| Black Agenda Report

Alice Speri
Memphis Police Chief Trained with Israel Security Forces
08 Feb 2023
The chief of the Memphis, Tennessee police department took part in trainings in Israel. These exchanges with an apartheid state are a training ground for brutality.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Club None Long To Belong To…*
30 Nov 2022
Club None Long To Belong To…*
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Solve Tomorrow’s Uvalde in nano seconds…
27 Jul 2022
Solve Tomorrow’s Uvalde in nano seconds…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Protesting for Jayland Walker
06 Jul 2022
The number of bullets used to kill Jayland Walker have sparked an outcry, but police kill one Black person every day in this country. If systemic change is not the demand all protest is for naught.
Mark P. Fancher
Patrick Lyoya’s Death Sentence for the Crime of “Contempt of White Cop”
20 Apr 2022
Police in the United States kill an average of three people every day and one of those persons will be Black. Patrick Lyoya was one recent victim of a police execution.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Activist Journalist Frank Sterling on Trial
09 Feb 2022
A KPFA reporter experienced violent encounters with police in Antioch, California and advocates on behalf of others.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Copaganda
05 Jan 2022
Copaganda I.
Netfa Freeman
Biden’s DOJ Sleight of Hand on Police Reform
22 Sep 2021
DOJ "reforms" are a smoke screen covering up systemic complicity with law enforcement.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The NBA’s Black Power
02 Sep 2020
Black NBA players, writes Ann Garrison, are just beginning to understand the power of the attention and admiration they command.
Marjorie Cohn
Federal Judge Tackles Police Immunity Law
26 Aug 2020
The Black judge listed the injustices of “qualified immunity,” which allows police and other government officials to escape liability for their law breaking.