Black Agenda Report

4 days ago | blackagendareport.com | Ann Garrison |Judi Rever

Kizito Mihigo and Victoire Ingabire both challenged Rwanda's foundational genocide narrative. He died in jail, and she is now in custody. On June 19, Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire was once again arrested in Rwanda. She and gospel singer Kizito Mihigo were both released from Rwanda’s Nyarugenge Prison in September 2018, after she had served eight years, he four.

1 week ago | blackagendareport.com | Ann Garrison |Abayomi Azikiwe

Somaliland aspires to be an “independent” US military enclave in the Horn of Africa. Somaliland is sometimes called the "Taiwan of Africa" because both are self-governing democracies that control and administer territory but with little or no state recognition. Taiwan is the only government that recognizes Somaliland as an independent nation, and Taiwan itself is recognized by only 12 states, the largest of which is Paraguay.

1 week ago | blackagendareport.com | Alina Selyukh |Ann Garrison |Terri Frick |Roberto Sirvent

Minnesota’s progressive myth shatters as its racial gaps in schools, housing, and bloodshed eclipse even Deep South states. Known alternately as the “Happy Warrior” and the “Liberal Lion,” Minnesota’s U.S. Senator, Hubert H. Humphrey, often scolded his colleagues for failing to address racial discrimination against African Americans in the final days of the Jim Crow era of the 1950s and 60s, often triggering southern Democrats, in particular, to bristle.

1 week ago | blackagendareport.com | Raymond Turner |Margaret Kimberley

The Middle East’s only real weapons of mass destruction are Zionism, U.S. imperialism, and Israel’s nuclear arsenal—a toxic trifecta fueling endless war.

1 week ago | blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |Jon Jeter |Jonathan Forney |Natalia Marques

When oppression becomes unbearable, resistance erupts. The uprising at Delaney Hall exposes the brutality of immigrant detention and the power of collective defiance. Originally published in CMB Newark. On Thursday, June 12th, 50 kidnapped immigrants revolted against their inhumane conditions at Delaney Hall, a private detention facility operated by GEO Group in Newark.