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

The Lies of American Exceptionalism
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
14 Aug 2018
🖨️ Print Article

Corporate media claim the economy is “booming” even though “we still don’t have as many jobs as existed” before the 2008 crash, said BAR contributor Danny Haiphong, one of the authors of the upcoming book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: The Fake News of Wall Street, White Supremacy and the U.S War Machine. Haiphong’s co-author is Roberto Sirvent, editor of the Black Agenda Report Book Forum.

U.S. Imperialism

Related Podcasts

Black Agenda Radio
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio March 22, 2024
22 March 2024
This week we hear about right wing forces in San Francisco who worked with the Black democratic mayor to criminalize poverty in a classic case of B
Zone of Peace Campaign Press Conference
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Zone of Peace Campaign Press Conference
07 April 2023
The Black Alliance for Peace Zone of Peace campaign launch event took place in Washingt
U.S. Presidents Kill for Empire
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
U.S. Presidents Kill for Empire
17 December 2018
US presidents may seem different from one another, in terms of rhetoric, “but they all have in common being committed to empire,” said

More Stories


  • BAR Book Forum: Deirdre Cooper Owens’ “Medical Bondage”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Deirdre Cooper Owens’ “Medical Bondage”
    04 Jul 2018
    “American gynecology and obstetrics is intimately bound to American slavery.”
  • BAR Book Forum: Britt Rusert’s “Fugitive Science”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Britt Rusert’s “Fugitive Science”
    04 Jul 2018
    “We are seeing the reemergence of a white supremacist engagement with science that has always existed, but is finding more traction within the public sphere and media.”
  • The Anti-Union Janus Ruling Is Going to Hit Black Women the Hardest
    Miles Kampf-Lassin
    The Anti-Union Janus Ruling Is Going to Hit Black Women the Hardest
    04 Jul 2018
    “The public sector provides job opportunities for African-American workers, and women especially, at a rate much higher than the private sector.”
  • Papers Insist ‘We Need’ Secret Gang Databases—Just Like We ‘Needed’ Stop & Frisk
    Josmar Trujillo
    Papers Insist ‘We Need’ Secret Gang Databases—Just Like We ‘Needed’ Stop & Frisk
    04 Jul 2018
    “Police gang databases can lead to increased bail, harsher sentencing, erosion of presumption of innocence and even increased chances of deportation.”
  • The Land Question: Unpacking Expropriation Without Compensation in South Africa
    Nombuso Mathibela
    The Land Question: Unpacking Expropriation Without Compensation in South Africa
    04 Jul 2018
    “Pay no one for land acquired illegally.”
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us