Related Stories
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The opening of the Obama Center has brought Barack Obama back into the spotlight although he offers nothing new.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The settler colonial state is now more corrupt and more unequal than even the genocidal "founding fathers" imagined.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Donald Trump is not an anomaly, but the heir of fascism which began in 1776 and continued throughout U.S. history.
Elias Isquith
It's time to revisit America's heroic creation myth and what really happened in 1776, author-historian tells Salon.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
, Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black Agenda Report editors Margaret Kimberley and Ann Garrison discuss the personal and institutional hypocrisy that allowed those who said, "
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
"A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Glen Ford wrote many powerful essays, but his unflinching analysis of the history of the holiday we call Thanksgiving remains relevant over 20
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
As the Fourth of July grows closer, let us examine the reality of "independence day".
Dr.Wilmer J. Leon, III
"When people show you who they are, believe them" remains true when we examine the sorry state of the U.S. political arena.
Jon Jeter
The settler colony known as the United States inflicts violence upon Black people as a function of its existence.
More Stories
- BAR Comments Editor Jahan ChoudhryThis week the incoming administration was on your minds.
- Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum EditorThe streets permeate dominant understandings of Blackness, and the life-and-death consequences of these perceptions are at the heart of this book.
- Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum EditorMaathai’s approach to environmental conservation centers poor rural communities, especially women, and their need for fuel, fodder and income
- Selamawit D. TerrefeAfro-pessimism theorizes slavery as a social relation which distinguishes Blackness as a paradigmatic position antithetical to humans.
- Too BlackThe denial of Black humanity is essential to the order of racial capitalism, and dictates that Blacks deserve whatever treatment they get.