| Black Agenda Report

Vijay Prashad and John Ross
The Difference Between the US and China’s Response to COVID-19 is Staggering
23 Sep 2020
While the US continues to suffer the devastating impacts of poor management of the COVID-19 pandemic, China’s people-centered approach serves as a model to follow. “In the last month, China has had zero domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases.”
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Top Trump Official Asks Feds to Charge Protesters with Sedition
23 Sep 2020
The rarely used statute could put protesters accused of using violence in prison for up to 20 years. “The charge does not require evidence of any purported plot against the state.”
Parul Sehgal
White Women Were Avid Slaveowners
23 Sep 2020
The violence of slave-owning women especially could go unchecked, particularly when the victims were black children. “White women were more likely to inherit enslaved people than land.” They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Yale…
Nu’man Abd al-Wahid
Whitewashing the Destruction of Libya: Douglas Murray’s Libya Whitewash
23 Sep 2020
The British, both left and right, simply do not want to acknowledge the role their government played in destroying Libya and the attendant migration crises. “The destruction of Libya caused the first migration flow across the Mediterranean into Europe.”
Netfa Freeman
Expanding Monstrous US Drone War to Kenya is Bi-Partisan Madness
23 Sep 2020
The absence of a domestic backlash against US Africa policy is testament to the blind spots of our movement. “The whole world must begin to see AFRICOM and the militarization of police departments as counterparts.” Instead of being a remnant of its past, US genocidal repression, labor exploitation…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Minna Salami’s Book, “Sensuous Knowledge”
23 Sep 2020
Sensuous Knowledge is an approach to knowledge production that can help you see reality clearly, wholly, with all your faculties. “Europatriarchal Knowledge is a nonsensical construct even by its own measures.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Joy White’s “Terraformed”
23 Sep 2020
This book locates the struggles, wins and losses of young Black lives in a structural, institutional and historical context. “What we see in affluent but unequal societies is a cycle of punitive measures, surveillance and control.”
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
23 Sep 2020
This week climate change, US foreign policy, and Mexico’s new government were on your minds.
Tryon P. Woods
Still Missing and Murdered: Atlanta’s Lost Children Address Today’s Plague of Police Violence
23 Sep 2020
The docu-series reveals not only the ongoing predation against the Black community, but that policing is about social control, not crime control. “The abductions and murder of black children are acts of terror against the black community as a whole.”
Anthony Monteiro
Isabel Wilkerson’s Book "Caste" and the Discontent of a Ruling Class in Crisis
23 Sep 2020
Oprah gushes that this book by the latest darling of the ruling classes might “save us,” but all it’s really trying to save is capitalism. “Wilkerson’s understanding of caste is not as a scholar, but as a dilletante and amateur.”