Gary Indiana

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio August 28, 2026
28 Aug 2026
In this week’s segment, we hear about the crisis in northwest Indiana, including the city of Gary, where some residents have gone more than two weeks without power after a storm. As in the rest of…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Gary, Indiana Struggles for Two Weeks Without Electricity
28 Aug 2026
Akili Shakur is a revolutionary activist and the wife of political prisoner Shaka Shakur. She joins us from Gary, Indiana, where some residents have been without power for more than two weeks after…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Manifestation of Surplus Populations: How Gary, Indiana is the Latest Exemplar of the Wrong Complexion for Protection
26 Aug 2026
White supremacy works through institutions, and FEMA's formula for allocating disaster relief shows us how the state decides which neighborhoods are prioritized and which are left to suffer. Those in…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: The Gary Declaration: Black Politics at the Crossroads, 1972
23 Mar 2022
In 1972, thousands of Black people met in Gary, Indiana to establish a political and economic platform that would influence the US presidential elections. The document from this meeting, The National…