| Black Agenda Report

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Spirituality and Black August: An Interview with Kalonji Changa
26 Jul 2023
As part of the Black Agenda Report Book Forum, we interview scholars and activists about a recent article they’ve written for either an academic journal or popular publication. Sometimes we discuss interviews.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Ruchell Magee Must Be Set Free!
26 Jul 2023
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Virtual Slave Labor in Congo’s Cobalt Mines
26 Jul 2023
I spoke to Maurice Carney, Executive Director of Friends of the Congo, about the virtual slave labor in the cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s cobalt mines.
Peoples Dispatch
Death Toll Mounts in Kenya as Police Intensify Crackdown on Protests Against US-IMF Backed Tax Regime
26 Jul 2023
Kenyans have been protesting President William Ruto’s Finance Act that increases taxes on essential goods while making concessions to foreign capital.
Nick Corbishley
Latin America Again Refuses to Fall In Line With the Collective West on Ukraine, This Time from Brussels
26 Jul 2023
The European Union failed to bully the members of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) into renouncing its neutral stance on the Ukraine conflict.
Caribbean Popular Organizations
Caribbean Popular Organizations: We Must Raise Our Voices to Defend Our Region!
26 Jul 2023
A group of popular Caribbean organizations released a statement against foreign intervention in Haiti and calling for an end to the militarization of the region by the U.S. and the West.
Socialist Workers Movement of the Dominican Republic
Stop the Dominican Government's Violence and Racist Lies Against Haitian Pregnant Women
26 Jul 2023
The Dominican Republic’s racist President is once again scapegoating Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent for his government’s terrible economic policies. This time, his target is poor pregnant women.
Clau O'Brien Moscoso
Peruvians Take Over Lima, Continuing to Pressure Boluarte Coup Regime
26 Jul 2023
Seven months in, and in the face of brutal state repression, the people of Peru continue their struggle against the neoliberal dictatorship of the Boluarte coup regime.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Censorship of the Black Left
26 Jul 2023
As the empire crumbles, the neoliberal capitalist order run by a corrupt duopoly is working to silence dissent. The Black left, of course, is always the first target.
Jody Roumain
Africa is Burning! DRC in Environmental Crisis
26 Jul 2023
Quiet as it’s kept, the African continent is the most susceptible to the impacts of climate change. And it has a history of colonialism, capitalist extraction, and labor exploitation to blame for that.