Black Agenda Radio October 10, 2025

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley

10 Oct 2025

🖨️ Print Article

Black Agenda Radio · Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance

In this week’s segment, we hear about a graphic novel that presents the history of Black armed resistance in the U.S. But first, we discuss the city of Chicago and how activists and communities are mobilizing against the Trump administration’s deployment of federal law enforcement and National Guard under the guise of fighting crime, but who are actually fighting what Trump calls an “enemy within.”

Graphic Novel

Militarized Police

occupation

Black resistance

Chicago

ICE

national guard

More Stories

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Tennessee’s Tonton Macoute? Or, rotten Orchard called Capitalist State Machine?
01 Feb 2023
&nbs
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: J.T. Roane’s Book, “Dark Agoras”
01 Feb 2023
This week’s featured author is J.T. Roane. His book is Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Miss Major and Toshio Meronek’s “Miss Major Speaks”
01 Feb 2023
This week’s featured authors are Miss Major and Toshio Meronek. Their book is Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Legacy of a Black Trans Revolutionary.
Erica Caines
Black University, White Power: Howard University Covers for US Imperialism
01 Feb 2023
The announcement of a $90 million Air Force contract making Howard University a University Affiliated Research Center is a first for an HBCU. Now Howard has joined other universities in creating…
Stephen Wilson
Answering to Martin Sostre’s Ghost
01 Feb 2023
Martin Sostre (1923-2015) was a political prisoner, jailhouse lawyer, and Black anarchist of Puerto Rican descent. After being released from prison, he opened a radical Afro-Asian Book Shop in…

Related Podcasts

More Stories