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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Terrible Origins of July 4th
29 Jun 2022
The causes of the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence are rarely taught in this country. The American colonists chafed under British rules limiting their settlements and feared they would end…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: “The Psychic Hold of Slavery”
03 Aug 2021
The following is an excerpt from The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive
Reviewed by Michael Steven Smith
Bruce Levine’s “Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice“
24 Mar 2021
Rep Thaddeus Stevens was an unyielding proponent of the nationalization of the large southern plantations and the redistribution of that land to Black people.
David Rosen
The Kidnapping Club
10 Feb 2021
Northern free Blacks as well as self-liberated former slaves lived in fear of being kidnapped by organized slave catchers in New York City.
Bashir Muhammad Akinyele
Alexander Hamilton: An American Slave-Master
25 Nov 2020
The Broadway show is a fiction and bamboozlement: Hamilton was a depraved enslaver of people, just like most of the Founders of the White Settler State.
Parul Sehgal
White Women Were Avid Slaveowners
23 Sep 2020
The violence of slave-owning women especially could go unchecked, particularly when the victims were black children.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Insurance Industry Vital to US Slavery
10 Aug 2020
Insuring one’s slave “is actually a better financial decision than insuring other kinds of property,” said Dr Michael Ralph, director of Africana Studies at New York University, Hu
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Abolitionists Drew Blood in Fighting Slavery
08 Jun 2020
“It was fugitive slaves, who were violent in defending themselves against slave-catchers, who pushed abolitionists towards militant and sometimes violent tactics,” said Duke University historian Je
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Fight Mass Incarceration Like Our Ancestors Fought Slavery
13 Aug 2019
“It’s remarkable how much the prison system looks like the institution of slavery,” said Kellie Jackson, author of “Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Viole
Peter James Hudson
The Racist Dawn of Capitalism
24 Apr 2019
The centrality of slavery to capitalism is not new, as any serious student of WEB Dubois is aware. “Negro slavery seemed the very basis of American capitalism.”