| Black Agenda Report

Erica Caines
Black-Outs, ‘Black Lives Matter’ and Black Power
17 Jun 2020
Community control of police and prison abolition have been completely removed from the conversations dictated by a mainstream and complacent narrative. “We find ourselves settling for ID reductionism void of any real power.”
Berna Ellorin and Adrian Bonifacio
Re-Embracing Internationalism and Class Solidarity in the Time of #BlackLivesMatter
17 Jun 2020
The struggle against systemic racism and the police state in the US is integral and linked to the struggle against US wars of aggression overseas. “The time has come for forging a clearer path to liberation analysis that centers on working class solidarity across race and borders.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kristen R. Ghodsee’s “Second World, Second Sex”
17 Jun 2020
Socialist ideas about the inextricable links between class, race, and gender predate the concept of intersectionality. “In 1975, women from Asia, Africa, and Latin America argued that you could not separate ‘women’s issues’ from issues of racism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Samantha N. Sheppard’s “Sporting Blackness”
17 Jun 2020
Black memory is a muscle trained, flexed, and disciplined by colonialism, enslavement, and racial terror, as well as collective Black struggle. “Black sporting bodies can representationally and formally disrupt and protest their stereotypical depictions and conservative generic scripts.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
17 Jun 2020
This week colonial genocides, white supremacy, and the Democratic Party’s role were on your minds. We share your letters for “BAR Book Forum: Elizabeth R.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Say Its Name: Genocide!
17 Jun 2020
Unless we identify genocide as the common underpinning to all of the brutality directed against Black people in the US, we are talking about the wrong thing. “Hit and run driving is becoming the new go anywhere lynching.”
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Building Power to Win is the Revolutionary Approach to Bourgeois Electoralism”
17 Jun 2020
We must make clear that it is imperialism that degrades and destroys the earth, makes water a commodity, food a luxury, education an impossibility, and health care a distant dream. “The struggle is for power not reform.” The following is excerpted from a presentation by Ajamu Baraka to a national…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The State (For Cam and B) and Mo’ Foul Play
17 Jun 2020
Papa’s proud of you, handsome Grandsons, for hand-lettered signs, for taking to the streets during your generation’s 10 days that shook the world! I’m proud of your militant mugs, masked, concealing righteous anger and dangerous emotional Literacy your Mom gifted you…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Rebellion Against Police Repression Must Guard Against ALL Enemies, Whether Red, Blue, or Green
17 Jun 2020
The terrain of struggle will need to expand for the movement to avoid a Democratic Party-induced slumber. “The movement’s enemies in blue not only include the cops but also the entire Democratic Party.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Churchill, Columbus and Leopold Fall Down
17 Jun 2020
Millions of white people glorify mass murderers because their sense of identity and place in society is deeply tied to white supremacy. “It is important to name and shame the mass murderers.”