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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
LETTER: Thank you, Mr. Howe, Ama Ata Aidoo, 1967
07 May 2025
Ama Ata Aidoo lands a knock-out blow to white neocolonial anti-African revisionism.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
STATEMENT: Paul Robeson Before the House Un-American Activities Committee, June 12, 1956
11 Sep 2024
Revisiting Paul Robeson’s prepared statement to the House Un-American Activities Committee–during a new era of repression.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: A Challenge to Artists, Lorraine Hansberry, 1962
21 Feb 2024
At a rally against the House Un-American Activities Committee, insurgent playwright Lorrainne Hansberry called on artists to shake off the fear and incoherency of the world to defend the peoples’…
Tamanisha John
Exercise Tradewinds: 40 years of U.S. Counterinsurgency in the Caribbean
14 Feb 2024
Exercise Tradewinds has historically been a show of military might and a threat to other nations in the Caribbean and Latin America that the West would exert force if they dared to stray from…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor , Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
BAR Book Forum: Charisse Burden-Stelly’s Book, “Black Scare / Red Scare”
01 Nov 2023
This week’s featured author is Charisse Burden-Stelly. Burden-Stelly is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Her book is Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing…
Jasper Saah
Journalists or Witch Hunters? Examining the New York Times’ Shameful Red Scare History
12 Jul 2023
Joseph McCarthy carried out his red scare with the help of establishment media like the New York Times. Its recent Sinophobic screeds follow the Biden administration narrative and are consistent with…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
The East is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century
23 Jun 2023
Carlos Martinez is a co-editor of Friends of Socialist China, a co-founder of No Cold War, and a coordinating committee member of the International Manifesto Group. He joins us from London to discuss…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio October 14, 2022
14 Oct 2022
"Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writings", NYPD conceals evidence in the killing of Rameek Smith, and the Black is Back Coalition for Peace, Justice and Reparations says, "…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley , Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Charisse Burden-Stelly "Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writings"
14 Oct 2022
Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. She is co-editor of the recently published book, Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
WORKING PAPER: The Afro-Asian Solidarity Movement: The Threat of A Communist-Nationalist Alliance Against the West, 1958
15 Mar 2022
Declassified papers from NATO’s archives detail a comprehensive counter-revolutionary strategy against decolonization, including the active sabotaging of Afro-Asian solidarity and the “spirit of…