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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio July 5, 2024
05 Jul 2024
This week, we discuss the struggle for Black political power in conservative Louisiana, and Margaret Kimberley talks about the recent debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. But first, we discuss…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
The French Right are on the Rise and the Left are in Disarray
05 Jul 2024
Philippe Gendrault joins us to discuss the parliamentary elections in France, his home country, where the right wing is ascendant while left forces are very weak.
Kossi “Ayomide” Paul
France, its Far-right, and Africa: An Update on the Ongoing Parliamentary Elections
03 Jul 2024
France's recent parliamentary elections indicate a rapid political shift to the right. Africans both on the continent - where several nations remain French neo-colonies - and in France will…
Peoples Dispatch
Political deportation of Kanak leaders sparks more protests in New Caledonia
26 Jun 2024
The arrest and deportation of several prominent Kanak leaders have reignited widespread protests in New Caledonia.
Mireille Fanon Mendes France
Does a trial mean justice? Questions asked at the end of Théodore Luhaka’s trial
14 Feb 2024
The brutal physical assault against Théodore Luhaka by three police officers, and their subsequent acquittal, is a heartbreaking example of the long relationship between the colonizer and the…
David Broder
African Unity Can’t Take Place on France’s Terms
07 Feb 2024
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger pulled out of the West African economic union ECOWAS, in major blow to the regional integration project and rejection of Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to…
Ira Kurzban
Haiti’s Legal Claim for Restitution
10 Jan 2024
After Haiti gained independence in 1804 following a slave revolt, France threatened to invade and re-enslave the Haitian people if they did not pay compensation to French slave owners for their lost…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: West Africa in Evolution, Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1961
10 Oct 2023
The current political turbulence in France’s former colonies in Africa can perhaps be understood as the continuation of an unfinished project of decolonization.
Julia Wright
Nahel's France: Neo-Colonized and Pan-African Voices Speak Up
19 Jul 2023
The police killing of Nahel M. in France cannot be properly analyzed outside of the context of French colonialism and neo-colonialism.
Abayomi Azikiwe
Police Brutality, Racism and Poverty Underlines Youth Rebellion in France
05 Jul 2023
Protests erupted in France after police killed a teenager of Algerian and Moroccan ancestry. Just as in the U.S. racism in France is the cause of police violence.