Dr. Anthony Monteiro is a Duboisian scholar and founder of the Saturday Free School for Philosophy and Black Liberation. He joins us from Philadelphia to talk about Black politics in Pennsylvania and the 2024 election cycle.

Black Politics and Pennsylvania in the 2024 Election Cycle - Part 1

In this week’s segment we discuss Kenyans protesting their government’s participation in an impending occupation of Haiti, and why Flint, Michigan still has contaminated water and no justice for its residents. But first, we hear how Black politics in Pennsylvania reflect the nation’s condition and concerns in an election year.

Black Agenda Radio January 26, 2024

Black Politics and Pennsylvania in the 2024 Election Cycle - Part 2

The 13th Amendment to the constitution reads in part, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States…” We discuss this issue with Max Parthas, National Campaign Coordinator and Founding Member of the Abolish Slavery National Network. He joins us from South Carolina to discuss his organization’s campaign to abolish slavery in the U.S.

Abolishing Prison Slavery in the U.S.

Ray McGovern served as a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. In January 2003, Ray co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) to expose how intelligence was being falsified to “justify” war on Iraq. We discuss an attack on a U.S. base in Jordan where three service members were killed. The Biden administration claims that “Iran backed militias” are responsible but there are many questions. Ray McGovern joins us from Raleigh, North Carolina to discuss.

Ray McGovern Analyzes U.S. Policy in the Middle East

In this week’s segment we hear about abolishing modern day slavery that exists in the incarceration system, and also the second part of our interview on election year politics in Pennsylvania and across the nation. But first we hear from a former CIA analyst, who discusses the recent attack on a U.S. base in Jordan, and the dangers of the enduring establishment consensus on unqualified support for Israel.

Black Agenda Radio February 2, 2024

El Jones is a poet and a professor at Mount St. Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She joins us from Halifax to discuss censorship and criminalization of pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist opinions. Even the Supreme Court of Canada was involved in these activities, preventing Ms. Jones and others from speaking on anti-Black racism in that country.

Pro-Palestine and Anti-Zionist Speech Censored and Criminalized in Canada

This week we talk about censorship and suppression in Canada, where anti-zionist and pro-Palestinian speech is suppressed and even criminalized. Also, the New York City Council overrides a mayoral veto and ends solidarity confinement in jails and requires the NYPD to report on encounters with the public. But first we hear from a Palestinian writer who discusses the impact of South Africa’s charge of Israeli genocide at the International Court of Justice.

Black Agenda Radio February 9, 2024

Frank Chapman is Executive Director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. Hatem Abudayyeh is National Chair of the United States Palestinian Community Network. They join us from Chicago to discuss the city council vote calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Mayor Brandon Johnson cast the tie breaking vote which passed the measure.  They are here to update us on events in Palestine and in Chicago.

Black and Brown Coalition for Palestine

This week we discuss the bipartisan consensus on punitive immigration policies and a community organizing solidarity event in the Bronx and call for freedom of a political prisoner. But first we talk about Black and Palestinian solidarity in Chicago which resulted in a major political victory.

Black Agenda Radio February 16, 2024

Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of Pan-African News Wire , an international electronic press service.  He joins us from Detroit to discuss events in eastern Congo, the role of US backed nations such as Rwanda, and the history of exploitation and imperial control which caused the ongoing humanitarian disaster.

Colonialism, Imperialism, and Conflict in the Congo

This week we hear about the implications of the anti-imperialist struggle in the African nation Guinea-Bissau. We have the second part of a two-part interview on immigration policy and learn that Haitian asylum seekers are targeted for deportation. But first we get an update on and history of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Black Agenda Radio February 23, 2024

Dahoud Andre joins us from KOMOKODA, the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti. He’s also the host of Eritye Papa Desalin, a daily Haitian community radio program and co-host of Haiti Our Revolution Continues on WBAI. We will discuss the latest indictments in the 2021 assassination of president Jovenel Moise, the 2004 coup against Aristide, and the latest US plan for the occupation of Haiti. He joins us from Brooklyn.

Moise Assassination Investigation, 2004 Coup, and the Impending Occupation of Haiti

Jaylani Hussein is a National Committee member of the Abandon Biden campaign, an organizational effort of electoral engagement in the wake of U.S. and Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Jaylani Husseini will also discuss the results of the Michigan primary uncommitted campaign. He joins us from Minneapolis.

