| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: America Needs Protest
06 Nov 2019
A thousand young people demonstrated in Brooklyn, jumping over turnstiles in solidarity with others arrested and brutalized by the cops. “There is no lack of reasons to take action here in the belly of the beast.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
By trying to Silence Sanders, the Corporate Media De-Legitimize Themselves
07 Nov 2019
Sanders has been made into a non-person, and his proposals routinely distorted, because the corporate media want Americans to meekly submit to the Race to the Bottom. “The system was suffering a crisis of legitimacy: nobody believed the official narrative anymore.” Bernie Sanders’ campaign has…
Dr. Kweli Nzito
The Robbers Come Home to Roost
13 Nov 2019
The US has made violation of legal and civilizational norms…normal, guaranteeing that the demons it has unleashed on the world will be returned-to-sender. “The falsehoods keep coming fast and furious.”
Riva Enteen
McCarthyism Redux
13 Nov 2019
The National Lawyers Guild, born in resistance to political witch-hunts, seems to have neutered itself in the face of the new wave of manufactured hysteria. “The Guild has ‘a sort of hip neoliberal mindset: anti-Russia, anti-China, anti-Syria etc.’” I recently returned from a delegation to…
Ethan Johnson
On Death and Dying as a Black Studies Professor at Portland State University
13 Nov 2019
In celebration of Black Study’s 50th year in existence at Portland State, we also get to watch its death. “The stress of daily racism gets into our bodies and overworks us, causing breakdowns.”
James Campbell and Mark Solomon
Jack O’Dell – A Life in Struggle (August 11, 1923 – October 31, 2019)
13 Nov 2019
Odell’s effectiveness and fidelity to principle is affirmed by the ferocity of Hoover’s redbaiting smears. “O’Dell emphasized the essential role of progressive coalitions fighting for a robust democracy against corporate power.” Jack’s quietly effective teaching, his strategic acumen,…
by Zoe PC
Coup in Bolivia Rejected Worldwide
13 Nov 2019
The coup is driven by the Bolivian oligarchy, fully supported by the US government, which has long been eager to remove Morales and his movement from power. “The US embassy in La Paz has articulated the fact that it has two plans – Plan A, the coup; Plan B, assassination of Morales.”
Boké Saisi
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
13 Nov 2019
Black class relations explicated, Moynihan debunked, slave life explored, prison abolition made conceivable – all this is teachable. “hooks contends that class is a taboo topic for folks of all classes to discuss.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Walter Mignolo and Catherine Walsh’s “On Decoloniality”
13 Nov 2019
The dominant conceptions and ideals of Western civilization aim to violate, destroy, and eliminate all that obstructs and impedes its path. “Coloniality is global and it is not over.”
Jason Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
13 Nov 2019
This week Black voters and the Democrats, the passing of John Conyers, and the alleged demise of Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi were on your minds. We share your letters for “Black Voters Won’t Save the Democrats,” “Farewell to John Conyers Jr.