Protest

Nicholas Mwangi
Youth-led anti-corruption movement surges in The Gambia
06 Aug 2025
Gambians from all walks of life – led by the youth-driven GALA movement mobilized across the country on July 23 in an anti-corruption protest as momentum for change grows.
Nicholas Mwangi
Angola: 22 killed during mass protests against fuel prices
06 Aug 2025
Angola, one of Africa’s top oil producers, is in turmoil after protests erupted over a sharp fuel price hike driven by IMF-backed subsidy cuts.
Abayomi Azikiwe
Kenyan Police Attack Youth-led Demonstrations Against Brutality
09 Jul 2025
At least 16 were killed in protests marking the first anniversary of mass actions against neo-liberal tax hikes and continuing state repression.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
No kings and things (Of mobilized masses)
25 Jun 2025
"No kings and things (Of mobilized masses)" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Los Angeles Protests, Immigration, and Black Politics
20 Jun 2025
Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a Los Angeles-based journalist and host of RootWork, which can also be seen on Black Liberation Media’s YouTube channel. She joins us to discuss the recent protests in…
Jon Jeter
Making a Mountain out of a Mole Hill, Trump Sends Troops to Los Angeles, Hoping to Energize His MAGA Base
11 Jun 2025
Trump deploys Marines against LA protesters, echoing Nixon’s Kent State crackdown. But this time, he faces a broader, greatly disaffected opposition ready to fight back.
Struggle La Lucha
ICE Raids Escalate in LA As Community Fights Back
11 Jun 2025
While ICE and law enforcement unleash raids across LA, protesters stand firm, exposing the brutal machinery of deportation and the state’s violent response to dissent and resistance.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Fall of 2020: How Liberals Ceded Solidarity and Engineered Social Justice Solitude
28 May 2025
The 2020 uprisings could have sparked a multiracial working-class movement against systemic oppression, but liberal elites defanged its radical potential. By reducing Black liberation to performative…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
HANDS OFF NATO? Not Palestine? Who got the memo?
09 Apr 2025
The Democrats’ HANDS OFF rallies included “HANDS OFF NATO” and excluded “HANDS OFF PALESTINE,” but not all rally goers got the memo.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Martinique's History of Resistance
25 Oct 2024
Roddy Rod is an anti-Kepone activist, pan-African, anti-imperialism resident of Martinique. He is also a resident of the African nation the Ivory Coast. He joins us to discuss recent protests in…