| Black Agenda Report

Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Community Control of the Police – and a Whole Lot More
18 Jun 2020
Abolition of the police begins with community control, in which community representatives not only hire, fire and oversee the cops, but decide the nature of the policing that is necessary and acceptable. “Movements are about amassing power to the people, not collecting promises from corporate…
Riva Enteen
Seize the Time or Face Fascism
24 Jun 2020
Either we seize the time and bring power to the people, or we must be prepared to face overt fascism. “We are living in a perfect storm.”
Julian Agyeman and Kofi Boone
Food, Land and Power: Revisiting Black Cooperative Movements
24 Jun 2020
Land loss has plagued black America since emancipation – is it time to look again at ‘black commons’ and collective ownership? “An expanded concept of the ‘black commons’ – based on shared economic, cultural and digital resources as well as land – could act as one means of redress.”
Julian Cola
Ungentrifying International News Reporting from Brazil to Ecuador and Beyond
24 Jun 2020
So-called “racial democracy” has systematically excluded and kept black people at the dirt end of the socioeconomic totem pole in Brazil, as reflected in its media. “Consigned to the periphery, independent black media outlets in Brazil have amassed significant followings on their websites and…
Wilmer J. Leon III
A Moment or a Movement? The Blowback Will Tell
24 Jun 2020
You cannot separate the racist police aggression in the streets of the US and the racist US aggression against Venezuela, Bolivia, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Yemen, Libya and Syria. “Chauvin was sending a message to the community by holding his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck in broad daylight.” “George Floyd…
Kate Levine and Joanna Schwartz
Hold Prosecutors Accountable, Too
24 Jun 2020
Police violence is tied to other agents in criminal law enforcement, including and especially prosecutors. “Without a mechanism to deter prosecutor misconduct, injustices will go without remedy.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Lola Olufemi’s “Feminism, Interrupted”
24 Jun 2020
The political project we are invested in will require long term conviction and must be internationalist in its orientation. “We’re seeing people being radicalized in real time.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar’s “Deadly Biocultures”
24 Jun 2020
Market logics, commodification, extraction, and exploitation condition our possibilities for life and expose many to ever-expanding forms of precarity. “We call for a politics of critical mourning—an active accounting of loss and the connections between neocapitalism and bioinequality.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
24 Jun 2020
This week community control of police, rage in protests, and the black political class were on your minds.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Who’s a Worker? (for Leo, Clarence, Jack, Trent and ILWU Local 10 Brothers and Sisters)
24 Jun 2020
I’ve prepped produce; bagged bread; stocked shelves; pulled products for- ward on shelves of several stores. So I bring nothing but love for frontline Food workers. I’ve shared warm handmade corn tortillas and piping hot pinto beans with workers of Bent back magic:Workers whose…