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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
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?
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Uganda: Bobi Wine Rocks the Vote but Museveni Claims Victory
20 Jan 2021
Ugandan pop star turned presidential candidate Bobi Wine is not Sankara or Lumumba, but he has risked his life to mount a fierce challenge to the 36-year dictatorship of President Yoweri Museveni.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
mashing the state— Kristallnacht-style
20 Jan 2021
Kristallnacht came casting lead ballots, overthrowing Black elected officials and Massacring those that VOTED for them— Wilmington, North Carolina, 1898;
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Casualties of the Old Cold War Should Inform Opposition to U.S.’ New Cold War against China
20 Jan 2021
The US share of the global economy has shrunk dramatically since 1960. O
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: L.H. Stallings’ “Funk the Erotic”
20 Jan 2021
We need a different relationship to and with time and temporality to imagine new worlds and to begin bringing those new worlds into being.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: John Murillo III’s “Impossible Stories”
20 Jan 2021
The author dissects Black time and space in order to better understand the nature and mechanics of Black life and death lived in the antiblack world.
Kehinde Alonge
End SARS and Fanon’s Mission
20 Jan 2021
What is the direction of the mission that falls upon each generation of young Nigerians?
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Khary Polk’s “Contagions of Empire”
06 Jan 2021
Black and brown volunteers were considered both “essential” and “dispensable” in past disease-ridden US conflicts, just as they are in today’s Covid crisis.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Agenda 2021: Resist the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination
16 Dec 2020
It is critical that the Black left understand U.S./European imperialism as a race project, and organize accordingly.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The Planet’s Problem from Hell: Samantha Power
16 Dec 2020
As head of USAID, Power will be in perfect position to wield foreign aid as a cudgel for beating foreign heads of state till they bow to US empire, writes Ann Garrison.