| Black Agenda Report

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Norman Finkelstein: Truth and Justice Are the Ultimate Test, Not International NGOs
02 Jun 2021
Even Human Rights Watch says Israel is committing crimes against humanity in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and in Gaza, and the idea of a Jewish state in the context of Palestine is not legitimate. “Do concentration camp guards have a right to self-defense?”
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Papuan Protesters Attacked and Arrested for Demanding Pro-Independence Leader’s Release
02 Jun 2021
Victor Yeimo was arrested under charges of treason earlier this month for his role in the anti-racism Papuan protests of 2019. “Ultra-nationalists held a violent counter-protest attacking and forcibly dispersing a rally led by Papuan residents.” As demands for the release of Papuan pro-independence…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Truth About Defunding Police
09 Jun 2021
“Defunding” the police has often turned out to be an accounting trick, but community control of police – a righteous demand – must also ensure that all government functions address human needs. “The armed forces of Russia, Germany, France, the U.K. and Japan all receive less money than American…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Corporate Think Tank Reveals How Profit-Driven Motives Drive New Cold War against China
09 Jun 2021
The same report paradoxically acknowledges the failure of the economic model the U.S. has tried to impose on the rest of the world. “The Biden administration and its allies have been just as aggressive as Trump in their attempts to forestall China’s technological development.”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
TRANSCRIPT: Gerald Horne: Haiti and African Liberation in the Americas
09 Jun 2021
The Haitian Revolution was not only a victory for the millions of enslaved Africans in the Americas, it was a victory for all working class people.” “Abolitionist Haiti was the main campaigner against enslavement of Africans before 1888, when the enslavement process came to a kind of halt in Brazil…
Too Black
From Black Wall Street to Black Capitalism
09 Jun 2021
Contrary to the Black capitalist myth, most Greenwood residents were low wage working people employed by whites and living in substandard housing. “It was the super-exploitation of poor Black labor that facilitated both the function of Tulsa as a whole and the Black Wall Street District.”
Taytu Bitul
How to Wreck a Black Nation In the Age of “Black Lives Matter”
09 Jun 2021
Today’s colonialists recruit Black politicians and Black terrorist groups who are willing to play along. “The ‘poor hapless victim TPLF’ narrative quickly evolved into the ‘genocide in Tigray’ narrative.”
Joy James
“New Bones” Abolitionism, Communism, and Captive Maternals
09 Jun 2021
Joy James uses poet Lucille Clifton's image of “new bones” to reflect on a series of revolutionary anniversaries in 2021 and the nature of political leadership. “Elites do not invest in popular mechanisms that could replace them.” For the fearful bravely laughing as we fall into liberation…
Rachel Afi Quinn
BAR Book Forum: Rachel Afi Quinn’s “Being La Dominicana”
09 Jun 2021
Dominican racial logic frequently contradicts what US scholars think they know about how race works. “Every day decisions have to be made about what aspect of one’s identity would dominate at which moment.”
Tiffany N. Florvil
BAR Book Forum: Tiffany N. Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany”
09 Jun 2021
Black History Month strengthened Black German claims of kinship with their nation and the larger diaspora. “Black Germans showed that Berlin and Germany were not monoracial or homogenously white, only constructed as such.”