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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Introduction: The Black Messiah, Albert B. Cleage, Jr., 1968
23 Apr 2025
“Jesus was a revolutionary black leader, a Zealot, seeking to lead a Black Nation to freedom.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Erik S. McDuffie’s Book, “The Second Battle for Africa”
23 Apr 2025
This week’s featured author is Erik S. McDuffie. McDuffie is Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His book is The Second Battle…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Poem For The Great Dr. Freeman (My ’19 Lemlich Nominee)
23 Apr 2025
"Poem For The Great Dr. Freeman (My ’19 Lemlich Nominee)" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Racism and the American University, Addison Gayle, Jr., 1971
16 Apr 2025
The appraisal of American universities as liberal institutions remains one of the purest examples of the elasticity of the English language.
Too Black , Rasul Mowatt
Bootleg Rehab: Still Laundering Black Rage
16 Apr 2025
DEI isn’t dead—it was never alive to begin with. A corporate pacification project dressed as progress, it launders Black rage into diversity statements while police budgets grow and material…
NBROC Coordinating Committee
Grounding Our Purpose: The Second National Black Radical Organizing Conference
16 Apr 2025
The Second National Black Radical Organizing Conference (NBROC) continues the legacy of Black radical resistance, uniting organizers to confront imperialism, capitalism, and white supremacy while…
Lexis-Olivier Ray
Black People Make Up 75% Of All Weed Arrests At LAX, Data Shows
16 Apr 2025
Roughly a third of the people who were arrested by LAPD in the city of Los Angeles for cannabis-related offenses since 2020 were arrested in Westchester. Nearly all of those arrests happened at Los…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: White Supremacy in U.S. History, Theodore W. Allen April 28, 1973
09 Apr 2025
“The principal aspect of United States capitalist society is not merely bourgeois domination but bourgeois white supremacist domination.”
Jon Jeter
Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Reverse Globalization or Resurrect America’s Dying Industrial Base
02 Apr 2025
Throughout history, trade restrictions have reshaped economies for good or for ill. As Trump increases tariffs across industries, it is clear that this move will not revitalize the economy as he…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Judith Weisenfeld’s Book, “Black Religion in the Madhouse”
02 Apr 2025
This week’s featured author is Judith Weisenfeld. Weisenfeld is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. Her book is Black Religion in the…