| Black Agenda Report

Jon Jeter
Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Reverse Globalization or Resurrect America’s Dying Industrial Base
02 Apr 2025
Throughout history, trade restrictions have reshaped economies for good or for ill. As Trump increases tariffs across industries, it is clear that this move will not revitalize the economy as he…
Jacqueline Luqman
Film Review: Netflix’s ‘Descendant’ Shows Capitalism Continues to Oppress African Descendants
04 Jan 2023
The trans-Atlantice slave trade did not end with the 1808 ban. The Clotilda arrived in 1860 and the descendants of those enslaved people are impacted by that history, as are all African people in the…
Dr. Gerald Horne
BAR Book Forum: Gerald Horne’s The Dawning of the Apocalypse
24 Feb 2021
Britain is, indeed, the “mother country” of US white supremacy, having bythe 13th century become “The First Racial State in the West.”
Margaret Eby
The Difference Between Yams and Sweet Potatoes Is Structural Racism
04 Mar 2020
The confusion goes all the way back to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. “Most American supermarkets are selling you sweet potatoes, not yams.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Straight Line from Slavery to Mass Incarceration
15 Oct 2018
The US model of mass incarceration can only be understood as an extension of slavery, said Martha Escobar, author of Captivity Beyond Prisons: Criminalization Experiences of La
David Keys
Details of Horrific First Voyages in Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Revealed
22 Aug 2018
As the world ignores the ignominious 500th anniversary of the buying and selling of slaves between Africa and the Americas, historians uncover its first horrific voyages.