| Black Agenda Report

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Pro-Biden Propaganda
27 Jan 2021
The Democratic Party and its corporate media have already white-washed Biden, and nothing will be demanded of him except that he not be Trump. “Biden will be like his old boss Obama, not a lesser evil, but a more effective one.”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Black Citizenship Forum: Pan-Africanism and the Pitfalls of National Citizenship
27 Jan 2021
The Review interrogates the thought of academic and activist Layla Brown-Vincent, who says she was “reared and steeped in Pan-Africanist thought and organization” from birth.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Democratic Fascists Prepare to Drop the Hammer
28 Jan 2021
Democrats are determined to snuff out freedom of speech and assembly to protect the corporate ruling order – while pretending it’s to safeguard Black people. “The militants seeking social transformation and peace under the Black Lives Matter umbrella must weigh the full implications of the Black…
Dr. Kweli Nzito
The Veiled Violence of Racism
03 Feb 2021
The struggle against white supremacy dares to undermine a way of life that has steered and informed White American and European imperialism for 500 years. “We all know what would have happened to BLM followers had they breached security at the Capitol and what will not happen to the vast majority…
Ramzy Baroud
Beyond Slogans: Palestinians Need an Urgent, Centralized Strategy to Counter Israel in Africa
03 Feb 2021
Israel has accelerated its plans to exploit Africa’s many political and economic opportunities, especially as the continent is now an open ground for renewed global attention. “More African countries are expected to either adopt a ‘neutral’ position on Palestine and Israel, or take Israel’s side in…
Todd Steven Burroughs
Book Review: The Prologue, The Prototype, The O.G. Hater
03 Feb 2021
Hubert Henry Harrison was a Black intellectual inferno, a warrior in the cause of a race- and class-based politics.
Renée Feltz
Building Solidarity
03 Feb 2021
Mutual aid tends to expose the reality that people lack what they need, while also creating spaces to meet those needs and build a shared analysis. “Spade drives home the characteristics that distinguish mutual aid from charity.” Mutual Aid Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) Dean…
Jade Bentil
BAR Book Forum: Short Meditations on Christina Sharpe’s "In the Wake"
03 Feb 2021
To read In the Wake is to read a love letter to Black people in the everywhere of this world. “The geohistories of the Black diaspora are marked by the mathematics of racial capitalism and the oceanic journeys that have dispersed Black people all over the world is one of its many…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Destin Jenkins and Justin Leroy’s “Histories of Racial Capitalism”
03 Feb 2021
Racial capitalism is insidious and malleable, and can adapt to nearly any political context. “We must avoid treating racial capitalism as a metanarrative that explains inequality at every moment across vast historical contexts and experiences.”
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
03 Feb 2021
The federal government’s stimulus payments and the role of black police officers were on your minds. We share your letters for “Billionaire Wealth Breaks All Records in Crisis” and “We Have to Stop Valorizing Black Cops.”