| Black Agenda Report

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Deja vu—Step 1 and Step 2?
02 Sep 2020
Is this Deja Vu— Step1 and Step 2? The long, long lines breaking with 12 years of Reaganite reaction in ’92 Slick Willy’s $campaign—his sax- ophone; his shades: his “1st black President” sticht?
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The NBA’s Black Power
02 Sep 2020
Black NBA players, writes Ann Garrison, are just beginning to understand the power of the attention and admiration they command. “All the basketball arenas owned by NBA teams will be turned into polling stations prior and up through the November 3 election.”
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The US Has Long Led the Assault on Human Rights
02 Sep 2020
The historical record on U.S. human rights policies, both domestic and international, is one of hypocrisy, deceit, and denigration. “Europeans on both sides of the Atlantic reconciled slavery with human rights by declaring non-whites non-human.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Difference between the CPC and the DNC? A Study of Politics Versus Personalities
02 Sep 2020
Unlike Joe Biden, Xi Jinping’s report is centered, not on personality but on the actually-existing socialist system in China. “Seventy-three percent of people polled in China believe they live in a democracy.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The U.S. Is a Racist Militia
02 Sep 2020
U.S. cops are already racist and brutal, and any militia “infiltrators” would feel right at home. “Kyle Rittenhouse was acting like the police who shot and severely wounded Jacob Blake.”
Roger Stoll
Mexico: First the Poor
09 Sep 2020
The country’s new leftist president struggles to honor his people’s "right to stay home" by fighting poverty and expanding access to education. “But many indigenous organizations predict the projects will irrevocably damage the environment and their traditional ways of life.” “Por el bien de todos…
Ahjamu Umi
The Role of the Black Bourgeoisie in Coopting Our Movements
09 Sep 2020
The Black bourgeoisie, including the next generation of them after Obama, will continue to derail us with their empty promises of inclusion. “Their primary loyalty is, and will always be, to the capitalist system.”
Ali Winston
Decades-Old Gang Laws Are Being Used to Target Black Lives Matter Protesters
09 Sep 2020
By using gang laws, authorities can do an end run around First Amendment protections on freedom of association “The push to criminalize left-wing protest groups is a bipartisan approach that has garnered support in some progressive communities.”
John Pilger
The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange
09 Sep 2020
The collusion of powers wants to bury Julian alive in their war on the very principle of freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and democracy. “Assange believes that journalists are the agents of people, not power.” Having reported the long, epic ordeal of Julian Assange, John Pilger gave this…
Calvin Duncan
End the Injustice of Nonunanimous Juries
09 Sep 2020
Non-unanimous verdicts allow ten jurors to “simply ignore the views of their fellow panel members of a different race or class.” “People still languish in prison based on an unconstitutional rule.” When I was lying on my bunk in Angola prison, the maximum-security facility in Louisiana, my dream of…