Related Stories
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the “Scottsboro Boys,” traveled the world to advocate on their behalf.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
On the 153th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Lenin, we present Harry Haywood’s theoretical work on imperialism, capitalism, and Black self
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
A 1971 interview with the late Charlene Mitchell reminds us of both the need for Black radical struggle against capitalism, militarism, and rac
Benjamin Woods
The author makes the case that liberalism is a dead end and that socialism is the only tool for Black liberation.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
A May Day 1928 essay by Black communist Williana “Liana” Jones Burroughs – aka Mary Adams – recounts the history of African revolt in the Ameri
Lola Olufemi
This is the foreword to the new edition of Marika Sherwood’s Claudia Jones: A Life
Denise Lynn
Anti-communists used the full powers of the state to silence, imprison, or deport radical Black activists.
Robert Greene II
Alabama Communists helped lay the foundation for the organized civil rights movement that emerged in the late 1940s and early ’50s.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
Some of the best leaders of black working class people were communist or worked alongside communists.
More Stories
- Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior ColumnistThe U.S. is careening towards economic and military disaster, a moment when the Black radical tradition is missing but badly needed.
- Editors, The Black Agenda Review“We salute all peoples who are fighting/We honor all those who have died/For the cause of freedom.”
- Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and ContributorThis lecture was delivered on February 3, 2026, at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada) for the monthly series “Black History and the Project of Black Studies.”
- Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing EditorDan Kovalik and Jeremy Kuzmarov’s Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change was published on September 1, 2025. What can it teach us now that the empire has pulled the trigger on three more nations…
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence"Everything they touch turns to rubble" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.