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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Confronting Counterinsurgency: Cop Cities and Democracy's Terrors
12 Sep 2025
Joy James is a scholar and a political philosopher who works with organizers. She is editor of the new book Confronting Counterinsurgency: Cop Cities & Democracy’s Terrors, which is published by…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Super Predators, Born Criminals, and the Black Misleadership Class
10 Sep 2025
The treachery of the Black misleadership class knows no bounds. While Trump’s latest racist dog whistle about “born criminals” is condemned, double-talking scoundrels may pretend to be horrified…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
POEM: The King Alfred Plan, Gil Scott-Heron, 1972
10 Sep 2025
“...white paranoia is here to stay/The white boy's scheming night and day/What you think about the King Alfred Plan?”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Department of War: What’s new is so old
10 Sep 2025
"Department of War: What’s new is so old" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tracie Canada’s Book, “Tackling the Everyday”
10 Sep 2025
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Tracie Canada. Canada is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of…
Joshua Reaves
From Refusal to Resilience: How Hurricane Katrina Birthed A Global Health Vanguard
10 Sep 2025
The US government left Black residents to die after Hurricane Katrina, refusing Cuba's offer of emergency doctors. This racist neglect exposed a truth that the US state would rather sacrifice its own…
Jacqueline Luqman
The Military Occupation of Washington, DC: Then and Now
10 Sep 2025
The current military occupation of DC is not an anomaly but an escalation of a long war on Black communities, a more visible form of ongoing political subjugation.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Katrina Victims: Relocated or Forced into Exile?
27 Aug 2025
Black Agenda Report's late Executive Editor, Glen Ford, gave this interview a decade after Hurricane Katrina to explore how the narrative of "starting over" is being used to whitewash the forced…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Why We Remember Katrina
27 Aug 2025
Twenty years ago, the world witnessed more than the suffering of hurricane Katrina's victims. The United States was exposed as a failed state controlled by the cruelties of racialized capitalism.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: This is Criminal, Malik Rahim, New Orleans, September 1st, 2005
27 Aug 2025
“It’s not like New Orleans was caught off guard. This could have been prevented.”