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åEDITORIAL: Racism, Fascism, and Political Murder: Kathleen Cleaver, September 14, 1968
15 Apr 2021
Panthers and their radical Black contemporaries are now the stuff of Hollywood -- but with more leather jacket than political substance. The Review Team offers some historical correctives.
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PAMPHLET: Africa Fights for Freedom, Alpheaus Hunton, 1950
07 Apr 2021
A pamphlet written 70 years ago by an exiled Black American communist reveals an African continent seething to break free from European colonization.
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REVIEW: On Anarchism and the Black Revolution
31 Mar 2021
“The principles of anarchism appear to be growing in some corners of the Black community,” due largely to the work and thought of former Black Panther Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin.
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MANIFESTO: African LGBTI Manifesto/Declaration, April 18, 2010
10 Mar 2021
The manifesto claimed the LGBTI struggle as an indelible and urgent part of the history of Pan-Africanism and the ongoing movements for Black sovereignty.
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MANIFESTO: “The Crime of Being Born Black on American Soil”: Claudia Jones’s Statement Before Being Sentenced, February 2, 1953
03 Mar 2021
Claudia Jones’s arrests and eventual deportation were part of the expansion of the US government’s Cold War attacks on immigrants—Black immigrants included—who were affiliated with the Communist Pa
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MANIFESTO: Ten Commandments of Democracy in Haiti, September 25, 1991
17 Feb 2021
Almost 20 years ago, the president elected by Haiti’s poor majority gave the United Nations a lesson in the meaning of democracy for historically oppressed peoples.
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Black Citizenship Forum: Black Citizenship and the Problem of “Coloniality”
10 Feb 2021
Blacks subject as a stateless and rightless provider of cheap labor in a globalized and racial capitalist economy.
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MANIFESTO: Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World, August, 1920
03 Feb 2021
As part of our mission to supplement BAR’s historical perspective, the Black Agenda Review examines the Harlem meeting and manifesto that shook the Black world, a century ago.
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Black Citizenship Forum: Pan-Africanism and the Pitfalls of National Citizenship
27 Jan 2021
The Review interrogates the thought of academic and activist Layla Brown-Vincent, who says she was “reared and steeped in Pan-Africanist thought and organization” from birth.
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Return to the Source: Democracy is Dead
20 Jan 2021
By what stretch of the imagination can the US be a democracy when ordinary citizens have virtually no influence over what their government does?