Summary: <br> Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and <br> analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford with my co-host, <br> Nellie Bailey. <br> - Half of this summer’s political drama will play <br> out in Philadelphia, where the Democrats are holding their national <br> convention. Bill Clinton launched into a political tirade, earlier this <br> month, when activists from the Philly Coalition for REAL Justice <br> denounced the former president’s mass Black incarceration and anti-poor <br> peoples policies. Bill Clinton ranted and raved for 13 minutes, and then<br> issued a back-handed, non-apology the next morning. We asked Megan <br> Malachi, spokesperson for the Philly Coalition for REAL Justice, if they<br> were surprised at the venomousness of Clinton’s response.<br> - Dr. <br> Anthony Monteiro is a Duboisian scholar and veteran activist who was one<br> of the founders of the Black Radical Organizing Committee, which held a<br> national conference on the Black Radical Tradition, earlier this year. <br> We asked Dr. Monteiro what kind of reception Black Philadelphia will <br> give the Democrats when they hold their national convention, in July.<br> -<br> St. Mary’s Church, in New York’s Harlem, was packed, this month, for a <br> national conference on the 2016 Elections and Black Self-Determination. <br> The event was organized by the Black Is Back Coalition for Social <br> Justice, Peace and Reparations. Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela said <br> the electoral process is not the only means of struggle. In fact, it’s <br> not even the most important means of political struggle.<br> - Diop <br> Olugbala is an African Socialist Party activist, based in Philadelphia. <br> He spoke on one of the Black Is Back Coalition’s principal demands: <br> Black community control of the police.<br> - Our own Nellie Bailey, <br> co-host of Black Agenda Radio, addressed the Black Is Back Coalition <br> national conference. Bailey is a veteran Harlem tenants organizer. She <br> spoke on the demand for Black self-determination and the centrality of <br> the housing issue.<br>
