US Politics

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
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan Clash as River Waters Fill the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
15 Jul 2021
Three nations share the same water, but not the same foreign connections, which makes for a dangerous mix.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Pigment of your Imagination: Black magic mascots, props and sops?
15 Jul 2021
Could the pigment of your imagination cause Black magic mascots, props, sops— Black faces in high places— to short-circuit electrical gray spaces?
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Defend the Cuba Revolution and Struggle for More Socialism, Not Less!
15 Jul 2021
Millions have turned away from the illusions and corruption of capitalism toward the possibility of organizing a society informed by the values of cooperation, equality, community, peace, and life.
Seth Donnelly
The Assassination of Jovenel Moise: What Next for Haiti?
15 Jul 2021
Expect the Biden Administration to provide ongoing funding for Haiti’s brutal security forces.
Branko Marcetic
The Julian Assange Media Blackout Must End
15 Jul 2021
Embarrassed by revelations, the Biden administration has now offered several “assurances” they would allow Assange to apply for transfer to a prison in his home country of Australia to serve out hi
André Brock Jr.
BAR Book Forum: André Brock Jr.’s “Distributed Blackness”
15 Jul 2021
The online aggregation and coherence of Blackness online, absent Black bodies, is what inspired the author’s book.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kyla Schuller’s Book, “The Biopolitics of Feeling”
15 Jul 2021
The very physical category of femaleness was articulated by feminists and non-feminists alike as the sole property of whiteness in the 19th century,
Erica X Eisen
Blackness and the Bomb
15 Jul 2021
Seventy years after the civil preparedness film Duck and Cover, it is long past time to reckon with the way white supremacy shaped U.S.
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