Summary: <br> Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and <br> analysis from a Black Left perspective with your host Glen Ford and his <br> co-host, Nellie Bailey. <br> <br> <br> - Mississippi’s Republican state <br> government is trying to strip its mostly Black capital city, Jackson, of<br> control over its airports and other revenue producing properties. The <br> state also seems eager to seize the city’s water system. We spoke with <br> Kali Akuno, of Cooperation Jackson, the political organization that <br> elected Chokwe Lumumba as, arguably, the most radical Black mayor in the<br> country, back in 2013. But Mayor Lumumba died the next year, and now <br> his supporters are fighting from outside. Kali Akuno says the <br> Mississippi Republican Party is determined to crush all possibility of <br> Black political and economic power in Jackson. He calls it, “the <br> Confederate Spring.”<br> - In New York City’s Harlem, this weekend, <br> the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations <br> held a national conference on the elections and Black <br> self-determination. The conference explored whether this election season<br> has opened up new possibilities for a radical, independent Black <br> politics. Margaret Kimberley, a Black Agenda Report editor and senior <br> columnist, was one of the speakers.<br> - Boston-based writer and <br> activist Danny Haiphong is a regular contributor to BAR. In a recent <br> article, Haiphong said the fractures in the Republican and Democratic <br> parties are reflections of the general crisis in the system of <br> capitalism.<br>
