Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Theft is Part of U.S. DNA
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
27 Mar 2018
🖨️ Print Article

You can’t understand the present-day United States if you don’t know its bloody history, said Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous People’s History of the United States and her new book, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment. The nation’s roots in organized theft of labor and land explains “why we have a real estate broker as president, just like our first president, the land speculator George Washington.”

Native American Genocide

Related Podcasts

 Reject “Thanks-Taking,” Join in National Day of Mourning
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Reject “Thanks-Taking,” Join in National Day of Mourning
24 November 2020
“Instead of celebrating genocide, the National Day of Mourning was created to destroy the Pilgrim mythology” that led to “not a nation of immigrant

More Stories


  • Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia
    Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
    Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia
    13 Apr 2022
    BAR Contributing Editor Ann Garrison reports from Ethiopia.
  • Who Will Hold the US/EU/NATO Accountable For Its Many War Crimes?
    Jacqueline Luqman
    Who Will Hold the US/EU/NATO Accountable For Its Many War Crimes?
    13 Apr 2022
    U.S. presidents and their NATO counterparts have committed war crimes all over the world. But they exempt themselves from prosecution, and use orporate media to act as their personal advocates.…
  • Francia Márquez Mina: the Triumph of a Pedagogy of the Oppressed in Progress
    Charo Mina Rojas
    Francia Márquez Mina: the Triumph of a Pedagogy of the Oppressed in Progress
    13 Apr 2022
    Francia Márquez Mina: the Triumph of a Pedagogy of the Oppressed in Progress
  • “Voting and the Black Left”: An Interview with Kamau Franklin
    Kamau Franklin and Roberto Sirvent
    “Voting and the Black Left”: An Interview with Kamau Franklin
    12 Apr 2022
    Kamau Franklin, founder of Community Movement Builders, speaks with BAR Book Forum Editor Roberto Sirvent about the limitations of electoral politics for the left.
  • BAR Book Forum: Andrea A. Davis’ “Horizon, Sea, Sound"
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Andrea A. Davis’ “Horizon, Sea, Sound"
    12 Apr 2022
    In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Andrea A. Davis. Davis is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at…
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us