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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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3 weeks 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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4 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Jacqueline Luqman |Margaret Kimberley |Ann Garrison |Anthony Rogers-Wright
DEI isn’t dead—it was never alive to begin with. A corporate pacification project dressed as progress, it launders Black rage into diversity statements while police budgets grow and material conditions collapse. As the right attacks this hollow facade, we must reject both the bootleg rehab of DEI and the strip-club austerity of Anti-DEI to organize for real power beyond the spectacle of representation. Figure 1. An image of an “Equality in Diversity” sign at an assumed protest.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Mark Fancher |Jacqueline Luqman
“The principal aspect of United States capitalist society is not merely bourgeois domination but bourgeois white supremacist domination.”If the fatal flaw of the white left has been the inability — indeed, the refusal — to account for white supremacy, one of the few white leftists to overcome this flaw was Theodore W. Allen (August 23, 1919 – January 19, 2005).
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Raymond Turner |Margaret Kimberley |Abayomi Azikiwe |Jacqueline Luqman
“The question now is: What are we going to do about this murderous fascism?”One might not guess it from its title, but Martin Sostre’s essay, “Armed Struggle: Natural Response to Fascism,” is a nuanced, careful, and eloquent consideration of political strategy in the context of repressive, totalitarian rule.
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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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1 month ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Jacqueline Luqman
As Africans, we don’t want the war in Ukraine to continue. Russia has legitimate security concerns. But instead of addressing them, the opposite has happened. NATO has been expanding its lines, NATO has been trying to consolidate its positions in Eastern Europe, up to the Russian border. What did you expect Russia to do, sit idle and watch? Would the USA or Europe accept that situation? Who in the world would accept that to happen? Writes Dr. Fred M’Membe, president of the Socialist Party of Zambia.
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1 month ago | 
popularresistance.org | Jacqueline Luqman
Above photo: Twitter screenshot. The ADOS and FBA movements have gained influence by advocating for reparations exclusively for Black Americans descended from U.S. slavery. They are 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 | Jacqueline Luqman |Raymond Turner |Jon Jeter |Roberto Sirvent
So-called Foundational Black Americans may tell themselves they are noble protectors of ancestral legacy, but they are, in fact, little different from European groups in this country that conceptualized white privilege and tried to reserve it for exclusive groups. Originally published in LA Progressive. hings have gone all wrong. It was supposed to have been a repetition of the Biblical Passover.
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2 months 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.
