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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Biden and Trump Not That Different on the Issues
15 Dec 2020
President-elect Joe Biden “is not even giving a nod and a wink” to Medicare for All, despite its huge popularity among both Democrats and Republicans, said Dr Margaret Flowers, dir
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Boxing is a Window on US Race and Class Pathologies
15 Dec 2020
Black excellence in boxing can be traced to the “battle royals” that pitted slaves against each other for the entertainment of white masters, said University of Houston professor Gerald Hor
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Black Demands for the Biden Administration
10 Dec 2020
The Black Misleaders give the impression of exercising black empowerment when they are in fact only promoting themselves.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Cuomo Wins an Emmy for Being an Effective Weapon of Corporate Power
10 Dec 2020
While liberals celebrate Biden and Cuomo at brunch, the situation for the growing class of “have-nots” in the U.S. and around the world becomes more grim.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Notes Toward a National Defense Organization Against Racism and Political Repression, 1973
10 Dec 2020
Few records survive of the birth of a national anti-police repression organization formed by supporters of Angela Davis – but government spies preserved Davis’ speech.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Coronavirus Protocols as Tools of Repression
10 Dec 2020
Covid-19 is a convenient excuse for governments to ban or restrict activities they don’t like.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
$election postmortem
10 Dec 2020
It was the Latino Vote… No, it was the Latinix vote! No, it was Black Women! No, it was LGBTQ+ Black Women! No, it was Red State Soccer Moms!
Flint Taylor
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: A Short People’s History
10 Dec 2020
Hampton's body was dragged from the bloodstained bed to the hallway floor, to be displayed as the raiders' trophy “He's good and dead now."
Denise Lynn
Silencing Black Radicalism Since the Cold War
10 Dec 2020
Anti-communists used the full powers of the state to silence, imprison, or deport radical Black activists.
Don Fitz
What Does the Esau Revolution Despise?
10 Dec 2020
The Democrats’ relentless suppression of the Green Party affected the mind-set of more voters than all the right-wing howls put together.