| Black Agenda Report

Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Time of Plague and Meltdown: Mass Murder by Corporate Duopoly
26 Mar 2020
The shrinking of the public health sector is a capitalist crime, abetted by the two corporate parties.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The U.S. is a Failed State, and COVID-19 Proves it
25 Mar 2020
The United States’ capitalist and imperialist economy cannot provide a modicum of social welfare to its people and has been in perpetual war with Black Americans and Indigenous Peoples since its fo
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Chinese Disease?
25 Mar 2020
He didn’t say Chinese debt, did he? He didn’t say Chinese pharmaceuticals, did he?
Black Alliance For Peace
Coronavirus, Militarism and the End of an Illusion
25 Mar 2020
People are waking people up to the fact that the US state and government does not belong to them but to a capitalist class that is only looking out for itself.
Russell Rickford
Black Politics, Class Struggle and the Illusion of Centrism
25 Mar 2020
Black Democratic Party operatives seek to camouflage class antagonisms among African Americans and to equate racial progress with the feeble policies of “diversity and inclusion.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
25 Mar 2020
This week the Democratic Party and the failures of US healthcare were on your mind.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aparna Mishra Tarc’s “Literacy of the Other”
25 Mar 2020
The global citizenry shows increasing apathy towards each other’s social and political conditions.
Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
BAR Abolition Mutual Aid Spotlight: Ujimaa Medics
25 Mar 2020
Chicago’s Ujimaa Medics bring a racial justice and cultural specificity lens to community health care through mutual aid.
Frank Chapman
Trump Using Virus to Privatize Government, Increase Repression
25 Mar 2020
Trump’s administration is more interested in saving Wall Street and boosting their profits than they are in saving lives and meeting the needs of the people.
Fair & Just Prosecution
Joint Statement From Elected Prosecutors on COVID-19 and Addressing the Rights and Needs of Those in Custody
25 Mar 2020
Overcrowded jail, prison and immigration detention facilities force people together in close quarters without access to proper hygiene or medical care.