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Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Too Fast to Be a Woman
24 Mar 2020
When South African track star Caster Semenya won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, critics claimed “she was cheating and had no right to compete with other women” because she performed more
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
James Baldwin’s African Awakening
24 Mar 2020
Although famed writers James Baldwin never wrote a book entirely about Africa in his long career, his later works show him awakening to “the potential of Black internationalism” with the decoloniza
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Nurturing African Diasporic Religions
03 Feb 2020
African-based religious practices persist and thrive among a range of denominations in the western hemisphere, says Eziaku Nwokocha, a Phd in Africana Studies who is working on her
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Lawless Judges and Prosecutors Block Mumia’s Road to Freedom
10 Dec 2019
Linn Washington, the Philadelphia-based legal scholar, told a New York City teach-in in support of Mumia Abu Jamal that the nation’s best known political prisoner would be free alr
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Keguro Macharia’s “Frottage”
06 Nov 2019
Instead of succumbing to xenophobia and nativism, as with anti-Somali sentiment in Kenya or ADOS in the US, we need to pursue freedom in ways that speak to our differences.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Rinaldo Walcott and Idil Abdillahi’s “BlackLife”
25 Sep 2019
The book seeks to unmake the idea that Black people in Canada occupy some “special” place in diaspora.