| Black Agenda Report

Karen Cook Bell
Escape as Resistance for Enslaved Women During the American Revolution
08 Jul 2021
Motherhood often served as a catalyst for attempted escape during the American Revolution.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Terrible Origins of July 4th
01 Jul 2021
The British crown and the colonists were both determined to seize lands from native peoples and to continue enslavement.”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: Internal Security Act of 1950
01 Jul 2021
The terms of the McCarran Act strategy offer a wide catchment that has the potential to ensnare any progressive or radical movement.
Keeanga-Yamahia Taylor
The Unknown History of Black Uprisings
01 Jul 2021
Historian Elizabeth Hinton’s book reveals that, in the late sixties and early seventies, there were hundreds of local rebellions against white violence and racial inequality.
Andrew Lanham
American Racism in the Time of Plagues
01 Jul 2021
The U.S Has a long history of blaming Asian immigrants for outbreaks of disease, and every time, democracy and public health suffer.
Scott Cooper
JuneTeenth: A Marxist Perspective
01 Jul 2021
As long as capitalism exists, the capitalists will seek to elevate some people and denigrate others, sowing divisions to deflect attention away from a common enemy.
joshua briond
Rock-A-Bye Baby: The Anesthetizing Effects of Political Concessions
01 Jul 2021
The response to Black rebellion are all distinct types of “reforms” to politically sedate Black surplus populations and sustain white settler-capitalist hegemony.
Dr. Gerald Horne
BAR Book Forum: Gerald Horne’s Jazz and Justice
23 Jun 2021
He was stunned to ascertain that Europe was less racist toward those like himself in comparison to his homeland;
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Independent Media is Political, Too: A Defense of “State” or Publicly-Funded Media
16 Jun 2021
It is imperative for independent journalism to serve as the media arm of a movement that opposes the privatization of information and works toward the development of a public media apparatus.
Denis Chabrol
Walter Rodney’s Death Records to be Amended and Children’s Books Placed in Schools
16 Jun 2021
The martyred revolutionary’s assassination has finally been acknowledged by the Guyana state, and his works will become part of the educational curriculum.