Black Agenda Report

In the autumn of 2006, Glen Ford, Bruce Dixon, Margaret Kimberley, and Leutisha Stills from CBC Monitor departed from Black Commentator, a publication that Ford had co-founded and edited since 2002. They went on to create Black Agenda Report.

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LETTER: Thank you, Mr. Howe, Ama Ata Aidoo, 1967 | Black Agenda Report

1 week ago | blackagendareport.com | Dylan Sullivan |Jason Hickel |Ann Garrison |Hanna Eid

Ama Ata Aidoo's lands a knock-out blow to white neocolonial anti-African revisionism. If it is true, as Frantz Fanon told us, that one strategy of colonialism was to degrade, dismiss, and destroy the history and culture of the colonized, it is also true that neocolonialism operates in a similar fashion on the history and culture of anti-colonial struggle.
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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 | Ann Garrison |Kai Cash |Dylan Sullivan |Jason Hickel

The Black Alliance for Peace demands an end to U.S. and Western interference in Burkina Faso, rejecting neocolonial policies in the Sahel and standing with African sovereignty. Originally published in Black Alliance for Peace. It is no surprise to the Black Alliance for Peace’s (BAP) Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) that aggression is stepping up against the countries in the anti-imperialist Alliance of Sahel States.
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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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1 week ago | blackagendareport.com | Essam Elkorghli |Clau O'Brien Moscoso |Erica Caines |Matteo Capasso

Vietnam’s defeat of U.S. forces stands as a landmark anti-colonial victory, proving that determined resistance could overcome even the world’s most powerful military—yet its legacy remains fiercely contested. Originally published in Red Flag. It’s a historic anniversary that the U.S. ruling class and its allies around the world wish we would forget.
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1 week ago | blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley

More Stories The Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Rwanda recently signed a Declaration of Principles in Washington. Is Rwanda ending its M23 group’s incursion into the DRC? The second National Black Radical Organizing Conference will convene in Indianapolis, Indiana, from May 30 through June 1.
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2 weeks ago | blackagendareport.com | Kai Cash |Tunde Osazua |Ann Garrison |Abayomi Azikiwe

The U.S. increases pressure on Burkina Faso through military propaganda, as Africans rise to protect the developing project. On April 3, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) Commander Michael Langley testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee during an excruciating two hours obsessively devoted to the ill-fated project of preserving US hegemony. Langley’s testimony was all about stopping Russia and China’s advances on the continent.