African America

Jon Jeter
911 Is a Joke: Preferring to Shoot Unarmed Blacks, Cops Find It Ain't No Fun When the Rabbit Has the Gun
01 Jun 2022
Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) began after an LAPD raid on the Black Panthers in 1969 and spread throughout the country. Then as now they neither protect nor serve, as was the case in Uvalde…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio May 27, 2022
27 May 2022
East New York Community Land Trust reports on NYPD use of vacant land, John Parker's fact-finding trip to Russia and Ukraine, and a Greenville, North Carolina organizer explains the significance of…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
East New York Community Land Trust Reports on NYPD Use of Vacant Land
27 May 2022
Boris Santos is Treasurer of the East New York Community Land Trust Board of Directors, and Debra Ayck is the Board’s Secretary. The Land Trust held a press conference on May 21st at which they…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Greenville, North Carolina Organizer Explains Significance of African Liberation Day
27 May 2022
Mapinduzi is a Greenville, North Carolina community organization dedicated to advancing political education. Mapinduzi is planning African Liberation Day events on Saturday, May 28. We spoke…
The Editors
African Liberation Day Special Issue
25 May 2022
The Black Agenda Report team gives special emphasis to African Liberation Day, which is celebrated on May 25.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
African Liberation Day: Imamu Amiri Baraka, 1972
25 May 2022
On this African Liberation Day, we revisit Amiri Baraka’s 1972 communiqué calling for Black people to struggle for Pan-African unity while also registering our anger at the “pathology and traitor…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh Remind Us of the Roots of White Supremacy in the Aftermath of Buffalo Shooting
25 May 2022
Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh shared a birthday. They also shared an internationalist ideology, a commitment to liberation for all people, and a deep understanding of how racist structures operated…
Black Alliance For Peace
On African Liberation Day Biden’s Troop Deployment to Somalia Confirms Africa is Not Free
25 May 2022
The Black Alliance for Peace marks African Liberation Day with a statement condemning the latest US troop deployment to Somalia.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Boots on the ground in Buffalo
25 May 2022
Boots on the ground in Buffalo
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Omedi Ochieng’s “Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life”
25 May 2022
This week’s featured author is Omedi Ochieng. Ochieng is Associate Professor in Black Studies and in the Department of Communication at Denison University. His book is Groundwork for the Practice of…