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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Capitalism and Baby Formula
25 May 2022
The baby formula shortage is not a glitch in the system. It actually exemplifies everything that goes wrong when the profit motive rules. Capitalism can't ensure a food supply or anything else that…
Safiya Charles
“It Tears You Apart Mentally and Physically”: The Health Crisis Afflicting Black Farmers
18 May 2022
Farming is a stressful occupation. Black farmers face the additional burdens of racism, debt, and displacement.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Joe Biden and the Democrats Have Nothing to Offer Organized Labor, the ALU Included
11 May 2022
The Biden administration pays lip service to the trade union movement but has done nothing to break the Democratic Party’s long tradition of betraying workers. Joe Biden's photo op with Christian…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Essay: Record of Revolts in Negro Workers’ Past: Mary Adams, May 1, 1928
04 May 2022
A May Day 1928 essay by Black communist Williana “Liana” Jones Burroughs – aka Mary Adams – recounts the history of African revolt in the Americas.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Road to Hell, Brought to You by Liberalism
04 May 2022
Elon Musk's purchase of the Twitter platform was a hotly debated topic. But neither Musk nor any other individual is the root of the world's problems. Liberalism which pretends to oppose capitalism…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Adam Bledsoe and Willie Wright
04 May 2022
This week’s featured scholars are Adam Bledsoe and Willie Wright. Bledsoe is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. Wright is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida.…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio April 8, 2022
08 Apr 2022
$30 billion for police, racism and undocumented Black immigrants, tax foreclosure crisis in Detroit
Abayomi Azikiwe
Tens of Thousands Threatened with Property Tax Foreclosures in Detroit
30 Mar 2022
March 31 has been designated as the deadline for Wayne County residents to pay back property taxes from 2019 and before despite the failure to provide adequate assistance to working and impoverished…
Saladin Muhammad
Bessemer Alabama Amazon Workers Continue Struggle to Unionize
23 Mar 2022
The mostly Black labor force at an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama will have a second opportunity to vote for unionization.
Abayomi Azikiwe
Burkina Faso Military Coup Reflects Wave of Insecurity in West Africa
02 Feb 2022