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Leid Stories—Students’, Activists’ Protests Won’t Stop Black College Presidents’ Plans to Desecrate Founders’ Legacies; City Ratchets Up Flint’s Water Woes—05.08.17

On May 10, when Bethune-Cookman University—a historically Black university in Daytona Beach, Fla.—holds its spring commencement, the sendoff message to graduates will be delivered by Betsy DeVos, the vacuous secretary of education whose top priority is to dismantle and destroy public education. B-CU President Edison O. Jackson totally rejects the argument that inviting DeVos to speak is an insult to the B-CU community, and, most specifically, its founders.

On June 8, Medgar Evers College holds its commencement ceremony and its choice of keynote speaker, who also is to be conferred an honorary doctorate, is Hillary Clinton. The announcement has not yet been made publicly, but already there is a backlash against President Rudy Crew’s action. Like Jackson, Crew is adamant that the invitation to Clinton will stand, even though many regard Clinton and her shoddy history as completely inconsistent with those of the assassinated civil rights activist after whom the college is named.

Leid Stories discusses the political cord that connects both events.

Leid Stories—Leave the Herd. Free Your Mind and Be Heard!—05.05.17

It’s Free Your Mind Friday” on Leid Stories, the best open forum in Radioland.

Let’s hear what you have to say about current events, this week’s programs, or any subject you consider worthy of further discussion or debate.

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Leid Stories—Is She Still Speaking with Forked Tongue?—05.04.17

Leid Stories listeners discuss the full dimensions of the following question: What does Hillary Clinton mean when she says that she’s just “a private citizen and part of the resistance?” 

Leid Stories—New Administration, Same Dual System of Justice, Especially for Killer Cops—05.03.17

It’s no secret that a different set of rules seems to apply when it comes to prosecuting killer cops. Indictments are hard to come by; prosecutors tend to undercharge; cases are routed through alternative channels such as administrative hearings; procedural errors deliberately are made during the course of a trial to make appeals easier; evidence and/or witnesses mysteriously cannot be located; and settlements are urged rather than having a jury hear the case, especially if conviction appears likely.

Several high-profile cases involving police killings of Black men recently have been declared closed, but questions abound about whether justice truly was served, given the disparate and sympathetic treatment accorded the killer cops.

It may be a new administration, says Leid Stories, but the old dual system of justice seems alive and well.

Leid Stories—Surviving the First 100 Days of Donald Trump’s Presidency—05.02.17

Leid Stories listeners share their views about the impact Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office has had on their lives and on their political views.

Leid Stories—May Day Mayday: Extreme Distress Signals from the World of Work—05.01.17

It’s International Workers’ Day, and all across America labor and a wide range of activist groups are staging rallies and demonstrations in solidarity with a global agenda for change. For decades the day—created in memory of workers killed at Haymarket Square in Chicago on May 4, 1886 while on strike for eight-hour work days—all but slipped into oblivion. But recent developments and trends in the world of work seem to have created an urgency within the labor movement to safeguard workers’ hard-won turf and to check the corporate-political alliance that is constantly shifting economic goal posts.

Dr. Richard D. Wolff, a Marxist economist, discusses the crisis the U.S. system is in, and the consequential crisis it has created for workers. 

Leid Stories—Speak Up! Speak Out! Speak Your Mind!—04.28.17

It’s “Free Your Mind Friday” on Leid Stories—the gathering place for the exchange of   information, opinions and ideas. Fired up about a grassroots victory? Fed up about business-as-usual politics? Know secrets to the meaning of life? Share it at our weekly free-form mashup. We’re a stout-hearted bunch who have good manners, appreciate sincere effort  and play fair. Call 888-874-4888 and tell us what we’ve been missing! 

Leid Stories—Madness Normalized: How We’re Adapting to Life in the Age of Psychopolitics—04.27.17

What’s most noteworthy about President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, says Leid Stories, is how the president has normalized what not too long ago we would have called madness, and how, as a nation, we seem to be adapting well to life in the age of psychopolitics.

Leid Stories—Closing In on Clinton Foundation Lawlessness—04.26.17

Now that Hillary and Bill Clinton have taken all those restorative walks in the woods and rested up from her bruising 2016 presidential campaign, you’d think they’d be putting things in order at the family foundation (the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation) to comply fully with U.S. and international law—especially since then-candidate Donald Trump had practically put a prosecutorial bounty on their heads for using the foundation as a pay-to-play political operation.

To avoid the appearance of donors receiving political favors, the foundation said it would shut down its Clinton by Global Initiative by April 15 this year, letting go 22 staff, and concentrate instead on its philanthropic projects.

Charles Ortel, who has been investigating the Clinton Foundation for more than two years and has been reporting his findings on Leid Stories, returns with his latest report. Ortel blew the whistle on Wall Street fraud in 2007-2008, when he proved that many companies—GE, GM and AIG among them—had overvalued their stocks by hundreds of billions of dollars. An expert on charities, Ortel says the Clinton foundation is “the largest unprosecuted charity fraud in history.”

Leid Stories—Call It As You See It on Leid Stories’ ‘Free Your Mind Friday!’—04.21.17

It’s “Free Your Mind Friday” on Leid Stories, and listeners’ opinions about current issues and events—or any subject of their choosing, for that matter--are the “star” of the show.

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