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Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
short school struggle poem
02 Mar 2022
short school struggle poem…
Emmanuel Onapa
How the Black Education Movement Took on the Racist Schools System
14 Dec 2021
A new archive tells the story of a radical community collective formed in the 1960s to challenge the treatment of Black pupils in UK schools.
Jamal Rich
Howard University Sit-in: A Struggle for Democracy at an HBCU
20 Oct 2021
Students at Howard University have historically been in the forefront of movement struggles.
Emily Elena Dugdale, Irena Hwang
In a California Desert Sheriff Deputies Settle Schoolyard Disputes and Black Teens Bear the Brunt
02 Oct 2021
Deputies in California’s Antelope Valley are disproportionately citing Black teens for minor infractions that lead to criminal records and incarceration.
Erica Caines
The Limits of "Lived Experience"
15 Sep 2021
The mantra of "lived experience" can be a dangerous cover for reactionary politics.
Patrick D. Anderson
The Theory of Intersectionality Emerges out of Racist, Colonialist Ideology, Not Radical Politics—Rethinking the CRT Debate Part 3
08 Sep 2021
Recent debates about Critical Race Theory (CRT) have been abysmally uninformed at best and utterly inaccurate at worst.
Patrick Anderson
Realism, Idealism, and the Deradicalization of Critical Race Theory—Rethinking the CRT Debate, Part 2
01 Sep 2021
Patrick Anderson continues his examination of Critical Race Theory.
Curry Malott
How Amilcar Cabral Shaped Paulo Freire's Pedagogy
01 Sep 2021
Frantz Fanon’s influence on Paulo Freire’s thought is well known, but the Brazilian educator also drew considerably from Amílcar Cabral, the revolutionary intellectual from Guinea-Bissau.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
What Did We Learn from the CPC’s 100th Anniversary? Leadership Matters
15 Jul 2021
There is a lesson to be learned from the differences in recent U.S. and Chinese historical celebrations.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
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 interventi