| Black Agenda Report

Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The American Empire Has No Clothes
20 Jul 2022
The U.S. is empire is in a state of crisis, creating chaos around the world and contradicting its own goals.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Negro Revolutionary Hero: Toussaint L'Ouverture, Cyril Briggs, 1929
20 Jul 2022
In 1929, Black radical Cyril Briggs penned an essay on Toussaint L’Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution. For Briggs, both provided inspiration for the fight against the U.S. occupation of Haiti. We need that inspiration now.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Celebrating Revolution in Nicaragua
20 Jul 2022
Genuine peoples holidays are hard to come by in the U.S. But in Nicaragua the ongoing revolutionary process is widely celebrated.
Brian Kamanzi
South Africa’s Energy Crisis Escalates
27 Jul 2022
Behind rolling power cuts loom deep-seated socioeconomic issues worsened by the rich countries of the world.
Alec Karakatsanis
Police Departments Spend Vast Sums of Money Creating “Copaganda”
27 Jul 2022
US police departments spend tens of millions of dollars every year to manipulate the news, flooding the discourse with “copaganda.” These aggressive tactics give the public a distorted view of what public safety means, what threatens it, and how to solve it.
Peoples Dispatch
National Strike in Panama Demands Justice for the Poor
27 Jul 2022
For almost two weeks, tens of thousands of Panamanians have been taking to the streets across the country protesting the cost of living crisis and lack of of response and attention from the government of President Laurentino Cortizo.
Tanupriya Singh
Ghana’s Unions and Left Reject Bailout Talks with the IMF as Economic Crisis Spirals
27 Jul 2022
Ghana has initiated talks with the International Monetary Fund to seek a potential bailout amid a major economic crisis. This has been rejected by the Socialist Movement of Ghana and trade unions who argue that this will do nothing to alleviate the structural problems in the economy.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Karen Jaime’s Book, “The Queer Nuyorican”
27 Jul 2022
This week’s featured author is Karen Jaime. Jaime is Assistant Professor of Performing and Media Arts and Latina/o Studies at Cornell University. Jaime’s book is The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
Last Moyo’s Book, “The Decolonial Turn in Media Studies in Africa and the Global South”
27 Jul 2022
This week’s featured author is Last Moyo. Moyo lectures in the Department of Communications and Multimedia Design at the American University, Nigeria. His book is The Decolonial Turn in Media Studies in Africa and the Global South.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Introduction to Glen Ford's "The Black Agenda"
27 Jul 2022
The compilation of Glen Ford's work, "The Black Agenda" was published by OR Books posthumously. In the introduction he recounted his life story and career.