| Black Agenda Report

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
10 Feb 2021
The United States is a decadent, declining empire stumbling blindly into an agonizing death spiral. “Nkrumah condemned neocolonialism as ‘the worst form of imperialism.’”
David Rosen
The Kidnapping Club
10 Feb 2021
Northern free Blacks as well as self-liberated former slaves lived in fear of being kidnapped by organized slave catchers in New York City. “City police, leading lawyers and judges), with the support of the growing Irish immigrant community, colluded with organized slave catchers.” The Kidnapping…
Duana Fullwiley
DNA and Our Twenty-First-Century Ancestors
17 Feb 2021
Home DNA ancestry kits include no ancestors, instead comparing customers to other present-day people based on assumptions about race and ethnicity. “People’s DNA is being compared to plain old humans in the here and now.”
Deirdre Cooper Owens
Medical Racism Has Shaped U.S. Policies for Centuries
17 Feb 2021
A Black medical truth-teller traces the link between a 1793 yellow fever epidemic and today’s coronavirus racial disparities. “From the 18th century until now, African Americans were more likely to suffer because of the social determinants of health and an anti-Black bias that permeated the medical…
Sundiata Acoli
Black Liberation in Context: Political Prisoner Speaks on Torture at 2005 Human Rights Conference
17 Feb 2021
Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army political/prisoner of war Sundiata Acoli told human rights activists “torture is nothing new” in U.S. “The same perverted grins seen at Ghraib can be found in the faces and photos of White lynch mobs in the U.S.” Greetings IHRI Conference:
Black Alliance For Peace
For Biden Administration, Black Lives Don’t Matter in Haiti!—A BAP Statement on Haiti
17 Feb 2021
The new US administration has already shown its support for paramilitary terror and political suppression in Haiti. “The people of Haiti must be sacrificed for the larger interests of the U.S. imperial project.”
Margaret Flowers
Urgent Solidarity With Haiti Is Needed
17 Feb 2021
“President” Jovenel Moïse has dismantled the democratic institutions of the state and rules unilaterally with the support of the police, military and western allies. “Moïse’s five year term ends this year while Moïse claims he has one more year.”
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
Is Biden Committing Diplomatic Suicide Over the Iran Nuclear Agreement?
17 Feb 2021
Biden is taking the position that the US will not rejoin the agreement or drop its unilateral sanctions until Iran first comes back into compliance. “Instead of tackling the danger of Israel’s real nuclear weapons, successive U.S. administrations have chosen to cry ‘Wolf!’ over non-existent…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Akira Drake Rodriguez’s “Diverging Space for Deviants”
17 Feb 2021
We must realize what we’ve lost in the demolition and sale of public housing units. “I hope we start to see the reclamation of housing as a human right as a key component to Black liberation.”
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
17 Feb 2021
This week color-blindness on the left and the Black Misleadership Class were on your minds. We share your letters for “There is No Color-Blind Road to Socialism in the United States” and “Nightmare Years Will Repeat Themselves – Until the People Kick Out the Cabal.”