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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Save the University City Town Homes
29 Jul 2022
Rasheda Alexander is a tenant organizer at the University City Town Homes in Philadelphia. She joins us to discuss their struggle to stop a mass eviction amidst the proposed sale of their affordable…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Glen Ford's Irreplaceable Journalism
27 Jul 2022
I was very proud to write the preface to Glen Ford's book, The Black Agenda, which was published posthumously by OR Books. As we approach the first anniversary of Glen's passing, I endeavored to…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Glen Ford: Clarence Thomas, the “Anti-Black,” 2007
27 Jul 2022
An essay by the late Glen Ford recounts the perverse origin story of the twisted life and lies of Clarence Thomas.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Grandstanding: Mayoral Candidate Karen Bass Says She Can Solve LA’s Homelessness Crisis
27 Jul 2022
As the late Glen Ford said, the Black misleadership class has no shame. Congresswoman Karen Bass's campaign for mayor of Los Angeles is full of empty promises. She proposes nothing that would…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
You Can’t Shame the Shameless Black Misleadership Class
27 Jul 2022
The Black misleaders have been busy selling out Black people for half a century, but are still only barely tolerated by the rich man’s Democratic Party and its racist figurehead, Joe Biden.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Solve Tomorrow’s Uvalde in nano seconds…
27 Jul 2022
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Introduction to Glen Ford's "The Black Agenda"
27 Jul 2022
The compilation of Glen Ford's work, "The Black Agenda" was published by OR Books posthumously. In the introduction he recounted his life story and career.
Alec Karakatsanis
Police Departments Spend Vast Sums of Money Creating “Copaganda”
27 Jul 2022
US police departments spend tens of millions of dollars every year to manipulate the news, flooding the discourse with “copaganda.” These aggressive tactics give the public a distorted view of what…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Mr. Magoo, what’s new? “Oh, say, can you see?”
22 Jul 2022
I. Didn’t Lynne say something like, “The law’s What they say it is…today…” (????????????????) Didn’t Lenin say something like, “The state is an
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Steven W. Thrasher’s Book, “The Viral Underclass”
20 Jul 2022
This week’s featured author is Steven W. Thrasher. Thrasher holds the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg chair at Northwestern University’s Medill School, the first journalism professorship in the world…