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1 week ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |Mark Fancher |Roberto Sirvent |Jon Jeter
The Second National Black Radical Organizing Conference (NBROC) continues the legacy of Black radical resistance, uniting organizers to confront imperialism, capitalism, and white supremacy while building an independent path toward collective liberation. The gathering in Indiana - 53 years after the historic National Black Political Convention - reaffirms that our freedom lies not in reforming a broken system but in dismantling it and forging a revolutionary future.
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3 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Maya Richard-Craven |Roberto Sirvent
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Judith Weisenfeld. Weisenfeld is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. Her book is Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake. Roberto Sirvent: How can your book help BAR readers understand the current political and social climate?
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3 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Roberto Sirvent
Black students are losing classrooms, homes, and support systems after climate events. Originally published in Capitol B News. Adrinda Kelly watched from New York as Hurricane Katrina swallowed her hometown of New Orleans in 2005. Floodwaters rose, neighborhoods disappeared underwater, and she felt a familiar ache deepen.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Mark Fancher |Jon Jeter |Dylan Rodríguez |Roberto Sirvent
Toni Morrison on art, archives, knowledge, and the long history of white supremacy in the United States. As the United States furiously reaffirms itself as a white supremacist homeland, and all signs and symbols of non-white existence are expunged from history and purged from public life, novelist Toni Morrison’s lecture, “A Humanist View,” takes on a particular urgency and clarity.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Mark Fancher |Austin Cole |Margaret Kimberley |Roberto Sirvent
The ADOS and FBA (American Descendants of Slavery and Foundational Black Americans) movements have gained influence by advocating for reparations exclusively for Black Americans descended from U.S. slavery while promoting a divisive, anti-immigrant, and reactionary ideology. ADOS/FBA’s ideology is a dangerous diversion from true liberation. To achieve justice, Black radicals must reject this reactionary faction and reaffirm anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and Pan-African solidarity.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Jacqueline Luqman |Raymond Turner |Jon Jeter |Roberto Sirvent
So-called Foundational Black Americans may tell themselves they are noble protectors of ancestral legacy, but they are, in fact, little different from European groups in this country that conceptualized white privilege and tried to reserve it for exclusive groups. Originally published in LA Progressive. hings have gone all wrong. It was supposed to have been a repetition of the Biblical Passover.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Roberto Sirvent
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Atiya Husain. Husain is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College. Her book is No God but Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Roberto Sirvent
Mary McLeod Bethune’s testament to a good, ethical life. Mary McLeod Bethune’s “My Last Will and Testament” is a moving, achingly beautiful coda to a life well lived. As she approached 80 years old and recognizing that her death was near, Bethune reflected on her life.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |David Hundeyin |Roberto Sirvent |Alberto Toscano
James Baldwin on white madness–and Black resistance. In An Open Letter to My Sister Angela Y. Davis, James Baldwin gave us a haunting vision of fascism’s creeping death march. Published in the New York Review of Books in January 1971, the letter was written on November 18, 1970, about a month after Davis was captured by the FBI. The letter was Baldwin’s disturbed response, in part, to a photograph of Davis on the cover of Newsweek following her capture: she appeared handcuffed and manacled, chained.
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1 month ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Austin Cole |Ingrid Banks |Jaime A. Alves |Roberto Sirvent
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney, Jr.Dr. Hamlin is Royce Family Associate Professor of Teaching Excellence in Africana Studies & History at Brown University. Dr. McKinney, Jr. is chair of Africana studies and associate professor of history at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. Their book is From Rights to Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle.
