Editors, The Black Agenda Review

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: On the Question of Political Prisoners, Safiya Bukhari,1995
07 Aug 2024
To commemorate Black August, read Safiya Bukhari's essay on political prisoners and political movements. Her words resonate today.
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ESSAY: In Our Hands: Thoughts on Black Music, Bernice Johnson Reagon, 1976
31 Jul 2024
For the late Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Black music was a tool in the struggle for Black liberation, and not what it has mostly become today: a retrograde appendage to neoliberalism and white power.
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CHAPTER: The Ford Foundation and Black Power, Robert L. Allen, 1968
24 Jul 2024
The late Robert L. Allen broke down the dialectics of Black elite co-option and counter-revolution. Hello, Kamala.
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TRANSCRIPT: Analyzing the Correct Method in Combating American Fascism, George Jackson, 1971
17 Jul 2024
Martyred Black Panther, George Jackson told us long ago that fascism has been the de facto political state of the US for some time. Today we can clearly see that both Trump and Biden are, quite…
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TESTIMONY: Opposition to Military Assistance Act of 1949, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1949
10 Jul 2024
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of NATO, we reprint W.E.B. Du Bois’ 1949 powerful testimony against the US militarization of Europe and the world.
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ESSAY: Assassinations at Home and Abroad, Jemima Pierre, 2012
03 Jul 2024
The US Supreme Court’s decision to grant the President of the United States “absolute immunity” merely codifies criminal behavior by all US presidents. Take, for example, Barack Obama’s assassination…
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SERMON: The “Pet Negro” System, Zora Neale Hurston, 1943
19 Jun 2024
Zora Neale Hurston’s sermon on the “Pet Negro” system provides devastating and timely insight into the psychology of Black folk working in the service of white power. Preach, Sister Zora!
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ESSAY: Which Way for the Jamaican Left? Rupert Lewis, 1993
12 Jun 2024
This short history of the Workers Party of Jamaica (WPJ) demonstrates that there was a moment in time when a radical remaking of Jamaican society seemed possible.
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PREFACE: So Spoke the Uncle/Ainsi parle l’oncle, Jean Price-Mars, 1928
05 Jun 2024
Revisiting a powerful account of the psychology of colonialism and neocolonialism by Haiti’s Jean Price-Mars.
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POEM: Enemy of the Sun, Samih al-Qasim, 1970
29 May 2024
Read against the terrible incineration of Rafah today, this poem of resistance and refusal, by Palestinian poet Samih al-Qasim, is as powerful now as it was fifty years ago.