Nature And The Environment

Elizabeth Cooney
Blacks May be Bearing the Brunt of Covid-19, But Access to Data is Limited
08 Apr 2020
The feds don’t keep racial data on the coronavirus, but local reports show Blacks are dying at multiple the rates of whites in some cities.
Soraya Nadia Mcdonald
In 1918 and 2020, Race Colors America’s Response to Epidemics
08 Apr 2020
A century ago, In cities across the nation, black people struck by the flu were often left to fend for themselves.
Jessica Corbett
Moral Leaders Demand Coronavirus Relief for Most Vulnerable
08 Apr 2020
The relief package “leaves out the majority of homeless, undocumented immigrants, the disabled, and anyone too poor to have to file taxes,” says the Poor Peoples Campaign.
Philippe Gendrault
Public Health? Anyone? Twelve Ways to Avoid Talking About Capitalism
08 Apr 2020
The failure of the American public health delivery system facing the Covid-19 is a socio-political and ideological failure born from the intrinsic contradictions of contemporary capitalism at large
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 6, 2020
06 Apr 2020
Call for a General Strike Beginning May 1st
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Students May Strike for "Social Welfare" During Crisis
06 Apr 2020
Semassa Boko, a student activist and PhD candidate at the University of California at Irvine, wrote an article on the concept of a social welfare strike “under conditions where the
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Working People Must Build Solidarity in Resistance
06 Apr 2020
The general strike is “extremely promising” because “it is the surest way that workers have to protect their own health, since obviously the state and their employers are not interested in doing th
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Call for a General Strike Beginning May 1st
06 Apr 2020
Cooperation Jackson, based in Jackson, Mississippi, issued the call and list of demands to protect the people from both the virus and disaster capitalism.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
“The American Disease”: Only the Overthrow of the Oligarchy Will Cure It
02 Apr 2020
Although the coronavirus provided the trigger for the current global shrinkage, the economic crisis was already looming when the pathogen made its physical appearance.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: COVID-19 and Black Workers
01 Apr 2020
The gross inequalities and declining standards of life in the US are magnified by the corona crisis, pushing already marginalized populations to the brink.