| Black Agenda Report

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Samantha Pinto’s Book, “Infamous Bodies”
16 Sep 2020
The author examines the lives of five Black female historical figures and challenges some deeply-held ideas about Black women in politics “This book is for the bold, and those who want to rethink the limits of our current political imagination.”
Nada Mustafa Ali
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
16 Sep 2020
Students of all ages can share the experiences of women from the slum margins of Nairobi and young female shapeshifters at a Detroit homeless shelter. “Students often compare the lives and experiences of women in Kibera on one hand, and those who reside in the Fresh Start Shelter on the other.”
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
16 Sep 2020
This week Ibram X. Kendi, Toussaint Louverture, community control of the police, and the trial of Julian Assange were on your minds.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
1st 100 Days— Portland
16 Sep 2020
I have a friend—some- time bandmate—Daily… Whining, wringing his hands. Distressed and depressed— anxious and agitated—he Knows nuclear war and Armageddon are on the agenda if Boss Tweet’s Back—big lies, gas-lighting another four years… My meditation and its compassion keep me from screaming…
Paul Street
Fourteen Martyrs in the Struggle Against Racist Terror and Trumpism-Fascism
16 Sep 2020
Their names are not as familiar as George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, but these victims have paid the ultimate price, dying in the line of anti-racist and anti-fascist citizenship duty. “Trump ordered the Department of Homeland Security to suppress reports of right-wing terrorism and play up supposed…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Will a Biden Foreign Policy Make a Difference for the World?
16 Sep 2020
For the people of the world the real fascism of anti-democratic, brutal regimes supported by the U.S., murderous sanctions, and right-wing coups will continue unabated. The reoccupation of the Executive Branch by the Democrats will not bring any change in U.S. behavior in the global South.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Tribute to Kevin Zeese: Life and Loss in the Struggle for Liberation
16 Sep 2020
Zeese never wavered in his opposition to the corporate duopoly, white supremacy, and the forces of militarism. “His actions and ideological commitments were grounded in a deep identification with the oppressed.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Democrats’ Climate Change Lies
16 Sep 2020
The Republicans lie about the harm they do to the planet, and the Democrats lie and pretend they’re not doing the very same things. “The Democrats have turned their backs on their own timid, mealy mouthed proclamations of concern.”
Michael Harriot
The Great White Heist
16 Sep 2020
Just because enslaving and stealing labor from Black people was perfectly legal prior to 1868, America should not get to ignore descendants of the people who supplied this nation with 246 years of free labor. “Without restitution, there can be no justice.” Sometimes their children…
Sofia Lopez and Sara Myklebust
Make Corporate Landlords Pay the Bills During the Pandemic
23 Sep 2020
Elected officials and corporate landlords haven’t taken any meaningful action to prevent the crisis from hitting poor people of color hardest. “Latinx and Black workers have been hit hardest by job losses and are more likely to suffer evictions.”