We discuss conditions in Libya, and the forces behind the assassination of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. But we begin with labor leader and activist Chris Smalls on the Mediterranean dockworker actions that seek to prevent the shipment of weapons to Israel. www.blackagendareport.com/black-agenda...

Abraham Lincoln wanted to send Black people out of the U.S. and actually established one such "colony" in Haiti. Read my book Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents. #Prejudential #AbrahamLincoln steerforth.com/product/prej...

The state of Israel is reviled by most people in the world as a genocidal, war criminal nation. Money, influence peddling, and brute force ensure that international condemnation is not allowed to thwart zionist and imperialist objectives. www.blackagendareport.com/how-israel-c...

Zionist power in the west, Haiti, Petro meets Trump, Trump racism covers for liberals, ICE and imperialism, war on Cuba, Israel organ theft, US/Israel attack on Iran, US confesses to Iran destabilization, Saif Gaddafi assassination, Nicaragua's economy and US interference. www.blackagendareport.com

Arlene Eisen is author of In the Worldwide Family of Militant Women. She's been a militant in the struggle against imperialism and a leading voice in the anti-imperialist women’s movement. She joins us to discuss and read from her latest work. blackagendareport.com/worldwide-fa...

Lance Hawkins joins us to discuss the first month of Zohran Mamdani’s administration. Lance Hawkins is a community, labor, and anti-war organizer, and a proud socialist born and raised in Harlem, New York. He provides analysis of Mamdani’s first days in office. blackagendareport.com/leftist-anal...

The importance of the Epstein files cannot be underestimated. They provide a view not just of scandal and sex trafficking but of international ruling class corruption. Read my latest in @blackagendareport.bsky.social. www.blackagendareport.com/epstein-file...

Epstein files, Guyana anti-imperialism, Michael Parenti on CIA drugs, environmental racism/EPA, US attacks Cuba, Palestine solidarity vs fascism, media Venezuela lies, white Zimbabweans follow the South African plot, Kenya/Iran solidarity, duopoly parties fool the people. www.blackagendareport.com

Last night a federal judge extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350,000 Haitian immigrants. Why was this decision important? I discussed the issue with Black Alliance for Just Immigration on @blackagendareport.bsky.social radio last week. www.blackagendareport.com/trump-target...

Trump executive order threatens 14th amendment protections on citizenship, equal protection, and due process. Haitian immigrants are under attack and TPS for 350,000 may soon end. www.blackagendareport.com/black-agenda...

"Even now, they are talking compromise about ICE body cameras, which they already wear as they shoot people, and rules that already exist that ICE doesn’t follow. " www.blackagendareport.com/ice-exposes-...

Dems are irrelevant, Palmer raids, Venezuela oil, Alex Pretti, data centers, from slave patrols to ICE, Patagonia fires, Trump derangement confusion, hybrid war on Iran, 5 year old detained by ICE, West Bank settler attacks, hepatitis B study, Canada and Denmark hypocrisy. www.blackagendareport.com

Mnar Adley of MintPress News joins us from Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Donald Trump's ICE enforcement is used for domestic police repression against the entire population, but especially against people of color. www.blackagendareport.com/ice-domestic...

Nina Farnia is a legal historian and a member of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective. She joins us to discuss violence in Iran which was orchestrated as part of a U.S./Israeli regime change effort. www.blackagendareport.com/us-and-israe...

Corporate media parrot narratives about an Iranian popular uprising. But violence resulted from a U.S./Israeli regime change plot. But we begin in Minnesota, where state repression is being carried out under the guise of immigration enforcement. www.blackagendareport.com/black-agenda...

Denmark is racist AF and a happy junior partner in crime to the U.S. Read my latest in @blackagendareport.bsky.social. www.blackagendareport.com/index.php/ra...

Thanks to CGTN for inviting me back for the 2nd time this week. I joined a panel discussing Trump's first year in office. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0mu...

