| Black Agenda Report

Ethan Johnson
Incandescent Whiteness: Dispatch from Portland, Oregon
10 Jun 2020
We are murdered, but there is no recourse because there is no crime. No death occurred because we are not human.
BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Robert Stubblefield
Why Hasn’t Amy Cooper Been Arrested? The Case of Pink Pussy Privilege
03 Jun 2020
While most advocates focus on police abuse of the black community, we must also hold accountable the people who call police and make false claims against black people.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Things Don’t Get No Better
13 May 2020
The current season of sickness – biological and political – is, indeed, strange, with no hint of a better day any time soon.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adia Harvey Wingfield’s “Flatlining”
15 Apr 2020
How do black workers fare when organizations say they want to attract more minority employees even as they have largely shifted resources away from labor?
Barry Spector
Affirmative Action for White People
08 Apr 2020
Most whites have been able to live out their lives completely unaware of the long term, institutional factors that have kept people of color down – and themselves up.
John G. Russell
Racial Profiling Disorder: the All-American Pandemic
01 Apr 2020
RAPROD carriers are convinced that blacks disproportionately carry guns and other contraband.
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.
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.
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.