| Black Agenda Report

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Biden and the Low Point of Black Politics
27 May 2020
Black folks perform phenomenal feats of mental gymnastics and self-delusion to convince themselves that Joe Biden is on their side.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Michael Jordan’s “Last Dance:” A Celebration of the American Nightmare
27 May 2020
Michael Jordan embodies the kind of athlete and Black leader that the U.S. ruling class has gone to great lengths to cultivate.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
For Breonna Taylor (And my Bry)
27 May 2020
How I wish I could sing her name like Brother Ray or ‘Ree— ‘Cause Breonna Taylor’s real close to Bryana Turner to me
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
27 May 2020
Recently, readers have been discussing democratic socialists, American exceptionalism, and identity politics.
Rhondda Robinson Thomas
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Sarah Haley’s "No Mercy Here"
27 May 2020
In white patriarchy-ruled South Carolina at the turn of the 20th century, manhood sometimes created temporary yet tenuous bonds between Black and white men.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedomrider: Obamagate is Real
20 May 2020
Obama’s fans like to think of the First Black President as scholarly and above the fray of dirty politics, but he appears to have conspired with the FBI to set up the incoming administration.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
20 May 2020
This week a Democratic Party exit, the role of Democratic Party sheepdogs, and the racial fallout of the pandemic in Chicago were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s “Becoming Human”
20 May 2020
Black people are without the shelter of rights and protection, whether invited into or locked out of ‘the human.’”
Abdallah El Harif and Vijay Prashad
A Universal Appeal for Humanity to End Militarism and Stop War
20 May 2020
A bloc of countries, led by the United States of America, is stubbornly persisting in using force to maintain and extend their global dominance.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Things Don’t Get No Better
13 May 2020
The current season of sickness – biological and political – is, indeed, strange, with no hint of a better day any time soon.