J. A. León

2 weeks ago | blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |Anthony Rogers-Wright |Briahna Joy Gray |J. C. Leon |J. A. León

The Democrats’ HANDS OFF rallies included “HANDS OFF NATO” and excluded “HANDS OFF PALESTINE,” but not all rally goers got the memo. On Sunday, April 6, the KPFA-Radio Berkeley Sunday Show opened with an hour on Saturday’s nationwide “HANDS OFF!” rallies, which had taken place in cities across the country.

2 weeks ago | blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |Jon Jeter |Raymond Turner |J. C. Leon |J. A. León

Donald Trump’s new “Safe and Beautiful” task force is little more than a thinly veiled assault on Black working-class communities in Southeast D.C., accelerating policing, displacement, and white vigilante violence. This moment exposes a brutal collaboration between federal and city officials to criminalize poverty and consolidate racial control. On March 27, 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing the “Safe and Beautiful” federal task force for Washington, DC.

3 weeks ago | blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Margaret Kimberley |Raymond Turner |J. C. Leon |J. A. León

While Trump dedicates himself to making every conservative fantasy come true, millions wonder who will save them from the onslaught of the right wing fever dream. The answer is no one but ourselves. Institutions led by members of the ruling class theoretically have the power to oppose anyone who should dare to confront them, even if the confrontation in question is led by the president of the United States.

1 month ago | blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Margaret Kimberley |Raymond Turner |J. C. Leon |J. A. León

Columbia University quickly rolled over for the Trump administration’s demands to suppress pro-Palestinian protests, pulling back the thin veil of liberal academic freedom. In researching her novel, Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell read prodigiously, relying heavily on one text in particular, Reconstruction in Georgia, written by the historian C. Mildred Thompson.

1 month ago | blackagendareport.com | David Cobb |Raymond Turner |Chuck Squatriglia |J. C. Leon |J. A. León

A class consciousness among the working masses, one that takes the issue of race seriously, is critical at this moment. Still, the democrats are working to disrupt this effort to organize against the capitalist elite. “War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. A sensitive and discriminating judgment is called for; a skilled intelligence to scent out the truth.” - Carl von Clausewitz (1873).