Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and
analysis from a Black Left perspective with your host Glen Ford and
– The FBI has issued new guidelines for
advising teachers who to look out for in terms of political dissent in
the classroom. The FBI’s guidelines are mainly targeted at Muslims, but,
according to Michael German, a fellow at the Brennan Center for
Justice, the language could also be used to persecute almost any person
or group that a teacher did not like or understand.
Inglewood, California, community members protested yet another police
killing. 31 year-old Kisha Michael, a mother of three sons, and 32 year
old Marquintan Sandlin, a father of four daughters, were shot dead by a
police SWAT team, apparently while they were asleep in a car. Keith
Jackson is an organizer with the Stop Mass Incarceration Network. He
assisted the victim’s families in organizing this weekend’s protest.
Virginia Sewell is the aunt of Kisha Michael, the mother of three who
was killed by the Inglewood, California police. Ms. Sewell says the
- Donald Trump has caused
sheer panic among establishment Republicans, many of whom claim they’ll
leave the party if Trump wins the presidential nomination. But, how
should the Black Left view the Trump campaign? We asked Dr. Anthony
Monteiro, a member of the Black Radical Organizing Committee, which put
together a conference on the Black Radical Tradition, in Philadelphia,
back in January. Monteiro says both political parties are in trouble,
and Trump’s rise is just a symptom of the crisis.
- This month marks the 15th
anniversary of the historic United Nations conference Against Racial
Discrimination, Xenomphobia and Related Intolerance, in Durban, South
Africa. BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka, a founder of the U.S.
Human Rights Network, attended the Durban conference back in 2001. Later
this month, Baraka will be in The Netherlands to lead a panel
discussion at on the Durban process.