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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: The New Pimps or, It’s Hip to be Black: The Failure of Black Studies, Don L. Lee, 1971
04 Sep 2024
Was Black Studies doomed to fail? Revisiting a critical take on its origins.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DECLARATION: A DECLARATION AGAINST IMPERIALISM, Adopted at the National Planning Conference PULL THE COVERS OFF IMPERIALISM PROJECT Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1975
07 Feb 2024
A 1975 “Declaration Against Imperialism” provides a blueprint for the anti-imperialist Black Studies of the future.
Tea Troutman , Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
Counter-insurgency and Black Studies: An Interview with Tea Troutman
30 Aug 2023
Counter-insurgency and Black Studies: An Interview with Tea Troutman
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: New Creation or Familiar Death? An Open Letter to Black Students in the North: Vincent Harding, 1969
05 Apr 2023
Vincent Harding’s reflections on the expansion of Black Studies in the 1960s offers an ominous warning on the hiring of Black faculty and administrators today.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Black Studies in the Age of Obama: John H. Bracey, Jr. 2011
08 Feb 2023
The late John H. Bracey, Jr. argued that Black Studies should be wedded to African liberation, not to the corporate-bureaucratic structure of the university.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Tyrone S. Palmer
23 Feb 2022
As part of the Black Agenda Report Book Forum, we interview scholars about a recent article they’ve written for either an academic journal or popular publication.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: fahima ife’s “Maroon Choreography”
26 Jan 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
STATEMENT: Black Caucus Protest at the African Studies Association, Montreal, October, 1969
13 Oct 2021
Black challenges to white control of African Studies at the 1969 African Studies Association meeting in Montreal exposed the deeply entrenched racism within, and the imperialist leanings of, th
P. Khalil Saucier
What I Fear About University Actions in the Context of Black Lives Matter
19 Aug 2020
White folks at the university decided to set things right on race – without consulting Africana Studies.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Everywhere in the Diaspora, Blacks are Treated as “the Enemy”
02 Sep 2019
“It’s always been important for us to be seen as enemies of whatever is considered decent, right or correct” by the white patriarchy,” said Cheryl Rodriguez, co-editor of “Trans-Atlantic Feminism: