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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: China and Africa, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1959
22 Sep 2021
In 1959, on his ninety-first birthday, W. E. B.
Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
Borders, Blackness, and Empire
22 Sep 2021
The spectacle of violence against Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border needs to be seen in light of ongoing U.S. imperialism in Haiti.
Black Alliance For Peace
Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Biden Administration’s Order to Deport Haitians as Illegal and Racist
22 Sep 2021
U.S. policies have created the conditions in Haiti that have compelled tens of thousands to flee.
Marjorie Cohn
Samuel Moyn’s Unprincipled Attack on Human Rights Giant Michael Ratner is Shameful
22 Sep 2021
Michael Ratner and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) were intimately connected to the Black Liberation Movement representing a number of activists in the crosshairs of state repression
Rosa Miriam Elizalde
The Money That Never Arrives in Cuba
22 Sep 2021
The United States has cut off channels for sending remittances to the island, leaving families who rely on the help – especially during the pandemic – without desperately needed resources.
Peoples Dispatch
Latin American and Caribbean Leaders Approve Historic Agreement at CELAC Summit
21 Sep 2021
The heads of state of the regional block agreed on a 44-point declaration which addressed the strategy against COVID-19 and climate change and took a stand against the blockade on Cuba.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
20 Years of Post-9/11 Amnesia
15 Sep 2021
Memories of the last 20 years are rarely focused on increased state violence and repression in the post-9/11 world. The damage has largely been forgotten.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Durban and 9/11: The Implications for a New Politics of Resistance
15 Sep 2021
Another twenty-year anniversary is the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) that took place in Durban, South Africa between August 31, and September 8. The George W.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Racial Prejudice in Cuba
15 Sep 2021
Contemporary conversations about racism in Cuba appear to have forgotten what it was like for Africans on the island republic before the Revolution.
Don Rojas
Historic Africa/CARICOM Summit
15 Sep 2021
African and Caribbean heads of government held an historic virtual meeting to strengthen international partnerships and gain true independence from neo-colonial control.