| Black Agenda Report

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rubble Kings: How the Violence Stopped and Hip Hop Emerged in the South Bronx
04 Nov 2020
A fact-based, crowd-funded film on urban devastation and gang warfare in the South Bronx packs a bigger political punch than the cult classic, The Warriors. “With a tiny fraction of the ‘The Warriors’ budget, ‘Rubble Kings’ has vastly more depth.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
That is not the Question
04 Nov 2020
The question is not if teargas breath thugs weaponizing COVID; co-signing starvation; stage whispering, “Lock her up!” ripping children from mothers’ arms—splintering families—will abandon their bunkers and vacate the War House… The question is when will the general strike sprout wings,…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
American Exceptionalism Won’t Save the U.S. Empire from Itself, or Stop China’s Rise
04 Nov 2020
China’s rise reflects a bourgeoning global movement away from U.S. imperialism and toward self-determination. “China has already closed the gap in many economic sectors and has surpassed the U.S. in others.”
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Confronting Bipartisan Repression and the US-led Axis of Domination Beyond Election Day
04 Nov 2020
No matter who sits in the white peoples’ house, we will have to continue to fight for social justice, democracy, and People(s)-Centered Human Rights. “Our survival depends on seeing this violent, barbarian behemoth for what it is.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Corporate Democrats Want to Run Against Trump-like Republicans Forever
05 Nov 2020
Whoever wins the Electoral College, race-based politics will continue to allow the corporate rulers to ignore public demands for relief from the Race to the Bottom and endless war. “The Democrats wanted to run on race as much as Trump did.”
Popular Resistance
Now that Trump Has Been Defeated...
11 Nov 2020
We need to continue building power from the bottom up through organizing, political education and community assemblies. “The Black Alliance for Peace reminds us that the situation does not change for colonized and oppressed people no matter who sits in the ‘white people’s house.’”
Morning Star Gali
Stolen Freedom: The Ongoing Incarceration of California’s Indigenous Peoples
11 Nov 2020
For 350 years, California has imprisoned and disenfranchised its Native peoples like few other places. For nearly a century, to be an Indigenous California Native was to live a life in hiding, anonymity, and denial of one’s own identity.
Bashir Muhammad Akinyele
The Elusive Quest for Justice in Black America
11 Nov 2020
We as Black people must keep pushing, organizing, and demanding a Black agenda centered on reparations. “The physicality of Donald Trump will be over but not the ideology of white supremacy that possessed his mentality.” "Be careful of ceremonies without substance" -- Dr. John Henrick Clarke,…
Angelique Richardson
“No Coloreds:” Racism in Britain has a Long if Contested History
11 Nov 2020
The Brits practiced a nonjudicial form of Jim Crow against non-white immigrants from their colonial empire. “Racialization is one way of dividing labor and resources along unjust and oppressive lines; class is another.”
Meredeth Turshen and Annie Thébaud-Mony
The COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes Fatal Health Inequities
11 Nov 2020
Privatization of health care is why some of the wealthiest countries have proved unable to respond rapidly to the pandemic. “Privatization resulted in the fragmentation of health systems—some would say the cannibalization of health care.”