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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Treva B. Lindsey’s “America, Goddam”
27 Apr 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Treva B. Lindsey. Lindsey is Associate Professor in the Women's, Gender, and…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Roots of “Strong Black Women” Ideology
12 Oct 2020
Systemic oppression, from slavery to mass Black incarceration, has led Black women to value self-reliance, said Dr Ashlee Davis, supervising psychologist at Fordham University’s co
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sasha Turner’s “Contested Bodies”
03 Jun 2020
Mothers and infants consistently experience positive health outcomes when midwives are incorporated into healthcare systems.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Anti-Abortion Forces Would Impose Slavery-like Controls on Black Women’s Bodies
02 Jun 2020
Black women’s bodies were property during slavery, and that power relationship “still continues today through measures to restrict women’s reproductive autonomy,” said Jill Morrison
Marisa Fuentes
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Sarah Haley’s "No Mercy Here"
06 May 2020
This is a book about the ideological construction of black women as “non-human” and exploitable for capitalist profit in the making of the New South.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Girl Magic
31 Dec 2019
Artists Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé “represent a kind of ethos of Black political commitment in the 21st century, said Aria Halliday, professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the Uni