| Black Agenda Report

Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
10 Jun 2020
This week police brutality and racism in the United States and Brazil were on your minds.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Africa’s Response to the George Floyd Murder
10 Jun 2020
Outrage towards the US emanated from the Congo, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, all condemning the killing. “Africa’s relation to the Floyd murder was swift and resolute.”
Max Rameau and Netfa Freeman
Community Control Vs. Defunding the Police: A Critical Analysis
10 Jun 2020
Defunding the police might end the armed and uniformed force as we know it, but the ruling class will then hire mercenaries to protect their wealth and enforce their will. The police are a consequence of wealth, not the cause of it.” The intensity and scope of the mass rebellion that has gripped…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
low Barr Limbo
10 Jun 2020
He so wide you can’t go ‘round him He so low you can’t go under him He so low that when he go High an ant can’t get under him; a rattlesnake’s shake’s an uproar; he so low— He low He hella low… He so low he hafta crane his neck looking up at Goering who appears on Mount Rushmore; he so low—…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
How Did Two Beloved Members of Louisville’s Black Community Die Under Police Fire?
10 Jun 2020
Without justification, Louisville cops snuffed out the lives of Breonna Taylor and David McAtee, drawing that city into the national vortex of protest. “We are still waiting for any level of responsibility to be assigned to the officers.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
A Tale of Two Protests: Why the U.S. Ruling Class Loves Hong Kong Protests But Hates the Minneapolis-Led Rebellion
10 Jun 2020
The protests in Hong Kong are led by an assortment of US-backed proxies who have separation from China as their principle goal. “In Hong Kong, the US sees not a war for ‘democracy’ but rather a key battleground for its larger hybrid war against China.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Rebellion, Confusion, Scoundrels and Kente Cloth
10 Jun 2020
Black rebellion brings insecurity to those in power, as editors, mayors and even long dead criminals are being called to account. “Demands for community control and abolition must remain at the top of the list.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Time to Sharpen Our Weapons and Wits
11 Jun 2020
Having not yet won real power over the police, this is no time for a lull or a truce -- it’s time to sharpen our political instruments and deepen the mass movement’s social penetration. “The objective is to seize and exercise people’s power in our communities, and to defend the people’s rights and…
Ron Wilkins
To Observe and Protect: Community Alert Patrol and the Fight Against Police Terror in the 1960s
17 Jun 2020
The Black Panther Party modeled their policing initiatives after Black citizens’ patrols in Los Angeles. “The problem of police terror has only worsened.in the 54 years since CAP’s existence.”
Rachel R. Hardeman, Ph.D., M.P.H., Eduardo M. Medina, M.D., M.P.H., Rhea W. Boyd, M.D., M.P.H.
Stolen Breaths
17 Jun 2020
Demonstrators are laying bare the deep pain that persists for black people fighting to live under the crushing weight of injustice that has long been at our necks. “Too many ‘leaders wonder how we got here and what we can do to move forward, as if the answers have not been ever-present.” In…