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

Women Lead Fight Against Police Violence in UK
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
10 Mar 2020
🖨️ Print Article

One reason Black women are in the forefront of British anti-police violence campaigns, is to counter the capitalist smear that Black families are “not capable of raising children, leading to criminality,” said Adam Elliott-Cooper, an activist and PhD candidate at King’s College, in London. Black women fight back by “articulating their love for family by challenging police violence.” Elliott-Cooper wrote a paper which concluded that every recent campaign to protest the killing of Blacks by British police has been led by a woman.

British Racism

Related Podcasts

British Colonial Racism Comes to Roost
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
British Colonial Racism Comes to Roost
14 January 2020
Although Britain never experienced a civil rights movement on its own soil, such movements did take place “in its colonies...in anti-colonial and a

More Stories


  • The Case of Alex Saab - US Abduction of Venezuelan Diplomat, a Global Challenge 
    Sara Flounders and Roger D. Harris 
    The Case of Alex Saab - US Abduction of Venezuelan Diplomat, a Global Challenge 
    23 Jun 2021
    The case involves the kidnapping of a diplomat by the world’s sole superpower locked in an unequal struggle to destroy the formerly prosperous, oil rich country of Venezuela.
  • To End Racial Capitalism, We Will Need to Take On the Institution of Policing
    Henry A. Giroux
    To End Racial Capitalism, We Will Need to Take On the Institution of Policing
    23 Jun 2021
    The same activists who are working to defund the police are also part of a collective movement to bring an end to neoliberal capitalism.
  • x
    Gregory P. Downs
    The Hidden History of Juneteenth
    23 Jun 2021
    “We knowed what was goin’ on in [the war] all the time,” said Felix Haywood, dismissing the notion that his fellow Texas slaves were ignorant of the Emancipation Proclamation.
  • Juneteenth: “The Day is Ours” 
    Nicholas Brady
    Juneteenth: “The Day is Ours” 
    23 Jun 2021
    It seems inevitable our own holiday will be sold back to us by the same corporations that profit from exploiting black lives.
  • Nicaragua's Benedict Arnolds – Political Opposition as Organized Crime
    Stephen Sefton
    Nicaragua's Benedict Arnolds – Political Opposition as Organized Crime
    23 Jun 2021
    Under Nicaraguan law, it is a crime to seek foreign interference in the country's internal affairs.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us