| Black Agenda Report

Jacqueline Luqman
RFK, Jr.: It’s Not Genetics, It’s Racial Capitalism
19 Jul 2023
Black people were disproportionately impacted by the covid pandemic. The causes of the crisis were systemic, not genetic.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Steven W. Thrasher’s Book, “The Viral Underclass”
20 Jul 2022
This week’s featured author is Steven W. Thrasher. Thrasher holds the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg chair at Northwestern University’s Medill School, the first journalism professorship in the world…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Ongoing Covid Disaster
23 Mar 2022
Pollsters have advised Joe Biden to declare covid over. But the pandemic revealed all the shortcomings of a political system which is dedicated to austerity and to protecting capitalist interests.…
Donald Earl Collins
America’s New Dystopian Normal
15 Mar 2022
The high covid death toll in this country is a result of capitalist austerity policies.
World Health Organization
WHO Stands with African Nations and Calls for Borders to Remain Open
01 Dec 2021
Scientists in Southern African nations revealed the presence of the Omicron Covid-19 variant but the good deed was punished with worldwide travel bans. The World Health Organization makes clear
Akilah Johnson and Nina Martin
How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men
06 Jan 2021
To understand why COVID-19 killed so many young Black men, you need to know the legend of John Henry. “Covid-19 is a new gear in an old machine.”
The Marshall Project
COVID-19’s Toll on People of Color Is Worse Than We Knew
26 Aug 2020
Some coronavirus deaths, especially early on, were mistakenly attributed to other causes.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The Responsibility to Protect? Bipartisan Crimes Against Humanity in the U.S.
24 Jun 2020
The US committed crimes against humanity by creating the conditions that led to sickness and death for vulnerable sectors of the U.S. population
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Indict and Punish the Perpetrators of Covid Mass Death
21 May 2020
Not just Trump, but the whole US ruling class must pay for the mass Covid death toll among Blacks, because only the ruling class has the power to systematically allocate life-death chances for whol
Stansfield Smith
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot’s Coronavirus Threats and Government Incapacity to Handle a Pandemic
13 May 2020
The city’s Black mayor threatened Black house partyers with arrest, but ignored 500 un-masked white people protesting the Covid-19 lock-down.