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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.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Can Negroes Afford To Be Pacifists? Robert F. Williams, 1959
04 Dec 2024
“Non-violence is a very potent weapon when the opponent is civilised, but non-violence is no match or repellent for a sadist.”
Jon Jeter
John Mearsheimer’s Folly: How Whites Agree to Misinterpret the World to Fulfill Their Racial Contract
23 Oct 2024
Systemic racism and reactionary violence are embedded into the foundation of the US political and social system, despite false claims of any sort of progress. Denying this reality is an act of mere…
Jon Jeter
Bayard Rustin, A Menace Not a Messiah
31 Jan 2024
The recent Obama-produced retelling of the life and work of Bayard Rustin is better judged by what it leaves out - his legacy of counterrevolutionary action designed to defang radical movements.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kathryn Sophia Belle’s “Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question”
06 May 2021
Arendt saw the “Negro question” as a “Negro problem” rather than a white problem.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Courtney Pace’s “Freedom Faith”
15 Jan 2020
“Freedom Faith” is the belief that God wants all people to be free, and that God equips and empowers those who work for freedom.