Black Agenda Report Videocast

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Black Agenda Report is the journal of African American political thought and action at www.blackagendareport.com

Episodes of Black Agenda Report Videocast

    • Elaine Brown on GA Prison Strike, A Democracy No...

      Elaine Brown, longtime human rights activist and former head of the Black Panther Party in the 1970s is a former Georgia resident, and has a son imprisoned in that state. Brown has spent much of the last dozen years working with Georgia inmates, their families, and others concerned about the plight of prisoners and the role the institutions of prisons and mass incarceration play in our society. On Thursday December 9 thousands of inmates in at least four GA prisons refused their work assignmen...

      • Release date
        Dec 14, 2010
      • Runtime
        15:35
    • Glen Ford On Carlos Moore: How To Become An Expe...

      Derrick Bell once said that the fastest way for black people to be labeled experts on matters racial is to agree with whites in power.

      • Release date
        Mar 24, 2010
      • Runtime
        15:30
    • Ayesha Fleary For Black Is Back: The President's...

      Because our president has a brown face, says Ayesha Fleary, we are supposed to look away from wars, illegalities and suffering imposed on this world by that president. It doesn't work that way....

      • Release date
        Mar 24, 2010
      • Runtime
        03:07
    • Amiri Baraka on Carlos Moore's 5 Decades in the ...

      Amiri Baraka recounts the infamous career of Carlos Moore, from the early and mid 1960s to the present day.

      • Release date
        Mar 24, 2010
      • Runtime
        09:40
    • Ms. Binta Answers Carlos Moore Charges of Racism...

      Recently right wing black activist Carlos Moore has renewed his attack on cuba with a petition circulatd among American notables alleging the island is racist and claiming that Uncle Sam is the only one fit to negotiate for the African American people of Cuba.

      • Release date
        Mar 24, 2010
      • Runtime
        08:03
    • Glen Ford on Black Delusion in the Age of Obama

      Accordng to a recent study by the Pew Center, a majority African Americans are convinced for the first time that historic black/white gaps in health, wealth, education, morbidity and mortality are narrowng, when they are actually widening.

      • Release date
        Feb 3, 2010
      • Runtime
        23:05
    • Haitians in the Bahamas Harrassed, Hunted and Sc...

      Professor Alex Morely describes the historical and present condition of Haitians in the Bahamas

      • Release date
        Feb 3, 2010
      • Runtime
        27:01
    • The Age of Obama Demands A Broad Social Movement

      Omali Yeshitela of the Uhuru Movement, convenors of the January 2010 Black Is Back conference in St. Petersburg explains that the 21st century successor to the Freedom Movement must be a broad social movement firmly rooted, among other places, in black America, and describes a little of what that looks like.

      • Release date
        Feb 3, 2010
      • Runtime
        45:18
    • Copenhagen Climate Summit Pits Profits of Wealth...

      Ayesha Fleary explains how the UN Copenhagen Climate was a rigged deal to safeguard the profits of wealthy nations at the expense of poorer ones, and a the expense of humanity's only habitat, the planet Earth.

      • Release date
        Jan 27, 2010
      • Runtime
        13:00
    • Larry Hamm, Organizing Black Communities in the ...

      With chapters from Camden NJ in the south to Plainfield and Newark NJ in the north and New York City too, the Peoples Organization For Progress has established a solid tradition of educating and organizing African American communities against war, empire, privatization, and corporate power. At the 2010 Black Is Back national conference Larry Hamm explains what working for peace and justice in the age of Obama looks like.

      • Release date
        Jan 26, 2010
      • Runtime
        01:00:12
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