There's a fundamental crisis in U.S. journalism. Advertiser-supported news is broken and cannot be fixed. The numbers of working journalists and reporters, after declining steadily for decades, has fallen off a cliff in recent years, while the number of news gathering operations in both print and broadcast is also radically shrinking. The near disappearance of black journalism is part of the reason Black Agenda Report exists. But advertising won't carry BAR, either.
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An end-of-the-year radical Black reading list from the editors of The Black Agenda Review.
"Army of Artists (For My Friend Horace Silver)" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Ben Passmore. Passmore is the author of the ongoing comic book series Daygloayhole, as…
‘Anti-Communism Week’ is a legal blueprint for crushing dissent. By labeling social justice activism as terrorism and empowering a new national task force, the state is preparing for the most intense…
Kenya is auctioning its sovereignty to foreign powers. The final item on the block is the genetic data of its own people.
