| Black Agenda Report

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Mukul Sharma
07 Jun 2023
This week’s featured scholar is Mukul Sharma. Sharma is Professor of Environmental Studies at Ashoka University. His article is “Caste, Environment Justice, and Intersectionality of Dalit–Black Ecologies.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Another June 1
07 Jun 2023
Another June 1
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Is the UAE in Control in Somalia?
07 Jun 2023
Many Somalis think that the United Arab Emirates is now as much or more in charge in Somalia than the Somali government.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
COMMENT: Story-telling in an African Village, Ama Ata Aidoo, 1966
07 Jun 2023
Remembering the anti-imperialist and Pan-Africanist politics of the late Ghanaian writer, Ama Ata Aidoo.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
State Repression Targets the Stop Cop City Movement
07 Jun 2023
Cop City is an effort to ensure that state violence will bring the most draconian methods to bear against Black people. State violence is also being used proactively, in an effort to end opposition to this creation of Atlanta's white ruling class and their errand boys and girls who ostensibly…
Friends of the Congo
Anniversary Report: Six-Day War, Democratic Republic of The Congo
14 Jun 2023
Uganda and Rwanda began their incursions into the Democratic Republic of Congo 23 years ago. Full reparations to victims have not been paid and the two invader countries still act with impunity.
Tanupriya Singh
A Deadly Fight: Senegal’s Political Crisis Escalates After Repression of Protesters
14 Jun 2023
At least 16 people were killed after protests broke out in Senegal following the sentencing of leading opposition figure Ousmane Sonko to two years in prison. Mass public unrest has grown against President Macky Sall and the continued neo-colonial exploitation of the country by France.
Gustavo Bolívar
Colombia: The Friends and Enemies of Petro
14 Jun 2023
Colombia's new president is popular with the people but beset by enemies. It is a common situation where the popular vote is not indicative of who really holds political power.
Jean Saint-Vil
What is Urgent and Necessary in Haiti
14 Jun 2023
The author asks CARICOM member states to support the Haitian people in their struggle for sovereignty.
Clau O'Brien Moscoso
New Wave of Protests Begin as US Troops Enter Perú to Train Armed Forces
14 Jun 2023
A Third Takeover of Lima is the next action planned in the mobilization against the coup government in Peru.