| Black Agenda Report

David Pleasant
Savannah, the Afro-Fetish-City
21 Oct 2020
The African Exposition at the Savannah Riverside Plant “is one of the most intense examples of fetishization, colonialism, exoticism, and dehumanization” the author has ever scene.
Deborah L. Bowen and Tryon P. Woods
Hamilton and the Minstrel Show Remix
30 Sep 2020
Hamilton has sent white people with emotional investments in not being racist over-the-moon.
Jefferson Cowie
Is Freedom White?
30 Sep 2020
Now as in the past, much of the talk about American “freedom” is really about white people’s presumed right to dominate everyone else.
Hana Kiros
A Tale of Two Teens: When White Killers Are Treated Better Than Black Victims
02 Sep 2020
It’s Cowboys and Indians updated: a wicked game where Black people are seen as predators but almost always end up prey.
Amy Moran-Thomas
How a Popular Medical Device Encodes Racial Bias
12 Aug 2020
Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin, and the consequences can be serious.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Free Speech Fetish is American Exceptionalism on Steroids
29 Jul 2020
Harper’s “Letter” is little more than an exercise in white insecurity and opportunism among so-called liberal sections of the establishment.
Will Guzman
Oh Boya: If It’s Goya, It Has To Be No Good
29 Jul 2020
Goya’s CEO thinks Trump is a “blessing,” so the brand has been cursed with a boycott.
Aziz Z. Huq
Bostock v. BLM: Two Conflicting Visions of Equality
22 Jul 2020
One approach treats injustice as discreet individual actions, the other recognizes the weight of world history.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
How Do You Spell Desecration of African Burials?: “Nigger!”
01 Jul 2020
Much of the nation may be repudiating white supremacy, but not Montgomery County, Maryland, which is paving over sacred Black ground in an attempt to bury its own racist history.
Earl Hazell
White Images, Black Reality: How to Talk to the Accidental Apologists for Monsters
10 Jun 2020
The author offers some thoughts on how to deal with white people that seek to dominate Black political discussion on social media.