| Black Agenda Report

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Walidah Imarisha’s “Angels With Dirty Faces“and Vincent Lloyd’s “Religion of the Field Negro”
14 Nov 2018
Our authors explore the evils of incarceration and the promise of Black liberation theology.
Barbara Foley
Intersectionality: A Marxist Critique
14 Nov 2018
The author argues that “intersectionality is less valuable as an explanatory framework than as an ideological reflection of the times.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
On Rage, Reading Books, and Other Necessities for the “Millennial Generation”
07 Nov 2018
Young people in the US are increasingly open to socialism and radical ideas, but less likely to study the science of revolutionary change.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Et tu, RT? Amplifying Western Disinformation on Rwanda
07 Nov 2018
The Great Lie about the Rwandan bloodbath opened the door to a far larger genocide in Congo and justified US military interventions all over the planet.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tracy Sharpley-Whiting’s “Bricktop’s Paris“ and Magdalena J. Zaborowska’s “Me and My House”
07 Nov 2018
Our authors explore the Black experience in Europe, past and present, and mine the deep reservoir of wisdom that is James Baldwin.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Bernie and Barbara: What’s Wrong With This Picture?
31 Oct 2018
How can Bernie Sanders or Barbara Lee keep any of their social democratic promises while scapegoating Russia?
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: American Terror Is Not New
30 Oct 2018
The casual, endemic and racist violence that characterizes American behavior at home and abroad cannot be laid at the doorstep of the current buffoon in the White House.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Chandra Bhimull’s “Empire in the Air“and Kyle Mays’ “Hip Hop Beats”
30 Oct 2018
An author disentangles transatlantic slavery and transatlantic flight; another writer imagines a world where Black and Indigenous Lives actually matter.
Philadelphia Saturday Free School
The Black Worker in Our Time: An Indispensable Force for Peace and Justice
30 Oct 2018
In this moment of imperialist crisis white working people must accept unity with and leadership by black workers.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Shadaab Rahemtulla’s “Qur'an of the Oppressed”
17 Oct 2018
A central aim of liberation theology, in both the Christian and Muslim faiths, is to wrestle theology away from the elites and their privileged pontification