| Black Agenda Report

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Walidah Imarisha’s “Angels With Dirty Faces“and Vincent Lloyd’s “Religion of the Field Negro”
14 Nov 2018
Our authors explore the evils of incarceration and the promise of Black liberation theology.
Barbara Foley
Intersectionality: A Marxist Critique
14 Nov 2018
The author argues that “intersectionality is less valuable as an explanatory framework than as an ideological reflection of the times.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of November 11, 2018
13 Nov 2018
Alex Vitale: civilian agencies not cops should deal with social problems; Kyle Mays on
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Pan Africanists Lead “Be Clean” Campaign in Sierra Leone
13 Nov 2018
The Black Star Action Network International, founded in Tampa, Florida, is leading a “Be Clean” community sanitation and hygiene” campaign in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where the Pan Africanist organi
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Brazilian Fascist Is Grave Danger to Blacks
13 Nov 2018
Policing killings in Black areas “will continue on a much wider scale” when president-elect Jair Bolsonaro, widely viewed as a fascist and racist, takes office on the first of the year, said
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Hip Hop Forges Black and Native American Solidarity
13 Nov 2018
Kyle Mays, who teaches at the African American Studies Department and the Native American Center at UCLA, says Hip Hop “builds solidarity between the two communities,” which share
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Police Reform Doesn’t Work, Says Sociologist
13 Nov 2018
“Show me the American city where Black and brown folks are happy with the policing that emerges from” the usual menu of police re-training, body cameras and increased minority hiring.
Redacted Tonight
Ajamu Baraka on Redacted Tonight
09 Nov 2018
A peace movement cannot be built on a war party, and too many of our so-called US social justice organizations are wholly dependent on corporate philanthropy tied hand and foot to Democrats, who ar
Chris Hedges
Glen Ford on Chris Hedges On Contact: The Con of Diversity
09 Nov 2018
Diversity is little more than black faces in high places, not the goal of radical transformation that puts power in the hands of ordinary people.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Was This Really The Most Important Mid-Term Election of Our Lives? Maybe Not.
09 Nov 2018
For an occasion so momentous, not much has changed.