| Black Agenda Report

Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
20 Jan 2021
This week the uprising in Washington and Du Bois’s writings on the Soviet Union were on your mind. We share your letters for “White Settler Uprising at the Capitol,” “W.E.B.
Flint Taylor and Jeff Haas
New Documents Suggest J. Edgar Hoover Was Involved in Fred Hampton’s Murder
20 Jan 2021
Newly released FBI files provide direct documentation that the FBI chief and other high officials were involved in the raid and the coverup that followed. “Government attacks on today’s radical movements have continued and intensified.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Casualties of the Old Cold War Should Inform Opposition to U.S.’ New Cold War against China
20 Jan 2021
The US share of the global economy has shrunk dramatically since 1960. On the other hand, China is on pace to surpass the U.S. in GOP terms in 2030. “The Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991 paved the way for the normalization of capitalist and imperialist ideology, namely the…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
mashing the state— Kristallnacht-style
20 Jan 2021
Kristallnacht came casting lead ballots, overthrowing Black elected officials and Massacring those that VOTED for them— Wilmington, North Carolina, 1898; Kristallnacht came shooting, looting and burning; Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921; Rosewood, Florida, 1923; Muslim Mosque # 27, L.A., 1962; came with…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Return to the Source: Democracy is Dead
20 Jan 2021
By what stretch of the imagination can the US be a democracy when ordinary citizens have virtually no influence over what their government does? “The disregard of popular will is obvious for all to see.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Why the Left Don’t Protest
20 Jan 2021
The worse the political and economic crisis becomes, the more lethargic the US left behaves – as if generations of collaboration with corporate Democrats has sucked the life out of the left. Until leftists break with the Democrats they will always be on a fool’s errand.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Trump as Othello in a Corporate Theater
21 Jan 2021
Trump the straw man has finally been knocked down, giving the Democrats a victory that costs their corporate masters nothing. “If you are desperate to flush the stink of four years of Trump out of your brain, remember who put it there.”
Khalil Martin
Encoding Anti-Blackness: Castration in the Digital Age
27 Jan 2021
El Negro de WhatsApp outgrew the category of prank to become “the biggest meme produced by social media culture in our country.” “The Negro of WhatsApp stands for the African immigrant, invader from the south, an external threat to Spanish national integrity.”
Topher Sanders and Lucas Waldron
Still Can’t Breathe
27 Jan 2021
NYPD officers continue to use chokeholds on civilians without any meaningful punishment. “The Civilian Complaint Review Board has substantiated 40 instances since Garner’s death of officers using prohibited chokeholds.”
Adlène Meddi
France Vows 'Symbolic Actions' but No Apologies for Colonization of Algeria
27 Jan 2021
Between 500,000 and 1.5 million Algerians died in the war for independence, but the French don’t like to talk about it. “The return of the archives of the colonial era to Algeria has been a major demand of independence fighters.” French President Emmanuel Macron recently received a much…