Black Misleadership Class

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
From Uncle Tom to Cousin Cory: (Or, The Curious Case of Mr. Booker’s Senate Floor Minstrel Show)
09 Apr 2025
Senator Cory Booker’s recent 25-hour Senate speech is hailed by some as an act of resistance. Really, it exposes the moral bankruptcy of neoliberal politics, as his performative progressivism clashes…
Jon Jeter
Across the Country, Black Voters Show Signs of Abandoning Black Mayors Who Have Abandoned Them
05 Feb 2025
The adage that "black faces in high places won't help us" still rings true when you look at Black mayors like Karen Bass, Eric Adams, and Lori Lightfoot. Residents of their respective cities have…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Death of DEI
29 Jan 2025
Black people must be discerning about racist attacks on DEI programs while also acknowledging that “diversity” can be a con that damages Black politics, just as it was meant to do.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Eric Adams and Daniel Penny Make Black People the Face of Crime
18 Dec 2024
Daniel Penny’s acquittal was not surprising, and neither is Mayor Eric Adams' defense of Penny and law enforcement power being used against Black people.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Fear is Still the Motivation for Black Voters
27 Nov 2024
Kamala Harris is now a historical footnote who is heading for the dustbin of history. Yet this harsh truth is avoided by many Black people, who cast aspersions and scorn when they should see the…
Carlos Sirah
Empire's Overseers: The Two-Party Trap of Blackface Imperialism
30 Oct 2024
The U.S. political system is perpetuated through the facade of choice. The false belief that we have the power to decide who our political leaders will be and what policy the government will…
Jon Jeter
From Axis of Resistance to Political Cuckolds: How Palestinians, African Americans and Black South Africans Were Betrayed by Their Own
09 Oct 2024
One of the many unfortunate common threads between Palestinians, South Africans, and African Americans is the betrayal of the people by their political leadership who were meant to lead…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Bassackwards Tribe strikes again!
02 Oct 2024
"Bassackwards Tribe strikes again!" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
CHAPTER: The Ford Foundation and Black Power, Robert L. Allen, 1968
24 Jul 2024
The late Robert L. Allen broke down the dialectics of Black elite co-option and counter-revolution. Hello, Kamala.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: Ron Daniels and the Haiti Support Project [are] at it Again…, Ezili Dantò, 2005
26 Jun 2024
A 2005 editorial from Ezili Dantò reminds us that when it comes to Haiti, Black huckster Ron Daniels is cruising on the wrong side of history.