| Black Agenda Report

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ilhan Omar Is Not Mama Africa
01 Feb 2023
The new Speaker of the House announced he will remove Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee. The attack from republicans has given her image a boost, but her record shows the credibility is not deserved.
Jacqueline Luqman
Why The Rage Against The War Machine Rally Is #AntiWarSoWhite
08 Feb 2023
Leftists, especially the Black left, do not share common cause with everyone who wants to end U.S involvement in Ukraine. The politics of some who call themselves anti-war cannot be ignored.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EXCERPT: Howard University: Every Black Thing and Its Opposite, Kwame Ture
01 Feb 2023
Kwame Ture reminds us that the Black university is a place of contradictions – and a potential site of struggle.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The US Continues Escalating in Ukraine
01 Feb 2023
The U.S. got more than it bargained for after instigating the Ukrainian conflict. The Biden foreign policy team grows more desperate and their plans become more dangerous as they reckon with the unintended consequences of their actions.
Alice Speri
Memphis Police Chief Trained with Israel Security Forces
08 Feb 2023
The chief of the Memphis, Tennessee police department took part in trainings in Israel. These exchanges with an apartheid state are a training ground for brutality.
John Parker
Capitalism in Black and Blue
08 Feb 2023
Policing is inextricably linked to racism and to capitalism.
Jamal Abdulahi
United States’s Pursuit of Imperial Military Base in Northern Somalia Fuels Brutal War
08 Feb 2023
The history of European colonialism and the endless U.S. desire for a military presence strengthen a Somalia secessionist movement and warfare that most people in that country do not want.
Gus Griffin
The Super Bowl and the Trouble with First Black Symbolism
08 Feb 2023
Whether Super Bowl quarterbacks, or presidents, or police chiefs, unquestioned admiration of the "first Black" should come to an end.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Brian Jones’ Book, “The Tuskegee Student Uprising”
08 Feb 2023
This week’s featured author is Brian Jones. Jones is Director of The New York Public Library’s Center for Educators and Schools. His book is The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Moya Bailey
08 Feb 2023
This week’s featured scholar is Moya Bailey. Bailey is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. Her article is “The Ethics of Pace.”