| Black Agenda Report

Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Democrats Give an “A” Grade to Joe Biden’s Brand of Corporate Rule. Should the Left?
12 May 2021
Biden’s policies thus far represent the bare minimum response of a social order mired in total decay.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The acrobats are back…(gimme a bleepin’ break!)
12 May 2021
The acrobats are back—riding bareback and backwards on Donkeys! They’re back juggling hocus-pocus focus groups; Back, spinning Wall Street straw into fools’ gold for the war-
Tiana Reid
BAR Book Forum: Short Meditations on Christina Sharpe’s “In the Wake”
12 May 2021
There was no way to make light of this daunting book and its effects on me, no matter how much I thought I knew it.
Joshua Moufawad-Paul
Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror 1817-2020
12 May 2021
“Disease poetics” has been part of global capitalism since its emergence.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Justice was served from Warfare States’ gaslit woks
29 Apr 2021
Justice was served sweet and sour in pepper spray soup—tear- gas gumbo—tears mixed with milk and milk of magnesia in crimson curry sauce;
Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent
“Anti-Blackness, Bioethics, and Public Health: 200 Introductory Resources for Community Study”
29 Apr 2021
Writers, artists, community organizers and scholars have all contributed their analysis of the resource documents listed, below, and how they might be useful in assessing anti-Black structures arou
Philip Harvey
A History of Unemployment and the Search for Solutions
21 Apr 2021
The only time the United States has experienced real full employment was during World Wars I and II.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Reese Piece…
15 Apr 2021
Salute to City of Angels’ son! He wrote, he wrote, he wrote And he wrote… Ramparts, The Progressive, The Nation, Mother Jones, Dateline Havana, 48 hills…
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
Riva Enteen
Reality Police Erase Lesbians, Covid-skeptics and Democracy
15 Apr 2021
Corporate reality police have stablished themselves as the authorities on what constitutes “information” or “disinformation.”