Black Radical Congress in the USA

The organizing conference to inaugurate the Black Radical Congress (BRC) is held in Chicago in June 1998, consolidating their mission statement published on 16 March 1998.

According to its mission statement, the BRC sets out to form a new movement in Black radicalism to address critical issues, such as unemployment, imprisonment, homelessness, poverty, police brutality, public education and health care, among others things. It states, 'Now is the time for a revival of the militant spirit of resistance that our people have always possessed, from the Abolitionist Movement to outlaw slavery to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s, from Black Power to the anti-apartheid campaign of the 1980s. Now is the time to rebuild a strong, uncompromising movement for human rights, full employment and self-determination. Now is the time for a new Black radicalism' (BRC, 16 March 1998).