Black Electoral Politics

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio May 8, 2026
08 May 2026
In this week’s segment, we discuss a military attack carried out by Western-backed insurgents against the African nation Mali and the imperialist attempt to destabilize the Alliance of Sahel States.…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Louisiana v. Callais and the Black Vote
08 May 2026
The Supreme Court ruling in the case Louisiana v. Callais eliminated a majority Black congressional district in the state of Louisiana and put such districts at risk across the country. Alanah Odoms…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
The Struggle for Black Electoral Power in Louisiana
08 May 2026
C.C. Campbell Rock is a New Orleans-based journalist. She recently wrote Louisiana v Callais: They Stole Black Power Again" for the site Black Source Media. She discusses the recent Supreme Court…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: Criticize Clinton, but Beat Bush, Manning Marable, 1992
25 Sep 2024
Vote for Harris, because Trump. Vote for Clinton, because Bush. Manning Marable shows when it comes to right-wing Democrats, it’s deja vu all over again.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Reproductive Justice, Human Rights and the Failure of Electoral Politics
26 Aug 2022
Breya Johnson is Deputy Director of Organizing of Girls for Gender Equity. She joins us to talk about why the political system fails to provide reproductive justice or any other human rights needs.…
Kamau Franklin and Roberto Sirvent
“Voting and the Black Left”: An Interview with Kamau Franklin
12 Apr 2022
Kamau Franklin, founder of Community Movement Builders, speaks with BAR Book Forum Editor Roberto Sirvent about the limitations of electoral politics for the left.
Wilfred Codrington III
The Electoral College’s Racist Origins
20 Nov 2019
The nation’s oldest structural racial entitlement program is one of its most consequential: the Electoral College.
Todd Steven Burroughs
Newark’s Black-Powered Engineer: Kenneth Gibson (1932-2019)
10 Apr 2019
The still-chocolate city bids farewell to its first Black mayor.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Alabama and the Duopoly Trap
20 Dec 2017
“The Democrats act as though they have found the magic key to victory because they got lucky in one red state.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Voters Energized to Fight Raw Racism
19 Dec 2017
It took the likes of Alabama’s Roy Moore to bring Blacks to the polls in decisive numbers.