| Black Agenda Report

Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Trump is Wrong, Joe Biden is not the “Radical Left.” He is an Enemy of Humanity
19 Aug 2020
Both candidates are jockeying for who can best gaslight the U.S. public into remaining loyal to one side of the two-party corporate duopoly or the other. “Trump and the Democrats have tightened their grip over the political narrative in the United States.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: “Feet to the Fire” and Other Lies
19 Aug 2020
When the Democratic Party ends its charade of a primary process and spits out the person most closely aligned with neo-liberal policies, the gas lighting begins. “The farce always intensifies with a black person on the ticket.” Democrats love to pretend. They pretend their party advocates on their…
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Free All Political Prisoners – and Say Their Names!
19 Aug 2020
It is righteous and correct to say the names of victims of police violence, but we must also “Say the names!” of our living political prisoners. “They can’t wait for ‘Abolition.’” BAR executive editor Glen Ford made the following remarks on August 15 to the Black is Back Coalition…
Zanga Chimombo
Open Defecation Zones and the Shaming of Africa 3.0
26 Aug 2020
“Voluntourists” in Africa are actually jihadists for the West who defecate all over the continent in every way that defecation is possible. “Time to wake up, Africa. These sheikhs ain’t royal!” Photo: Kalumbu Open Defecation Free Zone
Julie Kuttappan
"Kamala Auntie": On the Vulgarity of Bourgeois Identity Politics in 2020
26 Aug 2020
Harris’ identity as a woman of color has been propped up to cover for her decades-long loyalty to the ruling class, locking up working-class and poor people and deporting migrants. “A woman of color serving as vice president would not make the bombs being dropped over innocent people around the…
Jon Jeter
A Political Comeback for the Ages: Biden's Improbable Nomination
26 Aug 2020
The same corporate media that shamelessly boosted Biden’s candidacy, even when his popularity plummeted, never question his sudden comeback at the polls. “Absent paper ballots, no one can say with any certainty whether fraud occurred.”
The Marshall Project
COVID-19’s Toll on People of Color Is Worse Than We Knew
26 Aug 2020
Some coronavirus deaths, especially early on, were mistakenly attributed to other causes. “A long history of discrimination causes distrust of the health care system.” New data shows deaths from all causes—COVID and otherwise—have gone up 9 percent among White Americans, but more than 30…
Marjorie Cohn
Federal Judge Tackles Police Immunity Law
26 Aug 2020
The Black judge listed the injustices of “qualified immunity,” which allows police and other government officials to escape liability for their law breaking. “His opinion is titled, “Qualified Immunity: The Empire Strikes Back.”
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Obama, Harris and the Ruse of Racial Representation
26 Aug 2020
Racial liberalism attempts to shape the perspectives of communities of color through narrow ideas of national belonging, Manifest Destiny, and the American Dream. “Every second that liberals wait in finding ways to support community oriented antiracist measures and actions is additional space and…
Hilary Malson
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
26 Aug 2020
The author examines literature that looks to sites of struggle to find the seeds of an alternative, more just future. “Planning just communities requires critical understandings of the past.” In this series we ask organizers, artists, and academics to share books that inform their thinking about…