| Black Agenda Report

Adofo Minka
Spies of Mississippi: Mayor Lumumba’s Cops Put Public Under Spyglass
25 Nov 2020
Jackson’s supposedly “radical” Black mayor wants to make surveillance great again in Mississippi.
Carroll Bogert
Superpredator: The Media Myth That Demonized a Generation of Black Youth
25 Nov 2020
By the end of the 90s corporate journalists were feverishly dehumanizing young blacks in news stories, editorials and commentaries.
BAR Comments Editor Jahan Choudhry
Letters from Our Readers
25 Nov 2020
This week the lives of the incarcerated, Susan Rice’s bid to be Secretary of State, and the incoming administrators of the empire were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Lavelle Porter’s “The Blackademic Life”
25 Nov 2020
Despite academia’s inherent racism, black scholars have figured out ways to work within these institutions.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Erin Manning’s “For a Pragmatics of the Useless”
25 Nov 2020
Schizoanalysis opens up new alliances (approximations) in the uneasy overlaps of neurodiversity and black life.
Bashir Muhammad Akinyele
Alexander Hamilton: An American Slave-Master
25 Nov 2020
The Broadway show is a fiction and bamboozlement: Hamilton was a depraved enslaver of people, just like most of the Founders of the White Settler State.
by Ravi Gupta
Our Vaccine Infrastructure Needs a Radical Overhaul
25 Nov 2020
Public health departments will be hard-pressed to overcome existing racial and class disparities in health care and to address to structural racism.
Dr. Fikrejesus Amahazion
Ethiopia: The TPLF’s Precipitous Fall
25 Nov 2020
The TPLF was a “darling” of the West, especially the US and UK.
Hannah Gaskill
Report: Incarceration Destabilizes Neighborhood Economies, Doesn’t Increase Safety
25 Nov 2020
Mass incarceration robs and destabilizes Black communities, and doesn’t make anyone safter.
Chris Hedges
The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth
25 Nov 2020
Venezuelan socialists and Russian intelligence are blamed for America’s ills, leaving corporate power, endless wars, austerity and deindustrialization blameless.