| Black Agenda Report

K.J. Noh
How to Yellow-Cake a Tragedy: The New York Times Spreads the Virus of Hatred, Again
12 Feb 2020
The US corporate media, especially the Times, has turned a medical emergency into a racist campaign of ideological propaganda. “The New York Times has been avidly red-baiting.” “In the end, the plague touched us all...it was not confined….breeding in a compost of greed and uselessness and…
Sebastián Navarrete Aldana
Colombian Government Obstructs the Peace Agreement with the FARC Guerrilla Group
12 Feb 2020
BAR’s reporter in Colombia explores how the US-backed regime is grossly violating the peace agreement with former FARC guerillas. Translated by María Angélica Martínez “Ninety percent of the prisoners’ requests to apply the amnesty law have been denied.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aishah Shahidah Simmons’ “Love WITH Accountability”
12 Feb 2020
Simmons explores ways we can hold harm-doers accountable without getting involved with the very state that brutalizes Black and other communities of color. “We must make eradicating child sexual abuse and all forms of sexual violence a priority in our communities.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jeff Ferrell’s “Drift”
12 Feb 2020
Late stage capitalism and its wars have imposed a permanent state of dislocation and disorientation on much of humanity, the “drift” of an unstable system. “Once they are set adrift, people often invent new forms of community and community activism.”
Adofo Minka
Prison Reform and the State: The Impending Confrontation in Mississippi
12 Feb 2020
The recent prison reform rallies at the Mississippi Capitol were more akin to being for a Middle Passage with more efficient plumbing. “The prison systems intentionally subordinates and degrades.”
Walter Johnson
American Bottom
12 Feb 2020
One of the poorest towns in the nation, nearly all-Black Centreville, Illinois, floods with raw sewage every time it rains. “It’s like Mississippi in the 1930s.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Rush to judgement?
12 Feb 2020
Ain’t it good to know that up’s still down; bad’s still good; black’s white; Slavers still heroes—And the Drone Ranger received a Peace Prize? Ain’t it good to know that the Highest Civilian Honor goes to a bottom-feeding bully in the raw sewage Swamp? Ain’t it good to know that After…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Kobe, Impeachment and the Coronavirus: A Study on the Dangers of White Liberal Fragility
12 Feb 2020
White liberalism is not a kinder, gentler form of white supremacy, or a lesser evil to the more explicit racism of Trump and his base. “Racist panic over the disease has been stoked by the entire ruling class, with a special role being played by the so-called ‘liberal’ corporate media.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Trump Has No Opposition
12 Feb 2020
The Bloomberg cash onslaught and the anti-Bernie conspiracy have laid bare the degree of collusion among the rulers. “The blatant war crimes committed against Venezuela elicit either nonchalance or outright support from the so-called resistance.”
Ed Pilkington
Chuck Sims Africa Freed: Final Jailed Move 9 Member Released From Prison
12 Feb 2020
The last of Philadelphia’s most besieged, and heroic, Black political families is released, after a 42-year ordeal. “Now 59, he has been in custody since shortly after he turned 18.” One of the great open wounds of the black liberation struggle of the 1970s has finally been healed with the release…