| Black Agenda Report

Josmar Trujillo
The “Total Anarchy” of Wet Cops
31 Jul 2019
No matter how many Black people cops kill and abuse, corporate media amplify voices that shift victimhood onto the police force.
Monique Judge
Chicago Police Compiling Dossiers on People Who Speak at Police Board Meetings
31 Jul 2019
Even cops that testify before the board have had their files updated. “’Totally inappropriate,’ said the city’s newly elected Black mayor.”
Gyasi Lake
There’s No Such Thing as a “Progressive Prosecutor” in a System Designed to Criminalize Blackness
17 Jul 2019
Incremental changes are treated as if they are touchdowns when they are just moving the chains.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Torture of Assange Is Public Policy in U.S. Prisons
12 Jun 2019
The psychological torture imposed on Julian Assange is not unlike the decades of torture imposed upon Black political prisoners in the US.
People’s Dispatch staff
Atlanta Jail to be Shut Due to Community Mobilization
29 May 2019
Instead of ensuring public safety for all citizens, the jail wrongfully imprisons and abuses people of color.
Donna Murch
How Race Made the Opioid Crisis
01 May 2019
The demonization of urban, nonwhite drug users played a crucial role in the opening of ‘white’ pharmaceutical markets in the 1990s.
Adam Johnson
Dozens Condemned by Media as ‘Gang Members’ Not Actually Gang Members, Study Confirms
01 May 2019
Corporate media are racist megaphones for the mass Black incarceration state, criminalizing whole communities like electronic lynch mobs.
Alice Speri
As Black Activists Protested Police Killings, Homeland Security Worried They Might Join ISIS
17 Apr 2019
Federal officials spread right-wing tales that Black protesters were susceptible to Islamic jihadist appeals.
Kelly Lytle Hernandez
How the Government Built a Trap for Black Youth
10 Apr 2019
Mass Black incarceration didn’t just happen; it was engineered at the highest levels of US government.
Stephen Cooper
Keith Tharpe and the Death Penalty’s Racist Roots
06 Mar 2019
The history of the death penalty in America is hewn from the hell of slavery, subjugation and the suffering of black people.