Poor People’s Campaign

ESSAY: Resurrection City: The Dream…The Accomplishments, Jesse Jackson, 1968

February 19, 2026 UNAC Editor Featured, Poverty, Racism, The War at Home, The Working Class

by Black Agenda Report Editors, published on Black Agenda Report, February 18, 2026 “The Poor People’s Campaign is the greatest single challenge ever unleashed upon our colonial system.” Revisiting the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson’s essay “Resurrection City: The Dream… the Accomplishments” in the hours after his death is to encounter a morose nostalgia – and, quickly following, an acute rage.[…]

Protests for Palestine at the DNC

September 1, 2024 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Ending War, Free Speech, Hybrid Warfare, Palestine, Resistance, US Politics

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, August 28, 2024 The struggle to struggle in today’s hyper restrictive environment played out in Chicago where protesters fought legal and popular battles to be allowed to express their rejection of politics as usual and support for the people of Palestine. [jb] DNC protest organizers kept Democrats’ responsibility for the Gaza genocide[…]

The Poor People’s Campaign Dishoners Martin Luther King

May 5, 2022 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Cost of War, Identity Politics, Nonviolence, Poverty, Statement, Ukraine

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, May 4, 2022 It is disheartening to hear movement leaders say they are inspired by Martin Luther King while also supporting the U.S. proxy war against Russia. Like all wars it endangers the lives of civilian populations, enriches the military industrial complex, and robs Americans of public resources. Once King chose an[…]