| Black Agenda Report

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Richard Kent Evans’ “MOVE: An American Religion”
12 Aug 2020
MOVE’s history is a reminder why police and prison abolition remain so urgent.
Zaynab Shahar
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
12 Aug 2020
Blackness is understood as always already criminal, and homonormative imagination is no different in this respect.
Victoria Theisen-Homer
Students of Color are Harmed Most by the “Broken Windows” Teaching
12 Aug 2020
“No excuses” teaching borrows from the “broken windows” theory of policing, which has been enacted in U.S. cities since the mid-1980s.
Amy Moran-Thomas
How a Popular Medical Device Encodes Racial Bias
12 Aug 2020
Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin, and the consequences can be serious.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 10, 2020
11 Aug 2020
“Black August” Honors Captives of Armed Struggle
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Midwives Could Help Stem Maternal and Infant Death Toll
11 Aug 2020
Dr Sasha Turner, professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, says more extensive use of midwives would reduce skyrocketing increases in maternal birth difficulties, worldwide
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“Black August” Honors Captives of Armed Struggle
10 Aug 2020
“Black August started in San Quentin to highlight the armed struggle,” said Jihad Abdulmumit, chairperson of the Jericho Movement, which advocates for political prisoners.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
“We Need a National Industrial Commission, a Permanent One”
05 Aug 2020
Like the first Covd-19 relief package, the pending bill will have been written by “sleep-deprived staff and inattentive lawmakers who are making this all up on the fly.”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“Minneapolis Uprising Syllabus” Tells Why That City Sparked National Rebellion
03 Aug 2020
Adam Bledsoe, a professor of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota, has compiled a comprehensive “Minneapolis Uprising Syllabus” containing articles and
Joy James
Airbrushing Revolution for the Sake of Abolition
29 Jul 2020
“Interest convergence” and “pragmatic compromise” are euphemisms for what might better be called opportunism and truth-avoidance.