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Robin D.G. Kelley
The Roots of Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Resistance in the US
18 Mar 2020
The militant white supremacists of the current generation are either products of, or influenced by, the “third Klan” of the 1970s and 1980s.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Racial Voyeurism and Light-Skinned Black Babies
16 Mar 2020
Black babies born to Black mothers are often treated by media as “miraculous, or a gift from God,” writes Sonita Moss, a University of Pennsylvania Fulbright Scholar and co-author
Julia Thomas
Hoodwinked: How Wall Street and Big Real Estate Turned Anti-Discrimination Policies Against Blacks
11 Mar 2020
Federal policies intended to end racial discrimination in housing and encourage Black homeownership actually wound up enabling predatory real estate practices.
William C. Anderson
Let’s Not Glorify the Law: The Slave Trade Used to Be Legal
26 Feb 2020
The law is a shaky foundation to rest on, particularly for Black people and other marginalized communities.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Blacks Continue to Die on the Alter of White Womanhood
25 Feb 2020
Although Emmet Till and Trayvon Martin were killed 57 years apart, both of the Black teenagers died for the same reasons, said Angela Onwuachi-Willig, a dean and professor at Bosto
Kollibri terre Sonnenblume
Black America and the Presidents
19 Feb 2020
Every single US president—regardless of party—actively upheld white supremacy in the US.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Kobe, Impeachment and the Coronavirus: A Study on the Dangers of White Liberal Fragility
12 Feb 2020
White liberalism is not a kinder, gentler form of white supremacy, or a lesser evil to the more explicit racism of Trump and his base.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Global Struggle Continues -- But So Does Racism
10 Feb 2020
Students of all races should be exposed to the history of movements of liberation from colonialism and racist rule, said Nana Osei-Opare, a professor of history at Fordham Universi
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents
04 Feb 2020
US presidents range from very bad to less bad, but none were “good” for Black people – including the first Black one.
Cornel West and Mordecai Lyon
Cornel West on Missing Zinn
04 Feb 2020
On the tenth anniversary of radical historian Howard Zinn’s death, Cornel West opens up about their friendship and what Zinn would have made of the decade – including whether he would have voted fo