| Black Agenda Report

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Biden Breaks His Promises
27 May 2021
Black people have nothing to show for a Biden presidency despite turning out in droves to put him in office. “If the Republicans are seen as the only enemy then we have already lost.”
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Papuan Protesters Attacked and Arrested for Demanding Pro-Independence Leader’s Release
02 Jun 2021
Victor Yeimo was arrested under charges of treason earlier this month for his role in the anti-racism Papuan protests of 2019. “Ultra-nationalists held a violent counter-protest attacking and forcibly dispersing a rally led by Papuan residents.” As demands for the release of Papuan pro-independence…
Laura Correa Ochoa, Maria Cardenas and Tianna S. Paschel
The Colombian State Is at War with Its People
02 Jun 2021
State violence is a daily occurrence in rural areas and particularly in Black and indigenous territories. “Race and racism have shaped the most recent wave of repression.”
Otobong Inieke
African Financial Independence is a Threat to Imperialism
02 Jun 2021
Africa has been a net creditor to the rest of the world for decades, and must find ways to hold on to its capital. “Many African leaders promote foreign interests over domestic ones.” The Plan for Financial Sovereignty
Robyn Maynard
Toward a Police-Free Future in Canada
02 Jun 2021
The defund movement shows the way to divest from violence and repression, and invest in safety and life-affirming services. “In Canada, more than 70 defunding related events took place over the summer of 2020.” It’s been one year since the police publicly executed George Floyd in Minneapolis, and…
H. Claire Brown
How Corporations Buy—and Sell—Food Made With Prison Labor
02 Jun 2021
The small world of prison food production is a microcosm of the American food system, which all too o#en functions as a race to the bottom. “Prison labor is punishment first and foremost.” In 2011, Leprino Foods, the $3 billion company that supplies all the mozzarella to Papa John’s, Pizza Hut, and…
Adofo Minka
Jackson Mississippi’s Black Ruling Class Collaborates to Give Cops Cover to Kill
02 Jun 2021
The “radical” Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba has presided over the police killing of eight Black citizens since 2017. “The Jackson 8, those Black folks killed by the Black led police state, should not be forgotten.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Justin Podur and Joe Emersberger’s “Extraordinary Threat”
02 Jun 2021
Western media outlets, NGOs and powerful governments allied with the United States work in unison to deceive people about foreign policy. “Never underestimate how convincing, formidable and dishonest the propaganda apparatus is that supports US imperialism.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tamika Nunley’s “At the Threshold of Liberty”
02 Jun 2021
How Black women gave the term “liberty” its meaning and expanded the scope of liberty in the nation’s capital during the nineteenth century. “Washington, D.C. was southern in orientation even it was an important site of antislavery activism for abolitionists.”
Pascal Robert
Biden is Anti-Haiti, and His Haitian-American Press Person Doesn’t Give a Damn
02 Jun 2021
The current Haitian president is perhaps the most ineffectual US stooge to date, but Joe Biden and his Haitian American press person couldn’t care less. “Biden is currently supporting a political regime in Haiti almost universally loathed by the Haitian people.”