| Black Agenda Report

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
It’s capitalism, baby… / 1 %-Funded Rally Actors / Solidarity
29 Apr 2020
It’s capitalism, baby… Gravediggers feed hungry Hart Island trenches plain pine coffins; stacked three-high, they rest side by side in solidarity. For now, they share island real estate with AIDS and1918 Flu fallen. New York is not new to this. Ask African Burial Ground Ancestors—it’s…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
May 1st General Strike: Claiming People(s)-Centered Human Rights for the Working Class
29 Apr 2020
The failure of the capitalist state to provide the people with elementary protections of their fundamental human rights renders the capitalist state illegitimate. “The people are defining and taking up the struggle for their human rights.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
DRC’s Virunga: Park, Gorillas, and Rangers All Under Attack
29 Apr 2020
Congolese officials are blaming armed Rwandan Hutu refugees for the massacre of twelve rangers and five civilians, but there are any number of other predators that covet the park. “The park is a target for those determined to seize its vast resources without regard for the wildlife or the Congolese…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s Anti-China Campaign Strategy is Part of a Broader Imperialist War Against China
29 Apr 2020
Joe Biden and Donald Trump are taking aim at China to deflect attention away from the American nightmare. “It has always been wrong-headed see China and the U.S. as equal partners in a broader war on the working class.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Fighting COVID-19 with Mass Action and a People’s Strike
29 Apr 2020
The people’s mass fightback against the system that failed to protect them from the coronavirus and corporate predators begins May 1. “The masses are suffering, but the black misleadership class behaves as it usually does, playing their part as a fake opposition to Trump.””
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Late-Stage Racial Capitalism Opened the Door to the Killer Virus
30 Apr 2020
The white settler state always inflicts excessive mortality on racially subject peoples, and capitalism inflicts death on large sections of its disproportionately non-white working class and poor. “Capitalism is constantly imposing a monstrous, rolling triage on the populations it controls.”
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Venezuela Thwarts Invasion Attempt by Mercenaries
06 May 2020
Venezuelan officials reported that a group of mercenaries attempted to invade the country on Sunday but were stopped by the country’s army and police. “The terrorist group had sought to carry out selective assassinations to ‘unleash a spiral of violence and generate chaos in the population.’”…
Peter Young
Overcrowded DRC Prisons 'Ticking Time-Bomb' for COVID-19 Pandemic
06 May 2020
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s main prisons are filled at 432 percent on average, making them some of the most overcrowded in the world. “Munzenze was called the ‘most terrible’ prison in Africa by a UN official.”
Milton G. Allimadi
Tribute to My Beloved Sister Barbara Allimadi – Fighter for Justice in Uganda
06 May 2020
We owe it to Barbara to march those extra miles and create a new Uganda. “She was arrested multiple times for leading protests against the regime.” Many people who know my sister Barbara Allimadi who passed away on Monday night in Uganda will remember her as a tireless and fearless fighter…
Igor Derysh
Over 70 Percent of Jobless Americans Didn’t Receive March Unemployment Benefits
06 May 2020
The problem is even worse in Southeastern states like Florida, where fewer than 8% of applicants received benefits. “Congress left the distribution of the benefits to individual states, leaving unemployed Americans to face a ‘hodgepodge of different state rules.”