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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Document: Notes of a Prison Collective: Marion Political Collective, 1976
25 Aug 2021
In 1976, prisoners in the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois wrote a collective document explaining the status of the prisoner within the prison—and the role of the prison in society at large.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Gentrification and the End of Black Communities
25 Aug 2021
Census data show that gentrification is accelerating Black displacement. Brooklyn, New York is the epicenter of gentrification, the displacement of Black people from cities in this country. Recently released census data shows that neighborhoods like Bedford-Stuyvesant, which was nearly all Black…
Black Alliance For Peace
Afghanistan is No 'Graveyard' for U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination
25 Aug 2021
Black Alliance for Peace analysis on Afghanistan, Haiti and the U.S. effort to maintain hegemony. Some have asserted the U.S. empire has reached its historic endpoint because of its defeat in Afghanistan. However, that call is as premature as political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s proclamation that…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Somalia, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
25 Aug 2021
Cold War and War on Terror destabilize Somalia and cause great suffering for its people. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, aka Farmaajo, is currently the Interim President of Somalia, pending parliamentary elections that have been repeatedly postponed since February. He first became the president of…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Ol’ Red Jack Hirschman: He Weaponized Words
01 Sep 2021
Ol’ Red Jack Hirschman: He Weaponized Words “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” —Percy Bysshe Shelly I. Death comes in 3s they say. So maybe 6 months of San Francisco Poet Laureates Ferlinghetti, Mirikitani, Hirschman checking out counts as three??? I can’t quote Jack—except…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Robin J. Hayes’ “Love for Liberation”
01 Sep 2021
Love for Liberation examines the links of international solidarity in the Black power movement. BAR Book Forum: Robin J. Hayes’ “Love for Liberation” Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
Patrick Anderson
Realism, Idealism, and the Deradicalization of Critical Race Theory—Rethinking the CRT Debate, Part 2
01 Sep 2021
Patrick Anderson continues his examination of Critical Race Theory. Realism, Idealism, and the Deradicalization of Critical Race Theory—Rethinking the CRT Debate, Part 2
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
We Can No Longer Avoid Raising the Contradiction of the Western Imperial Left’s Collaboration with the Western Bourgeoisie
01 Sep 2021
As the Western left has become more aligned with their imperialist bourgeoisie in the destabilization of the Global South, the radical Black tradition provides a clear approach to “turn imperialist wars into wars against imperialism."
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II, King of the Belgians and Sovereign of the Independent State of Congo, 1890
01 Sep 2021
George Washington Williams published an open letter to King Leopold that documented atrocities committed in the Congo, shattering the benign image of Leopold’s private colony and sparking an international protest against his rule.
Kambale Musavuli
AFRICOM in the Congo
01 Sep 2021
Its immeasurable mineral resources has made the Congo the victim of a long history of Western greed, plunder, and genocidal violence. AFRICOM’s recent arrival in the Congo -- ostensibly to fight ISIS -- will only extend this history; we can be sure these military forces will do more to support the…