Releasing Aging People from Prison (RAPP), and spoken word artist Max Parthas, co-host of New Abolitionist Radio.
Bad News Trump
Wilbert “Jazz the Poet” Sanders, currently incarcerated in Pennsylvania’s McKean federal prison, showcased a new work, titled “Politically Incorrect,” via Prison Radio: “Trump is vindictive, with a cold heart / In time he’ll tear this country apart.”
Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network is hosted by Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey. A new edition of the program airs every Monday at 11:am ET on PRN. Length: one hour.
Julian Assange must be set free, like all the other political prisoners of US Empire,” said BAR executive editor Glen Ford.
Public schools in Black America are part of the mass incarceration system, said David Stovall, a professor of African American Studies and Criminology at the University of Ill
Organizer Tara Raghuveer, whose Kansas City Tenants group won passage of a Tenants Bill of Rights, said “One of our central demands is to return to treating housing as a publi
Julian Assange and his protégés have made common cause with Black revolutionaries in their zeal to lay bare the dictatorial nature of the omni-pervasive national security state and the sheer,
The last of Philadelphia’s most besieged, and heroic, Black political families is released, after a 42-year ordeal.
