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Data Centers Got Power; Gary, Indiana Went Dark

August 27, 2026 Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra, BreakThrough News. , , , ,
It was five days after Gary, Indiana’s power went out before NIPSCO acknowledged the 76% Black city needed help, independent journalist and Gary native Aja Bridges tells Zoe Alexandra and Rania Khalek. As the private utility released consistent “progress updates” to white communities and the Lake County Fair was pushed back online, Bridges unpacks why Gary couldn’t refrigerate food, run breathing machines, or send their kids to school – all while charging customers more than full price.

Who Killed Jason Arday?

August 19, 2026 Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
Earlier this afternoon, my oldest boyhood friend, a distinguished international lawyer who received his doctorate at Cambridge, called me to share the tragic news that Jason Arday, the Black British academic, had been found dead. I have been following this story ever since it broke out in July. We commiserated about his tragic death, and concluded that Arday was killed by many people and institutions. Jason Arday’s death was the result of a convergence of forces that reveal the fragility of the racial settlement in post-imperial and postcolonial Britain and the contradictions of its elite institutions.

Legal Fight Over Desecrated Moses African Cemetery Presses On

August 17, 2026 Damon Dixon, People's World. , , , ,
The Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition (BACC) says the struggle to protect Moses African Cemetery is far from over. Even after a landmark ruling from the Maryland Supreme Court, two lawsuits remain active, a developer is still refusing to return remains it removed from the site, and the fight to reclaim land taken from the River Road community continues. For more than 10 years, BACC, an intergenerational, multi-ethnic coalition of descendants, local residents, and allied members here and abroad, has waged a multi-strategy effort to stop the desecration of Moses Cemetery, the sacred burial ground of the River Road community and its ancestors.

What Is Black August To The Black Comrade

August 14, 2026 Benny Schaft, Workers World. , , ,
Since the inception of both capitalism and the creation of the white supremacist structure, Black people have been singled out as an important revolutionary and dangerous section of the working class.  This is why Black August is so important to the Black community. But to truly understand why this is the case, we must look at the history of Black August. That history goes much deeper than we know now, especially concerning the revolutionary actions of comrades like George Jackson, Jonathan Jackson and so many others. Black August goes back much further than that, with its roots in the tradition of Black resistance and the repression waged against that resistance.

How America’s Corporate Class Became Legally Unaccountable

July 24, 2026 The Chris Hedges Report. , , , , , , ,
Compared to other wealthy Western nations, the United States stands out for its high incarceration rates and military spending and declining standard of living. In her new book, “Crime and No Punishment: Wealth, Power and Violence, in America”, which just won the Robert F. Kennedy book award, Professor Marie Gottschalk connects the dots between the “twin evils of state violence at home and imperial violence abroad.” She chronicles the rise of President Trump as a manifestation of the failures of the Democrats to stem police violence and address economic insecurity when they had opportunities to do so, and illustrates how the tendrils of US Empire permeate the current crises.

Interconnected Technologies Of Racialized Fascist Domination

July 24, 2026 Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
GEO Group, the private prison company operating the immigrant detention center known as Delaney Hall, represents the merging of state responsibilities and private capital that is the hallmark of the fascist governing logic of crisis-ridden, late-stage capitalism. This stage of monopoly capital, confronting the irreconcilable contradictions embedded in its own structure, requires that all pretense of a commitment to the values and practices of liberal democracy—championed by elements of the Enlightenment bourgeoisie, or middle class, at the height of its ascendancy in Europe—be jettisoned as a burden to the continued hegemony of capitalist rule.

Tyrin Johnson Is Dead; Memphis Is Occupied

July 21, 2026 Earle J. Fisher, Truthout. , , , ,
I met Tyrin “Ty” Johnson neither through a police report, nor through a press conference, nor through the carefully crafted statements of elected officials or the endless speculation that too often follows the death of a young Black man, but rather through the people who loved him most: his mother, his grandparents, his great-grandmother, his aunts, and the grief that filled the room where they gathered only days after his death. I would find out later that I’ve known one of his cousins for over 25 years. They did not describe a headline.

The Similar Praxis Of Jim Crow And Lord Voldemort

May 15, 2026 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
The current Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has left no doubt about its approach to representative democracy in the United States. Last month, in its Louisiana v. Callais decision, the high court ruled that a second, majority Black congressional district drawn in Louisiana in 2024 was unconstitutional and relied too heavily on race as part of its composition. The state, where Black people account for approximately 33% of its population, will now contain only one majority Black congressional district. The overarching decision vastly weakens the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) and updates the legal test for determining if Section 2, which prohibits voting discrimination on the basis of race,  of the act has been violated.

