Media And Culture

Greg Felton
Defund the Police is Not Abolition
20 Jan 2021
In practice, defunding police leads to endless dickering with local politicians and allows reformists to present themselves as abolitionists.
Priyam Madhukar
Police Shouldn’t Tag Students as Potential Criminals
20 Jan 2021
When cops create lists of kids “at risk” of falling into crime, it becomes a self-fulfilling indictment.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
White Settler Uprising at the Capitol
14 Jan 2021
Last week’s assault on the Capitol was essentially a race riot, the product of white racial grievance.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
This is what hypocrisy looks like…
13 Jan 2021
“It's like writing history with lightning.“ — Woodrow Wilson on Birth of A Nation
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Zakiya Luna’s “Reproductive Rights as Human Rights”
13 Jan 2021
This book is a story about a group of (mostly) women who wanted to make change and understood that liberation is an inside job.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Chris A. Barcelos’ “Distributing Condoms and Hope”
13 Jan 2021
Replacing cops with social workers could “reproduce the same kinds of harm,” as this author explains.
Dr.Wilmer J. Leon, III
Coup d’état or Insurrection – What’s Good for the Goose…
13 Jan 2021
Under what authority does the American government have the right to instigate and execute coup’s against democratically elected governments in other countries?
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 11, 2021
11 Jan 2021
Cops Colluded with Trump Mob at Capitol
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Feminism Informed by “Sensuous Knowledge”
11 Jan 2021
Because of historical exclusion, “Black women’s social and political desires have always had to be shaped outside of the dogmatic and the normative – inside of the liminal, the fugitive and the ima
The Black Agenda Review team
The Black Agenda Review Year in Books
06 Jan 2021
Neither the pandemic nor the outgoing presidency represent a decisive break with or a radical deviation from past history, policies and conditions of capitalism and neocolonialism.