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CODEPINK @codepink.bsky.social · 20h

"Anyone who knows what she stands for knows there’s nothing remotely peaceful about her politics."

CODEPINK's Latin America campaigner Michelle Ellner explains the problem with this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · 21h

Frank Chapman of naarpr.org and @chicago-cata.bsky.social joined us on Black Agenda Report radio.

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Chicago Mobilizes Against Trump | Black Agenda Report

Frank Chapman is Executive Director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. He joins us from Chicago, which Donald Trump has targeted with an onslaught of federal law enforce...

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks to @benpassmore.bsky.social for joining us on Black Agenda Report radio.

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Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance | Black Agenda Report

Ben Passmore is the author of the newly published graphic novel: “Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance,” published by Pantheon Publishing. Ben Passmore is an award-winning politica...

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · 2d

The "left" and Haiti, Robeson on genocide, new UN Haiti occupation, UN Charter, October 7, Trump enemies, disability rights, Chicago raid, Trump's Gaza "peace plan", Afro-Venezuelan commune, and the regime change threat to Venezuela, all in this week's Black Agenda Report.

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Margaret Kimberley @margaretkimberley.bsky.social · 2d

Support for Haitian sovereignty is a litmus test for anyone calling themselves anti-imperialist. The latest UN/US occupation plot should be a non-starter for anyone who claims to be on the left. Read my latest in @blackagendareport.bsky.social.

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"Left" Except for Haiti | Black Agenda Report

The latest interference from the United Nations ensures that Haiti’s “gang” problem will continue and that its cause, an illegitimate governing structure brought about by the UN, U.S. and their partne...

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · 7d

Black Alliance for Peace webinar "21st Century Neocolonialism: Capitalism, Compradors, and the Ongoing Scramble for Africa." A great group of panelists discussing Congo, Sudan and other issues. Saturday, October 4 at 1pm EST.
Register here:
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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · 7d

Immigration, racism and economic crisis in the UK, and the Malcolm X family lawsuit against the FBI and NYPD.

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Black Agenda Radio October 3, 2025 | Black Agenda Report

In this week’s segment, we discuss a lawsuit on behalf of the Shabazz family, seeking information on law enforcement coverups and possible involvement in the assassination of Malcolm X. But first, we ...

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B Phinney @phinsea.bsky.social · 8d

Like, Subscribe, Share. Sovereign Media Coalition. youtu.be/-ab6gJn7TvU?...

Anti-Imperialist Coalition Sovereign Media Launches Today

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · 8d

The IOC and FIFA must ban the U.S. and Israel from international sports competition.

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FIFA, IOC: Stop Playing with Genocide #israel #us #gaza #palestine

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Margaret Kimberley @margaretkimberley.bsky.social · 9d

Donald Trump has declared war on the “enemy within” and put the military on notice that they will mete out the same treatment domestically that they dispense around the world. Read my latest in @blackagendareport.bsky.social.

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Trump Declares War on the U.S. | Black Agenda Report

Donald Trump has declared war on the “enemy within” and put the military on notice that they will mete out the same treatment domestically that they dispense around the world.

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · 9d

Trump declares war on the people, U.S. "peace plan" for Palestine, Assata Shakur, climate change, Eritrea, Colombia, Sovereign Media launch, new Haiti occupation, and the history of imperialism vs. Palestine in Black Agenda Report.

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · 9d

We are proud to be a part of the new Sovereign Media Coalition.

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Anti-Imperialist Coalition Sovereign Media Launches Today

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Margaret Kimberley @margaretkimberley.bsky.social · 16d

Fighting Trump’s racist attacks is obviously a necessity but that fight must include opposing the Black misleadership class and their collaboration. Read my latest in @blackagendareport.bsky.social.

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Fighting Trump and the Black Collaborators Too | Black Agenda Report

Fighting Trump’s racist attacks is obviously a necessity but that fight must include opposing the Black misleadership class and their collaboration.

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · 16d

White racism/Black misleadership, Hugo Chavez, Gaza is not Rwanda, Rosh Hashana and justice, Somalia, Charlie Kirk, fascism won World War II, racist crime panic, police and colonial occupation, Charlie Kirk, Italy and Gaza protest, Venezuela, Ghana and Trump deportation.

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · 17d

Please follow us on YouTube.

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Before fighting the West #us #ajamubaraka #kenya #africa #trump

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · 20d

We discuss a new book that analyzes the latest iteration of fascism currently emerging in the United States. But first, we are joined by a journalist and activist who has created a seminar about the Black Puerto Rican radical tradition in the U.S.

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · 23d

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · 23d

White power, Caribbean colonized, IMF/World Bank in Africa, free speech and exceptionalism, School Shooting Du Jour, Africa climate summit, Brazil & Bolsonaro, Nigeria austerity, NBROC conference, capitalism and genocide, Guyana and imperialism, cops train in Israel.

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Margaret Kimberley @margaretkimberley.bsky.social · 23d

The power structure in the U.S. can be boiled down to a system of might, and white, making right. Donald Trump has exposed its rotten foundations and the two-faced collaborators who keep it running. Read my latest in @blackagendareport.bsky.social.

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White Power | Black Agenda Report

The power structure in the U.S. can be boiled down to a system of might, and white, making right. Donald Trump has exposed its rotten foundations and the two-faced collaborators who keep it running.

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · Sep 2

Our next issue of Black Agenda Report will be published on Wednesday, September 10.
Please subscribe to our Youtube Channel and like our new video, "Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera."

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Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · Aug 29

The late Glen Ford’s analysis of the Black misleadership class failures after hurricane Katrina, racist visa rules restrict Africans' travel to the U.S. and Europe, and a Chicago activist discusses Donald Trump’s threat to take over that city’s police department.

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Black Agenda Radio August 29, 2025

In this week’s segment we are joined by a Ugandan scholar who discusses the racist nature of visa rules that prevent citizens of African nations from freely traveling to the U.S. and Europe. Also, a l

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hurricane Katrina made landfall 20 years ago. @blackagendareport.bsky.social remembers how the system failed, how the people organized on their own behalf, and how the disaster fulfilled racist fantasy.

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Margaret Kimberley @margaretkimberley.bsky.social · Aug 27

In August 2005 the world witnessed more than the suffering of hurricane Katrina's victims. The US was exposed as a failed state controlled by the cruelties of racialized capitalism. Read all of our @blackagendareport.bsky.social Katrina coverage this week.

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Why We Remember Katrina | Black Agenda Report

Twenty years ago, the world witnessed more than the suffering of hurricane Katrina's victims. The United States was exposed as a failed state controlled by the cruelties of racialized capitalism.

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · Aug 23

We spoke to @keshaunpearson.bsky.social about the impact of Elon Musk's Colossus data center and the abject failure of Memphis politicians to represent their constituents when they gave him a blank check.

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Memphis Black Communities Protest Elon Musk's Data Center

Keshaun Pearson is a co-founder of Memphis Community Against Pollution (MCAP). He joins us from Memphis to discuss Elon Musk’s A.I. data center, Colossus. There is great community opposition to the da

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · Aug 23

Jacqueline Luqman is a Washington activist and Chairperson of the Black Alliance for Peace Coordinating Committee. We discussed Trump’s takeover of the DC police department and deployment of the National Guard, actions which are extensions of bipartisan policies.

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Trump's Washington DC Takeover Continues the Bipartisan Repression of Black Communities

Jacqueline Luqman is an activist based in Washington, D.C. and the Chairperson of the Black Alliance for Peace Coordinating Committee. She is co-founder of Luqman Nation, an independent Black media ou

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