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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum “Sports and Black Struggle”: Interview with Dewitt King
21 Sep 2022
In this feature, we interview organizers, journalists, scholars, and athletes working at the intersection of sports and Black struggle. We ask three general questions to all contributors and two…
Black Alliance For Peace
Amidst the Biden Administration’s Forever-Wars Policy in Africa, BAP Launches a Month of Action Against AFRICOM (U.S. Africa Command)
21 Sep 2022
The Black Alliance for Peace hosts a Month of Action Against the US Africa Command, AFRICOM, every October. AFRICOM continues to play a dangerous role in enforcing US foreign policy that is harmful…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black Politics in San Francisco, Part 2
16 Sep 2022
Jemma Decristo is a community organizer in San Francisco, where a Black mayor, London Breed, continues neo-liberal and pro-police policies and where gentrification and displacement continue. She…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
FBI Surveillance of Aretha Franklin
16 Sep 2022
Afeni is a community organizer and writer who is co-authoring an article soon to appear in Rolling Stone about FBI surveillance of Aretha Franklin. Afeni is joining us from Washington DC.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
There go Ol’ Schmo again…
14 Sep 2022
There go Ol’ Schmo again…
Too Black
Laundering Black Rage, Part 2
14 Sep 2022
Rage is a natural human emotion that is denied to Black people. Black rage is dangerous and is washed away, laundered, as if it were an ill-gotten gain. Too Black explains in the second part of a two…
Jon Jeter
Big Ideas to Stir the Blood: Reimagining Reparations as America's Marshall Plan and Not Just a Payday
14 Sep 2022
International law requires that reparations be made for human rights violations. African Americans certainly fall into the category of those entitled to just compensation, restitution, and…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Politics in San Francisco, Part I
09 Sep 2022
Jemma Decristo is a community organizer in San Francisco, where a Black mayor and other officials enact policies against the unhoused and the poor and where gentrification continues. She joins us…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Biden's MAGA Obsession Won't Help Democrats
07 Sep 2022
Because Joe Biden and democrats act on behalf of the oligarchy instead of the people, they now risk a mid-term election loss. His solution to this political problem is to speak endlessly about Donald…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
INTERVIEW: To the Point of Production: An Interview with John Watson of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, 1969
07 Sep 2022
A 1969 interview with a founder of Detroit’s League of Revolutionary Black Workers reminds us of the radical genius and hope of Black labor.