20 September 2018 — Black Agenda Report
Does Black Unity Behind Black Candidates Really Help Most Black People?
– Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Not really. The wall of black unity around Barack Obama freed him to embrace school privatiztion, to ignore foreclosures of hundreds of thousands of black families, to break promises to raise the minimum wage and more. Are we repeating that mistake?
Papa Bernie Got a (Not So) Brand New Foreign Policy Bag
Two African Heroes Leave Prison in Rwanda
Letter to Kaepernick: Where Do You Go from Here?
– Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
A Concise History of the Repression of Black Protest at HBCUs
Save The Overtime…
White Lies and Blue Codes: Laquan McDonald’s Killer Goes to Trial
Black Agenda Radio – Week of September 17, 2018
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Trump Wants to Tax Protests in DC
The public has until mid-October to comment on Trump administration plans to charge protesters in the nation’s capitol, said Mara Verheyden
Spike Lee Movie Whitewashes Police Repression of Blacks
Robin DG Kelly, the author and essayist, agrees with Boots Riley’s critique of BlacKkKlansman, the Spike Lee movie whose hero is a cop.
Pennsylvania Funds Prison Repression, But Not Health Care
Although a statewide lockdown is officially over, prisoner mail and visitation will be hugely disrupted for the next 90 days, said Dr. Johanna Fernandez.
Mumia on Lockdown
“It’s a war against the prisoners, but also a war against knowledge and, ultimately, the Constitution, itself,” said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner charges…
