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3 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Janvieve Williams Comrie |Austin Cole |Arnold August
Jamaica’s upcoming election has become a litmus test for Caribbean sovereignty as the U.S. and China compete for dominance. Washington’s threats to seize the Panama Canal and Marco Rubio’s heavy-handed diplomacy expose the island’s precarious position. Jamaica now faces a choice - resist becoming a pawn of the U.S. or surrender to its imperialist interests. Originally published in WiredJA.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Mark Fancher |Austin Cole |Margaret Kimberley |Roberto Sirvent
The ADOS and FBA (American Descendants of Slavery and Foundational Black Americans) movements have gained influence by advocating for reparations exclusively for Black Americans descended from U.S. slavery while promoting a divisive, anti-immigrant, and reactionary ideology. ADOS/FBA’s ideology is a dangerous diversion from true liberation. To achieve justice, Black radicals must reject this reactionary faction and reaffirm anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and Pan-African solidarity.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Austin Cole |Arnold August |Jacqueline Luqman
The Black Radical Tradition is the rich legacy passed down by revolutionaries. It is an important tool today as we struggle to turn the Americas into a Zone of Peace. The Revolutionary Foundations of Our AmericasOn April 8, 1804, a few months after leading Ayiti (Haiti) to independence after a bloody 13- year revolutionary war against European enslavers and colonists, the new nation’s leader, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, articulated the most radical vision of freedom in history.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Austin Cole |Ingrid Banks |Jaime A. Alves |Roberto Sirvent
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney, Jr.Dr. Hamlin is Royce Family Associate Professor of Teaching Excellence in Africana Studies & History at Brown University. Dr. McKinney, Jr. is chair of Africana studies and associate professor of history at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. Their book is From Rights to Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle.
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2 months ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Abayomi Azikiwe |Austin Cole |Margaret Kimberley |Hanna Eid
Every year, people around the world honor Malcolm X. Though he was taken from us prematurely, his memory and impact remain. With that memory, there is a mandate that we accept and carry on the legacy of his politics and the others who are the heart of the Black Radical Tradition. “The price to make others respect your human rights is death. You have to be ready to die… it’s time for you and me now to let the world know how peaceful we are, how well-meaning we are, how law-abiding we wish to be.
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2 months ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Austin Cole |Margaret Kimberley |Abayomi Azikiwe |Natalia Marques
Cheikh Anta Diop’s anti-imperialist Pan-African socialism. Cheikh Anta Diop, the great Senegalese historian, poet, anthropologist, physicist, linguist, and politician, is celebrated for his role in establishing Egypt as a Black African civilization, and demonstrating that African civilizations are the foundation of what came to be called European civilization.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Austin Cole
A Conversation With Nicholas Richard Thompson, Part II. As part of his research on grassroots economic projects toward Black Liberation, Austin Cole spoke with Nicholas Richard-Thompson about his community organizing, expanding definitions of economic development, and connecting the people to the public sector.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Austin Cole
A Conversation With Nicholas Richard-Thompson, Part I. As part of his research on grassroots economic projects toward Black Liberation, Austin Cole spoke with Nick about his community organizing, expanding definitions of economic development, and connecting the people to the public sector. “If we have a shared value and we have shared spaces where we can commune, and if we have institutions that actually encourage that type of participation, you’re solving a lot of problems.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
money.usnews.com | Austin Cole |Ray Frager |Jessica Merritt
The Southwest Rapid Rewards® Premier Credit Card from Chase is an airline rewards card that allows you to earn points on all purchases in any spending category. Earn 50,000 bonus points after spending $1,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening. The card also offers 6,000 bonus points annually after your cardholder anniversary. The card charges a $99 annual fee. The annual percentage rate for the Southwest Rapid Rewards® Premier Credit Card is 21.49% to 28.49% variable.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | David Hundeyin |Austin Cole |Tea Troutman |Roberto Sirvent
Orisanmi Birton's groundbreaking book, Tip of the Spear, has been listed as contraband in prisons across the country, not only preventing incarcerated people from accessing the book but punishing them if it is found in their possession. These institutions consider Burton's book to be too subversive to allow behind the walls for fear of the increased political awakening of the incarcerated population. This reveals the truth of the illegitimacy and tenuousness of the carceral system.
