| Black Agenda Report

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
October Surprise? (or President Pence pardon?)
07 Oct 2020
They say he could use your thoughts and prayers; like he used your taxes Praying to big white Buddha bottles of bleach…They say he never, ever, ever wants to be seen with big daddy Herman Cain’s black ass again—and F$%# 19,000 Amazon workers infected They say it wasn’t his Super-…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Debate Lesson: 2020 Election is a Great Corporate Thug-a-thon
07 Oct 2020
Trump and Biden avoided policy because neither had anything to offer the masses of people. “Zero policy prescriptions were offered to the tens of millions of unemployed people in the United States.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Liberal Sympathy for Trump
07 Oct 2020
If Ava Duvernay really believes Trump is a white supremacist, why wish him well? “Maddow and Duvernay speak and act in defense of their class interests.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Bidens and Trumps, Foxes and Wolves
08 Oct 2020
The fox and wolf parties – both corporate canines – debate how best to acclimate the masses to their deepening state of precarity.
Wilmer J. Leon III
The “Non-Aligned” Nations Realign
14 Oct 2020
The formerly colonized peoples of the planet say No to US bullying, sanctions and regime change. “The ‘Third World’ sees the US as a monster.” “Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America…
Marjorie Cohn
Assange Faces Extradition For Exposing US War Crimes
14 Oct 2020
The prosecution of Assange would set a disturbing example for journalists and media outlets that publish information critical of the government. “This is a politically motivated prosecution.”
Jay Willis
Feuding With Donald Trump Is Not Police Reform
14 Oct 2020
Democratic mayors denounce Trump’s brutality but fail to keep their own cops from beating and gassing protesters. “It’s easy for mayors of left-leaning cities to situate themselves opposite Trump’s cartoon-villain proto-fascism.” Mayors of liberal cities love to criticize the president’s…
Interview by Alex N. Press
Why They Let Breonna Taylor’s Killer Go Free
14 Oct 2020
People in Louisville were in motion, but the politicians shy away from “the massive transformative changes that we demand.” “If George Floyd hadn’t been killed, and people hadn’t protested after it, I don’t think we would be talking about Breonna Taylor, not even in Louisville.” Breonna Taylor…
Pan Africanism Today Secretariat
A Milestone for South African Shack Dwellers Movement
14 Oct 2020
Abahlali baseMjondolo celebrates 15 years of revolutionary struggle for land, housing and dignity. “South Africa’s largest and most vibrant social movement has emerged through poverty, hardship, death and also tremendous courage.” The shack dwellers’ movement of South Africa marked 15 years of…
Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent
Health Justice and Black Liberation: Dána-Ain Davis
14 Oct 2020
We can disentangle care from capitalism by increasing community-generated and community-led models of caring. “State violence radically and derogatorily compromise the health and well- being of pregnant, laboring, and post-partum people and families.”