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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Racism in Canadian Immigration
22 Apr 2022
El Jones is a poet and a professor at Mount St. Vincent university in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The Canadian government, like the U.S., is giving special attention and privileges to Ukrainian…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Calvin Warren
12 Jan 2022
As part of the Black Agenda Report Book Forum, we interview scholars about a recent article they’ve written for either an academic journal or popular publication.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Enes Kanter Exposes Connection Between Sinophobia and Anti-Black Racism
01 Dec 2021
Recent remarks made by an NBA player show that Sinophobia represents backward foreign policy and invitations to amplify racist tropes in the U.S.
Thad Baltimore
White America's Latest Fear Mongering Code Language: CRT and Wokeness
23 Nov 2021
Anti-Black racism is at the heart of the debate on Critical Race Theory and use of the word "woke" as a pejorative.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Thousands of Police Killings Are Unreported
06 Oct 2021
Police killings of Black people are a feature of American law enforcement and they are deliberately under counted.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Louis M. Maraj’s “Black or Right”
06 Oct 2021
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Louis M.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Durban and 9/11: The Implications for a New Politics of Resistance
15 Sep 2021
Another twenty-year anniversary is the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) that took place in Durban, South Africa between August 31, and September 8. The George W.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Da’Shaun Harrison’s Book, “Belly of the Beast”
18 Aug 2021
The politics of fat shaming is tied to anti-Black racism.
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.