This is Black Agenda Radio, a weekly hour of African American political thought and action. A judge has ordered Harris County Texas, which includes the city of Houston, to stop keeping low level offenders in jail because they are unable to pay bail. The case was brought by the Washington-based Civil Rights Corp. Executive director Alec Karakatsanis says his firm …
Leid Stories—Students’, Activists’ Protests Won’t Stop Black College Presidents’ Plans to Desecrate Founders’ Legacies; City Ratchets Up Flint’s Water Woes—05.08.17
On May 10, when Bethune-Cookman University—a historically Black university in Daytona Beach, Fla.—holds its spring commencement, the sendoff message to graduates will be delivered by Betsy DeVos, the vacuous secretary of education whose top priority is to dismantle and destroy public education. B-CU President Edison O. Jackson totally rejects the argument that inviting DeVos to speak is an insult to …
Trends This Week – Obama the hypocrite – 05.08.17
President Donald Trump has spent just over one hundred days in the White House. In those one hundred days, he has waged war in the Middle East and announced a tax plan that will further benefit the wealthy. Liberals everywhere are saying the same thing, “We miss Obama.” Meanwhile, their beloved Barack can be found mimicking the Clintons, collecting $400,000 to give …
Leid Stories—Is She Still Speaking with Forked Tongue?—05.04.17
Leid Stories listeners discuss the full dimensions of the following question: What does Hillary Clinton mean when she says that she’s just “a private citizen and part of the resistance?” Download this episode (right click and save)
The Conspiracy Guy – 05.03.17
The Conspiracy Guy #23: Senate hearings involving questioning James Comey, Director of the FBI, about his reopening and then closing of the investigation of Hillary’s email server combing with ongoing demonization of Russia for non-existent “hacking” of our election makes a farce of the Congress. As the new book, SHATTERED, has revealed, the “Russian hacking” meme was concocted by John Podesta and …
Focus On The Facts – 05.02.17
Guest was George Webb. Discussed his investigation of Hillary Clinton, the CIA, and Dyncorp’s Ratlines set up for child sex trafficking, drug running and their organ harvesting operation in countries all over the globe and throughout the US. Download this episode (right click and save)
Ask Beatty – 05.01.17
How are adolescent girls doing around the world medically, educationally, economically, emotionally and psychologically? It’s easy to forget that educational opportunities for many young girls are almost non-existent. Broad inequalities persist between the rich and poor and most notably between the richest males and the poorest females. The disparity is staggering. In the last decade, the awareness around the …
Leid Stories—Madness Normalized: How We’re Adapting to Life in the Age of Psychopolitics—04.27.17
What’s most noteworthy about President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, says Leid Stories, is how the president has normalized what not too long ago we would have called madness, and how, as a nation, we seem to be adapting well to life in the age of psychopolitics. Download this episode (right click and save)
Leid Stories—Closing In on Clinton Foundation Lawlessness—04.26.17
Now that Hillary and Bill Clinton have taken all those restorative walks in the woods and rested up from her bruising 2016 presidential campaign, you’d think they’d be putting things in order at the family foundation (the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation) to comply fully with U.S. and international law—especially since then-candidate Donald Trump had practically put a prosecutorial bounty on their heads for using the foundation as a pay-to-play political operation.
The Conspiracy Guy – 04.19.17
: A new book, SHATTERED, reports reasons why the Clinton campaign failed to resonate with the public. TV media reports on Trump’s first 100 days have been 89% negative, but have taken a stunning reversal making him a neocon idol for his cruise missile attack on Syrian and saber-rattling with North Korea. The Saker provides a searching evaluation of the alleged …