| Black Agenda Report

Scott McLernee
Notes From the Underground
29 Apr 2021
Richard Wright’s 1942 novel was testing the limits of what the white novel-reading public would have found imaginable.
Cornel West and Jeremy Tate
Howard University’s Removal of Classics is a Spiritual Catastrophe
28 Apr 2021
Upon learning to read while enslaved, Frederick Douglass began his great journey of emancipation, as such journeys always begin, in the mind.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Pacifica Radio: Let’s Talk About the Debt
21 Apr 2021
It’s difficult not to imagine that the secret plan is to sell WBAI’s license. “Most people support Pacifica because it’s community radio.”
Ujima People’s Progress Party
The Black Working Class Must Defend Itself, Not the Black Misleadership Class
21 Apr 2021
Black political power is gained by expanding independent Black political institutions and bases around agendas not endorsed by the ruling elite.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alaina E. Roberts’ “I’ve Been Here All the While”
21 Apr 2021
Five Indian nations brought their Black slaves on the Trail of Tears and it was Black labor that helped them rebuild.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Vaccine Passports in a Failed State
15 Apr 2021
The non-vaccinated can be smeared and equated with MAGA hat wearing Trumpers, regardless of their religious or political affiliations.
Adofo Minka
Spirit of Self-Emancipation Continues to Rise at the St. Louis City Justice Center
15 Apr 2021
Like Christ on the third day, detainees in St. Louis jails have risen to challenge state oppression.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tracey L. Walters’ “Not Your Mother’s Mammy”
15 Apr 2021
The assumption is these women are uneducated or without skills beyond cleaning or caring for children and adults.
Riva Enteen
Reality Police Erase Lesbians, Covid-skeptics and Democracy
15 Apr 2021
Corporate reality police have stablished themselves as the authorities on what constitutes “information” or “disinformation.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Testi-lyin’
07 Apr 2021
Northeast, midwest, southwest, south, down south, up south, out south—south of the Canadian border—Slouched down in his cruiser, slow-rollin’ the ‘hood; Or a-