| Black Agenda Report

Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent
Health Justice and Black Liberation: Antoine Johnson
28 Oct 2020
We have to consume things with Black liberation and environmental justice in mind. “Capitalist mechanisms have a tendency to repackage our trauma and sell it back to us.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Danielle Morgan’s “Laughing to Keep From Dying”
28 Oct 2020
There is nothing strange about Black folks laughing at the sheer immensity of ways we can die. “Revolutionary laughter is a survival tactic that opens up space for Black life.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
28 Oct 2020
This week you discussed the role of racism in foreign policy, Black America and the duopoly, and global elites’ plans for exploiting the Covid crisis.
Erica Caines
Black Bolivia and the Socialist Electoral Triumph
28 Oct 2020
Indigenous and Afro-Bolivians spent every day resisting the coup to complete the socialist aspirations of their party. “It would be foolish to believe that socialism can be voted in.” “Democracy has won!” decried Luis Acre on Monday after firmly securing his place as the next President of…
Ashton Rome
What the Political Realignment Suggest about the Prospects for Fascism
28 Oct 2020
The Democratic Party has seemingly accomplished the impossible – a revival of centrism in the midst of its collapse. “The Republican establishment and the left backing Biden are on an impossible quest to defend institutions that no longer have legitimacy.”
Ameer Hasan Loggins
We’re All Living in a Future Created by Slavery
28 Oct 2020
The carceral class is made up of persons of African descent who are systematically stigmatized as unfit for freedom and deserving of the dehumanization that comes with being incarcerated. “Resistance is a binding component of our collective experience.” When I was 19 years old, I was arrested.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Bankrolling blu klux klans?
28 Oct 2020
Rhythms of red, white, blue ‘party’ lights flashing beneath screaming sirens; The rush of warm crimson drawing 2, 4, 6, 8, 10—and then some… Robotic legs, arms—possessed— punching, kicking a fetal fraction— prone red shirt; black face; fractured eye socket, exploding eyeball; broken ribs drowning…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
COVID-19 Exposes Economic Misery as U.S. Capitalism’s “New Normal”
28 Oct 2020
Neoliberal capitalism is incapable of containing the pandemic or facilitating an economic recovery for the masses. “Precarity for the working class will only intensify once eviction, foreclosure, and student loan moratoriums end.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Campaign Confusion in the Age of Collapse
28 Oct 2020
Biden always obliges Trump by denying that he will do anything that rank and file Democrats want and that would in fact increase his odds of winning. “Trump is at his worst and the Democrats are, too.” The 2020 presidential election has created multiple episodes of mass psychosis across the…
Howie Hawkins
Whatever Happened to Left Solidarity?
28 Oct 2020
In hopes of getting rid of Trump, progressives have followed Trump to the right. “The soft-right Democrats ignore progressive demands because they pose no threat of taking their votes elsewhere.”