| Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Anti-Blackness Throughout the Americas
06 Oct 2020
Anti-Blackness is the common denominator underlying Black people’s high rates of death from poverty, disease and police violence on both continents of the western hemisphere, said Jameelah
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.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US Schools are a “Carceral” and “Punitive Landscape”
16 Sep 2019
For students of color in the US, schooling has long been a “carceral condition,” said Connie Wun, a researcher and advocate for women and girls, who wrote an influential article ti
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.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Killer Security Guards Get Impunity
20 May 2019
On May 31 Philadelphia activists will march on a “My Philly Wireless” outlet where a private security guard fatally shot Willie Oliver Wise, an unarmed part-time employee who said the store owed hi