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1 week ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |Jon Jeter |Jonathan Forney |Natalia Marques
When oppression becomes unbearable, resistance erupts. The uprising at Delaney Hall exposes the brutality of immigrant detention and the power of collective defiance. Originally published in CMB Newark. On Thursday, June 12th, 50 kidnapped immigrants revolted against their inhumane conditions at Delaney Hall, a private detention facility operated by GEO Group in Newark.
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2 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Jonathan Forney |Chris Hedges |Natalia Marques
Popular resistance against the Trump administration in Los Angeles and other cities is a very positive development and one that Black people must embrace. The devolution of Black politics has never been so evident and could not happen at a worse moment. While the crisis of legitimacy accelerates, and provides opportunities for movement politics, many Black people have declared themselves to be uninterested in political engagement or even worse, to be in solidarity with state oppression.
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2 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |Jon Jeter |Natalia Marques |David Cobb
Issues before the high court range from health care access and citizenship to workplace discrimination and redistricting. Originally published in Capital B News. From voting rights to health care to workplace equality, the U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on a number of issues this summer that could have major implications for Black Americans.
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2 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |Jon Jeter |Jonathan Forney |Natalia Marques
While ICE and law enforcement unleash raids across LA, protesters stand firm, exposing the brutal machinery of deportation and the state’s violent response to dissent and resistance. Originally published in Struggle la Lucha. May 17 – Tense confrontations are escalating in Los Angeles’ residential neighborhoods. In just the first two weeks of May, incidents in South Central include a raid near Exposition and Arlington.
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3 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Ann Garrison |Abayomi Azikiwe
Despite shared language, culture, and religion, Somalis still struggle to become a cohesive nation. Somalia is a nation of six million with territory roughly the size of Alaska and just larger than the UK. Its highly geostrategic coastline is the longest in Africa, sitting at the intersection of the European, African, and Asian worlds.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Anthony Rogers-Wright |Margaret Kimberley |Jon Jeter |Iain Carlos
With the ritualistic murder of George Floyd by the occupation forces referred to as the police that roam the streets and barrios of the Black and Brown colonized communities in the United States, the Black Alliance for Peace declared that justice was impossible, no matter how the colonial state might handle Floyd’s murderer. Why?
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Ernest Owens |Margaret Kimberley |Ann Garrison
Muriel Bowser is proving that Black faces in high places don’t break systems, they grease them. While slashing wages for tipped workers and handing billionaires stadium deals, D.C.’s mayor is the engine of gentrification in D.C.Earlier this month, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser introduced legislation to repeal a law that gradually increases the minimum wage for hospitality workers who rely heavily on customer tips for their bread and butter.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |Raymond Turner |Oliver Robinson |Jon Jeter
The Trump administration opens a new ICE detention center in New Jersey’s biggest city and a hub for immigrant communities, earning a bold response from immigrant rights organizers. Originally published in People's Dispatch. In February, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that it would be reopening the shuttered Delaney Hall halfway house on the outskirts of Newark, New Jersey as the first new immigrant detention center to open during Trump’s second term.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Kai Cash |Ann Garrison |Abayomi Azikiwe
“It is a lie that slavery has been abolished. It has only been modernized.”Largely neglected in the English-speaking Black World, Senegal’s Lamine Senghor is an important figure in the history of early-twentieth-century Black anti-colonial agitation.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Raymond Turner |Margaret Kimberley |Oliver Robinson |Jon Jeter
The same corporate media talking heads who told us to ignore Biden’s failing health are now cashing in with books that may reveal political cover ups but that also cover up their own role in facilitating corruption and inevitably a defeat. In 2020, this columnist and many other people observed that Joe Biden was not a healthy man.
