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3 weeks ago | 
money.usnews.com | Austin Cole |Adriana Ocanas |Mark Evitt |Gina Freeman
National Average Mortgage RatesRates data is based on a borrower with good credit, a conforming loan amount (at least $200,000 but less than the national conforming loan amount), and a loan-to-value ratio of less than 80% (For purchase loans, this corresponds to a down payment of 20% or more). © Zillow, Inc., 2006-2016.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Djibo Sobukwe |Roberto Sirvent |Abayomi Azikiwe |Austin Cole
This piece was originally published in Black Agenda Report in 2017. Malcolm X understood that “oppressed peoples must commit themselves to radical political struggle in order to advance a dignified approach to human rights.” What’s needed is a bottom-up mass movement for People(s)-Centered Human Rights, a “political project in the service of the oppressed” that “names the enemies of freedom: the Western white supremacist, colonial/capitalist patriarchy.” Social revolution is the only solution.
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1 month ago | 
usnews.com | Austin Cole |Sebastian Oliveira |Mark Evitt
Key Takeaways An overdraft happens when you try to use more money than you have in your checking account. You may incur a fee for overdrafting. Overdraft protection allows you to avoid an overdraft fee by pulling funds from a savings account or line of credit to cover the negative balance. Setting up low balance alerts could help you avoid overdraft incidents and keep you from relying on overdraft protection.
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2 months ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Jacqueline Luqman |Austin Cole |Margaret Kimberley |Abayomi Azikiwe
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Erik S. McDuffie. McDuffie is Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His book is The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom. Roberto Sirvent: How can your book help BAR readers understand the current political and social climate? Erik S.
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2 months 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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Mar 25, 2025 | 
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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Mar 11, 2025 | 
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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Feb 25, 2025 | 
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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Feb 18, 2025 | 
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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Feb 5, 2025 | 
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.
