Editors, The Black Agenda Review

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
POEM: Reflections after the June 12th March of Disarmament, Sonia Sanchez, 1982
18 Dec 2024
“I have come to you tonite not just for the stoppage of nuclear proliferation, nuclear plants, nuclear bombs, nuclear waste, but to stop the proliferation of nuclear minds….”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
INTERVIEW: France and the Colonial Roots of Black Citizenship, Maboula Soumohoro, 2021
11 Dec 2024
“How do you fight racism in a land where racism obviously exists, the far right is ascendent, but race is not accepted as a category?”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Can Negroes Afford To Be Pacifists? Robert F. Williams, 1959
04 Dec 2024
“Non-violence is a very potent weapon when the opponent is civilised, but non-violence is no match or repellent for a sadist.”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: The Prospects for Fascism, Manning Marable, 1981
27 Nov 2024
Manning Marable reminds us that US fascism is institutional and normalized. The parallels of his 1981 essay with the present are obvious – US fascism remains ascendant.
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: Why I Won’t Vote, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1956
06 Nov 2024
“I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no "two evils" exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: Everybody is Quiet But the Nationalist Party, Pedro Albizu Campos, 1950
30 Oct 2024
Hardly a “floating island of garbage,” Puerto Rico remains a colony, treated like trash by the US. Read this ledger of the cost and crimes of the US colonial project.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
POEM: The Earth Is Closing On Us, Mahmoud Darwish, 1995
23 Oct 2024
“Where should we go after the last frontiers? Where should the birds fly after the last sky?”
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.”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Rethinking Race, Rethinking Class, Charles W. Mills, 1995
09 Oct 2024
“We need to give greater theoretical centrality to the fact that European conquest of the world has established what is in effect: global white supremacy.”