Editors, The Black Agenda Review

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ESSAY: The War Aims of World War I and World War II and Their Relations to the Darker Peoples of the World, Merze Tate, 1943
29 Sep 2021
A 1943 Merze Tate essay provides a trenchant critique of the false hope of peace offered by the white west to “the darker peoples” of the world.
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SPEECH: China and Africa, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1959
22 Sep 2021
In 1959, on his ninety-first birthday, W. E. B.
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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.
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RETURN TO THE SOURCE: The US Military Swarms Over Africa
08 Sep 2021
Grim predictions about the U.S. military occupation of Africa are realized.
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An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II, King of the Belgians and Sovereign of the Independent State of Congo, 1890
01 Sep 2021
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Document: Notes of a Prison Collective: Marion Political Collective, 1976
25 Aug 2021
In 1976, prisoners in the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois wrote a collective document explaining the status of the prisoner within the prison—and the role of the prison
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MANIFESTO: The Attica Liberation Faction Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Depression Platform, 1971
18 Aug 2021
Black August: Remembering the Attica prisoner demands as the 50th anniversary approaches.
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DOCUMENT: The Rise of Black Power in the West Indies: Walter Rodney, 1969
23 Jul 2021
Rodney succinctly demonstrates how capitalism and colonialism, and nationalism and imperialism, function to create a rigid hierarchy by which color is fused with class to keep the Black majorities
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DOCUMENT: James Weldon Johnson, Self-Determining Haiti, 1920
15 Jul 2021
Published in 1920, Self-Determining Haiti remains a remarkable example of investigative journalism and advocacy and a damning testament to the perils and pitfalls of US military
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MANIFESTO: International African Service Bureau’s Manifesto Against War, 1938
08 Jul 2021
German Nazis, Italian Fascists, British, French, Belgian democracies – all are the same, imperialist exploiters .