| Black Agenda Report

Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
14 Aug 2019
This week we discuss the definition of concentration camps, the armed white right wing, and the criminal justice system. We share your comments for “A Concentration Camp By Any Other Name…,” “American Exceptionalism = American Murder,” and “
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
The Red Summer of 1919, Explained
14 Aug 2019
White mobs attacked Black neighborhoods in cities across the nation in 1919, but this time Blacks would not “turn the left cheek when smitten upon the right.” “The war is over, negroes. Stay in your place. If you don’t, we’ll put you there.”
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison Nobel Lecture
14 Aug 2019
“Forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light.” Click here to listen to an audio recording of Toni Morrison’s Nobel Lecture of December 7, 1993, or read it, below. “Once upon a time there was an old woman. Blind but wise.” Or was it…
Afro-Descendents at Sao Paulo Forum
Afro-Descendents in the Americas Denounce Neo-Liberalism and Imperialism
14 Aug 2019
In Caracas, Venezuela, on July 28, 2019, Afro-Descended participants in the annual Sao Paulo Forum met to discuss the state of their various social movements. Final Declaration:
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
From Iran to Mass Shootings on the Mainland, the U.S. Empire is in a State of Decay
14 Aug 2019
An empire in decay only becomes more violent and ruthless. “The U.S. has killed over 40,000 Venezuelans in one year’s worth of sanctions.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
William The Redactor
14 Aug 2019
William The Redactor will get to the bottom of it… Asset’s dead, questions must be answered— Why was he suicided instead of cancered? Let’s limbo! Limbo! How low can you go? Barr is set so low in the bed of the swamp Never mind the hot air, and all the pomp… Waiting on reports from William…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: No Racism, Just Russians
14 Aug 2019
The absurd claim that Russians have orchestrated US racial strife is designed to nullify Black outrage and discredit those who fight oppression. “The Russiagate corpse is reanimated again and again.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Why the Rich Want to Bury Bernie, the Not-Really-Socialist
15 Aug 2019
Sanders is fighting capitalist austerity, not capitalist rule, but austerity is ruling class policy, so the Democratic Party must stop him. “The obscene increases in wealth inequality are the desired result and true essence of austerity.”
Rohn Kenyatta
Black People in America Cannot Be Racist (As Much As They Might Like To Be)
21 Aug 2019
Black people in the US may not like white people, for good reason, but lack the power to construct an anti-white racism. “Black People in America have virtually no institutional power.”
Eli Day
Socialists of Color to the Front
21 Aug 2019
LeftRoots’ stated purpose: to strategize around “21st-century socialism” and then bring people together to help get there. “LeftRoots’ membership includes ‘super-majorities both of people of color, and of women and other gender-oppressed people.’”