Max Parthas

2 months ago | blackagendareport.com | Roberto Sirvent |Max Parthas

Biden’s final executive order commuted sentences for thousands, but “collateral consequences” remain a risk. Originally published in Capital B News. Michelle West waited 32 years. Convicted in 1994 of nonviolent drug offenses, she was ordered to federal prison for two life sentences, plus an additional 50 years. On Sunday, former President Joe Biden commuted her sentence, meaning she will walk away from a low-security correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, this week as a free woman.

Oct 15, 2024 | blackagendareport.com | Abayomi Azikiwe |Max Parthas |Margaret Kimberley |Frank Chapman

“The Seminoles had set a dangerous example, for if Blacks and Native Americans united everywhere in the Americas, then a genuine racial democracy might emerge.”On October 12, 1492, when the Italian navigator Christopher Columbus mistakenly made landfall in the Bahamas — on an island the Lucayan people called Guanahani — he helped set into motion two holocausts: one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, the other of the children of Africa.

Aug 27, 2024 | blackagendareport.com | Roberto Sirvent |Max Parthas |Maya Richard-Craven |Jacqueline Luqman

Remembering the terrible plight of the incarcerated during Hurricane Katrina. On August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans, Louisiana. In its aftermath, a storm surge breached the city’s levees and drainage canals flooding 70% of the city, and exposing the abhorrent, third-class status of Black people in the United States.

Aug 13, 2024 | blackagendareport.com | Max Parthas |Raymond Turner |Margaret Kimberley

In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Aisha Beliso-De Jesús.  Dr. Beliso-De Jesús is Olden Street Professor of American Studies at Princeton University. Her book is Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease. Roberto Sirvent: How can your book help BAR readers understand the current political and social climate?

Apr 16, 2024 | blackagendareport.com | Raymond Turner |Max Parthas |Maya King |Margaret Kimberley

O.J. Simpson's acquittal in one of the most infamous murder trials of the 20th century was celebrated as a symbolic win for the Black community against an oppressive system. However, O.J. was undeserving of such jubiliation. If a Black man, who denies being Black, beats the system, did Black people beat the system?