| Black Agenda Report

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adriaan van Klinken’s Book, “Kenyan, Christian, Queer”
17 Feb 2021
Increasing levels of LGBT/community organization, social mobilization, and political activism can be observed in different parts of the continent.
Black Alliance For Peace
For Biden Administration, Black Lives Don’t Matter in Haiti!—A BAP Statement on Haiti
17 Feb 2021
The new US administration has already shown its support for paramilitary terror and political suppression in Haiti.
Duana Fullwiley
DNA and Our Twenty-First-Century Ancestors
17 Feb 2021
Home DNA ancestry kits include no ancestors, instead comparing customers to other present-day people based on assumptions about race and ethnicity.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Black Citizenship Forum: Black Citizenship and the Problem of “Coloniality”
10 Feb 2021
Blacks subject as a stateless and rightless provider of cheap labor in a globalized and racial capitalist economy.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
There is no Color-Blind Road to Socialism in the United States
10 Feb 2021
The Democratic Party is not anti-racist because of its “diversity”; it is in fact becoming a more effective agent of a racist and imperialist state.
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
10 Feb 2021
This week you discussed the multilayer crisis facing American people.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Anthony Reed’s “Soundworks”
10 Feb 2021
This week’s author views black aesthetics as a practice of freedom that imagines and conjures alternative social arrangements.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Moya Bailey’s “Misogynoir Transformed”
10 Feb 2021
The author maintains it is a myth that digital activism is less important than the organizing being done on the ground.
Caitlin Johnstone
Electoral Politics Use The Same Containment Strategies As Alzheimer’s Facilities
10 Feb 2021
The US electoral system is like a dementia facility run by Democratic Party staff members pretending to want the same thing we want. “It’s a locked facility.”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World, August, 1920
03 Feb 2021
As part of our mission to supplement BAR’s historical perspective, the Black Agenda Review examines the Harlem meeting and manifesto that shook the Black world, a century ago.