Slavery In U.S.

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio March 3, 2023
03 Mar 2023
This week we hear about right wing attacks on the finances of a grass roots organization, and the effort to cultivate a culture which promotes peacemaking, but first a new book reveals Harriet Tubman…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy
03 Mar 2023
Clarence Lusane discusses his latest book, Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio July 1, 2022
01 Jul 2022
Reproductive justice in the wake of SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade, campaign to free Mumia Abu Jamal, and Frederick Douglass speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July" read by Ossie Davis.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
"What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" read by Ossie Davis
01 Jul 2022
On July 5, 1852 Frederick Douglass was asked to speak on the topic of the nation’s independence celebration. Now known as What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, the speech was a stinging…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Insurance Industry Vital to US Slavery
10 Aug 2020
Insuring one’s slave “is actually a better financial decision than insuring other kinds of property,” said Dr Michael Ralph, director of Africana Studies at New York Universit
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Abolitionists Drew Blood in Fighting Slavery
08 Jun 2020
“It was fugitive slaves, who were violent in defending themselves against slave-catchers, who pushed abolitionists towards militant and sometimes violent tactics,” said Duke University historian Je
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Fight Mass Incarceration Like Our Ancestors Fought Slavery
13 Aug 2019
“It’s remarkable how much the prison system looks like the institution of slavery,” said Kellie Jackson, author of “Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
U.S. Slavery Was Uniquely Capitalist
20 Mar 2018
Even on the left, the capitalist nature of US slavery is not well understood, said historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Chains That Bound Blacks and Indigenous Americans
13 Mar 2018
Blacks and Native Americans share a history of enslavement at the hands of European settlers, said Dr Gerald Horne, professor of history and African American studies at the Un