Washington DC

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio March 27, 2026
27 Mar 2026
In this week’s segment, we hear about an effort to build community-based power and self-determination for a Black working-class Washington, DC community. But we begin with a report on conditions in…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Community Control DC, A People’s Platform for Collective Self-Determination
27 Mar 2026
Pan African Community Action (PACA) recently released a plan for political empowerment in Washington DC, "Community Control DC, A People’s Platform for Collective Self-Determination." Oliver Robinson…
Pan-African Community Action
COMMUNITY CONTROL DC: A People’s Platform for Collective Self-Determination
11 Mar 2026
While Washington DC's political leadership changes, Pan-African Community Action (PACA) is organizing to ensure that Black communities are empowered in decision making processes.
Pan-African Community Action
Occupation Forces Upheld by Federal Judiciary Demonstrates DC’s Need for Community Control
14 Jan 2026
While politicians debate legal procedure, residents of Washington DC live under a sustained military deployment, exposing how both federal and local power collaborate against them.
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.
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…
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.