| Black Agenda Report

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Douglas Flowe’s “Uncontrollable Blackness”
10 Jun 2020
Black men are besieged by an American crucible uniquely designed for them in the early twentieth century.
Earl Hazell
White Images, Black Reality: How to Talk to the Accidental Apologists for Monsters
10 Jun 2020
The author offers some thoughts on how to deal with white people that seek to dominate Black political discussion on social media.
K. Scott
Ooh La La: Atlanta’s Mayor Keisha and Civil Rights Myths in the Black “Mecca”
10 Jun 2020
Mayor Lance Bottoms brought in troops to occupy her city while claiming that protesters dishonored the memory of MLK.
BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Robert Stubblefield
Why Hasn’t Amy Cooper Been Arrested? The Case of Pink Pussy Privilege
03 Jun 2020
While most advocates focus on police abuse of the black community, we must also hold accountable the people who call police and make false claims against black people.
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.