| Black Agenda Report

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: GerShun Avilez’s “Black Queer Freedom”
30 Sep 2020
The author helps us think about Blackness, queerness, and artistic production in new lights. “Art is a tool for change and community building.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
30 Sep 2020
This week the governments of Mexico and Rwanda, the dictatorship of capital in the US, and this dictatorship’s wars in Africa were on your minds.
Deborah L. Bowen and Tryon P. Woods
Hamilton and the Minstrel Show Remix
30 Sep 2020
Hamilton has sent white people with emotional investments in not being racist over-the-moon. “Miranda’s portrait of multicultural democracy is vaudevillian and grotesque.” “The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify.” — Chinua Achebe Scenes from Hamilton’s multiracial America
Black Alliance For Peace
Why We Focus on Africa
30 Sep 2020
Africa can’t demonstrate independence and power because the entire continent has a giant U.S. military boot on its neck. “The presence of U.S. forces exacerbates violence and instability throughout the continent.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
‘Anarchist jurisdiction’ State of Mind…
30 Sep 2020
Some thugs like to Lie all day— strip our rights away, make The People pay, Chanting, “U-S-A…!” Hopping flights of fantasy for the greedy bourgeoisie And the confederacy— But we’re taking an Anti-fascist stand: ‘Cause we’re in an ‘Anarchist jurisdiction’ State of Mind…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Who is Rwanda’s Real Hero? Paul Kagame or Paul Rusesabagina?
30 Sep 2020
What Kagame has done to Rusesabagina, of Hotel Rwanda fame, embarrasses the US foreign policy establishment that has lionized his brutal regime for so long, writes Ann Garrison. “Rusesabagina is a longtime critic of Kagame’s regime and its catastrophic war on the Congolese people and the Rwandan…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The China and Africa Connection U.S. Imperialism Does Not Want You to Know About
30 Sep 2020
The US sows hysteria about China because Washington can no longer dictate global affairs without any significant challenge. “AFRICOM’s growth is aligned with the ‘pivot to Asia’” The following remarks were given by this writer at a symposium organized by the Black Alliance for Peace on September…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Breonna Taylor and Black Life
30 Sep 2020
Reactions to the Breonna Taylor murder, settlement and verdict all have one thing in common: Black people’s inability to protect our lives. “Even if a killing occurs on camera the only hope is that a family may get some financial restitution.” Regardless of life circumstances, income, or…
Aurin Squire
The Blue Wall Of Silence
30 Sep 2020
A majority of New York City cops are non-white, but their union endorsed the re-election of Donald Trump, with no loud protest from the darker ranks. “It’s really based on who is in charge. You protect the people in charge.” “Most cops are punks. They ain’t going to say shit. But I don’t care…
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Politics That Led to the “Worst Debate”
01 Oct 2020
The incoherence of the Biden-Trump debate will be repeated every election cycle until Blacks and progressives break with the corporate duopoly. “There is nothing smart or ‘strategic’ about falling for the same trick every election cycle.”