| Black Agenda Report

Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
BAR Abolition Mutual Aid Spotlight: Ujimaa Medics
25 Mar 2020
Chicago’s Ujimaa Medics bring a racial justice and cultural specificity lens to community health care through mutual aid. “The western medical-industrial complex has often left out or been directly harmful to Black people.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aparna Mishra Tarc’s “Literacy of the Other”
25 Mar 2020
The global citizenry shows increasing apathy towards each other’s social and political conditions. “I hope activists see their work as pedagogical.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
25 Mar 2020
This week the Democratic Party and the failures of US healthcare were on your mind.
Russell Rickford
Black Politics, Class Struggle and the Illusion of Centrism
25 Mar 2020
Black Democratic Party operatives seek to camouflage class antagonisms among African Americans and to equate racial progress with the feeble policies of “diversity and inclusion.” “Black poor and laboring folk need to escape the clutches of Democratic Party hucksters while restoring their own…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Chinese Disease?
25 Mar 2020
He didn’t say Chinese debt, did he? He didn’t say Chinese pharmaceuticals, did he? He didn’t say Chinese phone, did he? He didn’t say Chinese computer, did he? He didn’t say Chinese pen, did he? He didn’t say Chinese tie, did he? He didn’t say Chinese martial arts muscled men guarding his dumb body…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The U.S. is a Failed State, and COVID-19 Proves it
25 Mar 2020
The United States’ capitalist and imperialist economy cannot provide a modicum of social welfare to its people and has been in perpetual war with Black Americans and Indigenous Peoples since its formation. “COVID-19 proves that the United States’ war on the world is a drag on humanity.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Revolutionary Change and COVID-19
25 Mar 2020
The genie has escaped from the bottle, revealing the deep injustices and cruelties that are embedded in US capitalism and its warped relationship to the peoples it rules, and the world. “COVID-19 is an opportunity to demand change while the people are paying attention to the crisis.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Time of Plague and Meltdown: Mass Murder by Corporate Duopoly
26 Mar 2020
The shrinking of the public health sector is a capitalist crime, abetted by the two corporate parties. “There is now no possibility of avoiding many tens of thousands of deaths due to a shortage of equipment, beds and health care personnel.”
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
On Being Black, Southern And Rural In The Time Of COVID-19
01 Apr 2020
Elders and already sick folks are at risk down South, the Blackest region of the nation with the worst health care. “Black Southerners are once again in this nation’s peripheral vision—even as the global pandemic threatens to devastate our communities.”
Alan MacLeod
IMF Conditions Emergency COVID-19 Loan to Venezuela on Regime Change
01 Apr 2020
The IMF refused a COVID–19 emergency loan to Venezuela unless it agreed to overthrow President Maduro and installs the Washington-backed Juan Guaidó. “The country has nevertheless been showered with help from its allies, especially Cuba and China.”