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Black Agenda Review Editors
BLACK CITIZENSHIP FORUM: The Roots of Xenophobic Violence in South Africa—A Pan African Response
24 Feb 2021
South Africa must dismantle and transcend the colonial nation-state through creation of a Pan-African federation that stretches across the Southern African sub-continent.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Democracy Now Provides Progressive Cover to State Department Propaganda Campaign Against China
24 Feb 2021
The show has become a reliable platform for uncritical regime change propaganda, demonizing targets of US empire from Syria to Nicaragua.
Minkah Makalami
Cedric Robinson and the Origins of Race
24 Feb 2021
To dismiss the logic of Robinson’s “racial capitalism,” one must ignore the only history of capitalism we have.
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.
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.
Mya Shone
The Vaccine Distribution Crisis: Capitalism in its Death Agony
10 Feb 2021
The hoarding of existing supply and the refusal to create a vast public infrastructure capable of producing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines are inherent consequences of capitalism.
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.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
First 100 Daze: A ‘new’ dance craze
27 Jan 2021
Everybody’s wild ‘bout this ‘new’ dance craze— this lewd, crude dance called “The 1st 100 Daze…” Here come Ol’ Blak Schmo and Ladee Blu—
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;
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Will COVID-19 Contact Tracing Expand State Surveillance?
06 Jan 2021
The US remains wholly incapable of tracing Covid-19 contagion, but if it tried, we might wind up with “the worst of both worlds” – a horror of coercion and confusion that still failed to stop the e