Black Agenda Radio 06.14.21

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary andanalysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-hostGlen Ford. Coming up: US universities like to think of themselves as forces for thepublic good. But we’ll speak with a Black professor who says American highereducation is a relentless gentrifyer that spreads police terror and low wages. And, aBlack Alliance for Peace activist says the United States is trying to isolate Chinabecause Washington cannot compete with the Asian economic juggernaut.But first – Too Black is a poet, writer and podcaster based in Indianapolis, who recentlyauthored an article in Black Agenda Report titled "From Black Wall Street to BlackCapitalism." Too Black says the business district of the Black neighborhood of Tulsa,Oklahoma that was destroyed by whites in 1921, was actually more like a Black MainStreet than Wall Street, and employed very few Black residents at the time of themassacre.

That was Too Black, a poet and writer speaking from Indianapolis.

Universities in the United States have become capitalist engines of extraction anddestruction in Black communities. So says Davarian Baldwin, a professor of AmericanStudies and founding director of the Smart Cities Lab at Trinity College, in Hartford,Connecticut. Dr. Baldwin wrote an article in Black Agenda Report titled “In the Shadowof the Ivory Tower.”

That was Professor Davarian Baldwin, speaking from Trinity College inHartford, Connecticut.

The Green Party recently took a look at Joe Biden’s First 100 Days in office, with afocus on the new president’s war policies. One of the speakers was Julie Varaghese, ofthe Black Alliance for Peace. Varaghese said the US is waging a Cold War with Chinabecause Washington is losing the global economic competition.