| Black Agenda Report

Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
16 Jan 2019
This week’s letters show us that the new political period will require a lot of thinking on the part of those that want to remake society for the better.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Harri Englund’s’ “Gogo Breeze”
16 Jan 2019
In rural Zambia, an elder named Gogo Breeze investigates his listeners’ grievances and renders public service at a small privately-owned radio station.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kerry Chance’s “Living Politics in South Africa’s Urban Shacklands”
16 Jan 2019
Repression of the poor in South Africa has resulted in the criminalization of the very forms of struggle that made the democratic transition possible.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Corporate and Banking Interests Profit from Desecration of Black Maryland Graveyard
16 Jan 2019
Truth rises from the graves of Black ancestors in a wealthy Maryland county.
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Uniting for a Green New Deal
16 Jan 2019
A real Green New Deal requires pushing issues Democrats don’t want to discuss, such as nationalization of industries, more democracy, and cuts to the military.
Whitney Webb
How a NeoCon-Backed "Fact Checker" Plans to Wage War on Independent Media
16 Jan 2019
As Newsguard’s project advances, it will soon become almost impossible to avoid this neocon-approved news site’s ranking systems on any technological device sold in the US.
Paul Buchheit
By the Best Definition, the Poverty Rate Should Be Tripled
09 Jan 2019
If measured by 1960s yardsticks, today’s US poverty rates are three times higher than officially recognized.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Abolition Spotlight Editor
BAR Abolition Spotlight: "Mia Mingus”
09 Jan 2019
Prison abolition and reform are compatible “when reform is done in service of abolition." “State violence and intimate violence are deeply connected.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Eunsong Kim’s “gospel of regicide”and Juno Salazar Parreñas’ “Decolonizing Extinction”
09 Jan 2019
Our authors contemplate the “antiblack horizon” in Asian American imaginaries, and orangutans’ relationship to colonialism and white supremacy.
Jason Hickelby
How Britain Stole $45 Trillion From India And Lied About It
09 Jan 2019
British colonizers turned a scam for defrauding peasants into a parasitical relationship that made England rich and impoverished a subcontinent.