Roberto Sirvent

1 week ago | blackagendareport.com | Alina Selyukh |Ann Garrison |Terri Frick |Roberto Sirvent

Minnesota’s progressive myth shatters as its racial gaps in schools, housing, and bloodshed eclipse even Deep South states. Known alternately as the “Happy Warrior” and the “Liberal Lion,” Minnesota’s U.S. Senator, Hubert H. Humphrey, often scolded his colleagues for failing to address racial discrimination against African Americans in the final days of the Jim Crow era of the 1950s and 60s, often triggering southern Democrats, in particular, to bristle.

3 weeks ago | blackagendareport.com | Anthony Rogers-Wright |Roberto Sirvent |Walter Johnson

Liberal climate movements keep bargaining with capitalism, but the Black Radical Tradition knows survival requires its destruction. Until environmentalism adopts abolition and anti-capitalism, it will be nothing more than running on a hamster wheel on a burning planet. This past weekend, over 500 Black folk and their comrades descended upon Indianapolis, Indiana, for the Second National Black Radical Organizing Conference (NBROC).

3 weeks ago | blackagendareport.com | Ann Garrison |Terri Frick |Margaret Kimberley |Roberto Sirvent

Looted African skulls come home after a century in German labs, exposing colonialism's history of dehumanizing race science. Their reburial must spark reckoning, not just closure. Originally published in NPR. Marie Louise was a lifelong New Orleanian who died of malnutrition. Hiram Malone came to Louisiana from Alabama, hospitalized at 21 with a fatal case of pneumonia. Samuel Prince was a 40-year-old cook who succumbed to tuberculosis.

1 month ago | blackagendareport.com | Djibo Sobukwe |Roberto Sirvent |Abayomi Azikiwe |Austin Cole

This piece was originally published in Black Agenda Report in 2017. Malcolm X understood that “oppressed peoples must commit themselves to radical political struggle in order to advance a dignified approach to human rights.” What’s needed is a bottom-up mass movement for People(s)-Centered Human Rights, a “political project in the service of the oppressed” that “names the enemies of freedom: the Western white supremacist, colonial/capitalist patriarchy.” Social revolution is the only solution.

1 month ago | blackagendareport.com | Raymond Turner |Roberto Sirvent

Eric Priestley, in the 1990s, at the “Grotto Fountain (of democratic principles)” in the Maguire Gardens at L.A.’s Richard J. Riordan Central Library. (Courtesy of Erin Aubry Kaplan) RIP: Rise In Poetics to Ra—Sail on to Saturn ... Greet The Ancestors after oneMasterful job on this mean ol'Planet ... RIP: Rise In Poetics—Dear Brother Poet Ojenke ... © 2025. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.