| Black Agenda Report

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Pentagon Orders All Installations to Stop Reporting COVID-19 Infections and Deaths
01 Apr 2020
This is going to become a problem for the Pentagon, whether it's on Navy destroyers, submarines, and aircraft carriers or the 800+ bases.
Jojo Goldman
"I'm Detained at Rikers Island and I'm Sick With Coronavirus"
01 Apr 2020
“The corrections officers think it’s a joke, and I be telling them, ‘This is serious, man.’”
Global Information Network
South African Police Unleash Water Cannons and Rubber Bullets During Virus Lockdown
01 Apr 2020
The lockdown included bans on any sales of alcohol and cigarettes and even barred exercises outside the home.
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
On Being Black, Southern And Rural In The Time Of COVID-19
01 Apr 2020
Elders and already sick folks are at risk down South, the Blackest region of the nation with the worst health care.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Mumia: Things Fall Apart
30 Mar 2020
Citing the novel by Chinua Achebe, political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal notes: “We see outside our doors, our windows, a world we did not know, that now exists.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Chinese Disease?
25 Mar 2020
He didn’t say Chinese debt, did he? He didn’t say Chinese pharmaceuticals, did he?
Frank Chapman
Trump Using Virus to Privatize Government, Increase Repression
25 Mar 2020
Trump’s administration is more interested in saving Wall Street and boosting their profits than they are in saving lives and meeting the needs of the people.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Late-Stage Imperial Omni-Crisis: Death by Virus and Internal Contradictions
19 Mar 2020
The epidemic reveals the stark truth, that the US dismantled and privatized its public health system, to fatten the pockets of the oligarchy and render working people more helpless and dependent.
Mark P. Fancher
Calm Down About Coronavirus and Follow Africa’s Lead
18 Mar 2020
Europe – not Africa – is the current epicenter of the disease.
Mike Davis
COVID-19: The Monster is at the Door
18 Mar 2020
The danger to the global poor has been almost totally ignored by journalists and Western governments.