US Politics

The Mapping Project
Prison in Plain Sight: Visualizing the Economic Veins That Fuel Our Carceral Reality
13 Jul 2022
The prison system links corporate interests, the military industrial complex, and policing into a web of oppression impacting more than 2 million people in this country. The Mapping Project reports…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Drunken Count Ghouliani took the fifth the 6th—low Barr last days of Pompeo… (For Amiri)
13 Jul 2022
Drunken Count Ghouliani took the fifth the 6th—low Barr last days of Pompeo… (For Amiri)
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black Agenda Radio July 8, 2022
08 Jul 2022
U.S. involvement in Cuban protests on July 11, 2021, Black community in Atlantic City, NJ fights for justice, and Democrats' political pressure and voter intimidation remove Green Party from North…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Atlantic City's Black Community Fights for Justice
08 Jul 2022
On July 4, 2020, seven Black men were arrested while protesting the police killing of George Floyd. But Atlantic City’s black community also suffers from ineffective political leadership, corporate…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democrats Remove Green Party from North Carolina Ballot
08 Jul 2022
The Democratic Party succeeded in using voter intimidation and political pressure to remove the Green Party from ballot access in North Carolina. Tony Ndege is an organizer and co-Chair of the North…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Slaveholders Who Signed the Declaration of Independence: Washington, Jefferson, and the People they Owned
06 Jul 2022
Black Agenda Report editors Margaret Kimberley and Ann Garrison discuss the personal and institutional hypocrisy which allowed those who said, "All men are created to equal," to be slaveholders.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
low-coup: 4th of July weak end (For Amiri)
06 Jul 2022
low-coup: 4th of July weak end (For Amiri)
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
Abolishing the Family Policing System: An Interview with Joyce McMillan
06 Jul 2022
Roberto Sirvent speaks to Joyce McMillan, an advocate for parental rights in the family policing system. So called "child welfare" disproportionately impacts and harms Black people.
Jon Jeter
The White Socialist Left: Seeing a Bleak Future for ‘Black and White Unite and Fight’
06 Jul 2022
White leftists have a history of using class reductionism to ignore racism and even of making common cause with white supremacy itself.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio July 1, 2022
01 Jul 2022
Reproductive justice in the wake of SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade, campaign to free Mumia Abu Jamal, and Frederick Douglass speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July" read by Ossie Davis.