| Black Agenda Report

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Protesting for Jayland Walker
06 Jul 2022
The number of bullets used to kill Jayland Walker have sparked an outcry, but police kill one Black person every day in this country. If systemic change is not the demand all protest is for naught.
Black is Back Coalition
Black Is Back Coalition Holds Conference on Community Control of Police
15 Jul 2021
“We must deepen the resistance to police terror and all attempts to protect a status quo of colonial domination of our people,” the 17 organizations of the coalition declared.
Pan-African Community Action
The Radical Practicality of Community Control Over Policing: A Reply to Our Critics
03 Mar 2021
Once we are able to secure Community Control over Police and ensure that entire communities are empowered to exercise such control, we will be free to re-imagine and re-envision the very nature of
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Sept 19: A Nationwide Day of Protest, and of Dialogue on Community Control of Police
10 Sep 2020
Community control puts us on the path to both defunding and abolishing the police – so why are many Black Lives Matter chapters withholding support?
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Don’t Let the Democratic Party Bury the Movement
09 Jul 2020
The Black movement will be asphyxiated by the ubiquitous fingers of the Democratic Party if it does not build independent nexuses of people’s power.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Protest and Power
02 Jul 2020
Building People’s Power is the vital arena of struggle under late stage capitalism, when the “system” is not only objectively failing, but the people know it is coming apart at the seams.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Yes, Defund the Cops – And Put Them Under Community Control
25 Jun 2020
Community control of the police means empowering the people to shape and oversee the mechanisms of their own security and end forever the armed occupation of our communities by hostile forces.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Community Control of the Police – and a Whole Lot More
18 Jun 2020
Abolition of the police begins with community control, in which community representatives not only hire, fire and oversee the cops, but decide the nature of the policing that is necessary and accep
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Time to Sharpen Our Weapons and Wits
11 Jun 2020
Having not yet won real power over the police, this is no time for a lull or a truce -- it’s time to sharpen our political instruments and deepen the mass movement’s social penetration.
Max Rameau and Netfa Freeman
Community Control Vs. Defunding the Police: A Critical Analysis
10 Jun 2020
Defunding the police might end the armed and uniformed force as we know it, but the ruling class will then hire mercenaries to protect their wealth and enforce their will.