Wednesday, 3 August, 2022 — Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 5, 2022
The recent FBI raids conducted against the Uhuru Movement are part of an old U.S. playbook targeting Black radical organizations which assert their rights to speak in opposition to U.S. policies domestically and internationally.

FBI Attack on the Uhuru Movement is a Warning
Margaret Kimberley
The FBI targeted the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) because it is a Black organization that has dared to confront and oppose U.S. imperialism. APSP is the first but they will not be the last.

ARTICLE: We Can Defeat Repression, Charlene Mitchell, 1973
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Radical organizer Charlene Mitchell calls for a coalition to fight political repression in a 1973 article published in the journal Triple Jeopardy.

The Movement Sorely Misses Glen Ford
Danny Haiphong
Remembering Glen Ford and all that he taught us.

Fraternal fist-bump between gangstas—Fugget about it…
Raymond Nat Turner
The latest from BAR’s poet in residence.

The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns FBI Attack on the African People’s Socialist Party
Black Alliance for Peace
The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally condemns and opposes the latest domestic U.S. state repression and intimidation tactics currently being leveled against the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP).

‘Tools of Russia’: FBI Raid on Black Political Party Seen as Part of ‘Black Scare/Red Scare’ in United States
Julie Varughese
Black political organizations condemned the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) raid of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) for allegedly being colluding with Russia.

BAR Book Forum: Jamil W. Drake’s “To Know the Soul of a People”
Roberto Sirvent
This week’s featured author is Jamil W. Drake. Drake is Assistant Professor of African American Religious History at Yale Divinity School. His book is To Know the Soul of a People: Religion, Race, and the Making of Southern Folk.

BAR Book Forum: Marisol LeBrón’s “Against Muerto Rico”
Roberto Sirvent
This week’s featured author is Marisol LeBrón. LeBrón is an Associate Professor in Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her book is Against Muerto Rico: Lessons from the Verano Boricua/ Contra Muerto Rico: lecciones del Verano Boricua, translated by Beatriz Llenín Figueroa.

The International Decade for People of African Descent : Who have these 10 years served?
Mireille Fanon Mendes-France
The United Nations designated the years 2015-2024 as the International Decade for People of African Descent. But the project has not only been neglected, it has also focused on “recognition” instead of “reparations,” reinforcing the structural racism inherent in the liberal capitalist system.

Africa Remains at the Center of a 21st Century Cold War
Abayomi Azikiwe
Leaders and officials from Russia, France and the United States are vying for influence over the 1.3 billion people living within the African Union’s 55 member-states.

Final Declaration of the Workers’ Summit of the Americas
The Workers Summit of the Americas
This is the Final Declaration of the Workers’ Summit of the Americas which took place in Tijuana, Mexico, in opposition to the Biden administration’s failed summit in Los Angeles.

The PAIGC’s Political Education for Liberation in Guinea-Bissau, 1963–74 (Part 2)
The Tricontinental
Liberation struggles are not fought only on the battlefield.

Polls Show Almost No One Trusts US Media, After Decades of War Propaganda and Lies
Benjamin Norton
The CIA has long manipulated the media, spreading disinformation to justify US wars. Today just 11% of North Americans trust television news.