Denmark's complicity, repression in US, Black journalism, boxing and imperialism, revolutionary theory, MLK radical legacy, paradigm for U.S. revolution, Gulf monarchies and Africa, RFK Jr.'s Tuskegee experiment, maternal health in TX, Venezuela, zionism requires genocide. www.blackagendareport.com

Thanks to CGTN for this snippet of my remarks. Watch the whole program here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0mu...

Here is a snippet of my comments on The Heat. I was discussing ICE and US domestic repression. You can see the 30-minute program on this link. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCJC...

Diego Sequera is a Venezuelan journalist. He joins us from Caracas to discuss the Venezuelan people's solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution in the wake of the January 3rd kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. www.blackagendareport.com/diego-sequer...

Suleiman Adan is Deputy Executive Director of the Minnesota Chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations. He joins us from Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Donald Trump has unleashed ICE enforcement against immigrants and the entire population. www.blackagendareport.com/ice-invades-...

Law enforcement in the U,S. kill more than 1,100 people in a typical year. This level of bloodshed goes unnoted even when police killings are deemed newsworthy and attract public attention. Police impunity is accepted and normalized by millions of people. www.blackagendareport.com/renee-good-k...

1,100+ police killings in 2025, MLK anti-imperialism, US empire in Caribbean, Venezuela's resources, environmental racism, Washington DC and Trump takeover, AI waste, Trump's continuity, Venezuela still in charge, Israel destabilizes Somalia, Malcolm X murder investigation. blackagendareport.com

China Cannot Be Contained. That is the title of my chapter in the anthology, "China Changes Everything." You can buy the book here: shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw3d...

"I guess they believe their own propaganda that he's a dictator and if you get rid of him (Maduro) the whole thing will all fall apart. Well it hasn't fallen apart." Thanks to Dimitri Lascaris for inviting me to his program. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vleO...

The U.S. attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of the president and first lady are the culmination of years of intervention against that state. Corinna Mullin discusses the importance of anti-imperialist mobilization in solidarity with the Venezuelan people. www.blackagendareport.com/solidarity-v...

Israel is the first and only nation to recognize the Somaliland region of Somalia. The zionist entity plan to establish a military presence will enhance U.S. policies that destabilized the Horn of Africa. Somali scholar Suldan Mohamed provides analysis. www.blackagendareport.com/israels-reco...

"The tagline 'News, commentary, and analysis from the Black left' was chosen with great intent when Black Agenda Report (BAR) was founded in 2006." Black Agenda Report gives special emphasis to Venezuela this week. @blackagendareport.bsky.social blackagendareport.com/venezuela-20...

Venezuela linchpin of anti-imperialism, history of struggle in Americas, reading list, solidarity statement, Israel kills journalists and families, corporations cash in on invasion, Sudan war, Venezuelans support Maduro, Cubans died fighting for Venezuela, Israel in Somalia. blackagendareport.com

The Black Agenda Report team is taking our annual end of year break. We will be back with a new issue on Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Thanks for your support and have a great holiday season!

John Parker of the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice In Los Angeles is also a leading member of the Struggle for Socialism Party. He joins us to discuss traveling to Venezuela as part of the People's Assembly for Peace and Sovereignty of Our Americas. blackagendareport.com/index.php/jo...

Margaret Kimberley was recently a guest on the Black Liberation Media program, Saturdays with Renee, with Renee Johnston and Jared Ball. They discussed the issue of birthright citizenship. Here are excerpts of their conversation. blackagendareport.com/birthright-c...

Trump's rant notwithstanding, Rob Reiner promoted accusations that Trump won in 2016 with Russian help. Reiner's video featuring Morgan Freeman, declaring war against Russia, was classic surveillance state war propaganda, as we noted in 2017. www.blackagendareport.com/morgan-freem...

