U.S. Housing Policy “Absurd”
Federal housing policy “defies any kind of rational logic” with its “overwhelming focus on homeowners” while neglecting the dire plight of renters, says Keeanga-Yamahta Taylor of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign. “We confront the absurdity of empty housing, a growing homeless population, and a growing population of people who are evicted.”
Black Cops Back Proposition 19
The National Black Police Association has joined with others in law enforcement in support of November’s referendum on legalization of marijuana. “More white people use drugs, more white people sell drugs, but more Black people get arrested,” said association executive director Ronald Hampton.
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Blacks are closing the “happiness gap” with whites, says University of Pennsylvania researcher Justin Wolfers. Although not as “happy” as whites, African Americans are significantly happier than they were in the 1970s.
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Jared Ball marks the passing of young, gifted, female and Black Green Party mover and shaker Natasha Pettigrew, and Glen Ford presents a background report on Newark Mayor Cory Booker, the Black Trojan Horse for the most reactionary moneybags in America.
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 4:00pm ET on PRN. Length: One hour.
In this week’s segment, we discuss why Israel is the first and only nation to recognize the Somaliland region of Somalia and the impact of this act on the Horn of Africa region. But we begin with a…
The U.S. attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of the president and first lady are the culmination of years of intervention against that state. Corinna Mullin discusses the importance of anti-…
Israel is the first and only nation to recognize the Somaliland region of Somalia as an independent state. The zionist entity's plan to establish a military presence will enhance the U.S. decades-…
Director of the North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights, Ajamu Baraka, joins Spotlight on Press TV to analyze the latest developments in Venezuela, how and why this illegal…
Black Agenda Report Special Issue on Venezuela.
