US Politics

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Let the Black Caucus Be Black
06 Jan 2021
Black people suffer because they have no real representation in Congress. The Congressional Black Caucus takes its orders from Nancy Pelosi, who serves corporations, not people.
The Black Agenda Review team
The Black Agenda Review Year in Books
06 Jan 2021
Neither the pandemic nor the outgoing presidency represent a decisive break with or a radical deviation from past history, policies and conditions of capitalism and neocolonialism.
Ben Passmore
BAR Welcomes Political Cartoonist Ben Passmore
06 Jan 2021
The Philadelphia-based, award-winning artist is the newest member of the Black Agenda Report team.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Will COVID-19 Contact Tracing Expand State Surveillance?
06 Jan 2021
The US remains wholly incapable of tracing Covid-19 contagion, but if it tried, we might wind up with “the worst of both worlds” – a horror of coercion and confusion that still failed to stop the e
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Capitalism on a Ventilator: A New Book Analyzes the Impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. and China
06 Jan 2021
While China contained Covid-19 and preserved its economy, the U.S. spins lies while hundreds of thousands of its people die for lack of even a semblance of a national health system.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Think…
06 Jan 2021
Think of peoples having the most tanks, the most drones, the most missiles, bombs, aircraft carriers, guns, ammo and night vision goggles
BAR Comments Editor Jahan Choudhry
Letters from Our Readers
06 Jan 2021
This week the Black Misleadership Class, sexual violence and colonialism, and the crisis of US imperialism were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Khary Polk’s “Contagions of Empire”
06 Jan 2021
Black and brown volunteers were considered both “essential” and “dispensable” in past disease-ridden US conflicts, just as they are in today’s Covid crisis.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Luke de Noronha’s “Deporting Black Britons”
06 Jan 2021
Immigrants that moved to Britain as children were deported to Jamaica as “foreign criminals.”
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Caste Does Not Explain Race
06 Jan 2021
The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.