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1 week ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Anthony Rogers-Wright |Margaret Kimberley |Carlos Sirah |Raymond Turner
The late Charles Rangel served as a member of the Congressional Black Caucus for more than 40 years. But the goals of Black politics and electoral politics are not necessarily the same. “We are also supposed to be very excited about the prospect of Charlie Rangel, of Harlem, becoming head of the House Ways and Means Committee. Why? Rangel has been a front for the Clinton duo --- Hillary and Bill --- for many years.
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1 week ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Natalia Marques |Margaret Kimberley |Raymond Turner |Jocelyn Figueroa
Masked. Armed to the teeth. SynchronizedRolexes. They left Lamborghini and MaseratiMotors purring … softly in the shadows on Capitalist HillAnd then—suddenly—in sonic boom unison theyShouted at The People:UP AGAINST THE WALL— MUTHAFUKKKAS!GET ‘EM UP! THIS IS A FUCKIN STICKUP!Yo, fatso! Yeah, you. Waddle your way over to SenatorSadist. You, on the crutches; swing over to CongressmanCruel. Move it! Don’t make me bust a cap in your poorOl’ tired cripple ass! Did it in Afghanistan. Did it in Iraq.
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2 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Raymond Turner |Roberto Sirvent
Eric Priestley, in the 1990s, at the “Grotto Fountain (of democratic principles)” in the Maguire Gardens at L.A.’s Richard J. Riordan Central Library. (Courtesy of Erin Aubry Kaplan) RIP: Rise In Poetics to Ra—Sail on to Saturn ... Greet The Ancestors after oneMasterful job on this mean ol'Planet ... RIP: Rise In Poetics—Dear Brother Poet Ojenke ... © 2025. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.
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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.
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3 weeks 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.
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3 weeks 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.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Raymond Turner |Anthony Rogers-Wright |David Cobb |Chuck Squatriglia
For millions, a job is no longer enough to afford housing—yet the myth that homeless people don’t work still dominates public opinion. Originally published in Invisible People. While homeless and living in a shelter, one of my neighbors was a woman not much older than my Mom. One day, I learned that she was a certified full-time medical assistant. Her husband, disabled, was not able to work. Due to rising rents in New York City, they couldn’t afford to pay their rent anymore.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |Abayomi Azikiwe |Raymond Turner |Danny Haiphong
Thirty years after Timothy McVeigh’s Oklahoma City bombing, his legacy lives on in the racist mass shooters, anti-government extremists, and MAGA reactionaries who continue to target Black communities, immigrants, and marginalized groups. McVeigh’s blueprint of white nationalist violence has spread far and wide, fueled by the same toxic mix of racial paranoia, anti-left conspiracies, and far-right radicalization that now defines the Republican Party.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Big Sis |Raymond Turner |Ann Garrison |Donna Murch
Roughly a third of the people who were arrested by LAPD in the city of Los Angeles for cannabis-related offenses since 2020 were arrested in Westchester. Nearly all of those arrests happened at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Originally published in L.A. Taco. There’s one neighborhood in Los Angeles where you’re more likely to be arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for possession of cannabis than anywhere else in the city:Westchester.
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2 months ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Anthony Rogers-Wright |David Cobb |Raymond Turner |Abayomi Azikiwe
“I believe there is yet a spirit of resistance z in this country, which will not submit to be oppressed …” —The Letters of Junius One Spring day— 1st 100 daze— of Scales slowly slipping from sleepy eyes … One Spring day worth four drowsy years of Billionaire business as usual … One Spring day, our streets are rivers of Resistance—tinged ferocious and festive! Resistance enriched with cleverly crafted Signs, piercing slogans, random acts of solidarity! One Spring day, shoring up stainless...
