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

Africa: A Continent Under Lockdown
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
21 Nov 2017
🖨️ Print Article

“AFRICOM perpetuates the myth that Africa needs policing,” said Washington DC human rights activist Netfa Freeman, representing the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) at the national conference of the Black Is Back Coalition, at Howard University. “AFRICOM has to be seen in the same light as the militarization of our communities” here in the U.S.

AFRICOM

Related Podcasts

BAR Radio Logo
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio October 24, 2025
24 October 2025
In this week’s segment, we focus on Africa.
Protest in Africa
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
International Month of Action Against AFRICOM
24 October 2025
Netfa Freeman and Margaret Kimberley are among the Co-Coordinators of the Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team.
BAR Radio Logo
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio June 6, 2025
06 June 2025
In this week’s segment, we hear about the repatriation of skulls taken from the bodies of Black New Orleanians 150 years ago which were then s

More Stories


  •  Latinos and the Shrinking White Majority
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
    Latinos and the Shrinking White Majority
    11 May 2021
    The Census Bureau predicts that Anglo whites will become a minority in the US by 2145 -- but, what if significant numbers of Latinos embrace whiteness, and Anglo whites welcome them into the fold?
  •  Who Cleans the Country?
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
    Who Cleans the Country?
    11 May 2021
    The Covid-19 pandemic has wrought vast changes in US lifestyles, but one aspect remains unchanged: housework is still a mostly a female domain and minorities and immigrants clean up the country, sa
  • ho steadfastly refuse to fight for what they know to be right.
    Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
    Freedom Rider: Progressives Capitulate to Biden
    06 May 2021
    There can be no more excuses made for Democratic “progressives,” who steadfastly refuse to fight for what they know to be right.
  • Lebron James in the Eye of White Supremacy's Storm
    Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
    Lebron James in the Eye of White Supremacy’s Storm
    06 May 2021
    No one, not even Lebron James, is immune to the disciplinary process meted out by the ruling class to maintain the lie of American exceptionalism on a mass scale,
  • German Greens Crusade for US/NATO Wars
    Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
    German Greens Crusade for US/NATO Wars
    06 May 2021
    The Green Party in the U.S. is also a pro-peace party -- but that's no longer the case in Germany.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us