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  • Erica Caines
    “Crime”, The Trojan Horse For Colonial Control
    24 Sep 2025
    The rhetoric of crime prevention has always served to enforce colonial order. Today, this same logic drives the policing of Black neighborhoods as a form of urban pacification.
  • Pan-African Community Action , Black Alliance for Peace D.C Citywide Alliance
    U.S. Domestic Colonial Occupation Must Be Met with a Struggle for Decolonization, Not Reform
    24 Sep 2025
    A federal crackdown in Washington, D.C., is escalating a bipartisan war against the Black working class. This assault, enabled by local Black misleadership, exposes the colonial nature of policing.
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    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025
    12 Sep 2025
    In this week’s segment we discuss a new book analyzing the need to confront counterinsurgency and fight against repression domestically and internationally. But first we hear from an activist on the…
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    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
    Organizing Against the Trump Takeover in Washington
    12 Sep 2025
    Afeni is an activist and lead organizer with Herb and Temple in Washington, DC. She joins us from Washington to discuss Donald Trump’s declaration of emergency power to take over the operations of…
  • Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
    Super Predators, Born Criminals, and the Black Misleadership Class
    10 Sep 2025
    The treachery of the Black misleadership class knows no bounds. While Trump’s latest racist dog whistle about “born criminals” is condemned, double-talking scoundrels may pretend to be horrified…
  • Jacqueline Luqman
    The Military Occupation of Washington, DC: Then and Now
    10 Sep 2025
    The current military occupation of DC is not an anomaly but an escalation of a long war on Black communities, a more visible form of ongoing political subjugation.
  • Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
    Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser Epitomizes Black Misleadership
    20 Aug 2025
    Mayor Bowser going along to get along with Donald Trump is unsurprising to anyone who has followed her political career. She is the Black misleader par excellence.
  • Jon Jeter
    Clutching at Pearls, the World’s Largest Criminal Enterprise, the US, Cracks Down on Crime
    20 Aug 2025
    The latest liberal discourse on crime offers useless panaceas to analyze the causes of violence and pathologizes communities while absolving the state of its role in creating these conditions.
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    Pan-African Community Action PACA
    The Federal Takeover of D.C.: The Colonial Occupation Disguised as “Public Safety”
    20 Aug 2025
    The deployment of federal agents and National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. is a militarized occupation disguised as a public safety initiative. This move weaponizes the state's power to…
  • Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
    Trump and Democrats Fuel the Washington DC Crime Panic
    13 Aug 2025
    Donald Trump’s takeover of the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department is not merely a result of his racist and authoritarian tendencies, nor is it new. It is part and parcel of a history of…
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