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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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Oct 29, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |Abayomi Azikiwe |Ingrid Banks |Jaime A. Alves
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. In part II of this discussion, they reflect on what Black Liberation means on a local level and how organizing through a People(s)-Centered Human Rights framework can get us closer to achieving what we need and demand to achieve it.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Abayomi Azikiwe |Ingrid Banks |Jaime A. Alves |Julia Wright
Liberals are demanding that Black people in the U.S. put aside our long tradition of anti-imperialism to support Kamala Harris and sacrifice Palestine in the process. Originally published in Mondoweiss. Symbolism is a necessary means for laundering imperialism. Not only does it bribe the people with amorphous “progress” but it pits struggles in opposition against those that would otherwise be in harmony.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Abayomi Azikiwe |Ingrid Banks |Jaime A. Alves
Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly provides important context to “Moving Towards Life” which examines how the issue of Palestine changed the relationship between June Jordan and Audre Lorde. At a rally in Detroit Michigan on Wednesday, August 7, 2024, Kamala Harris chided pro-Palestine protesters. As they chanted “Kamala, Kamala You can’t Hide! We Won’t Vote for Genocide!” the self-proclaimed “top cop” shot back, “You know what? If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Ingrid Banks |Jaime A. Alves |Maya King
For the late Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Black music was a tool in the struggle for Black liberation, and not what it has mostly become today: a retrograde appendage to neoliberalism and white power. It has been a dreary season for Black music.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Abayomi Azikiwe |Ingrid Banks |Jaime A. Alves |Julia Wright
The international liberation struggles of colonized people in nations like Haiti, Palestine, as well as Indigenous nations on land stolen by the U.S., are inextricably linked to the struggle for the liberation of New Afrikan people. Amerika has never dealt with its original sin of Colonial Genocide and Structural Settler Racism. Instead, it has moved to placate, pacify and co-opt New Afrikan/Black folks into its own structural system of oppression and neo-colonialism.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Abayomi Azikiwe |Ingrid Banks |Jaime A. Alves |Hanna Eid
The contributions of Malcolm X to African liberation cannot be understated. With the recent celebrations of the 99th birthday of Malcolm X, the Ujima People’s Progress Party feels it is a good time to reflect on his legacy and modern-day impact. Granted that this cannot be done complete justice in one column. Our objective here is to simply highlight a few things in his legacy that we feel contribute to his ideological lineage which in no small measure led to the forming of our party.
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May 21, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Abayomi Azikiwe |Ingrid Banks |Jaime A. Alves |Julia Wright
There is a close connection between the Pan-Africanist Movement and the current struggle to end the genocide in GazaOriginally published in News Ghana.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Ingrid Banks |Jaime A. Alves |Hanna Eid |Maya King
Read John Henry Clarke’s response to Henry Louis Gates’s demagoguery as he maliciously deploys a critique “Black anti-semitism” to ingratiate himself with the white zionist power elite. The malicious characterization of legitimate critiques of zionism as “anti-semitism” is nothing new. It is an old and effective strategy that works to not only silence the critique, but to besmirch and smear the reputation of the critic.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Ingrid Banks |Jaime A. Alves |Julia Wright |Jacqueline Luqman
The peoples of this world will never see true liberation and peace until we are free of the shackles of U.S. and Western colonial domination. Originally published in Black Alliance for Peace. Gaza dramatically stripped away the murderous hypocrisy and deadly intransigence of U.S. and Western imperialism’s commitment to maintaining global hegemony by “any means necessary,” including using the weapon of genocide.
