| Black Agenda Report

Shaka Shakur
A View from the Faultlines of National Oppression and Class Contradictions
29 Jul 2020
They try to kriminalize the righteous rage of the people. “This slaughtering has a historical context and foundation.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
What Are Trump and His Goons Up To?
22 Jul 2020
That’s the question I asked policing and privacy expert Tracy Rosenberg, Executive Director of Media Alliance, and coordinator of Oakland Privacy.
Chip Gibbons
Barr's New Task Force Is a Blatant Attempt to Target Racial Justice Protesters
15 Jul 2020
The attorney general’s theory rests on the premise that there is a set path by which one radicalizes into becoming violent.
Mark P. Fancher
Is “Black Lives Matter” a Therapeutic Mantra for White Guilt?
01 Jul 2020
Many who took to the streets were out there to engage in a form of mass group therapy.
Adofo Minka
The Self-Confessed Bankruptcy of Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba
01 Jul 2020
Jackson, Mississippi’s Black mayor is celebrated as a “radical” in some quarters, but his cops kill, maim and abuse Black people just like police forces everywhere in the US.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Movement to Abolish the Police Must Place Politics in Command
24 Jun 2020
Community control of the police offers a concrete vision for what the beginnings of police abolition might look like.
Kate Levine and Joanna Schwartz
Hold Prosecutors Accountable, Too
24 Jun 2020
Police violence is tied to other agents in criminal law enforcement, including and especially prosecutors.
Wilmer J. Leon III
A Moment or a Movement? The Blowback Will Tell
24 Jun 2020
You cannot separate the racist police aggression in the streets of the US and the racist US aggression against Venezuela, Bolivia, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Yemen, Libya and Syria.
Erica Caines
Black-Outs, ‘Black Lives Matter’ and Black Power
17 Jun 2020
Community control of police and prison abolition have been completely removed from the conversations dictated by a mainstream and complacent narrative.
T.P. Wilkinson
Political ABCs: Maybe the Difference between a “Cop” and a “Crook” is Just a Badge
17 Jun 2020
What has recently been condemned as corrupt and brutal policing is actually consistent with historical tradition of localized repression.