| Black Agenda Report

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Biko Mandela Gray’s Book, “Black Life Matter”
08 Mar 2023
This week’s featured author is Biko Mandela Gray. Gray is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. His book is Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject.
John Parker
Capitalism in Black and Blue
08 Feb 2023
Policing is inextricably linked to racism and to capitalism.
Alec Karakatsanis
Police Departments Spend Vast Sums of Money Creating “Copaganda”
27 Jul 2022
US police departments spend tens of millions of dollars every year to manipulate the news, flooding the discourse with “copaganda.” These aggressive tactics give the public a distorted view of what…
Netfa Freeman
Biden Kills the Demand to Defund Police
08 Apr 2022
The same people who wanted to defund policing voted overwhelmingly for Joe Biden. But Biden not only rejects cutting police budgets but announced a proposal to give police departments $30 billion.…
Paul Butler
Policing in the US is Not About Enforcing Law. It’s About Enforcing White Supremacy
03 Jun 2020
If we had something approaching equal justice, would we still even be the United States? “Mr. Floyd was not human to these officers.”