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Jon Jeter
Ready For the Revolution But Unable to See It: Blacks Recognize Racism But Lack Game Plan to Fight It
30 Apr 2025
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…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
25 Apr 2025
Alec Karakatsanis is an attorney with a long history of work as a public defender.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Stop the NYPD and Federal Raids
25 Apr 2025
Stop the Raids NYC is hosting an event in Brooklyn, New York, Saturday,
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Introduction: The Black Messiah, Albert B. Cleage, Jr., 1968
23 Apr 2025
“Jesus was a revolutionary black leader, a Zealot, seeking to lead a Black Nation to freedom.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Erik S. McDuffie’s Book, “The Second Battle for Africa”
23 Apr 2025
This week’s featured author is Erik S. McDuffie. McDuffie is Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His book is The Second Battle…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Poem For The Great Dr. Freeman (My ’19 Lemlich Nominee)
23 Apr 2025
"Poem For The Great Dr. Freeman (My ’19 Lemlich Nominee)" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Racism and the American University, Addison Gayle, Jr., 1971
16 Apr 2025
The appraisal of American universities as liberal institutions remains one of the purest examples of the elasticity of the English language.
Too Black , Rasul Mowatt
Bootleg Rehab: Still Laundering Black Rage
16 Apr 2025
DEI isn’t dead—it was never alive to begin with. A corporate pacification project dressed as progress, it launders Black rage into diversity statements while police budgets grow and material…
NBROC Coordinating Committee
Grounding Our Purpose: The Second National Black Radical Organizing Conference
16 Apr 2025
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…
Lexis-Olivier Ray
Black People Make Up 75% Of All Weed Arrests At LAX, Data Shows
16 Apr 2025
Roughly a third of the people who were arrested by LAPD in the city of Los Angeles for cannabis-related offenses since 2020 were arrested in Westchester. Nearly all of those arrests happened at Los…