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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
REVIEW: Radical Black Reading, 2023
20 Dec 2023
An end of the year radical Black reading list from the editors of The Black Agenda Review.
The Editors
Black Agenda Report Will Return on January 10, 2024
22 Dec 2023
Thanks for your support of Black Agenda Report in 2023. We are taking our annual break and we'll be back on January 10, 2024. Power to the people!
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The United Nations Pushes Haiti Under the Bus
10 Oct 2023
For the tenth time in the last 30 years, the United Nations vote to authorize an occupation of Haiti.
The Editors
Black Agenda Report Returns with a New Site
10 Oct 2023
The Black Agenda Report editorial team is grateful to our readers for their support and patience. Last week we were unable to publish BAR due to circumstances beyond our control.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
3rd Reich corporate confederate circus
10 Oct 2023
By Raymond Nat Turner, Poet-in-Residence 3rd Reich corporate confederate circus 1% pickpockets; pin-headed Hitler-lovers work the crowd… Corporate circus up to old tricks! Red nose, big shoe, swastika shit show- cruel… Capitalist Hill clowns and clownettes — Millionaire jesters— juggling…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Laphonza Butler’s Liberal Dem Credentials All But Glow in the Dark
10 Oct 2023
No one better exemplifies the Democratic Party’s overarching identity politics than California Governor Gavin Newsom. He engineered the appointment of San Francisco’s first Chinese mayor, appointed California’s first Black Secretary of State, California’s first Latino Senator, and now its …
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: West Africa in Evolution, Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1961
10 Oct 2023
The current political turbulence in France’s former colonies in Africa can perhaps be understood as the continuation of an unfinished project of decolonization. In France’s colonial territories -- Sudan, Chad, Mali, Senegal – the post-World II project of independence was compromised by both the…
Black Alliance For Peace
The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns the Murderous Assault on Occupied Palestine
10 Oct 2023
The Black Alliance for Peace released a statement in solidarity with the people of Gaza and all Palestinians under occupation in the racist, apartheid settler state of Israel.
Imani Nile
These Politicians are Playing in Our Faces
10 Oct 2023
Joe Biden had a moment of truth when he promised the oligarchs that nothing would fundamentally change if he became president. He kept his promise, and so will all those who come after him unless there is fundamental systemic change in this country.
James Patrick Jordan
Don’t Be Confused About Haiti
10 Oct 2023
The lies that are told about Haiti are so deeply ingrained that people who should know better believe that the next occupation will cure all of that country's ills. In fact, Haiti's problems are the direct result of decades of interventions.