The Abandon Biden Campaign

This week we hear about Haiti, the tainted investigations of the 2021 assassination of Jovenel Moise, the 20th anniversary of the US coup against president Aristide, and the impending U.S. occupation. But first we hear about the Abandon Biden campaign which was created in the wake of U.S. and Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

Black Agenda Radio March 1, 2024

Deborah Jones is the author of the book, What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman, published by Diasporic Africa Press. It tells the story of her experience as a member of the US organization, the violence she endured from its founder, and her ongoing support for the liberation movement. Her book was written with the assistance of Thandisizwe Chimurenga. Deborah joins us from Compton, California and Thandisizwe from Los Angeles.

What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman

Steven Salaita is the author of a new book published by Fordham University Press, ok An Honest Living: A Memoir of Peculiar Itineraries. In 2014, Steven Salaita was fired from a tenured position in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois for his unwavering stance on Palestinian human rights and other political controversies. The book is described as “An exiled professor’s journey from inside and beyond academe.” He joins us from Cairo.

Steven Salaita's An Honest Living: A Memoir of Peculiar Itineraries

This week, Deborah Jones and Thandisizwe Chimurenga joins us to discuss their book, "What We Stood For: The Story of a Revolutionary Black Woman", and we talk to Cheri Honkala and Shamako Noble about their work with the Poor Peoples Army and the actions planned for this summer's democratic and republican national conventions. But first, Steven Salaita joins in conversation about his book, "An Honest Living: A Memoir of Peculiar Itineraries", which details his life after being terminated from a tenured professorship in 2014 for his principled political opinions.

Black Agenda Radio 3.8.2024

Shaka Shakur is a revolutionary New Afrikan political prisoner who was initially incarcerated by the state of Indiana on trumped up charges. He has consistently been targeted for his courageous activism by the prison authorities. He speaks to us from Virginia, where he is now being held.

Political Prisoner Shaka Shakur

This week we hear about the mass incarceration system from the account of a political prisoner held for many years, and also plans to expand the system of punishment for juvenile offenders in the state of Maryland. But first we have a discussion on U.S. policy towards Israel, and how it is causing and exacerbating the suffering of the people of Gaza.

Black Agenda Radio March 15, 2024

Dr. Gerald Horne is an author and historian who currently holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. His most recent book is "I Dare Say: a Gerald Horne Reader."
He joins us to discuss US/Israeli policy, which has culminated in war crimes and a genocide in Gaza. We also discuss the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine and other international issues.

Dr. Gerald Horne Discusses the Crises of Imperialism

This week we hear about right wing forces in San Francisco who worked with the Black democratic mayor to criminalize poverty in a classic case of Black political misleadership. But first  Dr. Gerald Horne discusses Gaza and Ukraine, the contradictions of U.S. imperialism and the decline of U.S. influence worldwide.

Black Agenda Radio March 22, 2024

Frank Chapman is Executive Director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. Hatem Abudayyeh is National Chair of the United States Palestinian Community Network. They join us from Chicago to discuss their recent meeting with Naledi Pandor, South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation. In that role she has overseen South Africa’s charge of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Frank and Hatem will talk about their meeting with her, and the solidarity movement with Palestine.

Black and Brown Coalition for Palestine Meets with South African Foreign Minister

This week we hear about the latest round of unilateral economic coercive measures, sanctions, are harming the people of Cuba, who are nonetheless resisting this pressure. But first we hear from members of a Black and Brown coalition in Chicago about their meeting with minister Naledi Pandor of South Africa and their ongoing mobilizations for solidarity with Palestine.

Black Agenda Radio March 29, 2024

Gerald Perreira is chairperson of the Organization for the Victory of the People in Guyana. He joins us to discuss recent US activity in that country including visits from the CIA director and former president Bill Clinton and the connection with the long running territorial dispute with neighboring Venezuela. He joins us from Georgetown, Guyana.

Guyana is an Imperialist Target

Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of Pan-African News Wire. He is also a resident of Michigan and a longtime activist there. He joins us from Detroit to discuss that state’s Black voters, the Abandon Biden campaign, and the prospects for that all important swing state in the 2024 presidential election.

