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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio March 7, 2025
07 Mar 2025
In this week’s segment we discuss the continued genocide in Gaza despite the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Rikers Island, Slave Catching, and the Modern Carceral State
07 Mar 2025
Darren Mack is co-founder and co-director of Freedom Agenda, an organization devoted to decarceration and system transformation, including
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Revolution and the Negro, CLR James, 1939
20 Nov 2024
Haiti’s Battle of Vertières reminds us that resistance is not futile, that victory will come.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: United We Stand! Joint Struggles of Native Americans and African Americans in the Columbian Era, Jan Carew, 1995
16 Oct 2024
“The Seminoles had set a dangerous example, for if Blacks and Native Americans united everywhere in the Americas, then a genuine racial democracy might emerge.”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
"What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" read by Ossie Davis
03 Jul 2024
On July 5, 1852 Frederick Douglass was asked to speak on the topic of the nation’s independence celebration. Now known as What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, the speech was a stinging…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Problem with Juneteenth
19 Jun 2024
Juneteenth was a people's holiday with deep meaning for the descendants of enslaved people. But the declaration of an official federal holiday has turned it into an opportunity for corporate…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Ending Prison Slavery in California
14 Jun 2024
Dorsey Nunn joins us to discuss a proposed amendment to California’s state constitution, ACA 8, which aims to abolish involuntary servitude as a form of criminal punishment.
Max Parthas
The Evolution of Slavery
07 Feb 2024
In the U.S., a nation built on the enslavement and exploitation of humans, the system of slavery cannot be destroyed. It has merely changed from one form to another.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Abolishing Prison Slavery in the U.S.
02 Feb 2024
We discuss this the 13th Amendment with Max Parthas, National Campaign Coordinator and Founding Member of the Abolish Slavery National Network. He joins us from South Carolina to discuss his…
The Voice
Caribbean Activists Turn Up the Volume for Reparations
21 Sep 2022
The death of the queen is a reminder of the debt that Britain owes to Caribbean nations. Reparations are owed for slavery.