| Black Agenda Report

Shea Howell
Detroit Targeted for Massive Facial Surveillance
17 Jul 2019
A Black elected police commissioner was manhandled at a public meeting for protesting a draconian facial recognition scheme. “Across the globe, from Ferguson to China, these technologies are being used to target activists.”
Lizzie Presser
Why Are So Many Black Families Losing Their Land?
17 Jul 2019
The Reels brothers spent eight years in jail for refusing to leave their plot of land in North Carolina. “Since 1910, black families have been stripped of hundreds of billions of dollars because of lost land.”
Gyasi Lake
There’s No Such Thing as a “Progressive Prosecutor” in a System Designed to Criminalize Blackness
17 Jul 2019
Incremental changes are treated as if they are touchdowns when they are just moving the chains. “We must be wary of a Democratic party trying to co-opt the left political messaging to placate radical demands of transformation.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Gang of Four
17 Jul 2019
I say, YAY, I say, MORE, I say, GO, Gang of Four! Rock that boat on the Democratic Party Plantation— every “State of the Union,” hearing and “investigation” Joust with the stupid, ugly, ignorant corporate clown fancying his weird, absurd, porcupine rug as a crown But he’s mere…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Five Myths of American Exceptionalism Killing the Left Part 1.
17 Jul 2019
Adherence to American exceptionalism kills the left and then takes it to the Democratic Party-run graveyard for burial. “The anti-Russian campaign has given the FBI and the CIA a public relations facelift.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Trump and Pelosi Lovefest
17 Jul 2019
Trump and Pelosi are birds of a feather when it comes to beating up on dissident women of color. “Pelosi probably rose in Trump’s estimation when she dismissed her brown skinned caucus members.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The “Squad” Will Need to Realize that You Can’t Defeat White Supremacy with White Supremacy
18 Jul 2019
The “squad” condemns Trump for his white nationalism, not understanding that as a white supremacist settler-colonial state, white nationalism is “American” nationalism. “Biden as a neoliberal white supremacist imperialist was always clear where he stood.”
Seth Donnelly and Judith Mirkinson
The Lasalin Massacre and the Human Rights Crisis in Haiti
24 Jul 2019
The Lasalin massacre was designed to punish and destroy a neighborhood long known as a stronghold of the grassroots opposition. “We found a clear pattern of paramilitaries/death squads being armed and abetted by the government in order to terrorize the population.” Introduction
Yasmina Mrabet
Victory for DC Tenants in Catholic Church-Owned Buildings
24 Jul 2019
Tenants fight back and win in the city with the nation’s highest rate of gentrification, by far. “A community developer has signed a contract committing to work with the tenants and not displace them.”
Jordanna Matlon
Black Masculinity Under Racial Capitalism
24 Jul 2019
A truly radical counterhegemony can only be realized by disassociating both blackness and manhood from capitalist registers of worth. “Through Consumerism and commodification, black men paradoxically are transformed into iconic figures of success within the fantasy of late capitalism.”