| Black Agenda Report

Heather Ann Thompson
Saying Her Name
19 May 2021
Remains that were found to be those of a Black MOVE teen-ager who was killed by Philadelphia police in 1985 were treated as an anthropological specimen.
J. Lester Feder
The Police “Just Launched a War”
19 May 2021
Do some, most or all US police departments have a pattern and practice of racial bias that makes them fundamentally unable to regulate themselves?
Matthew D. Lassiter
Police and the License to Kill
12 May 2021
Detroit’s wanton killing of hundreds of Blacks in the civil right era shows why most of today’s proposals to make police more accountable are bound to fail.
Eric Umansky
What Police Impunity Looks Like
21 Apr 2021
They came into his own home and took his life for no reason.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Murder of Daunte Wright Ruined Derek Chauvin Show Trial
15 Apr 2021
The Black-murder-by-cop next door to Minneapolis shows the world the dehumanization that is built into the white supremacist DNA of settler-colonialism will continue to produce crimes against our c
Anoa Changa
More Surveillance Won’t Stop White Supremacy -- It Will Target Activists of Color
17 Mar 2021
Violence from people of color and other marginalized groups – or even simply fear of such violence -- is dealt with immediately and with the harshest of consequences.
Mary Retta
We Have To Stop Valorizing Black Cops
27 Jan 2021
The purpose of policing––to jail and kill Black folks––remains the same regardless of the officers’ race.
Topher Sanders and Lucas Waldron
Still Can’t Breathe
27 Jan 2021
NYPD officers continue to use chokeholds on civilians without any meaningful punishment.
Priyam Madhukar
Police Shouldn’t Tag Students as Potential Criminals
20 Jan 2021
When cops create lists of kids “at risk” of falling into crime, it becomes a self-fulfilling indictment.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Notes Toward a National Defense Organization Against Racism and Political Repression, 1973
10 Dec 2020
Few records survive of the birth of a national anti-police repression organization formed by supporters of Angela Davis – but government spies preserved Davis’ speech.