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Black Agenda Radio
Thu, May 16, 2024 20:00 PM
- Protest at MIT campus – A suspended student discusses Palestine solidarity and the administration and police crackdown against it. -
- Segregation in New York City public schools – A lawsuit seeks to remedy discriminatory practices. -
- Sudan – The history of the dispute which has created war and humanitarian disaster in Sudan. -
This week we discuss a lawsuit which seeks to force New York City to end patterns of segregation in its public school system. Also, we discuss the history of the ongoing humanitarian and political crisis in Sudan. But first we talk to an MIT student who was suspended in the crackdown on Palestine solidarity protests.
Austin Cole is a graduate student in urban planning and business at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT. He was due to graduate but has been suspended due to his activity with the Palestine solidarity encampment which demanded that MIT divest itself of any support of Israel and its ongoing war crimes committed against the people of Gaza. He joins us from Boston to discuss the encampment and his own experience with the attack directed by the state and carried out by MIT and other institutions. This is the first part of a two-part interview.
A first-of-its-kind lawsuit asserting a right to an antiracist education under the New York State Constitution, filed against New York State and City, will move forward under a ruling by a state appellate court. In the lawsuit, IntegrateNYC, students, and community groups – represented by Public Counsel and the Peer Defense Project – challenge policies that entrench segregation and drive racial inequity in the New York City public school system. We are joined by Omari Soulfinger, Co-Executive Director and Coach of IntegrateNYC and Avery, a Youth Director at IntegrateNYC. They join us from New York City to discuss this lawsuit.
Abayomi Azikiwe is editor of the Pan-African News Wire. He joins us from Detroit to discuss Sudan, where a military struggle for power has created a political and a humanitarian crisis.
- Austin Cole – MIT graduate student -
- Omari Soulfinger and Avery – IntegrateNYC -
- Abayomi Azikiwe – Pan - African Newswire
https://twitter.com/ac_kristo
https://integratenyc.org/
https://panafricannews.blogspot.com/
