Summary: <br> Welcome, this is Black Agenda Radio, the radio magazine that brings <br> you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m <br> Glen Ford with my co-host, Nellie Bailey., here is a weekly hour of <br> African American political thought and action<br> – Former Georgia <br> congresswoman Cynthia McKinney says Black people have no stake in the <br> Republican or Democratic parties. McKinney was the Green Party’s <br> presidential candidate in 2008. She has since earned her PhD in <br> Leadership and Change. We asked McKinney if she has ever seen anything <br> like the current disarray in both major parties this election season?<br> -<br> Political activists from around the nation are planning to be in <br> Philadelphia, in late July, for the Democratic National convention. Dr. <br> Anthony Monteiro is a native Philadelphian, a member of the Black <br> Radical Organizing Committee, and one of the organizers of last <br> January’s national conference on the Black Radical Tradition. Dr. <br> Monteiro says this is the most “consequential” election season in, <br> perhaps, a century.<br> - Rev. Edward Pinkney is serving a sentence of<br> 30 months to ten years in prison for allegedly tampering with a voter <br> petition in his hometown of Benton Harbor, Michigan. The mostly Black <br> city has long been under the thumb of the Whirlpool Corporation. Rev. <br> Pinkney spoke to Prison Radio on how he became a political prisoner.<br> -<br> Studies show that Black girls are suspended or expelled from school at <br> six times the rate of white girls. Education Week magazine spoke with <br> researchers on the causes of these wildly disproportionate punishments. <br> Adrienne Dixson, a professor of Critical Race Theory at the University <br> Illinois.<br> <br> <br> - The United States seems to be <br> closer to its long time goal of overthrowing the left wing government in<br> Venezuela. The Venezuelans say Washington is gearing up for a military <br> intervention. Utrice Leid, host of Leid Stories, on the Progressive <br> Radio Network, recently interviewed Dr. Gerald Horne, a professor of <br> history and African American Studies at the University of Houston.<br> Be sure to visit us at <a href="http://blackagendareport.com/">BlackAgendaReport.com</a>, where you’ll find a new and provocative issue, each Wednesday. That’s <a href="http://blackagendareport.com/">www.BlackAgendaReport.com</a>. It’s the place for news, commentary and analysis, from the Black Left.
