Black Agenda Radio April 15, 2022 by Black Agenda Radio

Welcome to Black Agenda Radio, where we provide news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. Coming up: Eritrea’s recent votes in the United Nations demonstrate its continued independence from US dictates, and we discuss the book Manufacturing Hate: How Africa was Demonized in Western Media.

But first, Gus Griffin, a member of Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team and the Membership Committee of the Ujima People’s Progress Party, discusses their upcoming third statewide conference taking place in Landover, Maryland on April 23rd.

Elias Amare is an editor and journalist at Horn of Africa TV. US policy towards Eritrea has always been hostile. Recent events have been no different as the US continues to target that nation with sanctions, along with its neighbor Ethiopia. But Eritrea takes a firmly independent stance, as it has shown with recent UN votes regarding Russia.

Milton Allimadi is publisher of Black Star News, an adjunct professor of history at John Jay College, and an adjunct professor in the graduate school of journalism at Columbia University. He is the author of Manufacturing Hate: How Africa was Demonized in Western Media.