By: Shanita Hubbard 499321032-republican-candidate-donald-trump-arrives-to-speaks-to Republican candidate Donald Trump (fourth from left) arrives to speak to the press with the Rev. Darrell Scott (center), senior pastor of the New Spirit…
Eric Herschthal On the face of it, what happened in the tiny island of Barbados 400 years ago seems irrelevant to Americans today. Even now, the island matters to…
The Long, Ugly History of Racism at American Universities By Leslie M. Harris Demands to rename Tillman Hall at Clemson University, the circulation of a video showing a racist chant…

Joseph McCarthy, the inebriated Senator from Wisconsin, overstepped the boundaries of civility when he began making false accusations about respected public servants who he claimed were communist. At a…
By Jason Hickel Colonialism is one of those things you’re not supposed to discuss in polite company – at least not north of the Mediterranean. Most people feel uncomfortable about…

The histories and holidays of the oppressed, colonized and enslaved are, of necessity, different from the history and holidays of the oppressor, the colonizer and the enslaver. Likewise, their…
By Mama Marimba Ani A group of European scavengers, many of whom had been imprisoned or homeless in England, arrived in New England in 1620. They first lived on Turtle…
By Katharine Whittemore One of the most powerful magazine articles I’ve ever read is “The Case for Reparations,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, in the June 2014 issue of The Atlantic. Its…

Part II. The birth and coming-into-being of Nat Turner (October 2, 1800) was surely a bad omen for the oppressor but a sign and wonder for the oppressed. But even…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka http://blackagendareport.com/paris_attacks_white_lives_matter “The white supremacist ideology and world-view, normalized and thus unrecognized by most, has become a form of psychopathology.” I received a message…
By: Charles D. Ellison Of terrorism’s many destructive traits, none is more horrifying than its ability to unexpectedly snatch our normalcy from us. Recent attacks in Paris force us into…

The history of Black people in this country is a complex, engaging and thought-compelling history, a history of Holocaust and enduring hope; of savage enslavement and yet an unsupressable desire…