White Supremacy

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ARTICLE: “Trade in Blacks” Practiced in Haiti; Tension Among Peasants Increases,” Jacques Roumain, 1937
07 Oct 2026
“Between October 2 and October 8, 1937, between 15,000 and 40,000 Haitians and Black Dominicans were slaughtered by Dominican troops…”
Denise Powell
A Southern Reckoning with the Medical Myth of Race as a Diagnostic Tool
30 Sep 2026
Race is a sociopolitical construct, not a biological truth. The real determinants of health are structural factors such as zip code, environmental pollution, and access to resources.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Find me another 11,780 votes?
16 Sep 2026
"Find me another 11,780 votes?" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Manifestation of Surplus Populations: How Gary, Indiana is the Latest Exemplar of the Wrong Complexion for Protection
26 Aug 2026
White supremacy works through institutions, and FEMA's formula for allocating disaster relief shows us how the state decides which neighborhoods are prioritized and which are left to suffer. Those in…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
White Supremacy and Climate Change: A Sinister Symbiosis
19 Aug 2026
The climate movement will never be effective as long as it refuses to confront white supremacy within its own organizations and as a belief system which is unconcerned about Black and brown death.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
They Wear The Masks
19 Aug 2026
"They Wear The Masks" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Neoliberalism to Trumpism: The Re-Normalization of White Supremacy as State Ideology
29 Jul 2026
The crisis of late-stage capitalism has stripped away the liberal disguise and revealed white supremacy as the official ideology of the U.S. state.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
LYRICS: Bicentennial Blues, Gil Scott-Heron, 1976
01 Jul 2026
“George Washington/Slave-owner general/Ironic that the father of this country/ Should be a slave owner/The father of this country a slave-owner.”
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
F$$K the Fourth: Declaring Our Collective Independence from the Sinking Ship of U.S. Empire
01 Jul 2026
The settler colonial state is now more corrupt and more unequal than even the genocidal "founding fathers" imagined.
Elias Isquith
White supremacy and slavery: Gerald Horne on the real story of American independence
01 Jul 2026
It's time to revisit America's heroic creation myth and what really happened in 1776, author-historian tells Salon.