| Black Agenda Report

Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s Anti-China Campaign Strategy is Part of a Broader Imperialist War Against China
29 Apr 2020
Joe Biden and Donald Trump are taking aim at China to deflect attention away from the American nightmare. “It has always been wrong-headed see China and the U.S. as equal partners in a broader war on the working class.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
DRC’s Virunga: Park, Gorillas, and Rangers All Under Attack
29 Apr 2020
Congolese officials are blaming armed Rwandan Hutu refugees for the massacre of twelve rangers and five civilians, but there are any number of other predators that covet the park. “The park is a target for those determined to seize its vast resources without regard for the wildlife or the Congolese…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
May 1st General Strike: Claiming People(s)-Centered Human Rights for the Working Class
29 Apr 2020
The failure of the capitalist state to provide the people with elementary protections of their fundamental human rights renders the capitalist state illegitimate. “The people are defining and taking up the struggle for their human rights.”
Mark P. Fancher
COVID-19 and the War Against Black Detroit
29 Apr 2020
Corporate America and white supremacists have waged merciless war against the Black megapolis that dared to nurture revolutionaries and great music. “For more than 15 years mass water shutoffs were contributing to the spread of a variety of illnesses in largely black neighborhoods.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
29 Apr 2020
This week readers were thinking about the myths of racial progress, finance capital and primaries, the pandemic in Haiti, and the possibilities of revolution.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Candice M. Jenkins’s “Black Bourgeois ”
29 Apr 2020
The zeitgeist of Black literature shifted in the past decade, from Black progress to precarity. “The author hopes readers will gain a clearer sense of how race complicates class for black subjects.”
Black Oakland Leaders and Allies
Black Oakland Demands in Light of COVID-19 and Rates of Black Death
29 Apr 2020
Unless Black people are healthy and safe then no community is healthy and safe. “The descendants of slaves, Black, African and African-Americans are most impacted by this virus through a racial and class lens.”
Victoria Law
As Coronavirus Spreads Through Prisons, States Are Failing Incarcerated People
29 Apr 2020
Although prisons have become hot spots of the pandemic, most of the penal overseers have taken only token measures, if any, to evacuate inmates. “If COVID-19 comes into this prison, there is no safe place for anyone.”
Granma International Staff
Cuban-Trained Doctor Fights Pandemic in The Bronx
29 Apr 2020
In the South Bronx, Dr Melissa Barber battles COVID-19, putting into practice the lessons she learned in Cuba, at the Latin American School of Medicine. “Dr. Barber has identified the most vulnerable in the neighborhood.” The United States has not been able to control COVID-19. The Donald Trump…
Robert Greene II
Debating Black Freedom
29 Apr 2020
Time and again, Black radicals have pressed for an expanded scope of political and economic freedoms, for Americans at home and for people abroad. “Liberator was an important waypoint between resurgent black nationalism and the burgeoning Black Power movement.” Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine…