| Black Agenda Report

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Capitol Riot Brings U.S. Foreign Policy Home
13 Jan 2021
There needs to be soul searching and truth telling about invasions, interventions, coups and sanctions that are far more destructive than the Trump lovers could ever be. “The United States is not a ‘beacon of democracy’ or ‘shining city on a hill.’”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
White Settler Uprising at the Capitol
14 Jan 2021
Last week’s assault on the Capitol was essentially a race riot, the product of white racial grievance. “Race has been as central to Donald Trump’s presidency as it was to Woodrow Wilson’s, a century ago.”
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Venezuela Sends Oxygen Tanks to Brazilian Amazon State
20 Jan 2021
Despite being deeply-sanctioned by the US, Venezuela is sharing medical resources with its neighbor. “Latin American solidarity above all!”
Kehinde Alonge
End SARS and Fanon’s Mission
20 Jan 2021
What is the direction of the mission that falls upon each generation of young Nigerians? “Peaceful #EndSARS protesters at Lekki toll gate were met with a barrage of bullets.” “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it,” wrote Frantz Fanon. It…
Eleanor J. Bader
Activists Are Mobilizing to Create an Eviction-Free United States
20 Jan 2021
Rent strikers are doing all they can to stop the violence of evictions and promote a vision of collective and community ownership of housing for everyone. “8.4 million renter households — 20.1 million people – could lose their homes.”
Priyam Madhukar
Police Shouldn’t Tag Students as Potential Criminals
20 Jan 2021
When cops create lists of kids “at risk” of falling into crime, it becomes a self-fulfilling indictment. “’Predictive policing’ funnel individuals into the system without their knowledge and with little due process.” Putting kids on a police watchlist is the exact opposite of how to handle signs…
Too Black
The Crisis of White Squatters Rights
20 Jan 2021
The white ruling class is evicting the squatter-in-chief (Trump) for violating the class collaborative agreement. “The Civil War was a failure of white class collaboration.”
Greg Felton
Defund the Police is Not Abolition
20 Jan 2021
In practice, defunding police leads to endless dickering with local politicians and allows reformists to present themselves as abolitionists. “The only way police will leave Black neighborhoods is because Black people took community control of public safety and opposed police presence.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: John Murillo III’s “Impossible Stories”
20 Jan 2021
The author dissects Black time and space in order to better understand the nature and mechanics of Black life and death lived in the antiblack world. “Black time is ‘untime,’ and Black space is ‘nowhere.’”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: L.H. Stallings’ “Funk the Erotic”
20 Jan 2021
We need a different relationship to and with time and temporality to imagine new worlds and to begin bringing those new worlds into being. “It asks us to take intellectual work, psychic labor, and play as seriously as we do organized political work.”