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Jon Jeter
As the State’s Complexion Darkens, Minnesota’s Liberalism Wanes
18 Jun 2025
Minnesota’s progressive myth shatters as its racial gaps in income, education, and housing eclipse even Deep South states, and right wing whites turn to violence against their own people.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio June 6, 2025
06 Jun 2025
In this week’s segment, we hear about the repatriation of skulls taken from the bodies of Black New Orleanians 150 years ago which were then sent to Germany for study in the practice of racist pseudo…
Alina Selyukh
Skulls Once Subject to Racist Study in Germany are Laid to Rest in New Orleans
04 Jun 2025
Looted African skulls come home after a century in German labs, exposing colonialism's history of dehumanizing "race science."
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Southern Panther Malik Rahim
14 May 2025
In “A Southern Panther,” movement elder Malik Rahim talks about his lifetime of battling racism and fighting for peace and environmental justice.
Jon Jeter
Fleeing Imaginary Persecution at Home, South African ‘Refugees’ May Find the Grass is Not Greener in America
14 May 2025
The Trump administration’s decision to fast-track asylum for white South Africans—claiming "persecution"—is a political stunt, ignoring that they remain among the wealthiest globally, still…
Terri Frick
Black People, Palestine, and the Maintenance of Empire
14 May 2025
Black support for Palestine underscores the fight against empire, revealing how Israel’s violence in Gaza serves U.S. hegemony and white supremacy, with Palestinian freedom as a catalyst for global…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Brittany Friedman’s Book, “Carceral Apartheid”
07 May 2025
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Brittany Friedman. Friedman is assistant professor of sociology at the University of…
Jon Jeter
The Dog Whistle Heard ‘Round the World: How Timothy McVeigh’s Oklahoma City Bombing Birthed the Trump Era
16 Apr 2025
Thirty years after Timothy McVeigh’s Oklahoma City bombing, his legacy lives on in the racist mass shooters, anti-government extremists, and MAGA reactionaries who continue to target Black…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: White Supremacy in U.S. History, Theodore W. Allen April 28, 1973
09 Apr 2025
“The principal aspect of United States capitalist society is not merely bourgeois domination but bourgeois white supremacist domination.”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
LECTURE: A Humanist View, Toni Morrison, 1975
26 Mar 2025
Toni Morrison on art, archives, knowledge, and the long history of white supremacy in the United States.