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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Covid-19 and the Black Working Class
20 Apr 2020
“Social distancing is sometimes not an option for us,” said New York City activist Betty Davis at a Black is Back Coalition national teleconference.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The USS COVID-19, from Guam to Puget Sound
15 Apr 2020
While the world confronts a real-life deadly epidemic, the Covid-afflicted US Navy struggles to maintain the farce of keeping the planet safe from fictitious threats.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
…NOW’S THE TIME…
15 Apr 2020
coronavirus is coming across treacherous food deserts—their Red Lined decades of diabetes— over hills of hypertension; steep mountains of medical
Judy Lubin
Systemic Racism Is Making Coronavirus Worse in Black America
15 Apr 2020
COVID-19 is a perfect storm of systemic inequities operating together to worsen existing vulnerabilities.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
COVID-19 in DRC: Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst
08 Apr 2020
Deaths caused by the pandemic are likely to occur without assistance of any kind, without any administrative record, and without acknowledgment in the news cycle.
Netfa Freeman
Expect Police-Military Repression Amid the Crisis of COVID-19 and Its Aftermath
08 Apr 2020
The rulers are concerned about the class war becoming sharper in the current crisis and they are preparing to send in the military and police to quell dissent.
Elizabeth Cooney
Blacks May be Bearing the Brunt of Covid-19, But Access to Data is Limited
08 Apr 2020
The feds don’t keep racial data on the coronavirus, but local reports show Blacks are dying at multiple the rates of whites in some cities.
Soraya Nadia Mcdonald
In 1918 and 2020, Race Colors America’s Response to Epidemics
08 Apr 2020
A century ago, In cities across the nation, black people struck by the flu were often left to fend for themselves.
Jessica Corbett
Moral Leaders Demand Coronavirus Relief for Most Vulnerable
08 Apr 2020
The relief package “leaves out the majority of homeless, undocumented immigrants, the disabled, and anyone too poor to have to file taxes,” says the Poor Peoples Campaign.
Philippe Gendrault
Public Health? Anyone? Twelve Ways to Avoid Talking About Capitalism
08 Apr 2020
The failure of the American public health delivery system facing the Covid-19 is a socio-political and ideological failure born from the intrinsic contradictions of contemporary capitalism at large