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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: China and Africa, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1959
22 Sep 2021
In 1959, on his ninety-first birthday, W. E. B. Du Bois spoke to an audience at Peking University on “China and Africa.” Du Bois’ words and warnings on colonialism, capitalism, and the self-determination of the “darker races” are as relevant to the Black world now as they were during the Cold War.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Biden Threatens Sweeping Sanctions on Ethiopia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Responds
22 Sep 2021
The U.S. is once again attempting to overthrow a legitimate head of state in Africa, this time in Ethiopia, where they want to put their old puppet, the TPLF, or a new one, in power.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Racism Denies Common Prosperity in the United States
22 Sep 2021
China's commitment to enhancing social cohesion is an example of what a society should strive to do. But racism endemic to the U.S. prevents it from taking the same steps.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Covid Funds Spent on Police and Prisons
22 Sep 2021
Systemic racism and weak movement politics allow states and cities to spend relief funds on police and jails.
Arnold August
CLACS: A Significant Step Toward the Inevitable Replacement of the OAS
26 Sep 2021
The recent Community of Latin American and Caribbean (CLACS) meeting was a continuation of the effort to end U.S. domination through its Organization of American States apparatus.
Lola Olufemi
Claudia Jones: A Life in Search of the Communist Horizon
26 Sep 2021
This is the foreword to the new edition of Marika Sherwood’s Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile (Lawrence Wishart, 2021).
Sarah Turberville, Chris Rickerd
Abusing Migrants While on Horseback Fits With the Border Patrol's Long History of Brutality
26 Sep 2021
Such cruelty warrants a congressional investigation—not only into the specific actions in Del Rio but, more importantly, into systemic problems within Border Patrol that allow such abusive conduct with seeming impunity.
Mara Kardas-Nelson, Ngozi Cole, Sean Campbell
A Racial Reckoning at Doctors Without Borders
26 Sep 2021
The Nobel Peace Prize winning organization Doctors Without Borders has been accused of racist policies which privilege so-called ex-pat workers from North America and Europe over local medical staff working in the global south. Local workers speak of mistreatment, wage discrimination, and…
Black Alliance For Peace
The Resignation of Biden’s Special Envoy to Haiti Once Again Exposes the White Supremacist Foundations of U.S. Foreign Policy, No Matter Which Party Is In Charge
26 Sep 2021
The blatant racism of Biden's Haiti policies—in both controlling Haiti’s governance and the illegal and inhuman abuses of Haitian asylum seekers—was too much even for his special envoy to Haiti.
Mireille Fanon Mendes France
20 years After Durban: Africans and Afro-Descendants Colonized or Emancipated?
26 Sep 2021
The 20th anniversary of the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) is an opportunity to analyze the state of African descended people. Reparations for centuries of crimes against humanity must still be paid.