Summary: 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> <br> - The city of Greenville, South Carolina, has <br> witnessed two large funerals in recent days: one for a white cop, the <br> other, for a young Black man who the police claimed killed the officer, <br> and then committed suicide. Black young people in Greenville don’t buy <br> the police version of Deontaye Perry Mackey’s death, and neither does <br> Efia Nwangaza, director of Greenville’s Malcolm X Center for <br> Self-Determination.<br> - Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Chicago-based <br> minister who ran for president as a Democrat in 1984 and 1988, came to <br> Columbia University in New York for a conversation on the current <br> election with Dr. Cornel West, who is supporting Bernie Sanders for <br> president. Rev. Jackson was asked if he’s endorsed anyone in the <br> Democratic primaries.<br> - Dr. Cornel West, the Sanders supporter, is<br> based at Union Theological Seminary, just across the street from <br> Columbia University. Dr. West said he understands that Rev. Jackson <br> might want to stand “above the fray.”<br> - Dr. Marsha <br> Coleman-Adebayo, the Black Agenda Report editor and columnist, attended <br> three of the recent congressional hearings on the poisoning of the water<br> system in Flint, Michigan. Adebayo used to work for the federal <br> Environmental Protection Agency. She successfully sued the agency, and <br> was the key actor in passage of legislation to protect whistle blowers <br> from government retaliation. Adebayo said the poisoning of Flint was a <br> deliberate act.<br> - Umi Saleh, the leader of the Florida-based Dream<br> Defenders, who was formerly known as Phillip Agnew, spoke recently with<br> Pascal Robert, a frequent contributor to Black Agenda Report. Saleh <br> talked about Movement politics and the limitations – and dangers – of <br> over-dependence on social media.<br> <br>
