| Black Agenda Report

Nina Banks
Black Women Pushed Down By Long History of Bias
27 Feb 2019
Black women have the longest history in the labor force, but reap the least rewards. “Black families are more reliant on women’s incomes than other families.” The black woman’s experience in America provides arguably the most overwhelming evidence of the persistent and ongoing drag from gender and…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
San Francisco Shocked by Heroic Public Defender's Sudden Death and Police Response
27 Feb 2019
The aftermath of a crusading public defender's sudden death has shocked and disturbed critics of the criminal justice system. “Adachi should be remembered for his lifelong defense of those abused and incarcerated by a brutal and racist criminal justice system.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Bezos’ Banishment and the Limits of Austerity
27 Feb 2019
The richest man in the world is not the smartest, but even if he was he couldn’t save the system from its contradictions. “The U.S. austerity regime has reached a high-point and has primarily targeted Black cities.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Venezuela Reveals America’s Sickness
27 Feb 2019
The Democrats agree with Trump that Venezuelans have no rights that need be respected by the United States. “Like a pack of predators they have lined up to assist in the kill.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Dredging
27 Feb 2019
Rehabilitating men with birth defects: bomb bays where hearts should beat, weaponized eyes, mechanical mouths, teargas tongues, compassionless, cold- blooded coup smiles…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Words and Deeds of Social Imperialists
28 Feb 2019
The US left makes celebrities of self-styled “socialists” that have no solidarity with real strugglers against imperialism in the world. “Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez make weak noises against military action while accepting the rationale of the aggression.”
R. Divya Nair
A Black American Delegation to India, 1935-36
06 Mar 2019
Black theologian Howard Thurman’s Pilgrimage of Friendship deeply influenced the worldview of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “It was the first Black Christian delegation to tour India.”
Justin Podur
Inside the Neoliberal Laboratory Preparing for the Theft of Venezuela’s Economy
06 Mar 2019
The academic laboratory of the Venezuelan coup is housed at Harvard. “Behind every US-backed war on a foreign people there will be a body of scholarly work.”
Misha Hill, Alan Essig, Meg Wiehe, Jenice Robinson, Steve Wamhoff and Carl Davis
The Illusion of Race-Neutral Tax Policy
06 Mar 2019
Beginning with the Slave tax, the US has overburdened Black communities with taxes for services that they often don’t get. “Historic and current injustices continue to allow white communities to build wealth while denying the same level of opportunity to communities of color.”
Stephen Cooper
Keith Tharpe and the Death Penalty’s Racist Roots
06 Mar 2019
The history of the death penalty in America is hewn from the hell of slavery, subjugation and the suffering of black people. “You don’t have to be a Justice on the Supreme Court to know a juror who uses racial epithets can’t be fair and impartial.”