The increasing repression and violence of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across the United States have focused on Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the recent murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, together with the New Year’s Eve killing of Keith Porter, Jr. in Los Angeles, California, have turned up the heat to extreme levels and threatened to ignite a powder keg. The people of Minneapolis, however, have maintained a principled resistance thus far, recording ICE atrocities, holding massive nonviolent marches and making plans for a general strike that could spread across the country. Meanwhile, Pan Afrikanist and Black Nationalist organizations debate the degree to which the Pan Afrikan community should involve itself in these mass actions, as the connections between ICE activities, theorized Nazi ideology and the likelier connection to Civil War-era slave patrols becomes clearer. For some of our thoughts, as well as a number of links to articles about recent events, click here.
Is Ghana Blocking Historic Diasporan Afrikans from Citizenship?
The Ghanaian government has announced the “Temporary Suspension of Ghanaian Citizenship Application Process for Historical Diasporans” and the imposition of new standards that must be met to qualify for Ghanaian citizenship, which might even impact upon the ability to establish residency in Ghana even without the granting of official citizenship. What impact might this have on Afrikan Diaspora efforts to connect with our Ancestral Home in the future? Read the Ghanaian Government’s letter, and the Press Release response from the Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus-Tanzania (6RegionTZ), here.
Closures and Second Chances: the Baltimore City School Board and the Fate of Education
EDITOR’S NOTE: This includes a slight update from the January 15, 2026 article, to include some of the reaction from the community to the Board of School Commissioners’ final decision.
The Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners voted on the renewal or closure of a number of city schools, several of which were focal points in a sometimes-desperate struggle by school administrators, community activists and grassroots citizens to save them. While there were victories, there were also bitter defeats, as some schools were approved to remain open under certain conditions and one school was set to close permanently at the end of the school year. For details about the January 8 hearing and the January 14 School Board decision, click here. For details on the December 11 hearing, click here.
The Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Maryland on Eutaw Place in Baltimore was the gathering place for a number of activists, organizers and spiritual leaders from different parts of the United States as they paid tribute to Recent 
Ancestor Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (October 4, 1943 – November 23, 2025), once known to those of us who were “Sixties activists” as H. Rap Brown.
Organized by Sis. Tomiko of Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign (APP-HRC) and the Internet radio programs Africa 500 and The REvolution Is Black Love, the event drew attendees from Baltimore, Washington DC, South Carolina, Philadelphia PA, Atlanta GA, New York NY and Los Angeles CA. For a full report on the event, with statements from the presenters, click here.
Baltimore City School Board Seeks to Close Four Area Schools; Hearing Set for January 8, 2026
A December 11 hearing concerning the plan of the Board of School Commissioners, Baltimore City School Board to close four area schools has led to a follow-up hearing to be held January 8, 2026. For more details on the affected schools, the December 11 hearing and the follow-up session scheduled for January 8, 2026, click here.
BALTIMORE: UNIA-ACL Barca-Clarke and Pan African Liberation Movement Sponsor Community Giveaway Events on Saturday, January 10
Two major Pan Afrikan organizations in Baltimore that have a documented track record of years of dedicated service to the community, the UNIA-ACL Barca-Clarke Baltimore Chapter (Baba Everett Winchester and Mama Earth Yvette Williams, Presidents) and the Urban Youth Initiative Project (UYIP) of the Pan African Liberation Movement (Baba Imhotep Fatiu, Founder) are both supporting the community in a tangible way on Saturday, January 10, 2026. For more details about these community-support events, click here.
Authoritarianism: “Hello America. These are my friends, Fascism and Martial Law.”
As if it weren’t enough that National Guard and military troops have already been deployed to cities such as Washington DC, Chicago Illinois, Memphis Tennessee and Los Angeles California, with threats to further invade cities such as Portland Oregon, Minneapolis Minnesota and New York City (if the people have the nerve to elect the “socialist” Zohran Mamdani as mayor), US President Donald Trump and “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth called a sudden, mandatory meeting of US military commanders, generals and admirals from around the world in Quantico, Virginia to “lay down the law” with their new plan to destroy perceived enemies of the US abroad without restraint and to quell insurgencies, crush dissent and implement the equivalent of martial law at home. For a bit more on this topic, click here.
Backing “Black MAGA” Instead of Real Pan Afrikan Organizing?
What seems to be motivating the support for the Trump administration that comes from so many “Black MAGA” groups? Read a few of our thoughts here.
We take a quick look at the increasing repression in the United States, from the DOGE takeover of several federal departments to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids to the June 14, 2025 parade in Washington, DC and the “No More Kings” protests across the country. For the full article, along with numerous links to other articles for more details, click here.
