| Black Agenda Report

Alice Speri
Memphis Police Chief Trained with Israel Security Forces
08 Feb 2023
The chief of the Memphis, Tennessee police department took part in trainings in Israel. These exchanges with an apartheid state are a training ground for brutality.
John Parker
Capitalism in Black and Blue
08 Feb 2023
Policing is inextricably linked to racism and to capitalism.
Jamal Abdulahi
United States’s Pursuit of Imperial Military Base in Northern Somalia Fuels Brutal War
08 Feb 2023
The history of European colonialism and the endless U.S. desire for a military presence strengthen a Somalia secessionist movement and warfare that most people in that country do not want.
Gus Griffin
The Super Bowl and the Trouble with First Black Symbolism
08 Feb 2023
Whether Super Bowl quarterbacks, or presidents, or police chiefs, unquestioned admiration of the "first Black" should come to an end.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Brian Jones’ Book, “The Tuskegee Student Uprising”
08 Feb 2023
This week’s featured author is Brian Jones. Jones is Director of The New York Public Library’s Center for Educators and Schools. His book is The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Interview with Moya Bailey
08 Feb 2023
This week’s featured scholar is Moya Bailey. Bailey is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. Her article is “The Ethics of Pace.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Ruchell Magee Must Be Set Free!
08 Feb 2023
Ruchell…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Global Economic Forecast Reveals the Perils of U.S. Addiction to War
08 Feb 2023
The U.S. has declared China to be an adversary, but its economic prowess cannot be eclipsed by a nation that is addicted to provocation and war making.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Black Studies in the Age of Obama: John H. Bracey, Jr. 2011
08 Feb 2023
The late John H. Bracey, Jr. argued that Black Studies should be wedded to African liberation, not to the corporate-bureaucratic structure of the university.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
China Balloon is Pretext for US Provocation
08 Feb 2023
An errant balloon from China sent the U.S. into a frenzy of fear and hatred. The president, congress, and corporate media all made sure that a harmless incident was viewed in the worst light possible.