| Black Agenda Report

R. Divya Nair
A Black American Delegation to India, 1935-36
06 Mar 2019
Black theologian Howard Thurman’s Pilgrimage of Friendship deeply influenced the worldview of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “It was the first Black Christian delegation to tour India.”
Justin Podur
Inside the Neoliberal Laboratory Preparing for the Theft of Venezuela’s Economy
06 Mar 2019
The academic laboratory of the Venezuelan coup is housed at Harvard. “Behind every US-backed war on a foreign people there will be a body of scholarly work.”
Misha Hill, Alan Essig, Meg Wiehe, Jenice Robinson, Steve Wamhoff and Carl Davis
The Illusion of Race-Neutral Tax Policy
06 Mar 2019
Beginning with the Slave tax, the US has overburdened Black communities with taxes for services that they often don’t get. “Historic and current injustices continue to allow white communities to build wealth while denying the same level of opportunity to communities of color.”
Stephen Cooper
Keith Tharpe and the Death Penalty’s Racist Roots
06 Mar 2019
The history of the death penalty in America is hewn from the hell of slavery, subjugation and the suffering of black people. “You don’t have to be a Justice on the Supreme Court to know a juror who uses racial epithets can’t be fair and impartial.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adom Getachew’s “Worldmaking after Empire”
06 Mar 2019
Black and brown anticolonialists used the United Nations to push for new and egalitarian relationships among nations and peoples. “Anticolonial nationalists took as their central aim the transformation of the international order.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Arturo Escobar’s “Designs for the Pluriverse”
06 Mar 2019
Multiple world crises require that humans construct new designs according to very different principles and categories than those of capitalist modernity. “We design the world and the world designs us back.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
06 Mar 2019
Social imperialists and Green Party strategy were major topics of discussion this week. Strong responses came for “The Words and Deeds of Social Imperialists” and “Facing 2020 and Bernie 2.0: What the Greens Must Do.”
Alan MacLeod
Venezuela-Baiting: How Media Keep Anti-Imperialist Dissent in Check
06 Mar 2019
The corporate media are attacking Bernie Sanders like wild hyenas for failing to sufficiently denounce Venezuela’s government. “Nothing but complete capitulation to this extractive right-wing tactic will be accepted.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
“Things that Make White People Uncomfortable”: A Book Review
06 Mar 2019
Michael Bennett tells it like he sees it in his new book, and shows with fine literary flair that he’s never acclimated to the NFL plantation. “...the game depends on the players in both the NCAA and the NFL...”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Fear the “Bern?” Bernie Sanders is Too Left for the Democratic Party
06 Mar 2019
The corporate Democrats truly fear Sanders because he represents a dangerous political path that may lead large portions of the population to demand an improvement in their condition. “The Democratic Party would much rather Trump secure another term than Sanders face off against the orange…