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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: “The Crime of Being Born Black on American Soil”: Claudia Jones’s Statement Before Being Sentenced, February 2, 1953
03 Mar 2021
Claudia Jones’s arrests and eventual deportation were part of the expansion of the US government’s Cold War attacks on immigrants—Black immigrants included—who were affiliated with the Communist Pa
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Against Big Tech's Algorithmic Cancel Culture
03 Mar 2021
Project Censored Host Mickey Huff predicted that #CancelCulture warriors would be calling stations to complain about his opposition to Big Tech censorship, writes Ann Garrison.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Asma Barlas’s “Believing Women in Islam”
03 Mar 2021
This book focuses on whether discrimination and violence against Muslim women are sanctioned by the Qur’an, as critics of Islam allege.
Jon Jeter
An Open Letter to Chris Hedges: Racism, Not 'Cancel Culture' is the Problem
03 Mar 2021
The author, a former corporate journalist like Hedges, reminds him that white workers betrayed Black workers and class solldarity, not the other way around.
Margaret Flowers
Popular Resistance: Small Acts Can Become a Power No Government Can Suppress
03 Mar 2021
Together, we can demand that one of the wealthiest nations on earth upholds its responsibility to provide the basic necessities for its people.
Black Agenda Review Editors
BLACK CITIZENSHIP FORUM: The Roots of Xenophobic Violence in South Africa—A Pan African Response
24 Feb 2021
South Africa must dismantle and transcend the colonial nation-state through creation of a Pan-African federation that stretches across the Southern African sub-continent.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adam Kotsko’s “Neoliberalism’s Demons”
24 Feb 2021
Nationalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression and exclusion are an integral part of the neoliberal order.
Geoffrey Jacques
A New Civil Rights Movement, a New Journal
24 Feb 2021
By the end of its run, Freedomways had become something close to a journal of record of the mid-to-late 20th Century African American freedom movement.
David Marcus Rutherford
Sumo Wrestlers & Supermodels: Reimagining the Education of Black Children
24 Feb 2021
How do we define success for Black students and the adults that they become?
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
What isn’t in Judas and The Black Messiah is Just as Important as What is
17 Feb 2021
Hollywood is big, mostly white, capitalist business, so it’s no surprise that its new film on Fred Hampton provides little information on Black Panther politics and history.