| Black Agenda Report

Chris Hedges
My Student Comes Home from Prison
01 Jul 2020
In 1990, Lawrence Bell was 14, orphaned and living in an abandoned house when three Camden cops pressured him to sign a confession of murder. “Break the reigns of terror by the police and the bonds of the world’s largest prison system and the ruling elites will stand naked before us.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Russia, Afghanistan, and the Big Lie
01 Jul 2020
Far from being an enemy, Russia assisted the U.S. and its coalition in their fight against the Taliban. “Russia is the nation least likely to do business with jihadists.”
Mark P. Fancher
Is “Black Lives Matter” a Therapeutic Mantra for White Guilt?
01 Jul 2020
Many who took to the streets were out there to engage in a form of mass group therapy. “it was necessary for many whites who had never before engaged in race activism to rush into street protests to declare: ‘I am not a bad racist person!.’”
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Interrogating Systemic Racism and the White Academic Field
01 Jul 2020
The US university is marked by the dominance of intellectual white liberalism in tension and complicity with conservative nationalism and neoliberalism. “We need an unprecedented support for the units and areas that have contributed the most to understand and to combat racism: Africana Studies and…
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Protest and Power
02 Jul 2020
Building People’s Power is the vital arena of struggle under late stage capitalism, when the “system” is not only objectively failing, but the people know it is coming apart at the seams. “Diminished budgets do not make the police accountable to the people or allow the people to reinvent policing…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Neocolonial African Conservation Inspired by “Tarzan”
01 Jul 2020
Ann Garrison responds to a critic of neocolonial nature “conservation” in Africa, and discusses US-backed threats to national sovereignty and all forms of life in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “The US and the rest of the West have appointed Kagame as the neocolonial manager of DRC’s vast…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Police Defunding Con Game
08 Jul 2020
Cutting police budgets without establishing public control over their behavior doesn’t solve the problem, and invites politicians to shuffle budget numbers around like a three-card monte swindle. “False friends display window dressing and treachery.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Beware of Right Deviations That Have Emerged from the Three-Headed Crisis of US Imperialism
08 Jul 2020
Libertarianism, like all capitalist ideologies, is bound with white supremacy. “Mass characterization of the partial ‘lockdowns’ in cities across the U.S. as ‘medical martial law’ deflected from the very real dangers of the U.S.-response to COVID-19.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Oooh, what a lil’ Movement can do…
08 Jul 2020
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Oooh, oooh… Oooh, oooh… Oooh, oooh… Oooh, oooh…
Gwendolyn Wallace
To Abolish the Medical industrial Complex
08 Jul 2020
Like prisons, healthcare systems are part of the way that empire reproduces itself. “Anti-blackness has not distorted medical relationships and institutions, so much as built them.”