African America

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Memphis Communities Fight Elon Musk's Data Center
30 Oct 2026
KeShaun Pearson of Memphis Community Against Pollution discusses the struggles against Musk and Memphis' compromised elected officials.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Report October 30, 2026
30 Oct 2026
In this week’s segment, we discuss Brazil's presidential election, where the incumbent president secured victory after losing in the first round of voting. But we begin with a conversation about an…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Twenty Years of Black Agenda Report
28 Oct 2026
Reaching a 20th anniversary for Black Agenda Report is indeed a milestone. But longevity alone is not what makes this publication special to thousands of readers. BAR’s principled journalistic…
Johari Diata Osei , Dhoruba bin-Wahad
The Black Panthers Didn't Start in Oakland. The History We Tell Does.
28 Oct 2026
The Black Panther Party did not begin in Oakland on October 15, 1966, but emerged from earlier organizing in Harlem and Lowndes County, Alabama. Celebrating only the famous founders erases the…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Report October 23, 2026
23 Oct 2026
In this week’s segment, we hear about the ongoing uprising in France against neo-liberal austerity, colonialism, and white supremacy. But first, we discuss a new report that reveals a 25% decline in…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Why Black Wealth Took a Nosedive
23 Oct 2026
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) recently reported on Federal Reserve data indicating that Black people in the U.S. have lost 25% of their wealth between 2022 and 2025. Whites,…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Trayvon and White Madness
21 Oct 2026
As Black Agenda Report is poised to celebrate its 20th anniversary, we reprint Glen Ford's commentary on the killing of Trayvon Martin and the impunity provided to his killer in a criminal justice…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The r(AI)cial Divide of Big Tech and Data Center Buildout
14 Oct 2026
Artificial intelligence and hyperscale data center buildout constitute a new front of environmental racism and a project to optimize white supremacy, with Black communities targeted as sacrifice…
Denise Powell
A Southern Reckoning with the Medical Myth of Race as a Diagnostic Tool
30 Sep 2026
Race is a sociopolitical construct, not a biological truth. The real determinants of health are structural factors such as zip code, environmental pollution, and access to resources.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Waging War Against the People on Behalf of Capital: The Roots of U.S. Domestic Repression
23 Sep 2026
The "Antifa summit" and the NSPM-7 represent another institutional step toward consolidating fascism in the United States by criminalizing opposition to fascism itself.