Abayomi Azikiwe discusses the recent coup attempt in the Benin which ended with assistance from Nigeria and France. He analyzes events in Benin, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, the Alliance of Sahel States, and on the enduring impact of neo-colonialism in the region. blackagendareport.com/coup-attempt...

The Peoples Assembly for Peace and Sovereignty of Our Americas convened in Venezuela, but delegates were unable to attend due to the Trump administration no-fly zone. The Solidarity Center hosted a press conference on December 10th to condemn that action. blackagendareport.com/press-confer...

Arrests of members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front are the latest in a decades-long effort to criminalize the left and to make examples of anyone who might fit the profile of being a “designated terrorist.” blackagendareport.com/turtle-islan...

State repression, Black radical books, Horace Silver, Black resistance graphic novel, anti-communism, Kenya's compradors, human rights, Haiti immigration, Black solidarity and Venezuela, Sudan's sovereignty, US recolonizes South America, the Caribbean and Venezuela. blackagendareport.com

Black Agenda Report's was the ONLY year-end list my debut novel made when it came out. And check out what they recommend for the end of this year to get into that good stuff you're supposed to be reading.

Trump’s anti-Somali rants are not directed only at that group. All Black/African people are seen as suspects, as ungrateful criminals who are deserving of punishment and scorn. He isn't alone in this thinking. My latest in @blackagendareport.bsky.social. www.blackagendareport.com/we-are-all-s....

Somalia obsession, human rights hypocrisy, Shirley Graham Dubois, Hegseth DUI hire, Venezuela solidarity, Congo/Rwanda "peace deal", fake leftists, Syria, Obama's kill list=Trump double tap, FBI and the left, West Bank overshadowed by Gaza, Trump and Honduras, sanctions. www.blackagendareport.com

Guinea-Bissau experienced an aborted election followed by what was called a coup. But the reality differs from the narrative presented by the neo-colonial state. Imani Umoja provides analysis from Guinea-Bissau in @blackagendareport.bsky.social. www.blackagendareport.com/guinea-bissa...

I spoke to Jamarl Thomas to discuss my contribution to the new anthology China Changes Everything. My chapter, "China Cannot Be Contained," analyzes why U.S. efforts to diminish China's economic power fail. @blackagendareport.bsky.social www.blackagendareport.com/china-cannot...

We hear about events in Guinea-Bissau, a disputed election, and a so-called coup that was actually carried out on behalf of the president. But first, Margaret Kimberley discussed her contribution to the new anthology, China Changes Everything. www.blackagendareport.com/black-agenda...

Thanks to Jamarl Thomas for inviting me to discuss my contribution to the new anthology, China Changes Everything. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2vB...

U.S. sanctions, violence, threats, and theft are war crimes waged against Venezuela for decades. A scandal about a “double tap” killing should not be the focus of attention. Read my latest in @blackagendareport.bsky.social. blackagendareport.com/double-tap-v...

Long war against Venezuela, World AIDS day, Eritrea support for Sudan, Europe's decline, Pan-African conference in Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Caribbean Zone of Peace, defending Iran's sovereignty, Trump's regime change plan for Venezuela/Cuba/Honduras. www.blackagendareport.com

Jacqueline Luqman is an activist and co-founder of Luqman Nation, an independent Black media outlet. She is also a contributor to a newly published book, "China Changes Everything: An anthology by social justice activists, journalists, and commentators." www.blackagendareport.com/china-change...

Samy Feliz is an organizer with @justicecommittee.bsky.social and the brother of Allan Feliz, who was killed by an NYPD officer who escaped legal and department punishment. We discuss Zohran Mamdani's reappointment of Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner. www.blackagendareport.com/mamdani-reap...

Democrats recruit military veterans and former intelligence agency operatives to run for office in order to prove their pro-war credentials. A contrived fight with Donald Trump shouldn’t fool anyone. Read my latest in @blackagendareport.bsky.social. www.blackagendareport.com/illegal-orde...