US Politics

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
The Black Agenda Review: A Manifesto of First Principles
02 Dec 2020
The Black Agenda Review will function as a weekly supplement to the regular editorial content of the Black Agenda Report.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Will This Be the Radicalization of Black Lives Matter?
02 Dec 2020
Ten Black Lives Matter chapters are demanding that those who have amassed millions of dollars in the movement’s name submit to both a financial and political accounting.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
People Power (Or 30 min. men and women every 4 yrs?)
02 Dec 2020
The People earned a dancing in the streets day, horn honking, slogan shouting day—collective sigh/exhale of relief day…Yes, The People deserve
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
"Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens" Demonstrates the Depths of New Cold War Propaganda against China
02 Dec 2020
In the season finale, the liberal mask comes off and the program morphs into a screed for the U.S.’s New Cold War on China.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
02 Dec 2020
This week the ideological education of the working class, the need for socialism, and the aims of a Biden administration were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jessica Gordon Nembhard’s “Collective Courage”
02 Dec 2020
Many of the great African American thinkers, movers, and shakers were also leaders in the Black cooperative movement.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ana-Maurine Lara’s “Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty” and “Streetwalking”
02 Dec 2020
The author wants us to deepen our analysis of how power moves through the world to constrain Black life, and how queer Black people resist these constraints.
Jerusalem Demsas
How to Prevent Up to 40 Million People from Being Evicted
02 Dec 2020
Millions of Americans face eviction in a “completely predictable and entirely preventable” crisis as the CDC’s moratorium is set to expire on New Year’s Eve.
Seth Sandronsky
Study Shows Blacks and Latinos Make Up Bulk of Temporary “Gig” Workers
02 Dec 2020
Eighty-three percent of blue-collar temp assignments are staffed by non-white workers in Illinois, a state where non-white workers are just 35 percent of the workforce.
Andrew King
Woke Capitalism: The Poison Pill of Liberal Anti-Racism
02 Dec 2020
Both capitalist parties, and members of the black misleadership class, intentionally play the game of racial politics in order to obscure and ignore issues of class and poverty.