Summary: <br> <p>Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and <br> analysis from a Black Left perspective with Glen Ford and co-host Nellie<br> Bailey. <br> <br></p><br> <p>– the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, <br> Peace and Reparations will hold a national conference on the <br> presidential elections and Black self-determination, on April 9<sup>th</sup>,<br> in New York’s Harlem. Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela says the <br> electoral arena is only one aspect of politics, and has historically <br> been the LEAST useful for Black people.</p><br> <p><strong>- </strong>Veteran<br> activist and historian Paul Street last week published an article <br> titled, “Bernie, Black and Blue: Reflections on Race in the Democratic <br> Primaries.” This month, large numbers of Black, brown and white <br> demonstrators – some of them Bernie Sanders supporters – went to a <br> Donald Trump rally in Chicago and shut it down. Sanders was not pleased.<br> Although the Vermont senator claims to want to start a political <br> revolution, he doesn’t like the idea of disruption.</p><br> <p>- One of those<br> who testified, last week, at congressional hearings on the poisoning of<br> Flint, Michigan’s water supply was Prof. Marc Edwards, of Virginia Tech<br> University. Edwards slammed the federal Environmental Protection Agency<br> for “creating the climate” in which the Flint poisoning occurred. He <br> has these other choice words for the leadership of the EPA.</p><br> <p>- <br> Political prisoner Mondo Welanga, from Omaha, Nebraska, died in his cell<br> at the Nebraska State penitentiary, this month, at the age of 68. Mumia<br> Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, mourns the <br> passing of a fighter and a poet.</p><br> <p>- Last year, Mondo Welanga recorded one of his poems for Prison Radio. It’s titled, “When It Gets to This Point.”</p>
