African America

Jon Jeter
Clutching at Pearls, the World’s Largest Criminal Enterprise, the US, Cracks Down on Crime
20 Aug 2025
The latest liberal discourse on crime offers useless panaceas to analyze the causes of violence and pathologizes communities while absolving the state of its role in creating these conditions.
Pan-African Community Action PACA
The Federal Takeover of D.C.: The Colonial Occupation Disguised as “Public Safety”
20 Aug 2025
The deployment of federal agents and National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. is a militarized occupation disguised as a public safety initiative. This move weaponizes the state's power to…
Frances Madeson
“Defeatism Has No Place” in Liberation Struggles, Frantz Fanon’s Daughter Says
20 Aug 2025
For Black August, Mireille Fanon Mendès-France sets the record straight on her father’s revolutionary legacy.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Attica Then and Now! Acklyn R. Lynch, 1971
06 Aug 2025
“The men at Attica were prepared to die for the democratic principles not only enunciated in their Manifesto, but experienced in their revolt…”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Karen Antoinette Scott’s Book, SACKRED Birth
06 Aug 2025
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Karen Antoinette Scott.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio August 1, 2025
01 Aug 2025
In this week’s segment, we discuss football, why it isn’t popular in the US, how it can be, sports as consciousness raising, and the nation of Brazil and its Black population. But first, we have the…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins
01 Aug 2025
Mary Frances Phillips is an associate professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. She joins us from Detroit to discuss her biography of Ericka Huggins, "…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: Centenary of Negro Emancipation, Marcus Garvey, 1934
30 Jul 2025
“When the American and West Indian Negroes get to know their history…they will have a greater love for the African through whom they have sprung.”
Jon Jeter
Betraying Howard Zinn: How the White Left Uses Scholarship to Undermine Black/White Solidarity
30 Jul 2025
Howard Zinn showed that scholarship can fuel solidarity and liberation—but now, some white leftists use it to undermine Black struggle.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Breaking it Down with Barron: The New York City Mayoral Race, New York City Politics, and a Primer for an Independent Black Revolutionary Polity
30 Jul 2025
Charles Barron dissects the NYC mayoral race, Mamdani’s struggles with Black voters, and why independent Black radical politics are essential.