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1 week ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Jacqueline Luqman |Frank Chapman
City Council should pass a slate of housing protections centered on low-income renters instead of advancing plans for a hotel near the Obama Center site, protesters said at a rally Tuesday in Woodlawn. Originally published in Block Club Chicago. WOODLAWN — With a 26-story hotel planned blocks from the Obama Presidential Center site, housing activists are calling on city leaders to prioritize a long-delayed slate of housing protections for residents near the center before advancing any hotel plans.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Jacqueline Luqman |Frank Chapman |Gerald Horne
Throughout history, trade restrictions have reshaped economies for good or for ill. As Trump increases tariffs across industries, it is clear that this move will not revitalize the economy as he claims. Rather, it stands to create further hardship for Black and working class people.
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2 months ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Jacqueline Luqman |Carlos Sirah |Frank Chapman
The economic stress on African American people shows itself in phenomena like marriage rates. What once was a benefit to Black communities and a path to the middle class, marriage is becoming harder to sustain with low wages and few options for employment. In retrospect, the tipping point in Desjon Yisrael’s marriage was when his wife announced that she was pregnant with their second child. There was enough love to go around—Yisrael was ecstatic—just not enough money.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
blackagendareport.com | Frank Chapman |Jon Jeter
Washington, D.C., is implementing a new bill intended to crack down on fare evasion. This bill, like many others of its kind, will serve as a tool deployed in the ongoing war against the Black working class by increasing policing and punishing those who cannot bear the hardship of the exorbitant cost of D.C. public transportation.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
thetriibe.com | Tiffany Walden |Frank Chapman
First of all, let us recognize that the 2016 electoral victory that put Kim Foxx into the Cook County State’s Attorney Office (CCSAO) was based clearly and squarely on the demands of our movement coming in the wake of the 2014 Chicago police murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. That case exposed several things at the same time. It exposed the role of then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel in covering up police crimes because he held the video tape for over 400 days so he could win reelection.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Frank Chapman |Margaret Kimberley |Lisa Armstrong |Henry A. Giroux
After a damning revelation eight years ago, state leaders changed the make-up of the Parole Board to combat inequality. It didn’t help. Black and Hispanic people in New York state prisons have a much higher chance to be denied parole than whites over the past three years — a divide that’s gotten worse since being highlighted in 2016, a new study shows.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Abayomi Azikiwe |Max Parthas |Margaret Kimberley |Frank Chapman
“The Seminoles had set a dangerous example, for if Blacks and Native Americans united everywhere in the Americas, then a genuine racial democracy might emerge.”On October 12, 1492, when the Italian navigator Christopher Columbus mistakenly made landfall in the Bahamas — on an island the Lucayan people called Guanahani — he helped set into motion two holocausts: one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, the other of the children of Africa.
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May 6, 2024 | 
thetriibe.com | Frank Chapman
A Chicago police traffic stop turned into 96 shots of gunfire. On March 21, unmarked vehicles and plain-clothed officers swarmed Dexter Reed for allegedly not wearing a seatbelt. The “theoretical” intention of a traffic stop of this kind would be to keep people behind the wheel safe by reducing crash-related injuries, instead Mr. Reed was met with officers side-swiping his vehicle and meeting him with lethal aggression, bullets striking his body 13 times.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
popularresistance.org | Frank Chapman
Frank Chapman calls on Black and Brown communities in Chicago to unite in struggle against the forces that oppress us all. Throughout the history of Chicago, Black & Brown unity has been at the core of every democratic advancement made by working and oppressed people.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Abayomi Azikiwe |Frank Chapman |Jon Jeter |Margaret Kimberley
The end of the Second Imperialist War (World War II) did not usher in the end of colonialism and oppression for Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. The resistance of Pan-African movements grew in political strength and numbers, resulting in increased repression during the anti-communist hysteria of McCarthyism. Originally published in Fighting Words.
