| Black Agenda Report

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Lola Olufemi’s “Feminism, Interrupted”
24 Jun 2020
The political project we are invested in will require long term conviction and must be internationalist in its orientation. “We’re seeing people being radicalized in real time.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar’s “Deadly Biocultures”
24 Jun 2020
Market logics, commodification, extraction, and exploitation condition our possibilities for life and expose many to ever-expanding forms of precarity. “We call for a politics of critical mourning—an active accounting of loss and the connections between neocapitalism and bioinequality.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
24 Jun 2020
This week community control of police, rage in protests, and the black political class were on your minds.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Who’s a Worker? (for Leo, Clarence, Jack, Trent and ILWU Local 10 Brothers and Sisters)
24 Jun 2020
I’ve prepped produce; bagged bread; stocked shelves; pulled products for- ward on shelves of several stores. So I bring nothing but love for frontline Food workers. I’ve shared warm handmade corn tortillas and piping hot pinto beans with workers of Bent back magic:Workers whose…
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Notes on the Coloniality of Peace
24 Jun 2020
The “peace” our enemies want is mounted on brutal war and in its continuation in modern/colonial law and order. “What is law in a context where communities are disproportionately imprisoned and where direct violence is mobilized very discriminately towards certain bodies and people?”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza, 1964—2020
24 Jun 2020
Burundi is Africa’s Syria and Venezuela, a developing nation that dared to defy US dictates under Nkurunziza’s leadership. “His legacy is his effort to reconcile Burundi’s Hutu and Tutsi classes and end the deep-seated, centuries-old hatred between them.”
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The Responsibility to Protect? Bipartisan Crimes Against Humanity in the U.S.
24 Jun 2020
The US committed crimes against humanity by creating the conditions that led to sickness and death for vulnerable sectors of the U.S. population “Police killings and impunity are part of a pattern of racist human rights abuses.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Movement to Abolish the Police Must Place Politics in Command
24 Jun 2020
Community control of the police offers a concrete vision for what the beginnings of police abolition might look like. “Now is the time to leverage the U.S.’ imperial decline to petition nations around the world for support in the struggle against racism at home.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Democrats Move Right and Towards Defeat
24 Jun 2020
Besides not being Trump, the Democrats offer nothing, but think they can win with a candidate who has no constituency, charisma or any platform positions that would attract more voters. “The purges from the rolls, closed polling places and other methods of disenfranchisement are continuing…
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Yes, Defund the Cops – And Put Them Under Community Control
25 Jun 2020
Community control of the police means empowering the people to shape and oversee the mechanisms of their own security and end forever the armed occupation of our communities by hostile forces. ‘’Street power’ will be dissipated if organizers leave the levers of power in the hands of local Democrats…