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Black Agenda Report Executive Editor Glen Ford was one of the earliest and most outspoken critics of Barack Obama from the Left and inside the Black Community. A year into Obama's turn, how does Ford assess the Black community's relationship to the President?

A leading civil rights attorney and scholar argues in her new book The New Jim Crow that the mass imprisonment of Blacks and Latinos in the US - and its impact on former prisoners, their families and communities -- has created a new racial caste system in the US.

Recently returned from a devastated Port-au-Prince, the South LA Congresswoman talks about the challenges to democratic self-determination, from Haitian business elite and foreign powers blocking the returned of exiled President Jean Bertrand Aristide to renewed demands, promoted by Waters in Congress, to cancel Haiti's international debt.

Leading commentators from the Institute for Policy Studies and the
Black Commentator discuss the specific impacts of the economic and
housing crises in the Black community. As unemployment and poverty
rates sore, the foreclosure crisis is being called the largest transfer
wealth out of the hands of Black people in modern US history.

Barbara Cottman Becnel, close friend of Stanley Tookie Williams, talks about the final days of ex-gang member's life. 

Radical geographer of the political economy of prisons in the neoliberalized state of California, Ruthie Gilmore, exposes the incarceration of women in California's exploding prison system.

ACLU Civil Rights attorney Graham Boyd speaks on the fight against the War on Drugs as the civil rights struggle of the 21st Century.

Advancement Project civil rights attorney Edward Hailes asks if the criminal theft of the Presidential election in 2000 through
the purging of thousands of Black voters could happen again in 2008?

From the No on 8 Campaign, Javier Angullo, talks about another rightwing attack on civil rights in California.