Summary: <br> Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and <br> analysis from a Black Left perspective with Glen Ford and his co-host, <br> Nellie Bailey. <br> – The Black American condition, especially Black <br> people’s relations with the police, is more of an issue in the 2016 <br> election campaign than it was in the two previous presidential races, <br> when a Black man was running for president. Minister Louis Farrakhan, of<br> the Nation of Islam, has said there are some things he likes about <br> Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. But Carl Dix, a <br> co-founder of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, says that Minister <br> Farrakhan should be taken to task for those remarks.<br> - Six million<br> Congolese have died since 1996, when the Rwandan regime led by Paul <br> Kagame invaded the Democratic Republic of Congo. Three U.S. presidential<br> administrations have been deeply involved in the genocides in the <br> Congo, Rwanda and elsewhere in the Great Lakes region of Africa, but no <br> one is more deeply implicated in the bloodbath than Bill and Hillary <br> Clinton. Both Clintons are strong supporters of Rwandan president Paul <br> Kagame, who opponents say is the man most responsible for the Rwandan <br> and Congolese genocides. Kagame’s minority Tutsi rebel forces overthrew <br> the government of Rwanda in 1994, which led to the deaths of millions. <br> Claude Gatebuke is a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, and co-founder of<br> the African Great Lakes Network. He says Paul Kagame’s crimes predate <br> the events of 1994. <br> <br> <br> - Thousands of Blacks in the South <br> American nation of Colombia blocked the Pan American highway, the major <br> trade route that links North and South America, to protest threats to <br> their ancestral land holdings in the country. Blacks make up the <br> majority of Colombians that have been displaced by the decades-long <br> guerilla war, which may soon be coming to an end. Both the guerillas and<br> multinational corporations have eyes on the land that Afro-Colombians <br> have occupied for more than 400 years. Charo Mina-Rojas is an <br> Afro-Colombian activist. She says the Colombian government has broken <br> its promises to respect Black people’s right to self-determination and <br> to land.<br> <br> <br> - Prison activists gathered, recently, at the <br> University of Pittsburgh Law School, for a discussion of solitary <br> confinement. The panel was organized by the Abolitionist Law Center and <br> the Center for Constitutional Rights. It focused on the harm and the <br> suffering caused by solitary confinement in prison, from the inmates’ <br> perspective. Albert Woodfox spent 44 years in Louisiana’s Angola Prison,<br> most of it in solitary confinement, until he was finally released <br> earlier this year.<br>
