by the Black Agenda Report team
As you can see, we made it through the first part of our transition, bringing over our two years worth of content --- over a thousand articles and nearly twelve thousand comments, minus only those for the past five days -- intact. And we came out with the week's issue. Effectively, though we have reached the door, we have yet to walk through it.
We expect to spend the next week meticulously combing our content and creating relevant indexes, building menus, incorporating feeds, creating work flows and editorial policies, squashing Drupal theme bugs, configuring our feeds and custom views, figuring out how to email notices of publication, and more.
Thanks for sticking with us. We promise to be worth the wait.
Comment here to let us know how you like or dislike the new look, and what else you think we ought to be doing. We're listening.
Reading, writing, ‘rithmetic of rifles (for Uvalde and other schools…)
BAR Book Forum editor Roberto Sirvent and Julian Akil Rose discuss community organizing, Black Queer Feminism, the struggle for police and prison abolition, and an end to militarism.
"From May 26 to May 31, I was in Cali, Colombia serving as an election observer with an international delegation of mostly Black women. This is a preliminary report."
The Historic Pact candidates Gustavo Petro and Francia Marquez won the first round of the Colombian presidential election but now face conservative candidates in a June 19 runoff.
Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) began after an LAPD raid on the Black Panthers in 1969 and spread throughout the country. Then as now they neither protect nor serve, as was the case in Uvalde…
