| Black Agenda Report

Paul Street
Shelter in Race-Class Place
15 Jul 2020
Black Americans are told to shelter in savagely unequal places where the necessities of life are scarce and Covid-19 is most lethal. “Americans need to understand race beyond just the color of faces in high places and symbols in public spaces.”
Tunde Osazua
AFRICOM and the Guise of Terrorism
15 Jul 2020
If AFRICOM’s mission is to fight terrorism, then why have terror attacks increased five-fold since the US began its military occupation of the continent? “Entities that threaten a liberated, autonomous Africa are the real terrorists, and the United States is the biggest terrorist in the world.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Hooey-hooey—Boss Tweet gotta GO!
15 Jul 2020
Hooey-hooey—he gotta go— Hooey-hooey—he gotta go! He mocks and jokes about the plague And earned a date at The Hague He lies and brags ‘bout the tests Thousands die, he beats his breast! Hooey-hooey—he gotta go— Hooey-hooey—he gotta go! A parasite, con and leech A racist…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The Gates Foundation’s “Green Revolution” in Africa: Agribusiness Wins, Small Scale Farmers Lose
15 Jul 2020
Ann Garrison interviews Timothy Wise on why US-style corporate agriculture pushed by billionaire Bill Gates has been disastrous for Africa. “The number of hungry people in those 13 countries actually rose by 30% to 131 million people.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Great American Firewall: On the Question of Censorship
15 Jul 2020
It should not surprise anyone that China would take protective measures against the threat of U.S. imperialism in the realm of cyber technology. “Censorship in the United States is rampant but the Great American Firewall is rarely discussed.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Propaganda Won’t Get Rid of Trump
15 Jul 2020
The biggest threat to Biden’s chances is the continuing suppression of black votes and the refusal of the Democrats to do anything about it.. “The Democrats’ effort to sell the lackluster and problematic Joe Biden involves telling some outright lies.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Democrats Will Never Choose Transformative Change – So Give Them No Choice
16 Jul 2020
An existential political crisis for the racial capitalist order will only happen when the left puts forward a viable political alternative. “There is no political crisis for the ruling order, unless ending their rule is on the agenda of significant social forces.”
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Building on Victories for a Stronger Climate Justice Movement
22 Jul 2020
The global depression has fossil fuel corporations reeling, but only a people’s movement can take away their power to poison the planet. “$5.2 trillion was spent globally on fossil fuel subsidies in 2017, the equivalent of over 6.5% of global GDP.”
Aziz Z. Huq
Bostock v. BLM: Two Conflicting Visions of Equality
22 Jul 2020
One approach treats injustice as discreet individual actions, the other recognizes the weight of world history. “The two theories of equality serve the interests of different social sectors.” Over the last month a contest between two visions of equality has broken out in U.S. politics that has…
Clarence Taylor
Reviving the False Narrative on Police
22 Jul 2020
The antidote to police lawlessness isn’t more training, or fancy equipment, but putting the community in charge of the cops. “De Blasio and the City Council made a big show of cutting one billion dollars from the police budget, but the sleight of hand will not lead to any reduction of the police…