Walter Johnson

3 weeks 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).

Feb 20, 2025 | thecrimson.com | Walter Johnson |Richard Thomas

It is over 40 years since the publication of James Boyd White’s When Words Lose Their Meaning. Although the precise year was 1984, Orwell and his Ministry of Truth are not the subject, though they are never far off. White deals with the past rather than the predicted future, starting with the greatest of the Greek historians, Thucydides.

Jan 7, 2025 | blackagendareport.com | Anthony Rogers-Wright |Roberto Sirvent |Walter Johnson

NYC recently implemented the controversial congestion pricing program, charging extra tolls for motorists entering Manhattan at Midtown and below. The program, however, has grave environmental justice implications for the poor and working class Black communities that will be subjected to the consequences of this change. It’s been said that the road to bad policy is paved with good intentions.

May 8, 2024 | nybooks.com | Walter Johnson

When students set up the tents at Harvard on April 24, I was standing with the police on the steps of the building that houses the president’s office. The NYPD had already made its first round of arrests at Columbia’s Gaza solidarity encampment, and two days earlier faculty and students had been arrested trying to set up an encampment at NYU. No one knew what would happen at Harvard.

Sep 19, 2023 | blackagendareport.com | Anthony Rogers-Wright |Walter Johnson |Jonathan Lambert

Liberalism impacts every movement in the U.S. and climate justice organizations are not exempt.