African America

The Mapping Project
Prison in Plain Sight: Visualizing the Economic Veins That Fuel Our Carceral Reality
13 Jul 2022
The prison system links corporate interests, the military industrial complex, and policing into a web of oppression impacting more than 2 million people in this country. The Mapping Project reports…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black Agenda Radio July 8, 2022
08 Jul 2022
U.S. involvement in Cuban protests on July 11, 2021, Black community in Atlantic City, NJ fights for justice, and Democrats' political pressure and voter intimidation remove Green Party from North…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Atlantic City's Black Community Fights for Justice
08 Jul 2022
On July 4, 2020, seven Black men were arrested while protesting the police killing of George Floyd. But Atlantic City’s black community also suffers from ineffective political leadership, corporate…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democrats Remove Green Party from North Carolina Ballot
08 Jul 2022
The Democratic Party succeeded in using voter intimidation and political pressure to remove the Green Party from ballot access in North Carolina. Tony Ndege is an organizer and co-Chair of the North…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Protesting for Jayland Walker
06 Jul 2022
The number of bullets used to kill Jayland Walker have sparked an outcry, but police kill one Black person every day in this country. If systemic change is not the demand all protest is for…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: The Black Revolution is Part of World-wide Struggle, Malcolm X, 1964
06 Jul 2022
Malcolm X reminds us of the deceit of liberals, the power of international thinking, and the coming of Black revolution.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor , Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Slaveholders Who Signed the Declaration of Independence: Washington, Jefferson, and the People they Owned
06 Jul 2022
Black Agenda Report editors Margaret Kimberley and Ann Garrison discuss the personal and institutional hypocrisy which allowed those who said, "All men are created to equal," to be slaveholders.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
low-coup: 4th of July weak end (For Amiri)
06 Jul 2022
low-coup: 4th of July weak end (For Amiri)
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
Abolishing the Family Policing System: An Interview with Joyce McMillan
06 Jul 2022
Roberto Sirvent speaks to Joyce McMillan, an advocate for parental rights in the family policing system. So called "child welfare" disproportionately impacts and harms Black people.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Emilio Amideo’s Book, “Queer Tidalectics”
06 Jul 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Emilio Amideo. Amideo is a research fellow in English language and translation at…