| Black Agenda Report

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Amerikaners: The Afrkaners’ First Cousins
01 Oct 2019
White America and white “Boer” South Africa share remarkably similar national mythologies. Let’s call them Amerikaners.
Benjamin Balthaser
Racial Violence in Black and White
18 Sep 2019
From photos of lynchers to videos of brutal cops, there is a radical heritage of using images of violence as instruments of critique.
Anton Woronczuk
White Supremacy Tried to Kill Jazz. An Interview with Gerald Horne
11 Sep 2019
Viewing musicians as exploited workers and as beleaguered contractors helps contribute to a better understanding of their art form and art more generally.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Muslims Always Blamed in White Men’s Mass Shootings
02 Sep 2019
Even when white men are the perpetrators, Muslims are always somehow brought into the discussion, said Dr Maha Hilal, co-director of the Justice for Muslims Collective and author o
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Dershbag / STOP /being so stubborn!
21 Aug 2019
I know you’re a Harvard Professor of law—legal legend,renown,celebrated, decorated,Dream Team alum Boston Celtic of the bar; New England Patriot—
Rohn Kenyatta
Black People in America Cannot Be Racist (As Much As They Might Like To Be)
21 Aug 2019
Black people in the US may not like white people, for good reason, but lack the power to construct an anti-white racism.
Matthew Quest
Distinguished Black Scholar Writes Biography of Jefferson for the Age of Trump
14 Aug 2019
In the Age of Trump, it could be said that all interpreters of Jefferson and US History have their own “alternative facts.”
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
American Exceptionalism = Mass Murder
08 Aug 2019
U.S. police agencies, including the FBI, are incapable of mounting an effective offensive against their soul mates in the armed white right.
Crystal M. Fleming, Ph.D.
Trump’s Disavowal of White Supremacy Makes a Mockery of Antiracism—But So Does the Rest of the Political Establishment
07 Aug 2019
The partisan condemnation of white supremacy that has taken shape during the Trump era has reduced anti-racist critique to political theater.
Thomas Meany
White Power: At Home and Abroad
07 Aug 2019
Where most people see a “lone shooter,” the armed White Power movement sees “leaderless resistance.”