| Black Agenda Report

Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
COVID-19: The Capitalist Emperor Has no Clothes
01 Apr 2020
The systemic failure of the capitalist order triggered by the coronavirus has reinforced the growing awareness that extreme wealth inequality is a fundamental characteristic of the system.
John G. Russell
Racial Profiling Disorder: the All-American Pandemic
01 Apr 2020
RAPROD carriers are convinced that blacks disproportionately carry guns and other contraband.
Ed Morales
The Roots of Organizing: The Young Lords’ Revolution
01 Apr 2020
Historian Johanna Fernández makes the case for the Young Lords as profound thinkers as well as highly capable street activists.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for week of March 30, 2020
30 Mar 2020
COVID-19 May Trigger a “Crisis of Legitimacy”
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.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Can Black Marxists Imagine the Unimaginable?
30 Mar 2020
“There’s always something new that we couldn’t anticipate,” said Minkah Makalani, professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Bernie Sanders’ Socialism Isn’t the Real Thing
30 Mar 2020
When North Carolina writer and activist Joshua Briond was introduced to the words, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,” he knew that Bernie Sande
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
COVID-19 May Trigger a “Crisis of Legitimacy”
30 Mar 2020
Can the corporate state hold, “or will it collapse under the weight of mass opposition and mass ‘distancing’ from the authority of the state?” asks Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteiro
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
25 Mar 2020
This week the Democratic Party and the failures of US healthcare were on your mind.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aparna Mishra Tarc’s “Literacy of the Other”
25 Mar 2020
The global citizenry shows increasing apathy towards each other’s social and political conditions.