| Black Agenda Report

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Andrew Cuomo and the Black Political Class
31 Mar 2021
Black politicians shamelessly rallied to Cuomo, ridiculously comparing him to Emmett Till and the Central Park Five, in hopes that he will dispense patronage their way if he remains in office.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Reject the Innocence and Siege Politics of the U.S. Empire
31 Mar 2021
The U.S. was founded in the belief that Black and indigenous people were a threat to the existence of a “democratic” and “liberty”-loving colonial and capitalist society.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
REVIEW: On Anarchism and the Black Revolution
31 Mar 2021
“The principles of anarchism appear to be growing in some corners of the Black community,” due largely to the work and thought of former Black Panther Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Shinobu, is this what solidarity looks like?
31 Mar 2021
Now, I wasn’t Yuri Kochiyama amidst toppled chairs, gun smoke scented chaos, cradling Malcolm’s heavy head on the Audubon Ballroom
Onyesonwu Chatoyer
African Women, Don’t Be a Mammy for Empire
31 Mar 2021
All too often we witness petit-bourgeois African women willingly taking positions of leadership, power, and influence within the political and military infrastructure of the United States.
Sonali Chakravarti
Derek Chauvin and the Myth of the Impartial Juror
31 Mar 2021
As a space for democratic deliberation and decision-making, the jury box still has the potential to shift the criminal legal system – but first we must change who is able to serve on a jury.
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
31 Mar 2021
This week the U.S. state’s propaganda and the Black elite were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Catie Coe’s Book, “The New American Servitude”
31 Mar 2021
Senior care puts care workers into racialized, gendered, and age hierarchies, making it difficult for them to achieve social and economic mobility.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jayna Brown’s “Black Utopias”
31 Mar 2021
I am hoping my call will provoke/inspire us to practice forms of life and liveliness differently.
BAP Haiti Committee
We Say Quite Clearly: 'U.S. Out of Haiti!'
31 Mar 2021
While Biden is telling Haitians “Don’t come over,” Haiti and its allies have been saying “U.S. Out of Haiti.”