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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Power of Black Self-Defense in Lincoln Heights
12 Feb 2025
When Nazis appear in public they must be quickly dispatched. The people of a Black town in Ohio did just that and then acted to arm and defend themselves.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Thandisizwe Chimurenga on the Los Angeles Fire and Black Politics
07 Feb 2025
Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a Los Angeles-based journalist and host of RootWork, which can be seen on Black Liberation Media’s YouTube channel. She joins us from Los Angeles to discuss the impact of…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Africa, China, and the U.S., Cheikh Anta Diop, 1965
05 Feb 2025
Cheikh Anta Diop’s anti-imperialist Pan-African socialism.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
DEI in the sky
05 Feb 2025
"DEI in the Sky" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Jon Jeter
Across the Country, Black Voters Show Signs of Abandoning Black Mayors Who Have Abandoned Them
05 Feb 2025
The adage that "black faces in high places won't help us" still rings true when you look at Black mayors like Karen Bass, Eric Adams, and Lori Lightfoot. Residents of their respective cities have…
Jacqueline Luqman
DEI’s Swift Demise Exposes The Absurdity Of Trusting The Oppressors To Correct Themselves
05 Feb 2025
Donald Trump recently issued an executive order that eliminates all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs in the federal government. While this act demonstrates Trump's unwavering…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio January 31, 2025
31 Jan 2025
In this week’s segment, we hear about a community forum that will discuss the need to organize in the wake of an acquittal in the 2023 killing of Jordan Neely in the New York City subway system.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Never Forget Jordan Neely
31 Jan 2025
Tag, a Spirit of Mandela coordinating committee member, joins us to talk about their upcoming community forum at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn on Saturday, February 1st. This is the first in a…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Death of DEI
29 Jan 2025
Black people must be discerning about racist attacks on DEI programs while also acknowledging that “diversity” can be a con that damages Black politics, just as it was meant to do.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
POEM: Note to All Nazis, Fascists and Klansmen, Langston Hughes, 1943
29 Jan 2025
Langston Hughes’s 1943 poem against fascism is precise, droll, and eternal.