| Black Agenda Report

Pierre Labossiere
Resisting Covid-19 in Haiti
22 Apr 2020
There are only around 124 intensive care unit beds and less than 100 ventilators for a population of about 11 million. “The authorities care only about lining their pockets.”
Lee Fang
Wall Street Fat Cats Back Challenger to AOC in Primary
22 Apr 2020
Finance capitalists collected nearly $1 million in the first three months of the year to oust Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “Michelle Caruso-Cabrera was a registered Republican until a few years ago.” Wall Street Titans are financing a direct challenge to firebrand progressive lawmaker…
Vijay Prashad, Weiyan Zhu, and Du Xiaojun
Truth and Propaganda About Coronavirus
22 Apr 2020
It is unclear if China could have done anything different as it faced an unknown virus. “There is no clarity that it emerged directly from the Wuhan market.” Part 1: Growing Xenophobia Against China in the Midst of CoronaShock Violent attacks against Asians in the United States has spiked as a…
Linn Washington
Wrong On Weed – Blacks And Marijuana Myths
22 Apr 2020
Black state lawmakers helped scuttle efforts to legalize marijuana in the Garden State and Black preachers have been huge impediments to legalization. “Studies expose stupidity on 'smoke.'” When New Jersey State Senator Ronald Rice roadblocked legislation to legalize adult use of marijuana in the ‘…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Joshua Bennett’s “Being Property Once Myself”
22 Apr 2020
Black thought is environmental thought and Black Studies is, at its core, an ecological critique. “There is an inextricable bond between black freedom struggle, the study of black letters, and the stewardship of the Earth.”
Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
BAR Abolition & Mutual Aid Spotlight: La Resistencia
22 Apr 2020
Public pressure works. Some local entities are not willing to work with ICE anymore. “Our goal is not just to put money on their commissary, but for them to be free.”
João Costa Vargas and Ana Flauzina
Antiblackness of the Pandemic in the US and Brazil
22 Apr 2020
At the heart of health disparities is antiblackness, a social code that renders Black people disposable. “In Brazil the virus is far more lethal to Blacks than it is for whites.”
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Black Plague
22 Apr 2020
The rapidity with which the pandemic has consumed black communities provides an unvarnished look into the dynamics of race and class that existed long before it emerged “Racism in the shadow of American slavery has diminished almost all of the life chances of African-Americans.” The old African-…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
I had a nightmare (For friend/fellow Poet Genny Lim)
22 Apr 2020
I had a nightmare that down in Mississippi, its governor having his lips dripping with words of Social Darwinism, Herd immunity and Mengele Medicine, Defied COVID-19 and hosted his own Houston-style “Howdy Modi” Rally— A gathering of strongmen— not wrong men A gathering of right…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Pentagon Brass Can Kiss My Ass
22 Apr 2020
The coronavirus-stricken crew of the USS Roosevelt would be more useful making N-95 masks, building housing for people living on the streets, and tilling community gardens to prepare for supply chain collapse. “Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.”