African America

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: Reporting the News in the Heartland of Empire, William Worthy, 1970
21 Jan 2026
“From journalists…the greatest need of the moment is sound analysis of the U.S. empire and the focusing of the news spotlight on its far-flung sinister operations.”
Dr. Gerald Horne , Anthony Ballas
Shadowboxing with Ghosts: Whiteness, Jake Paul, and the Crisis of U.S. Imperialism
21 Jan 2026
Jake Paul’s ascent in boxing is a cultural symptom of an empire in decline. It reflects a country that now prefers empty spectacle over real strength, both in sports and on the world stage.
Anthony Rogers-Wright
Preserving the Legacy of Martin Luther King and The Black Radical Tradition Requires Saving Both from the Congressional Black Caucus More than from white moderates and white supremacists (Or, I said what I said)
21 Jan 2026
Preserving the Black Radical Tradition demands struggle not only against white supremacists, but also against the co-opted Black political class who actively support the very evils Dr. King named.
Mark P. Fancher
A Role for Africans In Exile: “Revolutionaries at Large”
21 Jan 2026
Africans in the U.S. must weaponize their position and sabotage imperial projects from the inside. Black revolutionaries must modify traditional strategy.
Monique Welch-Rutherford
This Texas County Is the Deadliest Place in the U.S. for Black Mothers to Give Birth
21 Jan 2026
Harris County, home to a world-renowned medical center, holds the worst maternal death rate for Black women in the entire nation. This staggering statistic represents a systemic failure that subjects…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Autocracy in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Eric D. Walrond, 1923
14 Jan 2026
“[T]he United States on March 31, 1917,...acquired the three Danish West Indian isles…subsequently rechristened “the Virgin Islands of the United States.”
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Domestic Global South and The Need for Climate and Environmental Internationalism
14 Jan 2026
True environmental liberation demands south-to-south solidarity against racial capitalism, linking the struggles of oppressed communities from Palestine to Louisiana under a shared framework of…
Pan-African Community Action
Occupation Forces Upheld by Federal Judiciary Demonstrates DC’s Need for Community Control
14 Jan 2026
While politicians debate legal procedure, residents of Washington DC live under a sustained military deployment, exposing how both federal and local power collaborate against them.
Hanna Eid
Hyperscale Data Centers and the Production of Waste
14 Jan 2026
The A.I. revolution has a hidden cost. Its massive data centers create huge amounts of waste and decimate labor and humanity.
Adam Mahoney
After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
14 Jan 2026
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.