| Black Agenda Report

Alene Tchekmedyian
LA’s Gang-Infested Police are Deadly – and Costly
12 Aug 2020
Uniformed thugs calling themselves Vikings, Regulators and Banditos prey on the city’s Black and brown civilians, and even brutalize their fellow cops. “They pride themselves on having these violent cliques to show the public who’s the boss.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
My Wise Country Cousin and Ol’ blak Schmo
12 Aug 2020
I came in de room wit mah head bent low pretendin’ defrenz to Ol’ blak Schmo. Sekrit Servuz say, “Boy, if’n you ain’t in no emediyit dangur Here’s Vinyurd Travelin’ Papurs— see de Drone Rangur…” I jes’ stan dere red hot, an’ Blak as a Crow— I say, “ No, suh, I ‘se here to see Ol’ blak Schmo…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
NBA Game Changer? “Black Homes Matter”
12 Aug 2020
If the NBA really wants to be a game changer, why not expand "Black Lives Matter" to "Black Homes Matter”? “There was no approved “Defund the Police” message, and I haven’t heard any of the players voice that either.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
ESPN Tries to Draft NBA Players Into US Cold War Against China
12 Aug 2020
NBA players and fans alike have many reasons to oppose US provocations, lies and threats. “The corporate media that speculate about ‘concentration camps’ in China never condemn the very real concentration camps that exist in the U.S.A.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: TikTok and the War on China
12 Aug 2020
Every charge that Trump and his minions make against Chinese companies is true for US corporations, which have been spying on Americans and the rest of the world for decades. “Dedollarization is well underway and will only accelerate with every attack.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Reneging on George Floyd Promises: The Minneapolis Police Name-Change Con
13 Aug 2020
When Black Lives Matter chapters demand “abolition” and “defunding” of the police, rather than community control of the cops, they play into the hands of charlatans and misleaders on city councils and in the halls of Congress. “The proposed charter amendment was at best a symbolic gesture and at…
Ahjamu Umi
Kamala Harris: Class Struggle and the Illusion of Identity in Capitalism
19 Aug 2020
Some Africans in America identify with people like Harris because THEY see their class interests, as she does, as being intertwined with the interests of the American capitalist system. “People like Harris, Obama, etc., do not represent the interests of the African masses worldwide.”
Eric Umansky and Mollie Simon
The NYPD Is Withholding Evidence From Investigations Into Police Abuse
19 Aug 2020
The NYPD has regularly failed to turn over key records and videos to police abuse investigators at New York’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. “ “The City Council should be outraged and people should be marching in the streets.”
Deutsche Welle
Burundi to Demand Colonial Reparations From Germany and Belgium
19 Aug 2020
The East African country is a former German colony and lived under Belgian rule until gaining independence almost 60 years ago. “The ruling powers strengthened the divide between the Hutu and Tutsi groups.” Burundi wants Germany and Belgium to pay €36 billion ($42.6 billion) in reparations…
P. Khalil Saucier
What I Fear About University Actions in the Context of Black Lives Matter
19 Aug 2020
White folks at the university decided to set things right on race – without consulting Africana Studies. “If we are to take this problem seriously and do it right, certain people, departments, and disciplines need to step aside.”