| Black Agenda Report

Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley
The Left Lens: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and American Empire, with Ajamu Baraka
20 Jan 2021
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday is often celebrated without any regard for his radical political legacy.
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?
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Uganda: Bobi Wine Rocks the Vote but Museveni Claims Victory
20 Jan 2021
Ugandan pop star turned presidential candidate Bobi Wine is not Sankara or Lumumba, but he has risked his life to mount a fierce challenge to the 36-year dictatorship of President Yoweri Museveni.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
mashing the state— Kristallnacht-style
20 Jan 2021
Kristallnacht came casting lead ballots, overthrowing Black elected officials and Massacring those that VOTED for them— Wilmington, North Carolina, 1898;
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Casualties of the Old Cold War Should Inform Opposition to U.S.’ New Cold War against China
20 Jan 2021
The US share of the global economy has shrunk dramatically since 1960. O
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: L.H. Stallings’ “Funk the Erotic”
20 Jan 2021
We need a different relationship to and with time and temporality to imagine new worlds and to begin bringing those new worlds into being.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: John Murillo III’s “Impossible Stories”
20 Jan 2021
The author dissects Black time and space in order to better understand the nature and mechanics of Black life and death lived in the antiblack world.
Kehinde Alonge
End SARS and Fanon’s Mission
20 Jan 2021
What is the direction of the mission that falls upon each generation of young Nigerians?
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 18, 2021
19 Jan 2021
US Imperialism Was in Disarray in 2020
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Lumumba Assassination Changed Black American Politics
19 Jan 2021
A panel of academics and activists marked the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the Congo’s first elected prime minister, by agents of the US and Belgium.