| Black Agenda Report

by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Regime Change Coming Home?
08 May 2019
Limbo! How low can we go— Barr is set so low in its swamp draining elephantine donkey dung; We straddle razor blades between reich/revolution: Spinal Solution for the Fall of Rome …when’s regime change coming home? Day-o, day-o, day-o! Last days of Pompeo— daylight’s coming and We wanna smash Rome…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Mothers Dying in US
08 May 2019
Only a social and economic transformation can lift Black America to a First World state of well-being. Black health requires Black Power. “Racism condemns its Black and Native citizens to shorter and sicker life spans than prevail in much of what used to be called the Third World.”
Cory Morningstar , Wrong KInd Of Green
Extinction Rebellion Training, Or How To Control Radical Resistance From the "Obstructive" Left
09 May 2019
Extinction Rebellion (XR) officially launched on October 31, 2018. On November 2, 2018, a video was uploaded to the Extinction Rebellion YouTube account. The video documents the training session held by XR co-founder Roger Hallam: “This was filmed at the Extinction Rebellion Local Coordinator…
Jeff Bryant
Charter School Support Slipping Among Democrats
15 May 2019
Barack Obama was the nation’s most pro-charter president, but much of his party has grown leery of them. “The politics of charter schools have changed in the African American community.”
Dr. Kweli Nzito
Where Have All the Anti-War Warriors Gone?
15 May 2019
Has the US public become desensitized to the horrendous suffering inflicted by their government, or are they blissful co-imperialists? “What has produced this unprecedented state of brain demise, amorality and bizarre insensitivity to the suffering and pain of others?”
Jon Jeter
Adrift in a Decolonizing World, the White Settler Makes a Final, Furious Stand
15 May 2019
From Ramallah to Rio, Capetown to Caracas, Green Bay to Gaza, the sun is setting on the colonial racial order. “The global white settler elite is doubling down on the only tactic it knows – primitive violence.” Anticipating a government plan to seize their farms for redistribution to landless…
Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg
In Baltimore, Police Officers Are the Bad Guys With Guns
15 May 2019
Plainclothes police officers are waging war on citizens. “They often planted guns and resold narcotics.” There have been 11 homicides in Baltimore since the start of May, pushing the number of homicides in 2019 past 100. The hardscrabble, postindustrial city of 611,000 people reached this grim…
Calvin Warren
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Achille Mbembe's "Critique of Black Reason" (Part 3)
15 May 2019
Mbembe invites us to rethink the foundation of thought upon which the world is predicated. “Anti-blackness and white supremacy—are symptoms of the world-problem.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Renisa Mawani’s “Across Oceans of Law”
15 May 2019
The mass deaths along the Mediterranean are part of a much longer colonial history of maritime security aimed at protecting the freedom of (European) mobility. “In the past two decades, it is estimated that 20,000 people have died in the Mediterranean while trying to reach Europe from…
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
15 May 2019
This week the hypocrisy of Democratic Party presidential candidates and the reality behind the nonprofit industrial complex were topics on your minds. Readers wrote about “Joe Biden Wants Us To Forget His Past. We Won’t.” and “Extinction Rebellion Training, Or How To Control…