| Black Agenda Report

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
American Exceptionalism = Mass Murder
08 Aug 2019
U.S. police agencies, including the FBI, are incapable of mounting an effective offensive against their soul mates in the armed white right.
Crystal M. Fleming, Ph.D.
Trump’s Disavowal of White Supremacy Makes a Mockery of Antiracism—But So Does the Rest of the Political Establishment
07 Aug 2019
The partisan condemnation of white supremacy that has taken shape during the Trump era has reduced anti-racist critique to political theater.
Thomas Meany
White Power: At Home and Abroad
07 Aug 2019
Where most people see a “lone shooter,” the armed White Power movement sees “leaderless resistance.”
Jordanna Matlon
Black Masculinity Under Racial Capitalism
24 Jul 2019
A truly radical counterhegemony can only be realized by disassociating both blackness and manhood from capitalist registers of worth.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The “Squad” Will Need to Realize that You Can’t Defeat White Supremacy with White Supremacy
18 Jul 2019
The “squad” condemns Trump for his white nationalism, not understanding that as a white supremacist settler-colonial state, white nationalism is “American” nationalism.
Tongo Eisen-Martin
Collateral White Skin
12 Jun 2019
Whiteness is practiced, not as a privilege, but rather a deputization.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Maryann Erigha’s “Hollywood Jim Crow”
29 May 2019
White supremacy in Hollywood operates on the premise that Black movies, directors, and stars are “unbankable”—or not profitable.
Earl Hazell
MJ/Kelly, Wynton/West: Tour Guides of the House of Peter Pan
22 May 2019
An opera singer and artistic director sees the Black male genius as a window to America’s dark side.
Dave Tell
How Poverty is Reshaping the Story of Emmett Till’s Murder
22 May 2019
Scholars continue to debate what, exactly, happened to Emmett Till, but a poor Black town is betting its future on one version of the story.
Adam Tomes
Los Angeles: City of Segregation
22 May 2019
Only white Americans have the freedom to use their wealth to buy a home wherever they like, and they use that freedom to isolate themselves from others.