| Black Agenda Report

Alice Speri
The FBI Has a Long History of Treating Political Dissent as Terrorism
06 Nov 2019
Sting operations and the use of informants and agents provocateurs have become a staple of FBI operations. “The bureau’s propensity for the policing of political dissent has remained largely unchallenged.”
Enzo Calandra
Mass Shootings and the Misguided and Pernicious Push for “Gun Control”
06 Nov 2019
The atrocities committed by white male shooters are part and parcel of US behavior both domestically and around the world. “’Gun control’ entails giving the state a monopoly on weapons, whose foot soldiers (the police) are armed, racist, and militarized.” “Under no pretext should arms and…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Dario Azzellini’s “Communes and Workers' Control in Venezuela”
06 Nov 2019
Millions of Venezuelans are building socialism from below, and most of them are Black, brown and female. “The mainstream media, and even many people considering themselves leftists, cannot understand why the Maduro government is still in power.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Keguro Macharia’s “Frottage”
06 Nov 2019
Instead of succumbing to xenophobia and nativism, as with anti-Somali sentiment in Kenya or ADOS in the US, we need to pursue freedom in ways that speak to our differences. “We arrive to how we imagine and pursue freedom in ways that speak to our differences.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
06 Nov 2019
This week our readers discussed black feminism and the alleged killing of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. We print your letters for “Unpacking the Super Exploitation of Black Women” and “Freedom Rider: The Baghdadi Scam.”
Earl Hazell
Who’s Afraid of Alice Walker?
06 Nov 2019
Opera singer and producer Earl Hazell reminds us that standing up for artists and their vision is standing up for free speech, democracy, and ourselves. “Playing the role of ‘Celie’ while not believing in her right to be loved, or to express her love in any way she chooses, would be a betrayal of…
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
In Langston’s Home
06 Nov 2019
In Langston’s home Harlem You do as Langston Did Love the Jazz, the Blues, Words, acts, pages and stages In Langston’s home Harlem You do as Langston Did Love the People, their Problems, pains and triumphs
Erica Caines
Liberalism Will Get Us Killed
06 Nov 2019
Much of the internet chatter over low- hanging fruit issues fails to address our material realities within a settler colony. Bernie Sanders and many Black parents are wrong on how to comport ourselves around the cops.” “Loose lips sink ships” and liberals’ inability to shut up substantiates…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The World is Rising Up Against Austerity and the Rule of the Rich, When Will We?
06 Nov 2019
Black political captivity in the Democratic Party has a lot to do with why there is no clear peace movement in the United States. “U.S. imperialism has imposed a globalized regime of capitalist terror that has left half of the world’s population living in extreme poverty.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Donald in the Donbass, Biden in the Crossfire
06 Nov 2019
Whether Trump tried to make an impeachable arms deal with Ukraine or not, “the last thing Ukraine needs is more weapons of any kind.” “That those weapons risk heating up the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, that’s in no one’s interest.”