| Black Agenda Report

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The USS COVID-19, from Guam to Puget Sound
15 Apr 2020
While the world confronts a real-life deadly epidemic, the Covid-afflicted US Navy struggles to maintain the farce of keeping the planet safe from fictitious threats. “The US Navy’s Pacific Command is not in its normal operational mode.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Yellow Skin, White Masks: Andrew Yang and the Democratic Party’s School of White Supremacist Thought
15 Apr 2020
Yang’s hope that Asian-Americans fight racism by marrying themselves to American exceptionalism is nothing more than an attempt to maintain his own economic privileges. “Yang’s insistence that Asian-Americans drape themselves in the American flag is particularly egregious.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: COVID-19 and Deadly Health Care for Black People
15 Apr 2020
Even if the United States had a strong public health system, Black and brown people would be plagued by racist medical practices. “In all likelihood the American vaccine will be tested on black people.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The End of Sanders, and Maybe the Beginning of a Mass Independent Left
16 Apr 2020
Sander’s early Return of the Prodigal Son to the bosom of the Party allows him to escape the deep critique of capitalist medicine and political-economy that would be required of a “leftish” presidential candidate as this never-in-our-lifetimes crisis unfolds. “A core of Sanders supporters…
Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Mike Davis On Pandemics, Super-capitalism and the Struggles of Tomorrow
22 Apr 2020
Capitalist globalization means accepting a permanent triage of humanity and dooming part of the human race to eventual extinction. “There’s some possibility that mass infection in slums and poor cities could flip the switch on coronavirus’s mode of infection and reshape the nature of the…
Don Fitz
Cuba: From AIDS, Dengue, and Ebola to COVID-19
22 Apr 2020
Before Cuba experienced its first COVID-!9 case it had already updated a plan to prevent and control the disease. “Cuba has 8.2 doctors per 1,00 people while the United States has 2.6 doctors per 1,000.” Preparing for a pandemic requires understanding that a change in the relationship between…
Pierre Labossiere
Resisting Covid-19 in Haiti
22 Apr 2020
There are only around 124 intensive care unit beds and less than 100 ventilators for a population of about 11 million. “The authorities care only about lining their pockets.”
Lee Fang
Wall Street Fat Cats Back Challenger to AOC in Primary
22 Apr 2020
Finance capitalists collected nearly $1 million in the first three months of the year to oust Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “Michelle Caruso-Cabrera was a registered Republican until a few years ago.” Wall Street Titans are financing a direct challenge to firebrand progressive lawmaker…
Vijay Prashad, Weiyan Zhu, and Du Xiaojun
Truth and Propaganda About Coronavirus
22 Apr 2020
It is unclear if China could have done anything different as it faced an unknown virus. “There is no clarity that it emerged directly from the Wuhan market.” Part 1: Growing Xenophobia Against China in the Midst of CoronaShock Violent attacks against Asians in the United States has spiked as a…
Linn Washington
Wrong On Weed – Blacks And Marijuana Myths
22 Apr 2020
Black state lawmakers helped scuttle efforts to legalize marijuana in the Garden State and Black preachers have been huge impediments to legalization. “Studies expose stupidity on 'smoke.'” When New Jersey State Senator Ronald Rice roadblocked legislation to legalize adult use of marijuana in the ‘…