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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.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Blacks and the US: a History of Resistance
20 Apr 2021
The United States has been in constant conflict with its Black population, which has been the greatest source of its wealth, said Dr.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
“This is a Crime Scene:” An African Artist/Activist Journey, Part I
22 Jul 2020
An interview with Dr. Karen Wilson- Ama’Echefu.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
The Weaponization of Culture
08 Jul 2020
While statues glorifying white supremacy are being torn down across the globe, a Maryland county is busy desecrating African graves and building a new edifice to white supremacy.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Black Lives Extinguished, Black Ancestors’ Bodies Desecrated
03 Jun 2020
We are killed in the streets while we are alive and then our bodies are dug up and thrown away like trash when businesses require the land for profit making.
David Swanson
Forty-Five Felons With Their Own Holiday: The U.S. Presidency
22 Jan 2020
Margaret Kimberley’s new book on US presidents and Black people shows why the executive mansion is called the “White” House.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Margaret Kimberley’s “Prejudential”
22 Jan 2020
The history of enslavement and American apartheid segregation has permanently disfigured politics in this country.