| Black Agenda Report

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Why the Rich Want to Bury Bernie, the Not-Really-Socialist
15 Aug 2019
Sanders is fighting capitalist austerity, not capitalist rule, but austerity is ruling class policy, so the Democratic Party must stop him.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: No Racism, Just Russians
14 Aug 2019
The absurd claim that Russians have orchestrated US racial strife is designed to nullify Black outrage and discredit those who fight oppression.
Afro-Descendents at Sao Paulo Forum
Afro-Descendents in the Americas Denounce Neo-Liberalism and Imperialism
14 Aug 2019
In Caracas, Venezuela, on July 28, 2019, Afro-Descended participants in the annual Sao Paulo Forum met to discuss the state of their various social movements.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison Nobel Lecture
14 Aug 2019
“Forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light.”
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
The Red Summer of 1919, Explained
14 Aug 2019
White mobs attacked Black neighborhoods in cities across the nation in 1919, but this time Blacks would not “turn the left cheek when smitten upon the right.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
14 Aug 2019
This week we discuss the definition of concentration camps, the armed white right wing, and the criminal justice system. We share your comments for “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Azeezat Johnson, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Beth Kamunge’s “The Fire Now”
14 Aug 2019
A new book highlights what contemporary prohibitions on Black life look like in various geographical and socio-political spaces.
Matthew Quest
Distinguished Black Scholar Writes Biography of Jefferson for the Age of Trump
14 Aug 2019
In the Age of Trump, it could be said that all interpreters of Jefferson and US History have their own “alternative facts.”
Derecka Purnell
Mass Shootings, Militarism and Policing Are Chapters in the Same Manifesto
14 Aug 2019
White supremacist killers in the U.S. are simply implementing on a local level what their government does across the globe.
Steve Hochstadt
How African American Land Was Stolen in the 20th Century
14 Aug 2019
The US government gave hundreds of millions of acres of land to whites, but failed to give freed slaves 40 acres and a mule or protect Black farmers from massive theft.