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ESSAY: I Go to Jail for the Scottsboro Boys, Ada Wright, 1932
21 Jun 2023
Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the “Scottsboro Boys,” traveled the world to advocate on their behalf. This essay is a remarkable testament to the unrewarded and unheralded labors of the Black…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: The Struggle for the Leninist Position on the Negro Question in the United States, Harry Haywood, 1933
26 Apr 2023
On the 153th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Lenin, we present Harry Haywood’s theoretical work on imperialism, capitalism, and Black self-determination which emphasizes the importance of Lenin…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
INTERVIEW: A Voice from the Monster: Charlene Mitchell in Tricontinental, 1971
15 Feb 2023
A 1971 interview with the late Charlene Mitchell reminds us of both the need for Black radical struggle against capitalism, militarism, and racism, and the contradictions of inter-racial organizing…
Benjamin Woods
Social Democracy Will Not Save Us
16 Nov 2022
The author makes the case that liberalism is a dead end and that socialism is the only tool for Black liberation.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio October 14, 2022
14 Oct 2022
"Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writings", NYPD conceals evidence in the killing of Rameek Smith, and the Black is Back Coalition for Peace, Justice and Reparations says, "…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley , Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Charisse Burden-Stelly "Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writings"
14 Oct 2022
Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. She is co-editor of the recently published book, Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist…
Dr. Gerald Horne
Three Revolutionary Black Women
31 Aug 2022
Dr. Gerald Horne reminds us that Esther Cooper Jackson, Louise Thompson Patterson, and Dorothy Burnham made many contributions as liberation movement leaders.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Essay: Record of Revolts in Negro Workers’ Past: Mary Adams, May 1, 1928
04 May 2022
A May Day 1928 essay by Black communist Williana “Liana” Jones Burroughs – aka Mary Adams – recounts the history of African revolt in the Americas.
Lola Olufemi
Claudia Jones: A Life in Search of the Communist Horizon
26 Sep 2021
This is the foreword to the new edition of Marika Sherwood’s Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile (Lawrence Wishart, 2021).
Denise Lynn
Silencing Black Radicalism Since the Cold War
10 Dec 2020
Anti-communists used the full powers of the state to silence, imprison, or deport radical Black activists.