Riot police brutally attacked protesters in the mostly Black city of Buenaventura, the South American nationâs largest port. Charo Mina-Rojas, of Black Community Process, part of a broad spectrum of organizations behind a general strike in the city of half a million people, said water is unavailable 150 days of the year, the people âdonât have access to health care, teachers have not been paid in months,â and violence is rampant in poor neighborhoods controlled by paramilitary gunmen. âWe donât see opportunities for real peace in Colombia if Black people continue under these racist attacks by the national government,â said Mina-Rojas.
Annual climate gathering reflects divisions between the industrialized states and the Global South.
Glen Ford wrote many powerful essays, but his unflinching analysis of the history of the holiday we call Thanksgiving endures 20 years after he wrote it.
The Peopleâs Summit vs. G20 and the International Peopleâs Tribunal recently took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to counter the G20 Summit that occurred in the same city. Black Agenda ReportâŚ
The settler colony known as the United States inflicts violence upon Black people as a function of its existence. But the murder of a mother and her infant daughter by Missouri police officersâŚ
The domestic expression of imperialism has once again been made clear with the installation of a new cobalt refinery in an Oklahoma town. Through the extraction of raw materials from the global southâŚ
