Black History

Jon Jeter
Betraying Howard Zinn: How the White Left Uses Scholarship to Undermine Black/White Solidarity
30 Jul 2025
Howard Zinn showed that scholarship can fuel solidarity and liberation—but now, some white leftists use it to undermine Black struggle.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Killing the Kennedy Center softly for the Reich?
30 Jul 2025
"Killing the Kennedy Center softly for the Reich?" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney, Jr.’s Book, “From Rights to Lives”
26 Feb 2025
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney, Jr. Dr. Hamlin is Royce Family…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio January 17, 2025
17 Jan 2025
In this week’s segment, we discuss the incoming Donald Trump administration, why Trump was elected again, and what we may be able to expect in his term. But first, we begin with discussing a new…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Gerald Horne: African Americans & A New History of the US
17 Jan 2025
Dr. Gerald Horne is an author and historian who currently holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. Dr. Horne is a prolific…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Problem with Juneteenth
19 Jun 2024
Juneteenth was a people's holiday with deep meaning for the descendants of enslaved people. But the declaration of an official federal holiday has turned it into an opportunity for corporate…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Problem with Juneteenth
15 Jun 2022
Juneteenth was a people's holiday with deep meaning for the descendants of enslaved people. But the declaration of an official federal holiday has turned it into an opportunity for corporate…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: The Meaning of African Liberation Day: Walter Rodney, May 27, 1972
26 May 2021
At the 1972 event, Walter Rodney proclaimed that “black unity must be international because we live on every continent, through no choice of our own.”
Dr. Gerald Horne
Against Left-Wing White Nationalism
26 May 2021
Much of what is called the “left” still insists that the American “revolution” of 1776 is “unfinished,” when history shows that white supremacy was the intended result.
Denise Lynn
Alphaeus Hunton: The Unsung Valiant, by Dorothy Hunton
19 May 2021
Hunton’s devotion to peace and “mutual cooperation” came out of his understanding that “war and militarism were endemic” to capitalism.