| Black Agenda Report

Mike Davis
COVID-19: The Monster is at the Door
18 Mar 2020
The danger to the global poor has been almost totally ignored by journalists and Western governments.
Joy James
Teaching Theory, Talking Community
04 Mar 2020
For centuries, Indigenous and African peoples in the Americas have theorized for their lives and so collectively crafted a revolutionary praxis.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Elizabeth Foster’s book, “African Catholic”
04 Mar 2020
The decolonization of Africa, and the determined activism of prominent African Catholics, played an important role in diversifying the church.
R. Divya Nair
The Gift of India and the Violence of the West
04 Mar 2020
Five centuries ago, Europeans set about subjugating the non-“white” peoples of the world, and they are still at it.
Margaret Eby
The Difference Between Yams and Sweet Potatoes Is Structural Racism
04 Mar 2020
The confusion goes all the way back to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. “Most American supermarkets are selling you sweet potatoes, not yams.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Marc Ross’s “Slavery in the North”
26 Feb 2020
The roots of racial differences have to do with the past treatment of enslaved people in the North as well as the South.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The Shocking Death of Rwandan Gospel Singer and Dissident Kizito Mihigo
19 Feb 2020
I would like to say that President Kagame has finally gone too far, that the powerful industrial nations will finally stop running cover for his crimes, but that would greatly surprise me.
Ashlie Sandoval
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
19 Feb 2020
An educator helps students navigate books that reveal Blackness as historicity, slavery as both obscured and ever-present, and the violence of race.
Global Information Network
Nigeria Jailing Journalists
19 Feb 2020
Stories that embarrass high officials can earn reporters treason charges, imprisonment and death.
Roxana Baspineiro
Libya: Before and After Muammar Gaddafi
05 Feb 2020
Nine years after his death, residents in the chaos-wracked country's capital have grown to miss the longtime leader as the frustrations of daily life mount.