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MANIFESTO: The Dakar Declaration 2022
11 Jan 2023
The Dakar Declaration 2022 calls for Pan-African, South-South cooperation and global solidarity against global economic and political crisis and Africa’s adverse incorporation into the…
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DECLARATION: The Commander in Chief, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, to the People of Hayti, Gonaives, January 1, 1804
04 Jan 2023
A round-up of The Black Agenda Review’s posts from 2022 – and a reprint of Haiti’s January 1, 1804 declaration of independence.
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ESSAY: Negroes Speak of War, Langston Hughes, 1933
14 Dec 2022
What benefits do Black folk get by endorsing or participating in the white man’s war? Revisiting an anti-war statement by Langston Hughes.
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MANIFESTO: The Anti-Racist Manifesto of Colectiva Feminista en Construcción, 2020
21 Sep 2022
The Anti-Racist Manifesto of Puerto Rico’s Colectiva Feminista en Construcción (La Cole) outlines a radical solution to capitalism, colonialism, and climate change.
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ESSAY: Racial Genocide: The Case of the Martinsville Seven, William L. Patterson, 1969
24 Aug 2022
For Black August, read William L. Patterson on racial genocide, the law, and the Martinsville Seven.
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ESSAY: Negro Revolutionary Hero: Toussaint L'Ouverture, Cyril Briggs, 1929
20 Jul 2022
In 1929, Black radical Cyril Briggs penned an essay on Toussaint L’Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution. For Briggs, both provided inspiration for the fight against the U.S. occupation of Haiti. We…
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SPEECH: Revolution: It’s Not Easy, Quick, or Pretty, Pat Parker, 1980
29 Jun 2022
A 1980 speech by Black lesbian poet and activist Pat Parker provides a feminist, anti-imperialist blueprint for the present.
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EXCERPT: On the Pan-American Congress, José Martí, 1889
15 Jun 2022
José Martí’s account of the 1889 Pan-American Congress offers lessons for last week’s failed Summit of the Americas.
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An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II, King of the Belgians and Sovereign of the Independent State of Congo, 1890
01 Sep 2021
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DOCUMENT: The Rise of Black Power in the West Indies: Walter Rodney, 1969
23 Jul 2021
Rodney succinctly demonstrates how capitalism and colonialism, and nationalism and imperialism, function to create a rigid hierarchy by which color is fused with class to keep the Black majorities