| Black Agenda Report

Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Neoliberalism, Intervention and Anti-Blackness: A Webinar* Presentation
20 May 2020
The elevation of anti-blackness as a kind of universal problem eliminates the basis for solidarity among the colonized and puts some African Americans on the side of U.S. imperialism. “The revival of racialism has been the death of genuine solidarity.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
American Exceptionalism and the American Left’s China Double Standard
20 May 2020
The threat that the American Left sees in China aligns with the white supremacist underpinnings of American exceptionalism. “The American Left adopted a worldview that positions China as an existential threat to their goal of a better world.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedomrider: Obamagate is Real
20 May 2020
Obama’s fans like to think of the First Black President as scholarly and above the fray of dirty politics, but he appears to have conspired with the FBI to set up the incoming administration. “Trump’s twitter rants about what he calls Obamagate are in fact accurate.” Donald Trump is a vile racist…
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Indict and Punish the Perpetrators of Covid Mass Death
21 May 2020
Not just Trump, but the whole US ruling class must pay for the mass Covid death toll among Blacks, because only the ruling class has the power to systematically allocate life-death chances for whole populations over generations. “To limit the indictment to Donald Trump and his…
Stan Karp
Getting a Covid-19 Education: From Race to the Top to a Plunge to the Bottom
27 May 2020
As bad as the Obama/Duncan era was for public education, the current administration is even more hostile. “We are back in shock doctrine, disaster capitalism territory and public schools are again in the crosshairs.”
Lizzie Presser
The Black American Amputation Epidemic
27 May 2020
Black patients lose limbs at a rate triple that of others, despite the fact that diabetic amputations are, by some measures, the most preventable surgery in the country. “He asked the congregation, ‘How many of you know of someone who’s had an amputation?’ Almost everyone raised their hands.”
Rohn Kenyatta
Once Dead, Thrice Killed
27 May 2020
The summary execution of my brothers, sisters, women, men and children is so commonplace that it becomes numbing ‘white’ noise in the minds of an entire continent. “Every time these executions occur it is the same playbook.”
Barbara Arnwine, Curtis Cooper and Adjoa A. Aiyetoro
The Spy Plane Over Baltimore is a Tool of Voter Suppression
27 May 2020
The eye-in-the-sky tells residents of the majority Black city that they are enemies of the state -- to be watched and, ultimately, crushed. “The spy plane steals any sense of belonging and says you are not a respected resident.”
Rhondda Robinson Thomas
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Sarah Haley’s "No Mercy Here"
27 May 2020
In white patriarchy-ruled South Carolina at the turn of the 20th century, manhood sometimes created temporary yet tenuous bonds between Black and white men. “White men authorized themselves to determine when Black men had suffered long enough in prison for engaging in consensual sex with…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Vincent Brown’s “Tacky’s Revolt”
27 May 2020
The Jamaican slave revolt of 1760-1761 was one war within an interlinked network of other wars. “The violence of imperial expansion and enslavement remade the history of Europe, Africa, and the Americas.”