| Black Agenda Report

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The State (For Cam and B) and Mo’ Foul Play
17 Jun 2020
Papa’s proud of you, handsome Grandsons, for hand-lettered signs, for taking to the streets during your generation’s 10 days that shook the world! I’m proud of your militant mugs, masked, concealing righteous anger and dangerous emotional Literacy your Mom gifted you…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Rebellion Against Police Repression Must Guard Against ALL Enemies, Whether Red, Blue, or Green
17 Jun 2020
The terrain of struggle will need to expand for the movement to avoid a Democratic Party-induced slumber. “The movement’s enemies in blue not only include the cops but also the entire Democratic Party.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Churchill, Columbus and Leopold Fall Down
17 Jun 2020
Millions of white people glorify mass murderers because their sense of identity and place in society is deeply tied to white supremacy. “It is important to name and shame the mass murderers.”
Don Fitz
How Che Guevara Taught Cuba to Confront COVID-19
17 Jun 2020
Cuba uses its decades of experience to create an example of how a country can confront the virus with a compassionate and competent plan. “Decades before COVID-19 jumped from person to person, Che’s imagination went from doctor to doctor.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Community Control of the Police – and a Whole Lot More
18 Jun 2020
Abolition of the police begins with community control, in which community representatives not only hire, fire and oversee the cops, but decide the nature of the policing that is necessary and acceptable. “Movements are about amassing power to the people, not collecting promises from corporate…
Riva Enteen
Seize the Time or Face Fascism
24 Jun 2020
Either we seize the time and bring power to the people, or we must be prepared to face overt fascism. “We are living in a perfect storm.”
Julian Agyeman and Kofi Boone
Food, Land and Power: Revisiting Black Cooperative Movements
24 Jun 2020
Land loss has plagued black America since emancipation – is it time to look again at ‘black commons’ and collective ownership? “An expanded concept of the ‘black commons’ – based on shared economic, cultural and digital resources as well as land – could act as one means of redress.”
Julian Cola
Ungentrifying International News Reporting from Brazil to Ecuador and Beyond
24 Jun 2020
So-called “racial democracy” has systematically excluded and kept black people at the dirt end of the socioeconomic totem pole in Brazil, as reflected in its media. “Consigned to the periphery, independent black media outlets in Brazil have amassed significant followings on their websites and…
Wilmer J. Leon III
A Moment or a Movement? The Blowback Will Tell
24 Jun 2020
You cannot separate the racist police aggression in the streets of the US and the racist US aggression against Venezuela, Bolivia, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Yemen, Libya and Syria. “Chauvin was sending a message to the community by holding his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck in broad daylight.” “George Floyd…
Kate Levine and Joanna Schwartz
Hold Prosecutors Accountable, Too
24 Jun 2020
Police violence is tied to other agents in criminal law enforcement, including and especially prosecutors. “Without a mechanism to deter prosecutor misconduct, injustices will go without remedy.”