| Black Agenda Report

Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
U.S. Response to COVID-19 Equals Genocide for Blacks, but “Progressive” Leaders Offer Nothing But Words
22 Apr 2020
AOC and Bernie Sanders made public condemnations of the corporate bailout but did little in the way of resistance. “The epidemic represented a second virus for Black America which has only accelerated the genocide.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Racism In and Against China
22 Apr 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has resuscitated the old “yellow peril” canard to its fullest extent, revealing deep xenophobia and racist intent against China. “U.S. accusations directed at others are always a projection of its own failures and wrong doing.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Diseased System in Shut-Lockdown: Never a Better Time to Fight for Socialism
23 Apr 2020
The current health and economic crisis will dramatically accelerate the processes of corporate monopolization, finance capital dictatorship, and working class precarity and immiseration. The only cure is socialism. “The duopoly parties’ refusal to establish a national health care system, beginning…
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
24 Apr 2020
The coup in Bolivia and the Bernie Sanders campaign were in your thoughts this week.
Jon Jeter
Michael Jordan's Sad Legacy as the Plutocrats' Champ, and the Anti-Ali
29 Apr 2020
Ali, the People’s Champ, hurtled into the breach to come to the aid of his community while Jordan did all he could to distance himself. “Jordan turned his back on his tribe, his community and the working class into which he was born.”
Susie Day
Puerto Rico, Protest, Prison: Johanna Fernández and Jose Saldaña on The Young Lords
29 Apr 2020
“There’s something profoundly liberating for people who’ve been told all their lives that they ain’t shit to stand up.” “The Young Lords saved me from a meaningless death.”
Robert Greene II
Debating Black Freedom
29 Apr 2020
Time and again, Black radicals have pressed for an expanded scope of political and economic freedoms, for Americans at home and for people abroad. “Liberator was an important waypoint between resurgent black nationalism and the burgeoning Black Power movement.” Radical Intellect: Liberator…
Granma International Staff
Cuban-Trained Doctor Fights Pandemic in The Bronx
29 Apr 2020
In the South Bronx, Dr Melissa Barber battles COVID-19, putting into practice the lessons she learned in Cuba, at the Latin American School of Medicine. “Dr. Barber has identified the most vulnerable in the neighborhood.” The United States has not been able to control COVID-19. The Donald Trump…
Victoria Law
As Coronavirus Spreads Through Prisons, States Are Failing Incarcerated People
29 Apr 2020
Although prisons have become hot spots of the pandemic, most of the penal overseers have taken only token measures, if any, to evacuate inmates. “If COVID-19 comes into this prison, there is no safe place for anyone.”
Black Oakland Leaders and Allies
Black Oakland Demands in Light of COVID-19 and Rates of Black Death
29 Apr 2020
Unless Black people are healthy and safe then no community is healthy and safe. “The descendants of slaves, Black, African and African-Americans are most impacted by this virus through a racial and class lens.”