| Black Agenda Report

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.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A Concentration Camp By Any Other Name…
06 Aug 2019
In the wake of attacks on Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for describing immigrant detention centers as “concentration camps,” author Zoe Samudzi asked, “Why are Jewish organizations
Jordanna Matlon
Black Masculinity Under Racial Capitalism
24 Jul 2019
A truly radical counterhegemony can only be realized by disassociating both blackness and manhood from capitalist registers of worth.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Trump’s Message: US is White Man’s Country
23 Jul 2019
Donald Trump’s racist attacks on immigrants and “The Squad” are designed to tell his base that the US is a White Man’s Country and he is the president who’s going to keep it that way,” said Black A
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The “Squad” Will Need to Realize that You Can’t Defeat White Supremacy with White Supremacy
18 Jul 2019
The “squad” condemns Trump for his white nationalism, not understanding that as a white supremacist settler-colonial state, white nationalism is “American” nationalism.