by the Black Agenda Report team
As you can see, we made it through the first part of our transition, bringing over our two years worth of content --- over a thousand articles and nearly twelve thousand comments, minus only those for the past five days -- intact. And we came out with the week's issue. Effectively, though we have reached the door, we have yet to walk through it.
We expect to spend the next week meticulously combing our content and creating relevant indexes, building menus, incorporating feeds, creating work flows and editorial policies, squashing Drupal theme bugs, configuring our feeds and custom views, figuring out how to email notices of publication, and more.
Thanks for sticking with us. We promise to be worth the wait.
Comment here to let us know how you like or dislike the new look, and what else you think we ought to be doing. We're listening.
Black Agenda Report's late Executive Editor, Glen Ford, gave this interview a decade after Hurricane Katrina to explore how the narrative of "starting over" is being used to whitewash the forced…
In this 2015 Real News Network interview the late Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report co-founder and Executive Editor, analyzed why an article in The New Yorker marking the 10th anniversary of Hurricane…
Twenty years ago, the world witnessed more than the suffering of hurricane Katrina's victims. The United States was exposed as a failed state controlled by the cruelties of racialized capitalism.
“It’s not like New Orleans was caught off guard. This could have been prevented.”
A forgotten history of cross-racial labor solidarity in 1890s New Orleans offered a glimpse of a potential future. Its deliberate destruction set the stage for the city's modern transformation into a…
