Supreme Court

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Voting Rights Act and the Need for Movement Politics
06 May 2026
From the 1870 15th Amendment to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, voting rights for Black people have proven to be ephemeral. Laws can be unenforced or gutted altogether. Black people’s rights must be…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
In its Lynching of the Voting Rights Act, Did SCOTUS Just Do Us A Favor By Elucidating the Lies of “America?”
06 May 2026
The Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais revealed that Black people's limited electoral power is not protected, and it never has been.
Gary Wilson
Supreme Court attacks Black voting rights, Native nations
06 May 2026
The Louisiana v. Callais Supreme Court decision has given state legislatures the green light to break up Black and Native voting districts.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Playing ‘SCOTUS Says’ to death?
19 Jul 2023
Playing ‘SCOTUS Says’ to death?
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Supreme Court and Political Corruption
05 Jul 2023
The Supreme Court has always been a political institution. Racism, political expediency, and outright corruption have always dictated its decisions.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Glen Ford: Clarence Thomas, the “Anti-Black,” 2007
27 Jul 2022
An essay by the late Glen Ford recounts the perverse origin story of the twisted life and lies of Clarence Thomas.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democratic Party Betrayal, Abortion, and the Supreme Court
08 Dec 2021
Democrats have been fooled into thinking that only the courts can protect abortion rights. In fact, legislation could protect abortion permanently, but their party has refused to do that.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Long Night Has Fallen on the Supreme Court -- Thanks Largely to Democrats
10 Oct 2018
If the Democrats were serious they would have treated each reactionary GOP nominee over the decades as a bullet to the heart of their constituents. They did not.
Greg Palast
Ohio’s Junk Mail Trick Led the Supreme Court to Approve Jim Crow Voter Purge
27 Jun 2018
“The Help America Vote Act blew open a giant loophole in the National Voter Registration Act’s protections.”
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
How Complacency, Complicity of Black Misleadership Class Led to Supreme Court Evisceration of the Voting Rights Act
27 Jun 2013
The Supreme Court kneecapping of the Voting Rights Act didn't have to happen? Democrats, especially the black leadership class had more than a generation to exploit their moral and political…