| Black Agenda Report

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Herd impunity?
19 May 2021
What if a colonial settler state accidentally vaccinated 61% of its population With a virulent variant of a vicious virus? What if that virus was a WMD-3-Reich-Redo-2: Blut und Boden colonial settler thug blood and soil transmitted pathogen? What if peoples tried masking—double masking, Triple…
US Out of Africa Network
BAP US Out of Africa Network Statement On the Latest Zionist Genocidal Assault in Palestinian
19 May 2021
The ongoing Nakba is only possible because of the Pan-European white supremacist and imperial support for the crimes of the Zionist entity. “Revolutionary Africans must stand with the Palestinian struggle against settler colonialism.”
Caribbean Pan-African Network
Caribbean Organizations Call on CARICOM, the US, Britian and EU to Take Urgent Action
19 May 2021
The Zionists are continuing a campaign of dispossession, terror and murder of Palestinians that began in 1948. “If there was ever a David and Goliath scenario – this is it.”
Omar Zahzah
Digital apartheid: Palestinians Being Silenced On Social Media
19 May 2021
Social media companies, from Zoom to Facebook and Twitter, are reinforcing Israel’s erasure of Palestinians. “Big Tech’s censors material related to the Palestinian struggle on Israel’s demand.” In 1984, Palestinian American intellectual and Columbia University Professor Edward Said famously…
Annie Olaloku-Teriba
Afro-Pessimism and the (Un)Logic of Anti-Blackness
19 May 2021
Entrenched in anti-racist theory and practice today is the belief that all racial and ethnic domination is structured around a global hierarchy, with “white” people at the top and “black” people at the bottom. “Huey P. Newton’s intercommunalism conceived of blackness as historically contingent and…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Katrinell M. Davis’ “Tainted Tap”
19 May 2021
Activists and community organizers should be inspired by the work of elders engaged in social change. “Flint residents were forced to prove what water regulators already knew.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Rosemarie Freeney Harding and Rachel Elizabeth Harding’s “Remnants”
19 May 2021
There is a need and desire among folks in activist communities for resources of ritual and spiritual grounding. “There are roots of both deep compassion and profound critique in the traditions of spiritually-based social justice organizing in our country.”
Heather Ann Thompson
Saying Her Name
19 May 2021
Remains that were found to be those of a Black MOVE teen-ager who was killed by Philadelphia police in 1985 were treated as an anthropological specimen. “The bodies of the six Black men and women and five Black children lay under the smoldering embers of the row house.”
J. Lester Feder
The Police “Just Launched a War”
19 May 2021
Do some, most or all US police departments have a pattern and practice of racial bias that makes them fundamentally unable to regulate themselves? “It felt like the Columbus Police Department was at war with its citizens in the middle of the day, in the middle of downtown.” Tammy Fournier-Alsaada…
Denise Lynn
Alphaeus Hunton: The Unsung Valiant, by Dorothy Hunton
19 May 2021
Hunton’s devotion to peace and “mutual cooperation” came out of his understanding that “war and militarism were endemic” to capitalism. “Hunton was ‘steadfast’ in his anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism, in his attacks on racism, and in his commitment to a ‘socialist world devoid of the violence…