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Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Upside of slavery according to Governor Woke Smoke?
02 Aug 2023
“…most slave children were prohibited from learning to read or write…” —James Mellon, Editor of Bullwhip Days
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio March 3, 2023
03 Mar 2023
This week we hear about right wing attacks on the finances of a grass roots organization, and the effort to cultivate a culture which promotes peacemaking, but first a new book reveals Harriet Tubman…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy
03 Mar 2023
Clarence Lusane discusses his latest book, Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy.
Richard S. Dunn
The Truth About Abraham Lincoln: In His Own Words
22 Feb 2023
February is the designated month to honor presidents, but Black people should know better than to believe what they are told about any benevolence on the part of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,…
Jeffrey Sterling
Espionage Act Like Slave-Era Anti-Literacy Laws
01 Feb 2023
C.I.A. whistleblower Jeffery Sterling, who was sentenced to 3½ years in prison, says punishing Julian Assange for publishing critical information is designed to keep us enslaved in ignorance. He gave…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Christopher D. E. Willoughby’s Book, “Masters of Health”
25 Jan 2023
This week’s featured author is Christopher D. E. Willoughby. Willoughby is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine Health at Pitzer College. His book is Masters of Health: Racial…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jesse Olsavsky’s Book, “The Most Absolute Abolition”
10 Aug 2022
This week’s featured author is Jesse Olsavsky. Olsavsky is Assistant Professor of History at Duke Kunshan University in China.. His book is The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
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.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio July 1, 2022
01 Jul 2022
Reproductive justice in the wake of SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade, campaign to free Mumia Abu Jamal, and Frederick Douglass speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July" read by Ossie Davis.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
"What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" read by Ossie Davis
01 Jul 2022
On July 5, 1852 Frederick Douglass was asked to speak on the topic of the nation’s independence celebration. Now known as What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, the speech was a stinging…