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1 week ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |Jon Jeter |Iain Carlos
The killing of Timothy Thomas in 2001 ignited Cincinnati’s long-simmering tensions over police violence. This struggle continues today, forcing a painful question: When justice is denied, does violence become the only language of resistance? Wanting cigarettes, 19-year-old Timothy Thomas left the Cincinnati apartment he shared with his girlfriend and infant son around midnight on April 7, 2001.
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1 week ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Mark Fancher |Christina Carrega |Jon Jeter |Roberto Sirvent
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Brittany Friedman. Friedman is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. Her book is Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. Book Summary (from the publisher):It is impossible to deny the impact of lies and white supremacy on the institutional conditions in US prisons.
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1 week ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Margaret Kimberley
From Gaza to Sudan to the streets of America, the monsters of our time demand mass resistance. Not just protest, but an organized, unrelenting struggle. Black radical politics remind us that only collective power can dismantle the machinery of genocide, ecocide, and state violence. Now is the time of monsters.
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1 week ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Margaret Kimberley
From Gaza to Sudan to the streets of America, the oppressors of our time demand mass resistance. Not just protest, but an organized, unrelenting struggle. Black radical politics remind us that only collective power can dismantle the machinery of genocide, ecocide, and state violence. Originally published in Hammer and Hope. Now is the time of monsters.
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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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2 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Roberto Sirvent |Margaret Kimberley
Black communities once turned righteous fury into systemic change, but today’s outrage over slights like Shedeur Sanders’ NFL draft slide rarely sparks organized resistance. The blueprint for liberation still exists; the question is whether we will dust it off or continue to mistake viral hashtags for revolution.
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4 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |Anthony Rogers-Wright |Alan MacLeod |Jon Jeter
From the UK to Austria to the US, Western states are criminalizing journalism and Palestine solidarity under the guise of "counterterrorism." As governments escalate repression to protect a crumbling status quo, independent media and dissent itself face heightened state persecution.
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4 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |Mark Fancher |Roberto Sirvent |Jon Jeter
The Second National Black Radical Organizing Conference (NBROC) continues the legacy of Black radical resistance, uniting organizers to confront imperialism, capitalism, and white supremacy while building an independent path toward collective liberation. The gathering in Indiana - 53 years after the historic National Black Political Convention - reaffirms that our freedom lies not in reforming a broken system but in dismantling it and forging a revolutionary future.
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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 | Margaret Kimberley |Alan MacLeod |Jon Jeter |Tamara Nassar
Senator Cory Booker’s recent 25-hour Senate speech is hailed by some as an act of resistance. Really, it exposes the moral bankruptcy of neoliberal politics, as his performative progressivism clashes with his unwavering support for militarism and apartheid.
