| Black Agenda Report

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Building on Victories for a Stronger Climate Justice Movement
22 Jul 2020
The global depression has fossil fuel corporations reeling, but only a people’s movement can take away their power to poison the planet. “$5.2 trillion was spent globally on fossil fuel subsidies in 2017, the equivalent of over 6.5% of global GDP.”
Aziz Z. Huq
Bostock v. BLM: Two Conflicting Visions of Equality
22 Jul 2020
One approach treats injustice as discreet individual actions, the other recognizes the weight of world history. “The two theories of equality serve the interests of different social sectors.” Over the last month a contest between two visions of equality has broken out in U.S. politics that has…
Clarence Taylor
Reviving the False Narrative on Police
22 Jul 2020
The antidote to police lawlessness isn’t more training, or fancy equipment, but putting the community in charge of the cops. “De Blasio and the City Council made a big show of cutting one billion dollars from the police budget, but the sleight of hand will not lead to any reduction of the police…
Don Fitz
A Statue of Hatuey
22 Jul 2020
Hatuey led the first guerrilla warfare against European invasion of the western hemisphere. “I would rather burn in hell forever than spend one day in paradise with Spaniards.”
The Public Archive
Black Struggle and the New Society: An interview with C.L.R. James
22 Jul 2020
In a 1977 interview, the renowned Trinidadian writer, historian and socialist assessed the state of Black struggle in the Caribbean, the United States and Africa. “The big debate is taking place between racialism, nationalism and Marxism.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: LaShawn Harris’s “Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners”
22 Jul 2020
Underground labor allowed many women to sustain themselves and the people and religious institutions that they cared about. “A diverse cross section of New York black women and girls entered underground employment markets for a variety of reasons.”
troizel d.l. carr
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
22 Jul 2020
Required reading for black study and abolition: a syllabus for an abolitionista on the run. “Abolition requires an ongoing radical belief in the impossible.” In this series we ask organizers, artists, and academics to share books that inform their thinking about abolition. This week’s contributor…
Carrie Freshour
Poultry and Prisons: Toward a General Strike for Abolition
22 Jul 2020
Poultry-processing plants are critical sites of racial capitalist accumulation produced through an unequal valuation of people and places. “People cannot be released from prisons only to be put on the streets or to premature disability at the poultry.”
Earl Hazell
Essays on The Cult of White Feminism: Dial M for Bernie
22 Jul 2020
Bernie exposed the white supremacist and imperialist contradictions of white feminism to the disinfecting sunlight of reason. “White feminism was never concerned about the overwhelming majority of the world’s women in the first place.” To Bern or Not to Bern – Take 1 I certainly…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Third Reich Quick Strike: low Barr-Boss Tweet
22 Jul 2020
I remember when they used to play Round ‘em up—bang-bang, baby; I remember when they used to chase Schoolboys—beat ‘em up, lock ‘em up I remember Geronimo’s wife, Sandra Pratt, aka Red Found faraway in a gutter, gunshot wounds to the head—dead Melvin X, BSA leader of Fred-Bunchy and John ilk Found…