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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Return to the Source: Democracy is Dead
20 Jan 2021
By what stretch of the imagination can the US be a democracy when ordinary citizens have virtually no influence over what their government does?
Eleanor J. Bader
Activists Are Mobilizing to Create an Eviction-Free United States
20 Jan 2021
Rent strikers are doing all they can to stop the violence of evictions and promote a vision of collective and community ownership of housing for everyone.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Zakiya Luna’s “Reproductive Rights as Human Rights”
13 Jan 2021
This book is a story about a group of (mostly) women who wanted to make change and understood that liberation is an inside job.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Chris A. Barcelos’ “Distributing Condoms and Hope”
13 Jan 2021
Replacing cops with social workers could “reproduce the same kinds of harm,” as this author explains.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 11, 2021
11 Jan 2021
Cops Colluded with Trump Mob at Capitol
The Black Agenda Review team
The Black Agenda Review Year in Books
06 Jan 2021
Neither the pandemic nor the outgoing presidency represent a decisive break with or a radical deviation from past history, policies and conditions of capitalism and neocolonialism.
Linda Burnham
The Activist Roots of Black Feminist Theory
06 Jan 2021
Intersection theory insists on the simultaneity of condition, the both/and of Black women’s oppression.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Yelena Bailey’s “How the Streets Were Made”
16 Dec 2020
The streets permeate dominant understandings of Blackness, and the life-and-death consequences of these perceptions are at the heart of this book.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Grace A. Musila’s Book, “Wangari Maathai's Registers of Freedom”
16 Dec 2020
Maathai’s approach to environmental conservation centers poor rural communities, especially women, and their need for fuel, fodder and income
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Cuomo Wins an Emmy for Being an Effective Weapon of Corporate Power
10 Dec 2020
While liberals celebrate Biden and Cuomo at brunch, the situation for the growing class of “have-nots” in the U.S. and around the world becomes more grim.