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“Expect Push for Censorship Under Biden

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford

26 Jan 2021

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Margaret Kimberley · “Expect Push for Censorship Under Biden

Under the new administration, the State will attempt to “constrict political analysis and alternative information, to impose on us an ideological conformity,” said Ajamu Baraka, national organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace, speaking at a Dissenters online event. UCLA history professor, author and activist Robin DG Kelley said the movement must “do a better job of fighting on behalf of our prisoners of war,” some of whom have been incarcerated for three generations. These prisoners defended their actios under international law, “and that’s why judges hate them,” said Kelley.

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