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Black Agenda Radio 03.22.21

03.22.2021 - By Progressive Radio NetworkPlay

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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: the prolific radical professor Joy James speaks out ondecolonizing the Black movement in the United States. Dr. James urges activists tocondemn the militarization of US African policy, as well as militarized policing in Blackcommunities in this country. And, Great Britain, which grew rich through centuries ofglobal looting and mass enslavement, is now eager to deport thousands of Blackresidents as morally unfit to reside in the United Kingdom.But first – the United States and Europe are the wealthiest nations in the world, buthave done very poorly in coping with the year-long Covid-19 epidemic. So have most ofthe former white settler colonies of Latin America. Layla Brown-Vincent is a professor ofAfricana Studies at the University of Massachusetts, at Boston, and author of a recentarticle titled, “The Pandemic of Racial Capitalism: Another World is Possible.” She saysthat Cuba showed, early in the epidemic, that its practice of socialist internationalistmedicine is the global gold standard.

That was Dr. Layla Brown-Vincent, speaking from the University ofMassachusetts, at Boston.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, the Decolonial Feminist Collective recentlyhosted an online interview with Dr. Joy James, the prolific author and Professor ofHumanities at Williams College. The talk was entitled, “Radicalizing and DecolonizingFeminism.” Dr. James says the subject has revolutionary roots.

Dr. Joy James was interviewed by Jalessah T. Jackson, and SalomeAyuak, of the Decolonial Feminist Collective.

Around the turn of the 21 st century, Great Britain began a wave of deportations of Blackresidence with roots in Jamacia and other former colonies in the Caribbean. Luke DeNoronha, a writer who teaches at the University of Manchester, is author of the book,“Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica.” According to DeNoronha, the British government claims it is only ridding itself of “foreign criminals.”

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