Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Make The Cops Accountable
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
12 Sep 2017
🖨️ Print Article

The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations and its allies will present a resolution to the Philadelphia City Council, this week, demanding Black community control of the police. Coalition spokesman Diop Olugbala said the resolution proposes that a commission, “democratically elected on the block and neighborhood level,” would be empowered to “hire, fire, train and discipline police forces in our community.”


More Stories


  • Black Agenda Radio Week of December 4, 2017
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Black Agenda Radio Week of December 4, 2017
    06 Dec 2017
    US to Blame for Slavery in Libya
  • Cooperation Jackson's Kali Akuno: Elections Don’t Necessarily Change a Damn Thing
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Cooperation Jackson's Kali Akuno: Elections Don’t Necessarily Change a Damn Thing
    06 Dec 2017
    A key strategist among the Black radicals that were behind the election of two Black mayors in Jackson, Mississippi, says his fellow activists have a decision to make: “Are we trying to be a good s
  • Mumia Abu Jamal: U.S. Obsessed with the Gun
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Mumia Abu Jamal: U.S. Obsessed with the Gun
    06 Dec 2017
    In an essay for Prison Radio, the nation’s best known political prisoner praised the works of Native American historian Roxanne Ortiz-Dunbar, including her latest book on the roots of the country’s
  • Omali Yeshitela: U.S. to Blame for Slavery in Libya
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Omali Yeshitela: U.S. to Blame for Slavery in Libya
    06 Dec 2017
    By overthrowing the government of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the US “created the conditions” that led to the return of slave auctions in Libya,” said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the
  • Vanessa Beeley: U.S. Exposed as “Lawless Rogue” State
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Vanessa Beeley: U.S. Exposed as “Lawless Rogue” State
    06 Dec 2017
    The imminent defeat of U.S.-backed jihadists in Syria and Iraq has led to the formation of a “peace bloc” of nations opposed to Washington’s wars, said British journalist Vanessa Beeley
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us