| Black Agenda Report

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.”
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.
Anima Adjepong
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
29 Jul 2020
The lesson is to remain woke, because not all abolitionists share the goal of Black liberation.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Erika Edwards’s “Hiding in Plain Sight”
29 Jul 2020
Anti-blackness manifests as black invisibility in Argentina, a society that was determined to marginalize and discriminate against Black women.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
“This is the Scene of a Crime”: An African Artist/Activist Journey, Part II
29 Jul 2020
An interview with Dr. Karen Wilson- Ama’Echefu.
Belinda Davis
The Poor People’s Economic and Human Right Campaign: a Case for How Change Works
29 Jul 2020
With no well-financed publicity department and no links to the machinery of big party politics, movements like PPEHRC can sometimes seem lost in plain sight.
The Public Archive
Black Struggle and the New Society: An interview with C.L.R. James
22 Jul 2020
In a 1977 interview, the renowned Trinidadian writer, historian and socialist assessed the state of Black struggle in the Caribbean, the United States and Africa.
Aziz Z. Huq
Bostock v. BLM: Two Conflicting Visions of Equality
22 Jul 2020
One approach treats injustice as discreet individual actions, the other recognizes the weight of world history.
Roger Stoll
Cuban Spies Disguised As Doctors
08 Jul 2020
The European Union now excludes travelers from the COVID-ridden U.S., but welco
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Interrogating Systemic Racism and the White Academic Field
01 Jul 2020
The US university is marked by the dominance of intellectual white liberalism in tension and complicity with conservative nationalism and neoliberalism.