NEWS SEGMENT LEDE (FILE #5): WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IN FULL SWING, THE BLACK IS BACK COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE PEACE AND REPARATIONS GATHERED IN NEWARK. NEW JERSEY, THIS WEEK-END FOR THEIR THIRD CONFERENCE SINCE ITS CREATION IN 2009 IN THE WAKE OF BARACK OBAMA'S ELECTION.
THIS YEAR, THE COALITION AGENDA FOCUSED PRIMARILY ON THE ROLE OF THE ELECTORAL PROCESS IN ADVANCING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY. WBAI FRED NGUYEN ATTENDED AND HE FILES THIS REPORT:
Part 1: Tribute to Queen Mother Yaa Asantewa and Marcus Garvey
Welcome to Newark by Vice-Chairman Larry Adams
Political Report to the Conference by Chairman Omali Yeshitela.
Part 2: Bourgeois Monopoly of the Electoral Process
Part 3: Challenging the Bourgeois Electoral Monopoly.
Part 4: Advancing a Progressive, Anti-colonial Agenda through Electoral Politics
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