Jon Jeter

4 days 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.

1 week 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?

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.