Roberto Sirvent

1 week ago | blackagendareport.com | Mark Fancher |Christina Carrega |Jon Jeter |Roberto Sirvent

In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Brittany Friedman. Friedman is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. Her book is Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. Book Summary (from the publisher):It is impossible to deny the impact of lies and white supremacy on the institutional conditions in US prisons.

2 weeks ago | blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Roberto Sirvent |Margaret Kimberley

Black communities once turned righteous fury into systemic change, but today’s outrage over slights like Shedeur Sanders’ NFL draft slide rarely sparks organized resistance. The blueprint for liberation still exists; the question is whether we will dust it off or continue to mistake viral hashtags for revolution.

2 weeks ago | blackagendareport.com | Janvieve Williams Comrie |Roberto Sirvent |Ann Garrison |Malcolm Harris

For nearly three decades, draconian 1996 immigration laws have torn families apart—jailing long-term residents over minor offenses, fast-tracking deportations of asylum seekers, and fueling the cruel machine of immigrant detention. While the U.S. reckons with the harms of mass incarceration, these lesser-known Clinton-era policies remain a brutal engine of family separation and due process violations. Originally published in Human Rights Watch.

4 weeks 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.

1 month 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?