| Black Agenda Report

Candice Norwood
Parole and Probation Rules Limit Travel. That Can Be Complicated for People Seeking Abortions
26 Jun 2024
More than half of the 800,000 women under community supervision live in states with abortion restrictions, making the path to access more difficult — or impossible.
Anthony Rogers-Wright
The Democrats Have Lost Their Trump Card: A Study of Three Issue Areas
15 May 2024
The Democrats have used the very old tactic of winning votes out of fear, recently that of the MAGA boogeyman. But this tactic is finally beginning to lose its effect.
Margo Snipe
As Abortion Bans Loom, Black Families Are Left Vulnerable
17 Apr 2024
Florida’s ban takes effect May 1, 2024, and the fate of Arizona’s abortion access is in the throes of legal, political, and legislative battles.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Sitting Shiva in South Florida for Our souls/slivers of democracy …
27 Mar 2024
"Sitting Shiva in South Florida for Our souls/slivers of democracy …" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Jacqueline Luqman
RFK, Jr. Exposes His Right-Wing Tendencies Again, This Time On Abortion
16 Aug 2023
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. made and then tried to walk-back comments which supported banning abortion in some circumstances. But he's stuck with his own words and the supposedly anti-establishment…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
STATEMENT: On Abortion, Shirley Chisholm, December 3, 1969
25 Jan 2023
In the wake of the would-be fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Shirley Chisholm's 1969 statement on abortion is bold, progressive, unsentimental – and necessary.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democrats Exposed By the End of Roe v. Wade
29 Jun 2022
The full extent of Democratic Party treachery was exposed when the Roe v. Wade decision was overturned. Only right wing Americans have any expectation of getting what they want from the electoral…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
REFLECTION: Choosing Ourselves: Black Women and Abortion, Beverly Smith, 1989
18 May 2022
A 1989 talk by Black feminist Beverly Smith reminds us that for Black women, the right to abortion can be a woman’s right to life.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Obama and Liberals Killed Abortion Rights
11 May 2022
The revelation that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision has not motivated left-wing democrats to effectively mobilize on an issue they claim to care about. They are made…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democratic Party Betrayal, Abortion, and the Supreme Court
08 Dec 2021
Democrats have been fooled into thinking that only the courts can protect abortion rights. In fact, legislation could protect abortion permanently, but their party has refused to do that.