African America

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: My Last Will and Testament, Mary McLeod Bethune, 1955
05 Mar 2025
Mary McLeod Bethune’s testament to a good, ethical life.
Jon Jeter
In Maryland, Cracking Down on a Crime Wave that Doesn’t Exist With Laws That Don’t Work
05 Mar 2025
Maryland has been enforcing harsher criminal laws, using the claim of a crime wave that does not exist. This crackdown funnels Black children into an incredibly draconian legal system. Now, there is…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
LETTER: An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Y. Davis, James Baldwin, 1970
26 Feb 2025
James Baldwin on white madness–and Black resistance.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney, Jr.’s Book, “From Rights to Lives”
26 Feb 2025
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney, Jr. Dr. Hamlin is Royce Family…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Malcolm X Presente!
19 Feb 2025
Every year, people around the world honor Malcolm X. Though he was taken from us prematurely, his memory and impact remain. With that memory, there is a mandate that we accept and carry on the legacy…
Jon Jeter
Another Love TKO: Falling Marriage Rates Stagger Black Family Formation, and Community Development
19 Feb 2025
The economic stress on African American people shows itself in phenomena like marriage rates. What once was a benefit to Black communities and a path to the middle class, marriage is becoming…
Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report Contributor
Malcolm X, Black Nationalism and the Cold War
19 Feb 2025
United States intelligence agencies kept close watch over developments in the African American struggle for freedom, justice, equality and self-determination after the conclusion of the Second…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Power of Black Self-Defense in Lincoln Heights
12 Feb 2025
When Nazis appear in public they must be quickly dispatched. The people of a Black town in Ohio did just that and then acted to arm and defend themselves.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Africa, China, and the U.S., Cheikh Anta Diop, 1965
05 Feb 2025
Cheikh Anta Diop’s anti-imperialist Pan-African socialism.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
DEI in the sky
05 Feb 2025
"DEI in the Sky" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.