African America

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Introduction to Glen Ford's "The Black Agenda"
27 Jul 2022
The compilation of Glen Ford's work, "The Black Agenda" was published by OR Books posthumously. In the introduction he recounted his life story and career.
Alec Karakatsanis
Police Departments Spend Vast Sums of Money Creating “Copaganda”
27 Jul 2022
US police departments spend tens of millions of dollars every year to manipulate the news, flooding the discourse with “copaganda.” These aggressive tactics give the public a distorted view of what…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Mr. Magoo, what’s new? “Oh, say, can you see?”
22 Jul 2022
I. Didn’t Lynne say something like, “The law’s What they say it is…today…” (????????????????) Didn’t Lenin say something like, “The state is an
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Steven W. Thrasher’s Book, “The Viral Underclass”
20 Jul 2022
This week’s featured author is Steven W. Thrasher. Thrasher holds the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg chair at Northwestern University’s Medill School, the first journalism professorship in the world…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Child Welfare System Damages Black Children and Families
15 Jul 2022
Joyce McMillan is the founder of JMacForFamilies, which works to abolish the current punitive child welfare system and to strengthen the systems of supports that keep families and communities…
Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley
The Left Lens: Jayland Walker and COINTELPRO's Ongoing Legacy
15 Jul 2022
Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley discuss recent BAR articles, Protesting for Jayland Walker and
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
FBI Still Targets Black People for Entrapment
13 Jul 2022
The COINTELPRO era never ended, as Black people bear the brunt of FBI surveillance. The war on terror gave a new rationale for using paid informants to entrap Black people. Romeo Langhorne is the…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: Down with the Bestial Atrocities Against Blacks in Buffalo, New York! 1980
13 Jul 2022
As a 1980 editorial in the Buffalo Worker’s Voice recounts, the recent whitesupremacist violence in Buffalo has a long history. This history should not be forgotten.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum “Sports and Black Struggle”: Interview with Courtney M. Cox
13 Jul 2022
This week, we interview Courtney Cox. Dr. Courtney M. Cox is an assistant professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. Her research examines issues…
The Mapping Project
Prison in Plain Sight: Visualizing the Economic Veins That Fuel Our Carceral Reality
13 Jul 2022
The prison system links corporate interests, the military industrial complex, and policing into a web of oppression impacting more than 2 million people in this country. The Mapping Project reports…