The Black Vote and Swing State Michigan in 2024

This week Black Agenda Report’s poet in residence discusses his work and learn why Bill Clinton, the CIA director and Tony Blair have all recently visited Guyana. But first we discuss the Black vote and election year politics in the pivotal state of Michigan.

Black Agenda Radio April 5, 2024

The actual relationship between Human Rights Watch and the superpower is most clear in the case of Rwanda, where the United States backs Paul Kagame’s vicious Tutsi minority dictatorship. The Rwandan regime imprisons or kills who that point out that hundreds of thousands of Hutus, who constitute the overwhelming majority of Rwanda’s population, were killed by Kagame’s forces during the bloodbath of 1994. 
Ann Garrison and the late Glen Ford discussed U.S. and human rights industrial complex support for Kagame in 2017.

Human Rights Industrial Complex Protects Paul Kagame in Rwanda

Camila Escalante is an editor for Kawsachun News and a Latin America correspondent for Presstv. She joins us from Toronto to discuss Ecuador’s intrusion into Mexico’ s embassy in Quito and the arrest of Ecuador’s former Vice President who had been given asylum there. This incident is a violation of the Vienna Convention and of international norms. She will give us the background of the events which precipitated this incident and the implications for relations between Latin American nations.

Ecuador Kidnaps Former Vice President from Mexican Embassy

This week we listen to BAR’s 2017 analysis of the protection afforded Rwanda’s Paul Kagame by the human rights industrial complex, which works closely with the U.S. state. In the second part of our discussion with BAR’s poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner, he discusses the connections between art and politics and an upcoming performance in Harlem. But first Camila Escalante of Kawsachun News discusses Ecuador’s invasion of Mexico’s embassy, the violations of international law, and the US determination to keep Ecuador as a compliant puppet state.

Black Agenda Radio April 12, 2024

Margaret Kimberley was recently a guest on the Revolutionary Blackout Network and discussed Niger’s demand that the U.S. military leave that country. We present excerpts of that conversation with co-hosts Nick, C.J., and Rome.

Niger and U.S. Africa Policy

At a recent press conference at Mar-a-Lago, former President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed that non-citizen voting is a problem in the U.S. when it isn’t. We're joined by Andrew Garber, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, to discuss the mythology surrounding non-citizen voting.

Non-Citizen Voting: A Non-Existent Problem

Our guest is Danny Haiphong, formerly a Black Agenda Report contributing editor, and now the host of the YouTube channel, Danny Haiphong. He is also a co-founder of Friends of Socialist China, which is hosting a delegation traveling to Beijing and other cities in China. Margaret Kimberley is also a delegation participant and she and Danny discuss U.S./China relations and the importance of studying Chinese socialism.

China's Example in the World

This week we discuss claims that non-citizens are voting when all evidence proves that assertion to be untrue. We also talked about U.S. policy towards Niger, which has publicly declared that it is no longer permitting U.S. military facilities to operate in that country. But first, we talk to a former Black Agenda Report contributor about China, U.S. policy towards that country, and what we can learn from person to person contact with that country.

Black Agenda Radio April 19, 2024

Margaret Kimberley was recently a guest on Revolutionary Blackout Network with co-hosts Nick, CJ, and Rome. They talked about the lack of international enforcement for the ICJ ruling calling on Israel to end its war crimes.

Gaza War Crimes Go Unpunished

Adolfo Abreu is Housing Campaign Director for Vocal-NY. He joins us from New York City to discuss the Housing Access Voucher Program, which is not included in the latest New York State budget. He discusses why this program is important to meet the housing needs of New Yorkers.

New York State Fails to Meet Housing Needs

Danny Shaw is an author and activisit who until recently was a professor at the City University of New York. He joins us from New York where he has joined the ongoing protest at Columbia University, his alma mater, where students are protesting that institution’s involvement with Israel and its policies, and mobilizing in solidarity with the Palestinian people. He is joined by Jalsa, a member of Columbia University Apartheid Divestment.

Columbia Students Mobilize in Solidarity with Palestine

This week we talk about the dire need for affordable housing in New York, and the Governor’s refusal to include a housing voucher program in the latest budget. Gaza is also a topic this week in a discussion about the lack of international enforcement which allows the U.S. to assist Israel’s war crimes. But first we talk to a student at a Columbia University, and an alumnus author and activist about the Palestine solidarity encampment taking place there.

Popular tracks by Black Agenda Radio