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4 days ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Anthony Rogers-Wright |Roberto Sirvent |Walter Johnson
Liberal climate movements keep bargaining with capitalism, but the Black Radical Tradition knows survival requires its destruction. Until environmentalism adopts abolition and anti-capitalism, it will be nothing more than running on a hamster wheel on a burning planet. This past weekend, over 500 Black folk and their comrades descended upon Indianapolis, Indiana, for the Second National Black Radical Organizing Conference (NBROC).
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2 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Djibo Sobukwe |Roberto Sirvent |Abayomi Azikiwe |Austin Cole
This piece was originally published in Black Agenda Report in 2017. Malcolm X understood that “oppressed peoples must commit themselves to radical political struggle in order to advance a dignified approach to human rights.” What’s needed is a bottom-up mass movement for People(s)-Centered Human Rights, a “political project in the service of the oppressed” that “names the enemies of freedom: the Western white supremacist, colonial/capitalist patriarchy.” Social revolution is the only solution.
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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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3 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Roberto Sirvent |Mark Fancher |Jon Jeter
In “A Southern Panther,” movement elder Malik Rahim talks about his lifetime of battling racism and fighting for peace and environmental justice. Former Louisiana Panther Malik Rahim first came to national and international attention in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans.
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3 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Ann Garrison |Roberto Sirvent |Mark Fancher |Jon Jeter
Black support for Palestine underscores the fight against empire, revealing how Israel’s violence in Gaza serves U.S. hegemony and white supremacy, with Palestinian freedom as a catalyst for global justice.
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3 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Janvieve Williams Comrie |Roberto Sirvent |Malcolm Harris |Margaret Kimberley
The United States' role in Central Africa has resulted in regional war and mass casualties. Originally published in NewsGhana. Geostrategic AnalysisUnited States President Donald Trump during a White House meeting on April 18 with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni made several comments about the detentions and deportations of migrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
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1 month 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 month 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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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Janvieve Williams Comrie |Roberto Sirvent |Ann Garrison |Malcolm Harris
For nearly three decades, draconian 1996 immigration laws have torn families apart—jailing long-term residents over minor offenses, fast-tracking deportations of asylum seekers, and fueling the cruel machine of immigrant detention. While the U.S. reckons with the harms of mass incarceration, these lesser-known Clinton-era policies remain a brutal engine of family separation and due process violations. Originally published in Human Rights Watch.
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1 month 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.
