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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Dubois’ Views on “Veil” of Blackness Explains White Suburban Micro-Aggressions
04 May 2020
Upscale Black mothers who moved to Detroit’s white suburbs in search of better schools for their kids are suffering “battle fatigue” from constant struggles with their neighbors, according to
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Corporate Media Largely Decide Which Black Lives Matter
04 May 2020
A study by sociology professor Alicia Simmons, of Colgate University, found that corporate media journalists sometimes adopt an adversarial relationship with local police, but most
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
New Mexico Exalts “Three Peoples” – and Leaves Blacks Out Entirely
27 Apr 2020
In a recent article, Dr Natasha Howard, a lecturer in Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico, cited the campus’s “Three Peoples” mural as exemplifying the state’s histori
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adia Harvey Wingfield’s “Flatlining”
15 Apr 2020
How do black workers fare when organizations say they want to attract more minority employees even as they have largely shifted resources away from labor?
Barry Spector
Affirmative Action for White People
08 Apr 2020
Most whites have been able to live out their lives completely unaware of the long term, institutional factors that have kept people of color down – and themselves up.
John G. Russell
Racial Profiling Disorder: the All-American Pandemic
01 Apr 2020
RAPROD carriers are convinced that blacks disproportionately carry guns and other contraband.
Robin D.G. Kelley
The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US
18 Mar 2020
The militant white supremacists of the current generation are either products of, or influenced by, the “third Klan” of the 1970s and 1980s.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Racial Voyeurism and Light-Skinned Black Babies
16 Mar 2020
Black babies born to Black mothers are often treated by media as “miraculous, or a gift from God,” writes Sonita Moss, a University of Pennsylvania Fulbright Scholar and co-author
Julia Thomas
Hoodwinked: How Wall Street and Big Real Estate Turned Anti-Discrimination Policies Against Blacks
11 Mar 2020
Federal policies intended to end racial discrimination in housing and encourage Black homeownership actually wound up enabling predatory real estate practices.
William C. Anderson
Let’s Not Glorify the Law: The Slave Trade Used to Be Legal
26 Feb 2020
The law is a shaky foundation to rest on, particularly for Black people and other marginalized communities.