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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Revolution and the Negro, CLR James, 1939
20 Nov 2024
Haiti’s Battle of Vertières reminds us that resistance is not futile, that victory will come.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: United We Stand! Joint Struggles of Native Americans and African Americans in the Columbian Era, Jan Carew, 1995
16 Oct 2024
“The Seminoles had set a dangerous example, for if Blacks and Native Americans united everywhere in the Americas, then a genuine racial democracy might emerge.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Problem with Juneteenth
19 Jun 2024
Juneteenth was a people's holiday with deep meaning for the descendants of enslaved people. But the declaration of an official federal holiday has turned it into an opportunity for corporate…
Max Parthas
The Evolution of Slavery
07 Feb 2024
In the U.S., a nation built on the enslavement and exploitation of humans, the system of slavery cannot be destroyed. It has merely changed from one form to another.
The Voice
Caribbean Activists Turn Up the Volume for Reparations
21 Sep 2022
The death of the queen is a reminder of the debt that Britain owes to Caribbean nations. Reparations are owed for slavery.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nick Nesbitt’s Book, “The Price of Slavery”
18 May 2022
This week’s featured author is Nick Nesbitt. Nesbitt is Professor of French and Italian at Princeton University. His book is The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Caroline H. Yang’s Book, “The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery”
23 Nov 2021
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: David Lester’s Book “Prophet Against Slavery”
10 Nov 2021
Cynthia Greenlee
How History Textbooks Reflect America’s Refusal to Reckon with Slavery
15 Jul 2021
Textbooks are a battleground in which the humanity and status of black Americans are contested
Karen Cook Bell
Escape as Resistance for Enslaved Women During the American Revolution
08 Jul 2021
Motherhood often served as a catalyst for attempted escape during the American Revolution.