COINTELPRO

Hanna Eid
Black-Palestinian Solidarity; Clearing the Fog
28 Feb 2024
While revolutionary Black organizations after the Panthers continued to support Palestine vocally, the realities of COINTELPRO and mass incarceration have had a profound impact on the organization…
David S. D'Amato
The FBI’s Long History of Criminalizing Dissent
10 Oct 2023
The indictment of the Uhuru 3 is part of a long history of persecution and prosecution of the Black liberation movement.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The State's Constant Attack on Black Liberation
12 Jul 2023
Indictments, disruptions, arrests, defamation, incarceration and even assassination are the weapons used to discredit Black people who act in opposition to the system and who call for liberation…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Durham Report Reveals the Real Threat to “Democracy” – The FBI Weaponized by Democrat Party Affiliated Elites
17 May 2023
Donald Trump calls Russiagate a "hoax" but it is in fact much worse. The manufactured scandal was part of successful efforts to intimidate, to censor, and to discredit opposition to state…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Africans in the US are a Colonized People: A Comment on the Indictment of the African People's Socialist Party
03 May 2023
Red Scares, McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, "Black Identity Extremists" are all indicative of how the colonized are treated by the state.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
How Comrades Revealed the Existence of COINTELPRO
08 Mar 2023
On March 8,1971 a brave group of people revealed the extent of FBI spying, harassment and even the killings of US citizens. More than 50 years later we would do well to remember the significance of…
Trevor Aaronson
The Snitch in the Silver Hearse: The FBI Paid a Violent Felon to Infiltrate Denver’s Racial Justice Movement
15 Feb 2023
COINTELPRO never ended. The FBI still pays informants to disrupt, to target organizers, and to spy on the movement.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio January 13, 2023
13 Jan 2023
This week we have an update on the FBI raid and impending indictments against members of the Uhuru Movement, discuss what Damar Hamlin teaches us about the business of football, and discover that…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Omali Yeshitela and the FBI Attack on the Uhuru Movement
13 Jan 2023
Omali Yeshitela is chairman of the African Peoples Socialist Party, leader of the Uhuru Movement, and the Black is Back Coalition. The African Peoples Socialist Party’s Uhuru House was raided by FBI…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black Agenda Radio September 16, 2022
16 Sep 2022
Black politics in San Francisco Part 2, FBI surveillance of Aretha Franklin, and how the U.S. drives conflicts in Horn of Africa nations.