Alberto Toscano

1 month ago | blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |David Hundeyin |Roberto Sirvent |Alberto Toscano

James Baldwin on white madness–and Black resistance. In An Open Letter to My Sister Angela Y. Davis, James Baldwin gave us a haunting vision of fascism’s creeping death march. Published in the New York Review of Books in January 1971, the letter was written on November 18, 1970, about a month after Davis was captured by the FBI. The letter was Baldwin’s disturbed response, in part, to a photograph of Davis on the cover of Newsweek following her capture: she appeared handcuffed and manacled, chained.

2 months ago | blackagendareport.com | David Hundeyin |Roberto Sirvent |Alberto Toscano

Langston Hughes’s 1943 poem against fascism is precise, droll, and eternal. Some things need no introduction, no preface, no preamble, no explanatory note to provide context or history. These things speak to the moment with such clarity, and through such brevity, that to otherwise attempt to frame or explain them would take away from their inherent power. Langston Hughes’s poem “Note to All Nazis, Fascists and Klansmen” is such a thing.

Jan 14, 2025 | progressivehub.net | Alberto Toscano

Now, less than two weeks before Trump’s inauguration, the threats against municipal or state officials willing to extend ​“sanctuary” have only grown more explicit, as when Homan recently vowed to prosecute Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson if he continues to ​“harbor and conceal” asylum seekers.

Jan 12, 2025 | inthesetimes.com | Alberto Toscano

“They ain’t seen shit yet.

Nov 26, 2024 | blackagendareport.com | David Hundeyin |Abayomi Azikiwe |Alberto Toscano

Manning Marable reminds us that US fascism is institutional and normalized. The parallels of his 1981 essay with the present are obvious – US fascism remains ascendant. What is an anatomy of American fascism? The late African-American historian Manning Marable asked this question in a two-part article titled, “The Prospects for Fascism,” published in 1981 in the New Journal and Guide, the longstanding Black newspaper from Norfolk, Virginia.