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Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and
analysis from a Black Left perspective with Glen Ford and his co-host,
Nellie Bailey.
– The Black American condition, especially Black
people’s relations with the police, is more of an issue in the 2016
election campaign than it was in the two previous presidential races,
when a Black man was running for president. Minister Louis Farrakhan, of
the Nation of Islam, has said there are some things he likes about
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. But Carl Dix, a
co-founder of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, says that Minister
Farrakhan should be taken to task for those remarks.
- Six million
Congolese have died since 1996, when the Rwandan regime led by Paul
Kagame invaded the Democratic Republic of Congo. Three U.S. presidential
administrations have been deeply involved in the genocides in the
Congo, Rwanda and elsewhere in the Great Lakes region of Africa, but no
one is more deeply implicated in the bloodbath than Bill and Hillary
Clinton. Both Clintons are strong supporters of Rwandan president Paul
Kagame, who opponents say is the man most responsible for the Rwandan
and Congolese genocides. Kagame’s minority Tutsi rebel forces overthrew
the government of Rwanda in 1994, which led to the deaths of millions.
Claude Gatebuke is a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, and co-founder of
the African Great Lakes Network. He says Paul Kagame’s crimes predate
the events of 1994.
- Thousands of Blacks in the South
American nation of Colombia blocked the Pan American highway, the major
trade route that links North and South America, to protest threats to
their ancestral land holdings in the country. Blacks make up the
majority of Colombians that have been displaced by the decades-long
guerilla war, which may soon be coming to an end. Both the guerillas and
multinational corporations have eyes on the land that Afro-Colombians
have occupied for more than 400 years. Charo Mina-Rojas is an
Afro-Colombian activist. She says the Colombian government has broken
its promises to respect Black people’s right to self-determination and
to land.
- Prison activists gathered, recently, at the
University of Pittsburgh Law School, for a discussion of solitary
confinement. The panel was organized by the Abolitionist Law Center and
the Center for Constitutional Rights. It focused on the harm and the
suffering caused by solitary confinement in prison, from the inmates’
perspective. Albert Woodfox spent 44 years in Louisiana’s Angola Prison,
most of it in solitary confinement, until he was finally released
earlier this year.
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Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and
analysis from a Black Left perspective with Glen Ford and his co-host,
Nellie Bailey.
– The Black American condition, especially Black
people’s relations with the police, is more of an issue in the 2016
election campaign than it was in the two previous presidential races,
when a Black man was running for president. Minister Louis Farrakhan, of
the Nation of Islam, has said there are some things he likes about
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. But Carl Dix, a
co-founder of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, says that Minister
Farrakhan should be taken to task for those remarks.
- Six million
Congolese have died since 1996, when the Rwandan regime led by Paul
Kagame invaded the Democratic Republic of Congo. Three U.S. presidential
administrations have been deeply involved in the genocides in the
Congo, Rwanda and elsewhere in the Great Lakes region of Africa, but no
one is more deeply implicated in the bloodbath than Bill and Hillary
Clinton. Both Clintons are strong supporters of Rwandan president Paul
Kagame, who opponents say is the man most responsible for the Rwandan
and Congolese genocides. Kagame’s minority Tutsi rebel forces overthrew
the government of Rwanda in 1994, which led to the deaths of millions.
Claude Gatebuke is a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, and co-founder of
the African Great Lakes Network. He says Paul Kagame’s crimes predate
the events of 1994.
- Thousands of Blacks in the South
American nation of Colombia blocked the Pan American highway, the major
trade route that links North and South America, to protest threats to
their ancestral land holdings in the country. Blacks make up the
majority of Colombians that have been displaced by the decades-long
guerilla war, which may soon be coming to an end. Both the guerillas and
multinational corporations have eyes on the land that Afro-Colombians
have occupied for more than 400 years. Charo Mina-Rojas is an
Afro-Colombian activist. She says the Colombian government has broken
its promises to respect Black people’s right to self-determination and
to land.
- Prison activists gathered, recently, at the
University of Pittsburgh Law School, for a discussion of solitary
confinement. The panel was organized by the Abolitionist Law Center and
the Center for Constitutional Rights. It focused on the harm and the
suffering caused by solitary confinement in prison, from the inmates’
perspective. Albert Woodfox spent 44 years in Louisiana’s Angola Prison,
most of it in solitary confinement, until he was finally released
earlier this year.
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