Iran Has The Strait Of Hormuz; What Can Black People Use For Leverage?

May 14, 2026 Mark P. Fancher, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
The militant reaction to the Tennessee legislature’s recent obliteration of the state’s only predominantly Black voting district struck an emotional chord with Africans throughout the U.S. Protesters crowded into the legislative chamber, chanting, waving placards, sounding air horns, and leaving no doubts about their anger. State Representative Justin Pearson then eloquently spoke for many when he said: Today’s vote to redraw the congressional districts in Tennessee set our state back over 150 years. It was a political lynching that violated the rights of every Tennessean.

The US Supreme Court, Race And The Right To Vote

May 2, 2026 Marjorie Cohn, Consortium News. , , ,
In perhaps its most insidious decision in nearly a century, the U.S. Supreme Court disemboweled Section 2 of the landmark Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, the “crown jewel” of the U.S. civil rights movement. The VRA ended Jim Crow-era election procedures that precluded Black people from voting in the South through intimidation, literacy tests and  poll taxes. It was part of a system of post-Civil War legalized racial segregation meant to restore white supremacy after the end of slavery and the federal, military occupation of the South.

Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro To Sociology Textbooks Illegal

March 8, 2026 Zachary Leveson, Truthout. , , , ,
Imagine the following scenario: You’re teaching Introduction to Sociology at a community college in Florida, and today, you’re trying to explain the well-documented pay gap between men and women in the United States. You check the guidance you just received from your dean, who received instructions via email from the executive vice chancellor of the Florida College System. The instructions state explicitly that explaining “unequal outcomes between men and women” in terms of “institutional sexism” would violate state law.

The EPA’s Zero Sum Game Surfaces A Dialectical Paradox

February 7, 2026 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
Kali Akuno, founder of Jackson, Mississippi-based Cooperation Jackson, reminds us in his book Jackson Rising Redux, “To deal with the crisis of Black labor redundancy, the US ruling class has responded by creating a multipronged strategy of limited incorporation [see also the Black Misleadership class, the cooniferous Congressional Black Caucus, and other elements of the Black petty bourgeois], counterinsurgency [i.e. crushing, dividing, and severely weakening and elite capturing of Black-led organizations], and mass containment [vis a vis mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex]."

After A White Town Rejected A Data Center, Developers Targeted Black Area

January 14, 2026 Adam Mahoney, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
In December, on a two-lane road not far from the ACE Basin, a protected ecosystem and wildlife refuge in South Carolina, Paul Black drove past St. Paul AME Church and the cemetery where his wife’s grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-grandmother are buried, then slowed as the trees opened onto the piney tract. ​Black is an environmental activist who has spent years fighting polluting projects across the South. But now he and Black residents in the rural South Carolina community are bracing for a new fight: to stop a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields.

The Military Occupation Of Washington, DC: Then And Now

September 10, 2025 Jacqueline Luqman, Black Agenda Report. , , , , , , ,
DC residents are living under an expanded military occupation ordered by Donald Trump that many are calling “unprecedented.” However, this is not the first time this action has been taken. Understanding this history is essential to properly contextualize what is happening now and to focus on the correct narrative and issue to fight going forward. I grew up in Southeast DC after my mom moved us from our hometown of Jarratt, VA to a little apartment in a four-unit building on Parkland Place when I was about five or six years old. We enjoyed free summer concerts in the park across the street from our building. I used to walk about a half a mile to Malcolm X Elementary school during the week, and to Liff’s Market across the street from that school every Sunday to get the paper for my mom and snacks for myself.

Trump Terror, Complicit Local Leadership: The Assault Against Southeast D.C.

April 10, 2025 Oliver Robinson, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
On March 27, 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing the “Safe and Beautiful” federal task force for Washington, DC. Framed as a public safety and beautification campaign, the initiative is led by his Homeland Security Advisor, Stephen Miller—a figure known for his hardline white nationalist policies. Under the guise of civic improvement, this task force seeks to further entrench surveillance, policing, and state control over DC’s most marginalized communities, particularly Black working-class residents in the Southeast neighborhood.
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