| Black Agenda Report

Patrick D. Anderson
The Conspicuous Absence of Derrick Bell—Rethinking the CRT Debate, Part 1
23 Jul 2021
Bell levels a class critique against the Black bourgeoisie, whom he sees as having led Black political protest down the wrong path time and time again.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Matthieu Chapman’s Book, “Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama”
22 Jul 2021
This book analyzes Early Modern English Drama as a form of cultural production in which the paradigm of Early Modern England was shifting to account for encounters with black Africans.
Selamawit D. Terrefe
On Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III
16 Dec 2020
Afro-pessimism theorizes slavery as a social relation which distinguishes Blackness as a paradigmatic position antithetical to humans.
Too Black
The Myth of the Perfect Victim
16 Dec 2020
The denial of Black humanity is essential to the order of racial capitalism, and dictates that Blacks deserve whatever treatment they get.
Gwendolyn Wallace
To Abolish the Medical industrial Complex
08 Jul 2020
Like prisons, healthcare systems are part of the way that empire reproduces itself.
Rohn Kenyatta
Once Dead, Thrice Killed
27 May 2020
The summary execution of my brothers, sisters, women, men and children is so commonplace that it becomes numbing ‘white’ noise in the minds of an entire continent.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Black Plague
22 Apr 2020
The rapidity with which the pandemic has consumed black communities provides an unvarnished look into the dynamics of race and class that existed long before it emerged
João Costa Vargas and Ana Flauzina
Antiblackness of the Pandemic in the US and Brazil
22 Apr 2020
At the heart of health disparities is antiblackness, a social code that renders Black people disposable.
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
The Red Summer of 1919, Explained
14 Aug 2019
White mobs attacked Black neighborhoods in cities across the nation in 1919, but this time Blacks would not “turn the left cheek when smitten upon the right.”