| Black Agenda Report

Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
A New Cold War on China Is Against the Interests of Humanity
22 Jul 2020
Ajamu Baraka and Margaret Kimberley join with the No to the New Cold War coalition to demand Donald Trump back off his confrontational stance with China. In recent weeks, the U.S. has passed several laws, including the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, which violate China’s sovereignty. On July 3rd, the U.S…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Media Silent as Trump Declares Wars
22 Jul 2020
Donald Trump’s attacks on Venezuela, Syria and Iran are criminal, but Joe Biden vows to be even worse. “There is no congressional opposition to Trump’s acts of aggression which are literally killing people around the world.” The corporate media in this country can endlessly repeat lies about…
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Who is the Most Dangerous Fascist?
23 Jul 2020
Most American leftists are incoherent on the term fascism, and Democrats have utterly destroyed the word’s meaning. “In their cartoon politics, fascist simply means “Trump.”
Shaka Shakur
A View from the Faultlines of National Oppression and Class Contradictions
29 Jul 2020
They try to kriminalize the righteous rage of the people. “This slaughtering has a historical context and foundation.”
David Bacon
San Quentin Death Sentence
29 Jul 2020
Prisoners’ supporters and loved ones demanded release of half the population and no transfers between prisons or to ICE. “With a total prison population of 104,725, there isn’t adequate space for isolation.”
Jean Jores Pierre
PetroCaribe and Haiti’s Lost Opportunities
29 Jul 2020
The US puppets that run Haiti have squandered an historic opportunity for economic and social development. “The country’s energy security is in serious danger.”
Belinda Davis
The Poor People’s Economic and Human Right Campaign: a Case for How Change Works
29 Jul 2020
With no well-financed publicity department and no links to the machinery of big party politics, movements like PPEHRC can sometimes seem lost in plain sight. “Taking up collections to cover funeral costs has become as integral to the fabric of poor people’s organizing as growing and distributing…
Will Guzman
Oh Boya: If It’s Goya, It Has To Be No Good
29 Jul 2020
Goya’s CEO thinks Trump is a “blessing,” so the brand has been cursed with a boycott. “Black and Brown consumers are looking for new ways to avoid this popular brand and its cultural commodification.” At a net worth of over one-billion dollars, the Unanue clan is one of the…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
“This is the Scene of a Crime”: An African Artist/Activist Journey, Part II
29 Jul 2020
An interview with Dr. Karen Wilson- Ama’Echefu. “I started singing a couple of spirituals, but then ‘This is the scene of a crime’ just started flowing out of me.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Erika Edwards’s “Hiding in Plain Sight”
29 Jul 2020
Anti-blackness manifests as black invisibility in Argentina, a society that was determined to marginalize and discriminate against Black women. “Black women are not victims or passive agents in this story of anti-blackness.”