Black Radical Tradition

Africans in the U.S. are a Colonized People: A Comment on the Indictment of the African People’s Socialist Party

May 4, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Anti-War, Free Speech, Racism, US Hypocrisy

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, May 3, 2023 Red Scares, McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, “Black Identity Extremists” are all indicative of how the colonized are treated by the state. “America is just as much a colonial power as England ever was…what do you call second-class citizenship? Why, that’s colonization. Second-class citizenship is nothing but 20th (century) slavery. How you gonna[…]

The U.S. is Waging Domestic War and Preparing for More

September 17, 2021 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Black Liberation Movement, The War at Home, War and Peace

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, September 8, 2021 A new report on cost of US domestic and international militarization brings the domestic situation into sharp focus. The US ruling elite appears to be preparing for one of three scenarios in the near future: system collapse, a fascist response, or a radical left turn toward a non-capitalist politics.[…]

Glen Ford’s Journalism Fought for Black Liberation and Against Imperialism

August 4, 2021 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Black Liberation Movement, Journalism

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 4, 2021 Ford was among the few journalists who took a stance for Black liberation and against imperialism. I had the honor of working with the late Glen Ford for nearly 20 years. His passing has created a huge void not just for Black Agenda Report (BAR), the site we co-founded with the late[…]

Protest and Power

July 5, 2020 UNAC Editor Protest, Resistance

Building People’s Power is the vital arena of struggle under late stage capitalism, when the “system” is not only objectively failing, but the people know it is coming apart at the seams. by Glen Ford, published on Black Agenda Report, July 2, 2020 “Diminished budgets do not make the police accountable to the people or allow the people to reinvent policing.” The[…]