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

Outlaw Poverty, Says Activist
Kyle Fraser, Black Agenda Radio producer
27 Mar 2018
🖨️ Print Article

Nyle Fort, an activist with the Poor People’s Campaign, was among the speakers at a New York City event designed to bring Black and immigrant communities together on issues of mass incarceration and deportation. Fort urged the crowd to “dream of a world where poverty is illegal.” The event, held at Manhattan’s Holy Rood Church, was titled “Break Down Walls and Prison Plantations: Mumia, Migrants and Movements for Liberation.”

capitalism in decline

Related Podcasts

US Systemic Collapse is “Total”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
US Systemic Collapse is “Total”
11 May 2020
The current meltdown is “a total crisis of the system” in all its economic, social and political aspects, said Duboisian scholar Dr An
Race to the Bottom is Imperial Plan
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Race to the Bottom is Imperial Plan
09 July 2019
“The decline in US living standards and economic security is not a side effect of globalization – it is the intended effect of this global regime t

More Stories


  • Sanders Unveils Plan to “Fundamentally Transform” Criminal Legal System
    Jake Johnson
    Sanders Unveils Plan to “Fundamentally Transform” Criminal Legal System
    21 Aug 2019
    The presidential candidate calls for people to “stand together” to end the war on drugs and cut the prison population in half.
  • “Jay-Z” Did Not Sell Out, He Bought In
    Wilmer J. Leon III
    “Jay-Z” Did Not Sell Out, He Bought In
    21 Aug 2019
    Like the scorpion in the folk parable, it’s in Jay-Z’s nature to make a killing – at Kaepernick and the community’s expense.
  • Uncle Sam was Born Lethal 
    Paul Street
    Uncle Sam was Born Lethal 
    21 Aug 2019
    Donald Trump is indeed a neofascist, but the US was built on a mass murderous white supremacism that, until recently, was unapologetically genocidal.
  • Socialists of Color to the Front
    Eli Day
    Socialists of Color to the Front
    21 Aug 2019
    LeftRoots’ stated purpose: to strategize around “21st-century socialism” and then bring people together to help get there.
  • Black People in America Cannot Be Racist (As Much As They Might Like To Be)
    Rohn Kenyatta
    Black People in America Cannot Be Racist (As Much As They Might Like To Be)
    21 Aug 2019
    Black people in the US may not like white people, for good reason, but lack the power to construct an anti-white racism.  
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us