| Black Agenda Report

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: A Black Man’s Protest, Lamine Senghor, 1927
14 May 2025
“It is a lie that slavery has been abolished. It has only been modernized.”
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.
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COMMENTARY: The American Dollar, Marcus Garvey, 1934
30 Apr 2025
“This is not high-way robbery; it can be better called international burglary.”
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Introduction: The Black Messiah, Albert B. Cleage, Jr., 1968
23 Apr 2025
“Jesus was a revolutionary black leader, a Zealot, seeking to lead a Black Nation to freedom.”
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ESSAY: Racism and the American University, Addison Gayle, Jr., 1971
16 Apr 2025
The appraisal of American universities as liberal institutions remains one of the purest examples of the elasticity of the English language.
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SPEECH: White Supremacy in U.S. History, Theodore W. Allen April 28, 1973
09 Apr 2025
“The principal aspect of United States capitalist society is not merely bourgeois domination but bourgeois white supremacist domination.”
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ESSAY: Armed Struggle: Natural Response to Fascism, Martin Sostre, 1975
02 Apr 2025
“The question now is: What are we going to do about this murderous fascism?”
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LECTURE: A Humanist View, Toni Morrison, 1975
26 Mar 2025
Toni Morrison on art, archives, knowledge, and the long history of white supremacy in the United States.
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POEM: Bocas: A Daughter's Geography, Ntozake Shange, 1983
19 Mar 2025
Ntozake Shange reminds us that whether we come from Haiti, Savannah, Luanda, or Palestine, we may not speak the same language, but “we fight the same old men.”
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Essay: The Caucasian Problem, George S. Schuyler, 1944
12 Mar 2025
“While we may dismiss the concept of a Negro problem as a valuable dividend-paying fiction, it is clear that the Caucasian problem is painfully real and practically universal.”